The Chakra System: Heart
About Anahata
- Colour: GREEN
- Sanskrit Name: Anahata (unstruck)
- Element: Air (Equilibrium)
- Location: Heart
- Glands: Thymus
- Purpose: Love, balance
- Base Issues: Love, relationships
- Orientation to Self: Self-acceptance
- Identity: Social
- Right: To love
- Demon: Grief
- Addictions: Tobacco, marijuana, sugar, love
- Developmental Stage: 4 to 7 years
- Mantra: Seed sound Yam (yahm), vowel sound Ayy (as in play)
- Hindu Deities: Vishnu, Lakshmi (as Preservers), Krishna, Isvara, Kama, Vayu, Aditi, Urvasi
- Yoga Path: Bhakti yoga
Balanced Characteristics
- Compassionate
- Loving
- Empathetic
- Self-loving
- Altruistic
- Peaceful, balanced
- Strong immune system
Healing Practices for the Heart Chakra
- Examine pre-existing assumptions about relationships
- Emotional release of grief
- To offer forgiveness when appropriate
- Inner child work, co-dependency work
- Self-acceptance
Deficiency in the Heart Chakra
- Antisocial, withdrawn, cold, loneliness, isolation, fear of intimacy, lack of empathy, narcissism
Excess in the Heart Chakra
- Co-dependency, poor boundaries, demanding, clinging, jealousy, overly
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