HEART ENERGY CENTRE (Anahat Chakra)

 

The Spiritual symbol of Heart Energy Centre (Anahat Chakra) is a green shaded Lotus with twelve petals. The Frequency of vibration of this Energy Centre is 12 per seconds and its main element is air.

Safety Measures: The Heart Energy Centre directly affects the heart, lungs, chest, arms, and hands. When misaligned, poor circulation, high or low blood pressure, and other heart and lung conditions can result.

An imbalanced Heart Energy Centre can result in problematic issues, such as co-dependence, manipulative behaviours, feeling of unworthiness, and an inability to trust yourself or others. If it becomes unbalanced, you may feel detached from the world around you.  Each breath you take that connects you to your physical and spiritual world is enveloped by Heart Energy Centre, and if unbalanced or blocked can lead to a disconnection from the people you love, love for yourselves, and love for the earth.  Problems in relationships heighten and you tend to lose hope.  You lose sight of beauty, love, empathy, and compassion.

Common psychological symptoms of an unbalanced Heart Energy Centre are apathetic, distrustful, faithlessness, unforgiving, hopelessness, uncommitted and detached. Common physical symptoms of an unbalanced Heart Energy Centre are pneumonia, asthma, breast problems, respiratory problems, upper-back pain, shoulder and upper-arm pain, and premature aging.

Method: Do meditation on it as follows:

Step 1: Sit in Lotus pose (Padmasana) and relax your body.  

Step 2: Enter into Pranayama by practicing slow and deep breathing through nose. Simultaneously do Pratyahara by the practice of turning the mind to introspection by voluntarily shutting out distractions provided by the senses.

Step 3: Keep your hands on knees with palms upwards and fingers in Air Position (Vayu Mudra).

Step 4: Focus your vision at Heart Energy Centre (Anahat Chakra). Concentrate at Thymus gland by relaxing upper chest in front of heart. Keep your eyes shut, spine erect, body relaxed while breathing deeply. 

Perform at least one round of ten deep gentle breaths.

Benefits: The Heart Energy Centre is the centre of your spirit as well as the centre of the chakras, making it a vital energy centre for your spiritual, mental, and physical well-being. It is associated with capacity to love; integration, bridge between earthly and spiritual aspirations; transcending personal identity and limitations of the ego; experience of unconditional love and connection with all; heart-centered discernment; appreciation of beauty in all things and experiencing deep and meaningful relationships. It connects the lower and upper chakras. It acts as a centre of integration of earthly matters and higher aspirations. Far from seeing these energies as separate, the experience of the heart integrates them effortlessly and harmoniously.

It is associated with love, compassion, safety, trust, adventure, self-compassion, forgiveness, and relationships. Balancing and opening it enhances the love for self and others. It allows you to feel compassion, empathy, and forgiveness for others; and it reconnects you to the loving world around you. Peace and harmony flourish in relationships with others and self. It is all about connecting and relating. The emphasis here is on love, giving and receiving, and how open you are in relationships.

It is also a centre through which you experience beauty in life. Seeing the world through a balanced Heart Energy Centre is being in a state of openness and acceptance that brings you in touch with your world and yourselves in profound and fulfilling ways. It is the source of deep and profound truths that cannot be expressed in words. You are able to connect with the child-like world vision of beauty you were born with, generating adventure and zest for life. 

The thymus gland, which can be energized through this Energy Centre, is important in the defense system of the body. Meditation on it balances release of Thymosin Hormone. It also plays an important role in helping the body fight infections.

While practicing this Energy Centre‚ you also get hold of all the benefits of Lotus Pose. It has the power to quiet the noise and worry in the brain and draw awareness on the external to the internal. In addition to it, you are also benefited from Pranayama, Pratyahara and Air Position.

Final Position: Inhale a deep breath through nose and exhale it through mouth to come out of this stage. Take another similar breath and release it moving to next stage. Take one more similar breath before the start of next stage.