Locate the Loving Heart at the Centre of Creativity
This chakra breathes life and love into your creations. It helps you to find a point of balance between heaven and earth, resulting in your creations being harmonious and balanced. Working with this chakra teaches you to show compassion and love to yourself and others as you tread the creative path.
Heart Chakra at-a-glance
Sanskrit name: Anahata (wheel of the unstruck sound)
Physical location: centre of the chest, lungs, heart circulatory system.
Element: Air
Colours: Pink/green
Yantra: hexagon
Seed Mantra: Yam (pronounced yum)
Affirmations: My spacious heart holds all. My loving heart heals all.
Main creative concern: Being guided by the heart to create transformative, soulful work, that unites the material and spiritual, bringing peace and healing.
Balanced: strikes a healthy balance between giving and receiving love, compassionate towards self and others, empathy, in touch with emotions, heart and head work together, good work-life balance, sense of fair play, calls out injustice, altruistic, balances doing with simply being.
Excessive: needy, looks to others for fulfilment and completion, co-dependency, addictive, lack of self-esteem, fails to set boundaries, sentimental, overconcern with romantic love, idealist.
Deficient: defensive, aloof, lonely, fearful of getting hurt, tight, tense, contracted, cynical, disillusioned, not able to give or receive love.
Life Issues: forming loving, healthy relationships, uniting the spiritual and the material, finding equilibrium, establishing healthy rhythms that balance work and play, creating a fair and just world.
Healing practices: relaxation, meditation, mindful self-compassion, mindfulness, pranayama, cardiovascular exercise, laughter, seeking out beauty, being in nature, awareness of biorhythms, awareness of nature’s seasonal cycles, observing lunar cycles, giving and receiving love, random acts of kindness, working for peace and justice, connecting with any form of art/literature/music etc. that speaks to your soul.
Physical location: centre of the chest, lungs, heart circulatory system.
Element: Air
Colours: Pink/green
Yantra: hexagon
Seed Mantra: Yam (pronounced yum)
Affirmations: My spacious heart holds all. My loving heart heals all.
Main creative concern: Being guided by the heart to create transformative, soulful work, that unites the material and spiritual, bringing peace and healing.
Balanced: strikes a healthy balance between giving and receiving love, compassionate towards self and others, empathy, in touch with emotions, heart and head work together, good work-life balance, sense of fair play, calls out injustice, altruistic, balances doing with simply being.
Excessive: needy, looks to others for fulfilment and completion, co-dependency, addictive, lack of self-esteem, fails to set boundaries, sentimental, overconcern with romantic love, idealist.
Deficient: defensive, aloof, lonely, fearful of getting hurt, tight, tense, contracted, cynical, disillusioned, not able to give or receive love.
Life Issues: forming loving, healthy relationships, uniting the spiritual and the material, finding equilibrium, establishing healthy rhythms that balance work and play, creating a fair and just world.
Healing practices: relaxation, meditation, mindful self-compassion, mindfulness, pranayama, cardiovascular exercise, laughter, seeking out beauty, being in nature, awareness of biorhythms, awareness of nature’s seasonal cycles, observing lunar cycles, giving and receiving love, random acts of kindness, working for peace and justice, connecting with any form of art/literature/music etc. that speaks to your soul.
In the Chakras for Creativity book you will find a Heart Chakra inspired yoga practice, meditation, walking meditation, writing meditation, and meditation questions.