What is Heart Chakra ? 10 Simple Steps To Open Your Heart Chakra

Are you familiar with heart chakra ? Perhaps, you have heard about this or maybe you are hearing this for the first time. I wanted to ask you something personal ? Just ponder on these questions for a while, then I shall tell you something important.

• Have you been dwelling on a past relationship ?
• Have you been keeping all your emotions bottled up to yourself ?
• Do you fear rejection and hence do not open up ?
• Are you experiencing trust issues ?
• Are you holding on to grudges ?
• Are you pushing others away ?
• Are you feeling a constant feeling of stress & anxiety ?

Well, if you have answered “Yes” to most of the above questions then probably your heart chakra is blocked or weak. Please do not get tensed or worried after reading the above words ‘What! My heart chakra is blocked, now what will happen?’. Just relax, calm your mind, as you read this post you will get all the answers to unblock (open) your heart chakra and experience more love, peace and bliss in your life.

Before I proceed further with solutions, I first want you to understand ‘What is a Heart Chakra’, especially if you are hearing this for the first time. There are 7 Chakras in our body, each of these chakras are swirling like a wheel from the bottom of the spine to top of our head.

There are three lower body chakras (sometimes referred as body chakras) and three upper body chakras (sometimes referred as mind chakras) and connecting all of them together is what is called the heart chakra. It is the heart chakra which links body and mind together.

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What is Heart Chakra ? Its meaning, color & location

As you can notice from the above image, the Heart Chakra is the 4th Chakra counting from the bottom of the spine and is located at the center of the seven chakras.

It is associated with the color green, which stands for transformation and love energy. In Sanskrit, heart chakra is referred to as Anahata which means unhurt. It deals with love and relationships, towards our self and others.

As it is located slightly to the left of the actual organ of the heart hence it is associated to the cardiac system and the lungs. The gland associated with the heart chakra is the thymus gland, which keeps a check on our immune system.

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The heart chakra is associated with your ability to love. It allows you to experience love and connect with everyone. The emphasis of this chakra is on giving and receiving love in your relationships.

Love that is felt through the heart chakra is not just about romance but going beyond the limitations of you ego. It is a state of acceptance and openness that brings you in touch with your world.

10 Awesome Benefits – When Your Heart Chakra Is Balanced

• You become more grateful and start to value life and people around you.
• You are able to experience & express emotions without suppression.
• You able to navigate through life’s challenging circumstances.
• You become more compassionate towards self and others.
• You accept yourself and others without being judgmental.
• Your relationships become deeper and meaningful.
• You are unafraid to give and receive love.
• You start taking responsibility of your life.
• You forgive yourself and others easily.
• You have a healthy heart and lungs.

10 Powerful Steps – To Balance & Open Your Heart Chakra

1. Meditate Regularly: One of the ways to open your heart chakra is to meditate regularly. Keep in the mind the below steps and connect with your heart’s energy during your meditation practice.
   • Sit in a comfortable position either on a chair or on a yoga mat. Make sure your back is straight.
   • Take few deep breaths (at least 5 deep breaths) and completely relax. For a moment let go of your thoughts and outside world.
   • Focus your attention in the middle of your chest, be aware of the space. Visualize a bright ball of green energy sitting at the level of heart chakra. As you inhale and exhale, see the green ball becoming bigger and brighter.
   • Continue paying attention to that space at the center and keep breathing. Your heart might release emotions, memories of the past, wishes, fears, dreams long stored inside. As it does, just pay attention do not indulge into any thoughts or feelings. Simply watch and let it go.
   • After few minutes, focus into feelings of love for yourself and others. See the green ball becoming bigger and engulfing your whole body in a powerful green circle.
   • See the green circle radiating the energy of love to everyone and everything around you. Sit there in meditation and see the feelings of love, kindness, gratitude and compassion coming from you to the entire world around you.
   • Generate the feelings of love, peace and emit these feelings to everyone around you through the green light (visualize this in your mind).
   • Do this meditation for 5 minutes daily in the morning and evening.
2. Practice Affirmations: You can practice positive affirmations to increase the positive energy associated with the Heart Chakra. This can include notes on the desktop or on the bathroom door. Following affirmations can be used;
   • I am fully open to giving and receiving love.
   • I am creating loving and supporting relationships.
   • It is safe for me to be in a loving relationship.
   • I love myself and others unconditionally.
   • My heart is filled with joy and gratitude.
   • My heart is free from past hurts.
   • I am grateful for all my blessings.
   • I forgive myself and others.
   • I always choose joy.
3. Make gratitude your attitude: When you tell the universe how much you appreciate something, it will bless you with more good things that will make your life more worthwhile. Take out 5 minutes from your busy schedule, all you need to do is to recollect all the good things that have happened to you till today and silently express your gratitude.
4. Practice Kindness: Start with yourself, do not be too hard on yourself. Make a habit to send genuine and loving good wishes to yourself and to others around. Most importantly always remember to be kind to people, who don’t deserve your kindness. I know this is difficult however by doing this we only help ourselves.
5. Learn to forgive: This is a continuation of above point, when you forgive, you are in some sense being kind to yourself. Your heart chakra will always remain blocked if you do not forgive people easily. When you forgive, you release the blockages in your heart chakra. Never cling on to memories (especially if they are bad), find a lesson in your bad past and let go of the hurt so that healing begins.
6. Focus on giving than receiving: This is by far the fastest way to balance / open the heart chakra. The more you do things or help people without any expectations, the more you will receive from the universe. It is an indisputable law of nature. The joy of giving can only be experienced, it can’t be explained in words. So go ahead and give love to even the most undeserving person and notice the difference you feel.
7. Get engrossed in activities that make you happy: When you indulge into activities which makes you feel happier or gives you more inner satisfaction, then you will notice a different energy in you. You simply become more alive and inspired. So always choose to spend some time doing things that makes your heart dance.
8. If you can’t change it, forget it: Why stress about something, you have no control over ? It’s waste of time and energy. Instead, focus on things which are under your control. Practice the art of acceptance, the more you resist things that are not under your control, the more pain you will create for yourself.
9. Put your feelings into words: There is nothing wrong in being open with your emotions. The more you bottle up your emotions and feelings to yourself, the more blockages you create in your heart chakra. You don’t have to shout from your rooftops, however you can always write them and put your feelings, emotions into words. Don’t hold back anything, just release everything from the heart, as you do this often you will become more at peace with it.
10. Change your perspective: This simply means shifting your frame of mind from the one that is always focused on the things that you don’t like and to focus on things that you are more grateful. This simple act of writing five things you are grateful for every day will bring balance to your heart chakra.

The heart chakra is the centerpiece of all the seven chakras hence it is all the more important to balance and open the heart chakra. When the heart chakra is open and balanced then you will only experience more joy and love in your life.

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