Opening Your Heart Space
The walls you put up around your heart served you at one point in your life, thank them for protecting you when you needed them, and give yourself permission to lay them down brick by brick. It won’t be easy, linear, or a quick fix, but working to open your heart will bring you connection, peace, and confidence.
As you crack open the cement walls over your heart, it will start to leak. There will be painful memories and old stories that come to light, but remember, they do come to light, which means you get the opportunity to love yourself and be there for your younger self in that moment. You get to rewrite the story. Your energy is meant to flow and when you block your heart you trap the darkness inside and keep the light out. The only way to defeat darkness is to bring it to the light and name it. Name the emotions, name the pain, hold your younger self, release the story that no longer serves you and pick a new one.
How to Open Your Heart Space and What to do When it Hurts:
Yoga
Practicing yoga and movement to encourage a healthy flow of energy through the body. Focus on the physical space around your heart with chest openers and back bends. Challenge yourself to 5, 10, or 15 minutes on the mat each day.
Essential Oils
Aromatherapy and topical use of essential oils is a beautiful way to support your emotions through working to open your heart. Diffuse Bergamot + Northern Light Black Spruce for bright + grounding vibes. shop my diffuser favorites
Dance
Releasing stored energy and judgement through movement with music is a beautiful + fun way to release stored energy within a trapped space.
Journal
Creating a safe space for thoughts, energy, and memories to be released then maybe processed at a later time.
Meditation
10 minutes of a guided or silent meditation to help you connect with your awareness and Self.
Give Yourself Grace
Learning to acknowledge + honor your emotional world, inner child, inner teen, and young adult self is tough work. Give yourself grace through the process of learning to love yourself.
All of these tools can be used alone of in conjunction with another tool.
EO’s to Open Your Heart Space