Your Chakras serve as storage centers for the energy that flows through your body. You have seven major chakras that run the length of your spine, but minor chakras are located all over your body. Each of these storage centers correlates to a specific organ/gland combo, beginning at the base of the spine and ending at the crown of your head. Traditionally, the main chakras are numbered one through seven, beginning with the root chakra.
The energetic frequencies of these centers have been studied, and through a mixture of ancient wisdom and practical experience we have arrived at an understanding of how each chakra influences our energetic selves.
Although healers and mystics have recognized the chakras for thousands of years, they are just now beginning to make their way into modern medicine. If you are skeptical, check out this article.
Because of the abundant information available about each energy center, this post just skims the surface. It is written as a comprehensive guide, something that serves as a baseline for your knowledge, so that you can grow and develop from a strong foundation.
Heart Chakra
In Sanskrit, the central chakra is known as ‘Anahata.’ Translated to English, this means unstruck, unhurt, and unbeaten. This interpretation of heart center indicates that the heart chakra, when balanced, will be whole and protected, as opposed to the pain of a broken heart. Located directly in the center of your chest, heart chakra is in fact the center of love and relationships. Heart chakra governs both giving and receiving love.
Physical Identity
The hear chakra is situated at the center of your chest, something known as the heart center. Physically, this chakra governs the heart, thymus, and lungs, and acts as one of the primary electromagnetic field generators of the body. In addition, this chakra regulates blood pressure and respiratory function. In terms of the spine, your upper thoracic region is associated with the heart chakra, spanning from T1-T5.
Emotional Identity
Emotionally, the heart chakra governs love and joy. This includes the giving and receiving of love, both in your relationship with yourself and all relationships with other people. Love that emanates from the heart chakra is unconditional; our souls offer this love to ourselves and those around us. Experiencing this love creates a feeling of unspeakable joy, hence the connection. This chakra develops and takes shape from ages twenty-one to twenty-eight, a prime time for relationships, particularly those with a romantic angle.
Just like your physical bodies can become imbalanced or ill, so too can our energetic bodies. Because the chakras function as energetic storage centers, any fluctuation in their energies causes them to either release too much energy or too little. The symptoms of these fluctuations appear first on an emotional and mental level. Then, if the imbalance persists, physical symptoms develop.
Emotional Symptoms
Emotional Symptoms of an imbalanced heart chakra include:
- Fear of commitment
- Trouble giving or receiving love or connection
- Holding grudges
- Antisocial tendencies
- Lack of empathy
- Overly empathic
- Feeling exhausted or drained around others
- Shyness
- Feeling lonely
- Tendency to sabotage relationships
- Isolation
- Fear of being alone
- Manipulative behavior
Physical Symptoms
Physical symptoms of an imbalanced heart chakra include:
- Heart or lung problems
- Immune system issues
- Autoimmune disorders
- Issues in the chest such as apnea, asthma, or breast cancer
- Pain or disease in the arms
- Lymphatic issues
- Swollen lymph nodes
- Heart palpitations
- Physical manifestations of grief
- Chest pains
Balanced Presentation
If your heart chakra is balanced, giving and receiving love feels easy and peaceful. You will have a strong sense of connection with the people around you, and feel beautiful levels of self-love. If you are a healer, the energy flowing through your heart chakra is typically very strong.
Further symptoms of a balanced heart chakra include feeling comfortable in relationships, experiencing compassion for yourself and others, having a healthy immune system and cardiorespiratory system, and feeling comfortable experiencing gratitude, harmony, and peace.
Color and Vibration
Traditionally, each chakra vibrates with a color of the rainbow. As the fourth and middle chakra, heart chakra is typically depicted with a green hue, but can also be associated with the color pink. However, clinical and personal manifestations of this chakra can vary widely in color depending on the person in question and their experiences.
Vibrationally, this chakra corresponds to FA on the Solfeggio scale, coming in at 639 Hz. This is also the vibrational tone of the earth’s year and is used to facilitate and develop relationships and connection.
In the traditional musical scale, this chakra corresponds with Fa (as in a long, long way to run), and the note F.
Affirmation and Aura Connection
The heart chakra corresponds to a person’s sense of love and connection. Its inherent right is to ‘love,’ and the common verbal expression is, ‘I feel a strong sense of love and connection with myself and others.’
The heart chakra’s affirmation may look something like the following:
“I am a divine expression of unconditional love, and I truly love myself and others. I am open to the love others feel for me, and I connect easily with those around me.”
In connection with the Aura, this chakra corresponds to the Astral Body, the bridge layer of the aura. Just as the heart chakra is the middle chakra, bridging the gap between the root chakra (earth) and crown chakra (heavens), so too does the astral body act as a window between our physical nature and our spiritual nature.
Balancing the Heart Chakra
Activities that balance the heart chakra allow you to feel love and compassion, increase your connection with yourself and others, and fill you with joy. Because of this, some of the most well-known activities to balance the heart chakra include:
- Do a Random Act of Kindness (or five)
- Do a compassion meditation
- Journal ten reasons why you love yourself
- Schedule time with a friend or a loved one
- Wear green or pink
- Eat green foods
- Use heart chakra crystals such as rose quartz, rhodochrosite, jade, and emerald
- Listen to 639 Hz, the heart chakra vibration. For a good resource, check out this Youtube video.
Conclusion
The chakras serve as energy reservoirs in the body, and, just like aspects of our physical anatomy, they also impact our health and wellness. Because of this, understanding the energetic influence the chakras have on your mental state and physical body leads to a better grasp of true health. Finding ways to balance your chakras will create shifts in your overall wellbeing.
If you have been feeling isolated, disconnected, or unloved, you may have an imbalance in your heart chakra.
If any of the symptoms resonated with you, it may be time to check in on the health and wellbeing of your fourth energy center. Take time to reflect on how your heart chakra is functioning, feeling, and impacting you.
How can you connect, both with yourself and others, and foster feelings of unconditional love in your life? Where do your relationships need nurturing? Answering questions like these will help you to strengthen and balance your heart chakra.
Tell me: Did this article resonate with you? How is your heart chakra feeling?
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