Table of Contents
Read in Japanese- What is the Heart Chakra?
- Chakras and essential oils
- Essential Oils for the Heart: Sandalwood
- Essential Oils for the Mind: Other
- Heart Chakra Diffuser Blend
- Heart Opening Blend Roll-on
About the Heart Chakra (4th Chakra)
What is the Heart Chakra?
According to ancient meditation teachings such as Yoga, Tantra and Ayurveda, the “heart chakra (fourth chakra)” has a major influence on the health of our heart, lungs and respiratory system.
The fourth chakra is also known as the "heart center," and its source of energy is in the center of the chest (the center of the heart). The heart center has the function of acceptance, and is a space of unconditional love such as "compassion," "understanding," and "neutrality." It shifts thinking from self-centered thinking "I" to "we."
There is love in the center of our hearts. The love that the fourth chakra represents is not emotional love (second chakra). It is inspiration. It is destiny, the power of attraction, the power of resonance, and fate. As long as we are alive, we are connected to someone. The heart is a wonderful connector for connecting the self and others.
When the heart chakra is out of balance, you feel jealousy, sadness, and loneliness. You tend to defend yourself by closing yourself off, running away, attacking, or being cold. If it progresses further, it can cause heart palpitations, anxiety, dizziness, and difficulty breathing.
We need to keep our hearts open, but there's a balance to it. If our hearts are too open, we can easily become trusting, tolerate abuse, hurt others, or put ourselves in dangerous situations.
When the heart chakra is in balance, we feel happy and excited about life. We are able to express gratitude freely to others. If someone behaves rudely, we can accept it with a forgiving heart. The heart encourages us to connect deeply and make our relationships meaningful. Our heart rate is stable, our lung capacity is large, and we have the courage to jump into new and unknown worlds, and we desire to grow and improve ourselves.
Chakras and essential oils
The skin is the largest organ in our body. It absorbs far more than we realize. Essential oils pass through the skin and through the fascia just below the skin to the rest of the body. This is a very luxurious way to bring the power of plants into the body.
Essential oils are great for balancing your chakras. Here are some oils recommended by herbalist and acupuncturist Deganit Nuur to support your heart chakra. Nuur is a well-known herbalist who has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Elle.
Essential Oils for the Heart: Sandalwood
This oil has a sweet, sacred woody scent. It is used in sacred ceremonies around the world. It has been mixed into teas, incense and poultices for thousands of years. It has been found growing in many places around the world as a healing and aphrodisiac. It is one of the most effective and reliable chakra essential oils. In acupuncture, it is known to treat the heart, spleen and stomach channels.
How to use Sandalwood to penetrate deeply into your heart and open your heart chakra
- Place a few drops of Sandalwood essential oil in the center of your chest. Massage your chest, moving outward from your sternum towards your shoulders. Blend it in a carrier oil and massage it all over your upper chest, from chest level to your collarbone. Experience your heart rate slowing. Sandalwood is also best used before meditation.
- Cooking with Sandalwood, using it in teas, wearing it as fragrance, or carrying it with you will help you stay connected to those that matter most to you and support your peaceful life.
Reference: https://goop.com/wellness/spirituality/the-secret-sauce-to-opening-the-intuition//
Essential Oils for the Mind: Other
- Rose: Opens the heart chakra, allowing you to feel unconditional love. Gives a sense of happiness and peace while awakening your capacity for compassion, nurturing, and love.
- Lemon: Opens the heart chakra to self-love and self-nurturing. Uplifting and uplifting.
- Neroli: Opens the heart chakra and is a natural tranquilizer for the nervous system, uplifting your spirits and encouraging self-confidence, joy and peace.
- Marjoram: Restores warmth, compassion and self-nurturing when feeling lonely or isolated.
- Lavender: Helps you relax, relieve stress and release fears, which promotes connection with your heart.
- Yarrow: Known for its wound healing qualities and for releasing anger caused by a wounded mind.
- Jasmine: A lifting and joyful oil that balances the emotional system, relieves anxiety, and helps with depression and apathy.
- Chamomile: Promotes a calm and clear mind and reduces emotional turmoil and depression.
- Geranium: This emotional healing oil restores self-confidence and trust in others. It helps heal broken hearts and open one up to love.
Heart Chakra Diffuser Blend
Add the amount of water recommended for your machine to the diffuser.
- 2 drops lavender
- 2 drops rose
- 1 drop geranium
Heart Opening Blend Roll-on
- 10 drops sweet orange
- 6 drops ylang-ylang
- 4 drops of frankincense
- 2 drops geranium
- Roller bottle 10mL size
- Jojoba oil
Top off with jojoba oil and add essential oils to a roller bottle. Cap bottle and roll between palms to blend together. Roll on pulse points or onto chest, inhale aroma. You can also roll on the upper abdomen (location of the solar plexus chakra).
Reference: https://www.lovingessentialoils.com/
Index of this content
Read in Japanese- What is a heart chakra?
- Chakra and essential oils
- The Essential Oil: Sandalwood
- Other essential oils for the heart:
- Heart Chakra Diffuser Blend
- Heart opening Roll-on Blend
The heart chakra (4th chakra)
What is a heart chakra?
In ancient meditation practices and other teachings like yoga, tantra and ayurveda, the heart chakra governs our heart/cardiovascular health, and lungs/respiratory health.
The 4th Chakra also known as The Heart Center represents the space of Unconditional Love, the transition from “I” to “We,” the Compassion, neutrality, understanding and acceptance. located at the chest center on the central energy channel that is parallel to the spine.
At the center of our chest is this green, spinning vortex of love, compassion, unity, interdependence, forgiveness, acceptance, connection, inspiration. This chakra is all about connection—with ourselves, our people, and our environment. The heart is the great connector that allows us a healthy balance of all that inspires and grounds us, self-love and love for others, giving and receiving. When we are here, we are one with the entirety of life. We recognize that I am because you are , and the way we treat ourselves, others, life, and all living creatures echoes that divine truth. Love is not a feeling (those reside in the second chakra), it is a vibration, a frequency, a force that moves mountains.
When our heart chakras are out of balance we tend to feel judgmental, catty, jealous, envious, sad, or lonely. We'll tend to isolate ourselves by either withdrawing, attacking, or being cold or defensive. We may experience heart palpitations, shortness of breath, feel dizzy, experience social anxiety, or have poor circulation.
Should our hearts be a little too open or overactive (balance is key), we may place ourselves in dangerous situations, blindly trust, tolerate abuse, enable others in dis-serving habits.
When our heart chakra is balanced we're high on life and want to shout it from the rooftops! We have an attitude of gratitude and generously sprinkling compliments around. Should someone behave rudely toward us, we're accepting, compassionate, forgiving. We 're connected to our feelings, empowered in our decisions; our relationships are meaningful and inspire us to connect deeply within. Our heart rate is steady, lung capacity huge, and we're eager to soar to new great heights, even when it means leaping into the unknown.
Chakra and essential oils
The skin is our largest organ, and our body literally ingests much of what we douse it with. Essential oils work with our fascia (which lies just beneath the skin), so the healing properties of the plants are transmitted throughout our entire body. It's Such a sensual, luxurious way to ingest medicine.
Essential oils are particularly great for treating common chakra imbalances—more below, along with the most effective oil that certified acupuncturist and herbalist Deganit Nuur uses to support the heart chakra. Nuur has been features in the New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair and Elle :
The Essential Oil: Sandalwood
Smelling of sweet, sacred wood, this oil has been used in spiritual ceremonies around the world for thousands of years, in teas, as incense, made into prayer beds, mixed into liniments, alchemized into tinctures. It's a cure-all and an aphrodisiac , and found growing in many places around the globe, fitting, as love is all and love is for all! Among the many chakra essential-oil options, sandalwood remains my constant ace: In acupuncture, it's known to treat the heart, spleen, and stomach meridians. Sandalwood not only opens up our hearts, it also helps the third chakra, so that love may be sustainable, constant, nourishing, and grounding (as opposed to fleeting, harmful, destructive, or inconsistent). It keeps us introspective and reflective, compassionate, thoughtful, and considerate. Its healing properties extend from digestive aid to brilliant antiseptic; it also treats pain, systemic inflammation, and hypertension; and supports mental clarity.
How to integrate sandalwood into the depths of your soul and begin to manifest your dreams:
- Apply a few drops of sandalwood essential oil to the very center of your chest, at your sternum. Massage this enchanting aphrodisiac into your chest, moving outwards from your sternum (chest plate) towards your shoulders. You may want to dilute it into a carrier oil, so you can slather it on and cover your upper chest from about nipple-height to your collar bone. Surrender to its angelic embrace and experience your heartbeat slowing down. I love to use it before I meditate (and sometimes in lieu of meditation ).
- Our heart chakra opens up to our palms. Place a drop of sandalwood in your palms. Offer light and service to all beings. This helps with boundaries, self-worth, and integrity.
- You can also cook with sandalwood, put it in your tea, wear it as a fragrance, or carry it with you to help keep you connected with what matters most to you, and enhance your inner-peace.
Source: https://goop.com/wellness/spirituality/the-secret-sauce-to-opening-the-intuition/
Other essential oils for the heart:
- Rose: Opens the heart chakra and allows you to feel unconditional love. Creates a sense of well-being and calmness while awakening your ability for self-compassion, nurturing, and love.
- Lemon: Opens the heart chakra to self-love and self-nurturing.lightens while uplifting your spirit and bringing clarity into your life.
- Neroli: A natural tranquilizer and regulator of the nervous system that opens the heart chakra, uplifts your spirit, and encourages confidence, joy, and peace.
- Marjoram: Restores warmth, self-compassion, and self-nurturing when feeling lonely or isolated.
- Lavender: Helps you to relax, let go of the stress, and release fear, which fosters connect with the heart center and opens you up to more love.
- Yarrow: Known for its wound healing qualities and releasing anger caused by a wounded heart.
- Jasmine: Uplifting and joyous oil that balances the emotional system, soothes anxiety, and helps with depression and apathy.
- Chamomile: Promotes a calm and clear mind and reduces emotional disruptions and depression.
- Geranium: This emotional healing oil restores confidence and trust in others. It can help to heal a broken heart and open one up to love.
Heart Chakra Diffuser Blend
Add to your diffuser with the recommended amount of water for your machine.
- 2 drops Lavender
- 2 drops Rose
- 1 drop Geranium
Heart opening Roll-on Blend
- 10 drops sweet orange
- 6 drops Ylang Ylang
- 4 drops Frankincense
- 2 drops Geranium
- 10ml Roller Bottle
- Jojoba Oil
Add essential oils to roller bottle, top off with jojoba oil. Cap bottle and roll between palms to blend together. Roll onto pulse points or chest, inhale the aroma. You can roll on the upper abdomen as well (location of solar plexus chakra) .
