GREEN
green was the silence, wet was the light, and the month of June trembled like a butterfly…
With its etymology in growth, green stands for hope and pushing through darkness and discouragement. It is a secondary color on the color wheel, but a dominant color in nature. Said to be the most relaxing to look at, green is a color of harmony, tranquility and peace. Going outside and being surrounded by it can almost instantly lower blood pressure. It can symbolize a start as in a greenlight and a completion as in a check. It indicates stability, endurance and balance.
In our subtle bodies, green corresponds with our heart center - trust, generosity and gratitude.
SUBTLE BODY
Heart Chakra (Anahata)
The fourth chakra, the Heart or Anahata, is Sanskrit for “infinite” or “boundless.” The heart is the first of the four “higher” chakras, where we begin to move out of the realm of our physical needs and into more spiritual parts of our being, including connection and unconditional love. An open heart allows us to let go of hurts from the past and to enjoy intimacy freely - to communicate with empathy, to forgive easily, and to love without expectation.
Location: center of the chest, at the heart center
Key Concepts: love, trust, compassion, empathy, connection
Energy: Love
Actions + Mantras: I LOVE.
I LOVE MYSELF.
I LOVE FREELY.
I AM LOVED.
I AM WORTHY OF LOVE.
I VALUE ALL BEINGS EQUALLY.
I AM IN HARMONY WITH MYSELF AND OTHERS.
I DESERVE THE LOVE I RECEIVE.
Sense: Touch. Feel.
Sensory Organs: Skin + hands
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SOUNDS
Musical Key: F
Anāhata by Osel (Medicine Buddha Mantra album, Track 6). Purchase here. Stream here.
Adoratherapy, Playlist of Songs for your Heart Chakra. Listen on Spotify here.
Meditative Mind HEART CHAKRA Sound Bath: bathe in this sound here.
Corresponding Mantra Sound: YAM - listen to the sound here.
NATURE + MOVEMENT
Physical Element: Air
Foods: lettuce, spinach, kale, mint, green pepper, cucumber, celery
Activities to balance your Heart Chakra: Create a daily practice of gratitude. Journal all of the things you are grateful for in the day - anything is fair game, nothing too big, nothing too small. Place your palms together in gratitude at heart's center, or place your hands - skin to skin - on your chest at heart’s center and allow yourself to experience gratitude, for yourself, for loved ones, for anything at all. Allow yourself to notice the physical sensations of your heartbeat and the rising and falling of your chest with each breath, as well as the emotional sensation of both loving and being loved.
Yoga Postures: Bhujangasana (cobra pose), Marjariasana (cat pose), Matsyasana (fish pose), Anahatasana (melting heart / puppy pose)
Colleen Parker
POEM: Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.