The Heart Chakra

The heart chakra is the cardiac, at the heart, is of a glowing golden colour, and each of its quadrants is divided into three parts, which gives it twelve undulations, because its primary force makes for it twelve spokes..

The Heart Chakra is the centre from which feelings of love emanate. It is also associated with other virtuous emotions, such as joy, happiness, honesty, respect, compassion, understanding, and generosity, and with loving oneself in a sincere, non-egotistic way. This is also the chakra through which we connect with others whom we love or have affection towards. Once forged, these links are very hard to break, which is why people suffer so much through the break-up of a relationship or the loss of a loved one.

This chakra is the centre of the positive Yang energy in the body. The left side of the heart chakra is red and positively charged, the right side is dark green and negatively charged, and the core of the heart centre is pure white.

The red would clearly correspond to the rose light of love, while the green signifies the lower or gross emotional body functioning of the heart centre, which is focussed on self, security, and accumulation of and attachment to and pride in physical and emotional possessions. The white signifyies spiritual purity.

For women (and feminine men) it is the eros (love) or heart centre that is of great significance. When this chakra is open, its energy connects to the breasts, and it generates the virtues of the heart through the whole body.

The heart chakra is very important in spiritual healing. All the energies metabolised through the chakras travel up the central nadi of the body and into the heart chakra, before moving out through the hands or eyes of the healer.

When the heart centre has been fully opened, it becomes the channel for Universal Love; what the Buddhists call Mahakaruna ot "the Great Compassion", and esoteric Christians and Theosophists the "Christ Consciousness". Once opened, the Higher Self or Immortal Divine Soul is able to work through this centre. This is probably why in so many cultures the heart is said to be the seat of the soul.

AIDS, a disease of the immune system, is said to be associated with the heart chakra; through feelings of rejection and an inability to accept oneself (a common problem in the Gay community, which suffers from guilt and ostracisation due to the influence of so-called Christian morality or "Churchianity").

When the heart chakra is open and balanced, you are a very compassionate, understanding, and generous person. The emotions of love, joy, happiness, honesty, and respect are very important to you. You are considerate and sensitive to the needs of others, and empathetic to their pain. You are able to feel love for all beings around you, in an ever-widening circle from yourself and family, your pets, friends, neighbours, cuntrymen, fellow human beings and all fellow living beings on Earth. Ultimately, you can see the Divine - you can see God or Godhead or the Self - in all beings, and you realise the same Self in you is also the Self in them as well.

When the heart chakra is not open and balanced, you are full of negative emotions such as hatred, guilt, selfishness, paranoia, impatience, and self-pity. You can have powerful, passionate feelings for others, but you will only love another or do something for them on the condition that they love or do something for you first.
When your heart chakra is blocked, you are a hard, unsympathetic, self-centred person. You are afraid to love others, and unable to love yourself.