Chakra Healing
What are Chakras?
Chakras are different energy centers throughout the body. We have them all over but there are seven main ones that go up our spine. Each chakra can strengthen one another the same way they can throw each other off. They serve as the doors along the passage way for the kundalini energy within; Once you are ready your chakras will open up for it to raise through and if you aren't ready your chakras will close up to protect you from such intense energy. The kundalini energy is the sexual/powerful life force energy we each have. Once the different energies in your body properly aligns with one another, you will awaken your kundalini and feel the full power and potential within your physical vessel.
When do we use our chakras?
Each chakra contains certain characteristics that can aid with identifying which you are currently using. It is possible for your chakras to be too widely open or too tightly closed, if not balanced. Each chakra contains many facts and correlations that can help you gain a better inner-standing about them and the overall energy use in your body; along with ways to improve each one, if needed.
- Root chakra
Color: Red
Location: Base of the spine
Element: Earth
Body Part associations: Feet, legs, hips, bones, joints, sacrum, coccygeal nerve plexus, lower intestine, and organs that deal with the waste removal system.
Influences/Energy: Your basic needs such as security, safety, survival, and serves as the foundation of your physical body and to the other chakras.
If too wide open: You might be sluggish, have trouble moving, and getting things done, or you'd feel heavy and very earthbound. You might even refuse to leave your home or take any type of risks that has to do with movement or any type of change. You'd feel ruled by your basic instincts instead of being in charge of them; your hunger, thirst, desire for sleep, or need for exercise can be so strong that they could keep you from getting other things done and even prevent you from interacting with people in real life. Some people who over eat, over sleep, or become addicted to exercise can also have a first chakra issue.
If too tightly closed: You might feel untethered, be too much in your head or too easily swayed by your emotions. You would feel lost or like you dont belong anywhere. You can also have trouble practicing good health habits like constantly getting sick and even issues with managing your money. You'd get so distracted by strong feelings, your thoughts, and even certain practices like meditation or praying that you forget to do basic survival things like paying your bills, brushing your teeth, or even eating. You might even have trouble looking away from your phone as you'd tend to trip while walking, have trouble balancing certain yoga poses, and can even suffer from hip or chronic foot pain.
If balanced: You would feel a sense of connection to the ground through your feet, along with feeling safe and comfortable in your body. You'll feel physically healthy, finacially secure, and have a strong sense of self. You would know who you are, where you belong, and overall you will feel confident as you maneuver in your physical vessel.
2. Sacral chakra
Color: Orange
Location: Below the navel
Element: Water
Body Part associations: Reproductive organs
Influences/Energy: Reproductive organs, sacral nerve plexus, lower back, pelvis, abdomen, and bladder.
If too wide open: You would be ruled by your emotions which would keep you from getting things done. Your feelings would be too strong so they become incapacitating. Sexual addiction can also be a result as well as a lack of discipline or structure.
If too tightly closed: Your emotions might be cut off completely or blocked. You would appear cold hearted and unemotional while on the inside you feel a combination of depression and frustration. You might also even feel sexual problems, experience infertility, chronic pelvic pain, gynecological problems, and prostate problems. You'd have trouble finishing things you have started, feel a fear of progress, be disconnected from your creativity, and experience trouble enjoying sex. You can also have trouble feeling intimately bonded with your romantic partner (although that can also have to do with your partners second chakra as well).
If balanced: You will be comfortable with your emotions and would be able to feel them completely without them taking over. Your creativity will flow, you'll have the ability to get things done, make things happen, and accept changes in life with grace and ease. You will have a healthy sex life, feel attractive, desirable, and be satisfied with oneself. You won't be afraid to feel.
3. Solar plexus chakra
Color: Gold
Location: Base of rib cage
Element: Fire
Body part associations: Stomach, digestive organs, adrenal glands, liver, kidney, spleen, pancreas, middle back, and solar nerve plexus
Influences/Energy: Power, energy, self-esteem, will, ego/sense of self, taking action, making things happen.
If too wide open: This can be related to overaggressiveness, you'd be very demanding, self-centered, narcissistic, and be extremely strict with yourself and others around you. Can be very dominant, loud with a lot of energy that would take over an entire room; able to get things done but you do so through the expense of others.
If too tightly closed: You would feel powerless as if you have no control of what happens to you. You may have a victim mentality, lack of willpower, and an inability to be effective. You may have a poor appetite which can lead to digestive issues such as indigestion, constipation, or irritable bowel syndrome.
If balanced: You would radiate your personal power and have a strong confident sense of who you are without stepping on any others or ignoring your own personal feelings and intuitions. It is overall effectively powerful and courageous with a good amount of humility. Since this chakra is linked to your digestion, you would have no problems with your transformation from food to energy.
4. Heart chakra
Color: Green
Location: Behind the heart
Element: Air
Body Part associations: Thymus gland, cardiac nerve, plexus, heart, lungs, shoulders, arms, and breast.
Influences/Energy: Love, compassion, empathy, kindness, balance, quest for peace, and love of self.
If too wide open: You might find yourself letting others into your heart to the detriment of your own health; you'd be so compelled to help others you're willing to sacrifice your own needs for the needs of humanity and just neglect yourself completely. You might lose your grounding or sense of personal power due to you constantly giving yourself away. You may feel so much empathy for the feelings of others that you mistake those feelings for your own and lose your sense of identity. You might feel like its an obligation for you to take on the pain and suffering to help others without regarding your own heart.
If too tightly closed: You would have a difficult time loving, you'd feel as if you've never been in love, or just shallow when it comes to your love relationships. You would find it difficult to sympathize or feel empathy for others, and even find it hard loving yourself. You may also be prone to heart diseases such as heart attacks, angina, and other conditions related to clogged and blocked arteries to the heart.
If balanced: You would be able to love openly, fully, and sincerely with your whole heart; more importantly without losing yourself. Since this chakra sits right in the center of the rest, your earthly chakras (first three) will flow and align better with your spiritual chakras (higher three) to where you would then be able to have a spiritual life and an earthly body. You will have better communication between your lower and higher selves to act with love and compassion. Your life will transform one of balance, strength, and openheartedness.
5. Throat Chakra
Color: Sky blue
Location: Behind the throat
Element: Sound
Body part associations: Throat, trachea, thyroid gland, pharyngeal nerve plexus, and mouth.
Influences/Energy: Communication, speaking the truth, listening, hearing the truth, metaphorical thinking, and manifesting creativity.
If too wide open: You may be an individual who tends to talk a bit more than needed and simply over share rather than take time to listen. Although they may be high with intelligence, they'd forget about the needs or feelings of others. You would feel you have a need to prove your point, dominate conversations, or even attack with words. You would listen in conversations strictly with the intention to respond rather than listening with the intention to actually inner-stand the opposing perspective.
If too tightly closed: You would have some difficulty with your communication. You may tend to stutter, stumble over words, or even prefer to be silent even when it is time to speak. Sometimes you can know exactly what to say but find some difficulty with letting it out or expressing it. You would hold back on expressing what you really believe and prefer to completely hold in your words.
If balanced: You would actually be able to tap into the heart below to speak and hear the truth with your intuition above as a perfect balance. You would be creatively charged while being socially sensitive. You will have a balanced impulse to talk, write, draw, or even paint. You will be confident enough to share your ideas with the world.
5. Third-eye chakra
Color: Deep Indigo
Location: The Pineal Gland
Element: Light
Body part associations: Pituitary and pineal gland, and carotid nerve plexus.
Influences/Energy: Intuition, imagination, perception, dreams, symbolic thinking, inner wisdom and psychic vision.
If too wide open: You would feel disconnected with your reality. You would find yourself in your head more often. You'd come off as someone who is overly intellectual, and be likely to overthink on most things. You can potentially even mistaken your dreams with your waking reality or even see visions and not be able to distinguish whether they are real or not. It is also a possibility for one to become so indulged into spiritual practices as a result that they completely forget they are in physical vessels, meant to have physical experiences.
If too tightly closed: You would prefer to remain oblivious to your wisdom you naturally have within. You would be too caught up in your body and too entrenched in your physical life. Your emotions or the emotions of others would cloud your inner judgment and prevent you from seeing the bigger picture of things. You would suffer from tension headaches, sinus headaches, sinus infections, nearsightedness, and other vision issues.
If balanced: You would gain the ability to tap into your inner knowing and wisdom, inside and outside of yourself; while remaining grounded in the world and your body. You'd be able to temper the strength of your intellect with your emotion and heart. That feeling you get when you know something is true, without any physical evidence would strengthen and flow smoothly, being a result of your increased alignment with the center of your intuition. You would be more able to pick up on certain cues that your conscious mind may miss. You would better govern the inner knowledge of yourself and the world.
6. Crown chakra
Color: Purple or pure white
Location: The crown of the head
Element: Thought
Body part associations: Brain, nervous system, pituitary and pineal glands, and cerebral cortex.
Influences/Energy: Spirituality, intelligence, connection to higher power, broad-mindedness, divinity, union, and seeing the bigger picture.
If too wide open: You would prefer to be alone quite often and would do just fine living off grid or away from society and other individuals. You would almost completely neglect and detach from your physical vessel. You would be so disconnected that you refuse to part take in and enjoy the simple pleasures of this physical experience.
If too tightly closed: You would have no interest in any type of spiritual pursuits. You would make priorities of materialism and mainly focus on your own individual needs. You would never seek out for any type of holistic healing, nor be willing to even pick up a book or do any type of reading. This chakra can possibly even shut down completely in a times you're experiencing feelings of isolation, depression, personal tragedy, or any type of spiritual crisis.
If balanced: You'd be able to tap into your seat of consciousness, wisdom, and enlightenment. You'd be fully connected with your universal self, which is greater than the individual you. You would have a healthy spiritual life and be fully aware of your oneness and connection to all that is. You will notice some of you exist in everyone and everything else while everyone and everything else is simultaneously existing in yourself as well. You will be able to communicate with whatever you consider to be the higher power through this chakra.