As you process your way through four weeks of heart chakra work, replenishment and assistance will help you heal to your fullest potential. This site is your healing center to return to as often as needed to gain supplemental meditations and healing concepts to support your journey.

Chakra work can be challenging. You may experience seemingly inexplicable emotional shifts, depressed moods, and even profoundly positive states of being working their way through you, throughout the week. You also may feel not much of anything. These states are normal and all a result of moving negative energy out and positive energy in while resolving complex traumas created during the domestication experienced in this and previous human incarnations. Please commit, and recommit, to the work no matter how painful it may become at times. Remember to rely on your coach to provide emotional support through video messages and chats whenever possible, when needed.

The benefits of resolving these negative, stuck rules, beliefs, and energies can be profound. Undoing these programs running within you now means creating the opportunity for a better future aligned with your soul’s greatest purposes manifest. So strap in, hold on, and enjoy the ride!

HARNESSING YOUR CHAKRA POWER

There are a number of different methods we can use at home to help heal our chakras, including visualizations and meditations, changing old habits, practicing yoga, using crystals and essential oils, and getting the most out of our food. Because different people feel drawn to different healing techniques, a range of methods are offered here. We recommend you choose healing techniques that you feel most drawn to, since one technique is not necessarily better than another for you. That being said, if you’re experiencing physical problems, it may help to begin with dietary changes (energy vitality plan), yoga, massage, acupuncture, and other bodywork first. If your struggles relate to the mind or heart (emotions), meditation, crystal work, or essential oils might be a good starting point.

But before we go there, let’s get acquainted with the Heart Chakra.

WHEN OUR heart CHAKRA Is In Harmony We give and receive love genuinely, and cultivate compassion for self and others. It’s our gateway to the soul.

When the heart chakra is out of harmony, we are disconnected from ourselves, have difficulty loving ourselves or giving love from a genuine place, do not feel deserving of love (and therefore have difficulty receiving love), are out of touch with who we are, and develop depression (from lack of connection to self).

The heart chakra is all about being connected with yourself, as well as cultivating joy, self-love, and compassion. Home to the amorous energies, the heart chakra is where gratitude, compassion, patience, acceptance, joy, and love reside. This center is a sacred space that connects you to all other living things. Balance within this chakra means judgments, fears, disappointments, needless suffering, and attitudes of victimization are cleared. When you are anchored in a place of unconditional love for yourself, your heart chakra vibration will radiate and begin to heal not only your physical body but also the bodies of all beings—especially those to whom you are connected.

The following meditations, crystal techniques, essential oil applications, and yoga postures will help you connect with what you may be holding in this chakra. Most importantly, they should help you initiate connection with this energy vortex within you, so you may open into the wisdom it holds.

ELEMENT

Air

COLOR

Green

PURPOSEs

Love, Balance

ISSUES

Love, Balance, Self-love, Relationship, Intimacy, Anima/animus, Devotion, Reaching out and taking in

ORIENTATION

Self-acceptance, Acceptance of others

IDENTITY

Social

BASIC RIGHTS

To love and be loved

CORE AFFIRMATION

“I love”

DEMON

Grief

GLANDS

Thymus

PHYSICAL BODY PARTS

Heart, pericardium, circulatory system, lungs, shoulders, arms, ribs, breasts, diaphragm

LIFE LESSON

To experience compassion and connection with oneself and others

BALANCED CHARACTERISTICS

Compassionate, Loving, Empathetic, Self-loving, Altruistic, Peaceful, Good immune system

TRAUMAS AND ABUSES

Rejection, abandonment, loss. Shaming, constant criticism. Abuses to any other chakras, especially lower chakras. Unacknowledged grief, including parents’ grief. Divorce, death of loved one. Loveless, cold environment. Conditional love. Sexual or physical abuse. Betrayal.

PHYSICAL DYSFUNCTION

Disorders of the heart, lungs, thymus, breasts, arms. Congestive heart failure, heart attack, heart disease, asthma/allergies, lung cancer, bronchial pneumonia, lung disease, breast cancer, high blood pressure. Shortness of breath. Sunken chest. Circulation problems. Asthma. Immune system deficiency. Tension between shoulder blades, pain in chest.

DEFICIENCY

Antisocial, withdrawn, cold. Critical, judgmental, intolerant of self and others. Loneliness, isolation. Depression. Fear of intimacy, fear of relationships. Lack of empathy. Narcissism.

EXCESS

Codependency. Poor boundaries. Demanding. Clinging. Jealousy. Overly sacrificing.

mental/emotional issues

Love and hatred, resentment, grief, self-centeredness, loneliness, forgiveness, compassion, hope, trust.

HEALING PRACTICES

Breathing exercises, pranayama. Work with arms, reaching out, taking in. Journaling, self-discovery. Psychotherapy: examine assumptions about relationships, emotional release of grief, forgiveness when appropriate, inner child work, codependency work, self-acceptance, anima-animus integration.

POSSIBLE CAUSES OF CURRENT ENERGY BLOCKS

Repressed heartache or grief.

CRYSTALS FOR HEALING

Rose quartz, emerald, green tourmaline, jade, green calcite, green kyanite, peridot.

ESSENTIAL OILS

Rose, germanium, neroli, palmarosa, bergamot, lavender, melissa/lemon balm, ylang ylang.

AFFIRMATIONS

• I am worthy of love

• I am loving to myself and others

• There is an infinite supply of love

• I live in balance with others 

MANIPURA MANTRAS

(pick a mantra from this list or the Sanskrit list to use during your chakra meditations)  

• My heart space is harmonious

• I love myself with compassion

• All love resides in me

• I am love(d) 

SANSKRIT MANIPURA MANTRAS 

• OM MAHA [aum mah-hah] - Om and salutations to the first spiritual region beyond the sun/fourth chakra.

• OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA [aum tah-reh too-tah-reh too-reh so-hah] - Calling upon compassion and divine love.

hridaya MUDRA FOR MEDITATION

As an optional flair to use during your heart chakra meditations, curl your index finger toward the base of your thumb, and bring your ring and middle fingers together with the tip of your thumb.

As your coach works with you through the chakra work process, you will want to provide yourself with opportunities to dig deeper into the energy that’s often only available to you when you are completely alone. It is in the space of solitude, silence, and stillness that the veil between our True Essence and our ego-self is thin and we can access the subtle realms of our energy body wisdom. Taking time to be with yourself and these meditations throughout the week will add to their total cleansing and healing capacity.

Use your essential oils in a diffuser or hold your chosen crystal during meditations to deepen into the experience.

Choose from the four options below, depending on your available time and desired supportive work throughout the four weeks we will be working with the heart chakra.

Chakra Healing Work

This process seeks to resolve known and unknown energies that have become the limiting rules of your character and releasing them will take you through a characterological transformation. This kind of transformation involves resolving your unresolved self-sabotaging tendencies, such as where you hold yourself back, take action and then shut yourself down, say you’re interested and then never follow up, betray yourself, and myriad other ways you sabotage yourself from achieving your big Soul Goals. But it won’t be easy, and it won’t necessarily feel good.

In this work, we are attempting to open up lots of stored grief, anger, negativity, etc. and what we open up during the session will continue to release outside the session. This is why it is important to support yourself throughout the week with the aforementioned concepts and therapeutic methods on this Chakra Healing Center page. You may feel sick, dizzy, or otherwise disoriented after a session—this is normal when moving energy, though if this sensation persists for more than a day or two, let me know asap and plan an energy healer visit.

WHAT BLOCKS YOUR CHAKRAS?

Throughout our lives we experience different degrees of negative traumatic experiences that overwhelm our ability to process them. Our way of coping with these events stores that energy so that it becomes hardwired into our physical/energy body system and lies beyond our conscious awareness. When this happens, illnesses manifest, chakras are blocked, and we tend to compensate by defending/avoiding these tender places within us—which makes us feel and act in ways uncharacteristic of our higher-selves.

These traumatic experiences aren’t just stories; they change the brain and nervous system and standard cognitive behavioral therapies are not effective at resolving them. Energy work such as chakra process work and movement practices such as yoga, Qigong, meditation, group singing, dance, and chanting are more effective at resolving these traumas by moving energy and giving us back our ownership of our bodies. These therapies promote the recall of disassociated aspects of ourselves and invite them back into safe embodiment. If you would like to learn more about trauma, please review these and any works by Peter A. Levine, founder of the Somatic Experiencing method or Bessel van der Kolk:

• Peter A. Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute

• A 6 minute summary of Trauma and Somatic Experiencing from Peter A. Levine

• On Being interview with Bessel van der Kolk

• Dr. Bessel van der Kolk 80-minute presentation – “The Body Keeps the Score: How Trauma Is Lodged in Embodied Experience”

• Brain Picking’s exploration of The Body Keeps The Score

These stored traumas are your blind spots—a part of your shadow that operates in your most fundamental code and affects your every moment. The negative energy of stored traumas makes you feel, do, and say things that are not truly you, yet you become identified with them over time and thus can’t really see them anymore. With every trauma, you leave a little of your Whole-Self behind and your energy becomes more tired, fearful, and heavy as a consequence. The more you can reclaim and integrate these disassociated aspects of yourself through giving them feeling and forgiveness, the more of your power you take back, which makes you feel more focused, grounded, energized, secure, and clear.

Chakra 4: Fearless Loving & the Undefended Heart

Your fourth chakra is your seat of wisdom, joy, love, compassion, enthusiasm to share and connect with others; experiencing beauty and divinity.

LIMITING RULES STORED IN OUR FOURTH CHAKRA

The Fourth Chakra limiting rule: Protect myself from the judgement of others and the pain of disappointment by critically judging all that needs to be fixed and perfected in myself while rejecting and punishing all else.

If the shadow limiting rule is active, here are the resulting Fourth Chakra “Truths.”

I will…

• Keep pressure to perfect my shortcomings

• Criticize and attack myself to keep myself in line

• Flood myself with the fear of certain criticism

• Dismiss the love and compliments of others because I don’t deserve it

• Only feel loveable if I give more

• Never forgive or accept the parts of me that make mistakes

The Fourth Chakra shadow energetic “rule in action”: I won’t let myself feel deserving (yet) because if I try, my mind will flood with ruthless, unrelenting, righteous, merciless self-criticism with facts and evidence that support my judgments and self-punishment…

HEALING PROCESSES YOU’LL EXPERIENCE

• Process 10: Level 2 Forgiveness – Healing the Secret/Unforgivable Wound

• Process 11: Level 3 Forgiveness – Healing the Secret/Unforgiveable Mistake (I should have known better)

• Process 12: Level 4 Forgiveness – Healing the Secret/Unforgivable Flaw (forgiveness of two common shadows)

SEE WHAT IS HIDDEN

Fourth Chakra blindspot:

Completely missing and misunderstood levels of forgiveness work with shadows that allows the heart chakra to heal the self and live in joy, connection and in love with life, beauty, self and others.

HEALING ISSUES CAUSED BY A WEAKENED fourth chakra

• Struggling to feel yourself inside / your core

• Feeling like something has been missing for a long time

• Feeling secretly lonely and like a loner even within a relationship

• Often holding back your true feelings

• Being overly responsible for everything and everyone from a young age

• Constantly criticizing yourself for each and every thing that you could have done better, even

  when others celebrate you

• Inability to let in praise, compliments, and support. And instead believe you have to be

  stronger and soldier on

• Difficulty allowing others to help you and instead have to do everything yourself (seeing others

  as incompetent)

• Never get angry, but will instead dismiss people with inner judgments

• Have a secretly tender, but very guarded heart

• People can’t feel you and don’t seem to connect with your intention to help them

BENEFITS OF A STRONG fourth CHAKRA

• Experience yourself, everything, and everyone as they truly are – beautiful, perfect, and infinitely lovable

• Experience magnificent warmth and “field presence” of the undefended heart that loves

• Live in the expanded, amazing freedom of true self-acceptance (and freedom from the ruthless

  inner critic)

• See the pure divinity of yourself and others

• Be a healing force through just being you, as people shift from their dark to their light just by

  being in your presence

• Allow your compassion, softness, caring, and heartfelt intention to be heard AND felt by others

After the guided work, we will unpack your experience a bit with the remaining time. Do prioritize giving yourself time for reflection and integration after each session—at least 10 - 20 minutes. If you want to participate in additional coaching, just let me know before the next call and we can book an additional 15 -30 minutes per your desire.

Regarding the Meditation Path Practices

By now, if you’ve been keeping up with the Awakening Presence Meditation Path practices, you will likely be on or near Practice 18 - Ending Resistance, Reducing Selfishness, Expanding Acceptance. These meditations are designed to accompany your chakra process work as you navigate the entire 16 weeks of the Heart Phase by being the true healing center for all the chakra work. Though we are focusing healing on each of the first four chakras, we are using the heart chakra through the whole process, through each chakra level.

All healing is done through the heart chakra. It’s the most powerful one as it is responsible for integrating the lower and upper three. It is a part of every other chakra healing and integration because it offers your process wisdom (seeing the big picture), compassion, understanding, patience, love and other qualities while you work through these important reckonings.

The Meditation Path offers a variety of heart chakra and Love-focused practices that will enrich and lighten your integration experience while allowing you to express a greater field of love, so please do keep up with your Meditation Path Practices.

The last section has additional supplementary information you may find useful during the next four weeks of heart chakra focus.