The Heart chakra is associated with the following  characteristics:

• Capacity to love
• Integration, bridge between earthly and spiritual aspirations
• Transcending personal identity and limitations of the ego
• Experience of unconditional love and connection with all
• Appreciation of beauty in all things
• Experiencing deep and meaningful relationships

   11. Cultivate self-compassion and acceptance
   12. Engage in heart heartfelt activities
   13. Balance the ebb and flow of giving & receiving  
   14. Sound Therapy & listening to heart centered music
   15. Reiki Energy Healing

Cat (Marjaryasana) - Cow (Bitilasana) — Cat-Cow is a gentle flow between two poses that warms the body and brings flexibility to the spine. It stretches the back torso and neck, and softly stimulates and strengthens the abdominal organs. It also open the chest, encouraging the breath to become slow and deep. The spinal movement of the two poses stimulates the kidneys and adrenal glands. Coordinating this movement with your breathing relieves stress and calms the mind.

1. 1. Start on your hands and knees with your wrists directly under your shoulders, and your knees directly under your hips. Point your fingertips to the top of your mat.

2. Place your shins and knees hip-width apart. Center your head in a neutral position and soften your gaze downward.

1. 3. Begin by moving into Cow Pose: Inhale as you drop your belly towards the mat. Lift your chin and chest, and gaze up toward the ceiling.

Broaden across your shoulder blades and draw your shoulders away from your ears.

​4. Next, move into Cat Pose: As you exhale, draw your belly to your spine and round your back toward the ceiling. The pose should look like a cat stretching its back.
5. Release the crown of your head toward the floor, but don't force your chin to your chest.
6. Inhale, coming back into Cow Pose, and then exhale as you return to Cat Pose.

When you take the time to learn your energy, how it moves through your body through your Chakras, you will then learn how the energy starts to bring greater awareness to who you are and the enormity of your Infinite nature.  Only then will you begin to hear your personalized Heart Song and it will guide you to harmonious co-creation with others at the same aligned attraction point.  Each additional Chakra is the equivalent of adding another instrument to create a beautiful symphony.

Stay tuned as we journey through each Chakra and bring awareness to the balance already within you.

~ Denise B. Povernick

The Heart Chakra is the 4th Chakra, located at the center of the Seven Chakra System. It is where the physical and spiritual come together. Located at the exact center of the chest, it corresponds not only to the heart but your lungs, thymus gland, and your cardiac plexus.
In Sanskrit, it is referred to as the Anahata which means unhurt, the spiritual place where past experiences and grievances cannot harm us. The Anahata Chakra is associated with the color green, which stands for transformation and love energy.

The Heart Chakra brings awareness to compassion, love, and beauty. Driven by the principles of transformation and integration, the fourth energy center is said to bridge earthly and spiritual aspirations, join the upper3 and lower 3 chakras.  

In this article we will briefly introduce the Heart Chakra and its attributes. Most Chakra articles begin with discussing the Chakras using either the Root Chakra or the Crown Chakra as a starting point. I personally like to start the discussion from the center, or the Heart of the matter because it is the connector of the upper three (Spiritual) Charkas and lower three (Physical) Chakras.  The Heart Chakra can allow in more energy than the Root or Crown and can energize the energy the strongest getting this energy to the other Chakras with great speed and efficiency. 
 
In Part 2 of Understanding Your Heart Chakra, you will learn how to open and balance the Heart Chakra so it may be a point of Spiritual, Emotional, Physical equilibrium in your body and life.
 
Heart Chakra Aspects

• Location: In the center of the chest (the energy center is not located where our actual heart organ lies; rather, the heart chakra is in the center of the chest area); it is the 4th chakra counting from the bottom of the spine in the traditional 7 chakra system.
• Color: Green (higher energy frequencies can turn to pink)
• Symbol: Two intersecting triangles forming a 6-pointed star in a circle with 12 petals
• Element: Air
• Healing Crystals and Stones: Pink quartz, clear quartz, jade, green calcite

• Essential oils: Rose, geranium, neroli, ylang ylang, jasmine, bergamot

• Glands or Bodily functions: Thymus gland, responsible for hormone production and important in the regulation of the immune system.

The symbol for the Heart Chakra:

• A circle with 12 petals
• An downward-pointing triangle interlaced with an upward-pointing triangle, forming a six-pointed star or hexagram
• The intersecting triangles represent the air element and its all-encompassing quality. They also symbolize the union of seemingly opposite principles or types of energies, such as male and female, spirit and matter.
  
• The star the triangles form evokes the harmonious joining of forces and highlights the function of the heart chakra as a center of integration and connection.  

​The location for the Heart Chakra is at the center of the chest, between the breasts. It’s slightly to the left of the actual organ of the heart.  
 
As the fourth energy center, it’s important to remember that it is multidimensional and is energetically represented with a front going through the center of the chest, and a back going through the spine between the shoulder blades. The Heart Chakra is associated to the cardiac system and the lungs.   These organs are interdependent and rely on air and breathing to function properly. The gland associated with the heart chakra is the thymus, which is in charge of regulating the immune system.

In understanding your Heart Chakra we will continue the introduction by connecting you to the Heart Chakras governance and connections.  We will also have a thorough discussion of wonderful techniques to bring your Awareness to a balanced Heart Chakra.

​~ Denise Povernick

Who doesn’t want True Love and the secrets to obtain it?

What is True Love? Does false love exist? How would you know love is true or false? Do you know how to love? Do you even know what to look for or how to find it?

Love is Love. Love is unconditional. Conditions that are placed on Love are not Love. The actual definition of Conditional Love = FEAR! Love cannot be given or taken away. Love cannot be added to or subtracted from. Love is an absolute, and it is a Universal Truth like infinity, for True love is infinite. Love like all truths can only exist in the eternal now moment.

If you are quantifying, qualifying, giving and taking Love, that is not Love. Your Ego is moving you into the lower aspects of the Love polarity into Fear. Fear can be quantified and qualified. Your Ego is the expert at having you believe in lack.

In this world, your Ego loves opposites or duality. Your Ego makes you believe there is lack or absence of something. One could say the ultimate duality is Love and Fear. The Law of Polarity explains this as follows:

Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature but different in degree. – The Kybalion, (The Three Initiates, 1908)

Opposites do not exist as you have been taught.

One side of the pole is one extreme, and the other side of the pole is the other extreme on the topic being discussed. In essence, there is the absolute and varying degrees of the lack of the absolute until the other end of the pole is reached. On a thermometer, there are high temperatures (hot – the absolute) and low temperatures (cold – the lack of hot). You have been taught that hot and cold are opposites. It is the just varying degrees of the same topic of temperature. Once you understand this powerful law, there will no longer be the need to search for what appears to be missing for it is always present in the lack. Nothing is ever kept or hidden from you in this Universe by anyone except by you, with your belief that lack exists.

A shift in awareness is needed.

Most search for True Love in all the wrong places. You have a belief what you seek is outside of you in others. Your Ego sends you on a never-ending elusive to have others give you what you already possess. Your Ego will never acknowledge Love without conditions because it operates from the mind. True Love operates from your heart and speaks the language the Ego does not understand.

The only place True Love can be first found is within you. You cannot give what you do not have, nor is there anything to seek outside of you. This is the illusion your Ego creates. You first must look within yourself for that what you seek because it has always been there within you and always will be.

If you do not connect to the True Love present within you, you will never recognize another’s True Love.

Your Ego will convince you their Love is fake. Others are simply a reflection of you, and you can only receive them at the level of consciousness you are currently vibrating. You can only vibrate at the level of conscious you can feel within yourself.

Look within your own heart and operate from heart consciousness. Feel the beautiful language of Love as it speaks to you and through you. You will know your truth and your Love because it will feel good within you. There will be no doubts.

You have never been without True Love for you are absolute of True Love in human form.

You are always the absolute of all that you seek. Nothing is ever missing. Do not continue to allow your Ego to manipulate you into believing that you are True Love. The paradox to living this knowing is the moment you realize you are True Love and it can never be kept or taken away from you, you stop needing it or wanting it from others. In doing so, you will experience True Love everywhere and in everything. The search will finally be over.