Guided meditation to open your heart chakra so you feel more love, compassion and kindness for yourself as well as for others.
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Guided meditation to open your heart chakra
Chakras are centres of subtle energy within our body.
The heart chakra is about love for ourselves as well as for others.
Today I’m sharing with you a part of a new class in our online library. First we practice yin yoga to awaken the heart chakra to allow energy to flow through us. Then we finish with this loving kindness meditation to nourish the love and compassion that is already in our hearts.
Loving kindness (metta) meditation is a practice that cultivates and nurtures feelings of unconditional kindness and love towards ourselves and others by silently repeating the phrases.
This is a very simple meditation practice that cultives positive emotions, increases compassion, quiets critical self-talk, and enhances social connectedness.
This meditation practice is a perfect tool for opening and balancing our Heart Chakra which is why I chose it. 🙂
Loving kindness meditation
Thich Nhat Hanh says, to love is to nourish the other with appropriate attention.
Nourish yourself, your loved one, a person you never met, a person you have disagreement with, all creatures on this planet with the thoughts of loving kindness.
To practice meditation, click the button below.
Other Ways to Open your heart chakra
When the heart chakra is open you feel connected to yourself and others, love, compassion, inner peace and joy. However, when this chakra is blocked, you feel uninspired, secluded, separate, alone, and untrusting.
There are many ways to balance this energy center:
Yoga poses for opening upper body – melting heart pose, camel pose, bow pose, sphinx pose, wild thing…
Positive affirmations:
- I deeply and completely love and accept myself.
- I forgive myself for my mistakes.
- I accept myself for who I am.
- I do not need to change to love myself.
- I listen with love to my body’s messages.
- I do not have to prove myself to anyone.
By repeating the positive affirmations we’re triggering the release of oxytocin (hormone of love and bonding).
“Research has also shown that increased levels of oxytocin strongly increase feelings of trust, calm, safety, generosity, and connectedness and also facilitate the ability to feel warmth and compassion for ourselves. Oxytocin reduces fear and anxiety and can counteract the increased blood pressure and cortisol associated with stress.”
Eat greens
Kale, spinach, celery, broccoli, arugula… Well, love food that loves you back.
Go to nature
Find ways to connect to nature on a daily basis. Take a short walk in nature, go for a run or sit on a bench in a park. Notice pleasent things around you, trees, flowers, birds, people passing, scents…
May you be kind to yourself,
Kristina
