Closed Heart Chakra

[Uma]

I think there is a lot of good common sense advice given here. As far as chakras go, they open very naturally to light and close to darkness - so if we are constantly thinking negative or feeling miserable, that heart chakra isn't going to open by itself - we need to find a way to uplift ourselves, deal objectively with the situation and move on.

What has worked for me, taking the advice of my mentor, is to work on strengthening the other chakras so they provided support while I was learning how to love again. That meant keeping my brow chakra busy by focusing on something that kept me engaged and intellectual (not into the feelings), or doing slow rhythmic deep breathing with pauses at the end to calm down my body, and all kinds of exercises to strengthen my physical chakras. These all helped. And number one for me is always the spiritual practices I do to stay centered and connected to God. Knock and the door will be opened.

What cloudburst described is a pattern of ego attachment and that needs to be dealt with as a root cause. Good times will come again (they always do - Spring always follows Winter) and the heart will open and once it does the more you express loving feelings, forgiveness, compassion, kindness - all of these things open the heart very naturally.