Using the Heart Chakra to Heal Emotionally

When we hurt emotionally, it not only affects our feelings but our physical, mental and spiritual health as well. It is one of the truest ways for us to see the interconnection between our pillars of health and the importance of supporting all of them concurrently in the process of healing.

The heart chakra is an energy point in the body that often is where a lot of our emotional pain is experienced. It is our center for love, compassion, empathy, sensitivity, and emotional well-being influence across the other chakras and pathways. Over time this pain can manifest into physical pain across the body if left unresolved. Having a hardened heart is also common and not only refers to the challenge of opening oneself up to similar experiences in the future but of a blocked chakra energy center.

Imbalance and blockage in the heart chakra leads to a multitude of feelings such as loneliness, resentment, worry and fear. These feelings often become complicated with additional feelings that can manifest into anxiety, worry, trauma scars and even PTSD. Resetting the heart chakra is more than just an energy session with your holistic health practitioner. It is often a long journey of recovery, support, and courage.

Heart Chakra and Emotional Pain Blocks

Just like physical pain, it is common to ignore the symptoms of what we are feeling and experiencing as we push through our days. Pain is covered with busy distractions, mindless scrolling, and other vices to lessen it. Emotional eating is a type of this distraction used to literally push down the pain in the heart chakra where it settles even deeper in the body.

By the time we realize how much pain we are carrying, it can be years after the event that started it. I often advise clients that just like caring for a physical ailment we need to follow a similar path for our emotional healing. That can mean feeling worse before we feel better, known as a Herx reaction. It does not mean we go charging down the path that led us to today but rather we carefully unravel and detangle things to bring them forward where we re now so they can looked at differently.

Energetically, this looks like multiple sessions supporting the body's ability to work through that stress, release what is blocking energy flow, and providing the care it needs to love itself. I provide clients with many options in this area including, Emotion Code, Pranic Therapy, Reiki, Chakra Balancing, aromatherapy, herbal and flower essence therapies.

Signs Your Heart Chaka is Blocked from Emotional Pain

• Recurring anger, bitterness

• A negative perspective and worldview

• Withdrawal and isolation

• Survivor or warrior level independence

• Difficulty forgiving and moving forward in a relationship

• Self negative talk

• Emotional eating patterns and habits

• Low/lack of energy

• Lackluster feelings about trying something new

• Hesitation in meeting new people

• Fear of crowds

• Set off by loud noises

• Insomnia or waking in the night

• Repeating and overthinking situations

• Replaying memories

• Hyper attention to what could go wrong

• Meanness or contempt for others who seem to have it going well in life

• Food taste unappealing or bland

• Drawn to unhealthy habits like overdrinking, smoking, overexercising

• Difficulty making and keeping friends

• Challenge in looking forward to things

• Sideline participation in conversations or just observing

These are just some of the things we can observe in ourselves or others. Please realize too these types of behaviors can be learned and inherited meaning that emotional pain can be generationally passed down. You may not have had a direct experience but rather you inherited it and it is being carried in your own body. This is where techniques like Emotion Code are so powerful in healing as they can identify and pull out both direct and inherited emotional pain that is holding back the body's energy flow.

Self-Applied Methods to Healing the Heart Chakra

I highly encourage the use of these self-applied methods alongside the use of techniques provided by a trained holistic health practitioner. It is also very reasonable to consider counseling or pastoral care as well. The combination of techniques is beneficial because we can install the support system we need for this healing experience. There is no one way to heal from heart chakra blocks.

When using these self-applied methods, it is important to not push yourself. Sometimes we are simply not ready to go through things and this type of healing must take its own time in evolving. Again, this is why working with a trained holistic health practitioner can help as they will provide the energy medicine techniques to support any self-applied method to help overcome challenges and provide that safe energy to explore.

Heart Chakra Meditation

Focusing on the color green as you use deep breathing can help open the heart chakra for exploration. Our exhales are providing release to things we are holding onto. When our heart chakra is blocked, we often take short shallow breaths or periodic deep sighs. In this meditation practice, we are intentionally filling the lungs deeply and releasing them slowly to introduce air flow through the heart chakra.

The color green is associated with the heart chakra because it is indicative of growth, renewal, love, and compassion. I also invite clients to use color therapy while doing this practice to enhance the experience.

Heart Chakra Flower Essence Therapy

This is a technique where we create a personalized flower essence remedy that is then used for a period of 3 to 4 weeks. It helps to navigate the feelings we experience and offer us an opportunity to energetically release them.

Flower essence therapy is a topical or consumed tasteless energy medicine, similar in philosophy to homeopathic remedies. It is personally crafted based on your specific needs outlined with a trained holistic health practitioner. The remedy is reassessed at the end of the 3 to 4 weeks to determine if another round of it should be used, a different blend created or the client does not need it any longer.

Common flower essences used in heart chakra healing blends are:

• Rescue

• Beech

• Chicory

• Vine

I will often provide clients instructions to apply a couple drops of the flower essence blend we create for them on their chest as well as drinking it. Complete instructions are provided based on your situation at the time the blend is created.

Aromatherapy Options for Heart Chakra

When we have emotional pain, our senses including touch, smell, sight and hearing dull. Reviving the senses can often be done through aromatherapy because it will invoke feelings that allow energy to shift. For example, if you have fond memories of home baked cookies, that is an aroma that can be soothing and comforting to you.

When we turn to aromatherapy it is important to align scents to your specific needs and not just commonly use things like lavender for example. We each respond differently to scent. Lavender for someone with PTSD usually won't do much as the barrier of the cells does not allow for lavender to be absorbed like it does for someone without PTSD. Just like other natural health modalities we must align the specific formulation to you and your needs. Working with a trained professional is helpful.

Examples of aromas used may include:

• Lavender

• Chamomile

• Geranium

• Clary Sage

• Neroli

• Rose

• Siberian Fir

• Cypress

• Black Spruce

• Vanilla

  
  

Crystal Support for Heart Chakra

Another energy medicine that can be self-applied is using crystals. Many people find calming, helpful support through crystals. These can be used during meditation, chakra balancing sessions, during the day as wearables or next to your bed while you sleep.

High quality crystals is key to maximizing the benefits crystals can provide. I recommend these when working the heart chakra:

• Rose quartz

• Green aventurine

• Clear quartz

• Rhodochrosite

Heart Chakra Journaling

From your phone or a notepad you write down the feelings you experience through the day. This is then used to show recurring patterns of feelings and thoughts and where you are experiencing feelings to be released.

The list of feelings is used to rework the words into affirmative statements that are healing and loving to yourself. Over time you work through where those negative feelings are appearing and replace it with the positive words.

Heart Chakra Yoga Poses

The Camel pose and Bridge pose both focus on chest opening to allow for deep refreshening breathing. The poses themselves represent opening the heart space which can be emotionally and mentally stimulating for opening the heart chakra.

Heart Chakra Activities

There are many ways to stimulate the heart chakra through every day activities. This is also where we can expand creativity that you just never know where it lead in making an impact to someone else.

• Send cards to the troops

• Community clean up projects

• Recording stories of the elderly

• Prayer group participation

• Food/meal trains or community soup kitchen work

• Mentoring youth programs

While these types of activities require us to emerge from isolation, they also begin to expand our worldview to include different perspectives. This of course opens the work of practicing gratitude which can be powerful in opening the heart chakra to promote healing.

Healing Emotions through the Heart Chakra

Often when we refocus attention on other things beyond the pain we feel, it can create space to allow healing to begin. Releasing pain in small doses over time builds renewed trust, openness to love, and improved relationships with ourself and others. Most importantly in this work, is installing the right support through holistic health practitioner services, counseling, and community.

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