Heart Chakra

 February - Heart Chakra

Love, acceptance, compassion, outward emotion and relationships

Element: AIR 

Location: Center of chest 

Color: GREEN.  

Body Sense: Touch   

Scents: Rose, Neroli, Jasmine, Lavender   

Food: green vegetables

Crystals: Rose Quartz, rhodonite, emerald, green aventurine, jade

BLOCKED

This chakra deals with relationships. When out of balance, you could experience codependency, neediness, poor boundaries OR isolation, lack of empathy. Do you push people away? Do you cling to others or beg for validation?  Physical symptoms could be bad circulation or high/low blood pressure. 

OPEN

To open, practice forgiveness and embrace transformation. Do heart-opener poses in yoga. Release unhealthy attachments. Consider affirmations that will help you to not feel needy for the validation of others; if you truly love yourself, your love for others will not be about needing them to love you back. Heal wounds or harmed relationships in your life. Cultivate gentleness, grace, compassion, empathy, and respect to all.

Mudra: 

Affirmations (I LOVE)

-I am enough.

-I am worthy.

-It is safe to love and be loved.

-My heart radiates pure, cleansing green light.

-There is an infinite supply of love. It will never run out.

-I delight in the success of others.

-I let go of all resentment and fill myself with forgiveness.

Goals for the month:

Listen to the sound frequency for the heart chakra and meditate using the affirmations.

When meditating, repeat the seed word YAM and use the mudra for the heart chakra.

Light a green candle, use the scents of rose and lavender, and carry a green stone or rose quartz (rhodonite has both green and pink so it's a great option). Meditate

Because the heart chakra sense is touch, and good circulation is an important part of an open heart chakra, consider getting a massage.

Consider who you can forgive. Forgiveness is complex. When you have truly mastered the last three chakras, you gain a deep sense of self worth. You understand who you are and what treatment you do and don't deserve. But you also understand that compassion and love are an additional element to consider. They don't replace anything- for instance, when someone is rude to you, your compassion doesn't replace anger; anger is a reaction that comes because you love yourself and you know you don't deserve cruelty. But compassion allows empathy, which can then inform your reactions. You need to hold two things at once; one is a bedrock understanding that you do not deserve or need to put up with someone's harmful actions. Two is the compassion to consider WHY they hurt you, what their motivations were, what in their life influenced them to do it, and how it influences others. Then, you decide what the appropriate response is, using both tools. 

Consider ways to secretly serve others so that your motivations are not influenced by your need for validation