If you are struggling with accepting love from yourself or others, it may be time to check in with your heart chakra. Your heart chakra connects you to the love you give and receive in life, and when it's out of balance it can make it challenging to be open to what is meant for you.
Your heart chakra exists, as the name suggests, in and around your heart. It is the 4th chakra and acts as the passageway between your lower and higher chakras. It rules over the heart, lungs, shoulders, upper back, hands, and thymus glands, and is your center for self love, following your passions, receiving love from others, grief, and resentment. The Heart Chakra (also known as the Anahata chakra in Sanskrit) connects to the colors green and pink, and the element of Air. As it connects
Here are some signs your Heart Chakra may be out of alignment:
You struggle with believing that you deserve love
You fear being open and intimate with others
You struggle with loneliness
You keep holding onto people and relationships that hurt you
You tend to hold grudges and resentment for things from the past
You struggle with jealousy or feel overly protective over friends, family members, or partners
If you are struggling with any of these things, know that the heart chakra can easily fall out of balance because all the things we experience in life have an impact on our body and its chakras. Heartbreak, grief, a lack of empathy or understanding from others, insecurity or betrayal of trust are just a few things that can create an imbalanced heart chakra. So how can you help get your heart back in balance? There are so many different ways including crystals, sound healing, yoga practices, meditation, reiki healing, journaling practices.
Crystals for the Heart Chakra
There are so many amazing heart chakra stones that have different purposes, energies, elements, here are a few of our favorites to wear and keep with you on a daily basis or even meditate and sleep with.
Rose Quartz
Rose quartz is an incredible healing crystal for the heart chakra, especially around your ability to accept and believe that you deserve love. Quartzes in general are able to powerfully connect to our bodies and can help us to quickly feel their effects on our energy fields. If you need the reminder that you are unconditionally lovable, Rose Quartz is your stone! This is a perfect stone for anyone who is just starting on their self love journey or needs a powerful pick-me up.
Kambaba Jasper
Kambaba Jasper is a very grounding heart chakra stone that helps you heal and release past
trauma. It is fossilized phytoplankton, which is what gives it such a powerful ability to help you feel safe and protected as you begin to unpack and process old and even past life wounds.
Prehnite
Prehnite helps you let go of what you are no longer meant to have in your life. It’s the perfect stone for you, if you are someone who fears change and the unknown, and that’s led you to stay in jobs, relationships, or situations that you are no longer happy in. Nothing that is truly meant for you will be lost when you work with Prehnite.
Morganite
Morganite has a very sweet and compassionate self love energy. Like a hug from your grandma, this stone helps you to connect into light, unconditional love. Morganite helps you gather the courage to face whatever negative belief you have of yourself so that you can let it go.
Other Ways to help Balance your Heart Chakra
Sound Healing
Sound is a powerful way to shift energy in your body, and there are so many ways to work with it. You can sign up for an in person Sound Healing class, where you’ll get to experience it firsthand. You can also go on sites like Youtube or Spotify and search for Heart Chakra Frequency Sound Healings. These are great for helping you relax or unwind as you fall asleep. You can also use tools like Tuning Forks to practice Sound Healing on yourself.
Journaling
Holding in emotions, grudges, and heartbreak are big contributing factors to creating imbalance in our heart chakras. Acknowledging and writing out those feelings in a journal is an excellent step towards releasing the situations and things that you are struggling with.
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