4: The Heart Chakra

 

 

The fourth chakra deals with unconditional love. The gland that is associated with it is the thymus gland. The color most usually associated with it is green. This has been the focus in the Christian era.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER NAMES FOR THE HEART CHAKRA
The fourth chakra, the pink chakra, the green chakra, Anahata

HEART CHAKRA ELEMENT
Air

HEART CHAKRA CORRESPONDING GLAND AREAS
Thymus (Produces the progenitor cells that mature into T-Cells so its balance is fundamental to fighting infection and cancers.)

LOCATION OF THE HEART CHAKRA
In the middle of the chest

NUMBER OF PETALS ASSOCIATED WITH THE HEART CHAKRA
12

HEART CHAKRA SOUND
Vibrates in the note of F

Its tone is AH, its word is amen

HEART CHAKRA MANTRA
YAM

HEART CHAKRA COLOR
Green or Pink

HEART CHAKRA AFFIRMATION
I love…

HEART CHAKRA WISDOM
Love, Healing

PHYSICAL DYSFUNCTION OF THE HEART CHAKRA
Heart, lungs, chest, breast, arms, upper back, shoulders, vagus nerve, circulatory system ― so think heart failure/disease, asthma, allergies, respiratory issues, high blood pressure.

FEELINGS, ENERGETICS AND MENTALITY OF THE HEART CHAKRA
The heart chakra is related to love, joy, compassion and generosity, a dedication to oneness through diversity.

More than any of the chakra symbols, Anahata is the most eloquent.

Its color is green (although sometimes you can perceive the heart chakra is pink, when it also transmits the healing energy of chakra 13). Green is the color of life and depicts an interwoven community connected through energy.

Its twelve petals reveal two schools of wisdom: those states we need to overcome and these we can strive towards.

Incompetence, discrimination, partiality, defiance and longing all impede its flow. Inability to hope or repent for the wrong doings we inflict upon others will cause dysfunction. Finally, lustfulness and being a fraud both work against the serene energy of love.

Anxiety draws us away from its essence, just as it does when we lose hope or indeed, we become arrogant.

For its greatest healing, we should seek to engender harmony, empathy, clarity, unity, forgiveness and compassion.

Its essence lies in unity, purity, kindness and peace. Achieving all of these, we experience the sensation of the heart chakra as bliss.

Even its name is peaceful. Anahata means unbeaten, unstruck and unhurt and its tone is the sound made without striking two parts of the mouth together.

Amongst the twelve petals, we clearly see a hexagram created by placing one triangle on top of another. The Hindus call this symbol Shaktona, the immaculate union between male and female.

Finally, the Anahata symbolizes the place where the heart chakra lives. Above are three spiritual chakras and below reside the three physical ones. Here, it acts as a gateway for human consciousness to spill out and manifest in the physical world.