Chakra Healing • Heart Chakra Healing • Reiki Master • How to Give a Heart Chakra Healing

Your Heart Chakra is the center of emotional truth, connection, and love. It holds your deepest feelings—joy, grief, compassion, trust, forgiveness, and the quiet longing to be seen and understood. A Heart Chakra Healing frees your emotions, helping you release old pain, soothe the nervous system, and reconnect with the loving, open, courageous part of yourself.

When your Heart Chakra is balanced, emotions flow naturally and safely. You feel lighter, more peaceful, and more available to yourself and the people you love. Healing the heart restores your ability to give and receive love, trust again, form healthy relationships, and feel the beauty and meaning of your life.

The heart feels before the mind interprets. That’s why Heart Chakra Healing creates emotional freedom—it loosens the grip of old wounds, softens defensive walls, and allows you to breathe more deeply and live more fully. As the center of human connection, the Heart Chakra helps you understand yourself, feel empathy for others, and respond to life with compassion instead of fear. A healthy Heart Chakra allows emotions to move through you rather than get stuck inside you, which is why this healing is essential for emotional well-being, relationship healing, and spiritual growth.

All chakras support your physical, emotional, and mental health—but the Heart Chakra’s ability to love is your superpower. Psychology Today highlights that love is a biological force that improves mood, strengthens immunity, and supports longevity. Studies from HeartMath Institute show that heart-centered emotions like gratitude and compassion generate electrical power 5,000 times stronger than the brain, creating measurable coherence that improves decision-making, emotional balance, and overall vitality.

Opening your heart gives you access your higher intelligence—creativity, intuition, broader comprehension, and spiritual clarity. Heart-Brain Coherence, a state where the heart and brain work in harmony, opens spiritual awareness and allows healing energy to flow through you. This coherence is what enables many Reiki Masters and Energy Healers to channel Divine love, higher states of intelligence, and profound healing abilities for themselves and others.

“I so appreciate Rodrigo Ortiz’s work. I have worked with him to help a loved one rebalance in life. His clear heart and deep compassion fuel an energetic process that opens the inner pathways to heal the human heart and liberate the soul.” — CAROL F

Heart Chakra Location and Purpose

Location: Center of the chest over your physical heart

Shape: Funnel-shaped vortex of light, with petals and energetic tubules

Color: Emerald green

Endocrine Gland: Thymus Gland, supports immune function and vitality

Core Right: To right to give and receive love with openness and compassion

Your Heart Chakra is the energetic center of love, connection, compassion, and emotional truth. It metabolizes the energy of love itself—transforming your emotional experiences into healing, wisdom, and personal growth. Because the heart contains its own neural network (“the heart brain”), it can think, feel, learn, remember, and communicate with the brain and nervous system.

A balanced Heart Chakra strengthens your immune system, stabilizes emotions, and supports your body’s ability to heal. But when the heart becomes overwhelmed by old emotional pain, the chakra contracts—making it hard to receive love, trust others, or feel safe.

Between ages 3 to 7 years, children become more self-aware and begin to name and control their emotions as their Heart Chakra forms. Empathy begins to bud as they start interpreting others’ emotions at 6-7 years. (Psychology Today) Empathy turns to compassion as we mature.

Many people, especially women, give love freely yet struggle to receive support. This creates emotional imbalance and can unintentionally push others away. Healing the Heart Chakra restores this natural exchange—allowing love to flow both outward and inward again.

❤️ 1. The Heart Chakra Processes Emotional Energy

The Heart Chakra is your emotional center. Joy, compassion, love, grief, heartbreak, forgiveness, and betrayal all move through this chakra.

• When it’s balanced, emotions flow gently and naturally.
• When it’s blocked, emotions get stuck—creating tension, heaviness, anxiety, emotional shutdown, or overwhelm.

Healing this chakra allows emotions to move through you instead of living inside you.

❤️ 2. The Heart Chakra Is the Bridge Between the Lower and Higher Chakras

Your Heart Chakra is the meeting point between the human self and the spiritual self.

Lower chakras: safety, survival, identity, personal power
Upper chakras: intuition, insight, spiritual connection, Divine alignment

The Heart Chakra blends them into one harmonious system:

• Physical experience (sensations, safety, emotions)
• Emotional experience (connection, vulnerability, empathy)
• Spiritual experience (Divine love, compassion, higher purpose)

This is why emotions often feel both physical (tight chest, racing heart) and spiritual (longing, gratitude, devotion).

A balanced Heart Chakra helps you feel love as both a human emotion and a spiritual force. You live from compassion and emotional wisdom. as you open your Heart.

This is why true transformation begins at the heart. When the Heart Chakra opens, happier life experiences begin to come with greater ease and grace your entire energy system aligns with love, truth, and inner harmony.

💚 3. How the Heart Chakra Is Where the Body and Spiritual Self Meet

Your Heart Chakra is the energetic doorway where physical life and spiritual wisdom unite.

• Your body brings emotions, sensations, memories, and lived experience.
• Your spirit brings higher love, compassion, understanding, and Divine connection.

When your Heart Chakra is open, you don’t just understand spiritual truths—you feel them. You begin living your spirituality through kindness, courage, forgiveness, gratitude, and emotional presence.

❤️ 4. The Heart Chakra Helps You Regulate Emotions

A balanced Heart Chakra allows you to:

• Stay calm in conflict
• Feel compassion without absorbing others’ emotions
• Forgive more easily
• Communicate with kindness
• Receive love without fear
• Make choices aligned with your heart

Because the Heart Chakra interfaces with the vagus nerve and the parasympathetic nervous system, it helps your body shift out of stress and into emotional safety—your healing state.

“When searching for Reiki near me, I’m thankful to have discovered Wendy Wisner and Radiant You. I’ve had experience with chakra healing but am new to Reiki and Intuitive Energy Healing. Wendy is kind and intuitive, uses individualized techniques for what you need, and truly cares about those she works with. Highly recommend!” – JAMIE T.

Body Parts that Get Energy from the Heart Chakra

The Heart Chakra influences your heart and cardiovascular system, including Blood, oxygenation, circulation. It also infuses energy to your lungs and breath, thymus gland and immune function as well as your vagus nerve that provides emotional regulation. 

Opening your Heart Chakra is a fast way to speed up your spiritual journey.

Your heart is the largest generator of electromagnetic energy in the body—producing a field measurable several feet beyond the body. It also produces neurotransmitter feel-good brain chemicals normally attributed to the brain, such as Oxytocin (“bonding hormone”), Dopamine (“pleasure hormone”), Adrenaline, and ANF (atrial peptide that regulates blood pressure and stress). (Institute for Intuitive Intelligence)

🧠 Your heart truly has a brain.

According to HeartMath Institute research, positive heart-based emotions like appreciation and love increase:

• Emotional stability
• Cognitive clarity
• Intuition
• Creativity
• Problem-solving
• Energy levels
• Overall well-being

“I had a significant improvement in resting heart rate (down from 58 to 53 ) and heart rate variability and overall readiness up 10% as measured by my Oura ring. Immediately after the session I felt a marked difference in my inner peace. Wendy Wisner mends body and soul.” — BOYKIN W

Symptoms of a Blocked Heart Chakra

When the Heart Chakra becomes blocked, unresolved emotions store in this chakra—grief, heartbreak, betrayal, loneliness, resentment, or feeling “closed off.” These emotional patterns can show up as tension in the chest, trouble trusting others, or difficulty connecting deeply in relationships.

The Heart Chakra Stores Emotional Memory—especially from childhood, including fear of abandonment. Self-protective behaviors such as people-pleasing, overwhelmed, or avoiding deep connections by being guarded, resentful, or numb or closed off. An inability to maintain healthy long-term love relationships certainly signals a closed Heart Chakra.

Develop Your Heart Chakra

Simple practices open and nourish the Heart Chakra:

• Give yourself Reiki
• Breathe deeply as you touch to bring your focus to your heart
• Think of someone or a pet who brings you genuine joy or love
• Listen to uplifting music
• Watch something that makes you laugh
• Practice gratitude

Joy and love are medicine for the heart.

How to Give Yourself a Heart Chakra Healing

Reiki or Energy Healing for the Heart Chakra

Give yourself or receive Reiki—from the top of your head to your toes. Spend extra time with the Heart Chakra and brain to synchronize the connections. Then ground the energy firmly at the end. The soothing energy helps you feel safe and gives you the ability to open your heart.

Give yourself a Thymus Thump, gently tapping on your chest just above the heart shifts your brain into coherence, decreasing stress and anxiety instantly. You will also boost your immunity.

Breathe deeply as you meditate, listening with focus to your heart.

Sound Healing for the Heart Chakra

The Heart Chakra vibrates to the musical note F, making an F-tuned crystal singing or Tibetan bowl one of the most effective sound tools for heart healing. Its pure tones dissolve emotional tension, soothe grief, and open the energetic pathways for compassion, forgiveness, and connection.

Chanting or toning the mantra YAM—drawn out gently—opens the chest and clears emotional blockages.

A tuning fork tuned to 136.10 Hz. sends calming vibrations through the vagus nerve and parasympathetic nervous system. This promotes emotional safety, relaxation, and openness. Use by placing the fork on the sternum or the thymus area.

Foods and Colors to Support the Heart Chakra

Eat green foods such as leafy vegetables like spinach, kale, dandelion greens. Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, green grapes, green apple, cucumbers, apples, limes, guava and kiwi. Enjoy green spices such as basil, thyme, and cilantro. Green tea.

Crystals for Throat Chakra Healing

Crystals that support the Heart Chakra help soften emotional pain, open the heart to love, and restore emotional balance. Rose Quartz nurtures compassion, forgiveness, and self-love, while Green Aventurine encourages emotional renewal and confidence. Malachite draws out old heart wounds and supports deep transformation, and Emerald strengthens unconditional love and connection. Rhodonite helps release grief and resentment, and Pink Tourmaline brings comfort, joy, and emotional safety. During meditation, place a crystal over the center of your chest, hold one while you breathe deeply, or keep them near your bed or in your pocket to gently support Heart Chakra healing throughout the day.

Affirmations to Support Your Heart Chakra Healing

I love and receive love with ease.

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About Wendy Wisner: Your Reiki Master & Intuitive Energy Healer

Wendy Wisner is an Intuitive, Spiritual Healer, Jin Kei Do and Usui Reiki Master, and educator. She runs Radiant You, a holistic wellness center, that offers Reiki and other types of energy healing as well as Reiki Master, Intuitive Energy Healer, and Energy Clearing certification programs. Wendy blends energy healing with Divine insights to guide your release of limiting beliefs to heal your body and emotional wounds from trauma. With Wendy, you reignite your passion for life as you rediscover the radiant you within—healing your emotions and relationships.

With expertise in Reiki, Chakra Healing, Intuitive Energy Healing, Sound Healing, Energy Clearing, Psychic Spiritual Readings, Dowsing, and Access Bars, Wendy empowers clients to heal themselves and others.

Restore your belief that, “I’ve got this” with Wendy Wisner or Rodrigo Ortiz as your Reiki Master, Intuitive Energy Healer, or teacher to heal yourself and others. Rodrigo provides healing in English and Spanish. If you first language was Spanish, consider this to unlock those childhood traumas in the language they were created. Both Rodrigo Ortiz and Wendy Wisner are Reiki Masters in the Usui Shiri Hyoo and Reiki Jin Kei Do traditions.

All services complement allopathic medical and psychological care provided by traditional healthcare practitioners.

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