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🪷 We ALL need an extra boost - 4-day Heart chakra recharge starts TODAY! // Day 1 of 4

The heart chakra is the center of everything. Known as the 4th chakra and represented by the color green, the heart chakra is known as the bridge between the lower (root, sacral and solar plexus) and upper chakras (throat, third eye, and crown). The heart chakra connects the chakra dots: ❤️ 🧡 💛 + 💚 + 🩵 💙 💜.

Why does that matter? When any chakra is blocked, overall balance and flow is affected. When our 💚 heart chakra — the bridge — is blocked, the flow of energy gets stuck.

The heart chakra is a bridge between the lower and upper chakras. Photo by Silas Baisch on Unsplash

What is the heart chakra?

The heart chakra is our center for feeling and expressing love for self and others, as well as kindness, compassion, empathy, and forgiveness.

When out of balance, the “tells” include anger, hate, inadequate boundaries, and difficulty in building and maintaining relationships.

InsightTimer, my go-to meditation app, provides a useful summary of the heart chakra, including how to know it is out of balance and how to bring it back into shape.

We ALL need an extra boost.

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I get stuck in my head …

When my heart chakra is blocked, I get stuck in my head. I know this — it happens about once a year. It’s my blind spot.

CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF LORI BEING IN HER HEAD. 5 rewrites. I’ve been working on this heart chakra post for days and days. This is my fifth total rewrite, which is not my norm. I edit and tinker, sure, but shifting to a brand new approach five times is unusual. Here’s how it has been going:

1st draft: I created a stuffy, numbered list of chakras and their aspects. Felt like a spreadsheet. Not disparaging spreadsheets (I love them), but the whole vibe was out of place for a chakra that is about heart things.

2nd draft: I wrote about learning how to read a map. Really. Read the excerpt in the footnote¹ so you will know just how much I was not in my heart.

3rd draft: I showcased change management methodology known as Head, Heart, Hands. Sure, it had the word heart in it, but without any feeling. (I saved the draft though because someday when I write a boring change management book, it can be my first chapter.)

4th draft: I wrote about the heart chakra through the lens of grief and it read like wet cardboard. In addition to terrible writing, I spent most of the day scrolling LinkedIn, proving that I was in my head and not my heart.

5th draft (the “now” draft): I woke up this morning thinking about an Adam Grant post I read on the wet cardboard day. I returned to LinkedIn to dig it up for you (see below).

Please be aware that I’m a huge fan of Adam Grant. I’ve secretly hoped for years that he would call me out of the blue and ask for my input (proving once and for all that I’ve made it in the world).

Adam Grant’s post on LinkedIn speaks to me in chakras.

“It’s not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots.²

The Adam Grant quote summed-up why drafts 1-4 were flat: they focused on facts. Sigh. Clearly, my heart chakra was toast / not operating as an effective bridge at all. (When chakras are healthy, the dots connect with ease.)

My heart chakra feels bombarded …

My heart chakra feels bombarded by triggers on a daily basis. While I clear my energy fairly regularly, general energy hygiene is not enough, as evidenced by the situation described above with the five drafts and how long it took me to realize my heart chakra was blocked. I have blind spots and my heart chakra needs my attention in a loving kindness sort of way.

How is your heart chakra holding up?

In talking with friends and clients, I’ve learned most of us feel bombarded by situations in the news and it’s difficult to set boundaries when the triggers are everywhere. Many feel that anger and hopelessness are close to the surface.

Do you feel that you’d benefit from nurturing your heart chakra? If the answer is yes (or even maybe), join the 4-day Heart chakra recharge.

4-day Heart chakra recharge ~ starts TODAY!

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