Heart Chakra

Colours: Green

Stones: Jade, Nefrit, Ruby ith fuchsite, serpentine stone, Shiva-Lingan

Place on the body: middle of the chest

Mantra YAM

Abilities: soul, personality, connects lower and upper chakras

Personal notes:

This is the place where your soul resides. Place where all aspects of your soul are. The soul has multiple aspects which you can talk with by simply focusing on your chakra and walking inside.

The heart chakra isn't exactly one big chakra - these are several lesser chakras one next to another. Every chakra is placed in another place and have different meaning and uses. We will explain every little one of them basing it on the book Kundalini and chakra, as their description it's perfect. Below you will also find an image from this book, showing the placement of every little chakra.

They line up one on top of the other beginning at the xiphoid process and, for average-sized people, are silver dollar size (if you are very small, the spacing will be closer; if you are very

large, further apart).

Heart Chakra #1

Location: on the xiphoid process, the bony appendage at the end of the breastbone.

Function: conscience energy determining right and wrong.

Too open: guilt-ridden, defensive, rationalizing

Blocked: not aware of guilty feelings; impressionable.

The very bottom heart chakra functions as your conscience, the little gyroscope of memory from all the early or sometimes late teachings which built up the thoughts, shoulds and musts. Your parents were the very first contributors to this storehouse of thoughts, but many other people, including you, have added to it: teachers, friends, spouses, other relatives, even culture itself, have prevailed upon your heart with these strictures.

Heart Chakra #2

Location: Just above the xiphoid process

Function: maintaining a balance of released energy in terms of connectedness with others.

Too open: over-attachment to a person or ideal, leaving little understanding or energy to balance the heart forces.

Blocked: rejects attachment; closed heart.

The second heart relates to attachment to people, things, and ideas. There is often a cloying, dangerous, and heavy energy here, especially in a relationship.

Remember that you cannot lovingly own, possess, manipulate or control another human being. The positive side to attachment is a deep caring, and acceptance of responsibility, a willingness to put yourself out for

someone.

Heart Chakra #3

Location: on the breastbone between the breasts.

Function: will to live well.

Too open: impulsive, heedless.

Blocked: fear of life; weak will.

The third heart chakra is the main one we work within our basic Kundalini - the chakra of love and the will to live. Your heart here is your life, your driving force to embrace your life, enjoy it, learn from it, use it to grow personally, discover your divine origins and return into that ocean of love that is the energy of God.

Heart Chakra #4

Location: above the heart chakra

Function: forgiveness, letting light shine.

Too open: overly forgiving; accepting even when it means injury or damage.

Blocked: seeks vengeance; forces greatness or accomplishment on others.

The fourth heart chakra concerns vengeance and forgiveness. Forgiveness is an incredible blessing, both for the one who gives and the one who receives. Vengeance is the flip side; tightness and an inability to flow or let go result in a fierce and powerful desire to get even, to hold back, to block the true feeling of love.

Heart Chakra #5

Location: midpoint between the horseshoe in the neck and heart chakra

Function: will to live equilibrium, compassion.

Too Open: people-pleasing

Blocked: hard-hearted.

The fifth heart chakra is your compassionate heart. Flowing will cause people to open to you like flowers; they may even start telling you all their troubles, attaching themselves to you like emotional vacuum cleaners. It can suck you dry. If you ever find

yourself in this situation, imagine unplugging that energy from your heart and re-plugging it back into their own navel or a heart chakra.

Heart Chakra #6

Location: just below the horseshoe-shaped bone in the front of the neck.

Function: to open to higher spiritual levels; to put heart energy into spiritual growth.

Too open: a tendency to see things only in higher levels of spiritual ways and ignore the more human lot in life.

Blocked: fearful; rejects higher spiritual levels.

The sixth heart chakra opens you to higher spiritual growth, spiritual melting, the outpouring of spiritual love you feel for your God. The true love that we feel for others is very similar to this feeling. A person whose flow is too open, however, can be a pain, indulging in spiritual platitudes and inattentive to others reality. Someone whose flow is blocked stubbornly sees only the

the human side of life.

Heart Chakra #7

Location: where the bones in the bottom of the neck form a horseshoe shape.

Function: service in the world.

Too open: a person pushes to serve even when it's neither needed nor welcome.

Blocked: self-serving.

The seventh heart is the service chakra. To give service is a high goal. When the energy of the seventh heart is blocked or twisted, it becomes a martyr's, a begrudging, mean-spirited, unacceptable giving that does damage to all concerned, much like a person "helping" the old woman across the street. Twisted energy can produce a martyr, someone who gives

service to others but complains about it. Someone whose flow is blocked may be oblivious to opportunities to help others. But when flowing properly, this service chakra becomes the supreme purpose of this lifetime.

Exercises:

One:

Begin breathing deeply with nice belly breaths. Rest your hand on your heart then feel the warmth and love that it emanates. Feel as if your hand is cradling the heart as you inhale and exhale so that it can nurture the heart to grow without giving away too much. When you remove you should feel energy surging in your heart chakra.

Two

This is a move borrowed from yoga, but even with zero yoga experience, you can do it. All you need is a wool blanket rolled tightly into a cylinder. You only want the cylinder to be about 4-5 inches tall for this exercise. Sit on the floor with your feet flat on the ground. Place the blanket so that the thing edge is directly behind your sacrum, and it will run up the length of your spine and support your head

You are going to lay back onto the blanket then allow your arms to splay out to the side. If you feel discomfort in your neck, place a pillow or block below it. If you feel discomfort in your lower back keep your feet flat on the floor with your knees bent. Enjoy laying here for two to three minutes, and you can add on time to this length as you become more familiar with the exercise.

Three:

Carefully massage the lowest heart chakra. If it is sore, you could injure it, so be very gentle. Relax; let your breath float deeply and gently into your body, watching it from that still, quiet space deep within you. Free your mind. Without fear or worry, open your memory. Look at your energy. Ask what shoulds, thoughts, and must-dos are buried within this conscience heart chakra. Which ones are no longer valid and need to be laid to rest? As each stricture surfaces to your conscious mind, recognize your feelings about it, how each helps or hinders your ability to relax, relate, enjoy yourself and your life. What can you release? What should you enforce even more?

Four:

Move your awareness up to the chakra of attachment and nonattachment, next in line. Massage the area. Feel the flow of energy; notice its quality and recognize the feelings, ideas, essences of what this heart elicits within you. Ask yourself what you need, crave, love, or possess. Perhaps they are material things—house, car, clothing, some old trinket carefully cherished. What do these attachments mean to you? Or perhaps the attachments are to people, ideas, ways of relating to the world, ways of perceiving the ideal. What do these attachments do to your life? Do they free or restrict you? Comfort or cause you anxiety? Where do you want to attach and what do you want to let go of? Can you watch yourself expand well beyond these cherished attachments?

Five:

Open the will-to-live chakra—the major heart chakra in the middle of your chest between your nipples. Feel the powerful flow of energy from this strong, piercing chakra of love, the joyousness, openness, curiosity, and excitement for the next adventure. Let the energy pour out to embrace the next teaching or lesson; coax yourself; sift the lessons of your life for their kernels of truth, patiently allowing modification of existing love, knowledge and understanding. Let yourself simply experience who you are.

Six:

Now open the heart chakra of vengeance and forgiveness (directly above the will to live); experience the energy, notice the changes, and relax, letting the chakra flow. Are there old and deeply buried grudges here? What burdens can you let go of? What forgiveness can be released from this chakra? Breathe deeply, peacefully. See in your mind's eye the face of the person with whom you have had the most difficulty in this life (whether now living or dead ). Hear his or her voice. What is the most irritating thing that person does? Did you love this person? Does that love continue? Go back in your memory and determine the basic cause of the first difficulty you had with this person. Have you ever wanted to strike that person? even kill? Any particularly irritating physical characteristics about this person? You may have felt there was another kind of relationship between you (for example, mother or father), one which does not exist in this life. Now forgive yourself for anything you might have ever said or done to this person. Take thirty seconds; say over and over again “I forgive myself” for whatever you may have done to this person. Now ask for God's forgiveness for any attitude you might have had or anything you've ever said or done to this person. One half-minute God's forgiveness - ask it! Silently now in your mind forgive this person for anything he or she may have done to you specific acts, specific words. Forgive them now. One-half minute, just forgive. And now for a one-half minute, pray for this person; send love to this person, bless this person—even if it scrapes your nerves raw—pray for this person. Now relax. Smile. And flow from that sweet place of forgiveness within.

Seven:

The next chakra up is the compassionate heart chakra. Massage it, gently focus the awareness, open the chakra, let your compassion flow out. Just feel the compassion; let it out indiscriminately for everyone who brushes against your being, your life. Compassion for your friends, for your family, for your intimates, and then for yourself. Flow over with the sweetness of compassion, letting yourself taste the humour of your compassion. Focus the power of this energy now totally toward yourself; let it wash over your quirks, foibles, pet peeves, secret habits; let yourself smile at this groping, curious, shining miraculous being that is you. Move on up now to the next heart chakra, that of opening up to higher spiritual energies, just below the horseshoe of your throat. Let a prayer form within this flow of energy—what does this opening to your divine origins feel like? Let your prayer form into a wish for a new start on life, a higher dedication of your spirit to a brighter calling. Check your wish for shreds of thoughts and thoughts not, for attachments that bind, for willfulness and ego, for hidden grudges, and pet likes. Now polish your wish, shine up this prayer, and let it go up into the divine.

Eight:

Last, move your awareness into the hollow of the throat, into that horseshoe, the chakra of service. Let yourself concentrate on totally opening, expanding, breathing past the slightly choking, blocking, closing feeling that happens so easily in this delicate area. Ask what kinds of services are opening up in your life right now? Where are you making the effort to give to life? What does your service energy feel like? Notice it, experience it, sense it with all your being. Now ask what new areas of service are starting to open within you - Ask to experience the very highest that is in you to give. "I will to will Thy will." Form that intent, send it up, rededicate yourself to the seeds of service beginning to sprout within you "I will to will Thy will.

Symptoms of a blocked chakra

Loving indiscriminately

Lack of proper boundaries in friendships and intimate relationships

Tolerating too much from others to the point of neglecting emotional self-care

Acceptance of others without discernment

Losing your sense of identity

Giving to others or to a cause without restraints

Saying yes to everything and everyone, even when it does not benefit you

Codependency

Symptoms of overreactive chakra: