Anahata, Heart, Fourth Chakra element air

The fourth chakra is in the region of your chest. Excuse the pun, but this is the heart of it all. This is your center of love and compassion. This is where all the emotional paradoxes meet. Love and hatred; grief and hope; resentment and forgiveness; loneliness and commitment; bitterness and trust. This is the single most important chakra in determining who we really are and how we interact with the world in general. Attitudes, beliefs and personal philosophies center here. Often, the scripts that follow these beliefs play out in our lives in ways that are unconscious and invisible to us.

The energies stored in this chakra are that of the heart, lungs, diaphragm and thymus gland. The ribs, breasts, shoulders and arms are a part of the fourth chakra. When we give honest consideration to the conflict that nearly all of us live in regarding the heart center of us, it is no wonder that we have such a host of fourth chakra disease in this country. Diseases like all forms of heart troubles, lung cancer, breast cancer, bronchial pneumonia, asthma and allergy conditions as well as the "stress" pains in our upper backs and shoulders.

This is the chakra where our strength, or our liability, is in how well we can, "let go and let God." We tend to accept our emotional challenges as a Divine pathway to growth, or we blame our fate on others and the world. If we ever become able to let go of having to know "why" things happen, we do that with our heart. This is where we learn forgiveness or meter out our sense of self-determined justice.

Love, hope, inspiration, dedication, trust, compassion and forgiveness can be the strengths of our heart. A life of loneliness, fear of commitment, inability to protect ourselves emotionally, emotional weakness and betrayal await us if we give in to the fears of the heart.

This is the center of the energetic system of the body. This is where we learn that love is the Divine power. While intelligence is generally considered to be the power of we humans, it is the emotional energy of the heart that is the true motivate. Divine love in it's purest form, with it's capacity for unending forgiveness and response to prayer is a far stronger force.

This is a colorpencil drawing
measuring 15" x 15"
Limited numbered edition (99)
Retail price is $45