Chakra help please

Awesome, many thanks. I'll give it a go.

Hi Seeker -

Your honesty and ability to post these words to a forum shows you are much more emotionally aware than most.  Of course, the first step in healing, is asking for help.

Here are my quick thoughts that may or may not be helpful to you.

The Emotional center (commonly called Heart Chakra or the Sexual Source) is basically the hub for the centers of the soul-body connection (including the Emotional, Motor and Intellectual centers).  What is known as the Magnet center, can be present - and if so, then acts as the real spiritual hub for the soul - but before the Magnet center can take root, the Emotional center must be mastered.  Here are a few practices to build a healthy balance for one's emotional experience:

Honesty
Being (intellectually and emotionally) honest with oneself and one's peers can have a big impact on one's emotional well-being.

Forgiveness
Stemming almost purely from the Emotional Center, offering unyielding forgiveness to oneself and one's peers also leads to a strengthened faith (or Emotional Center).

Alone-time
By far the most underdeveloped people - fully souled and emotionally speaking - have a frantic time being alone.  A healthy walk in the woods, or quiet time in the library can do wonders for one's emotional relationships.

Meditation
If one is inclined towards being alone, meditation is by far the most intentional means towards aligning one's centers.  This could be a time for processing of experience and asking for divine assistance.  In general, the more lesson's one can learn during still meditation, the less traumatic the lessons will be that are introduced into experience - such as life events, personal relationships, accidents, etc.

Group Encounters
Many people are afraid or concerned with group experiences.  Emotional development can be made while in group discussions, meetings, or prayer circles.  There is emotional exchange during such encounters that can challenge and stimulate one's emotional center that can only rarely occur in isolation.

Passion
Basically, living one's life in accordance with one's passion or in alignment with one's intuited path leads towards emotional strength and vitality.  This is easier said than done, and requires much ground work.

These are just some of my thoughts at the moment.  Again, your willingness to share this, Seeker, should be commended.

I would add acceptance to cameron's list. The other day I walked several hours in a crowd and just observed people on a soul level without judging them, just being aware of their inner beauty. After a while I could feel so much energy in my heart that I felt like crying. It was wonderful.

A few suggestion: meditating on a rose quartz crystal or at least carrying it around really helps. If meditating on it try 'merging consciousness' with it, almost 'becoming it'.

Force yourself to smile, smile and smile again, within reason of course (Act like you already are in order to be)

Try watching girly-romantic comedies, "Sleepless in Seattle" works every time for me (blushes)

plus some Yogic deep breathing exercises and pranayama obviously!

Man, my whole life I have been a gusher.  Now, to consider stories of people finding it novel to cry at a film, etc. when this has been something I've been trying to pull back on....and here are people trying to open into it.....Interesting polarities.

Can your heart Chakra be too open?  I think mine was.  I attracted feeders, and with my naive belief that all people are fully-souled and have empathy, it took me way too long to fight them off.  I was confused.  How can they be so insensitive, so cruel?  It would really knock me down.

It is embarassing to look at my foolish ways!

I hadn't learned that it was okay to protect myself by saying NO to them.  This sounds so simple, but it was a big thing for me to learn.  I was "not allowed" to say no as a child because I played the game of nursing my parents emotions and trying to keep them happy.  I had to learn to give up that silly game.  This pattern had bled into my other relationships and didn't make anyone happy in the end.

I had to learn a lot more about the benefits of confrontation and self-protecting.  I also had to see that hubris and pride supported my delusion:  "I don't need anything, it's those people who have problems!"

Now I am starting to enter a better state.

Reiki healing is helpful to me....but it sounds like SEEKER has already discovered some good techniques.

That Astral Pulse site looks good.....