101 Heart Chakra Affirmations for Radical Self Love

Do you struggle with…

• Forgiving people and situations from the past

• Moving on from mistakes

• Accepting yourself as you are, not who you want to be

• Feeling ok being your authentic self

• Fears of intimacy or vulnerability? 

These aren’t even all the symptoms of an imbalanced heart chakra. Being the centerpiece of the scale, with lower, physical chakras on one side and upper, ethereal chakras on the other, this is a vital chakra to keep balanced. 

While there are lots of self care practices out there, repeating these heart chakra affirmations is the perfect way to show yourself some love. 

You know, the kind you’ve been gatekeeping from yourself. 

The best part? When you give yourself love, it’s way easier to practice loving others too. 

This article will teach you about the heart chakra, how to recognize its current alignment, and 101 affirmations to soothe it. 

Let’s dive in. 

What is the heart chakra? 

The concept of chakras can be traced back to ancient India. 

A sanskrit term for “wheel,” a chakra is a center of energy. While there are 114 chakras according to Dr. Amit Ray, there are 7 major ones that reside in a straight line along the spine. They go from the base of your spine to the crown of your head.

And your heart chakra sits right in the middle, in your chest. 

Each chakra relates to the wellbeing of certain aspects in your life, and they all develop at different times as you grow. Anodea Judith, author of Eastern Body, Western Mind, claims that the heart chakra is developed from ages 4 to 7. 

Your heart chakra’s purpose? For you to find balance, to love and be loved. It is influenced by your social relationships. 

So think about your childhood during 4-7 years old. This is often when children begin school, have a little more independence from their parents and more interaction with peers. 

It’s a defining time for how you relate to others and, accordingly, to yourself. 

Healthy relationships with your caregivers likely lead to happier, easier socialization for you. Likewise, unhealthy behaviors in your upbringing, or even traumatic events, might have made relating to others a bit harder. 

Everyone’s story is different. 

Let’s find out what it means for your heart chakra to be healthy, excessive, or deficient - and how that shows up in your life. 

What a balanced heart chakra looks like

The heart chakra is called anahata in sanskrit, meaning unstruck. 

This could imply a lack of outside influence, a sense of purity or being complete on its own. 

For you, this means loving yourself regardless of any people or circumstances in your life. This means embodying practices like forgiveness and acceptance. 

So when your heart chakra is happy, it looks like this:

• Accepting yourself & others 

• Loving yourself and others

• Easily practicing compassion & empathy

• Feeling inner peace

• Having a good immune system

• Having healthy relationships with others

• Feeling genuine concern for others (without any personal motivations)

• Enjoying time by yourself (without feeling lonely)

Please keep in mind - there are few people in the world who embody these characteristics 100% of the time. But overall, you’ll find these traits come much more naturally the more deeply you heal this area. 

Now that you know how a balanced heart chakra appears in your life, let’s discover why it might not develop as ideally. 

How is the heart chakra negatively affected?

There are various circumstances in life that can hurt the development of your heart chakra. These circumstances are notably potent during ages 4-7, but are not limited to those years. 

In her book, Anodea Judith includes:

• Rejection, abandonment, loss

• Being constantly shamed or criticized 

• Abuses to other chakras (especially the lower 3)

• Ignored grief (this could also be your caregiver’s own grief)

• Divorce

• Death of loved ones

• Unloving, cold environment

• Conditional love (affection only shown when you behave certain ways)

• Physical or sexual abuse

• Betrayal

To understand how these affect your heart chakra, it’s helpful to think of life like a constant, 3D mirror. 

Whatever you experience in your outer environment becomes internalized, and it’s how you see yourself. 

You’re constantly criticized, so you believe you can’t do anything right. You’re told while being physically punished that the other person loves you, so you equate love to being painful. You’re rejected by caregivers or peers, so you feel you’re unlikeable - even unlovable. 

Because the heart chakra is the bridge between the lower and upper chakras, it is where they are integrated into your life. All chakras affect the heart chakra, and in turn it affects how you interact with yourself and the world. 

Let’s explore even more specifically how an excessive or deficient heart chakra looks. 

Excessive heart chakra

When the heart chakra is excessive or overactive, it usually involves overcompensation to gain the love and validation you’re not giving yourself. 

It can appear as:

• Codependent relationships

• Clinginess

• Poor boundaries

• Jealousy

• Being demanding

• Overly sacrificing

When you truly love yourself and feel complete on your own, you may not rush to sacrifice your boundaries in order to “earn” love. You’ll know that you can love and enjoy other people, but you don’t need them. 

Now what if your heart chakra is underactive? 

Deficient heart chakra

In a deficiency of love and acceptance, the heart chakra has the opposite problems. Rather than being too open, it shuts down. 

If you’ve felt abandoned or rejected, it’s easy to feel like closing shop. Why risk the hurt?

This deficiency leads to:

• Antisocial attitude, being cold

• Loneliness, isolation

• Fear of relationships & being vulnerable

• Lack of empathy

• Depression

• Narcissism 

• Critical/judgmental/intolerant of others (because you do this to yourself)

Healing this deficiency will allow you to feel more confident in opening up to others and being yourself, because you accept yourself. 

By accepting yourself, you open the door to accepting and loving others for how they are instead of how they should be. 

Physical effects of an imbalanced heart chakra

Chakras affect not only your mind and emotions, but your body. 

Here is how your body may suffer from misalignment here:

• Shortness of breath or asthma

• Problems with circulation

• Disorders of the heart/lungs/thymus/breasts/arms

• Sunken chest

• Immune system

• Pain in chest or between shoulders

This is not meant to be professional medical advice, and there are certainly physical habits that exacerbate problems. While you should seek advice from a doctor, it is also worth observing how you may physically benefit from healing your emotional or mental blocks as related to chakras. 

The sooner you begin healing, the sooner you can live a more loving, peaceful life. 

Time to affirm the love you deserve. 

Heart chakra affirmations

Read. Speak. Write. Repeat. 

That’s how positive affirmations work. You want to see results?

You have to make the effort!

Which you totally deserve. And you’re totally capable of. 

You’ve been brainwashed to believe the opposite of some or all of these statements. 

So unbrainwash yourself now. Be gentle with yourself doing it. 

Self love

1. I am worthy of love.

2. I deserve love because I exist. 

3. I am not my mistakes. 

4. I am willing to love myself. 

5. I have a wonderful body. 

6. I have a brilliant mind. 

7. I have an amazing personality. 

8. I have always deserved kindness. 

9. I have always been likable. 

10. I have always been loveable. 

11. I am loving to myself and others. 

12. I open my heart to the parts of myself I’ve rejected. 

13. Every piece of me is worthy of love. 

14. I do not need to earn love. 

15. I (am willing to) love myself. 

16. I am my biggest supporter. 

17. I am my best friend. 

18. I speak kindly to myself. 

19. I do kind things for myself. 

20. I release the mistake but keep the lesson. 

21. I love myself through my shortcomings. 

22. I am loved by being my authentic self. 

23. I am compassionate with myself. 

24. I am patient with myself. 

25. I accept who I am. 

26. I fall more in love with myself every day. 

27. I focus on how I can grow, not what I did wrong. 

28. I do not need to be punished to be loved. 

29. I am allowed to set and hold boundaries. 

30. I am so loved. 

31. I am blessed to be me. 

32. I love myself unconditionally. 

33. I don’t need to justify myself to anyone. 

34. I validate my own feelings. 

35. I deserve all the love I receive. 

36. I find balance in everything I do. 

37. Living a balanced life is natural to me. 

38. I am at peace with who I am. 

39. I don’t need a reason to do things that make me happy. 

Social relationships

1. I live in balance with others. 

2. I balance time between socializing and with myself. 

3. The right people respect my boundaries. 

4. I attract loving people into my life. 

5. I practice acceptance of others. 

6. I release the need to critique others. 

7. I release the need to control others. 

8. I release the need to judge others. 

9. I am always safe being authentic. 

10. The right people accept all of me. 

11. I shine love into people’s lives. 

12. I embody the love I want to receive from others. 

13. I practice being patient with people. 

14. I observe intentions before being vulnerable. 

15. I can feel safe being vulnerable. 

16. I allow others to feel comfortable being themselves. 

17. I am comfortable in my own skin. 

18. There is no limit to how much love I can give. 

19. There is no limit to how much love I can receive. 

20. Others are worthy of love, just like me. 

21. People don’t need to earn my kindness. 

22. I am secure with myself. 

23. I examine my jealousy before acting on it. 

24. I speak kindly to others. 

25. I do kind things without expectations. 

26. I release expectations of other people’s behavior. 

27. I am blessed with healthy relationships. 

28. I am whole and complete on my own. 

29. I practice maintaining connections with others. 

30. I fill my cup before giving to others. 

31. I detach myself from unhealthy relationships. 

Romantic relationships

1. I love myself first so that I can love another. 

2. I can validate myself. 

3. I am open to a healthy partnership. 

4. I speak lovingly to my partner.

5. I am safe being vulnerable with my partner. 

6. I accept my partner, and they accept me. 

7. I am safe communicating my needs. 

8. I allow my partner to voice their needs safely. 

9. I support my partner and they support me. 

10. I release jealousy. 

11. I release resentment. 

12. I am patient with my partner. 

13. I practice empathy and compassion with my partner. 

14. I deserve a loving partner. 

15. I deserve to be myself in my relationship. 

Forgiveness

1. I forgive myself for my mistakes. 

2. I forgive those who hurt me for my own sake. 

3. I forgive those who hurt me to set myself free. 

4. I release the weight of resentment. 

5. I remember that others are doing the best they can with their current knowledge. 

6. I attract the patience that I show to others. 

7. I can forgive others while disengaging from them. 

8. Forgiving behavior is not the same as excusing it. 

9. I release anger at myself to make room for learning. 

10. I release anger at others to make room for peace. 

11. I release the need for an apology. 

12. I can practice acceptance and hold boundaries. 

13. I deserve to free myself from blame and guilt. 

14. I deserve to free myself from judgment. 

15. I forgive others because they do not know better. 

16. I forgive myself for the things I allowed when I didn’t know better. 

Feel the love with these heart chakra affirmations

The heart chakra is a sensitive place. Some of these affirmations may feel wildly foreign. They might even set off painful feelings from the past. 

It’s completely ok to feel however you’re feeling. They say you have to feel it to heal it. Feeling is the hard part. 

But if you allow yourself to do it, let the emotions flow, that’s when the magic happens. You’ll release weight you might not even remember carrying. 

And the lightness, the acceptance, the inner peace that comes with the process? 

Nothing beats it. 

So go at your own pace and be kind to yourself. 

Your future, beautiful self deserves it. And they’re waiting.