What is the Heart chakra?
The most typical understanding is that the Heart chakra is the center for love and the ability to give and receive love. This is true; but there is so much more to it. The heart chakra has a value that is irreplaceable across the entire body energy field, because it does this beautiful thing of connecting the lower and upper chakras. It is also a vibrational space that holds a resonance of truth detection.
Where is the Heart Chakra (and why is it more than love)?
The heart chakra sits in the middle of the body, in line with the heart but central, like all the chakras that line up through the spine. Traditionally its color is green, with pink as the secondary color. It is a barometer; an open heart allows you to live without being wounded by every experience, and to navigate your truth on a greater plane of connectivity.
Emotional experiences register here. Depression, grief, jadedness; the heart records all of it. In Chinese medicine, the lungs are where we store grief, and the lungs are a huge part of the chest cavity, deeply tied to the heart chakra. When I scan clients and students, I often find grief pooled in three places: the back of the hamstrings, the lungs, and of course, the heart. Sometimes grief becomes the lens we view our whole life through; and the heart chakra is the place where it can also begin to transform us.
The heart chakra also has a beautiful relationship with the Sacral chakra. The sacral chakra stores sacred contracts when it comes to relationships, and the heart chakra weighs in. When there is a pull or a draw toward someone, sometimes what is revealed is a past life of unfinished business, or a lesson you have come to teach them or they have come to teach you. So when I say “follow your heart”, I do not mean follow it blindly. I mean listen to your heart and follow it with the wisdom your heart can offer.
And here is the piece I most want to leave you with: the more love you give, the more in love you will be. It is not that people will sing praise back to you; it is that you will reside in the frequency of love itself. That is cosmic love. Sit in a quiet space, put your hands on your heart, and breathe into the energy of love. You are loved. You are love at your core.
Want to go deeper?
I have several episodes on my YouTube channel exploring the chakras and how to work with them—including a new episode all about the heart chakra. My book Soul Yoga: Using Your 12 Chakras as a Map to Reaching Your Highest Potential is also now available—along with the Soul Yoga: Companion Journal and Soul Yoga Inspiration Cards.
Visit constancemessmer.com to get your copy of Soul Yoga, or head to the Constance Messmer YouTube channel to watch the new heart chakra episode now.
