The Heart Chakra
Attribute: Capacity for Love & Unconditional Love
Color: Green
Element: Air
Sensory Function: Sense of Touch
Gland: Thymus Gland
Green Stones: Aventurine, Emerald, Peridot, Jade, Green Tourmaline, Malachite
Pink Stones: Rose Quartz, Rhodochrosite, Rhodonite, Andean Opal, Watermelon Tourmaline
This chakra is the center of the chakra system and the core of pure love. Located at the heart level, it is a center of affection, devotion, and healing. When balanced, our perception of beauty and harmony in nature as well as in art changes. When open, it grants us deep joy in life, empathy, and a love that is free of conditions.
This chakra has to do with the following themes:
- Compassion and devotion
- Trust
- Dignity of the heart and helps to overcome selfish thinking and behavior
- It enables one to lovingly accept oneself despite weaknesses and flaws.
- Disruptions or blockages in this chakra can manifest as follows:
- Lack of love
- Heartlessness
- Bitterness
- Difficulty in making connections
- Loneliness
- Problems accepting love
- Relationship issues
- Coronary heart disease + angina pectoris
- Heart rhythm disorders
- High or low blood pressure
- Elevated cholesterol levels
- Circulatory disorders
- Lung diseases
- Asthma
- Breathing difficulties
- Frequent illnesses
- Allergies
- Pain in the thoracic spine and shoulders
- Rheumatism in the arms and hands
- Skin diseases
