The Heart Chakra is the located in the heart and the center from which feelings of love emanate. The Heart Chakra is also associated with other pure emotions like joy, happiness, honesty, respect, compassion, understanding and generosity and with loving anyone in a sincere way without any ego. This is the Chakra that connects us with the people whom we love and the bond becomes very strong as long as the Chakra is effective.

The Heart Chakra is associated with color green or pink. It is physically located at the center of the chest. The Chakra initaiates loving relationships and the situations like divorce or separation, grief at death, emotional abuse, abandonment, adultery are so painful for us as the Heart Chakra get imbalanced. This is also connected with physical illness, which requires emotional healing also. One should learn to develop self-love as the first step of developing a healthy fourth Chakra.

The purpose of Heart Chakra is emotional empowerment. The spiritual lesson it gives is forgiveness, unconditional love, trust, and compassion. When the Chakra is imbalanced it causes many physical disfunctions of heart conditions, asthma, lung and breast cancers, thoracic spine, pneumonia and problems in upper back and shoulder. The mental and emotional factors that deal with the Heart Chakra are love, compassion, confidence, generosity, inspiration, hope, despair, hate, envy, jealousy, anger and fear etc. The information it stores within it is connection to those whom we love. The area and organs of the body governed by Heart Chakra is heart, circulatory system, blood, lungs, rib cage, thymus, diaphragm, esophagus, breasts, arms, shoulders and hands. The exercises like pushing ups, swimming (breast stroke) and self-hugging stimulate the Heart Chakra. There are many foods that fuel this fourth Chakra. The list includes leafy vegetables like spinach, kale, dandelion greens, etc; Air vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, squash, etc.; liquids like green tea and spices involves basil, sage, thyme, cilantro, parsley.

Many Gemstones like Malachite, Emerald, Rose Quartz and flower essences like Holly, Poppy, California Wild Rose stimulate, cleanse and energize the heart chakra.