heart opening
Letting someone in
Heart opening describes a feeling of emotional expansion, vulnerability, or deepened capacity for connection.
The term comes from yoga and spiritual traditions, where certain practices or postures are said to open the heart center.
More broadly, any experience that breaks through emotional defenses might be called heart opening: That conversation with my father was really heart opening.
The phrase can sound New Age-y to skeptical ears.
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- tenderSoft or sore
- compassionConcern for others' distress
- self lovePositive self-regard
- loveIntense fond attachment
inner child · chest · expansion · warmth · deep breath · breath · release · letting go · surrender · embrace · softening · emotional · intimacy · tears · forgiveness · connection · yoga · backbend
heart openingshutting down
Ending operation or activity
hardening · guarding · defensiveness · walling off · emotional withdrawal
heart openingcoldheartedness
Utter lack of empathy
hardhearted · pushing away · rejecting · mistrust · suspicion
heart, hearts, hearty, heartily, heartiness, hearten, heartened, heartening, dishearten