Key – “I love"
Colour: GREEN with a PINK center
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Location: Heart/ Center of the chest
In the last post I went over the signs and symptoms of overactive, underactive and balanced heart chakra energy. In this post I’m going to be looking at the stones, activities, and daily affirmations that will help you open your heart chakra and bring it into balance. You can also find a ritual and mediation in the base chakra post that can be adapted to suit this chakra here.
The stones in the Heart Chakra amulets and their lessons:
Rose Quartz - love, compassion, peace, emotional healing.
Green Aventurine - meditative attention in the heart center, opening the heart. Working through emotional blockages.
Fuschite with ruby - Helps us to act with real love and find the balance between unconditional love and tough love. We act in accord with love for ourselves, others, and all of existence simultaneously.
Prehnite - Peace, gratitude, giving, and making the world a better place.
Zoisite with ruby - opens the heart, encourages engagement with life, being in the moment, and having gratitude for what is.
Green Jade - balances the emotions, opens the heart, brings love, compassion, and feelings of abundance and joy.
Green Aventurine - meditative attention in the heart center, opening the heart. Working through emotional blockages.
Fuschite with ruby - Helps us to act with real love and find the balance between unconditional love and tough love. We act in accord with love for ourselves, others, and all of existence simultaneously.
Prehnite - Peace, gratitude, giving, and making the world a better place.
Zoisite with ruby - opens the heart, encourages engagement with life, being in the moment, and having gratitude for what is.
Green Jade - balances the emotions, opens the heart, brings love, compassion, and feelings of abundance and joy.
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Activities for working with the Heart Chakra:
- Meditating on compassion and love - The Balinese teacher Ketut in the popular book and movie "Eat Pray Love" said it very simply, "sit in silence and smile... Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy". That's about it. Bring in feelings of love, compassion and peace by changing your energy to smiling energy. It's so simple it's perfect. Great book by the way!
- Practice emotional awareness. This is a continuation of the solar plexus mindfulness meditation where we watched our thoughts. Here we expand this awareness into our feelings and emotions. Be aware of what you are feeling, when you are feeling it, what your triggers are, and what in your past they remind you of. Just be aware of it without judgement. You might like to record these observations in your diary.
- Practice acting with love, particularly at times where you are feeling negative emotions. Always ask "how can I act with the most love?" It will always help you to find the best course of action. Remember though, that acting with the most love means acting with real love, not infatuation, fanaticism or craving. It also does not mean loving others at the expense of yourself. It is love for all and everything. For the greater good.
- Practice acting with love, particularly at times where you are feeling negative emotions. Always ask "how can I act with the most love?" It will always help you to find the best course of action. Remember though, that acting with the most love means acting with real love, not infatuation, fanaticism or craving. It also does not mean loving others at the expense of yourself. It is love for all and everything. For the greater good.
- Practice gratitude. Finding time to have gratitude for our lives and everything in it can be very healing and help us to break out of times where our hearts feel closed or underactive. Being positive and optimistic about life is a skill we develop. It is a perspective we can learn to have more regularly. We just need to work on it genuinely. Finding something to have gratitude for everyday is a great start.
- Work for a charity or cause, make a donation or volunteer, attend a rally or join a political party you support. There are so many things we can do in the world to make a positive difference. When we open our hearts and feel love and compassion for all, we will also be drawn towards helping others in whatever ways we can.
- Random acts of kindness. This should be a way of life. Treat everyone with kindness and love and the world slowly has more smiling faces. Open a door for someone, ask someone if they are OK, call a friend you haven't spoken to in awhile, share what you know with those who care to listen, listen to others tell their story.... there are so many small ways we can make the world a better place.
- Work for a charity or cause, make a donation or volunteer, attend a rally or join a political party you support. There are so many things we can do in the world to make a positive difference. When we open our hearts and feel love and compassion for all, we will also be drawn towards helping others in whatever ways we can.
- Random acts of kindness. This should be a way of life. Treat everyone with kindness and love and the world slowly has more smiling faces. Open a door for someone, ask someone if they are OK, call a friend you haven't spoken to in awhile, share what you know with those who care to listen, listen to others tell their story.... there are so many small ways we can make the world a better place.
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Daily affirmations:
My heart is full of love and compassion
I am at peace with what is
I act with true love
I have gratitude for my life's experiences and lessons
I give love for the sake of love
I am at peace with what is
I act with true love
I have gratitude for my life's experiences and lessons
I give love for the sake of love
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A ritual for blessing and receiving the amulet, as well as a meditation for energising the heart chakra can be adapted from the ones posted in the second blog post about the base chakra. Just replace "heart chakra" for "base chakra" and green with a pink center for red etc. When connecting with the amulet, see how this piece feels for you and how you relate to the heart chakra energy. Set an intention for what you would like it to bring into your life right now. You can make this adaptation for any of the following chakras also.
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You can purchase my chakra amulets at www.forestspiritjewelry.com
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You can purchase my chakra amulets at www.forestspiritjewelry.com
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