Don't disregard meditation, energy and light work. Really- it's the foundation of our emotional state.
When all our Chakras are in tune, in harmony with our soul we feel happy, light, ready to take on the world. But when one or more of our Chakras are "off" feeling blocked and congested, we feel grumpy, angry and feel like it's the worst day in the world.
So what are Chakras? And do they really give us a sense of self to become a holistic being?
Chakras are energy systems which exists within our subtle bodies. Chakras are involved in accessing the universal energy so that humans can utilise it within the human body. The chakras in our body seem to function as open points or energy transformers in which they will absorb energy and absorb them within our body.
There are 7 main chakras associated within the body and they correspond with the major nerve plexuses and there are also 21 minor chakras situation at points around our body.
Before you understand WHY chakra balance is so important we must first acknowledge the main 7 chakra and their functions. The following brief explainations is cited from the website "The Meaning of Life".
The 7 Main Chakras
1) Root Chakra
- Colour: Red
- Location: Base of Spine
- Deals with: survival, sexuality and grounding
- A balanced chakra results in: stability, physical health, trust, prosperity
- Trigger for inbalance: Fear
- An inbalanced chakra results in: Feeling heavy, feeling isolated, obesity, hoarding, greed and materialism, frequent fear, lack of discipline, restlessness, underweight, spacey
2) Sacral Chakra
- Colour: Orange
- Location: Abdominal, Genitals, Lower back, Hips
- Deals with: Sexuality, Emotions and Desire
- A balanced Chakra results in: feeling stable, sexual, pleasure
- Trigger for inbalance: Emotions
- An inbalanced chakra results in: over emotional, lack of boundaries, excessive sexual drive, obsessive attachments, rigidity, emotional numbness, fear of pleasure
3) Solar Plexus Chakra
- Colour: Yellow
- Location: Solar Plexus
- Deals with: power and personal will
- A balanced chakra results in: vitality, spontaneous actions, strength, purpose and self esteem
- Trigger for inbalance: Ego
- An inbalanced chakra results in:domination, blaming acts, hostile, scattered brain, constantly active, weak will, poor self esteem, passive, fearful
4) Heart Chakra
- Colour: Green
- Location: Heart area
- Deals with: love and relationships
- A balanced chakra results in: compassion, self acceptance and stable relationships
- Trigger for imbalance: grief or hurt
- An inbalanced chakra results in: co dependancy, obsession, possessiveness, lack of boundaries, shy, lonely, isolated, lack of empathy, bitter, critical
5) Throat Chakra
- Colour: blue
- Location: throat
- deals with: communication
- a balanced chakra results in: excellent self expression, verbally and creatively
- trigger for inbalance: lies of lack of truth
- an inbalanced chakra results in: excessive chatter, inability to listen and comprehend, stuttering, fear of speaking, poor rhythm
6) Brow (Third Eye) Chakra
- Colour: Purple
- location: brow area (in between eyes)
- deals with: intuition and imagination
- a balanced chakra results in: psychic perception, accurate interpretation of events, imagination and clear seeing
- trigger for inbalance: illusion or lack of clarity in situations
- an inbalanced chakra results in: headaches, nightmares and dificulty concentrating, poor memory, poor vision, can't see patterns, denial
7) Crown chakra
- colour: white
- location: top of head (cerebral cortex)
- deals with: awareness of self
- a balanced chakra results in: wisdom, knowledge
- trigger for inbalance: attachment to things
- an inbalanced chakra results in: overly intellectual, confusion, disasociation, learning difficulties, spiritual skepticism, limited beliefs, apathy, materialism
The importance of balance
It is imperative as we grow that balance within all 7 main chakras is unified. Imbalance in one chakra results in low energy and sometimes depression. A balanced chakra results in a holistic being- who is able to work consistently through out the day and one that also accepts others energies (whether imbalanced or balanced) as they are fully aware of their own internal energy.
A balanced chakra system results in a higher energy frequency coming from within you. Our chakra points have chaneled universal energy within our bodies to cater for a euphoric being which expresses itself through laugher, happiness and love. This is what we all should strive for daily.
How do you fix inbalance?
As you can read from the above; inbalance comes from a "trigger" that will occur within our life. Whether it is emotional, physical or mental triggers we must try our best to eliminate these triggers in our lives. An inbalance in one or more chakras results in the feeling of fear which then feeds our consistent worry.
There are a couple of techniques you can use to cater for inbalanced chakras. Say for example there is excessive chatter which is our throat chakra- we can use the opposite colour of it (orange) and visualise it around our throat clearing and pulling the excessive energy down so that it can be balanced. Another example you can use is "wearing" the opposite colour- so in the case of the example with excessive chatter- wearing orange is good to balance your energy. You can also use or focus your energy on a coloured candle- lets use excessive talking once again- lighting an orange candle with the intention of balancing your throat chakra helps.
But the holy grail of internal balance, I believe is simple meditation. It is easily accessible, fast to apply and universally accepted. People from everyday joe-blokes to higher ended corporate leaders apply this simple technique in their lives for clarity, balance and control.
Meditation Exercise- Opening our Chakras and grounding our energy
- Sit comfortably on a chair or on the ground cross-legged.
- Start by controlling your breathing- in and out, at a slow but steady pace
- Feel the energy from the ground rise up to your root chakra- let the energy swirl there in a vortex for a minute or two
- imagine the energy ball as the chakra colour- in this case red
- keep breathing in and out at a steady pace
- once you are ready to move th energy up, feel it swirl to the next chakra (sacral), let it swirl there in a voertex again for a minute or two and imagine the energy ball as the next chakra colour, ie- orange
- continue this process until you get to your crown chakra
- you will notice as you move the energy up that the energy will sometimes "sway you" left and right. this is nothing you should be worried about as it just means your focus and energy is controlled
- once you have reached your crown chakra- repeat the process again so that the energy ball goes back down to your root chakra
- a it reaches your root chakra and you are ready for it to focus your balance- imagine your legs growing tree roots in the ground- strong and stable.
- give thanks to your higher powers and guides for the help and guidance you invoked today.
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