Those who find themselves on a spiritual path, often seek to understand the chakra system. Chakra means wheel in Sanskrit and if you could see this wheel, it would look like the lens of a camera. This is important because the lens of a camera has a very specific way of opening: each ‘petal’ of the lens is separate, distinct and quite fragile. It opens by way of the ‘eye’ of that lens opening either a little or a lot. How and why the lens of any charka opens is a function of how an individual’s physical, mental, emotional and spiritual body functions as well as its overall state of health.
The human body literally has dozens of chakras in it, but the main ones people are familiar with are more readily understood to be in the hands and feet, the root or sexual area, the spleen area, the solar plexus [just under the breast bond] area, the heart, throat, third eye [in the middle of your forehead] and the crown chakra. There are others, but the focus of this discussion is the heart chakra.
Whether a person knows it or not, everyone is on a spiritual path. Some people are very aware of this and seek to understand all that they can. Often you will hear someone say that in order to become more ‘spiritual’ they need to open their heart chakra. Literally they are seeking to force open their heart chakra so that they can accelerate their progress on their spiritual path. The acceleration all of us feel in today’s world also permeates the world of the spiritual seeker, which is possibly why many very dear, very conscientious people feel this deep need to understand life, love and God more.
However, you cannot rush the spiritual life. To become spiritual, you have to be spiritual in each moment you are in and you have to allow all the aspects, elements, dimensions and facets of your body and your soul to come into balance with where you are seeking to be spiritually. This is a truly tall order for anyone. Rushing this process reverses at the worst, delays at the least, your progress on the spiritual path and one of the worst things anyone can do, is force open that heart charka.
Your heart charka is best described as a delicate rose bud, and this analogy is true for men and women. Any effort to force a rose bud to bloom, by manually pulling back the little green covering on the bud, or force feeding it fertilizer, or of over watering, or fussing with the bud will cause the bud to simply die and drop off. The rose bush itself, the body of the rose bud soul will just not produce another ‘soul offering’, until all the conditions are right for the production of another rose bud. Even then, the bud will not bloom until all the conditions for blooming are in perfect balance: there is the correct amount of food, water, warm enough air temperature and finally, the key ingredient for blossoming: light!
The opening of anyone’s heart charka is purely predicated on the amount of spiritual light that has entered that person’s heart combined with having all the other facets for opening in perfect balance. This means that physically the person can handle the flood of powerful [often tearful] emotion that comes when this charka is opened. Mentally, the person is wise enough to handle the information that can come with this action. Emotionally, the person is stable and balanced enough to withstand the powerful energy that will come to them. And finally, spiritually, the person has advanced enough to be able to use the knowledge and experience of an open, heart chakra compassionately, wisely and conservatively. Perhaps you can see now why none of this can be rushed.
Trust the process. When conditions are right, all of our hearts will open to the Divine, but this will not happen for all of us at the same time. It happens to us individually when conditions are just perfect, when we are ready on every level for the tremendous responsibility that comes with having that light of the Divine shine through us. Until that moment comes, offer your own beautiful soul the gift of patience with the process, the warmth of loving yourself, and the delight in your own unique spiritual journey.
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