Heart Chakra

When I think of February I think of Valentine’s Day normally but I am also thinking of the heart chakra. Listed below is some information about the heart chakra:

•Color – green, pink

•Sanskrit Name – anahata

•Physical Location – center of chest

•Purposes – emotional empowerment

•Spiritual Lesson – forgiveness, unconditional love, letting go, trust, compassion

•Physical Dysfunctions- heart conditions, asthma, lung & breast cancers, thoracic spine, pneumonia, upper back, shoulder problems

•Mental and Emotional Issues – love, compassion, confidence, inspiration, hope, despair, hate, envy, fear, jealousy, anger, generosity

•Information Stored Inside Heart Chakra – connections or “heart-strings” to those whom we love

•Area of Body Governed – heart, circulatory system, blood, lungs, rib cage, diaphragm, thymus, breasts, esophagus, shoulders, arms, hands

Feeding Your Heart Chakra:

For Healing Emotional Hurts eat the following:

Leafy vegetables: spinach, kale, dandelion greens, etc.

•Air vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, squash, etc.

•Drink the following:

Liquids: green teas

•Cook with the following Spices:

basil, sage, thyme, cilantro, parsley

Gemstones and Flower Essences that stimulate, cleanse and energize the heart chakra

• gemstones Malachite, Emerald, Rose Quartz
• Flower Essences – Poppy, California Wild Rose

When your 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, neighbors, countrymen, fellow human beings and all fellow living beings on Earth.

When your Heart Chakra is Overactive:

You are dominated by your emotions and feelings, such as love, joy, sorrow, etc. You are the sort of person who is desperate to please others, and are too overly concerned with the needs of others, putting them above your own needs in an unbalanced way. This personality type – who is more likely to be a woman than a man – may be involved with a self-centered or immature partner, taking all their abuse, always forgiving, and cleaning up after them. This is also how the phenomenon of “co-dependency” arises.

When your Heart Chakra is Malfunctioning:

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-hearted unsympathetic, self-centered person. You are afraid to love others, and unable to love yourself.

Chakras, What Are They?

Chakras, what is it? We have talked about this before on Your Life Matters and I wanted to share with those that may not have heard the interview(s) or know about chakras.

The definition of chakra is any of the seven major energy centers in the body

The seven energy centers that the definition is referring to is the following:

The first chakra or root chakra located at the base of your tailbone

The second chakra or sacral chakra located in the pelvis area

The third chakra or solar plexus chakra located in navel area

The fourth chakra or heart chakra

The fifth chakra or throat chakra

The sixth chakra or third eye located in the center of your brow

The seventh chakra or crown chakra

There are many books on chakras and on the net.  Two books that you may be interested in reading is Chakras For Beginners by David Pond and The Complete Guide To Chakras by Ambika Wauters, in these books you will find out more about the chakras and how to keep them balanced and what happens when they are not balanced.  If you  want to learn how to meditate as well in order to balance your chakras you should read Meditation For Beginners by Stephanie Clement.

http://www.llewellyn.com/author.php?author_id=2765

http://www.stephanieclement.com/

http://www.astrologers-online.com/stephanie_clement.php

http://www.reflectingpond.com/

http://www.llewellyn.com/author.php?author_id=3261

Be sure to check out our show for the interview with David Pond and Stephanie Clement!

www.yourlifemattersshow.com

Being a Sensitive

In some of my blogs I have talked about being a sensitive or empath as some would say and I wanted to explain what a sensitive/empath is:

A HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) not only is sensitive to noise, tastes, smells, sounds, moods and emotions of others, pain, etc. but
they also have a special light about them that attracts spirits to them. Some people are born this way (I am one of those) and others become more sensitive
to a degree by doing paranormal investigations. The difference that I have noticed is that for me I have these experiences all the time for others who
also investigate with me only have this happen at  investigations or sometimes during the night, especially around me when a spirit wants my attention.  Everyone will not always be sensitive in every way mentioned above, for ex: they may at times during an investigation feel the emotions or pain of someone passed but not feel those for the living, for me I feel both of the living and the dead. For those that live with someone who is a sensitive that feels others emotions, etc. just be aware that the emotions may not be their own, they could be happy one minute and sad or upset the next. One thing to remember is don’t lie to someone who is a sensitive or empath, we may not be able to prove it but we know all the same and tells us you can’t be trusted about other things either.

The best way I have found to deal with all of this is to listen to music and I need to be outside and if I can’t I exercise, this centers me, not only am I physically able to do things but mentally as well.

Over the next  few days or weeks I want to focus on things like this to help those who may read this and not know about certain things such as chakras, etc.