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Grandfather Buffalo – The Medicine Wheel

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skywheelWhen many people think of the Medicine Wheel, they automatically think Native American Medicine Wheel. However, all cultures have a similar concept, whether it is called a wheel (many cultures had no concept of the wheel), a circle, or a ring of power. It may be called Stone Henge, or some other name.

This configuration is identified as a place of power. The term “Medicine” is defined as power, not power over something, but as in a place containing natural and/or primal earth energies. The Medicine Wheel, then, is a place where, through prayer, ritual, and ceremony, you can connect with these energies for guidance, direction, and strength. This process brings you into relationship with nature.

The magician works with these circles by casting them around him/herself or around objects for protection or other intents. These circles may then be used to have relationships with the energies or to have power over them in some way. The person using the wheel/circle determines how they are used.

Let us look at your energy field. It may be defined as a circle, oval, or egg shaped field around you. Most commonly it will be discussed as concentric circles which surround the physical body. Each circle is related to the chakra points, and will pull in those specific energies necessary for the functioning of the physical body. It is necessary for each one of us to maintain this medicine wheel which surrounds us. This maintenance requires that we have an understanding of it.

You need to understand the chakra system and how it operates. The cleaning, clearing, and repairing of your chakras enables you to connect with the inside world (your inner physical body, and the nourishment of it for health and balance). This would also necessitate the checking of the outer circles of your auric field. You are looking at it’s color. Is it bright or dingy? Are there rips or openings in it? Is it damaged in any way? What do you need to do to repair it? Not everyone can see the aura or the chakras to determine their health, and that is where certain tools come into play.

A friend had a Medicine Wheel on her property, and after a time certain things began to happen. Trees began to die, and blocked or stagnant energies began to accumulate in certain areas around the wheel. An examination of the wheel showed that it was in disrepair. Stones as well as spokes were out of alignment. The wheel was dysfunctional, and needed repair. Your energy field is the same way. It may fall into disrepair if neglected.

Here is a reminder of some tools that can assist you in clearing your energy:

If you already know how to use a pendulum, you can use it to check the chakras and other areas of the body. You can also use color and sound to clear and align your energy. You can also use stones, surrounding the affected area with your intent and with the stone’s energetic properties and color. This will imprint the correct vibration into the area, clearing and repairing it. The sound aspect comes with toning the musical note associated with each chakra. You can also use tingshas, chimes, various sound instruments, and related CD’s, for the purpose of clearing and aligning the affected areas.

Here is a list of stones that help maintain the chakras and the aura:

Malachite – clears and activates the chakras

Amber – aligns the chakras

Kyanite – clears and aligns the chakras

Apatite – balances

Calcite – cleanses

Herkimer Diamond – clears

Ametrine – cleanses and clears

ISIC – The Benefits of Massage

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Masseuse Massaging Young Man Lying on Table Closed Eyes

Massage is believed to be one of the oldest forms of medical care. In 2700BC, the Chinese described it as an essential healing and disease prevention modality. Hippocrates insisted that an effective doctor is one who is able to administer massage.

In my 27+ years as a massage therapist, I have seen many positive post-massage results. Clients who have had chronic headaches for several years get off the table headache-free. Chronic stiffness, spasm and/or range of motion pain are eliminated in 1-3 sessions.  A 45 year old client carried twins full term with no edema or restrictions throughout, and the only thing she did differently from her peers was receive a monthly massage! Even a simple 10-minute chair massage leaves clients refreshed, energized and better able to focus.

Studies found that a weekly 25-minute hand or foot massage, over the course of eight weeks, was very effective therapy following the loss of a loved one. It allowed participants to better focus their thoughts and come to terms with their loss, while improving their energy levels. And other studies found that those who are massaged regularly have more white blood cells.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles found that a single massage session results in significant positive biological changes; decreased cortisol levels, increased white blood cell levels and increased levels of oxytocin.

I have seen my work have profound effects in decreasing pain, relieving migraine pain, reducing anxiety and stress, improving range of motion, reducing muscles soreness, relieving back pain, easing pain and stress, promoting tissue regeneration, easing withdrawal symptoms, treating cancer-related fatigue, increasing focus, energy and balance, decreasing carpal tunnel syndrome and normalizing the circulatory, muscular and nervous systems.

If you’d like to explore alternative health maintenance, consider making monthly massage therapy an integral part of your life.

This week’s blog was written by our Thursday, January 10 ISIC presenter, Rosa Casas. Rosa is a gifted massage therapist who has been practicing for over twenty-seven years. For more information on Rosa and her services, you can visit her website.

Thursday’s event is part of ISIC’s practitioner share events. Once a month holistic practitioners gather in Geneva, IL to share information; the event is free to all professional practitioners. For more information, visit the ISIC Facebook page and the Crystal Life Events Page.

ISIC – Consciousness Studies Grid

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Embarking upon the spiritual journey is an exciting adventure. The quest for consciousness can sometimes also be a lot to take in. This grid is designed to ease stress and to optimize your capacity to absorb the many truths that surface while “on the path”. It offers an opportunity to relax and assimilate, perhaps in a meditation or while reading.

The stones are laid in the formation of a Merkabah within a Merkabah. This creates a solid, and balanced energy flow. Placed around the stones is a Slim Spurling Ring, in order to keep the space clear and energized.

The Aragonite serves as a base for the upward pointing triangle of the outer Merkabah. It encourages discipline and concentration while helping you to ground and center. At the point of this triangle stands Lapis Lazuli. This is one of the great Third Eye Chakra stones. It releases stress from your field which allows you to obtain a sense of serenity. This combined with its quality to bring objectivity and deep self-knowledge is the key to spiritual attainment. The downward facing triangle of the outer Merkabah is composed of Copper and Quartz. Copper stimulates initiative and philosophical energy. As well as Clear Quartz, Copper is exceptionally conducive of present energies and amplifies them. In this arrangement, the Quartz Points filter out distractions and unblock any energies that may need to be moved.

The inner Merkabah is simply made of Magnesite, which brings a deep peace in meditation, harmonizes the hemispheres of the brain, and calms stress.

The final addition to this grid is a Clear Quartz, four-sided pyramid. Pyramids are used to enhance and focus energy. Here, it is being utilized to send the energies of the layout up into the seat of the user.

All of these pieces create a peaceful atmosphere where it is more easily possible not only to push our self-imposed limits, but to be able to go far beyond them.

Staff Speak-Root Chakra

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Located at the tip of the tail bone, the root chakra is about survival, stability, and security. When the root chakra is functioning properly, one feels vibrant, secure and courageous.   If you have been told, “you need to be more grounded,” the first chakra you would look at and work with is your root chakra.  There are many stones that assist with opening, balancing, and clearing the root chakra.  The key is to find which stone works for you on an individual basis.

Black tourmaline helps to clear the root chakra of old energetic and emotional debris, clearing the way for new energy to flow through.

Banded Agate assists one in feeling secure and assists in releasing repressed emotions.

Boji stones come in a male/female pair, helping to balance the body.  They gently but firmly grounds the spiritual body into the physical body.

Dalmatian Jasper is another option when working with the root chakra.  It can help to open the base and earth chakras while grounding and centering the body.

Aragonite assists in stabilizing and centering within the physical body.  It is a very calming stone.

Specularite which can also be known as specular hematite helps one manifest their unique spirit on earth.

For more extensive information about the root chakra and the other six chakras, visit our library.

 

Cosmic Portal Crystals, Chakras & Clearing

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Quartz crystals are excellent for clearing up and balancing your energy field, including your chakras and meridians. Quartz can be seen, at the molecular level, as a tetrahedron and so, as such, is excellent for balancing and aligning energy back to a zero point center from which you can go out in any direction.

We practiced working with quartz at last Saturday morning’s workshop. Each person first used the chakra points in each palm to clear the piece of tumbled quartz they chose to work with. Then we went practiced internally connecting to and communicating with the energy of the quartz, in whatever way each person felt called to do. Some reported seeing colors, others had a conversation with the quartz, still others felt their energy shift and balance; none of the ways was wrong or right, it just was. This is something you need to accept when learning to communicate with crystals: they will learn to advance in the role of assistant by first discovering how you can connect to their world, and then they will expand on this way and go on further.

I explained that when practicing meditation, people usually sit straight, and the energy descends (or ascends) through the central channel (also called the sushumna and the haric line), and you need to clear the chakras to let the energy flow smoothly up and down. Crystal workers, similar to people doing shamanistic journeying, usually work lying down. In this way their whole body is connected to heaven above and earth below, they are protected by these frequencies, and they then can look at each chakra as a line of light energy going up and down, and work with any one at any one time.

When first starting this work, you can take one crystal and lay it on a chakra point – we worked with the third eye first – the chakra for wisdom – and did it sitting up, for lack of space – and focused on absorbing into the balanced crystal energy, which helps you to clarify and align that chakra. We discussed what we experienced, cleared the crystal between our palms, then repeated it with the solar plexus – the place of self worth – I explained they should try this again lying down when they got home – and we discussed how that energy felt. They discussed the differences between the two energies.

If you try this, and enjoy it, the next step is to acquire seven crystals, one for each chakra, and use them first one at a time (same crystal on same chakra is the goal, it’s ok, though, if you get them mixed up), and then some sessions later all together. In between uses, let the crystals rest overnight on a bed of sea salt to clear them (flushing the sea salt down the drain after you remove the crystals), or clear them some other way. Especially if they have been working hard to assist you to center yourself, they need to be cleared.

 

Staff Speak – Kristen’s Reiki Experience

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Ever wonder what a reiki treatment can feel like? Staff member Kristen Putzer attended a local open house and had her first reiki experience. She reports back.
I was invited to participate in an open house featuring energy workers. Though optimistic, I was massively apprehensive—I just don’t like trying new things. I walked into the house and was instantly greeted by friendly faces. There were people eating colorful vegan salads, a woman was receiving a chair massage and a curious dog circled around everyone’s feet. I signed up for a few sessions: a chair massage, an angel card reading and Reiki.
It was my turn to go into the Reiki room. It was cool, serene, a lovely set of walls washed over with a clean ocean blue. Gentle music circled around with the highs and lows of the tribal flutes and melodic chanting. I chatted for a bit with the Reiki Teacher and laid down on the table. I was nervous. I took a few relaxing breaths and closed my eyes drifting off to a peaceful holding place between the earth and the sky.
Hands touched my head. They were warm, almost hot. I could feel a spiral rotating in my head like a corkscrew composed of calm light. The hands moved over my third eye. My skin twitched, I could feel it in my eyelids. It felt like thick, sticky taffy was being pulled out of my head. It reminded me of melted tar between asphalt cracks, the kind that gets stuck to your shoe on a July day. This “taffy” was being pulled from my head by the handful. I began to feel like my mind was lighter, crisper. Hands were placed on an area I frequently have pains in, right between my left temple and my forehead. The pain melted away.
The hands moved across the other chakras, paying special attention to both the Solar Plexus and Sacral. These areas buzzed and rearranged. It felt as though they had been reunited with missing pieces. By the time the hands reached my feet, I felt refreshed. The energetic river in my body had been cleansed. It had only been twenty minutes, but it was encouraging. I had no idea what to expect when I stepped into that room. It was a beautiful experience.

Cosmic Portal – Getting Back to Your Roots

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red jasper malaA home needs a good foundation to withstand storms and all that Mother Nature brings to us; our bodies are the same way.

We require good, solid foundations to carry us through life, and sometimes we need a bit of help when we are experiencing shifts in our life, or the world around us.

Your root chakra is a stabilizer that supports all energy that springs upward. It provides focus, discipline and a sturdy base. It’s a reminder of who we really are and prevents us from scattering our energies by bringing validation to our existence.

The root chakra is location of life and survival – food, air water, shelter – the basics of life.   It is your core; it defines the core of you.  In Sanskrit, the name is Muladhara, which literally means root.

The reason that yogis traditionally sit in the familiar cross-legged position is so that the root chakra touches the earth as they meditate – not figuratively or symbolically, but actually physically touching the ground.

The root chakra is about survival. People who have open root chakras love their lives – love their physical incarnation in their present bodies.  People who pine away for heaven, future happiness, moksha; people who wish they were somewhere else (be it physically or in some allegorical way) have a root chakra malfunction.  So do people who are angry, fearful, cynical, distrustful, frustrated, envious, jealous, stingy – the list goes on.

The ultimate root chakra success is empowerment and love of life. Various common daily exercises help our root chakra to stay healthy, such as jumping up and down, kicking, jogging, stamping your feet, resting, eating (don’t overdo it!), and sleeping.

Being in nature is extremely helpful. Working with soil helps your root chakra, as does viewing sunrises and sunsets, walking in nature, generally being outside.

Scents can also support your root chakra; specifically cedar and clove.

Yoga postures that support the root chakra are Apanasana (knee to chest), Setu Bhandasana (bridge pose), Shalabhasana (half locust and full locust) and Janus Sirsasana (head to knee pose).

Stones and crystals can help support your root chakra, too, and you can find tumbled stones, specimens and jewelry on at crystal-life.com in all these areas – just type in the name in our search bar: agate, bloodstone, carnelian, garnet, hematite, red jasper, obsidian, black onyx, red coral, rhodonite, ruby, smokey quartz, black tourmaline, & clear quartz. These stones all have attributes that assist you in staying grounded in your “root.”

The benefits of having a healthy root chakra radiate through every aspect of your life. Belief in oneself, feeling safe, assurance that your choices are right for you, and having a belief that all will work as needed. A healthy root chakra enables you to successfully maneuver through your world.

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Seventh: Crown Chakra

Name Sahasrara Chakra: “Thousand-Petaled”. Crown Chakra, Vertex Center of 1000-petaled lotus.
Location Center of top of head, touching head and extending into aura above it, 4 finger breadths above.
Symbol/Yantra 1000-petaled lotus (actually 972 petals, others say 1008 petals).
Basic Principles
Pure being. Spiritual. Illumination, godliness. “I am That”. When seventh unfolds, any blockages remaining in other 6 chakras dissolve and their energies begin vibrating at highest possible frequencies. Benefits of union: no activity of mind, no knower/known. Knower and known become unified and liberated. Do not interfere in anything, do not bother anyone, do not want be bothered by anyone; oneness with God. “My being enhances the beauty and radiance of All-That-Is.” Union. Space between the two hemispheres. Yogi IS Satchidananda: is his own real self.
Seat of highest human perfection; often represented as hovering above head. Just as all colors, spectrum is united in colorless light. Highest chakra, unites in itself all energies of lower center.
Highest recognition of perfection through inner contemplation, union with the Universal Being, universal consciousness. The silent one: do not interfere in anything. Personal identification with God. Center of quintessential consciousness where integration of all polarities are experienced. Neutralizes all sounds and all colors, integrates all cognitive and conative functions, embraces static and dynamic energies of various centers into an all-pervasive unity. The last chakra to be developed in a human being.
Ruling Planet Ketu—the “shadow” planet; the descending lunar node.
Astrological Sign Capricorn/Saturn, Pisces/Neptune.
Understanding
Element Satchitananda. Abode of bliss.
Sounds B (ti). 493.0 cycles per second. silence. AUM (A: heart U: throat M: crown). “m” opens crown chakra: endless humming vibration without limit or structure; represents unity and purity, unformed, unlimited consciousness containing all matter in its latent form.
Color Violet, white (all colors of spectrum; integrating different levels in unity), gold, clear. Chakra glows in all colors, predominant is violet; out blossom 960 petals, second blossom 12 petals glowing in white light interspersed with gold.
Deity Guru within. Shakti: Mahashakti.
Animal
Plants, Aromas Olibanum (classical incense burnt in religious ceremonies): revitalizes mind and soul, purifies atmosphere; religious convictions deepen), lotus (grows in mud): symbol of beauty and spiritual completeness; while enlightened person lives in mud of material world, this does not affect his true Self in union with God.
Gemstones Amethyst (red fire of activity and blue light of receptiveness, silence, space. Transmits vivid calmness which dissolves fear and disharmony while providing us with trust in and devotion to energies of universe). Clear Calcite. Diamond. Clear Fluorite. White Howlite. Moonstone. Clear Quartz (guides to wholeness, brings clearness and light to mind, soul, stimulates spiritual cognition, dissolves congestions, provides energy). Selenite. Clear, white and purple stones.
Nature Experience Mountaintops
Age
Sensory Function Cosmic consciousness
Body Issues: Parts, Glands, Hormones Cerebrum, cranium. Pineal gland (epiphysis). Serotonin (entaramine).
Body Issues: Proper Functioning Satchitananda (truth, being, bliss). Integration of all polarities. Transcending. As seventh opens, more and more moments occur when division between inner being and outer life recedes. Consciousness completely calm and open, experience real Self as part of omnipresent pure Being which contains all matter. Just as all colors of the spectrum unite in colorless light, the highest chakra unites in itself all energies of the lower centers.
Body Issues: Dark Aspects of Energy
Body Issues: Insufficient Functioning Without opening: feel separated from abundance and wholeness; not completely free of fear.
Body Issues: disharmonious functioning Prefers outer inaction, sometimes seen as lazy when entering a state of bliss. Lack of interest in world.
Body Issues: Physical Problems Depression, alienation, confusion, boredom, apathy, inability to learn or comprehend.
Sleep Mode Half-awake sleep only.
Spin of the Chakra (facing the body) Female: left. Male: right.
Occupations Liberated ones abide in communion with the Self.
Yogic Discipline

Sixth: Third Eye Chakra

Name Ajna Chakra: “Command Center”, Authority, Command, Unlimited Power. Brow Chakra, Third Eye, Eye of Wisdom, Inner Eye Chakra or Command Chakra.
Location One finger above the nose, center of forehead; approximately 2 fingers deep in head, opens forward. Pituitary gland.
Symbol/Yantra 96-petaled lotus. White circle with two luminous petals that are actually 48 petals each.
Basic Principles
Knowledge of being—intuitive. Clear seeing and intuitive sight. Divine sight. Psychic and occult powers are endless. Seeing and becoming go together. Clairvoyance, intuitive knowledge. “Inner wisdom is always available to me.” Realization, austerity, penance, clairvoyance, intuition. Reveals Divine within and reflects divinity within others. See light around head, aura. Ida (lunar current), pingala (solar current) and sushumna meet here: Three Rivers; negative and positive equalized.
Very few people have completely opened their third eye. Even when incomplete, it can function very harmoniously. Active mind, advanced intellectual skills, scientific research, philosophical truths. Visualization, intuition. As it develops, thoughts become based on direct inner awareness of reality. Clairvoyance, sharpened sensitivity, insight into other dimensions reality (during sleep and meditation at first). Directly perceive energies at work beneath surface of things, see as part of natural order. See subtle planes of reality and the large variety of life forms there. Destroys dark past, hastens golden future, manifests present in supremely fulfilling way. Psychic and occult powers endless. We become one with the thing we are experiencing: seeing and becoming go together. Future can be brought into today. Problem: future very bright, enormity of it puzzles and frightens the seeker; power becomes enemy and destroys.
Functions of recognition, intuition, development of the inner senses, mental powers, projecting one’s will, manifestation.
Ruling Planet Saturn (solar, male)
Astrological Sign Mercury, Sagittarius/Jupiter, Aquarius/Uranus, Pisces/Neptune.
Understanding He becomes sat (true): embodies sat-chit-ananda (being-consciousness-bliss).
Element Mind (manas). All other elements present in purified form.
Sounds A (la). 440.0 cycles per second; sets off upward movement, represents power of inspiration. AUM (“m” 3x as long as “au” focuses attention on 3rd eye; “ee” (as in “easy”). Eastern and western classical music (Bach), the sounds of cosmic spheres, New Age music.
Color Transparent indigo (inner calmness, clarity, depth: strengthens, helps senses, opens to subtle levels perception; is actually intuition and holistic cognition). Also yellow (rational, intellectual thought) and violet (extrasensory perception). Indigo: cleaning subconscious to channel intuition. Purple: balanced state of mind: sees divine perfection in all things.
Deity Ardhanarishvara. Shakti: Hakini.
Animal Swan
Plants, Aromas Mint (dissolves blockages, helps rid oneself of old confinement through patterns; clears and brighten mind, stimulates concentration). Jasmine (mind opened to images and visions carry messages of deeper truth; sharpen senses, combine energies of 3rd eye with heart).
Gemstones Moss Agate. Amethyst (higher): surrender mind to highest part self). Azurite (lower). Charoite. Fluorite (higher). Kyanite. Lapis Lazuli (lower: golden inclusions of pyrite, like stars in sky; feeling of security within cosmos to soul; leads mind inward, strengthens its energies, makes it receptive to higher principles, joy at miracles of life, universe). Iolite. Moonstone. Tourmalinated Quartz. Sapphire (transparent indigo-blue opens mind to cosmic knowledge, eternal truths; purify, transform; builds bridge finite/infinite, clarity to souls in search of truth on spiritual path). Sodalite (lower: dark blue: purifies mind, enables think more deeply; helps dissolve obsolete patterns of thought, give trust, energy to stick to opinions, apply knowledge to life). Sugilite (higher). Clear Quartz. Clear, white, purple stones.
Nature Experience Nighttime sky.
Age
Sensory Function All senses including extrasensory perception.
Body Issues: Parts, Glands, Hormones Cerebellum, ears, nose, sinuses, eyes, part of the nervous system, face. Pituitary gland (hypophysis). Vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone of the hypophysis).
Body Issues: Proper Functioning Clairvoyance. Intuitive knowledge available for help in making decisions. Reveals Divine within and reflects divinity within others. See light around head. Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna meet here: negative and positive equalized. Can destroy dark past, hasten golden future. Clear seeing and intuitive sight. Recognizing, conscious perception of being. Seat of higher mental powers, intellectual capacity to distinguish, memory and will. Physic plane: highest center of command of central nervous system. Seat of attunement of consciousness; can manifest and dematerialize matter, create new realities and dissolve old ones at physical level. With open heart center, can send out healing energies.
Body Issues: Dark Aspects of Energy
Body Issues: Insufficient Functioning If blocked considerably, see only reality and accept only external visible world; dominated by material desires, physical needs, unreal emotions; spiritual reflection is a waste of time. Extreme: thinking muddled and confused, completely determined by unresolved emotional patterns.
Body Issues: disharmonious functioning Top-heaviness: over-emphasis of mental; life determined by reason, intellect, rational mind; lack holistic way of seeing things, ability to integrate all experience into single cosmic law of balance. Intellectual arrogance; reject spiritual insight as unscientific and unrealistic. May attempt to influence humans and events by force of mind, to demonstrate power, satisfy needs; indicates solar plexus out of balance and heart and crown chakra only developed to a slight degree. When base chakra is disturbed and others are not functioning harmoniously, have access to subtler levels but not grasp true meaning of images and information. Due to unresolved emotional patterns, get mixed up with imagination. Subjective images become so strong, one considers them the only truth, projects onto external world, loses touch with reality.
Body Issues: Physical Problems Blindness, headaches, nightmares, eye strain, blurred vision. Easily lose one’s head in demanding situations; forgetful, impaired vision.
Sleep Mode Deep and half-awake sleep, about 4 hours.
Spin of the Chakra (facing the body) Female: right. Male: left.
Occupations Sensitives, clairvoyants.
Yogic Discipline Jnana yoga (path of knowledge: ability distinguish real/unreal, eternal/transitory; focus exclusive on Absolute). Mandalas and Yantra Yoga (Pictorial symbols depicting geometrical forms representing divine in all aspects; aid to visualization).

Fourth: Heart Chakra

Name Anahata Chakra: “The unstruck or soundless sound”. Heart Chakra, Heart Center.
Location Center of chest (breastbone), rib cage, lungs, thoracic cavity, opens forward/backward. Physical heart on left; spiritual heart on right; heart chakra in center. The Divine Heart embodies universal consciousness.
Symbol/Yantra 12-petaled lotus. Hexagon: shows how lower three and higher chakras permeate each other.
Basic Principles
Love. Devotion, oneness. Direct cognition. Self-abandon. “I am the source of unlimited love.” Energizes the body with life force, blood circulation. Unconditional love, forgiveness, compassion, understanding, oneness with life, harmony, contentment. Bhakti yoga.
Center entire chakra system; connects 3 lower physical and emotional centers to 3 higher mental and spiritual centers. Ability to empathize, sympathize, attune and join with cosmic vibrations. Perceive beauty in all. Images, words and sounds transformed into feelings. Purpose to achieve perfect union through love. Completely open: center of true unconditional love which exists only for own sake and so cannot be possessed or lost. When working with all other chakras in harmony, transforms you into channel divine love. Heart Energies can change world around you and unite, reconcile, heal people in surroundings. Energy is self-generating and self-emanating. Inspire others as feel peace & calm in your presence.
Unfolding qualities of the heart, love, compassion, sharing, heartfelt empathy, selflessness, devotion, healing. Power unbelievable. Free access to both visible and invisible worlds. Time and space surrender. Can travel anyplace in the world in a few seconds in subtle body. Danger: if not get proper sanction other centers, or not cooperate, not let soul back in: must take permission of inner pilot.
Ruling Planet Venus (lunar, feminine)
Astrological Sign Leo/Sun, Libra/Venus, Saturn.
Understanding Circular, expanding in all directions. Meditate on breath and heartbeat.
Element Air (flexibility of heart). Formless, without smell or taste. Air is responsible for movement, this chakra is movement in all directions.
Sounds F (fa). 349.2 cycles per second. YAM (slowly and sweetly). Classical music, New Age music, sacred music. “Ahh” (direct awareness of heart, as in exclamation “Ah!”). Most open of all sounds, represents greatest possible richness of expression available to human voice; unbiased acceptance of all manifestation. A sound babies use to comment on their experiences. Art/music of this chakra is synchronized with rhythm of the heart, and thus with rhythm of cosmos.
Color Smokey Green (healing, sympathy, harmony). If light green in heart chakra, well-developed ability to heal (color of meadows, forest, receptive to reconciliation; regenerating). Pink (loosen tension in heart, bring back childlike feelings of happiness; stimulate creative activity). God (golden aura interwoven with pink—person lives in pure, selfless love of divine).
Deity Rudra Siva. Shakti: Kakini.
Animal Deer, antelope.
Plants, Aromas Rose oil (attar of roses: most harmonizing of all scents).
Gemstones Green aventurine. Green calcite. Pink calcite. Emerald (draws healing energies from cosmos to earth; regenerates, rejuvenates, refreshes; all-embracing love; challenges you to equal its brilliant light, shows you areas where not yet the case. Jade (peace, harmony, wisdom, fairness, modesty; brings relief if restless, lets sleep peacefully, relaxes heart, makes us calm). Kunzite (higher aspects; combines tender pink of higher love with violet of crown chakra to support union with divine; makes you straightforward and will always lead you back onto this path if you ever leave it). Moonstone (lower aspects; balances emotions). Opal (lower aspects; conscious intention of emotions). Rose Quartz (higher aspects, development of self love, heals wounds of heart caused by hardness, lack of consideration or carelessness; makes you receptive to beauties of creation). Rhodachrosite (lower planes: moves energy of heart or navel). Rhodonite. Green Tourmaline. Pink Tourmaline (leads out of narrow emotional structures, opens and expands heart; when edged in green unites expansive qualities pink with healing, vibrating green). Clear Quartz. Pink and green stones.
Nature Experience Untouched nature (quiet walk through unspoiled green countryside), blossoms (message of love, innocent joy, lets bloom in heart; pink flowers especially), pink sky with gossamer clouds.
Age 21 — 28. Bhakti or faith.
Sensory Function Feeling, touch (ability establish contact, willingness to be touched and in touch with all things). Ability to empathize.
Body Issues: Parts, Glands, Hormones Upper back, heart, rib cage and chest cavity, lower lungs, blood, circulatory system, skin, hands. Thymus gland. Thymus hormone. Organ of cognition: skin. Organ of action: genitals.
Body Issues: Proper Functioning If this chakra is open, all other chakras come into alignment with it. Compassion, ability to see and feel through eyes and hearts of other person without losing or betraying self. Perpetually happy; no longer any concern for worldly pleasures, honors, humiliations; desires cease to be a problem; live in harmony with internal/external worlds; energy, self-generating and self-emanating. Love, faith, devotion, duty. Inspire others to feel peace, calm in presence. Time and space surrender; can travel any place in the world; Divine Heart embodies universal consciousness. Helps redefine perception accompanying opening of third eye, for devotion of heart makes us receptive to subtler aspects of Creation. Higher capacities of the third eye develop concurrently with the unfolding of the heart chakra. For this reason, many spiritual disciples East and West concentrate on opening of heart chakra. Harmonious functioning: understand life in purest form: an everlasting expression of divine love and bliss.
Body Issues: Dark Aspects of Energy
Body Issues: Insufficient Functioning Completely shut: coldness, indifference, “heartlessness”; to feel anything requires strong external stimulation; out of balance, suffer from depression. Vulnerable to injury, dependent on love, affection of others; when experiencing rejection, deeply hurt, especially since you had the courage to open self up. When this happens, feel like withdrawing into shell, are sad and depressed.
Body Issues: disharmonious functioning Want be there for others, give freely but without being connected with the source of love, without being conscious of it; expect recognition, reassurance for all the “love” you give, feel disappointed when efforts not appreciated. Feel powerful enough to give away some of your strength, incapable of accepting love others want to give you, unable to open self to receiving. Tenderness, softness make you feel embarrassed.
Body Issues: Physical Problems Asthma, high blood pressure, heart disease, lung disease, widened, overly expanded thorax (indicates inner armor and defense against all sorts of attack; pain).
Sleep Mode On left side, 5-6 hours.
Spin of the Chakra (facing the body) Female: right. Male: left.
Occupations Guides, counselors, mentors, problem solvers.
Yogic Discipline Bhakti Yoga (realization of divine through devotion, love of God; devotees relate everything to God).