Heart Chakra Awareness: Balancing the Heart and the Head

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched–they must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller

Why do we have so many metaphors for the heart? We tell each other to “follow your heart” and we talk about people who are “hard-hearted” or someone with a “heart of gold.” We listen with an “open heart” and when someone hurts us we get a “broken heart.” When we get deep into a topic we “get to the heart of the matter.”

I believe that we use so many metaphors about the heart because we inherently know that it is at the core of our being.

Caroline Myss, author of Energy Anatomy, calls the heart the “central powerhouse of the human energy system.” Of the seven major chakras in the chakra system, the heart is literally at the center. It is the bridge between the lower chakras and the upper chakras.

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