Chakras

What is a Chakra? 

Webster's defines it as " One of the seven centers of spiritual energy in the human body."  The word "chakra" comes from the Sanskrit "cakra" meaning "wheel, circle", and some- times refers to the Native American "wheel of life".  A good definition of a chakra is to call it an "energy center".  Chakra is pronounced "Chuhk-ruh".

We all have hundreds of chakras in and surrounding our bodies.  There are seven that are the "major" chakras that affect you in your day-to-day life. These seven main chakras are aligned in an a column from the base of the spine to the top of the head.  The chakras relate with each other.  One chakra being unbalanced can effect the chakras surrounding it as well. 

Chakras get unbalanced by our life experiences.  Positive and negative experiences effect our chakras.  Negative experiences can manifest themselves physically as health problems and dis-ease.  Because the chakras effect not only our physical well being, but also our emotional and spiritual well being, the total mind, body and spirit can be effected by dis-functioning chakras.

The chakras each have a different color assigned to them and different speed in which they spin.  The lower chakras spin slower than the higher chakras.  All of our chakras spin in a clockwise direction laying in a horizontal position. 

Each chakra has a different area of your life that it corresponds to.  For example, the lower chakras are attached to the material world, while the higher chakras are attached to the spiritual world.  Physical associations are also made.  For example, the root chakra is associated with the kidneys, bladder, reproductive organs, vertebral column, hips and legs while the crown chakra is related to the brain and it's functions.

Ideally, your chakras are each about the same size and clean, not muddy or dirty.  Chakra clearing allows you to balance all your chakras so that they are all large (but not too large) and bright in color.  There are many ways in which we can balance our chakras.  Chakra Therapy is a very important in order to keep the energy flowing freely throughout your body and keep you in optimal physical, emotional and spiritual health.

Below you will find information on each of the seven major chakras including their color, position and function.

 

 

Base (Root) Chakra
Color:  Red
Position:  Base of the spine
Main Functions:  Survival, security, primal energy.
Positive Issues:  Courage strength, will power and self confidence.
Negative Issues:  Physical security like finances, home, safety, possessions.
Related Organs/Body Parts:  Kidneys, bladder, reproductive organs, hips and legs.

Sacral Chakra
Color:  Orange
Position:  Midway between the naval and base of the spine
Main Functions:  Relationships, sexuality, intimacy.
Positive Issues:  Creativity, independence, socialability, joyous.
Negative Issues:  Cravings for physical pleasures like foods, sex, addictions to drugs, alcohol or other substances, withdrawn, over-dependant.
Related Organs/Body Parts:  Uterus, large bowel, prostate, ovaries and testes.

 Solar Plexus Chakra
Color:  Yellow
Position:  Directly behind the navel
Main Functions:  Desire, vitality, inner strength, self-control.
Positive Issues:  Confident, alert, optimistic and good humored.
Negative Issues:  Fear of being or desire to be powerful, fear of authority figures, desires to control others and situations, fear of being controlled, sarcastic, pessimistic.
Related Organs/Body Parts:  Liver, spleen, stomach and small intestines.
 

Heart Chakra
Color:  Green
Position:  Center of the chest.
Main Functions:  Release emotionally suppressed trauma. Soul/heart consciousness.  Expressing love in action.  Love, clairsentience.
Positive Issues:  Compassion, generosity, harmony, balance, love, forgiveness.
Negative Issues:  Codependency, dysfunctional relationship addictions, obsessiveness, unforgiveness, indifference, jealousy, bitterness.
Related Organs/Body Parts:  Heart and breasts.

Throat Chakra
Color:  Blue
Position:  Adam's apple area.
Main Functions:  Ability to verbalize.  Expressing the truth through power of words. Communication, speaking your truth.
Positive Issues:  Loyalty, inventive, caring, affectionate, speaking your truth, communication projects, trustworthy, calm.
Negative Issues:  Unfaithful, untrustworthy self-righteous, cold, obsessions about communicating.
Related Organs/Body Parts:  Throat and lungs.

Third Eye (Brow) Chakra
Color:  Indigo
Position:  Between two eyes.
Main Functions:  Channeling intuition, balanced state of mind, devotion and divine perfection, clairvoyance.
Positive Issues:  Highly intuitive, faithful, clear sighted, integrity, orderly mind, the eye of your higher self, predicting the future.
Negative Issues:  Inability to trust intuition, scattered mind, inconsiderate, reluctance to see the future.
Related Organs/Body Parts:  Eyes, lower head and sinuses.

Crown Chakra
Color:  Violet
Position:  Top of the head.
Main Functions:  Personal identification with infinite.  Oneness with God.  Peace and Wisdom. Claircognizance and Divine guidance.
Positive Issues:  Reverence for life, self-sacrificing service, idealism, ability to see appropriate route for higher self, ability to be trusting in intuition coming from other plane.
Negative Issues:  No concern for others, feelings of superiority, lack of contact with reality, untrusting of intuition coming from other plane.
Related Organs/Body Parts:  Eyes, lower head and sinuses.