| The fourth chakra is located behind the breast | | | | Some symptoms of an overly open chakra |
| bone, at the level of the heart; therefore it is also | | | | includes: heart disease and high blood pressure. |
| called the heart chakra. It is represented by the | | | | Emotionally, an overly open chakra would cause |
| color green, and by the traditional 12-petaled lotus. | | | | too much dependency on the love of others that |
| The heart chakra is the center for everything. It | | | | you forget to love yourself. It makes you live at |
| represents the center of love, compassion, and | | | | the mercy of other people's love and affection. |
| spirituality, and dictates how we feel love for | | | | This also results to jealousy and over-empathizing. |
| ourselves and how we share love with others. It | | | | When you have an overly open heart chakra, you |
| is also the center point of our whole existence as | | | | tend to drown yourself in self-pity. |
| it represents inner balance and is the deepest | | | | Keeping the 4th chakra open is essential for our |
| chakra in our core. In the chakra system, the | | | | general well-being. Because the heart chakra is the |
| fourth chakra is also the center that connects our | | | | center for self-healing and detoxification, keeping it |
| mind and soul. The lower chakras represent our | | | | healthy and open would greatly influence our |
| physical existence while the upper chakras | | | | confidence and our ability to love ourselves. A |
| represent our spiritual existence. Being in the | | | | balanced and open heart chakra would lead to an |
| middle, the fourth chakra represents the balance | | | | overall positive outlook in life. It allows you to see |
| between the two. | | | | the beauty of the world, the beauty of others, |
| When the fourth chakra becomes blocked or | | | | and of course, your own beauty. Having an open |
| imbalanced, it results in an overall disruption in the | | | | chakra would also mean that you are quick to |
| chakra system. An imbalanced fourth chakra, in | | | | forgive and be very tolerant about the ways of |
| particular, would often result in the fear of | | | | others. |
| intimacy and love, and one would tend to choose | | | | In the Hindu texts, the 4th chakra is known by |
| to run away from these emotions. When your | | | | the Sanskrit word "Anaharata", which means |
| 4th chakra is blocked, you might cut all your | | | | unhurt or unstruck. The Sanskrit word represents |
| connections with the world, which can make you | | | | the mechanism of the fourth chakra. When we |
| very critical and suspicious of everything. As your | | | | get our hearts broken, it causes a deep heart |
| heart becomes more closed, you also become | | | | scar in our aura. The fourth chakra releases these |
| more isolated from the world. Physical symptoms | | | | scars and as a result, it also releases the pain that |
| would include: low blood pressure, asthma, | | | | caused these scars, but beneath that pain, the |
| bronchitis, and other lung problems. | | | | heart heals and brings back wholeness and |
| Some people have an overly open heart chakra. | | | | growth. |