What is the 4th Chakra? 

HEART CHAKRA (Thymus) (Green) (Anahata) (Emerald):  Centre of Universal love and love for others, compassion and motherliness.  This is connected to the heart. The Fourth Chakra is the Astral Body or Heart Centre. It is the Thymus Centre. The vibration of this centre is green. This is the first level beyond the three-dimensional world. This is the level of consciousness that bridges the physical and spiritual worlds. All the muscles in the body vibrate green.

The Heart chakra activates the feelings of love, kindness and affection. When it is open, you are friendly and compassionate, and you always try to keep your relationships harmonious. 

When your Heart chakra is under-active, you are uncaring, cold hearted and distant. In the extreme you could also be cruel. 

If this chakra is over-active, you are a clinger causing people to feel suffocated by your expressions of love and your love may be selfish. 

FOURTH CHAKRA: HEART CHAKRA
LOCATION: Centre of chest, at level of heart.
COLOUR: Green (secondary colour is pink).
ELEMENT: Air.
FUNCTIONS: It is the centre which vitalizes the heart, thymus, circulatory system, blood, cellular structure, and involuntary muscles.
GLANDS/ORGANS: Heart, ribs, chest cavity, lower lungs, blood, circulatory system, skin, hands, thymus.
GEMS/MINERALS: Kunzite, emerald, green jade, rose quartz, pink tourmaline.
FOODS: Green vegetables, dark leafy greens.

ASSOCIATED AROMAS: Rose oil.
SENSORY FUNCTION: Touch.
QUALITIES/LESSONS: The centre of compassion, love, group consciousness, and spirituality associated with a "oneness" with "all that is." It provides for unification between the loving energy of the heart and the analytical energy of the intellect. God Connection. Able to give and receive without giving. Open to change, new ideas. Coping with loss. Balance.
NEGATIVE QUALITIES: Self-abandonment, fear, sadness, anger, resentment, jealousy, hostility. 

Emotional Power: Lessons in Love, Forgiveness and Compassion 

Here lies the powerhouse of the human energy system. From its middle position, the fourth chakra mediates between the body and spirit, and determines their health, strength, and balance.  

Sacred Truth: Love is Divine Power  Emotional energy -- love -- is the central power point and true motivator of your body, mind and spirit. 

Organs   Centre of the chest, heart and circulatory system, lungs, shoulders, arms and hands, ribs/breasts, diaphragm, thymus gland. 

Effects   Congestive heart failure, heart attack, mitral valve prolapse, cardiomegaly, asthma/allergy, lung cancer, bronchial pneumonia, upper back, shoulder pain, breast cancer. 

Issues   Love, hatred, bitterness, grief, anger, jealousy, inability to forgive, self-centeredness, fears of loneliness, commitment and betrayal, compassion, hope trust, ability to heal yourself and others. 

Aventurine - Colour : Green, blue, red, brown, peach.  

Aventurine is considered a healing stone to soothe a troubled heart or calm distraught emotions. It is known as a lucky stone and said that if one holds Aventurine in both hands while envisioning prosperity, money and good luck arrive at one's doorstep! 

Chakra - Fourth Chakra (Heart) 

Moss Agate - Colour: pale green or blue with moss green inclusions. 

The metaphysical properties of Moss Agate are primarily its strong connection with nature. This is a stabilising stone, said to refresh the soul and reveal the beauty of nature all around one. Healers use it to reduce sensitivity to weather as well as pollution in the environment. 

Midwives use moss agate to ease pain during child birth and to ensure a good delivery. It is considered to be a stone of new beginnings and abundance. 

Chakra - Heart Chakra.  

FOURTH CHAKRA: HEART CHAKRA  

The FOURTH CHAKRA is located in-the dorsal region in the heart and is named "Anahata.' It governs the breath and psychic disposition, bestowing virtue, and is related to the Sun. When the Sun is well placed in a horoscope the native will be truthful, noble and aristocratic in character. The native can build the liaison between the mind and soul. 

The Heart Chakra is the balancing point of the Chakra system. The three Chakras relating to the physical world are below it, and above are three Chakras relating to the internal representation of the physical world. It is governed by the sun, and is known by the colour green. Again, this chakra spins faster than those below it, but not as fast as those above. 

Here, we experience love – pure, unconditional love that is all encompassing and so totally different from the passion-directed love of the Sacral Chakra. This is balance, softness, compassion, an expansion of the heart and is felt as a state of being, independent of any other person. It just is. 

As the name suggests, physically this Chakra relates to the heart, and also the lungs and thymus. Therefore, related illnesses could be respiratory problems such as asthma, heart problems and high blood pressure. A malfunction can also slow down the metabolic rate. 

On an emotional level, however, we can feel split between mind and body or become withdrawn into ourselves. There can also be a tendency to give all our time and energy to others, thereby losing sight of our own needs and balance. The main message of the Heart Chakra is that of balance and interconnection between self-love and love for others. 

Pure love is love that is devoid of egoism, of calculation, of any kind of demand. When two people who love each other purely are together, then figures quite beyond description are created above them, e.g. like a rose-pink rainbow, shining in all the most beautiful rose-pink colours, and rose-pink flowers of all shades can be seen, as rose-pink is the colour of this chakra. 

This is the centre for love, compassion and spirituality. This centre directs one's ability to love yourself and others, to give and to receive love. This is also the chakra connecting body and mind with spirit. Almost everyone today has a hard, hurt, or broken heart, and it is no accident that heart disease is the number one killer in the world today. Deep heart hurts can result in aura obstructions called heart scars. 

When these scars are released, they raise a lot of old pain, but free the heart for healing and new growth.
When this chakra is out of balance you may feel sorry for yourself, paranoid, indecisive, afraid of letting go, afraid of getting hurt, or unworthy of love. Physical illnesses include heart attack, high blood pressure, insomnia, and difficult in breathing. 

When this chakra is balanced you may feel compassionate, friendly, empathetic, desire to nurture others and see the good in everyone. This is one of the most important chakra because if this chakra is in balance with the three lower and three upper chakras you can become a very powerful healer like that of Buddha and Jesus. If you learn to control the heart chakra which is connected to the astral body or your aura then you can become a better healer than Buddha or Jesus.  

To master this chakra you have to find a Guru who can train you in the art of Meditation and The science of Pranayam and get initiated to the reiki 1 and reiki 2. 

This chakra is the most important of them all, because it contains the seed for the ability to feel divine, pure love for everyone and everything.  

The Heart chakra is about love, kindness and affection. When it is open, you are compassionate and friendly, and you work at harmonious relationships. When your Heart chakra is under-active, you are cold and distant.  If this chakra is over-active, you are suffocating people with your love and your love probably has quite selfish reasons. 

How to work Your Fourth Chakra 

·         Allow the truth 'Love is Divine Power' to penetrate your body.  

·         Raise your attention up to your heart, the centre of love.  

·         Welcome the people you're scheduled to meet today into your meditation:  

1.       Where you feel love for them, send more, boundless love. 

2.        For those you feel challenged to love, say the prayer , "Let me learn more about how to love them today."  

3.       Think about who you need to forgive today; release the rage, bitterness or hurt feelings from your heart.  

4.       Tell yourself "Forgiveness is not easy, but today I ask for one more step toward that goal."  

5.       Release the prayer that you want to look at today through your heart and not through your fears; that you want to feel gratitude for events that do or don't happen as they should.  

6.       Keep your attention on the right way to walk into this day, with a heart full of love.  

How to train Your Fourth Chakra 

1.       Take a deep breath to the centre of your emotions, your heart.  

2.       Review all of your emotions; are you angry? hurt? sad? Release all the negative feelings so you don't take them into your sleep with you. 

3.        Move into and feel the energies of love, compassion, appreciation of other people, and love of this life. Envision those energies as rose petals and walk through your entire day with the image that you are leaving those petals at every place you have walked.  

4.       Concentrate now on attitudes and feelings about love, on your need to be loved, and on people you love dearly. Ask your spirit to enter only into loving thoughts through the night. 

5.        How have you done with forgiveness today? Place each person you need to forgive in front of you and to each say, "This is what I need to forgive you for and I am working at doing that". 

6.        Now flip the coin and ask forgiveness of those you have harmed.  

7.       Picture leaving the rose petals with the prayer "I want to be at peace with you".  

8.       Say the prayer, "Teach me more about the divine power of love as I sleep".  

Questions for Self-Examination 

1.       What emotional memories do you still need to heal?  

2.       What relationships in your life require healing?  

3.       Do you ever use your emotional wounds to control people or situations? If so, describe them. 

4.        Have you allowed yourself to be controlled by the wounds of another? Will you let that happen again? What steps are you prepared to take to prevent yourself from being controlled that way again?  

5.       What fears do you have about becoming emotionally healthy?  

6.       Do you associate emotional health with no longer needing an intimate relationship?  

7.       What is your understanding of forgiveness? 

8.        Who are the people you need to forgive, and what prevents you from letting go of the pain you associate with them?  

9.       What have you done that needs forgiving? Who is working to forgive you?  

10.    What is your understanding of a healthy, intimate relationship? Are you willing to release the use of your wounds in order to open yourself to such a relationship?