Love is the closest thing to real magic that we possess. Love’s vibration can hold and heal your body and the planet. Love for yourself and others arises from the Anahata, or Heart Chakra, which sits right over your physical heart and is the center of your body’s energy. It’s also your center of compassion and generosity. When your Heart Chakra is balanced, love flows easily, and you’re able to maintain healthy and fulfilling relationships.
When out of alignment, you may feel sorrow or heartache. I wrote this blog, Choose Love: 6 Ways to Open Your Heart Chakra, to help you invoke and experience ubiquitous, unconditional love – the kind of love that is liberated from fear or ego.
Summer’s here in the Northern Hemisphere, and July is the month of love, passion, and fruition. Desire and sensual pleasure, along with everything you create or birth, originate from the Sacral Chakra. Take passion to another level during this fiery time of year by exploring love and the Heart Chakra. The Heart Chakra is the center of the basic chakra system, and it’s where deep bonds are formed.
It’s the chakra of union and like a bridge between the higher and lower self. It raises the question: Will you give in to your animal nature or look to higher guidance and align with Spirit? This year, I encourage you to focus on activating your Heart Chakra to consciously choose, feel, give, and receive love on a more profound and universal level.
6 Ways to Open Your Heart Chakra
1. Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is one of my soul passions and talents – it’s the art and alchemy of working with scents and herbs, and a beautiful exercise in releasing our intellectual tendencies to venture into the vast knowledge of our sensual and spiritual selves. Scent carries and communicates the power of attraction. Your pheromones, in concert with the fragrances you wear, draw lovers, friends, and energy in a myriad of forms.
Working with essential oils that correspond to the Heart Chakra such as rose, jasmine, cacao, cardamom, bergamot, black spruce, hawthorn berries, lavender, and marjoram help align your energy with pure, loving energy.
Pour your essential oils in a diffuser or bath, or rub them in your hands (always dilute essential oils with a carrier oil before applying to your skin) and take a big whiff. Visualize the love you’re capable of bringing into the world, and hold onto it as long as possible. Your body, and mind, will remember that feeling long after your meditation.
2. Work with Goddesses
Chakras are energy centers within and surrounding your physical body. You can think of them as your body’s vortexes, receiving and sending information from Earth below to the Spirit Realm above and vice versa. If you enjoy working with the goddesses, I recommend working with Quan Yin, Áine, Hera, and Venus to help open and activate your Heart Chakra.
What’s their medicine?
Quan Yin is a Chinese Bodhisattva. She’s the goddess of compassion, mercy, and kindness. Work with Quan Yin to help you show up in the world with love, empathy, and grace.
Hera is the Greek goddess of marriage, family, women, and childbirth, and a symbol of power and devotion. Work with Hera to demonstrate commitment and care to yourself and others.
Áine is the Irish goddess of love, sovereignty, and summer. She also inspires hope and helps women recall pleasant memories. Work with Áine to remember good times, open your heart, and inspire hope within and around you.
Venus is the goddess of love, art, and beauty. Work with Venus to cultivate the art of love. She will also help you appreciate and value …
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