Anahata—The Heart Chakra Correspondences

• Colors—Green & Pink
• Element—Air
• Function—Love
• Basic Rights—To love and be loved
• Demon—Grief
• Life Lessons—Love is Divine Power.  Forgiveness and compassion for oneself and others, and honoring the earthly forms of divine love
• Power—Love and Compassion
• Strengths—Forgiveness, dedication, inspiration, hope, trust, the ability to heal
• Shadow—Jealousy, anger, resentment, and the inability to forgive
• Main Issues— Belief about love and relationships
• Areas of Body Governed—Heart, chest, lungs, circulation, heart plexus
• Gland—Thymus
• Associated Spinal Area—Fourth Thoriac vertebra
• Life Issues—Passion, tenderness, inner child issues, and rejection
• Physical Ailments—High blood pressure, trouble breathing, heart disease cancer
• Crystals—Watermelon tourmaline, rose quartz, emerald, green calcite, jade aventurine quartz, malachite, moonstone, peridot , diamonds
• Shape—Crescent Moon
• Plant—Foxglove, rose, carnation, lily
• Musical Note—F
• Seed Sound—Lam
• Ruling Planet—Venus & Mercury
• Incense/Aromatherapy—Rose, carnation, lily of the valley
• Tarot Cards—Death, Justice, Hanged Man—[b]Tarot Suit[/b]—Swords
• Tree of Life Sephiroth—Tiphareth
• Hindu Deities—Vishnu, Lakshimi (as preserver), Krishna, Isvara, Kama, Vayu, Aditi, Urvasi
• Other Deities—Aphrodite, Reyja, Pan, Eros, Dian Chcht, Maat, Asclepius, Isis, Aeolus, Shu, Christ
• Astrological—Libra and Taurus
• Archangel—Raphael

Anaharta I AM Litany

• I AM Love.~
• I AM Compassion. ~
• I AM freedom.
• I am peace
• I am light.
• I am balance
• I am one with the universe

Focus for Balancing Anaharta

Using things around the house create a focal point to help balance this chakra.  Remember the correspondences.  Use green and pink items, and crystals if you have them handy, otherwise pieces of clothing, towels, scarves, pictures, candles all work nicely.  Use things that help you focus on what you are working on with this chakra.  You may want to use just a little TV tray, night stand or patio table for this, if you want to keep this up for a while.  This will also allow you to stop on the way by and just do a quick visualization exercise.

Consider this when deciding how to put your altar together: what areas of your life would an imbalance in this chakra affect?  Get things for the altar that relate to those areas and have meaning to you.

Now that you have put the altar together, it is time to do a quick 5 minute visualization to ask for balance of the chakra.  I enjoy visualizing the chakra in motion.  You may use any method you wish.  Visualize pleasure and joy coming from this area.  Feel that green and pink energy and pleasure rise up the sushumna to the crown.  Feel the shiver of pleasure and energy as it passes through the crown and flows over your body in an aura of the color of the chakra.

Here is a link that explains the energy running up the sushumna.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushumna

Namaste