When an open heart implies chaos

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Well, everyone is different. If you have upper chakras mastered you should have guidance and guides you can ask.

Ask to be shown what is "yes" and what is "no". You may get feelings for each, or see images that represent each.

Then once you have your reference, you can ask your guidance.

But make sure you are grounded. I like to envision a rope with 5 knots hanging from my root chakra into the Earth.
The knots represent lower chakras, below our root.

Without stepping into the higher centres, and with an imbalanced root, just generally speaking, do you think it's liberating to work on the heart?

If you seek to balance your energy centers, then going from lower to higher is the efficient way to do so. Also, the root is the source of power to the higher centers, so "root" yourself like a tree would to the ground it lives on, and channel a stream of pure white light from bottom to top and from top to bottom back again, like a fountain in green garden, recycling it's own waters.