the opening of the heart

One of the most effective and simple to fallow form of meditation is called “the opening of the heart”. This meditation can help reduce stress and elevate your well being.

This meditation refers to the heart chakra rather than the physical heart; although both are in the same location of the body they have different function and structure.

Chakra is the Sanskrit name for a wheal or a gate, these wheals have different functions, and one of them is the processing of emotions and the distribution of their energy throughout the body.

The chakras can be in an open or a closed cycle, when the chakras are open we are healthy and well balanced, but unless you lead a very healthy and relaxed life style, it is  most likely that your chakras, are opening and closing, according to the events in your life and the way you relate to them on the emotional level.

The heart is all love, love is the most light and healthy emotion we have, when the heart chakra is open we feel like we are in love. Not many of us however, walk around with the feeling of “in love”. Most of us walk around with our heart slightly closed or completely closed.

Amongst the functions of the heart chakra, is the function of purification. just as a loving friend can make you feel better, by expressing their loving emotions and support when you need it,  the heart chakra is able to purify  unhealthy emotions from the other chakras.

I can understand how some of you may have doubts about the accuracy of that which is described above; ask yourself this... what in our body holds our emotions? Can all emotions be held in the same place? If so how come we all ‘hold tension in different parts of our body? What does it mean to hold tension?

Please take the time to digest the above, I will post the meditation if a few days.