23/05/2021
The Heart Chakra - the fourth chakra
Located at the centre of the chest, close to our heart. Being the fourth chakra it is the halfway point of our seven chakras, connecting our more physical lower chakras - the root, sacral and solar plexus to our more spiritual upper chakras - the throat, third eye and crown. The heart is the bridge between the earth and spirit.
The heart chakra acts as the individual’s center of compassion, empathy, love, and forgiveness. It governs your senses of trust, peace, generosity, gratitude, and connectedness. It helps maintain healthy boundaries with deep and healthy relationships with others, emotional control, and love for yourself.
When the heart chakra is blocked or out of balance emotional issues such as feeling unhappy, lonely, insecure, unable to give or receive love. You are left vulnerable to being easily hurt and heart broken so you put up your walls and grow distant from others, emotional shut down and struggle to let go of resentment or bitterness.
Some ways of unblocking.
Yoga poses that open up your chest such as, camel pose, reverse warrior, cobra and standing back bend.
Breathe work is extremely powerful for this chakra as the hearts element is air. Visualisation whilst breathing, imagine a rose blossoming from your chest.
Affirmations: ‘I am worthy and open to love’ ‘I forgive myself and others’
Crystals, green governs this chakra. Emerald, malachite, pereidot and adventurine but also rose quartz is very powerful signifying universal love.
