Heart chakra crystals can be a powerful tool in your healing journey. You might be thinking, why is healing our heart chakra important? I am so happy you asked!
Heart Chakra
This is important because our heart chakra governs many aspects of self that people struggle with in today’s world. This is especially true for many people that struggle with food and body image.
Our heart chakra governs our ability and capacity to give and receive love, compassion, find acceptance for ourselves and others and living in a state of balance. It also governs our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world around us. I hope you can see now why this chakra is so important to heal!
Before we dive into how heart chakra crystal can be of service to you, let’s do some self-exploration.
Heart Chakra Imbalances
If you’re reading this and struggle with body image and food, I invite you to take a moment and think about the next few questions. The will help you better understand that state of your heart chakra. If you feel called to journal about these questions, please allow your thoughts and feelings to flow.
What arises at the thought of loving yourself and/or your body?
Do you feel others can love you as you are right now?
Do you struggle with accepting any aspects of yourself?
Are you able to accept your body as it is in this moment?
Is finding balance with food challenging?
Can you be compassionate towards yourself?
Without a right or wrong way to feel or answer these, notice what is present for you as you read them.
- Which questions create an energetic charge within you?
- Did you stop reading any specific ones?
- Was there a moment of feeling seen?
- Were you numb to them all?
Notice anything else that you experienced or didn’t experience that feels curious for you.
Chakras and our relationship to food and our body
A disharmonious relationship with your body and food is connected to the chakras in various ways. Having my feet in both of these worlds, I saw and experienced for myself how interconnected they are. This is why I felt deeply called to integrate these two worlds and create the course Getting Unstuck.
If you aren’t enrolled in Getting Unstuck, there is plenty to learn from my blog posts! We explored our connection to our physical body and nourishment via the root chakra. Next, we explored our food and taste preferences and our second chakra. With our third chakra, we discussed food and body shame. Now we come to the heart chakra and will take a look at how it impacts our ability to accept ourselves and our bodies.
As you see our heart chakra governs A LOT. Today I want to focus on acceptance, specifically acceptance of our ourselves and our bodies.
In what ways do you struggle with acceptance, as it pertains to yourself and your body?
Many of my clients find that acceptance feels inaccessible. This is also a very real reality for many people in our society. Many people have been conditioned to believe that their body “is not right”. Seeing this conditioning on an intellectual level and breaking away from it are two very different things.
You might be thinking, how are crystals going to help with any of this? If you are, awesome! So much of self-growth is asking questions and getting curious.
I will dive into how heart chakra crystals can support you on your journey in just a moment.
This work can be HARD to do head on. This is true especially when you are living day in and day out in a world, community, etc. that reinforces the false narratives and beliefs that have been engrained within.
Eating Disorders
This is why I find working with the chakras to be such a beautiful entry point for many people. It is a way to work with challenging and charged topics without diving into your history and trauma around it. Now, diving in can be very important and healing work. I encourage you to get support from a therapist if you are diving in.
In my experience, I find that it lead to dysregulation for many people. This is very true for those that are also struggling with an eating disorder. The dysregulation can activate the need to use behaviors and then people find themselves stuck in a negative feedback loop. It often leads to feeling as though they “can’t do the work”. This is just one reason as to why eating disorder recovery can be a very long and complex journey for people. I know it was for me!
This is why I love working with the chakras! It provides a softer entry point to healing that also provides attunement and a sense of control in the process.
Healing with Heart Chakra Crystals
Working with the heart chakra can begin to heal this energetic vortex that governs your ability to accept. As this chakra begins to heal your heart chakra, you might find it easier to do the additional work required to find acceptance.
While there are so many ways to work with the heart chakra and all of the chakras, today we will explore heart chakra crystals.
Rose Quartz
Ah rose quartz, the stone of unconditional love. This beautiful pink stone provides a gentle and calming energy that can help promote self-love, compassion and empathy.
Green Aventurine
This crystal can help to promote feelings of love and compassion. This stone works with abundance and the grounding energy of the earth (root chakra). As such, it can anchor the heart chakra in a way to allow one to receive.
Rhodonite
This crystal can help facilitate forgiveness and compassion towards oneself and others. It also is a beautiful pink and red stone that can work on both the root chakra and the heart chakra. Use this stone to help with balance, love and compassion.
Emerald
This beautiful green gemstone is considered to be a stone of the heart. It can help to promote unconditional love, compassion and balance. Emeralds can help one to trust (root chakra) in the wisdom that comes from one’s heart center. It can be a powerful stone to help balance the health chakra.
Malachite
Promoting feelings of love and compassion, this crystal can be a wonderful option for your heart chakra. It is also known to help increase empathy towards oneself and others.
Working with heart chakra crystals
There you have it! 5 heart chakra crystals to help heal and strengthen your heart chakra as you work forwards finding acceptance for yourself and your body.
Now holding a stone is not going to magically heal all of your wounds. You have to put in the time and energy.
As the saying goes, where you intention go, energy will flow. So when you utilize any of these crystals, hold your awareness at your heart center. You can even hold the crystal there or place the crystal on your physical body. Many people also like to wear necklaces long enough to land at the heart chakra.
Set forth the intention to allow the crystal to support the healing of your heart chakra and allow love, compassion, balance and acceptance to flourish throughout your being.
Learn more
If you want to learn more about the chakras, you can check out my Chakras 101 course. This 3 hour self study course provides you with a solid foundation for the 7 main chakras and the chakra system as a whole. The first two lessons are free to preview!
If you’re finding that this work is resonating for you as a way to heal and reclaim your relationship with your body and food, Getting Unstuck will be open for enrollment later in Fall 2023. You can sign up for the wait list to be sure to find out when enrollment opens.
Disclaimer: This post is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute individualized support or medical advice.
Blair is a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, E-500 RYT and Reiki Master. She integrates spirituality with modern day science to help people heal and reclaim their relationship with their body and food.