Getting with what works for you. Integrate, forgive, compassion to free up from the stuckness vibration. Jump into the vastness of the void, that contains All There Is.

So much cosmic and solar activity coming in now to light up up the way.
It has the heart chakra filling up, but there is a need now, not to react but to respond.
Responsibility is the ability to respond, with awareness.
Sometimes we 'feel' the 'incoming energy as different, and we panic as the filters through which we feel, triggers the ego back into defence mode, when we let the ego run the show from its tiny frame of reference, the smallness is like the guardian of the gates, in which we 'cannot' accept anything that is either different from our beliefs, or we feel any new 'sensation' through the small list of available sensations such as pain, hot, cold, soft, hard, we do not have access to the dormant 'inner' sensory equipment that can relate to and align with the vast array of 'incoming' solar and cosmic energies.

This is because we have separated ourselves, or blinded ourselves, from our inner cosmic nature, and do not see our connection with 'all things', we do not see that we are fractals of the All That Is, of all dimensions and so we have succumbed to focus on a single point, of a stuck polarised state on the Larger spectrum of What We Are and forget that we can and do, fluctuate along this spectrum, feeling all and everything in between, all dimensions. But what we get stuck in believing,  is from a small list of readily available instances which we use to reinforce we are held in a small resonance of stuckness, and disempowerment.

Shake it up, do things different from the routine, to show how you can move from routine thoughts and actions. Which will help open the doors to the full spectrum. Bit by bit.

To do this we go within, and enter through our very own back door 'to the cosmic, All THERE IS'  it is simply by using the door in the heart that opens into the void, or the bliss of the All that Is which contains All there is.
Michaela. Or to put it another way...

The more the Heart Centre opens, the more strongly and deeply we feel the spiritual pain – but we can rest assured that it will finally dissolve in the light of love and wisdom. Therefore we should not forget to keep the door of our heart open. Because when we keep the heart closed for fear of further injuries, we simultaneously block our feelings and prevent them from being assimilated or expressed.

In the Chandogya Upanishad it is written:

“In the centre of the body there is a little shrine surrounded by a wall with eleven doors. Hidden within the shrine a Lotus blossoms, and within this there is a tiny, little room.”

What does this tiny room in the heart of the Lotus mean? It is the Ātmā, our true Self. The Ātmā is a part of God. It is pure, unchanging, Infinite Consciousness. It is Eternal, Unborn and Immortal, and exists in every living being. Just as the whole tree is already contained and present within a seed, the essence of the entire cosmos exists in the centre of the Heart Chakra. Admittedly, we are unable to see it – even if the heart is dissected and examined under a microscope we are unable to track down this “tiny room within the Lotus of the heart”.

The Jīvātmā lives joyfully in the liberated feeling of divine love and heavenly bliss when it has found its way to its true Self in the Anāhata Chakra. Bhakti Yogis, especially, who follow the path of devotion to God, linger here for a very long time. In the infinite space of the heart they are constantly discovering something new, fascinating and attractive. But the Heart Chakra is not the final goal. That is why it is necessary to continue along the path towards knowledge of God and God-Realisation in accordance with the teachings of Gyāna Yoga.

During a journey by rail we travel through different landscapes. We enjoy the scenes of lovely villages, woods, meadows, mountains and lakes – but we let them pass us by without stopping because we want to reach our goal. And in exactly the same way we should continue our journey through the Chakras and regard the Anāhata Chakra as one station only out of many along the way, without allowing the delightful feelings, visions and fantasies that we meet here to stop us.

Anāhata means “infinite” and “continuous”. In the Anāhata Chakra we hear Anāhata Nāda, the constant, fundamental sound of the Universe, the eternal vibration of the Self. Its sound is SO HAM – “That I am, I am That”. We perceive it as a subtle rhythmic melody similar to a heartbeat, but much softer and more wonderful.

The poet, Srī Kabīrdās, was inspired by this melody within the heart to write the following verse:

“The flute of the infinite is played without ending, and its sound is love.
When love renounces all boundaries it arrives at the truth.”

To perceive the sound of the Self, unbroken contemplation connected with very fine conscious awareness is essential. We are able to experience this when we are conscious of the Mantra SO HAM day and night without interruption. With every breath, therefore at least 21,000 times in 24 hours, the sound of SO HAM resounds within us. The stream of the breath produces the sound SO with the inhalation and HAM with the exhalation. But if we lose contact for just one breath the sound of the Anāhata again disappears.

On one hand we experience delightful, happy feelings in the Anāhata Chakra, but on the other hand it is extremely easy to become unbalanced in this Chakra. If the mind and consciousness are not pure, misleading thoughts and feelings, fixed ideas and complexes that affect us physically and psychically arise in the Anāhata Chakra. Deep in the hear we come across numerous unprocessed experiences and Karmas from the past, which are resting in the subconscious.

All of us carry deep and painful wounds of disappointment within ourselves. Spiritual wounds are far more difficult to heal than physical ones. They can easily be ripped open again and drag us down into a whirlpool of emotions. In such a situation it is best to withdraw from the external world for a short while and reflect inwardly. In this way we can gather fresh strength, and with the help of Gyāna (wisdom) again find inner balance.

The more the Heart Centre opens, the more strongly and deeply we feel the spiritual pain – but we can rest assured that it will finally dissolve in the light of love and wisdom. Therefore we should not forget to keep the door of our heart open. Because when we keep the heart closed for fear of further injuries, we simultaneously block our feelings and prevent them from being assimilated or expressed.

This is why the Āgyā Chakra should be developed hand in hand with the Anāhata Chakra so that emerging feelings can be analysed and controlled by Viveka (discrimination) and Buddhi (intellect) – not by harsh criticism or reproaches but with loving understanding and insight, which heal and resolve. In the Anāhata Chakra we are able to expand our feelings into infinity, but in the Āgyā Chakra we raise them to a higher level of consciousness.

To open the Anāhata Chakra in the spiritual sense means the realisation of all-embracing divine love, free from the capriciousness of worldly emotions.

When the life force flows within us unhindered and harmoniously, we feel light-hearted and happy. Happiness means to be in complete balance. When we are free of fear and tension the Heart Chakra opens and imparts pleasant feelings and inner strength. This strength heals the inner wounds and allows us to forget the pain and unpleasantness of the past.

But, unfortunately, this feeling of happiness is transitory. It relates only to the physical and psychic levels. We do, in fact, experience Ānanda (bliss), but still lack Sat (truth, reality) and Chit (consciousness) . In the heart we are able to perceive our inner reality and the beauty of the Self, but we are unable to maintain this state permanently. In these fleeting moments of bliss we are always conscious that we still have not reached our goal. However, we should not be disheartened as the day will certainly come when we will be permanently established in the divine Self, then we can never again be frightened or hurt.