How chakra meditation can open up your body's energetic flow
According to the ancient yogic texts, vibrating energetic centres exist in each of us. These are called chakras and keeping the chakras in balance has been linked to maintaining mental and physical wellbeing.
By using chakra meditation, you can improve the balance of your key chakras and bring your physical and mental health into a more peaceful state.
The 7 chakras are the main energy centres in our bodies and are each associated with their own colour. Once these are in balance, your internal energy flows.
What is Chakra meditation?
An imbalance or blocked chakra can cause both physical and emotional disruptions. So, when you’ve identified a blocked chakra, you must work to open it.
One of the best methods to do this is chakra meditation.
When one of your chakras becomes blocked, closed or out of balance to the natural flow of energy through your body, your being will compensate by directing more energy to the more functional chakras.
This results in some chakras shutting down while others become overactive. Both pose serious consequences to your mental and physical state and meditation is the best way to keep all of your chakras open and bring them into alignment and harmony.
With proper chakra meditation, you cleanse, clear, and balance your chakras.
This balance is essential to our health, relationships and spiritual fulfilment, so it’s important to understand what each chakra represents and how we can tap into imbalances using our personal power.
What are the 7 chakras?
In actual fact, there are hundreds of different chakras in the human body representing energy, but there are 7 core chakras and by using guided meditations to align the individual chakras you can support your inner wisdom and heal the soul.
1. Root Chakra - ‘I am…”
The root chakra is based at the base of your spine and is associated with the colour red and the mantra LAM.
Issues with your root chakra can cause a number of emotional and physical disturbances, especially digestive ailments.
When this chakra is out of balance, a person starts feeling fearful, anxious, insecure, aggressive, and self-doubtful. However when the root chakra is balanced these are replaced by more positive emotions and you feel safe, secure, centred, grounded and happy to be alive.
2. Sacral Chakra - ‘I feel…’
The sacral chakra is based at the lower abdomen and is associated with the colour orange and the mantra VAM.
A balanced sacral chakra is essential for coping with new experiences and exploring the world. When this chakra is out of balance, a person suffers with low libido, fear of intimacy and aloof, destructive and dependent behaviours. However when balanced it manifests in behaviours such as passion, creativity, a healthy libido, optimism, and openness.
3. Solar Plexus Chakra - ‘I do…’
The Solar Plexus Chakra is located in the area of your upper abdomen in the stomach area and is associated with the colour yellow and the mantra RAM.
This chakra is fundamental to digestion, but it also has an important mental and spiritual role. When this chakra is out of balance, a person suffers with low self esteem and often feels powerless, pessimistic, and over analytical. However when the solar plexus chakra is balanced you feel confident, in control, optimistic, ambitious, joyful, and easy going.
4. Heart Chakra - ‘I love…’
The Heart Chakra is located at the centre of the cardiovascular system and is represented by the colour green and the mantra YAM.
Imbalances here can be responsible for respiratory problems and high blood pressure. Blocked behaviours are often characterised by a lack of empathy, bitterness, hatefulness, trust issues, and jealousy.
Mentally, an open and balanced heart chakra allows you to form emotional connections with others and gives feelings of generosity, love, compassion, peace, openness and empathy.
5. Throat Chakra - ‘I speak…’
The Throat Chakra is located in the centre of the neck and is associated with the colour blue and the mantra HAM.
Your throat chakra is connected to your ability to communicate and speak your inner truth. Placed between the head and the heart, the throat chakra links thoughts with feelings.
A blockage in the throat chakra can cause feelings of isolation and a range of physical issues, from susceptibility to infection to hormonal imbalances. Imbalances also make a person feel secretive, quiet, shy, and moody.
When in balance, it manifests good self-expression and communication and positive behaviours like trustworthiness, calmness and honesty.
6. Third Eye Chakra - ‘I see…’
The Third Eye Chakra is located in the centre of the forehead and is associated with the colour purple and the mantra OM.
Your Third Eye Chakra acts as the individual's centre of wisdom, conscience, and higher consciousness. When this chakra is activated, you feel focused and steady.
Keeping the third eye chakra in balance allows you to see how the world around you is interconnected and makes it easier to understand your place in it. However when out of balance it may result in blocked behaviours like feeling stuck, fantasies, not being able to establish a vision for oneself and realise it, rejection of everything spiritual and beyond the usual, not being able to see the greater picture, and a lack of clarity.
7. Crown Chakra - ‘I understand…’
The Crown Chakra is located at the top of your head and is associated with the colour violet and the manta AUM.
It is our connection to divine source energy. It flows with spiritual energy and becomes clearer as we become more in tune with the universe and our spirituality.
When out of balance, a person can get feelings of isolation and loneliness, have an inability to connect with others, and struggle to set or maintain goals.
When the Crown Chakra is aligned, it gives feelings of connection, wisdom, love, and living “awake” in a fully conscious state. It helps a person see themself as whole and one with the universe, at peace with life & self, fulfilling diving purpose, as well as resolving negativity.
Recognising Chakra Imbalances
It’s useful to have an understanding of the 7 chakras, as well as the behaviours that are commonly associated with a balanced or imbalanced chakra.
Once you begin to recognise these symptoms by yourself you can start associating them to the relevant chakras and concentrate your meditations on where you need to!
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