Opening your Heart Chakra
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Opening your Heart Chakra
In our last blog, we talked about the importance of self-love. We are now going to look at ways to bring more self-love into your life by opening your heart chakra as well as a few simple other methods.
The heart chakra is located in the centre of your chest and its colors are green or pink. Start by sitting with a straight back, this helps the energy flow up and down your spine (or you can do this lying down). Take in a few deep relaxing breaths and release any tension you are carrying. As you breathe out let go of any stress and just be present in the moment.
On your next breath, as you breathe in feel the air coming out of your body at the centre of your chest, your heart chakra, both front and back and feel an energy field coming out of your body at this area shaped like a cone, with the pointed end in the centre of your chest and the cone radiating out directly in front of you and one behind you. Feel your breath expanding and filling your heart chakra, bring it lots of energy. You may start to feel a tingling in your chest: let the energy of your heart start to radiate out. Put all your focus on enlivening the energy in your heart chakra. If any thoughts come up just let them go and bring your attention back to your heart chakra.
After a few breaths like that start to see or feel the color green or pink (which ever one feels better) feeling these cones. Again place all your focus on the color and the breath. At this stage you should be feeling light and very relaxed. When you have practiced a few times you will naturally start to feel love pouring out your heart. You will come to a place where you feel love for everything around you, including yourself. But don’t try to force this, just keep doing this exercise daily until it happens naturally.
The next step is to start affirmations, on the in breath say “I am loved” and feel the love from the universe pouring into every cell of your body. On the out breath say “I am love” and feel love coming from your body going out to the universe. The first time you do this you may get your inner critic jumping up and down telling you that you are not love or loved, but that’s ok, you don’t have to believe it, just tell it “thanks for sharing” and go back to your affirmations.
Now for the most challenging part, on the in breath say “I love me” and on the out breath say “I love me”. Again your inner critic will have a field day here, it will start to list all the reason that you are not lovable. But we are not talking about conditional love here, we are talking about unconditional love, you are loved simply because you are. You love your children and your pets unconditionally, so can you extend that to yourself. Some people find it easier if they visualise their higher selves as the “I”
Don’t worry if this feels really uncomfortable at first, with practice it will get easier. And with self love all sorts of magic can happen in your life.
This is a great exercise to do first thing in the morning and last thing at night. If you have had a problem with someone during the day you can include them by saying “I love ……” or “I forgive ……” Forgiveness is a very powerful tool that frees you up to let more love into your love. By holding on to hurt and resentment, you just make yourself stressed and unwell, so forgive others simply to make your life better. That doesn’t mean that you have to put up with bad behaviour from others, sometimes you need to distance yourself from people if they are treating you badly. However remember that you create your own reality and the outer world is a reflection of what is going on inside you. So, as you open yourself up to more self love the world will start treating you differently. Some people will change how they behave towards you and those that are not comfortable with your new vibration of love may drop out of your life all together. As this happens you will naturally attract new friends who are also vibrating at a higher level.
As you change your world will change.
Be love
Kerry
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