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The Chakras are energy vortices of the energy body that comprise part of the energy system. When perfectly open and balanced, one is lead to the experience of a harmonious reality, connection to the Oneness in everything, and ultimately to union with the Divine Consciousness.
Anahata and Health Issues
Our heart forms part of the circulatory system. It is a hollow muscle that pumps oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to all parts of the body. By the time someone is in their seventies, their heart will have beaten some 3000 million times! At a biological level, blood has three major functions: it conveys water, food and oxygen and all forms of prana, it removes waste products through the kidneys, liver and lungs and it carries important parts of the immune system.
Associated Body System
Unfortunately, many people suffer from medically diagnosed heart disease, such as a disturbance of their heart rhythm, muscular, valvular and aortic disease infections. Heart disease is a cause of death in countries with an affluent Western-type lifestyle. However, doctors are beginning to acknowledge that heart disease is not just a physical issue. High blood pressure can be an initial sign of underlying of underlying mental strain, often caused by bottled-up stress, anger or frustration.
The health of the physical heart improves if we release past traumas and emotional pain and do not try to judge others. Sexual issues in particular need to be processed through the Base and Sacral Chakras. When they get mixed up with the heart centre, which naturally gyrates towards unconditional love, great confusion occurs.
Alternative complementary treatments can go a long way to balance the whole body-mind system and restore health. For example, if you consult a trained healer, he or she might detect that the Heart Chakra is seriously out of balance. The healer may find a predominance of red energy, indicating a predisposition to a physical heart problem that could be rectified before it manifests itself. Depending on the symptoms presenting at the physical level, a healer may be guided to re-balance Anahata using green light (either with an instrument or psychically). They might then move the red energy - symbolic of repressed anger - back down to the Base Chakra, where is could be worked with and eliminated.
Associated Endocrine Gland
The endocrine gland associated with the heart chakra is the thymus gland which initiates the movement of the body’s defences during illness and injury.
Source: The Chakra Bible by Patricia Mercier
