Heart Chakra help

[Mister Anjilek]

I have been working on meditation and energy work for some time now. Originally I started with the intention of AP or OBE, and that I think was looking for an escape from the stresses of a rocky marriage. Soon after, I began to realize that I need not escape my stresses, but need to evaluate the reality of them, and understand how I think about things.  Understanding that suffering in all its forms is a "phenomenon" that is created by me and not a true,tangible entity, helped move me in the right direction.

I tend not to be sensitive to my physbod. My energy work is at the point where I can feel my base and second(lower navel) chakra in very significant ways. Last night while doing my energy work, I began to notice several areas of my body that seemed to not allow energy movements through. I have felt strongly that my heart chakra had a blockage leading to it, and I have been almost completely unable to feel any subtle energy in the area of my heart. When moving energy around my chakra's, I can move energy up my legs and into my solar plexus, but can't seem to move it into my chest. When I move energy around in my upper body, I can feel movements from my head to my fingers, but if I try and move it into my heart from above, my neck becomes constricted to a point that is almost painful.

I have as yet been unable to find a teacher in my area, and so have to resort to self realization and reading on my own. I am curious if there are exercises or anything else I could do to work on/realize the cause of these "blockages".

Seems common response is to "just keep imagining them working and they eventually will".  But my current attitude is that something karmic is involved, and I need to recognize some lesson or attitude that is causing my energy body to progress.

Any help or comments are greatly appreciated

[GorillaBait]

A few suggestions.  Keeping working on the blockages by attempting to bring energy into the areas from different angles can sometimes bring any surpressed emotions or traumas to the surface, allowing you to deal with them and release them.  You might also consider therapies such as reiki or shamanistic therapy, or maybe psychotherapy.

[karnautrahl]

It's posted around here someplace or on his homesite at astraldynamics.com.  If you've done tactile imaging stuff already this should be straightforward to enact. However the first time I did this on his course I cried!. Even though you are doing a simple energy action to do this, it will release emotional blockages in the heart chakra. I know for a fact that it did with me. I had small tears but very powerful in a way in class and just after class an incredibly powerful and quite difficult to cope with emotional release. There were certainly no other triggers for this either.
Simply breathing in, raising energy up into the heart chakra, breathing out, pushing it out through the arms. Having someone in mind to receive the healing however will make a huge difference. Just trying to hold that person's image there will trigger emotional voltage on it's own I think.
Perhaps attempting to release energy out through your heart towards someone or even in person attempt to heal this way. You can't hurt them if you intend only to heal-so in itself may be a worthwhile thing to try.
It's late here 2amish so logical structure is missing from my post. but I hope you get the gist and I wish you well .

[Mister Anjilek]

Moving energy around from different directions seemed to be productive last night. I had a few deep rooted issues come to light and then I began to feel the energy ever so lightly around my heart chakra. I also had a very strong feeling that there is much more to be addressed, but that I was doing the right thing.

I appreciate your replies. I went from getting frustrated to having confidence thanks to your input

[andonitxo]

Hi there,

Maybe this is not going to help you but, anyway, it'll give you another viewpoint on the subject.

Before I met NEW system I had previously practiced some types of Buddhist meditation in which, to say someway, I sent healing energy to the universe. The functioning was easy and it was based on relaxation and repetition of the  following sentence: "let everybody attain happiness and the causes of it". In the first sessions nothing was felt but as days passed I started to feel a palpitating and filling feeling in my heart chakra. This energy seemed to move upward, uniting with my throat chakra in a very high one.

Perhaps you can "unlock" something with the "mantra".

Regards.

[sweetbliss]

Hart chakra is related to confidence: in yourself (or in your Self   ), in the people around you and in God. When enlightened, heart chakra gives you that confidence which is self-supported, you don't need any exterior supports. You are what you are and that ensures your safety and trust.

Also, the heart chakra has three aspects:

-central: courage, trust (what I have described above), the relation between the parents, the integration in the family;
-left (supporting the real heart): influenced by the relation with the mother; left heart is also the abode of the Spirit within our subtle system;
-right (supporting the lungs): influenced by the relation with the father, establishing within us the perfect behavior.

So the relations we have with our parents also influence the chakra. You can understand them as earthly parents or divine/archetypal parents.

I hope it helps a bit.

Ana-Maria

[Naiad780]

Heya,

I had a similar issue with my heart chakra.  You're right, people do seem to say, "Just keeping running energy and eventually the blockage will dissolve."  That didn't work for me.

What finally did work was to supplement my daily energy work with free association writing.  That allowed the subconscious negativity to surface so that I could deal with the issues consciously.  Until I did that, I didn't entirely know what I needed to work on to clear the heart chakra blockage.  It took some detective work, but eventually I figured out what was blocking the chakra and now I am able to run energy through my heart center like I can with the others.

The "Healing with the Heart" method of RB's that someone else mentioned was also very helpful.

[Nay]

Heya,

I had a similar issue with my heart chakra.  You're right, people do seem to say, "Just keeping running energy and eventually the blockage will dissolve."  That didn't work for me.

What finally did work was to supplement my daily energy work with free association writing.  That allowed the subconscious negativity to surface so that I could deal with the issues consciously.  Until I did that, I didn't entirely know what I needed to work on to clear the heart chakra blockage.  It took some detective work, but eventually I figured out what was blocking the chakra and now I am able to run energy through my heart center like I can with the others.

The "Healing with the Heart" method of RB's that someone else mentioned was also very helpful.

This is a good example of someone working on their issues, alone.  What I mean by that is, we can all give each other advice on trying different things, but I've been finding that you still have to work through alot of things alone and find those....... just right techniques that are for you.

I commend you Naiad, for not giving up when the recommended advice didn't work for but for working through it by trial and error and detective work.  

Not everything works for everyone, and some times it takes time, a LONG time, but totally worth it in the end, don't cha think?

Nay

[pod_3]

You will find that the heart is associated with both health and emotions. The edification of the physbod is good for the spirit and vise versa.