# 4 green - the heart chakra

The colors change into a beautiful deep verdant green. This is the fourth chakra, the portal between the three lower and upper chakras, or the earth and sky chakras as they’re sometimes called. We now enter the heart chakra. Its color is that of a beautiful fertile land, lush and verdant. This chakra operates in two places at once. It is the true centre. While the solar plexus is the middle of the physical body, the heart chakra is the centre of the chakra system itself, our energy bodies. All traces or red and yellow have now evaporated, although some aura readers see the opening heart chakra as pink, and the fully opened one (or fully awake person) as green.

The heart has always been associated with love, but this is usually of a romantic kind. This is not the function of the heart chakra, this must be very clearly stated. When we speak of love at this chakra we are speaking about unconditional love. In some ways this very central chakra resolves all the others, but specifically the second, or sacral. There the sexual, or more correctly, the sensual appetites were awoken. Now in the fourth chakra these are transformed into universal love. Love no longer serves the purpose of satiation or the mere individual; now it serves all humankind. It is all-inclusive, all empowering, and universal. Refusal to integrate these at the heart level, i.e. refusing to open the heart can lead to a cluttering of this chakra with the debris of the second.

Again, this manifests as fear, and fear around the heart area can be very dangerous. Cardiovascular diseases are a huge killer, and we see the prevalence of breast cancer today. From an emotional standpoint, how many of our woes appear to come from ‘love issues’? Loss, heartache, loneliness, sorrow, disappointment (again), the list is endless. We even talk about a ‘broken heart’. Think about the literal implications of that! Fear at the green chakra is felt as deep sorrow.

Some say that in order to enter the power chakra, solar plexus, we must go through the heart. (for more on heart energy see Drunvalo Melchizedek, Living in the Heart, or any of his works). However, to work with heart energy requires great skill and care, also a lot of compassion for ourselves. If we try to use it for power then we slip down into our solar plexus chakra again. To say, in this case, that we slip back is not strictly true, it is more accurate to say we never left the third chakra.

The power of the heart chakra is very different. It is not the power of leadership, or strength, or overcoming adversity, or even of the warrior. It is much more subtle, yet more powerful.

In the Buddhist tradition the mind is situated in the heart. It is only in western thought that the head and the brain came to have more dominance. This attitude needs to change, and I’m glad to see the new hit movie The Living Matrix emphasises the role the heart has in directing the brain. Until we truly learn to appreciate and live in this chakra we can never ascend to the higher chakras. A lot is spoken about love and the heart today, but few truly understand it. On the one hand we find some new age people who think its all ‘love and light’, while others avow that we have to get serious and work on ourselves. New age people are always ‘working on themselves’. It’s a bit more subtle actually, what we need is learn who we really are, and then go from there. The scope for that task is wider than this one article, although it is the primary aim of the unscripted self. This learning process, which is ongoing work, is more a be-ing than a do-ing of anything.

Enquiry:

Are you prone to doing acts of kindness?

Have you forgiven yourself for past mistakes?

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