This article will focus specifically on heart chakra healing. If you’re new to chakras or need a reminder: Chakras are simply spiritual energy hubs that exist within our body. While being spiritual, a blocked chakra has physical and psychological manifestations.
To avoid this, we need to heal or clear our chakras every so often to keep all pathways open. This is also known as fourth chakra healing due to the heart chakra being the 4th of 7 chakras.
We’ll explore some of the more well-known approaches to healing your heart chakra as well as some you may not have heard of.
Why an Open Heart Chakra is Important
You may be wondering why an open heart chakra is necessary at all. It was briefly mentioned in the introduction that chakras are energy hubs. Heart chakra healing is particularly important because it is the central point of all the chakras.
A blockage anywhere within your chakras is a negative thing but blocking your main hub is going to have the largest impact on your life. It is responsible for connecting your physical world energies with your spiritual world energies.
Not to worry, by the end of this article you’ll be completely clued in on how to open heart chakra energy flow once again! We’ll start by taking a quick look at signs that you require one of the healing heart chakra practices.
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Signs you may need Heart Chakra Healing
You’ll find many of the signs that suggest you may require some of the healing heart chakra practices relate to emotional stability, and in need of Chakra Cleansing. Many people who search out heart chakra healing techniques find it increasingly difficult to connect with others, at least in a meaningful way.
This could be due to an inability to forgive or it could be that you feel lonely even when you’re surrounded by loved ones. There are other signs as well such as a general lack of empathy, which can even be seen as a disinterest in literally everything.
Low self-esteem is another sign and it can often lead to someone retreating inwards away from the world, which does even more damage to their chakras.
Healing Heart Chakra Practices
Not only to the other 12 Chakras, but if you’re in the position of needing fourth chakra healing, you’re probably eager to get started. The first technique we’ll look at relates to your diet. It’s not an instant fix but more of a gradual one that you can do overtime.
It’s also something you can actively include in your day-to-day life to keep certain chakras open. To open heart chakra energy flow again you want to aim for certain foods. One suggested food type is simply warm soup.
You can feel it as it moves down your body and warms up your chest. This focuses your body’s healing energies in that area.
Other than soup you should aim for anything green and natural. If you’ve grown it yourself away from pesticides and any other unnatural additions then that’s the best-case scenario.
Worst case scenario…well, as long as it’s green and from the Earth then it’s better than nothing. You want to avoid anything processed or full of sugar though. Natural sugars are fine but limit your sugar intake from unhealthy foods as much as possible. Alcohol is another substance that won’t help with your heart chakra healing.
Express Yourself
This technique for healing the heart chakra deals with the cause and the symptoms all in one swift go. All you need is a pen and paper or a laptop. Put simply you’re going to express yourself.
You need to write down everything you are feeling: whether you’re angry, sad, happy, stressed, just get it all out. Explore your emotions and write about why you feel this way. Do you want to continue to feel that emotion?
If not, what can you do to change it? You should also take some time to write about things you are grateful for in life.
The trick to this technique is to remember that nobody else has to see anything you write. Of course, you can show it to other people if you want to. Many find that posting their thoughts and feelings for others to see to be a beneficial and therapeutic practice. Just do whatever feels natural for you.
Just as long as you can be truly open and not hold anything back because that is the purpose of this technique. You’re probably getting an idea of how to open heart chakra energy flow by now. We’ll move onto our final two techniques for healing your heart chakra.
Meditation and Affirmations
This technique is actually two separate techniques condensed into one incredibly effective technique. Buddhist monks use a similar approach when meditating to focus their minds on exactly what they hope to accomplish by the end of their meditation.
In learning how to open the heart chakra, you’ll find that some techniques work better than others for you so it’s important to go with what works best. Healing heart chakra meditation is pretty similar to any other type of meditation. You want to find some time to be alone and undisturbed. Simply get comfortable and begin to take some slow, deep breaths.
Whenever you feel yourself entering into a meditative state you have two options. You can simply focus on the heart chakra healing, directing your energy towards it to unblock it and allow your energy to flow freely. Alternatively, you can use affirmations.
These are phrases that you repeat over and over again to achieve a specific result. You can create your own but some examples you could use for heart chakra healing are: “I free my energy by unblocking my heart chakra” or “My heart chakra is open and now I am free”.
There’s no right or wrong way of doing this. What is important is that you’re concentrating your thoughts on the blocked heart chakra and directing your energy towards this spot. You can always try out different affirmations to see which works best for you.