Ambika Wauters was the first person with whom I studied Chakras. It was in the 1990s. She added a "sublevel" to the heart chakra called the "heart protector." Its color is pink.
The heart protector is there just to do that, protect our heart. Recently, I've been thinking about the rigidness that occurs in our hearts, as I am addressing that in my own heart. It manifests in our shoulders, the tightness that we have in "modern society." How does it become rigid, how do we armor ourselves, and why?
For myself right now, betrayal seems to be at its root. People who should love us don't, people who (for a variety of reasons, some legitimate) turn away from us, people who do not honor our emotions. This is personal as well as societal and institutional. Parents who cannot listen. Police who don't protect. Teachers who shame. Religious institutions that deny our worth.
These betrayals engender distrust of ourselves, particularly of our emotions, because betrayal is really about not trusting your own emotions: you distrust your own motivations, your own love. You also think of yourself as being a betrayer, one who is deceitful, almost like a "Stockholm Syndrome" kind of situation.
Chinese medicine also has a "heart protector," called Xin Bao, the acupuncture point is called gaohuang . Traditionally, this is thought to be our "black box recorder" of our lives where our "emotional and mental information converge" It is also where all disease begins. Check out this site.
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