Heart Chakra Anahata: Open to Love, Connection & Compassion
Just above your solar plexus blooms a soft green lotus, the Heart Chakra Anahata energy center. This is the sacred bridge between the physical and the spiritual, between doing and being. It is the seat of compassion, forgiveness, and the kind of love that asks for nothing in return. The heart chakra holds your ability to give and receive love with openness, to feel deeply, to trust life and others. And most importantly, to hold yourself with the same tenderness. It is here that we remember: connection is our true nature, and vulnerability is our strength.
When in balance, the Anahata energy center allows you to love freely, express gratitude, hold compassion for others, and live with emotional resilience. When blocked, it may feel like walls have built up around your chest – which can lead to grief, loneliness, bitterness, or fear of intimacy. You might struggle with over-giving, jealousy, or self-abandonment. Blockage of the Heart Chakra Anahata may originate from abuse, emotionally cold parenting, societal indoctrination, denial of love & affection, loss, betrayal, rejection, or feeling emotionally unseen in childhood. Healing this center isn’t about bypassing the pain but it’s about allowing love back in, layer by layer, until your heart becomes a sanctuary again.
What it Feels like
Unbalanced Traits:
- Emotionally distant or overly dependent in relationships
- Holds grudges, struggles to forgive
- Frequent self-criticism or lack of self-acceptance
- People-pleasing or difficulty saying “no”
- Feels disconnected, even from close ones
- Jealousy, mistrust, and irritability toward others
- Avoids socialising or isolates due to fear or hurt
- Anger toward life, cynicism, or emotional numbness
- Mistrust, suspicion, or social anxiety
Balanced Traits:
- Feels safe to give and receive love openly
- Forgives self and others with grace
- Healthy self-love and self-worth
- Strong, compassionate boundaries
- Feels deeply connected to loved ones and humanity
- Empathy and compassion guide responses
- Welcomes vulnerability and intimacy
- Emotional resilience, even in challenging times
- Openness to joy, gratitude, and deep connection
Qualities
- Colour: Green
- Beeja Mantra: Vam
- Element (Mahābhūta): 🌬️ Air – light, free, expansion
- Location: Center of chest (Heart space)
- Nature: Masculine & Feminine both
- Sense (Indriya): Touch
- Symbolic animal: Antelope – gentle, sensitive, swift
- Quality: Unconditional love, compassion, unity
Deities:
Ishana — the benevolent form of Shiva
Kakini – the energy of sacred love
At the Center Of Chest
At the centre of your chest
blooms a tender green lotus,
soft yet boundless.
Here is where love lives —
not just for others, but for yourself.
It is the breath of forgiveness,
the arms of compassion,
the quiet knowing that all is one.
It invites you to soften,
to open,
to trust.
I love. I am loved. I am connected.
Invocation:
I place the wind in my chest,
the breath in my lungs,
the sky in my heart.
I am the breeze,
and the breeze is me.
Compassion flows through me.
I am open, I connect.
how to heal Heart chakra
Chakra healing is the process of cleansing and energising one or more than one chakra, this can be done by using certain modalities. Other things such as foods, sounds, smells, yoga practices and healing crystals can also help. Follow it up by balancing the heart chakra for a more centered result.
Balancing the heart chakra or Anahata energy center softens the armor around your soul. It brings emotional balance, dissolves resentment, and invites deep inner peace. When this center of love and connection is in harmony, you no longer close yourself off or seek love as validation. Instead, love flows through you, not as something you chase, but something you are. You begin to trust again – yourself, others, life. The ache of old wounds gives way to forgiveness. You stop grasping or withdrawing, and simply open. You offer compassion without depletion. You receive without guilt. And every breath becomes a gentle reminder: You are worthy of love — just as you are.
Nyāsa
Nyāsa (न्यास) literally means ‘placing’ . It is the act of mentally (and often physically) placing mantras, elements, deities, or energies into specific parts of the body to consecrate it as a temple of the divine.
Sit in a comfortable meditative posture.
Take a few deep breaths to center yourself.
Touch or simply focus your awareness on the Heart Chakra Anahata area.
Recite the mantra(s):
“Om vāyave namah” (The Divine Air, I bow to you)
“Om vāyum sthāpaya hṛdi me prāṇaḥ.” (please place the Air in my heart as life-force.)
“Om Īśānāya ca Kākinyai ca namah, sthāpaya hṛdi me prāṇaḥ.” (I bow to Īśāna and Kākinī, please place life-force and compassion in my heart.)
Visualize the element and/ or deity, and feel the quality of that chakra awaken within you.
At each step, you can lightly touch the spot (or just hover your palm there if preferred), visualising the sound and energy.
Disclaimer: The mantras given here are modern Sanskrit constructions, intended as poetic, nyāsa-style invocations for meditation. These are not scripturally attested Vedic or Tantric mantras. These have been constructed to fit the spirit of nyāsa for an English-speaking audience who might not be versed in bīja or more cryptic Tantric syllables.
Balancing the Heart Chakra
Having lived through an unbalanced Heart Chakra phase, I know how heavy it can feel. That ache of love withheld, self-forgiveness denied, and emotional walls built too high. But the good news? Your heart knows the way back. Softly. Gently. Lovingly. Until your heart fully reopens, please… hang in there.
Pick what speaks to you for balancing the heart chakra. Healing doesn’t have to be hard, only honest.
Yoga for balancing the Heart chakra
The heart chakra awakens not through force, but through rhythm of breath, of flow, of softness meeting strength. These asanas stretch the chest, release shoulder tension, and invite emotional release:
Matsyasana (Fish Pose) – Opens the heart center and throat
Ushtrasana (Camel Pose) – Deepens vulnerability and trust
Anjaneyasana (Low Lunge) – Expands chest and hips, merging root and heart
Bhujangasana (Cobra Pose) – Gently activates the spine and heart
Setu Bandhasana (Bridge Pose) – Grounds and opens the heart from the earth up
Gomukhasana (Cow Face Pose) – Releases blocked emotions from upper back/shoulders
Tip: Hold each posture while gently breathing into the center of your chest — visualizing a glowing green light expanding.
Let the Lotus Bloom - Gently
You are air. You are the sky remembering how to embrace. Let your chest soften, your breath deepen, and your spirit remember that love is your true nature.
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