In this post, we talk about what Anahata symbolizes and how to open and activate it.
We do all of this within the context of a kundalini awakening.
What is Kundalini & the Chakras?
Kundalini and the Chakras: Kundalini is symbolized as latent energy coiled at the base of the spine in Eastern spiritual traditions. The Chakras are seven energy centers along the spine, channeling life force energy. They play a crucial role in spiritual practices, representing different levels of consciousness.
Kundalini Awakening: A Kundalini Awakening is a transformative experience where dormant Kundalini energy rises through the Chakras. It can be triggered by meditation or spontaneously. This process leads to heightened consciousness, expanded awareness, and a connection with the universal consciousness. It involves intense physical and emotional sensations, fostering personal transformation and spiritual growth.
Check out Everything About Kundalini & the Chakras.
What does Anahata Chakra symbol mean?
Anahata is the heart center, which is characteristic of feeling, and represents the element of air, which is a characteristic of thought.
Understand that you need a heart to have feelings, and without feelings you don’t have courage.
In regards to thought, there are sayings like take it to heart, where you can learn something intellectually, but you won’t keep it on mind unless you take it to heart.
This is why the most important lessons are the ones that hurt.
It’s also why the importance of thoughts and values become clearer to us when we consider them as compelling forces in our lives.
When you cross the diaphragm in the chakra system, you have reached anahata:
Anahata is where you begin to recognize values, ideas, and it’s where psychical facts begin. These psychical ideas and convictions aren’t met with natural sciences.
Purusha is the essence of an ideal being, through the psychical substance that is thought, values, and fellings. Purusha is first seen in anahata.
You can recognize purusha in another person by their authentic ideas and feelings.
This is the first signs of being within your psychical and psychological existence. It is not you—it is contained within you and it is greater and more important than you, but it has an entirely psychical existence. That which cannot be weighed, but can be pondered—such as popularity and mental illness.
Any great motivation or movement of a human being has always started for psychical reasons.
Something constellated, the stars aligned, and the time has simply come when something had to happen for unknown psychical reasons.
How To Open & Activate Anahata
Anahata is activated when we speak content that causes us positive or negative feelings that come from the heart.
From the sthula aspect, the Indian culture is in muladhara where the western culture has reached anahata. Keep in mind that India looks at humanity from the sukshma aspect, and comes from a standpoint that is reverse of western culture.
The chakras are symbols of the levels of consciousness and they can be represented by three sections of the body:
- Muladhara and Swadhisthana (Lower Centers)
- Manipura and Anahata (Diaphragm)
- Vishuddha and Ajna (Head)
The lower centers are attributions of the primitive functions, that which is instinctive, unconscious actions and motivations, and participation mystique for timely bonding.
The diaphragm contains manipura, the emotional being who is a victim of their passions, and anahata, the heart that is the beginning of sense of self and the rational thinking soul.
In western thought, we believe we think in the head ajna by default, but plenty of other cultures side-eye this assumption. Instead many cultures identify both their thinking and sense of self as coming from the heart.
The head is where we speak our ideas and abstractions from. The vishuddha speaks the word, that is connected to the entire body up to this point.
In western thought, we are convinced we are masters of ourselves, that our thoughts come from us, that the brain in the head carries the psyche—when in actuality, there are neural passageways all across the body, meaning the brain is actually the body. We don’t have ideas, ideas have us.
The belly is your God because it’s where the sense of self and rationale to do more and be more originates; the greek term thumos is “fire in the belly”, the motivation that drives action to be who we see ourselves to be.
Kundalini is the driving force that pushes our consciousness through these chakra stages. Kundalini also represents the sun serpent that rises from the night of muladhara. These journeys are the days of our life—until we realize that it’s all one experience encapsulating infinite.
How to Balance Anahata Chakra
Anahata is the heart and many cultures, unlike Americans, believe we think from the heart. In this sense, anahata is the center of our feelings, thoughts, and consciousness. Each of these are expressed through the breath in the form of the sound we make with speech.
Understand that many people have no idea what they are saying, or doing to others, with the thoughts and feelings they speak. In modern culture, depending on context, this is called word salad or yapping.
Because of this, anahata is only the beginning of self and the building blocks of consciousness.
When we speak, we use speech that give life to our words. Our words are associated with wind and spirit, because we see it only by its affect on things.
Hence the “Spirit of Deception”, where we speak a lie and it takes a life of its own. Haunting others with its distortion and damaging reality.
Understand that the great intuitions did not come about through thinking. The deepest intuitions, or creative powers, come from the heart.
Within every center lies a physical and meta-physical, a psychical and meta-psychical.
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