You know that your heart is affected by emotions. Heart rate, pressure, and even shape and size change with the intensity of grief, heartbreak, sudden change, or loss. Our hearts break.
So what can we do to give tenderness to our hearts in the midst of all of the cacophony? This article will offer some simple and natural modalities related to foods, herbs, essential oils, teas, stones, sound, acupressure, and energetic contacts for tending to your heart. Please use any that call your name. Your heart carries the wisdom, intuition, memory, and compassion needed for this time.
Natural Modalities for Tending to Your Heart
| Modality | Specific Modalities | How to Use |
| Energetic Contacts, Sound, and Color to Treat Your Entire Body-Mind-Spirit System |
Acupressure Points for Depression, Overwhelm, and Heartbreak *Listen to calming music |
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| Aromatherapy and Essential Oils | Clary Sage for grounding and coming back into center Rose for grief and broken heart | Diffuse in the room, inhale, surround yourself with fragrant roses, or apply to acupressure points with a carrier oil |
| Teas Water |
Green tea for serotonin; Lavender or Chamomile tea for calming; Bergamot or Linden tea for anxiety; Chai or Tulsi tea for grief Hawthorn Tea for your heart Rose petal tea | Teas for Stress and Depression Solar infuse rose petals in water and drink tea Stay well hydrated. |
| Herbs | Sage, Hawthorn, Rose, Linden, Motherwort, Mimosa, Holy Basil (Tulsi) | Herbs for Grief and Sorrow |
| Foods | Eat dark leafy greens; Omega 3 foods; foods with Tryptophan (a precursor for serotonin). Eat root vegetables for grounding.’ Cook with sage associated with relieving sorrow. | |
| Acupressure Points | Kidney 2: (brings warmth, joy, and love); Conception Vessel 17 (Ren Vessel): relieves anxiety; Lung 1 (Letting go); Stomach 36 (grounding); Gallbladder 20 (insomnia and clears brain); Governor’s Vessel 24.5 (center of the forehead above eyebrows and below hairline) |
Acupressure Point Locations |
| Exercise | Take a walk, stretch to relieve anxiety, tone, and sing | Walk next to or near water or in the forest. Spend time in a garden. |
| Stones | Rose quartz for unconditional love; obsidian for absorbing negativity; Amethyst for restoring balance* |
Carry the stone with you or wear the stone; use it in your bath water or make solarized water with stone; hold it in your hands (sub chakra of your heart) or near your heart. |
| Meditations |
Healing Grief Soft Belly Meditation |
How to Heal Grief Stored in the Body with Somatic Meditation, with Peter Levine |
Now is the time, more than ever that you take good care of yourself by tending to your heart. Be well, sleep well, and eat well. T Let’s use our hearts to create new opportunities for sustaining life, love, and compassion starting with ourselves. Get additional support related to anxiety, trauma or overwhelm
If you have any questions about how to use these modalities in this article, feel free to contact me at kimberly@windowstotheheart.net. If you are experiencing heartache at this time and would like a personal Resonance Repatterning session, this is also the place to make contact.
From my heart to yours,
Kimberl
