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It governs your life because it opens and closes in sync with human relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn about your spiritual heart chakra, what happens when it gets blocked, and how to release those blockages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Is Your Spiritual Heart<\/strong>?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Your spiritual heart is the chakra you\u2019re most familiar with from daily life. Your vibration depends on the state of your heart chakra:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When your spiritual heart is open, you can fall in love, feel inspiration, and feel enthusiasm. When it\u2019s closed, you can\u2019t.<\/li><li>When your spiritual heart gets hurt, you get angry.<\/li><li>When you feel you\u2019ve lost touch with your spiritual heart, you sense a desperate emptiness.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Your Spiritual Heart Closes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Your spiritual heart closes because it stores up and becomes blocked by unfinished energy patterns from your past. <\/strong>Your sensory experiences of external events are an intake of energy patterns. Your senses are like electronic devices that transmit these patterns into your inner world. Ideally, we would all live completely in the present and experience the flow of these incoming patterns as a gift, like a wonderful movie. We would let them flow through us without clinging or resisting. But instead, we get hung up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another example: You\u2019re feeling fine as you drive down the street, but then you notice a parked blue Mustang. It looks like your girlfriend\u2019s. You see two people hugging in the front seat. Your past programming for jealousy kicks in: Was that really your girlfriend hugging someone else? You\u2019ll never know, you\u2019ve already driven past. But now you\u2019re hung up on the thought and booted out of the present moment. Instead of seeing the street as you drive, you\u2019re fixating on the emotionally charged memory of that one visual impression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to Remain Open<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You don\u2019t have to live at the mercy of circumstances. You can choose to reject the lie that there\u2019s any energy you need to block.<\/strong> How much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/inner-energy\/\">inner energy<\/a> do you want? How much love and enthusiasm? It\u2019s yours for the taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Realize that you\u2019ll never become free by trying to protect yourself. Self-protection will only lock you inside with your darkness. Instead, become conscious of the part of you that\u2019s devoted to self-protection, and make the decision to give that up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learn to relax and release. <\/strong>Let go of the old, stored energies whenever they come up in the course of daily life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>First, notice your energy flow starting to tighten into anger, jealousy, or whatever it is.<\/li><li>Second, relax and remember yourself <em>as <\/em>the self, as the objective witness of the disturbance. Remember that your spiritual heart isn\u2019t you. Rather, you\u2019re the one who <em>experiences<\/em> your heart.<\/li><li>Third, use the opportunity to release the negative energy through non-reactiveness. Just let it flow through you and out of you.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To return to the previous example of the blue Mustang: Be happy and grateful when the sight of a blue Mustang brings back the old jealousy. Recognize this as an opportunity for healing. Allow yourself to fully experience everything that wants to flow through you, without clinging or resisting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Exercise: Open Your Heart<\/strong> Chakra<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This exercise leads you to become more acquainted with your heart chakra and its blockages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What are some typical situations where you feel your inner energy flow freely? (What situations tend to make you feel inspired, joyful, confident?)<\/li><li>What situations have become triggers for blocking your inner energy flow? 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