Everyone can feel their heart chakra. If you think not, just close your eyes and place your attention in the area of your heart. What is that? Living, throbbing, love energy, perhaps?

We relate to our heart chakras in different ways. Some relate happily with all this love energy. Some relate with fear.

I have been one to relate to my heart chakra with fear, which choked out most the love within me. I could still be aware of it, but the love was not strong compared to the fear cutting it off, obscuring its beauty. Not enough love got through to make a considerable difference in my life or in the lives of others around me.

I now feel the vibration of love expanding. Fear is being chased away.

Today’s affirmation: “I connect with the source of joy and know I am loved.”

We connect with joy through meditation. This joy comes through the heart chakra and is illuminated through the crown chakra. Meditate for joy, for peace, for happiness. And you will, without a doubt, know you are dearly loved by the Divinity that surrounds you and pervades your being.

With each interpersonal event comes an opportunity to share a bit of heartfelt love. Some people won’t appreciate that. They may accuse you of [inconsiderate] laughter because you cannot hide your joy — which manages to bubble up and surface — sometimes a bit inconveniently.

But be love-conscious anyway. When there’s a misunderstanding, hold the other’s spirit-self in mental embrace. Feed with the emotional nutrients of loving kindness.

Allow your Higher Self to be the expression of who you are. Playfulness bubbles up from a navel-level subconscious awareness of blissful reality, while Higher Self floods downward from the crown chakra like a waterfall of refreshing stability and cosmic-consciousness.

You may call your subconscious the Inner Child. The Higher Consciousness, your Angel Guide.

You are whole within yourself. Allow yourself to be conscious of your complete guidance system. Illumine the ego with love and it will cease to hold power over your emotions. Then your mind will be set free to do your Higher Consciousness work.

My path in this ephemeral, changing, evolving dense material world is one of love and the sharing of loving vibrations. An opening of the heart chakra — opening of arms, loving, clasping all humanity into my sphere of love, ever expanding, moving through situations and events with tranquil knowing that love always is, that joy permeates all, that hearts and minds can be healed to vibrate in the realm of divine presence.

I needed to loosen that last stronghold of ego, to allow that place in me to be permeated with love, to let go of the ego — that seat of wanting, desiring, craving, of not being satisfied with what is. That place of opinions for or against — that knot of judgment, which I have given over to the divine light of love.

Now I am sensitive to the lower vibration rumbling compared to the high vibe of loving bliss. To stay in that bliss is my goal — to be blissed out enough to share joy with whoever I come in contact with — so those who are able to perceive are blessed and those who aren’t may be affected in a way that may produce a later awareness that goodness does exist in this realm.

So many are confused — so very confused by the propensity and surroundingness of this dense material world. With that outside and the place of hard, harsh, wanting, desiring ego inside, they are confused and turned away from the beauty of love which is so evident and obvious once all outer distractions are put in their place.

There is only love — that’s what will last. That’s what we’ll take with us into any realm we traverse. The rest is ephemeral. A glittering, glistening desire for this or that material thing or pleasure — and once held, once achieved, what’s left but to turn the heart and mind to some other temporary thing?

Yet if the soul’s heart learns to share love — that will last from now to forever and in fact always has been, always will be.

I was reading a Reiki manual a few weeks ago and came across an exercise for creating energy spheres. Basically what we can do is turn on the Reiki, then slowly bring our palms together until we feel some resistance, then form the energy mass into a sphere.

Of course I had to try it, and sure enough, soon I had a sphere of energy about six inches in diameter. I played with it for a while, then decided to direct it into my heart chakra.

I could feel it going in, and then a moment later, realized I was feeling a most profound sensation of love and peace. The Reiki energy sphere had an amazing effect on that chakra, to the extent that I’ll never again feel that Reiki is anything but effective. I know it works, and works well, because of this amazing and unexpected experience I had.

After that I developed a new Reiki exercise routine for chakra balancing and healing. It is simply this - to create an energy sphere and send it into each chakra in turn, to heal and enhance the proper functioning of each chakra.

Today I gave Reiki to a friend whose shoulder was dislocated last winter as it is still causing him pain. While I was doing it I felt my hands tingling and before long, a great sphere of energy surrounded both my hands and his shoulder. I continued the Reiki, sensing deep inside his shoulder for the source of pain, knowing the Reiki (universal life energy, also known as chi) would go where it was needed. We will repeat the Reiki daily for a while as this condition is severe and not likely to go away immediately.

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Submitted to the Carnival of Healing #91, held at Wisdom of Healing.