Hello, there here. We are in Sarasota, Florida and the question that we keep getting
this week is
How do we open our heart Chakra?
Okay, so here it is at your most basic level
Everything [in] this universe is energy
Before that energy organizes itself into the physical body parts you see it organizes itself into Meridians and Chakras
Soccer's are centers of energy that are organized along the meridians
each one holds a very specific vibration and as a specific purpose
Each Chakra is a specific expression of prana otherwise known as lifeforce or source energy
The Chakras look a bit like funnels of energy or vortices they both absorb and emit energy
When a Chakra is out of alignment
What that essentially means is it is not receiving or emitting energy properly?
What we tend to see is that the Chakra does not allow energy into it?
It becomes [very] small it changes in its texture and its patterning
the traditional name for the Heart Chakra is on a hot tub in
Sanskrit Roughly Translated this means unhurt
That's an interesting thing to keep in mind [because] it gives you some key insight into the heart Chakra
The Heart Chakra is your center Chakra. It's located right in the center [of] your chest
Essentially directly over your heart
All Chakras in the body are essentially doorways to non-physical consciousness
They are doorways
[to] the spiritual dimensions
however, your heart Chakra is
the Center point between Your physical Chakras and your spiritual Chakras
So we could see the heart Chakra as the unifier between spirit and body
The heart is the first organ to manifest
Physically in a fetus for the same reason you can think of the heart Chakra as the central power point generator of love
Love is the Central theme of the heart Chakra
this is why it is seen as the Chakra most associated with healing because
Vibrationally speaking the frequency of love is the highest healing frequency of all
It is also the Chakra which is associated with compassion forgiveness
emotional safety the absence of Fear Gratitude Hope trust
Generosity Joy Altruism kindness and connection
Because it is the unifying Chakra. It is the Chakra with the capacity [to] bring you into integration and therefore wholeness our
Heart Chakra maintains the truth that we are connected to all that is
we can never be alone because we are an integral [part] of the web that connects and makes up the entire universe the
[heart] Chakra is associated with the color green and is also associated with the air element if
You're interested to know the aspects of your body that the heart Chakra Governs
And it's the heart
the circulatory system
emotional regulation the lungs
shoulders arms and hands
breasts and Lymph system beginning with the thymus gland a
Little-Known fact is that our brains are in fact governed by our heart [it]
Is our heart which gives messages to the brain and the brain then obeys those messages?
This is why the heart of mental illness is in fact emotional hurt
Anytime you see an issue with these aspects of the body you can be sure the heart Chakra [is] out of alignment
So what is it that causes the heart Chakra to go out of alignment?
It is hurt that occurs in conjunction with your connection to other people
Relationship hurt this is why I personally find it fascinating but on a [hata] the sanskrit [name] for the heart Chakra
Translates to Unhurt
Because unhurt invincible is
Essentially how we feel when the heart Chakra is fully open, but conversely it is hurt that causes it to close
both negative emotional States and
Positive emotional states that apply to our relationship with other people are governed by the harsh [water]
Around your heart is a membrane
We could think of it as a bit of a Sac
That also has fluid inside of it and this contains the heart this is called the pericardium
[the] best way to Imagine the pericardium is to think of it a bit like a gestational Sac in the womb it
Both protects and nurtures your heart it's an amniotic heart Sac
But the emotional energy that you feel especially
chronically
Affects this pericardium this area are this Sac?
especially the fluid within the Sac which takes on the same vibration as the emotions that it is most closely inundated with
This is a good thing if the emotional energy you feel is a positive feeling emotion
But it presents problems if the emotional energy you feel is a painful emotion
This is especially the case with grief
The pericardium is an inborn wall that protects your heart
But it does so naturally in a way that allows love to come in and also love to flow out
However, what do we see when we encounter emotional injury in life. We see the pericardium on a [non-Physical] level the heart wall
strengthening
So when you encounter somebody and you feel [like] they have an emotional wall. This is in fact what you're feeling
It's the fact that when somebody's hurt they decide to armor that wall
That is around their heart space and as a result of that armoring love doesn't come in and it doesn't go out
The painful emotions associated with the hurt you experience become trapped inside the heart wall they strengthen the heart wall and love cannot flow
to understand more about this dynamic [watch] my video on YouTube titled building walls to keep pain in if
You'd like to look more deeply [into] this concept of Heart Walls [I]
Suggest that you look up the work of Dr.. Bradley Nelson as
Far as the spiritual field is concerned
He's probably the person that has dedicated the most of his career to the healing and understanding of Heart Walls
But [I] have never seen something affect the heart Chakra
More so than a heart wall
There's one thing that we need to get out of the way completely
Before I show you or tell [you] how to open your heart Chakra
it's this idea of
balancing your Chakras
It's not going to work
See a lot of people in the spiritual field and the self-help field they approach
Spirituality from this concept of we need to find balance to do that
We need to limit aspects of our life and then exaggerate other aspects of our life to find some kind of equilibrium
this is the attempt to find equilibrium through control an
adjunct to this idea of controlling
Balance through finding equilibrium or creating it somehow
Super abstract concept is the idea that it's possible for a chakra to be too closed or to open
This could not be farther from the truth
You will hear [all] kinds of theories going around relative to the heart Chakra that if the heart Chakra is too open [you] will
experience weak boundaries and co-dependent relationships
Though it may seem logical
Couldn't be farther from the truth
When all of your chakras are completely open you experience natural
equilibrium because non-physical spiritual energy the [energy] of your higher self is flowing fully into the physical dimension as
It applies to co-dependent relationships and weak boundaries those are in fact
Imbalances which apply much more to your sacral Chakra into your solar Plexus Chakra
But both are the result of closed Chakras not open ones
Co-dependent relationships are not relationships that occur between people with open heart Chakras the opposite is in fact true
the codependent relationship on both the behalf of the narcissist and the Codependent [is]
in fact the result of closed
Heart Chakras, it's a transactional relationship which has to do with meeting needs in ways that are
Dysfunctional they don't benefit the people. They're a detriment to both people
It's about meeting needs
Therefore it has nothing to do with love
to the untrained eye a codependent relationship looks like a relationship between an abuser and a victim of
Course this is our
Tendency as a social species to see somebody as a victim and is the underdog unless the good guy
What we don't understand is that the codependent is in fact getting something out of the relationship? Which is why they can't leave?
In other words. I don't want to make it sound super evil, but there are more sinister motives at hand for the Codependent and
So there's a tendency in
Conjunction with this need to see the codependent [as] the victim and is innocent and good therefore
There's a tendency to assign this kind of idea that they are [too] loving
And that's why we think that they have to open heart Chakras when it is not the case
Just like the perpetrator the victim also has a closed center of love
So what does all this mean it means contrary to all the warnings you may receive don't have any fear about opening your Chakras
So now that you know [all] this how do you bring your heart Chakra into alignment and allow it to fully open
Step [one] we have to become aware of what is preventing our heart Chakras from opening. What's in the way?
Intuitively what emotions do you think you're struggling with that are keeping your heart closed. Have you been hurt in the past or recently?
What emotional memories are in healed?
What do you feel in response to the word relationship [a]?
While back I created a video on YouTube. [I] called it connecting with and healing your heart [I]
Encourage you to pause this video where we are and go look at that video following the steps there?
Before you progress [onto] [the] rest of this video
Also, [I'll] give you a little bit of a hint
Nothing affects the heart Chakra quite like grief grief is in fact the cardinal emotional
Bondage that we are dealing with when we are working with a closed heart Chakra
So be [sure] [to] look into what is still causing [you] grief?
When we are in a situation where we're dealing with Grief we have perceived ourselves losing love in
This situation. We say we're heartbroken
So if you're dealing with heartbreak I encourage you to watch my video on [YouTube] titled how to survive a breakup and or heartbreak
Step 2 be open with your emotions
Repression of emotion is the undoing of the heart Chakra what we have to do is to become aware of our feelings?
To express our feelings and then to allow them to [go] instead of clinging to them [I]
Suggest [that] you watch the video on YouTube that I did titled how to express
emotion this may help you if you're a person who finds it difficult to do, so
[3] the Heart Chakra as we know is the Chakra
Which is thrown out of alignment most especially because of our painful relationship to people?
but who are we in our primary relationship with our self an
Often overlooked fact is that lack of self-love?
affects our heart Chakra immensely and causes it [to] close down if
You're struggling with self hate what's essentially happening
Is that you are putting your heart in a kind of prison where the jail keeper? Which is you beats it up every day
for this reason I
Want to suggest the [iDea] that you take a look at my book?
titled Shadows before Dawn fine light of love in your darkest times I
Was a major self hater my heart driver was super closed because of this fact and it really
Irritated me when people kept saying things like you just got to love yourself
Which frankly is like somebody telling you you just got to speak French
When you've never learned French before so this book is a practical how-to
Toolkit for self-love
for
many dimensions outside this particular reality
Do not have a time-space aspect to them what that means is thought?
instantaneously manifests
it means if you think
Heart Chakra open Heart Chakra opens the Chakra system
Influences the physical but is a multi-dimensional
Aspect of you, which [is] why they are invisible to most people
It means if you think of your heart Chakra opening and visualize [it] opening it opens
The visualization that I see working the best with people is when people put their hands over their heart area and they imagine
while breathing in and breathing out of this area [that]
[there] is a kind of vortex of emerald energy and
If they take their hands and move them clockwise imagining that by doing so they're opening their hearts rocker to about a foot wide
with the help of their hands then
Letting the hands fall completely open in the chest towards the sky
Imagining this heart space both sucking in energy from the world and also giving [energy] to the world
five
become intimate with your heart wall and see if you can talk it into coming down [I]
Want you to imagine your heart wall if it was made of something
What would it be made of the answer could be granted or glass or wood for example?
Feel into the reason that this heart wall is there and see if you can intuitively feel what caused it to be there?
Then ask your heart what it needs in order to be able to let go of that heart wall
Now this is imperative
Don't try to tear down a heart wall if you approach a heart wall with an attitude of I'm going to get into you of
Course the reaction of the heart wall is going to be to strengthen harder. Why because it's going to perceive you as a threat
It's there to protect you you remember
So what I want you to do is to try to convince the heart wall
that there is no longer a need [for] it [to] be there if
You manage to get to the point where the heart Chakra is willing to release this heart wall
Imagine the heart while being lovingly dissolved or release in whatever way feels best to you
My next tip is to stimulate the heart Chakra with sounds
You can find binaural beats specifically designed for the heart track or online you can listen to the sound of singing bowls
That are specifically designed for the heart Chakra or conversely you can take the traditional approach and simply make your own sounds
Traditionally the sounds that are associated with the heart Chakra and let's stimulate it the most are two sounds the first is lamb
The second is [yum]
You can try both and see which one helps you the most
Which one resonates with your heart the most it should feel like it's causing it to buzz
also, make sure that you play with the tonality of those two sounds because some people need a higher note and some people need a
Lower note
Traditionally the b. Note is the one that resonates with the heart
my next tip
Surround yourself with the colored green where this color
Surround yourself in this color decorate stuff with it eat things that are that color
Speaking of which that's my next tip eat green leafy
vegetables
These are the foods that vibrate the most closely with the heart Chakra and thus cause it to come the most alignment
So that means eat things like kale spinach lettuce
Dandelion Greens cabbage charred broccoli and [car] [lured] Greens
also, include green tea basil sage thyme Cilantro and Parsley
Tip 9
You can use [essential] oils to help stimulate and thus open your heart Chakra
I've got some close personal favorites and here. They are
Rose
Melissa
Neroli
marjoram
Chamomile yarrow and
eucalyptus I find that using these oils in
Conjunction with placing something warm over your heart area like a warm water bottle works the best
Tip 10
Bring certain mineral spirits into your environment, so that you can experience the influence of them yet again
I'm pretty partial to some the ones that I notice having the most effect on the heart Chakra are
Tourmaline Especially Green Tourmaline watermelon Tourmaline and pink tourmaline
Green Kyanite Chrysoprase
[rhodonite]
Rose quartz
Malachite emerald and Jade
Tip 11
Move your body in ways that open the chest up to the world and to [the] universe at large and to [other] people
The traditions of yoga can suggest many poses to do
Which are set out to accomplish this thing I?
Also, want you to think really seriously about doing these kinds of movements in an outdoor setting like the kind of place [that] we [are]
in today
because in Nature especially
places with breeze coming through it are
especially
Nourishing to the heart Chakra my next tip is practice living from the heart and also speaking from the heart
to learn how to do this watch my video on YouTube titled how to live from the heart
criticism closes off your heart Chakra so fast
That a really good idea is to be aware of the aspect of you
That feels negative towards the world and Thus
Negatively appraises the world [I] want you to imagine
loving or caressing or holding this aspect of you as
opposed to trying to condemn it and Force yourself not to be critical and
When you speak I want you to imagine speaking from the heart
So when we think of thought I thought that we're about to say we can feel it generate around the head area
That's why when you ask people about what they're thinking they naturally look up
I want you to imagine bringing these thoughts down through your throat
To the heart space and then when you're about to talk them imagine bringing those same words up your throat and out your mouth
So that even though they are coming out your mouth. They are [in] fact generated or filtered through your heart space my next tip
Deliberately think thoughts say things take actions and seek out experiences
That cause you to feel any of the emotional states that are associated with heart Chakra for example
Think thoughts take actions and seek out experiences that cause you to feel [love] compassion
emotional safety the absence of Fear Gratitude Hope trust forgiveness Generosity Joy
Altruism kindness and Connection any
Experience that causes you to feel these emotional states will bring your heart Chakra into alignment
So for example start a gratitude journal
Take some action that shows somebody else in your life that you love them do random acts of kindness
Initiate a gathering with like hearted people I especially think it's critical when you're trying to open the heart Chakra
to begin connecting with other people [if]
We have experienced trauma in conjunction with relationships. How are we going to heal that trauma?
In conjunction with relationships we have to have a different experience
instead of a traumatic experience with connection
We have to have a positive experience with connection for this reason
I want you to watch my video in Youtube titled
how to connect with someone and if you want to take it a step further than that
Feel free to watch my video on YouTube titled how to receive and for my last tip my suggestion is to practice metta
Either once a week or every day depending on how brave you feel
to practice metta you begin like you would with any meditation and
You imagine that your breath is coming and going [from] your heart
after a while you see whether there are any
Intentions or words that are generated from the Heart space towards yourself?
things like May I experience peace
May I experience a feeling of joy of wanting [to] be here for example?
You feel that and keep
experiencing those generated beliefs or those generated intentions or thoughts of
kindness and well-being Towards yourself
For as long as it takes for you [to] feel a bit of relief, and then you extend it a bit further
Perhaps you extend it to somebody in your life
like your son or daughter I
Hope that they feel well-being
may they feel peace may they feel connectedness and
when you have done that you extend it a bit further maybe to an
Aspect of the Human race or maybe to the world at large
you just keep expanding it and expanding it so you can imagine yourself as the center [of] a ripple in the
Lake almost like when you drop a [stone] you see those concentric circles
Eventually going out until they take over the totality of the body of water that you're in
It is an option not to just do this with people
You can also do this with anything in existence. [you] [could] do it with animals you could do it with plant life
you could do it with all that is the point is is that you are making yourself the epicenter of the
generation of love
The bottom Line is your heart Chakra is [the] center of love anything you do that causes you to feel love towards yourself
Towards other people is going to cause your heart Chakra to open
By intentionally doing things which will cause your heart chakra to come into alignment and thus open to become a channel
From non-physical consciousness into physical embodiment you will be setting yourself up to
Live a life in harmony with the rest of the world all
relationships that you have or will ever have will benefit by you doing so
But the relationship that will benefit the most is your relationship with yourself
Have a good week