The Seven Chakras and How to Clear Them for Optimum Health and Happiness
The seven chakras are derived from Sanskrit and mean "wheels or disks of energy." When spiritual energy is awakened it causes a transformation of consciousness, as well as physical changes in the body. An awakened chakra spins or turns, and the sensation can be felt in the body. The kundalini energy that travels through the seven chakras of the body is called prana. Prana is the vital life-force energy...the spark of life within us. Without prana, there is no life. Kundalini or Shakti energy is known in all shamanic cultures around the world as the "divinizing or spiritualizing energy" in a human being. It’s the dormant energy that rests at the base of the spine waiting for the chakras to align in harmony to awaken it.When this awakening begins, the kundalini energy activates each of the seven chakras as they are ready. The movement starts at the Root Chakra bringing awakening and new higher levels of consciousness as it rises through the other chakras. "Kundalini has come to mean seat of fire – with the Goddess burning her way through any blocks She finds." Wheels of Life, Anodea Judith Problems with the seven chakras individually or in conjunction show themselves through physical ailments within the body. The goal of this article is to give you insight into which of your seven chakras may be out of balance. It will also help you to figure out why. What causes the blockages in the seven chakras?The causes could be memories from childhood trauma, abuse, a learned restrictive belief system, emotional injuries that haven’t been forgiven or just lack of attention can cause a chakra to shut down. Tension builds up at one of the seven chakras from repeated denial, guilt, repression and unfelt emotions. Eventually, everything is affected from posture, metabolism, breathing, and emotional state. Disease in the body is caused by chronically repeated blocked pranic energy. These seven chakras hold all the good and bad thoughts, deeds, and actions you’ve committed in all of your souls lifetimes here on earth. It’s the repression of emotions we’re going to deal with here, because they are the one’s that cause pain, suffering, and disease. Truly accepting your rejected feelings, feeling them deeply, finding some love in them, and forgiveness are the keys to healing your soul and dis-ease.There's a fight going on inside of you. Your spirit, masculine or mind is telling you how great and unlimited you are. Your feminine or intuitive feeling side is trying to keep you safe, and senses things the spirit by itself doesn't. The problem comes when they don't work together in harmony and balance. Your beliefs are imprints caused by conditioning that happened in the past. The challenge is to realize that these imprints are running your life through your subconscious mind, so you are not even aware that these imprints have a hold on your decisions and feelings. And, we all have them. Only by truly accepting and feeling emotions we have denied can these imprints be healed so their affects no longer control us, but it isn't easy. Feel into these feelings without stuffing them, accept them, find some love in them and God's Light will comes in behind your feelings to heal them. It's only through the healing power of forgiveness that we release these imprints so we don't have to re-live them over and over again, whenever they are triggered. All they want is to be accepted, and instead our usual tactic is to suppress them, because we don't want to feel the pain of them. That's why they keep coming back. It is one of the most important ways to heal blockages in your seven chakras. Where do you think those unfelt emotions go anyway? They either stay with you and accumulate, not leaving room for anything new to come in. Or, when it's too much you see the one's you rejected the most as out-pictures by other people that come back to haunt you in your life. It’s time to nurture and love yourself. Yes it's important to eat healthy foods, drink lots of water, exercise, connect with nature, breath deeply, meditate, smile, give thanks for what you have, and listen to music. But, the most important thing you can do is feel denied emotions so they can heal and make room for something new to come into your life. Truly loving yourself heals. It’s that simple! A good example comes from the video "The Secret." Some of the people interviewed cured themselves of cancer and other diseases through...laughter and nurturing themselves. The lower three chakras, the feminine are what keeps us grounded to the earth. The heart chakra in the middle is the joining of spirit and our feminine, and the upper three chakras, the spirit connect us to God. The lower three chakras, the Root, Sacral and Solar Plexus chakras are ruled by the Mother and our intuition. The upper three chakras the Crown, Third Eye and Throat chakras are governed by divine "inspiration." All chakras are important. Many today want to live out of just the upper chakras. We need all seven chakras to be a complete being and in balance. We are ALL out of balance.The seven chakras of the core body and what they represent.
1. ROOT or BASE CHAKRA (Muladhara) – Zodiac signs Capricorn, Virgo and Taurus The 4th Ray of "Harmony through Conflict" governs the base chakra or root. This the most earth centered chakra represents our inherited beliefs through our formative years. Self-preservation, personal survival and our identification with the physical world centers in this bottom most of the main seven chakras. A healthy root chakra connects you with vitality to your family of origin, your immediate society and to the global community. If your 0-7 years were challenging and without love, then this damaged root chakra will function much differently. Issues of survival such as emotional dysfunction, stress, anxiousness, and restlessness will plague you. You’ll have fears of letting go, scarcity, poor boundaries, and more. It’s during the 0-7 years that we learn about where we fall in our relationships with siblings, parents, our community, and how we relate to them. Health issues: Joint pain, lower backache, elimination problems, obesity, constipation, anorexia, and poor immune system function.
2. SACRAL/NAVAL CHAKRA (Svadhisthana) – Zodiac signs Pisces, Cancer and Scorpio The 7th Ray of "Ceremonial Magic" rules this sign. The second from the bottom of the seven chakras is about our relationships, creativity, sexuality, control and money. It’s our time of developing individuality and realizing we are a separate entity from our parents and family. Here we learn about the polarity of opposites, male and female, positive and negative. Relationships with the opposite sex are explored here. Blocks in this second of the seven chakras brings lessons on jealousy, betrayal, control and power plays. Health Issues: Uterine or bladder problems, sexual difficulties, impotence, lack of flexibility, sciatica, lower back pain, and problems with large intestines.
3. SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA (Manipura) – Zodiac signs Aries, Leo and Sagittarius The 6th Ray of "Devotion" governs this chakra. This chakra connects us with the energy to "act" and is the seat of self-esteem and expressing our personal power. Our relationship to the world around us, and our beliefs about our place within it come from this the third of the seven chakras. Self-honoring starts here. A healthy third chakra honors emotions, warmth, intellectual understanding, and self-confidence. A keen awareness of your personal power comes from this chakra. It is at this chakra that balance becomes possible through harmony between the upper three and lower three chakras. Blocks in this chakra cause fear of rejection, over sensitivity to criticism, the need to exert power over others, hot temper, demanding and blaming, judgmental attitudes, feelings of lack of recognition, aloofness, fear of something new, low energy, confusion over which direction to go, and low self-esteem. It is here we learn of self-empowerment, integrity and self-respect. Health Issues: diabetes, hypoglycemia, gallstones, nervousness, low energy, muscle cramps, stomach problems, lumbar spine, liver disorders.
4. HEART CHAKRA (Anahata) – Zodiac signs Aquarius, Gemini and Libra The 2nd Ray of "Love-Wisdom" rules this chakra. It's at this chakra that we start to see the possibilities of the internal and external world...the world of spirit and of form. The heart chakra is the integration point for the seven chakras of the body, because it holds the sacred spark of the divine and the intuition of the Mother. When the heart chakra is open, we are able to forgive, our lungs are clear and our immune systems are healthy. The higher chakras cannot be assessed till we pass through the heart. A heavy heart is one that carries resentment and anger from denied feeling and emotions, as well as guilt. To have a healthy heart, you must allow these suppressed emotions to surface, heal, and fall in love with yourselves. Or, suffer from bitterness and lack of forgiveness. An unhealthy heart chakra causes alone feelings and despair. How you love yourselves, you love others. The heart lessons are self-love and forgiveness of yourself. Health issues: high blood pressure, breathing difficulties, circulation problems, shortness of breath, chest pains, disorders of the heart, tension between the shoulders.
5. THROAT CHAKRA (Vissudha) – No Zodiac signs The 3rd Ray of "Active intelligence," is associated with the fifth of the seven chakras. This chakra is all about choice, willpower and the right to speak and be heard. Speaking our peace is our God given right of choice. Having said this, not all we say gives us peace. Some of what we say dis-empowers us...some empowers. What we say is caused by unloving or loving imprints from our past again. It is through this chakra that we manifest what we want in life. A healthy throat chakra makes your voice clear and it resonates with truth. The words are a creative expression of the honestly and trust we feel within. Blocks in this chakra make it difficult to communicate because we feel suppressed by swallowed emotions and feelings. The voice is weak and your feelings unclear or garbled. Integrity plays a huge part is the proper functioning of the throat chakra. Since it’s between the head and the heart it works to maintain integrity between what we think and what we feel. Self-empowerment is the main lesson of this chakra. Health issues: fever, ear infections, weariness, thyroid problems, disorders in the throat, ears, voice, neck, cervical spine, hypothalamus and esophagus problems.
6. THIRD EYE (Ajna) – No Zodiac signs This chakra is governed by the 5th ray of "Concrete Knowledge." Our intuition and our ability to see with vision comes from here. It's the center of divine wisdom, the spiritual eye that seeks to see and know the truth in all things. From the sixth of the seven chakras we close our physical eyes and look at the world from all aspects of self. Our intuition becomes our guide. A healthy third eye gives us the power to perceive every reflection from the outer world, as a direct call for us to accept it as ours, heal and love it. Blocks in this chakra cause us to become delusional, unimaginative, indifferent and to have poor memories. Worry is a big problem, spaced-out, and poor concentration also plague a person with a sick third eye chakra.
Transcendence of the unloving imprints of this chakra: "Balance the physical and the mental. 7. CROWN CHAKRA (Sahasrara) – No Zodiac sign The 1st Ray of "Will and Power" is associated with this chakra. This chakra is located at the top of the head and spins very quickly as a 1000 petal lotus...our direct connect to God. Guidance comes directly to us from the divine and is received through this chakra. The life force from the creator penetrates into our energy system through the crown, and moves down through the other energy centers down to the root chakra. From here we are inspired by God, filled with Grace, because we have a strong connection to a power greater than ourselves. We live in present time and our spirits live in the now in harmony with our form and Will. Blocks in this chakra cause confusion, depression, senility, fear of success and lack of inspiration. The flow of spiritual energy is blocked in both directions. When this happens spiritual addiction and over intellectualizing occurs, as well as dissociation with the body. Healthy Issues: Migraines, brain tumors, coma, amnesia, nervous system and muscular system disorders, mental issues, and skin disorders.
How does negativity affect the seven chakras?Self-love is the key source of all healing. Most people don’t love themselves. When you don’t love yourself you cut yourself off from receiving divine inspiration and acting on it, because there is a gap between intuition and spirit. Love, acceptance of feelings, and forgiveness are the most powerful and effective ways for you to activate, energies and balance all of your seven chakras. When I say seven chakras, I am referring to the seven chakras in middle of your body. There are actually more the seven chakras, but the main ones run the length of your core body. To heal your body you have to heal your mind.You may ask how do you get cancer? Cancer is a suppression of denied emotions over a prolonged period of time. It's not caused by smoking or anything else outside of you. It’s caused by unloving imprints that have not been healed from the past. It’s the mind that affects the body. Change your thinking and heal suppressed emotions to change your life experience.To heal the effect...release the cause. Is it really worth the price you are paying to hold onto suppressed emotions? You only hurt yourself. Heal feelings instead through acceptance, love and forgiveness! Your body will rejuvenate itself. But, you have to release that stuck energy with conviction and love. "A compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body." Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama The seven chakras described above are energy centers along the spine located at major branching points of the human nervous system. Chakras are considered to be a point or nexus of biophysical energy or prana of the human body. Kundalini energy or Shakti energy is known all over the world by all cultures as the path to the spiritualization of a human being. Other ways to help clear chakras and promote healing of the mind and bodyKundalini yoga and other forms of yoga: Yoga means "union" or "discipline." It’s the yoking together of the mind, body and soul in order to liberate the True Self. Yoga is particularly effective in releasing these energies. Through movements and stretches the energy is pushed through the energy centers away from its point of concentration. Often a negative issue will come to mind as this blockage is broken up. It serves to let you know what caused the blockage in the first place so you can mentally let it go. Acupuncture/Massage/Chiropractic/Reiki/etc.: These healing forms again serve to move the energy in their own ways. If the issue is not resolved mentally, then the problem will return though. The relief can be permanent or temporary depending on the persons willingness to forgive and release the cause of the problem or imprint in the first place. Physical exercise: Again the energy is moved but may not be permanent...this time through exertion. Heat: Heat relaxes the muscles, allowing the negativity to flow out of the body. Heat can be from a sauna, whirlpool, or any other prolonged heat source. Conclusion:At no other time has clearing blockages in the seven chakras been so important. With the advent of December 21, 2012, and the coming Great Cycle change, the Age of Aquarius, and ascending Kali Yuga, at virtually the same time, the values of the world are changing. We are experiencing these changes even now, and they will accelerate the closer we get to 2012. The planet as a whole is moving from the solar plexus chakra to the heart chakra as the earth moves into alignment with the sun and the galactic center of the universe through precession of the equinoxes. It's all about balance. To achieve this we must live through ALL of our chakras in a balanced way. If not, we are not a complete entity. Ancient prophecies by the Classic Maya and even the indigo children, say the planet is coming into alignment and eligibility to become a sacred planet. A lot has to be accepted, forgiven and released before humanity will be in alignment with these values. But the process of cleansing has begun. That's why we are experiencing massive economic, financial, governmental, social and ecological problems. All the above physical methods are effective, but they lack permanence as long as we resist feeling our feeling and emotions fully in the seven chakras. The only way to clear the seven chakras permanently, is through the power of forgiveness. Forgiveness releases the old imprints charge from the mind and the bodies seven chakras. It starts at the source of the problem in the first place...the way you think. You ARE in control of your body and your life, because YOU control your thinking. If forgiveness is true and unconditional, amazing healing occurs in all areas of the body. Then and only then can the Shakti or kundalini energy rise uninhibited through the seven chakras to increase awareness and ultimately bring enlightenment. References: Use this link to return to the Home Page |
