Heart Chakra

What can I learn from the heart chakra?

 

Key Lesson of this Chakra Learning to feel love.   Organs & Physical Function - What physical aspects does this chakra govern? Heart & circulatory system, lungs, shoulders & arms, ribs & breasts, diaphragm, thymus gland

Overall Concept - What is the meaning of this chakra?

The heart is centre of your emotional power, where love and compassion are both given and received. This chakra is our emotional sensor so it tells us whether we feel loved or wounded.

Problems with this chakra arise when there is a limited experience of love, either receiving or giving love. For example, doing something when your "heart is not in it", a feeling that you are unworthy of being loved, a witholding of love or affection from others, or a lack of loving feeling toward certain people or life in general.

The challenge of this chakra is to learn the language of love - how to give and receive it equally. 

Positive Aspects (strengths) - What aspects uplift and energize this chakra?

• Capacity to love
• Self-love & inner beauty
• Compassion
• Forgiveness
• Connectedness with all life
• The ability to heal

 

Negative Aspects (fears) - What aspects drain and de-energise this chakra?

• Loneliness
• Emotional protection
• Betrayal
• Inability to forgive
• Hatred
• Fear of 'following your heart'

 

Associated Ailments - How does depletion of this chakra manifest in the physical body?

Anaemia HIV/AIDS Asthma Blood Breast Cancer Bronchitis

Immune System Lungs Lung Cancer Pleurisy Pneumonia

 

Other Names for this Chakra

Manipura chakra, 3rd chakra, Yellow chakra

 

 

 

We continue our journey through the chakras with the Throat Chakra.

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Resources For This Page

The Body is the Barometer of the Soul by Annette Noontil Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss The Chakra Energy Plan by Anna Selby