Nutrition & Lifestyle
by Valerie Moore
The Energy of the Heart:
The Fourth Chakra & You
Everything is energy! That is my motto. Beyond it being my personal belief, it is a scientific FACT. So that validates the fact that every human being on this earth is energy and radiates energy: good or bad. The heart is the fourth chakra in your human energy system. This is the center for unconditional love that also governs the circulatory and respiratory systems, arms, shoulders, hands, diaphragm, ribs/breasts and thymus gland. Many of our “emotionally charged” issues stemming from feelings of love, grief, hatred, anger, jealousy, fears of betrayal, of loneliness, as well as the ability to heal ourselves and others are centered in this fourth chakra.
As I write this article, I’m reflecting on my past and the many situations and circumstances that I’ve addressed from a place of FEAR. Back then, I didn’t know that my fourth chakra was blocked, and that I needed the healing to begin with me. I operated from the assumption that someone/something outside of me was responsible for my healing and my overall happiness. Boy was I WRONG...
Then, I awakened to the reality that “nothing” outside of me can satisfy those deep longings within me. I realized how selfish and unfair it was to place such a heavy burden on someone else with the expectation that they should “get it right”, not understanding that they never can! It was totally up to me... The balancing and/or the blocking of my fourth chakra, my heart, are conscious decisions that I must make every day. It’s my decisions that allow or deny the energy to flow freely.
In my private one-on-one health coaching sessions, it is always my intent to help clients get to “the heart of the matter” by looking into that fourth chakra, so to speak, to see if healing is necessary by asking themselves some targeted questions, such as:
- What emotional memories do I need to heal?
- What relationships, current or past, require healing?
- Are my emotional wounds taking over, causing me to ooze negativity or position myself
in control of others?
- Do I allow others to control me? Why?
- What do I need to forgive myself for?
- What do I need to take responsibility for?
- Where do my disappointments come from?
- What is it that I need to communicate to someone that is very difficult for me to say?