How can we feel our Heart Chakra, and what part does it play in our energy?
Working with Your Heart Chakra
Some of my clients hear me talk about the energy of love when we work together. Perhaps you are wondering what I mean by that.
Or perhaps you are feeling a little left out and would like some love energy today.
We all have a heart, and we can connect with the warmth and energy of our heart whenever we choose. You don’t need to be an energy worker to try this simple exercise.
For me, the Heart Chakra is much more than an idea or a symbol. It is something we can learn to feel, sense, and experience within our own energy field.
What is the Heart Chakra?
As an energy worker, I have been taught to work with the heart as a center of intelligence, wisdom, and spiritual knowledge, rather than simply as the physical organ that circulates blood around the body.
To me, the Heart Chakra is an energy center that surrounds and also penetrates the body.
One way to understand this is to locate your heart area and then imagine a field of energy expanding outwards from it.
Imagine this energy extending approximately two feet in front of you and all around your body. Imagine it extending through your spine and out through your back, and through your sides, creating a field of energy surrounding you.
That, to me, is the Heart Chakra or Heart and High Heart Energy Center.
You don’t have to see anything for this to work. This is about noticing what you can feel, sense, or imagine.
Exercise: How to Feel the Energy of Your Heart Center or Heart Chakra
Let’s try a simple exercise.
Find somewhere comfortable where you won’t be disturbed for a few minutes.
Then:
- Start to breathe regularly, keeping the in-breath and out-breath approximately the same length.
- Imagine something that makes you feel happy. If nothing immediately comes to mind, imagine a cute puppy, a baby giggling, a beautiful view, or your favorite place.
- Continue to breathe regularly in and out.
- Close your eyes and notice any changes in your body. Do you notice warmth, coolness, tingling, or a push-pull sensation in or around your body?
- Bring your attention to your Heart Chakra in your mind’s eye. What color or colors do you imagine?
- Create an imaginary link between your Heart Chakra and the center of your brain, around the area where the pituitary gland is located.
- Feel, sense, or imagine a flow of energy between your head and your Heart Chakra.
- If your Heart Chakra had a name, what would it be? What would it say to you?
- Imagine surrounding any visions, colors, or sensations with golden light.
- Continue to breathe deeply for as long as you desire.
There is no right or wrong experience here. You may feel something immediately.
You may see a color, experience warmth or tingling, or you may feel absolutely nothing.
That’s okay, too.
Learning to work with our energy can be a process of becoming more aware of the subtle things we experience within and around our bodies.
Oxytocin, The Heart Chakra And The Energy of Love
I read a book recently that said that oxytocin is from Heaven. That phrase stayed with me.
My EMF Balancing Technique® teacher also recently described oxytocin as “the energy of love.”
I find this an interesting way of thinking about the connection between our physical bodies and our experience of love, connection, and bonding.
Oxytocin is a hormone and neurotransmitter involved in several processes in the body and brain, including social bonding and recognition.
According to Psych Central:
“Oxytocin (Greek, ‘quick birth’) is a mammalian hormone that also acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain.”
It is fascinating to me that something we experience as an emotion or energetic state can also have a physical expression within our bodies.
What Happens When We Think About Love?
Think for a moment about someone or something you love and notice what happens in your body.
Does your heart area soften – perhaps your breathing changes?
Maybe you smile, or feel warmth.
Perhaps you experience a sense of connection that is difficult to put into words.
This is where I become interested in the relationship between energy, emotion, and the physical body.
Thinking about what makes us feel good, connecting with people we love, and acting on loving impulses can support positive experiences of connection and wellbeing. Oxytocin is one part of the biology involved in those experiences.
For me, this doesn’t take away from the energetic experience – it makes it even more interesting.
Perhaps the physical body and the energy body are not as separate as we sometimes imagine.
Perhaps the energy of love can be experienced on many different levels — emotionally, physically, energetically, and spiritually.
And our Heart Chakra gives us a beautiful place to begin exploring that connection.
Learn More About The Akashic Records Readings I Offer
One way to grow your energetic awareness is to begin to work with your Akashic Records. This expands the connection to your Soul through your Higher Self (also known as your intuition).
You’ll find that your intuition expands with Akashic Records work, and questions you have on the spiritual journey will be answered. It really helps you to connect the dots.
If you are interested in an Akashic Records Reading, I always recommend starting with the Soul Star Reading.
This reading gives you 3 different immersive experiences of the Akashic Records: –
- Connecting with your Divine Soul Blueprint (Soul-level gifts, talents, abilities).
- Hearing about a Past Life that contains a karmic pattern ready for clearing (you’ll recognize this pattern in your present life).
- Recognizing and clearing present life blocks and restrictions.
