Great Exercise for Opening the Heart Chakra
The heart chakra is the fourth of seven chakras inside the body. Each chakra is an energy center and responsible for different emotions or feelings you have. The heart chakra is no exception, it is your center for unconditional love.
Heart Chakra Energy
The heart chakra of compassion is the fourth of the seven chakras in the energy body. It is located at the level of the physical heart, at the center of the chest. Maintaining a healthy heart chakra, will go a long way in providing good physical,emotional, as well as spiritual health for yourself.
This fourth chakra is responsible for the organs in your body that have actions of expansion and contraction. The heart and lungs are some examples. It is also closely tied with the movements of the arms and hands.
If this special chakra of ours is correctly balances, we feel self-accepted as well as show acceptance towards others. We are also prone to follow our own beliefs and values, rather than what is laid down to us by friends,family, religion, and society.
If you have an under active chakra, you may possess these traits:
- Low self esteem
- Low self-confidence
-Lack of concern for others
- Respiratory and circulatory disorders
- Heart disorders
If you have an over active chakra, you may possess these traits:
- A tendency to always feel responsible for others
- A dominating personality
- You tend to be over controlling in relationships
- Respiratory and circulatory disorders
- Heart disorders
If any of these symptoms sound like you, you may have an unbalanced heart chakra. If this is the case, don’t be overly concerned. By being aware of this, you can practice being mindful of these tendencies and work on correcting them.
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Opening the Heart Chakra
The heart chakra located at the center of the chest, is the chakra of compassion and love. Your ability handling issues of love, grief, hatred, anger, jealousy, fears of betrayal, and loneliness depends on the condition of your heart chakra. You will find that if you open your heart chakra, handling these issues in a positive way will come more naturally to you. A popular technique often used for exercising our heart energy, is through mantra meditation. Each chakra has a specific sound or “mantra”, by reciting the heart chakra’s mantra you will effectively be able to open the chakra point, effectively stimulating and strengthening it in the process.
If you happen to have a mala, which is a special string of beads used for counting mantra recitations you can use it for this exercise. If you don’t that’s okay, you can just count the recitations in your head instead.
Before we proceed with the exercise, I would like to forewarn you that this is a serious technique that will generate a large flow of energy. Please be careful not to overdo it, over stimulation of the heart chakra can lead to an imbalance of the other chakras. This technique should only be used in addition with other techniques that will prepare you body to handle this new energy.
Now without any further delay, here are my guidelines to performing this mantra meditation.
1.Find a quiet and comfortable place to sit down on the floor cross legged.
2. Close your eyes, and recite the heart chakra’s mantra which is “YAM”.
3. As you are chanting this visualize and focus on your heart chakra at the center of your chest.
If chanted correctly, you will notice a new rush of energy. For beginners, I recommend that you do not exceed more than 20 recitations per session.
I’ve spent many years trying to figure out the most effective techniques to open the heart chakra as well as the other seven chakras. I studied meditation and various yoga exercises, with the specific purpose of developing the heart chakra. While some of these techniques, produced fair results I was looking for something more effective.
Now i’ve finally been able to take my chakra training to a whole new level.
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