Your Heart Chakra – the Core of your Self
Your heart chakra is mystical and magical.
Your heart chakra is over your physical heart. It regulates energy flow the same way your physical heart regulates blood flow. Your heart chakra is all about love, healing, and connecting with others.
This is where you heal – yourself, your family and friends, those around you, the planet, the entire universe even.
When you heal from your heart, energy ripples out, sending healing to everything in its path.
The center of your lymphatic system is also located here. This allows you to use your heart chakra to clean your energetic body, environment, earth, solar system, universe.
Energetically, this is where your body regulates blood flow, lymph, and energy flow.
Think of your heart as an organ pumping blood throughout your body. It is also an endocrine gland releasing hormones to regulate blood pressure and help keep your cardiovascular system healthy.
Another endocrine gland, the thymus, is located behind your sternum. Your thymus is an immune gland that helps you connect with others and heal.
Wake up this connection gland and chakra by tapping your thymus gland daily.
You store affection, heartache, healing, compassion, self-love, and empathy in your heart chakra..
Do you want to get to know your heart chakra better? Practice random acts of kindness.
SPIRITUAL GUIDES
I cannot write about the heart chakra without including goddesses of love. There are many, as many as there are ways to describe the many facets of love.
We don’t always refer to them as gods and goddesses. Sometimes we think of them as saints, angels, or spiritual guides. Whatever word you prefer, these special beings help us all. Each one puts a unique face on this complex subject.
I’m focusing on two: Quan Yin and Mother Mary.
The best way I know to describe these two spiritual beings is to use words that apply to each one, for they are different.
Quan Yin – Quan Yin is a Buddhist Goddess of mercy. She is a symbol of motherhood, virtue, and peace and focuses on universal compassion.
People the world over have been following Quan Yin for many, many years.
She is traditionally attracted to places where it is appropriate to cherish a situation. Quan Yin activates healing power.
She is a symbol of sacred knowledge, wisdom, self-development, purity, enlightenment, and empowerment.
Followers believe Quan Yin bestows support, protection, and blessings when you ask.
MOTHER MARY – This mother of Jesus is relentless and constant as a healing force of love. As modern as tomorrow, she is a friend, companion, sister, spiritual mother and teacher.
When appropriate, Mary liberates us and heals us. She is a steady rock carrying the sorrow of every person on every part of the globe.
Mary is the ultimate New Age Woman, showing us how feminine principles work for all of us. She carries her message of enlightenment to children and adults alike.
Mary’s way is attracted to subdued situations. She lifts up and lets things be. She is gentle or forceful – depending on the situation. Mary is happy to rejoice and be loved as well as loving others. She offers trust. She is joyful. Mary knows about patience.
WORKING WITH YOUR HEART CHAKRA
There are different ways to heal your heart chakra. Use visualizations, meditations, and change some old habits. Practice yoga, use crystals and essential oils. Adjust your diet. Embrace reflexology and Reiki therapy.
Use what resonates with you.
If you experience physical problems, consult with appropriate professionals.
You have many options.
Go for gods, goddesses, angels, saints and guides. There are many, available to you. I chose Quan Yin and Mother Mary because I am comfortable with them.
A TWO-PART SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEMS
If you seek a solution to a problem which seems too challenging, this information may help you. I’ve used the following method many times and I’m always happy to share it with anyone seeking a good answer to a thorny problem.
Begin with 2 clean sheets of paper and a pen or pencil. Write the word “yes” at the head of one paper. On the head of the other paper, write “no”.
Now, carefully define your situation while you explore all the solutions “for” (Yes) and all the solutions “against” (No).
List all the “yeses” and all the “nos” on the appropriate papers as they make themselves available to you.
Take your time with this. Think your options through.
When this exercise is over, which side of the argument has the most entries?
I feel confident that one side will have more items listed than the other.
Now is the time to connect with a higher power.
Sit down someplace where you feel safe and comfortable. Breathe deeply and calmly. Breathe in, allowing healing light to flow inward. As you breathe out, allow tired and negative thoughts to leave your body.
This breathing is preparing you to get rid of old ideas and invite in fresh, new insights and solutions.
Allow this healing breath to touch every part of your body. Feel your body embrace the newness of the healing breath and the coming solution.
Invite your goddess, guardian angel, or spiritual guide to join you in this space. Sit calmly and expectantly.
Take a few moments to focus on your situation and how you want to find an appropriate answer. Absorb this situation and the coming solution physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
After a few moments, take this time to share your inner thoughts about your situation with the wise being you may find sitting beside you.
Whether or not you see the spiritiual being beside you is a detail. Your situation is an opportunity to grow.
Let your guest advise you about how to manage your situation. Accept the advice you receive while you seek a solution.
Embrace the suggestions which can help your situation, your solution, and your self.
See yourself on a journey from a challenging situation to a good outcome and a positive path. See yourself embracing the new solution and the changes which will bring it about.
You feel it is time to go. Give thanks for the shared wisdom and generosity you just received. Offer gratitude for the journey you’ve been on.
Make plans for you two to meet again if you need more guidance.
Return to your present time now. Give yourself time to absorb the wisdom you received.
Shift your awareness to your physical surroundings where you began this experience. Be here now and in this environment. You are wide awake and alert. You feel wonderful and are at peace.
Are you closer to a solution? Can you accept it?
SAINT THERESE – THE LITTLE FLOWER
Several years ago, I managed a food pantry that fed many people. It seemed to me that I confronted problems without solutions.
One evening I read a story about Saint Therest, the Little Flower. I read about people finding roses when they studied the works of St. Therese.
The following morning, when I unlocked the door to the pantry, I found a rose on the floor.
Seeing this rose opened my eyes.
I didn’t expect to see a rose or anything else on the floor. For sure, I didn’t sleep walk over to the pantry in the night and put a rose on the floor.
I wasn’t asking for favors. I merely read about her life.
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8 Ways to Heal Your Chakras
When you balance your chakras, you change your physical self. This happens because your chakras affect all levels of your body – physical, psychological, and spiritual.
Balanced chakras facilitate homeostasis. A chakra adjustment boosts healing and recovery from illness, emotional wounds, negative lifestyles and other physical and mental issues.
INTENTION
Wherever you are on your healing path, your foundation is your intention to heal, which guides your journey.
Keep it close throughout your travels because healing can often reach into your past. Your health issues may have begun years, decades, even lifetimes ago.
Write your intention. Meditate on your intention. Stay with your intention. It leads your energy, telling it what to do.
Your intention has a second task: it converts your healing goals into your new normal, maintaining your good health and your spiritual wholeness.
Without this second task focusing on your good health goals, your body may revert to its previous state.
Your goal is to make strong and durable changes so you can become your new normal self.
This may be scary stuff. After all, it’s much easier to “keep on keeping on”.
If you really seek healing, change the things you do.
AROMATHERAPY
The sense of smell is primal.
When you focus on grounding and safety, aromatherapy is a good choice because these qualities rely on the sense of smell. This is especially important for health issues affecting your root chakra.
Aromas work on the unconscious self and the physical body.
Smells have a frequency which reaches far back in time to heal your chakras and energetic fields.
Smells reveal memories traveling instantly from the past – beyond this life even.
This time travel can balance chakras. Essential oils can focus on a specific chakra.
I’ve listed various essential oils in previous blog posts. I’ve also listed them in all editions of “Healer’s Handbook”.
If you want to own the fewest number of essential oils possible, lavender can be a good first choice.
Good essential oils for the root chakra include wood-related oils: sandalwood, rosewood.
If you want to use essential oils to promote healing and balance, select only a few for the chakra you are focusing on. Buy the best quality, therapeutic grade oils you can find. Store them in glass in a cool, dark place.
Once you select an essential oil, learn to use that particular oil. Depending on the oil you choose, you may dilute it and then apply it topically.
You may also use the essential oil aromatically.
Finally, you may decide to ingest it.
However you decide to use the essential oil, learn the best way to use it before you begin your treatment.
SOUND
Sound affects us all deeply and instantly. Sound is powerful because it changes our vibration. Going straight to our deepest core, sound alters vibrations of illness and disease.
When using sound to heal, choose those sounds which touch your heart, your chakras and emotions.
You may decide to engage in formal sound healing sessions. Or you may simply choose to pay more attention to the sounds in your life. What sounds promote healing, calming, or balancing? Which ones are disruptive and damaging?
Don’t underestimate the power of healing music.
MANTRAS AND HEALING NOTES
A mantra is a word which is repeated for healing purposes.
Om is a universal mantra. The vibration of the repeated word is the power in the mantra. Vibration, not the word itself, is the power in the singing bowls, tuning forks, chants, and mantras.
It’s not necessary to know the literal meaning of a word for it to work as a mantra.
Tools that create notes for chakra healing include Gregorian Chants, singing bowls, and tuning forks designed to heal chakras.
Singing bowls and tuning forks resonate to the energy of specific chakras. Any word or sound carrying a positive resonance has a powerful, therapeutic effect.
Silence can be powerfully calming and healing. If you are attracted to the vibration of silence, try to practice it a few minutes each day.
YOGA
Yoga poses have been used for ages to boost and balance your chakras. The poses strengthen and stabilize your body. They also activate your chakras.
Yoga poses open, strengthen, and balance different chakras based on their location. There are many different yoga poses, each anatomically related to different chakras.
CRYSTALS AND STONES
For me, crystals and stones live. Each has a unique vibration which communicates with our energetic fields. This communication has the capacity to bring harmony and balance.
The best way to select a crystal or stone is to trust your body’s response. When you hold a particular stone in your hand or place it on a chakra, how does it feel to you? Does it feel bad? Are you positively attracted to it?
If the response is good, you may be on the right track.
Selecting the crystal and gemstones is a personal decision. It’s hard for someone else to choose your stone.
A good way is to select a stone in the same color as the chakra you’re trying to balance.
For example, if you are seeking a stone to balance your root chakra, choose from red stones because that chakra’s color resonates with red.
Occasionally, a stone will call out to you. This happened to me recently. Black tourmaline presented itself to me, uninvited. I saw evidence of this stone everywhere I went.
When I opened books, a picture of this stone would be on the opened page.
When a colleague asked me about stones, she wanted information about black tourmaline.
I visited a tarot store in Great Barrington – and there sat a dish of them, right at eye level.
I simply couldn’t avoid them.
So, I finally gave in!
I bought a stone and silver chain at the Mower’s Meadow Flea Market from a booth there.
I’ve been wearing the black tourmaline for over a week now and I feel totally different than I felt a week ago.
I held out as long as I could and when I finally did what I should have done in the beginning – I felt good.
MEDITATION
Meditations balance and heal on several different levels.
For me, meditations work because energy follows intent. A guided meditation allows you to focus on your intentions in a relaxed state.
If you are looking to find a guided meditation suitable for your chakra balancing, maybe I can suggest a starting point for you. I’ve used several books for years. Larry Moen wrote my three favorite books: “Meditations for Awakening”, “Meditations for Healing”, “Meditations for Transformation”.
I’ve worn out several copies of these books and shared others.
I’ve also written some guided meditations. You can find them in earlier posts of this blog.
REFLEXOLOGY AND REIKI
Both reflexology and Reiki therapy balance your chakras. I wrote about this in my book: “Healer’s Handbook”.
When my chakras need attention, I always turn to reflexology and Reiki first.
While I definitely embrace different healing methods to balance my chakras, I refer to reflexology first.
A reflexology session is my first stop.
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Depression is Your Soul Crying Out for Help.
Spiritually, your soul cries out for help. On top of all this spiritual suffering you may also have feelings of self doubt and hopelessness. When you deal with depression, you feel you are stuck in a storywith no positive ending.
Everyone feels sad occasionally. Your depression is unique, just as you are unique. There’s a difference between having the blues and being depressed. Depression is a disease of your soul. Chemicals alone cannot cure your depression.
Depression includes feeling sad, empty, or unhappy. Your sleep may be disturbed. This means you may be sleeping too much or have insomnia. Your diet may be disturbed. This means you may have lost your appetite or you may be gaining weight. Your thinking, speaking, and body movements have slowed down. You feel anxious, agitated, and restless. You have trouble thinking, concentrating, remembering things and making decisions. You have unexplained physical problems such as back pain or headache.
You may have clinical depression if you drink alcohol and smoke excessively, experience poor appetite and weight loss, are preoccupied with negative thoughts of despair, and contemplate suicide.
Whatever the symptoms, depression is a prolonged feeling of unhappiness. It may be associated with grief, divorce, or retirement. It may be connected with childbirth. Whatever the trigger, depression is a disease which can be overwhelming.
Consult with a physician when you begin your search for relief because popular treatments include antidepressants and psychotherapy. Depression is extremely treatable, so go for it!
Reflexology, Reiki, and chakra healings are not cure-alls but can certainly help. Reflexology sessions encourage homeostasis, important for positive outcomes, especially since it’s not always easy for you to find how to lift your spirits. Your sessions will help manage the side effects of any allopathic medications you may be taking.
CHAKRA
Your crown and heart chakras are unbalanced.
REFLEXOLOGY SYSTEMS TO WORK
nervous system, digestive system, respiratory system, skeletal system, endocrine system, spine, liver, and solar plexus
ESSENTIAL OILS
cedarwood, frankincense, jasmine, lemon, peppermint, rosemary, ylang ylang
RISK FACTORS
Depression is a fairly complex issue resulting from numerous factors including a genetic predisposition, hormonal shifts, sedentary lifestyle, life events, underlying health issues
EFFECTIVE HEALING FIELDS
Begin with Conventional medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Naturopathy, Homeopathy. Supplement the allopathic medicine with complementary and alternative medicine treatments. Bodywork such as massage is often a positive therapy. Depression is a case where you can wholeheartedly adopt both styles of medical care. Synchronicity!
If you choose to add homeopathic remedies, consult with a homeopath for the treatment best suited to your needs.
FOODS IMPORTANT TO YOUR DIET
bananas, fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, low-fat dairy products, oats, oily fish, whole grains
Eat breakfast every day. Eat protein at every meal. Stay away from processed foods. Eat more whole grains. Better yet…get nutritional counseling!
THINGS TO TRY
Find out what’s going on in your head. You’ll get to know about things that may be causing you to feel depressed.
Flower remedies can be successful.
Physical exercise promotes a positive mental attitude. It’s important to your success in the battle to overcome depression.
Depression gives you a chance to work with parts within yourself that you don’t know about and may have repressed. When you enter therapy and work with them, you can understand your self better while you heal and transform yourself.
When you stay connected with friends and community, your worries will be in the background. Join a support group. Your physician may have a list of groups available to you. Do something you enjoy every day. Journal about it.
Try something new. A new hobby can get you out of your house and out of your head.
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