You have seven main points of energy on your body known as chakras.
Collectively the energy emitted by these seven points makes up your aura or energetic field.
Your base chakra is located at the tip of your spine.
It governs physical and material matters, survival, security, and manifestation.
Imbalances in your base chakra will result in
you feeling ungrounded, spaced out, insecure, and having money issues.
Physical problems that could result as a result of your root chakra being out of balance are
problems with your joints, bones, and lower intestine.
Your second or sacral chakra is located just below and behind your bellybutton.
This chakra governs your emotions, sexuality, creativity, relationships, and self-worth.
If you have an imbalance in this chakra you will have trouble expressing emotions and creativity
as well as fertility issues.
Other physical ailments can be found in the bladder, lower back, and abdomen.
Your solar plexus chakra is located at your solar plexus or diaphragm and governs
personal power, energy, metabolism, happiness, and self esteem.
Imbalances in your solar plexus chakra will result in you feeling stressed out, fatigued, and powerless.
Physical ailments include ailments of the digestive organs such as
heartburn as well as ailments of the glands and kidneys.
Your heart chakra is located in the center of your chest around your sternum or breastbone.
It is the gateway between the physical and spiritual worlds and governs love, hope, faith, and trust.
Imbalances in your heart chakra will result in you feeling like your heart is heavy.
You'll have trouble saying no and you'll have a lack of hope.
Physical problems stemming from the heart chakra may result in
heart disease and issues with the lungs, and asthma.
Your throat chakra is located in your neck or throat and governs communication and your voice
as well as self-expression and writing.
Imbalances in your throat chakra will lead to you feeling like you can't speak your truth
and that your tongue is tied.
Physical imbalances in this chakra can result in problems
in the respiratory system, the neck, and the throat.
Your third eye or brown chakra is located on your forehead between your two eyes.
This chakra governs vision and foresight, ESP and psychic ability, and is also a link to your higher self.
Imbalances in this chakra will result in your mind being in overdrive,
overthinking, and lots of negative thoughts.
Physical imbalances will manifest as headaches, eye conditions, and issues with physical balance.
Your crown chakra is located at the top or crown of your head and governs spiritual matters
as well as your connection to the higher realms and God, Universe, or Source.
Imbalances in this chakra will lead to you feeling disconnected, unplugged, and depressed.
Physical expressions of imbalance will happen in the nervous system and brain
and will often manifest as suicide or depression.
Less commonly known, you also have another five chakras.
Your 8th chakra activates your spiritual skills and is the energy center of divine love.
Your 9th chakra is your soul’s blueprint and represents the sum total of all the skills and abilities
you've learned across all your lifetimes.
Your 10th chakra is your connection to earth as well as your ability for divine creativity and manifestation.
Your 11th chakra governs advanced spiritual skills such as teleportation, bilocation, and telekinesis.
Your 12th chakra is your connection to Divinity and the Cosmos.
This chakra also governs your connection to universal unity.
While they're handy to know about, you're hardly ever going to use the higher chakras in your healing work.
At first most people make the mistake of thinking of chakras as being flat spinning disks.
It's going to serve you much better if you think of the chakra as an orb or ball that reflects light out
at various points and angles, kind of like a disco ball.
So the first thing you'll notice now, is that your chakras give off energy to the front and back of your body.
Another interesting fact to note, is that you have minor chakras in your shoulders, hips, hands, and feet.
In addition, each major chakra also has its own internal set of seven chakras.
So this means your base chakra has a base chakra of base chakra as well as a sacral chakra of base chakra,
a solar plexus, heart, throat, third eye, and crown chakra within the actual base chakra itself.
The chakra system is also used as a model for evolution and to show the stages of development and growth
that each human being goes through.
From the ages of zero up until our seventh birthday, we are in base chakra cycle and
this period is governed by a need for security and establishing security and a firm foundation.
Around the age of 7, we become interested in other people.
This continues until the age of 14 where we are expressing our sexuality, our creativity,
establishing our relationships and our self-worth.
At the age of 14, we enter the dreaded teenage years and we start expressing our sense of personal power.
We want to set the rules, we want to be the authority.
Heart chakra in our early adulthood sees us become interested in matters of love,
not only romantic love and connections to other people but also what we love, what drives us.
As we enter our years of expression and throat chakra, many of us feel the urge towards
a permanent romantic relationship.
During this time many of us feel that we need to express who we are and our truths.
The third eye chakra years that take place between the ages of 36 and 42 are about as expressing our vision.
These are the years when many people find themselves drawn to the career of choice, finding a career that is
a permanent solution for them and it becomes a stage and a time during which they feel the need to
truly find and express a vision that incorporates all the aspects of their being and who they are.
The crown chakra years usually trigger a midlife crisis for many people where they begin questioning
the fundamentals and foundations of who they think they are and have become across their lives.
The most important thing to remember when working with your chakras is that they are a system,
so you need to work with them collectively as well as individually.
Color will always be an effective ally to use when working with chakras.
Simply stimulate the chakra by wearing or being surrounded by or exposed to the color of the chakra.
You could also look at the chakra alternate colors in order to subdue a chakra.
You can also try eating foods in the color of a chakra in order to stimulate that chakra.
Imagining the chakra as a ball and bouncing it in your mind or physically with your hand
is another very effective way to work with chakras.
You can also visualize the chakra as a glass orb and pull out any darkness, gunk or negative energy you see.
Spinning a chakra will help you to stimulate it, while spinning it anti-clockwise can slow it down.
You have three physical chakras -
your base chakra,
your sacral chakra,
and your solar plexus chakra.
The heart chakra is considered the bridge between the three physical and the three spiritual chakras.
The three remaining chakras are therefore your spiritual chakras -
your throat chakra,
your third eye chakra,
and lastly your crown chakra.
The chakras are also grouped into alternating pairs.
Your base and crown chakras are grouped together and serve
as the foundation of your physical and spiritual realities.
Your sacral and third eye chakras each govern the things that you create
on the spiritual and physical levels, respectively.
Your solar plexus and throat chakras speak to your power and expression
on both the physical and spiritual levels.
As the bridge between the physical and spiritual, the heart has no alternate.
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