{"id":4144,"date":"2017-03-13T12:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T12:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2017-09-08T13:04:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:04:02","slug":"heart-chakra-kats-movement-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/heart-chakra-kats-movement-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Kat’s Movement Mission | Moving with an Open Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Movement for Modern Life\u00a0founder Kat Farrants\u2019 weekly column, where she shares her thoughts, tips and\u00a0tools for living a bigger, brighter life, moving and living more. Don\u2019t forget to tune in to our weekly facebook live chat with Kat every Friday at 1pm for more!<\/h3>\n

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Open-heartedness is something that we all aspire to. Coming into every new situation, meeting every new person with an open heart is something that I would love to be able to claim to do, and I would love it if people would do that with one another too. It would mean that we all had no judgements, no expectations and that we’d be able to make the most of each new person and situation entirely based on what\u2019s right there in front of us. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t sound hard, but some cultural expectations, judgments and expectations are etched on the mind from our upbringing and it\u2019s hard to lose them! How much more from life would we all get if we were truly were able to live with an open heart?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Heart Chakra<\/h5>\n

The Fourth Chakra is the Heart Chakra, the place of compassion, of self-acceptance, of balance and equanimity. We can all feel when something \u2018pulls on our heartstrings\u2019 ,that\u2019s compassion, that\u2019s empathy – and it can feel very physically located in our heart centre of the body. \u00a0When we open this heart centre, when we are receptive right from the heart, we are able to love each other so much more and give balance and unconditional, un\u2013judgmental love to ourselves too.<\/p>\n

Whilst I like to think that my heart is open, I know that I still have work to do on this area to undo tired old barriers and boundaries that 40 years of being a human put up to so-called protect ourselves. But it\u2019s really not protection, that shutting down, it\u2019s a closing off of opportunity and of love, and that\u2019s the biggest worst harm that we can ever do to ourselves. \u00a0So to move into open-heartedness, things which can help are being outside in nature more, especially in woodlands. Try practicing classes which open your front body, and backbend from your upper torso (rather than from your precious, bendy lower back). Lucy\u2019s Heart Class<\/a> is an uplifting, gentle back-bending class which allows us to go out in the world being receptive to all that life has to offer.<\/p>\n