This chakra is located in the heart region. In Sanskrit, anahata means that which cannot be created. This chakra is locked when you seek attention and love from others, and it flowers when you express selfless love without expecting anything in return! (Meditation Technique: Mahamantra Meditation a Tibetan Buddhist technique.) What is attention need The anahata chakra is concerned with love, sentiments, and similar emotions. This chakra gets locked when we constantly seek attention from others instead of exuding love from ourselves. Its very meaning is that which cannot be created and it signifies that real love can never be created from outside and put into you; it can just happen in you, that's all. It can happen when a deep awareness enters you. When real love happens, we will stop seeking attention from others and become a source of energy ourselves.

What do we mean by attention-seeking? You see: whatever we do, whatever we think, we are subconsciously seeking concurrence and approval from the people around us in some subtle way. We are very keen that we should earn a good name from everyone. We may not do this in a very obvious fashion, but if you analyse deeply, you will not be at ease without the appreciation and endorsement of the people around you. This endorsement, this approval, is what we call attentionneed. 80% of our problems is due to this asking for attention or approval. If you just sit and write down, in a day, how many things you do to get a good name, to maintain your reputation in society, you will see. You will find that all the 24 hours, all your lifetime, you are involved in getting approval from others.

All your life, you are on a signature campaign, getting approval signatures from family and society. All your activities, all your efforts, are to get the signature of the others around you. In a big register you make a column: Good Father, and everything that you do for your children, you do, and expect their signature of approval under that column! Then you go to your wife, to your boss, to your friends. You prepare columns with suitable headings like Good Husband, Good Employee, Good Friend etc. and wait for them to sign under it. You are requesting approval signatures all the time, that's all. Of course, all these people also come to you for your signature! You too need to sign on their registers under the columns applicable to you! Each of us is continuously on a signature campaign.

We need to collect as many good opinions as possible from society and prove our worth to ourselves and to society. Why do we bother so much about others opinions about us? Why cant we judge ourselves by our own strength and continue to do our work? Why are we deriving strength from others? All this is because of two things: one, we dont know anything about ourselves. We know ourselves only through others opinions of us, only through others certificates. Second: when others give us their approval and attention, they are actually giving us energy to move on. Attention IS energy! That is why we feel so boosted when they give us attention. Attention in any form is alright for us. In most of the houses, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will be constantly fighting with each other.

They will be constantly complaining about each other to the poor man, the son or the husband. But for a few days, if one of them goes out of town, what happens? The other starts missing them! Although they are fighting all the time, they miss each other when they are not together! Why does this happen? When they fight with each other all the time, they are actually getting that much of attention upon themselves from the other person! Dont think that only positive attention is energizing! Any form of attention is energizing. Both of them subconsciously enjoy the attention that they get from the other when they fight; that is why they miss each other; they actually miss the attention! But when they start missing each other, they term it love! They say that they miss each other because of love.