Opening the Heart

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The Heart, or Fourth Chakra, is our Higher Self's feeling nature. And it is here that the motion of life and the stillness of death meet. When our hearts are open, we are filled with life; when they are closed, we feel deadened and our lives seem meaningless. The fourth chakra governs the anatomical heart and circulates our blood, or life force. Hence, the color associated with this chakra is green, the color of life. The Heart rules the mysterious thymus gland that governs the immune system; many immunologists today believe the thymus functions best when we are in touch with the energies of love. These doctors have noted that people with immune deficiencies often die when they feel isolated and unloved.

This chakra is the vehicle for communing with our soul. When we truly enter the Heart, we drop our codependent patterns, all our horizontal sacrificing. No longer able to deflect from our true nature, we turn toward the completion of our own lives. At some point we all must enter the fourth chakra and pass through the "Initiation of the Heart" to face both our pain and joy. Otherwise we can never evolve. [excerpt from AWAKENING IN TIME, pg. 149-150.

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