Heart Chakra - Love

I wasn’t raised religious at all, but when I was young I was always intrigued by religion, and had an attraction to the spiritual world.

This interest grew and evolved over the years, and eventually my adventures seeking deeper knowledge and understanding of myself, the world, other people, and other cultures ultimately lead me to the spiritual path of healing that I walk now.

It is because I was willing to travel through the darkest places, that I have an understanding and an ability to work with the light. The deeper you are willing to meet yourself, the more deeply you are able to meet the world.

This passage from the Bible was always one that I loved, and I think it speaks really beautifully to awakening our Heart Chakra energy:

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

To explore this energy a little deeper - create a list of all the things in your life that you’re grateful for