Say Thank You To Open Your Heart Chakra
When someone pays you a compliment, what is your initial reaction? Do you say thank you, or do you deflect the compliment? Do you try and distract from the situation? If so, what about a compliment doesn’t sit well with you? For some, deflecting compliments is just a habit that may have been taught to us by our parents. For others, it comes with a lack of feeling worthy of love. Whatever the reason, changing this habit can help open you up to receiving more love and a higher level of self love that will help heal you from the inside out.
Within our bodies is an energy body that is synced up with our nervous system and is contributing to the aliveness inside of us. Our vitality. The main energy centers are our 7 chakras, and our heart chakra is the space that governs giving and receiving love. When the heart chakra is open, we are naturally allowing more genuine love into our life, and when it is closed off, well it can be quite the opposite.
Many experiences can occur in our lives that can cause us to want to block off and protect our heart space. Neglect as a child, abusive relationships, fear, and so on. These initial traumas can create patterns of behavior that don’t allow for our heart to open up when real love is given to us. LOVE is emotional currency and is free flowing and abundant in all of life, if we allow for it. It can be hard to trust when you have had experiences that have led you to close off your heart, but there is a very simple way to start to allow light and energy back in gently. Say thank you.
When someone pays you a compliment, it is an energetic gift of love and all you have to do is say thank you to participate in this beautiful exchange.. Even if thoughts come into your mind that don’t believe it to be true, or cause you to not feel deserving of it, just say THANK YOU. When you say thank you, you are participating in this energetic exchange of love, and your heart must open up to receive it. The act of receiving is just as important in opening up our heart as it is to give.
When you don’t say thank you to someone’s compliment, it is like giving a gift back or throwing it to the side or dodging it. I used to do this, as if I was some kind of martyr, by deflecting and saying “it is nothing”, or finding ways to pitch the compliment back without really taking it in. This is not a noble act, but an ungrateful act (albeit not intentionally ungrateful), and does nothing to help you or the person offering the gift.
When you do the simple act of receiving a compliment, you are opening up your heart to be able to receive more. Not just compliments, but love. And there is an abundance of love in the Universe that is here for you if you are open to receive it. When we close ourselves off to simple acts of love, we are not only causing tension in our bodies energetically, but it is not healthy for the heart physically. It is restricting the flow of vitality throughout our chest and up and down our entire energy body.
Saying thank you is a simple habit you can do right away that will change the flow of energy in your body, and the flow of love and abundance in your life. Since you are changing a habit it may feel awkward at first, but it won't take long for you to feel the difference in receiving versus deflecting a compliment. The giver will feel good, and so will you. And you will nourish your body and your entire energy field from the inside out.