Anahata, the Heart Chakra.
Location
Anahata is also known as the heart, or the fourth chakra and can be located at the heart centre beneath the sternum. The associated colour is green.
About Anahata, the Heart Chakra
The word Anahata, can be translated to: Infinite. This chakra is associated with the air element.
Anahata is associated with feelings of love, compassion, forgiveness, nurturing and expansion.
The Anahata chakra develops between 4 – 7 years of age. Development is also strongly influenced between 18 – 28 years of age. Events that occur during these times can have a great effect on the development of the heart chakra.
Key Themes:
- Self-love
- Nurturing
- Compassion
- Love
- Intimacy
- Relationship
- Devotion
- Balance
Anahata chakra imbalances can manifest as:
- Self-criticism
- Self-hatred
- Anti-social
- Feeling disconnected
- Lonliness
- Isolation
- Depression
- Narcissim
- Fear of intimacy
- Fear of relationships
- Co-dependency
- Poor boundaries.
How to Balance the Anahata chakra
To balance the heart chakra you should be open to exploring the relationship that you have with yourself and others. Exercises that help you to understand yourself at a deeper level can be beneficial. This chakra benefits the most from therapies such as kinesiology, counselling and psychotherapy. You might also include breathing activities such as yogic pranayama or buteyko breathing technique. A yoga practice can help open the heart when working with positions that promote extension of the spine. Taking risks and reaching out to others on an emotional level can also expand the energy of the heart chakra.
Balancing the Heart Chakra with Kinesiology.
Kinesiology helps us identify heart chakra imbalances. Kinesiology allows the therapist to access the many subconscious connections that lead to imbalance. Through muscle testing, kinesiology can unlock and past experiences and events that have caused heart chakra blocks.
Suggested kinesiology treatment plan.
When balancing the heart chakra (or any other chakra) with kinesiology I recommend:
- An initial 90 minute kinesiology consultation followed by a standard consultation 1 -2 weeks apart.
- Further follow-up standard consultations should be spaced between 2 -4 weeks apart or booked as needed.
- You may like to consider a chakra journey experience whereby over the course of 7 sessions we focus in on blockages occurring in each of the chakras, working towards a subtle awakening of kundalini energy.
Kristen Ross founded Affinity Wellness in 2007 and since has helped hundreds of clients to unlock their Inner Guidance, Unleash their potential and create lives they love.
With a history in the management of artists. Kristen had the opportunity to help guide the careers of many professional actors and artists, helping others thrive personally and professionally by connecting to their intuition and inner compass, this led her to study healing modalities such as kinesiology and counselling to enhance her work as a soul empowerment guide.
Kristen combines a striking combination of energy healing (kinesiology), counselling, coaching, dreamwork, meditation and yogic medicine practices to tap into the many facets of the self, mind, body and soul and release the layers that block her clients from accessing their intuition and self-love.
She believes that your life is your spiritual practice and that every decision you make is a part of your journey towards peace, power and enlightenment.
Everything you create and achieve comes from your ability to love and accept yourself and to do that you must engage in inner work.
Kristen currently runs a private online practice servicing individuals across Australia, New Zealand and the UK based in Melbourne, Australia.
