Heart chakra healing is something I have actively been focusing on for the past year and a half. After being raised by a single parent who was jaded by love, experiencing several failed relationships, a recent divorce, a low sense of self worth and lack of self love… my heart chakra was pretty blocked, to say the least! I embarked on a journey in March of 2021 with the goal to find SELF LOVE and heal my heart chakra… it has turned into quite the journey, and after much work, I think I am finally arriving and my heart chakra is truly healing.
What is self love anyways? When you haven’t practiced it, its a pretty challenging concept to even understand. Until last March, it had been an obscure thing I knew I wanted to embrace and embody, yet I never even really understood what it was. What does self love look like?
What it has started to look like to me is taking care of myself, choosing me first, listening to my inner child and meeting her needs, providing for her what I needed as a child and didn’t receive, and most importantly, listening to my inner voice and acting on it. All of the roads I went down that were not in right alignment with my spirit were when I ignored my inner voice.
Last march I found the beginning of self love. I was shown the message that its great to love yourself, BUT if you can’t receive love, then it won’t do you much good. So it turned into a releasing of the shell that I had built around me. Crab spirit animal medicine spoke to me and told me it is ok to protect yourself and have healthy boundaries, but don’t block love from coming in. So I embarked on a quest to release this and acknowledge the invisible barrier I had built around my heart so I could break it down and let it go.
I want to be vulnerable again, and allow someone in. Was I every truly vulnerable? When did the wall start to be built? One of the main complaints I had in my marriage was that my husband wasn’t vulnerable with me. What I realized over this past couple of years is that I attracted that energy, because I was the same. I now understand that what I didn’t want in my relationship was an exact reflection of my own self. Ouch.
Is your heart chakra out of balance? Are you blocked when it comes to feeling emotions, opening your heart, receiving love, giving love, or feeling safe to express emotions? If so, most likely your heart chakra is blocked. Don’t continue on this road, seek support, heal your heart, lets see what the universe has in store! I’ve been told it is BIG LOVE!!!!