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Introduction
Essential Qualities:
Character Strengths
Personality Trait Strengths
Benefits
Symptoms Checklist
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Energy System Guide
4th Chakra: Anahat (Heart)
(Unconditional Love, Compassion,
Security, Confidence, Kindness)
Location: Spinal column at the level of the sternum
bone, in the region of the cardiac plexus.
Vibrations: Anahat vibrations are felt in the little (pinky)
finger.
Associated Element: Anahat is aligned with the essential
element of air.
Associated Color: Red or air/’ash colored.’ Air, having
oxygen in it, is representative of the most critical
element of all for sustaining life.
Physiology/physical regions governed: Anahat’s primary
physiological function is to regulate heart (circulatory)
and lung (respiratory/pulmonary) function. Anahat
also controls the breasts and thymus gland, a small
gland located behind the top of the breastbone involved
in producing the immune system’s T-cells.
Essential Qualities:
• pure, unconditional love
• unconditional compassion
• confidence and security, absence of fear and
anxiety
• healthy, secure self-esteem
• truth
• joy
• kindness
• strong immune system; creation and nourishment
of antibodies
left Heart qualities include:
• the experience of the Spirit or Inner Self, which is a
combination of the ultimate
• truth on our attention accompanied by infinite or
ultimate joy (Satchitanand in Sankskrit);
• positive maternal relationships, dutifulness in
motherhood
right Heart qualities include:
• positive paternal relationships, dutifulness in
fatherhood
• gracious behavior
• moral responsibility
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• respect for protocols and others’ boundaries
The fundamental qualities of the Anahat or Heart
chakra are pure, unconditional love and compassion.
Nourishing this chakra helps fix broken maternal
and paternal relationships. And because we tend
to reap what we sow, maintaining a strong Anahat
chakra helps you attract other individuals into your
life who have strong hearts and can offer you pure
unconditional love, kindness and compassion.
It is through the Heart chakra that we become
confident, secure, morally responsible and emotionally
well-balanced. A balanced Anahat allows us to feel
the pure joy of existence and discover meaning and
purpose in our lives.
Nourishing and balancing Anahat improves these
personality and character strengths…
Character Strengths
unconditional love and acceptance, charity, altruism,
compassion, affection, enjoyment of and appreciation
for others; love unhindered by biases and false
dichotomies; genuine enthusiasm, interest, and
understanding the meaning of others’ experiences
1. unconditional empathy and compassion
(willingness to invest whatever’s necessary to heal
the hurts of others)
2. gratitude (thankfulness, appreciation,
acknowledgement, recognition) — includes both
acknowledging the goodness in your life and
recognizing the source of this goodness
3. transcendence (appreciation for truth, beauty,
goodness, unity)
4. kindness (compassion, altruistic love,
consideration, generosity, nurturance, care,
consideration)
5. self-confidence and self-assurance
6. gratitude (thankfulness, appreciation,
acknowledgement, recognition) — includes both
acknowledging the goodness in your life and
recognizing the source of this goodness
Personality Trait Strengths
1. self-transcendence, self-actualizing tendencies,
self-forgetfulness (especially altruistic acts,
working in the service of others without expecting
reciprocation)
2. empathy, compassion, helpfulness, pure-hearted
conscience, warmth, kindness)
3. sense of security, secure self-esteem, confident,
self-assured
4. rule-consciousness (dutiful, conscientious, respect
for protocols, diplomacy and others’ boundaries)
5. sensitivity (intuitive understanding of others)
6. rule-consciousness (respect for protocols and
others’ boundaries)
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Benefits
Just as the human heart continually pumps blood
throughout the body in order to sustain it, a strong
Anahat or Heart chakra continually infuses us
with love and compassion for humankind. Love, in
other words, is the lifeblood of the soul, and of our
relationships with other human beings. In Sahaja
meditation, the Self of Spirit is reflected in the Heart
chakra. The Spirit may only manifest when our hearts
are cleansed, open and receptive.
A strong Heart chakra helps us understand the true
meaning of love. We develop pure relationships and
love everyone unconditionally, without expectation —
like a mother loves her children. Yet, we don’t become
overly attached to or dependent on those we love. Our
sense of Self is healthy and whole.
Our past conditionings can lead us to confuse love and
compassion with possession or selfishness. After Self-
Realization, energy flows to the Heart chakra, purifying
our attention. The heart is cleansed through pure
attention and pure desire. We become more sensitive,
compassionate, and benevolent toward others without
regard to self-interest. We are able to love for love’s
sake, for pure love gives without interest. It is not
judgmental or prejudiced by differences that we may
perceive in others.
As the Heart chakra is strengthened and nourished,
our preconceived mental or external symbols or
representations of love give way to deeper feelings of
true, unselfish love and compassion. Unconditional
means loving others despite the fact that they are
different from us, or have committed acts that we may
not approve of. We develop more holistic perspectives
of the world, so concepts such as “different classes
of people” may either cease to exist in our minds, or
are easily transcended. We are able to transcend such
black-and-white dichotomies. We develop a higher
tolerance for doubt, uncertainty, and ambiguity — such
states no longer make us feel anxious or insecure.
A strong Anahat ultimately helps us become
transcenders. In forging soulful connections to the
universe, we add deeper meaning and purpose to our
own lives. Transcenders are far more consciously and
deliberately motivated to pursue pure values such as
truth, beauty, goodness, and unity.
It is through Anahat that we develop a greater capacity
for tolerance and acceptance of others, even when
we disagree with their actions. If we must confront
someone, we speak from a foundation of love and
compassion, rather than from ego or the need to impose
upon them our will or expertise. We’re respectful of
the need to respect social rules. Anahat chakra helps
us develop a moral code of conduct for ourselves
and appreciate “proper protocols.” We intuitively
understand how to set boundaries for our own behavior
and respect the boundaries of others. Our relationships
automatically improve. We do not base our choices
solely on convenience or expediency, or make decisions
out of self-indulgence, egoism, or a desire to be the
anarchic or “contrarian type.” Nor are we rule-bound,
overly formal, stuffy, or overly moralistic (self-righteous
and preachy). Our moral codes are rooted in balance,
dutifulness and conscientiousness — qualities that
always take into account the well-being of others, as
well as our own.
Anahat brings out the Good Samaritan in us. A strong
Anahat increases our innate capacity to express
unconditional empathy and benevolence toward others
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— even strangers — without regard to self-interest. You
may begin to process the world differently, devoting
more effort to higher, self-actualizing pursuits, such
as relieving global suffering and seeking solutions to
major world problems — “causes outside your own
skin.” You may find yourself increasingly endeavoring
to play a role, however small it might be, to make the
world a better place. You may experience increased
social consciousness and feel a greater sense of moral
responsibility to humankind, in general. As a result,
you begin to experience that deeper sense of joy and
satisfaction that comes from helping change other
people’s lives for the better.
The Heart chakra allows us to feel the pure joy of
existence and discover our meaning and purpose in the
world. Pure joy is a sustained inner surge of positivity
and optimism, rather than a mood or momentary
state that pivots on passing events. We become better
balanced emotionally. Our confidence and self-image
improves and self-esteem becomes more secure. In
fact, you may find that fears, anxiety and insecurities
— and the problems that stemmed from these emotions
— simply vanish.
Insecurity, anxiety and fears can weaken the Anahat
chakra. In fact, insecurity and anxiety drive many
of the problems we experience in our lives. Through
the confidence, self-reliance and secure self-esteem
instilled by Anahat, we develop stronger coping
mechanisms, and ultimately emotional resilience,
which protects us against future adversity.
A strong Anahat helps build a strong immune system.
The heavy burdens of stress and fear weaken our
immune systems over time, which makes us more
vulnerable to illness. But a strong Anahat promotes the
creation and nourishment of antibodies, which ward
off antigens (toxins and foreign substances such as
bacteria and viruses).
Symptoms Checklist
Experiencing any of these symptoms may be a sign that
your Anahat chakra needs balancing…
Physical Illnesses:
• heart palpitations and heart attacks
• allergies
• asthma
• breast cancer
• lung diseases
• weakened immune system
Center Anahat:
• insecurity, fear and anxiety
• residual unhappiness linked to problems with/
relating to parents
Left Anahat:
• motherhood difficulties (with, or as, a mother)
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• superficiality, shallowness
• anti-spiritual activities
Right Anahat:
• fatherhood difficulties (with, or as, a father)
• aggressive behavior
• inconsiderate behavior
• disrespecting the boundaries of others