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Loving-Kindness Meditation for the Heart Chakra

4/22/2015

This meditation is a method for developing compassion and is a great one to use when you’re in a place of feeling challenged by, or frustrated with yourself and/or another person. Loving-kindness, or Metta, as it’s called in the Pali language, is unconditional, inclusive love—a love with wisdom. It has no conditions. It does not depend on whether someone “deserves” it or not. It is not restricted to friends and family, rather extends out from the personal to include all living beings.

Instructions:

Wherever you are, take a seat, close your eyes, and bring awareness to your breath.
Breathing in and out from the heart center, begin by generating a kind, loving feeling toward yourself.
Feel any areas of mental blockage or numbness, self-judgment or self-hatred.
Then drop beneath that to the place where you care for yourself, where you want strength and health and safety for yourself. Choose one of the following phrases (or make one up for yourself) and silently say …
- May I be filled with loving kindness.
- May I be well.
- May I be peaceful and at ease.
- May I be truly happy.
Next, choose someone that you care for deeply or, on the contrary, who you feel most challenged by, and repeat the phrase, exchanging “I” with “you.”
- May you be filled with loving kindness.
- May you be well.
- May you be peaceful and at ease.
- May you be truly happy.
Then expand your awareness to the entire planet and radiate the loving kindness to all living beings.
- May all beings be filled with loving kindness.
- May all beings be well.
- May all beings be peaceful and at ease.
- May all beings be truly happy.
At the end, slowly open your eyes, take a couple moments to center yourself, and continue on with your day.

Thank you to the Chopra Center for this perfect way to recharge your day and your chakra balance.
Namaste!
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries, Chakra Secrets, Balance Your Chakras – Balance Your Life, and The Chakra Energy Diet www.theChakras.org

A Chocolate Meditation

4/20/2014

HAPPY EASTER! If you’ve received chocolate in your Easter basket, here’s a way to use it as a healing tool. I hope you enjoy this Chocolate Meditation from shaman, Stewart Blackburn, author of The Skills of Pleasure.

Take a small piece of the chocolate, hold it in your hands and give thanks for it. Feel its shape and texture. Then smell it. Take your time and get as much sensory information from it as you can without putting it into your mouth. Note how you feel in anticipation of eating this chocolate.

Let each breath help you to relax into this experience. This about being as thoroughly in your body as you can, present to all you perceive.

With great consciousness and flair, put the chocolate into your mouth and focus your full attention on the sensations you experience in your mouth. Feel it melt and move around in your mouth. Be aware of the sweetness on your tongue, the creaminess in your mouth, and all of the delicious flavors present. Prolong the experience as much as you can while being aware of how it makes you feel emotionally. See how deeply you can enjoy this chocolate, from savoring just one small piece.

Chocolate, unless you’re a sugar addict (which is more common than you might think) can help revive a brain taxed by overthinking or overuse of psychic skills. To enjoy chocolate in a healthy way that balances your Third Eye Chakra, choose organic 70% cacao dark chocolate and savor a small piece, chewing it slowly and consciously, for best effect.

For more ways to nourish all the chakras, follow me on Facebook or Twitter for special giveaways associated my new book, The Chakra Energy Diet, coming in May.

Namaste!
Becca

Using Chakra Stones to Identify Imbalance in your Energy Centers

9/29/2013

You can use Chakra Stones to place on your body during meditation to strengthen the seven chakras. You can also keep them in the bag to ask the question, "Which chakra do I need to work on?" The stone you pick will give you the answer! Your energy body will always choose the right one.

Do this anytime you're feeling less than perfectly balanced, and want to choose a specific chakra to heal using meditation (download my free Chakra Meditation), Dynamind (see my book Balance Your Chakras, Balance Your Life or free video Balance & Tone Your Chakras), or through other means such as your diet (watch for my upcoming book, The Chakra Diet).

You can purchase an inexpensive bag of chakra stones by clicking on the link on my Chakra Crystals page.

The crystals are associated with each chakra as follows:

Crown Chakra: Amethyst - Enhances Psychic Gifts and Higher State of Consciousness.

Third Eye Chakra: Blue Aventurine - Opens the Third eye chakra and intuition. It is a powerful mental healer that increases vitality and a positive outlook.

Throat Chakra: Lapis - Represents tenderness, empathy and communication.

Heart Chakra: Green Aventurine - Benefits one in all areas of love, creativity, and imagination, as well as intellect and mental clarity.

Solar Plexus Chakra: Carnelian - Manifests Abundance; Energizes; Heightens Self Discipline.

Sacral Chakra: Orange Carnelian - Increases Concentration, Creativity, Sexuality and Courage.

Root Chakra: Red Jasper - Emotional Protection, Assists with Grounding and Helps to Maintain Boundaries.

Happy Healing!
Namaste,
Becca Chopra
www.thechakras.org

Chocolate Meditation Boosts the Sacral Chakra

11/2/2012

If you have leftover Halloween chocolate, use it as a lesson in savoring pleasure and savoring your life, which will strengthen your Sacral Chakra. The Sacral Chakra is the seat of pleasure, creativity and sexuality, and nothing is more sensual than the smooth, delicious taste and texture of chocolate.

Use this meditation from my friend, Stewart Blackburn, the Shaman of Pleasure:

CHOCOLATE MEDITATION

Take a small piece of the chocolate, hold it in your hands and give thanks for it. Feel its shape and texture. Then smell it. Take your time and get as much sensory information from it as you can without putting it into your mouth. Note how you feel in anticipation of eating this chocolate.

Let each breath help you to relax into this experience. This is about being as thoroughly in your body as you can, present to all you perceive.

With great consciousness and flair put the chocolate into your mouth and focus your full attention on the sensations you experience in your mouth. Feel it melt and move around in your mouth. Be aware of the sweetness on your tongue, the creaminess in your mouth, and all of the delicious flavors present. Prolong the experience as much as you can while being aware of how it makes you feel emotionally. See how deeply you can enjoy this chocolate.

Now turn your attention to an awareness of the pleasure you are experiencing. Let the chocolate help you hold your attention on the source of the pleasure, but now your focus is on the pleasure itself. Let your experience of pleasure fill your whole body. With each breath let it expand beyond the limits of your body. Slowly, breath by breath, let your pleasure fill the whole room. Let your pleasure keep on expanding and expanding, all the way out into the universe. Allow yourself to totally enjoy the magnificence of your new expanded pleasure. Give yourself permission to hold this for as long as you want. And when you are ready for this to end, give thanks and reset yourself for new delights.

Namaste!
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries, Chakra Secrets and, Balance Your Chakras, Balance Your Life

www.thechakras.org

Independence from Stress & Pain

7/3/2012

Deep breathing is my favorite antidote to stress. I do two-part breathing - first into the belly and then into the lungs and out again - before meditation, during the day during stressful situations, and definitely when at the dentist's office. I am also a fan of Piko-piko breathing, used in the Hawaiian healing tradition. It is not only a stress reliever but a great aid in relieving pain as well.

Breathe in with your attention on your navel and breathe out with your attention on any part of your body that is in pain. Your imagination will help move healing energy along with your breath.

Make these deep breaths, moving your belly up and down (deep abdominal breathing oxygenates and relaxes your whole body). In another variation of Piko Piko, breathe in healing energy from the sky above and send any heavy energy with your breath out your feet to the center of the earth. You’ll be moving healing energy through the body, energizing your chakras and unblocking tension so your body can move into balance.

This is a perfect breathing exercise that takes less than a minute, can be done anytime, anywhere you need to relax, and is especially perfect before sitting down to meditate.

Deep breathing is one of the stress-releasing techniques used in the Dynamind Technique, which I learned in Hawaii from Serge Kahili King, PhD, a Hawaiian shaman and healer. It can be used to work on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dis-ease. Get a free preview at www.thechakras.org.

For your free MP3 of my complete 10-minute Chakra Meditation, breathing into each chakra center and energizing it, click here.

Namaste!

Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries

MOST EFFECTIVE TOOLS FOR CHAKRA BALANCING

11/18/2011

Becca, I really want to balance my chakras, but am overwhelmed with the different approaches to doing that. What do you suggest as the simplest, fastest way to achieve this?
Overwhelmed in Ohio

Dear Overwhelmed:
Thanks for reading my last 7 posts on balancing the 7 chakras. I agree with this advice from Carol Tuttle, MRET, of ChakraHealing.com:

Meditation
Meditation is perhaps the most well- known and widely used healing technology today. Millions of people across the world use it daily to enter an alternate state of mind for enhanced relaxation, clarity, healing, intuition and to unblock each of their 7 Chakras from the level of the subconscious.

Visualization
Next to meditation, visualization is also one of the most popular healing methods used today. By visualizing a premeditated scenario and outcome, and infusing this outcome with emotions, you can program your subconscious mind to achieve otherwise impossible feats.

So, please download my Chakra Meditations - they include information to help you better understand any imbalances you may have and offer powerful visualizations to open and balance your 7 chakras. Listen first thing in the morning - it only takes 10 minutes - to start your day balanced and feeling ready to tackle the word. Or right before bed to relax into a peaceful night's sleep.
Namaste!
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries
www.thechakras.org

HOW TO MANIFEST YOUR GOALS & DREAMS

7/19/2011

As a daily tune-up to stay positive and goal-oriented on your way to manifest your dreams, say each of these affirmations while you move through your day.

Say them aloud and in your mind until you can feel the reality of them in your body. Come back to them every day, for as long as you like:

I free my natural genius to create my magnificent life.
I commit to becoming aware of the unconscious patterns that limit me.
I discover the essential questions of my magnificent life.
Blessings flow in the parts of my life I used to complain about.
With ease, I turn all my heart’s desires into reality.
I love as much as I can, wherever I happen to be.
I wonder about all the things I used to worry about.
Life flows easefully as I speak honestly and keep my agreements
impeccably.
I look for things to appreciate wherever I go, and I speak my
appreciation liberally.

When you are grounded and self-confident, it's easy to manifest more wonderful things in your life. So, listen to the free Chakra Meditation at www.thechakras.org on a regular basis and see the difference positive affirmations and visualizations can create in your life.

Namaste!
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries
www.TheChakras.org

THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE - BALANCE THE HEART CHAKRA

6/5/2011

"Through love all pain will turn to medicine." ~ Rumi

All healers work their magic through the power of love. And we can all heal ourselves - by releasing the tension that stops our healing energy from flowing. How? Through love. Open your heart chakra, and feel the love and compassion flow through yourself and out to the world.

The 4th or Heart Chakra is located at your heart center. It represents selfless love, kindness, compassion, and is where we store emotional experiences.

Signs of an unbalanced Heart Chakra include anger, insensitivity, depression, grief, despair, jealousy and sadness. When this chakra is balanced, we are able to give and receive love, be compassionate and feel true connection with others. We can enjoy our feelings. This is also where we begin to experience the power of pray and meditation, which emanate from this center.

YOGA POSES FOR THE HEART CHAKRA
The Spinal Twist opens and expands the heart center. The Head of Cow, where you reach your arms behind you to meet in the middle of your back, also opens the chest and relieves tension in the back and shoulders.

MEDITATION ON THE HEART CHAKRA
Feel the yellow sacral chakra light from the navel area travel up to the center of your chest, turning into a bright green, as it enters the home of the heart chakra. Breathe in and out the beautiful emerald green mist surrounding you with love, joy and compassion for yourself and others. Feel any tension blocking the flow of this love. Any anger is passed. Any fear is in the future. Heal these emotions in the now. When you let go of negative emotions, you'll relax the tension they create and feel your true essence of love and healing power flow. Send forgiveness to those who may have caused pain, wrapping them in the bright green light, cleansing and healing the situation. Release yourself and them from any negative connections, only keeping the good. Now, wrap yourself and your whole life experience in healing green light.

Several of the characters in The Chakra Diaries learn forgiveness in the course of chakra balancing, and their lives are freed from the restraints of negativity. They are free to love and be loved, to spread their love to the world. Read more in The Chakra Diaries ~ on special sale now at Amazon.com.

Namaste!
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries

LIVE IN THE MOMENT

5/10/2011

Becca, I'm concerned that I'll never be happy, no matter how much I try.
Miss-try

Thanks for contacting me. Believe me that everything is perfect right here, right now.

Are you trying to be happy or worrying about not reaching your goals? Take a look at your life right now and appreciate all the good you can focus on - it's the only thing there is... right here and now.

Forget about past mistakes or hurts. They do not exist, except in your memory. Drop them. And don't worry about how you're going to get through tomorrow. Life is going on right here, right now - pay attention to the beauty of life all around you and all will be well.

I always recommend yoga and meditation to get you into the present moment and open your body, mind and soul to all the infinite possibilities in front of you. Try listening to my Chakra Meditations, free for downloading.

Namaste!
Becca

HEALING OUR HEARTS AND OUR WORLD

4/13/2011

I've been reading quite a few comments and articles about a broken government, a broken economy and a broken eco-system. What are the underlying catalysts behind what is broken in our world? Scientists at the Institute of HeartMath point to imbalanced heart patterns. Which, of course, led me to believe that the entire world needs to balance their heart chakras, to bring out their innate love and compassion.

A Hopi prophecy spoke of a world out of balance, that could be healed by healing our hearts and the collective heart of the people on earth.

HeartMath.org describes a simple heart coherence exercise: First, focus attention on the area of your heart. Then, breathe deeply into that area. Maintain your heart focus and heart breathing for several minutes. Then activate a feeling of gratitude and allow yourself to fully experience it.

By keeping our heart chakras in balance, we can stay true to our hearts and ensure that our hearts and our world are never broken again. For a full chakra meditation, please practice the free one on my Meditation page at The Chakras.org.
Namaste!
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries