Love on Me: You Give Easily, Can You Receive?

Everybody gets your best. You get whatever is left.

It is small. They offer to handle a thing you have been struggling with for a week. And you hear yourself say no thank you, I have got it, in a voice that does not quite sound like yours.

You have spent so long being the one who gives that being given to feels like being caught at something.

What the Heart Chakra Handles

The heart sits in the middle of your chest, and it is the bridge. Three chakras below it are about you in the world. Three above are about you and something bigger. The heart is where those meet.

It runs love, compassion, connection and forgiveness. But here is the part most people skip: it runs receiving as much as giving. Anybody can pour out. The heart chakra is about whether anything can get in.

A Blocked Heart Chakra Feels Like

• ❄You give everybody else grace and keep none of it for you.
• ❄Compliments, help and gifts all make you slightly uncomfortable.
• ❄You forgive other people easily and hold your own mistakes for years.
• ❄You are lonely in rooms full of people who love you.
• ❄You say I am fine so automatically that you have stopped checking whether it is true.
• ❄Everybody gets your best. You get whatever is left.

You do not need all of that to be true. Two or three usually tells the whole story.

How to Find Your Balance

Let one person do one thing for you. Do not counter offer. Do not even it out later.

Answer the question honestly the next time somebody asks how you are.

Put your own hand on your chest. It sounds ridiculous and it works, because this chakra responds to touch.

Grieve something you never grieved. A closed heart is usually a heart that got interrupted.

Green and rose.

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