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Heart Chakra (Anahata)

Heart chakra
  • Location: Around the heart
  • Color green
  • Aroma: rose oil.
  • Flakes: 12
  • Mantra: NM
  • Stone: rose quartz, jadeite, green calcite, green tourmaline.
  • Functions: love, devotion, emotions

The heart chakra (Anahata) - the fourth (one of the main) chakras of a person - is located in the region of the heart.

Symbol appearance

Anahata is represented by a lotus flower with twelve petals. Inside there is a smoky area at the intersection of two triangles that form a bezel (hexagram - see. Star symbol David). Shatkona is a symbol used in Hindu yantra to denote the union of a man and a woman.

Chakra function

The heart chakra is associated with the ability to make decisions outside the realm of karma. In Manipur and below, a person is bound by the laws of karma and fate. In Anahata, decisions are made on the basis of "I" ("they follow the voice of the heart"). The heart chakra is associated with love and compassion, mercy towards others.

Blocked Heart Chakra Effects:

  • Heart related health problems
  • Lack of empathy, selfishness, unhealthy relationships with others
  • Painful jealousy
  • Fear of rejection
  • Losing the joy of life
  • Lack of self-acceptance is a feeling of indifference, emptiness and isolation.

Ways to unblock your heart chakra:

There are several ways to unblock or open your chakras:

  • Meditation and relaxation, suitable for chakra
  • The development of the specific characteristics of a given chakra - in this case, love for oneself and others.
  • Surround yourself with the color assigned to the chakra - in this case green
  • Mantras - especially the YAM mantra

Chakra - Some Basic Explanations

The very word chakra comes from Sanskrit and means circle or circle ... Chakra is part of the esoteric theories about physiology and psychic centers that appeared in Eastern traditions (Buddhism, Hinduism). The theory assumes that human life exists simultaneously in two parallel dimensions: one "physical body", and another "psychological, emotional, mental, non-physical", called "Thin body" .

This subtle body is energy, and the physical body is mass. The plane of the psyche or mind corresponds to and interacts with the plane of the body, and the theory is that mind and body influence each other. The subtle body is made up of nadis (energy channels) connected by nodes of psychic energy known as chakra.