The heart chakra is located at the center of the chest. The color it is associated with is a vibrant emerald green.

This chakra is the physical locus of the energy of unconditional love and compassion. Focusing on this chakra will help you stimulate this vibration within yourself. By stimulating this vibration within, you can learn to access compassion, acceptance and objectivity in your daily life. These are the qualities we need to open to if we are to live from a spiritual level of wholeness.

You can stimulate this energy very simply by focusing on this part of your body and imagining an expansion of emerald green light as you breathe deeply. Energy flows with inner direction and intention. Ask inwardly to open to the vibration of love and compassion. Trust that your inner spirit will understand the request and act upon it.

Think of this exercise in centering like any other kind of exercise. The muscle of your intention to center may be weak to start with but as you use it the muscle of your love and compassion becomes very strong. You can then stand in the strength and softness of your love.