THE HEART CHAKRA
This week brings us to chakra four; located at your cardiac plexus nerve
ganglion. Just as this allows your physical heart to nourish your body, the
heart chakra feeds your energetic and spiritual heart.
The elemental correspondence here is air because of the movement from the
physicality and manifestation of the lower chakras into the more esoteric areas
of spirit. This is the mid-point in the chakra system where the lower three
chakras become tempered and balanced by chakra four as they get ready to join
the upper three and a feeling of wholeness and balance begins to appear.
Picture an upward pointing triangle (▲) with the points numbered 1, 2,
& 3. Then picture a downward pointing triangle (▼) with its’ points numbered 5, 6, & 7. See
them laid one over the other to form a star and the number 4 right in the
middle. This represents balance that will, when tempered by the love in chakra
four, create a radiance that shines out to all things. This unconditional love
creates a permanence that magnifies that love to permeate all existence.
The color that vibrates with this chakra is green and the Sanskrit word for it
means, ‘sound made without any two things striking / un-struck/ pure/ fresh/
clean.
The job of your heart chakra is to create the binding force of love. This comes
from the logical progression of mass @ 1 + the movement @ 2, acted upon by the
attraction @ 3 = a love driven by free, joyous acceptance of yourself and all
around you. This love does NOT come from a place of need, want, or
manipulation. This love, when you move in harmony with it, gives you the
ability to let others grow at their own rate, to reach out to another without losing
your center. You begin to feel that sense of wholeness and balance that you are
looking for. You lose the desire to judge others by YOUR standards, and you are
able to see all things as your “next best thing”.
I was
recently faced with the possibility of having to deal with cancer. I must admit
that I was terrified by the prospect and spent a day or two in abject terror. I
finally decided that I would have to turn off the fear somehow or have the
heinous thing manifest. I fell back on this EOS that I trained for years to
create for my answers and during a meditation session I was reminded of the
fact that this was “my next best thing.” I decided to see this as an
opportunity. If I did have the illness, I could then help others to deal with
their circumstance better, so it was “my next best thing”. If I did not have
cancer, I could use the anticipation, fear, and experience to help others to
see their way through the fear and worry stage. I could also use the experience
to teach this portion of this class and again, it was “my next best thing”. The
second I made that decision, my fear vanished like I had flipped a switch, and
it has indeed been “my next best thing.”
When you are out of balance here you may come across as judgmental or
manipulative, control of others is very important and truth is subjugated to
YOUR idea of what YOU feel it should be.
Let’s face it, you can’t really know anyone but yourself, so by taking
everything less seriously, you can be yourself without letting another take
your power. You are also able to see the difference in controlling yourself and
NOT controlling others.
Balance means that you can temper the lower chakras with love and begin seeing
change in wonderful ways. You know you are in balance when you no longer feel
the pull of the lower chakras and realize that you do, indeed, create your own
reality and you can influence others.
The goals here are to find unconditional love for yourself and others, be able
to exercise tolerance and balance within your body, mind, spirit, to realize
the Devine Paradox that something that seems small is, in reality very large
and the thing that seems very large is actually very small. (If you don’t get what
I mean, talk to a teenaged girl about the drama in her life::smile:J ) and to find the ability to allow
things to be what they are.
RECAP CHAKRA FOUR:
1) located at your heart;
2) It is your bridge between your imminent, transcendent spirit and love;
3) Your ability to share love and life with yourself and others.
PHYSICALITY: circulatory system, hands, arms and shoulders
ISSUES: consideration and empathy for others; the link between your
intellectual and spiritual selves; your ability to direct love to yourself and
others and your inner peace.
BLOCKED BY: Grief
UNBLOCKED BY: Accepting the fact that love is energy; it is all around you and
is always born again as new loves.
Bright Blessings, Chessie
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