Name :=: Location :=: Body Parts it Supports :=: Issues It Powers

Anahata / Heart :=: Chest center :=: Heart, circulatory system, lungs, arms, ribs, breasts, thymus, etc :=: Love. Forgiveness, compassion, anger, healing, etc.

This fourth energy center is an extremely important one. Not only is it the center for love, the driving emotion of the human being, it is also the one that connects a person's earthly aspects with his or her divine aspects. The first three chakras deal with earthly issues such as family, power and decision-making. The last three chakras deal with divine factors such as will, truth, intellect and universal consciousness. This fourth center, the heart chakra, connects the top three with the bottom three, marrying heaven and earth, spirit and body.

In any case, this is the actual powerhouse of the human being. Love is the natural state of spirit and that is why nothing can survive without love for long. Without love, a person develops a lot of fear. Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real, as it has been said many times before. We are always safe, because love is the only Reality of the universe. However, when we place a belief in a fear, we experience the illusion of danger and it can seem very, very real. Faith can move mountains, and it does not matter what you put faith in, it always works. So when you put your faith in a fear that you have, your belief will recreate its experience. But it is just an error in thought, and as such it can be corrected simply by seeing past the fear, dropping that fear and facing it straight on. When you face your fear, you realize that the big monster is actually a rubber duck, a thin veil, a cloud of mist beyond which is guaranteed safety. You are always safe, for the only thing that exists in this universe is The Source of All That Is, and nothing else. You are part of This One Creator and so is everything else. Do you see how you are naturally safe, and that it is only your faith in your fears that attack you and create an experience that is fearful?

Another powerful energy that comes from this chakra is that of forgiveness. Forgiveness is merely recognizing an error as unreal. You see, there are only two existences. These are truth and error. Truth is Reality, and it never changes. Illusion shifts with perception. The only reason an error can be corrected is because it is not real. Were it real, it would be eternal, just like truth is. Forgiveness is merely looking past the error and seeing the truth about you and all life. And the truth is that you and all life are created perfectly in the image and likeness of the creator. It is in forgetting Who We Really Are that we get into the painful event in the first place, and in continuing to forget this that we remain in the pain and damage. Yet all you have to do is recognize the error and you are free. When you once believed you were a victim damaged beyond repair, see that you were never damaged but instead you bought into the thought that you were. This sounds harsh and ridiculous. But spend time learning more about the True Nature of your being and the laws of the universe and you will see how beyond attack you naturally are, except for when you say you aren't. Forgiveness of yourself and all others is what opens your eyes and experience to a greater self. When you forgive, you release yourself from the wound that you were holding on to. Plus, you see deeper spiritual truths and lessons that were hidden within the painful event, empowering truths that were previously not visible to you as long as you held on to the wound and refused to look at the inner good, the larger picture of it. No matter how serious the transgression is, it always has a spiritual insight and a cause and effect reason behind it.

Let us define love once again. The love that this chakra represents is divine love, the love that is unconditional and wholly accepting. Human love is often conditional, and as such is not Real. It is a love based on avoidance of fear. You can have divine love, of course, because you are divine love by nature. But you can also easily confuse human love with divine love, in which case you would not really be standing in love, but in hidden fear. The test for divine love is that it is unconditional and wholly accepting. It understands that all occurrences arise in perfect order and does not seek to change what already Is. Therefore, it only seeks to find the gifts, growth and insights contained within the event, no matter what it is. And the first place to start with real love is yourself. Love and fully accept yourself as you are right now! Doing this will eliminate all guilt, victimhood, shame, insecurity and so many other things. Once you embrace all your light and dark sides and accept them all wholly, you love yourself wholly and become empowered. Only from this point can you make lasting changes where you wish to make them. You cannot change parts of yourself that you resist, for what you resist persists. You have to embrace even what you hate most about yourself, and once you do so you will find that it shall release you. Do not fear to know yourself. It is the only way to finding your infinite power within.