HEART CHAKRA

Location: Center of the chest

Energy Centre for: Love and compassion

Goal: Experience love and sharing

Tone: E

Musical Note: F#

Color: green or pink

Sense: touch

Sanskrit name: Anahata

The heart chakra is a humanitarian center which allow us to love, forgive and connect with other people and nature. It relates to how we feel and how we express our emotion to others. This is where healing of emotions starts, where pain is felt, released and healed. This is where we find our inner peace and the ability to coexist with other beings around us, to accept, to love and to give.

A balanced chakra: compassionate, empathetic, friendly, kind, forgiving, generous, and able to accommodate others.

A blocked chakra: despair, hate, envy, anger, critical, suspicious.

Healing the Heart Chakra

Our chakras respond directly to how we think or feel. Positive emotions allow good energy to flow freely and negative emotions close or weaken the chakra. Positive emotions transmit positive vibration to the universe and in turn attract to us manifestations associating with those emotions. Balancing or healing the root chakra can be achieved by having good emotions that supports this energy center. Start by loving and respecting yourself. When you can love and accept yourself, you can then learn to love others.

1)Healing Through Color

The resonating color for the heart chakra is green. You can wear green clothing or gemstone. Look at the color green to have an earthy connection. Green flora and fauna are perfect natural green to look at. Look at the color pink to bring about a gentle, caring energy.

Eat green fruits and vegetable such as green apple, pear, kiwi, honey melon, lime and green vegetables,

Visualize green energy and the good emotions for the heart chakra. Select a quiet environment, stand, sit or lie down in a comfortable relaxing position. Clear your mind of any other color or thoughts. Then imagine a clear beautiful green energy flowing gently into the heart chakra. Keep the green energy spinning in a clock wise movement and expand it outward until it fills up the entire heart and chest areas.

I like to say my affirmations along with this visualization exercise. You can create affirmations that suit your needs. Below are some examples.

2)Affirmations For The Heart Chakra

I truly love and accept myself.

My heart is mellowed and filled with love.

God is love and I am bathed in the Love of God.

I release all my hatred and I accept healing now.

I forgive myself and I forgive others.

I am pure and good.

I give love and receive love.

I can connect to others through my kind words and actions.

3)Gemstone For The Heart Chakra

Aventurine, Emerald, Peridot, Rose Quarts, pink tourmaline

You can wear the gemstone, put it in places visible or close to you. Alternatively, hold it in your hand during visualization or affirmations. Practitioners of crystal healing place respective gemstones directly on the chakra area.

4)Scent For The Heart Chakra

Rose, Bergamot, Rosewood, Jasmine

5)Inspirational Quotes For The Heart Chakra

Confucius:The more man meditates upon good thoughts; the better will be his world and the world at large.

Unknown: Love awakens and enhances all of your senses.

Unknown:Appreciation makes people feel more important than almost anything else you can give them.

St. John of the Cross :Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.

Deepak Chopra: Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

H St. Basil, Greek religious leader:He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Robert Muller:To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

Catherine Ponder: When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free..

Mother Theresa: Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

Turkish Proverb:: Kind words will unlock an iron door.

Pluto:Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Japanese Proverb:One kind word can warm three winter months.

SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA

Location: Area around the Navel

Energy Centre for: Personal Power and drive

Tone: A-O-M (ahh-oo-mm)

Musical Note: E

Color: Yellow

Sense: Sight

Sanskrit Name: Manipura

The Solar plexus chakra is the energy centre for self esteem and governs the development of personality during puberty. This chakra is related to our sense of power, dignity, will, intellect and wisdom. It provides the energy for our strength, courage, persistence and the will power to succeed. Intuitiveness and gut feel come from this chakra.

Balance chakra: intuitive, self-respect and respect for others, confident, effective, ability to take new challenges, non-dominating power.

Blocked chakra: indecisive, over sensitive to criticism, lack of confidence, depressed, afraid to be alone, jealous, lack of self-worth.

Healing the Solar Plexus Chakra

Our chakras respond directly to how we think or feel. Positive emotions allow good energy to flow freely and negative emotions close or weaken the chakras. Positive emotions transmit positive vibrations to the universe which in turn attracts to us manifestations associating with those emotions. Thus balancing or healing the solar plexus chakra can be achieved by having good emotions that supports this energy center

1)Healing Through Color

The resonating color for the sacral chakra is yellow. You can wear yellow clothing or yellow gemstone or look at the color yellow. I painted one section of my house yellow and it is a very uplifting color. The alternative color is gold.

Eat yellow fruits and vegetable such as yellow apple, yellow melon, yellow pear, lemon, mango, yellow tomatoes, yellow capsicum, yellow pepper, yellow zucchini, sweet corn.

Visualize yellow energy and the good emotions for the solar plexus chakra. Select a quiet environment , stand, sit or lie down in a comfortable relaxing position. Clear your mind of any other color or thoughts. Then imagine a clear beautiful yellow energy flowing gently into the solar plexus chakra. Keep the yellow energy swirling in a clock wise movement and expand it outward until it fills up the entire abdominal areas. I like to say my affirmations along with this visualization exercise. You can create affirmations that suits your needs. Below are some examples.

2)Affirmations For The Solar Plexus Chakra

I respect and love myself.

I am strong, wise and powerful.

I am guided by my deepest insights.

I am deeply connected with the source of my personal power.

I am capable to create the life I deserved.

I am worthy of all great things in life.

I choose to use my power wisely for the best of all concerned.

I am growing wiser and make choices that are good for me (or others).

I have what it takes to achieve.

3)Gemstone For The Solar Plexus Chakra

Citrine, amber ,yellow tourmaline, tiger eyes, gold calcite, gold, yellow topaz

You can wear the gemstone, put it in places visible or close to you. Alternatively, hold it in your hand during visualization or affirmations. Practitioners of crystal healing place respective gemstones directly on the chakra area.

4)Scent For The Solar Plexus Chakra

Chamomile, peppermint , lavender, ylang ylang, bergamot

5)Inspirational Quotes For The Solar Plexus Chakra

Thomas Jefferson:Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Robert Collier:Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Frank Loyd Wright:The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Vincent T. Lombardi: The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Harry Emerson Fosdick:Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best.

George Elliot:It is never too late to become what you might have been.

Keshavan Nair: With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Anthony Robbins:If you are truly flexible and go until ... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Winston Churchill:Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Mark Sanborn:Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional.

Og Mandino: Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

E.Joseph Cossman: Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves.

William James: Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard. To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.