Guided Meditation | Heart Chakra

Soothing meditation to open the heart. Eucalyptus essential oil recommended for enhanced breathing and compassion.

Heart Center Chakra

The heart is the fourth chakra, bridging your upper and lower chakras, as well as connecting you to others.

Locate your heart center: Place your hands on the natural center of your chest.

This chakra holds the essence of love, empathy, and compassion, represented by:

• Element: Air

• Color: Green, Pink

Balanced Heart Chakra:

• Feeling connected to your surroundings

• Empathy and compassion for others

• Acceptance without reservation

• Ability to appreciate beauty

• Loving freely, including self-love

Imbalances can affect the physical heart, lungs, and thymus gland (immune system).

Essential Oil Enhancement

Eucalyptus oil enhances this meditation by supporting:

• Deep breathing

• Light pain relief

• Emotional openness

Practice:

• Take 3 inhalations of aromatherapy.

• Apply diluted oil to chest and shoulders.

Body-Mind-Spirit Self-Massage

1. Sit with head over heart, heart over hips.

2. With open hands, gently circulate around your chest center until warmth develops.

   • This promotes blood flow, lymphatic drainage, and heart opening.

3. Rest hands lovingly over your heart.

Benefits:

• Sends compassion and trust to yourself

• Supports the heart and lungs, vital for life

• Encourages deep exhalation for detoxification (Yang Sheng technique)

Meditation Practice

1. Find a comfortable position: lay or sit.

2. Optional: place one hand on your heart, the other on your belly.

3. Spread your collarbones to open your heart space.

4. Breathe:

   • Inhale: belly expands, lungs fill with fresh air

   • Exhale: belly contracts, releasing stale air

Lesson of the Heart: We must fully love and accept ourselves before loving and accepting others.

Heart Visualization

1. Focus on your spine behind your chest.

2. Visualize a tiny emerald green light spinning:

   • Represents unconditional love

   • Symbolizes the trees and plants that breathe with us

3. Inhale: Expand the light to the size of your heart, filling your body with warmth.

4. Exhale: Radiate this green light outward, surrounding your aura.

Effects:

• Increased self-love

• Enhanced compassion

• Recognition of beauty in yourself and the world

Heart Connection Exercise

1. Call to mind someone you love. Visualize their face and radiate love from your heart.

2. Call to mind someone with whom you have a difficult relationship. Radiate love toward them.

3. Visualize:

   • Mother/Mother Earth → Smile

   • Father/Space → Smile

   • Yourself → Receive love sent back

Relax and feel the love circulating between you and others.

Affirmations

Repeat or silently reflect on these:

• I follow the path that feels most like love.

• I am love.

• My heart is open, I am aware.

• I see beauty in all people and all around me.

• I am a loving and powerful force in the world.

• I forgive myself. I forgive others.

• I am compassionate.

• I am surrounded by love.

• I feel profound joy in my life.

• My heart is grateful, and my mind is at peace.

Closing Practice

1. Inhale and exhale 5 times.

2. Bend knees, place feet on the floor, and gently rock side to side.

3. Pat and rub your heart one last time.

4. Open eyes when ready, keeping focus inward.

For the rest of the day, exude and receive love and positivity. Namaste.

Crystal Pairing

Green Aventurine: Luck, optimism, prosperity, and finding joy while releasing attachment to outcomes.