The heart is our feeling center - the space where we feel joy, love, pleasure, and deep compassion. But just as it opens us to bliss, it also where we feel sorrow, heartbreak, jealousy, and pain. To fully activate the heart, to truly live from this space, we must be willing to feel everything - the light and the dark, the joy and the pain.
The heart is the bridge between our physical and spiritual selves. When we live in the lower energy centers, we are rooted in the self, in ego. But Tantra teaches us to move that energy upwards into love, wisdom, and divine connection. When we open our hearts fully, we recognise that we are not separate, but deeply intertwined with all beings, the earth, and the collective. And when we heal ourselves, we ripple that healing out into the world.
However, because feeling everything can be overwhelming, we build walls around our hearts to keep all those yucky feelings at bay. We shut down, numb out, and disconnect - thinking we are protecting ourselves. B…
