The Heart Chakra

Anahata (Unstruck)

Sat Nam, welcome in.

All you need is love — this is true — but for love to go out, it has to come in first.

I believe to love is innate: romantic love, parental love, sibling love.

But to love another? That’s directly proportional to how much you can love yourself.

If we’ve been taught that love must arrive under conditions,

we learn we can only give love under conditions.

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What Remains When the Past Dies

Which part of you or me, shaped by trauma or scarcity, still lives?

That version is gone — every cell is replaced across time.

So when we suffer, we suffer from memory.

Why heal the heart chakra? Because the peace life promises lives there.

When you cannot love yourself, loving others becomes another way to beg.

It drives us to service — to human doing — because we hope

that by helping others, we’ll correct what was never ours to fix.

But until that heart opens, every higher teaching—intuition, wisdom, unity—feels fake.

If the heart rules the head, all is well.

If the head rules the heart, both ache.

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This Work Is Human

Loving yourself as you are is not lazy.

It’s revolutionary.

In meditation, you rest in that love.

You don’t chase perfection.

You just be.

The hardest lessons are often the easiest to explain.

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A Heart-Opening Meditation

Tune in: mentally say “I bow to the divine teacher within”

or “Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo” — three times.

Sit comfortably. Spine long, heart open; relax chin, shoulders.

Palms rest in your lap or on your knees.

Breathe only through the nose.

Take long, slow breaths: belly → throat → inhale.

Suspend lightly, then exhale fully.

Do this for ~3 minutes — no timer needed.

Radiate love from your chest, however you feel it — even if you have to fake it.

Then begin a counted breath:

Inhale 5 / hold 5 / exhale 5.

Keep the count steady.

As you grow, lengthen the count — but keep the balance.

If you can, reach a count of 10 — then do five of those breaths.

You’ll end up doing ~2 breaths per minute.

Finish with a long inhale, suspend, exhale, and relax.

Sit afterward, in quiet, without judgment — contemplate how your breath and your heart carried you through it.

Self-love is a practice.

Over time, it becomes more natural.

You will make a home within your body.

You will reconnect mind, emotion, and flesh.

Your body is the living, moving poetry of your emotions.

And what is not to love?

You — simply you — are such a gift to this earth.

Sat Nam, thanks for watching.

— Andrea Fiondo