The Heart Center is the seat of our inner justice, not law in the cosmic or external sense, but our own deeply personal sense of what is right and what is not. It is here that we carry the weight of our values, our choices, and our capacity to love without self-betrayal.
In Netism, the Heart Center is associated with the principle of Justice, but not by any universal law. This is the justice of the self, the inner compass that tells us when we are in alignment with our values.
When this center is in conflict, we experience the emotional signals of that dissonance: guilt and anger. Guilt arises when we believe we’ve acted against our own moral code. Anger arises when we feel others have done the same to us. These two forces—turned inward and outward—are indicators that the Heart is holding something unresolved.
Neither guilt nor anger can be bypassed. In the energetic system, the Heart Center is the threshold between the lower, survival-based centers and the higher centers of expression and perception. If these emotional weights remain unacknowledged or unhealed, the current cannot rise. It becomes trapped in loops of emotional tension, self-punishment, or projection.
To open the Heart Center is to find true equilibrium within the self. It is to acknowledge where harm has been done, by self or other, and to begin the work of resolution. Forgiveness—whether of self or others—becomes a key alchemical process here.
When balanced, the Heart becomes a calm, steady field. Our actions are purposeful, calm, and balanced. We know what we stand for, and we can love with strength instead of compromise.
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