Chakras

Chakras Guide to Enhance Spirituality and Mindfulness, Grow Your Emotional Intelligence and Heal Your Body

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Chakras and the Ways in Which They Touch Our Lives

What are Chakras?

Chakras in a Layman’s Term

The Significance of Chakras in Our Lives

Chakras as Per Ancient Texts

The History of Chakras Meditation

Chapter 2: The What and How of Chakras

Chakras - the Epicenter of Our Energy Body

The Levels on Which It Can Help in Improving Our Lives

Muladhara - The Root Chakra

Svadhishthana - The Sacral Chakra

Manipura - The Solar Plexus Chakra

Anahata - The Heart Chakra

Vishuddhi - The Throat Chakra

Ajna - The Third Eye Chakra

Sahasrara

The Science of Chakras

Chapter 3: The Basics of Chakra Meditation

What Is Chakra Meditation?

Why Is It Important to Do Chakra Meditation?

Preparing for Meditation

Important Parts of Chakra Meditation

Posture

1. Keep Your Spine Straight

2. Your Shoulders Must Remain Relaxed but Straight

3. Don’t Use a Neck Rest

4. Lift Your Chin a Little

5. Rest Your Hands Properly

6. Use a Comfortable Cushion

7. Always Keep Your Feet Firmly Rested on the Mat

8. Relax

Sitting Posture

Full Lotus Pose

Half Lotus Pose

Quarter Lotus Pose

Burmese Position

Breathing

Time

Place

Chapter 4: Other Methods of Chakra Healing and Balancing

Yoga

Crystals

Smudge with White Sage

Keep Them Under the Moonlight

Hold Them Under Running Water

Essential Oils

Chapter 5: Introduction of the 7 Chakras

Muladhara - The Root Chakra

Active and Balanced Root Chakra

Overactive Root Chakra

Underactive Root Chakra

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

Svadhishthana - The Sacral Chakra

Active and Balanced Sacral Chakra

Overactive Sacral Chakra

Underactive Sacral Chakra

Physical Issues Related to This Chakra

Manipura- The Solar Plexus Chakra

Active and Balanced Solar Plexus Chakra

Overactive Solar Plexus Chakra

Underactive Solar Plexus Chakra

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

Anahata – The Heart Chakra

Active and Balanced Heart Chakra

Overactive Heart Chakra

Underactive Heart Chakra

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

Vishuddhi- The Throat Chakra

Active and Balanced Throat Chakra

Overactive Throat Chakra

Underactive Throat Chakra

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

Ajna Chakra- The Third Eye Chakra

Active and Balanced Third Eye Chakra

Overactive Third Eye Chakra

Underactive Root Chakra

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

Sahasrara- The Crown Chakra

Active and Balanced Crown Chakra

Overactive Crown Chakra

Underactive Crown Chakra

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

Chapter 6: Muladhara - The Root Chakra

Yoga for the Root Chakra

Crystals for the Root Chakra

Meditation to Heal the Root Chakra

Chapter 7: Svadhishthana - The Sacral Chakra

Yoga for the Sacral Chakra

Crystals for the Sacral Chakra

Meditation to Heal the Sacral Chakra

Chapter 8: Manipura - The Solar Plexus Chakra

Yoga for the Solar Plexus Chakra

Crystals for the Solar Plexus Chakra

Meditation to Heal the Solar Plexus Chakra

Chapter 9: Anahata- The Heart Chakra

Yoga for the Heart Chakra

Crystals for the Heart Chakra

Meditation to Heal the Heart Chakra

Chapter 10: Vishuddhi - The Throat Chakra

Yoga for the Throat Chakra

Crystals for the Throat Chakra

Meditation to Heal the Throat Chakra

Chapter 11: Ajna - The Third Eye Chakra

Yoga for Chakra

Crystals for Chakra

Meditation to Heal the Chakra

Chapter 12: Sahasrara - The Crown Chakra

Yoga for the Crown Chakra

Crystals for the Crown Chakra

Meditation to Heal the Crown Chakra

Conclusion

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Introduction

Congratulations on purchasing this book, and thank you for doing so. This book is a comprehensive guide on the concept of chakras and the ways in which they can bring a positive impact in our lives.

Chakras have emerged as a concept that can help in bringing a balance in life. To the west, the concept of chakras is relatively new as it got introduced half a century ago but has come to the limelight very recently. However, the concept of chakras is thousands of years old and has always been followed in various religions and cultures. Over a period of time, even various alternative treatment practices like reiki and acupressure have also incorporated the principles of chakras are making great headway into healthcare.

To the common folks, the concept of chakras still remains a mystery. An article here or a stub there and people start reading all sorts of things about a mystical concept and develop all kinds of beliefs. The concept of chakras is based on the basic principles of life and creation. The understanding of this concept can bring peace, harmony, and prosperity not only in the lives of individuals but also in society as a whole. This book is a sincere attempt to explain the concept of chakras from the basics and also its practical applications in our lives.

We are living in a world where many of our problems don’t have a real origin. They are simply there. Many of us feel sad, lonely, dejected, and lost. Yet, very few could really explain the true reasons for those problems. A deeper understanding of the concept of chakras can help you in answering most of such questions. If you feel that the spark in your relationship is getting lost and you really can’t pinpoint a reason for it, this book might have the answers for you. If you feel that you no longer have the passions that ignited your soul but you don’t know the reason they got lost, the chakras can solve the mystery for you.

This book will not only explain in detail the concept of chakras but also the ways in which they affect our lives. Imbalance in the chakras can be the main reason behind most of your problems for which you could have been seeking answers in futile things. This book will help you in figuring out the real issues that are causing the problems and the ways to resolve them.

This book will explain the concept of chakras and the ways they influence our lives on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. This book will also explain the ways to identify the problems in various chakras. It would explain the main characteristics of each chakra so that you can judge for yourself if you had also been suffering from similar issues.

In the end, this book will explain various ways through which you can heal your chakras and bring a balance in energies.

The intent behind this book has been to explain the concept of chakras in great detail while being very simple so that anyone can understand it and get benefitted.

I hope that you will find this book useful and would be able to add value through the knowledge in this book.

There are plenty of books on this subject on the market, thanks again for choosing this one! Every effort was made to ensure it is full of as much useful information as possible, please enjoy it!  

Chapter 1: Chakras and the Ways in Which They Touch Our Lives

What are Chakras?

The literal meaning of Chakra in Sanskrit, the classical Indian language, is a ‘wheel.’ By chakras, we refer to the subtle energy bodies inside us.  Before we get any further into the concept, it is important to understand that the physical body is simply one aspect of our being. We are more than just this physical body. Our focus is always on the gross physical body because we can touch, feel, and locate it easily. However, besides our physical body, our etheric body, mental body, aura, and spirit also have significant roles to play in our lives.

Today, science has proven with credibility, the presence of energy body too. You can actually take pictures of your aura field with special equipment. Our aura is a radiation of the electromagnetic field of our body, and it can reflect our mental and emotional state to a great extent even after we have moved from that place. This has proven the existence of an energy body without a doubt, and the role it can play in bringing more peace, stability, and functionality in our lives.

Concrete scientific evidence of the role the subtle energy bodies play in our lives has started emerging recently. However, a detailed description of chakras, the subtle energy bodies can be found in Vedic Indian texts as old as 1500 BC.

Indian sages studied the impact of chakras on the human body, mind, spirit, and consciousness. They found the ways in which chakras could bring out some characteristic traits or suppress others. The Vedas go on to describe the ways to bring harmony between the flow of energy among all the chakras, and how this can provide freedom from mental, physical, and emotional distresses.

There are 7 main chakras in our body. They are essentially the nodal energy points where energy from various sources unites. If these nodal points remain open and in sync, they will allow unhindered flow of energy, and hence, your mind, body, and spirit would remain at peace. However, if there is a blockage at any nodal point, it would obstruct the flow of energy, and this can create problems.

If any of your chakras are blocked, the characteristic qualities of that chakra may start to get overexpressed. This can be good in some aspects, but the negative impact of this would be much greater.

If a chakra is blocked, and the energy in that chakra remains underactive, this can also cause several problems in life. Some of the main qualities of that chakra may not develop fully, and that would have a serious impact on your life and demeanor. It may also happen that some negative traits of that chakra may become aggressively active. This could cause even more problems.

Understanding the nature of chakras, the reasons for their blockage, the impact of blockage, and ways to open them have been laid out in front of us by the Vedas. The Vedas go to great lengths to describe various ways in which you can open your energy centers and ensure the smooth flow of energy so that you can easily attain your full potential.

This knowledge has remained hidden from the public as nobody really paid much attention to the play of energy in our lives. We remained busy in catering to the physical aspects only. However, this ignorance has led to several problems. In spite of a world more developed, greater physical comfort, and better ways to communicate, most of us feel uneasy, uncomfortable, and disconnected. Our ignorance of the role of energies in our lives has been the main culprit. This can change with a better understanding of the chakras.

The knowledge of chakra is in the open, and it is available for everyone to use. It has no religious significance, nor it is part of some dark magic practice. Old sages discovered the ways in which the flow of energy affected our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual capabilities, and they found ways to restore the balance. The whole chakra science is about striking that balance so that you can lead a happy, fulfilling, and prosperous life.

Therefore, it doesn’t matter the religion you follow, the beliefs you have, or the ideologies you have. This is a science of energy. As much as the presence of blood in our body is a physical reality, the presence of energy is also a physical reality to the same extent. Modern science kept ignoring it for very long and remained focused only on trying to treat the physical body and catering to its needs. However, we all know that despite providing everything, it hasn’t been able to do much about restoring mental, emotional, and spiritual balance.

You may not feel happy without having any reason to be really sad. You might feel dissatisfied without being able to pinpoint the reason for your discontent. You may start feeling contemptuous of others, although they may not have done anything in particular to irk you. All these things can take place when the critical energy balance in your body goes missing.

The chakra knowledge can help you in finding the main reasons behind these issues, and the simple ways in which you can restore the balance.

·       This book will explain in detail the main aspects of all the 7 chakras and their impact on our lives

·       The issues faced when there are chakra imbalances

·       Simple and easy ways to do chakra healing at your home at your own pace

This book will prove to be a comprehensive chakra guide for you, and it will give you detailed knowledge about the important concept of chakras.  

Chakras in a Layman’s Term

To begin with, chakras are energy centers in our body. These aren’t physically present inside the body but outside your body along the spine. The first chakra, which is called root chakra, is located near the base of your spine, and the seventh chakra, which is called the crown chakra, is located at the top of your head just outside your body.

The location of chakras can be considered as pressure points where the influence of a particular chakra is stronger than others. Scientists have been able to confirm this fact using the electro-myograph, which measures the electrical activity of muscles.

Experiments conducted on normal people and those practicing chakra meditation showed the difference in electrical activity in these regions. There is enough evidence today to prove that chakras have a profound impact on our lives, and we have the ability to improve the functionality of chakras in our body.

Therefore, chakras should be considered power distribution centers, just like power grids. These points are not producing any kind of energy on their own. They simply store and strengthen the energy coming from various sources in the body and then circulate them further. This simple process helps in the smooth functioning of our body. However, consider the consequences of any of these power grids failing of malfunctioning. The results can be catastrophic.

The chakras run on very delicate energy balance, and hence, even your mental or emotional state can also cause an imbalance in your chakras. Bad or horrific memories of your childhood can lead to the blocking of some of the chakras. Traumatic events in life can also cause chakra imbalances.

From your diet, health, to your lifestyle, there are several things that can have a very strong impact on the energy flow in your body. The important thing is to realize that the energy balance can get disturbed. When it does, you must acknowledge the signs. You must also take proactive steps to ensure that the chakras are healed before they lead to further problems in your life.

Chakra healing is simply a step in this direction, and it can help you in restoring the smooth flow of energy in your body. You will be able to bring harmony among energy centers in your body and feel more blissful, content, and positive.

The Significance of Chakras in Our Lives

This is a pertinent question that may arise in your mind. The simple answer is that chakras can help in shaping up your whole life and persona. It means all your character traits, your behavior, your mannerisms, your thinking, your interaction with the people around you, almost everything of such nature depends upon the chakra balance in your body. 

For example, if there is a problem in your root chakra or Muladhara, you may feel ungrounded, lethargic, underconfident, and weak. You may also start witnessing sudden and unexplained weight gain or loss.

The imbalance in the energies in your heart chakra or Anahata can suddenly make you feel paranoid the change in your behavior would be strikingly visible. You may start experiencing sudden and severe mood swings that would be unmistakable. Your easy-going nature may change to a possessing and demanding person that you never were. You may be able to feel these changes and yet would find yourself helpless to bring any change in the situation.

The emotional turmoil most people feel these days, the restlessness, the aimlessness, the loss of trust, feelings, and emotions, most of it is caused by the imbalance in the chakras. People keep trying to find the solution to these problems all around in vain. 

It is important to understand the impact chakras can have on your life, as you will be able to identify the symptoms much faster and wouldn’t have to adopt a trial and error strategy. From strengthening our character traits to giving shades to our personality and emotions, chakras play a very significant role in our lives. Imbalance in the chakras can wreak havoc in life and make it go topsy-turvy.

Through chakra meditation, you can correct such imbalances. Chakra meditation can help you in healing specific chakras so that you can lead a happy and content life.

Do you feel that you have become very insecure, ungrounded, unstable, unable to make, and stick to decisions? Have you been slogging day and night in office yet don’t see the possibilities of promotion? Do you envy your colleagues who work much less and yet get promoted easily? These things don’t happen by chance or magic. When your root chakra is out of sync, it makes you lose track in reality. You fail to notice your shortcomings and start blaming others. Finding fault in others becomes a favorite pastime, but you don’t take any corrective action. All this can change with the help of chakra meditation to heal the root chakra.

Do you feel that the spark in life has gone missing? Have you lost interest in most of the pursuits that you followed passionately? Has your sex life started to dwindle gradually? Do you feel that enjoying the act in the same manner as in the past is difficult for you now? Or have you become highly obsessed with sex now? Have your sexual desires started taking you towards perversion? All these are signs of problems in your sacral chakra that needs to be fixed right away. This is the chakra that enables you to experience life with enthusiasm. It makes you the pleasure seeker. But, if there is an energy imbalance in this chakra, you may either face problems in enjoying this life completely or get fully drawn towards the fulfillment of your personal desires without thinking about your loved ones or the society. Sacral chakra meditation can help you in rectifying this problem completely.

Do you feel that your misunderstandings with your partner have started to increase a lot lately? Do you regret the fact that even your co-workers, friends, or even your kids don’t try to listen to you or understand you? Have you been finding it very difficult to connect with the people dear to you? Have you started to lose interest in most of the things and feel dejected? All these problems can be the result of imbalance or blockage in the heart chakra. Heart chakra meditation can help you in finding the balance of energies in your heart.

A good understanding of the chakras will help you in understanding the subtle changes in your life as and when they arise. You will be able to identify them and carry out course corrections. Chakras play a very important role in our lives, but balancing the chakras is a very easy process. You can simply adopt a healthy lifestyle, meditate regularly, and focus on your energies to keep your chakras in sync. This may look like a lot of work, but it isn’t.

This book will help you in understanding the easy ways to identify chakra imbalances and keep them in check.

Chakras as Per Ancient Texts

Vedas and Upanishads, the ancient Indian texts, have the earliest mention of the chakra system. As Vedas and Upanishads are Hindu religious texts, many people form a misconception that even the concept of chakra is religious in nature. The concept of chakra isn’t related to any religion; it is something that can help in improving the quality of life of anyone who tries to make use of them. Even in the Vedas, the chakras have been mentioned as the way to attain physical and spiritual upliftment and enlightenment.

The role of chakra is to help us attain our maximum potential. If a certain chakra in your body has blossomed and all other chakras are in balance, the character traits of that chakra would become your distinguishing qualities. That chakra can help you in gaining perfection in the specific sphere.

Chakra is not a magical concept. It is a very practical concept of harnessing energy and using it to power things. The whole world runs on this basic concept. You take any mineral for that matter, and it would have no worth until you pick it up and put it to the right use. Even fuel can power engines only when it is put in the right mechanism. The same goes for chakras. We all have chakras in our body, but we will be able to use them only with the right knowledge and determination.

Chakra is a very wide concept. Vedas and Upanishads have described them in great detail. The popular 7 chakra system is not the only chakra system described in the Vedas. There are descriptions of systems of 4 chakras, 5 chakras, 9 chakras, 12 chakras, 21 chakras, so on and so forth. This all depends on the ways you want to categorize the energy and precision you want in harnessing it.

The most popular chakra system is the 7-chakra system, and it is also the easiest to follow. We will try to understand this system and the ways in which it can help us.

The History of Chakras Meditation

Traditionally chakra meditation began as a way to attain self-knowledge and awareness. It was considered to be a way to attain spiritual consciousness. The ancient seers developed ways through which they could open their chakras and become more perceptive and knowledgeable. The chakras weren’t considered a means of physical healing.

Later on, the sages developed various ways through which even the common people could also make use of the power of chakras. The development of Yoga was also one in the series. There are 8 parts of yoga, and the top 4 parts are focused on developing the abilities to sit in a thoughtless posture to meditate. They help you in gaining control of your body and mind, which is essential when you are trying to control such powerful energies.

Traditionally the chakras were not used as the means to cure physical ailments. They used chakras for attaining control over subtle energy. They had other means to deal with physical ailments like Yoga and Ayurveda. However, chakras also have the power to do the physical healing as well. The chakras are associated with important endocrine glands, and they do influence the secretion of various hormones, hence, if your chakras are in sync, several physical issues can also be released.

Yoga and the knowledge of chakras came to the west in the latter half of the 20th century. Initially, they were only viewed as the means to treat physical problems. However, slowly, even the west has started to realize the power of both these concepts in treating mental and well as emotional issues too.

If you practice chakra meditation well, you can bring holistic wellness. It is not only a concept to heal physical issues, but it can also help you in understanding the important things that are causing all the psychological and emotional turmoil. The chakras play a very important role in controlling our mood, the play of energies, and emotions. What we may consider as an external influence is, most of the time, a turmoil is brewing up inside us. Knowledge of the chakra system and the ways to keep it in balance will help you in dealing with all those issues with great ease.

You’ll find that your life would become more peaceful and calm. You will have better control over your emotions, and you will be in great control of your actions and reactions. The decision fatigue that we encounter most of the time, as well as the state of indecision we face, would go away once you have developed the abilities to balance your chakras.

Chapter 2: The What and How of Chakras

Chakras - the Epicenter of Our Energy Body

Physicality has been stressed so much that we seldom pay attention to the subtle energy body. We are much more than just a collection of blood, bones, and flesh. It is simply not just the mechanical force of the heart that keeps the circulation of blood flowing. Our mind is not working randomly. All these things also happen because there is a constant flow of energy. The chakras are the epicenter of this energy body. They aren’t present inside our bodies physically but have a profound impact on the way we function.

Scientists have been reluctant to believe this fact until it was proven by the studies conducted on the energy fields. You can actually take pictures of the energy field around us, known as the aura. It not only reflects your presence but also your emotional and mental state. The colors of the aura change as per your current mental and emotional state, and it proves beyond doubt that even besides our physical body, there is much more to us.

The chakras are the main centers that control the flow of energy to some crucial sections of our body. They influence our endocrine system and the nervous system. Although they aren’t inside our body, yet they can have a deep impact on most of our physical processes. Chakras can have a deep impact on our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual powers. They can help us in performing at an optimum level, and can also cause a lot of negative influence.

Ignorance of this power of the chakra leads to a lot of problems. It is very important that you realize their role in our lives to actually take any affirmative action in bringing them in sync.

The Levels on Which It Can Help in Improving Our Lives

As we have already discussed, chakras have a very important role to play in various aspects of our lives.

The important 4 levels on which the chakras affect our lives are:

Physical level

Mental level

Emotional level

Spiritual level

Each chakra has a specific impact on our body, mind, emotions, and spiritual awakening. Each chakra has a role to play. The lower three chakras are considered to the chakras of the body. This means they are deeply concerned with the process of life. Their focus is always on making this life sufficient and empowered enough to enable you to enjoy it fully.

The upper three chakras are more concerned with spiritual awakening, and the process of getting liberation from the clutches of this life. This doesn’t mean the upper three chakras are trying to kill you. It simply means that the attainment of the upper three chakras would make it evident to you that living for the self isn’t worthy enough. They will make you understand that life has a greater purpose than catering for this self.

The central chakra helps you in forming a balance between both.

Every chakra will have a unique impact on you at the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. By understanding the impact of every chakra on these levels, it would become easier for you to figure out the problems in life.

Impact of Each Chakra on all the 4 Levels:

Muladhara - The Root Chakra

Physical Level: This chakra affects your sexuality as the sex organs fall under this chakra. Balance in this chakra would have an impact on your sex drive. This chakra influences the adrenal glands in your body. The adrenals release more than 50 types of hormones that virtually drive every function in the body. Imbalance in this chakra can lead to adrenal fatigue.

·       Mental Level: This is the chakra that establishes your connection with the earth. The earth is a symbol of stability, and hence, any imbalance in this chakra would have a role to play in your decision-making powers. People with balanced root chakra are very sane, stable, and secure. Any signs of mental insecurity, fear, erratic thought process reflect upon the problems on energy balance in this chakra.

·       Emotional Level: This chakra fills you with sensuality, and hence, any kind of energy imbalance in the chakra would have a similar impact on the sensuality.

·       Spiritual Level: This chakra helps in keeping you grounded. This means you’ll be more stable and secure. This is a very important quality for attaining any kind of spiritual power or knowledge. It may seem to be a contradiction as we had discussed that the lower three chakras are related to physicality. But, attainment of spiritual consciousness is not possible if your root chakra is not in balance as it has to play an important role in keeping you grounded in reality while you try to figure out things beyond mental comprehension.  

Svadhishthana - The Sacral Chakra

·       Physical Level: The physical location of this chakra is in the pelvic region, and it affects your reproduction abilities to a great extent. The ovaries and testes get directly affected by this chakra, and hence, fertility power is regulated by this chakra to a great extent. This is also the chakra that makes you a pleasure seeker. It enables you to enjoy this world to the fullest by literally feeling it. If there is an imbalance of power in this chakra, it can influence your ability to seek pleasure and live fully.

·       Mental Level: This chakra has a deep impact on the creativity and clarity of a person. If the energies in this chakra are out of balance, you can face serious problems in these two areas. You may remain doubtful most of the time or may lose the creative touch in your work and decisions.

·       Emotional Level: This chakra has a profound emotional impact. This is the pleasure seeker’s chakra. This chakra invokes the feelings of unhindered joy and unprovoked pleasantness. This is the chakra that invokes the use of all the senses to absorb this world to its fullest extent. It helps you in living this life to the hilt. However, if there is an imbalance of power in this chakra, you may not be able to enjoy this world. Despite having everything materially, you may feel emptiness. You may start longing for unexplained pleasures. If you already feel that there’s something missing in life, and you aren’t quite able to point it out, its high time you started out to balance this chakra.

·       Spiritual Level: This is the chakra that infuses your spirit with zeal and zest. It keeps you inspired and all pepped up from inside. However, if there is an imbalance in the energies in this chakra, you may find it hard to feel inspired to do most of the things in life. Life would become boring, tedious, and torturous. Neither earning money nor spending it for pleasure or charity would give any real pleasure to your soul.

Manipura - The Solar Plexus Chakra

·       Physical Level: The physical location of this chakra is around your stomach, and that’s the area it affects the most. If there is an imbalance in the energies in this chakra, it will adversely affect your digestion process, physically as well as metaphorically. This chakra makes you a workhorse. You will be the power wheel of any organization you work in if this chakra is at its optimum in your body. You’ll work very hard and would have a wonderful appetite for food and a similar ability to digest it. However, if this chakra is not in sync, you may find it hard to manage your digestive system. Your performance in the organization would also go down in an unexplained manner. You’ll often bite much more than you can chew and face the wrath of others often.

·       Mental Level: People with a strong solar plexus chakra exhibit great personal power. They are natural leaders. They command respect anywhere they stand. However, if the balance of power in this chakra is off, this can go either way. If the energies in this chakra are overactive, they can become overly demanding and dominating. If the energies are low, they can become depressed, confused, jealous, contemptuous. 

·       Emotional Level: This chakra will make you feel powerful. You’ll know no bounds when it comes to stretching your limits. This chakra enables you to seek limitless power. A balanced solar plexus chakra would mean that you’ll feel complete and in control of the situation. However, if the energies are out of balance in this chakra, they can make you feel some really silly things.

·       Spiritual Level: A balanced solar plexus chakra is very important for steady spiritual growth in a person. This chakra helps you in gaining mental and spiritual maturity.

Anahata - The Heart Chakra

·       Physical Level: This is the chakra that’s in the center. It helps in striking a balance between the upper and lower chakras. Physically the job of this chakra is to keep the current flowing; it is responsible for circulation. From the flow of blood to the flow of information, everything is governed by this chakra. Being in the heart region, the circulation of blood is a major concern of this chakra. Practically, it is the chakra keeping you up and running.

·       Mental Level: On a mental level, this chakra makes you feel passionate about things in life and life itself. A precise balance needs to be there in this chakra as excessive energy would make you eccentric in front of the whole world, and low energies would project you as an unspirited person in front of the world. Imbalance of power in this chakra is not good at all.

·       Emotional Level: This is the chakra of passion and love. Balanced power in this chakra would mean that you’ll be able to love yourself and others with the same fervor. You’d not judge and discriminate against others. Your love would be deep and true. People all around you would be able to feel that love and reciprocate. However, an imbalance of energies in this chakra can paint an entirely different picture. You may come out as a very demanding and overly possessive person that most people try to avoid. Low energies may make you fearful and insecure.

·       Spiritual Level: On a spiritual level, this chakra is always seeking a connection to the divine. The constant pursuit of the heart is to unite with the divine power from which it has come out. There is always a longing to feel complete.

Vishuddhi - The Throat Chakra

·       Physical Level: This chakra is located in your throat region, and this is the area where its physical influence is the highest. It affects your thyroid gland and its functions. If there is a balance of power in this chakra, your metabolic functions will run smoothly. You will have well-rounded growth and overall physical development. In fact, it will also regulate your central nervous system and circulatory system. However, imbalance in this chakra early on can lead to stunted growth or metabolic disordered in the later stages.

·       Mental Level: The area that this chakra affects the most is your ability to express yourself clearly. If this chakra is balanced in your body, you’ll be able to express yourself as clearly as sparkling water. Your communication powers would be on par, and you will be able to hold people by your power to communicate. There will be no ambiguity in the things you say. You will be able to make people understand exactly what you want.

·       Emotional Level: This is the chakra of great leaders. It would make you a person who can outgrow a person of any size or stature. This means that your thinking would always remain independent. You’d not be reeling under someone’s weight or shadow. You’ll be emotionally independent and would have a free-will.

·       Spiritual Level: Physical and material considerations become inconsequential at this level, and hence, this chakra makes you feel spiritually secure. It would place you in your own realm. From here, the path upwards is only meant for the leaders, and hence, it isn’t crowded at all.

Ajna - The Third Eye Chakra

·       Physical Level: The physical location of this chakra is in your forehead region. The point slightly above the bridge of your nose between your eyebrows is the position of this chakra. Physically this chakra affects your power of intuition and brain function. The pineal gland is directly influenced by this chakra. Problems in this chakra can lead to neurological issues. If the energies are balanced perfectly in this chakra, it can make you more perceptive. It can increase clairvoyance, power of intuition, and psychic powers.

·       Mental Level: This chakra can improve your visual consciousness to the next level. You’d be able to see things like no one else does. Your power of discernment would be much better as compared to others. Many a time, you’d even be able to see and feel things that others can’t.

·       Emotional Level: On an emotional level, this chakra gives you extreme clarity. Your field of vision would never feel blurred. Things might be good or bad, but they’d never be ambiguous. You’d be able to see the storms building around you and problems brewing up much before they explode in the face. This is one of the greatest powers one can have in this age, where information is the greatest power one can have.

·       Spiritual Level: This chakra leads to intellectual enlightenment and paves the way for spiritual enlightenment. If the energies in this chakra are balanced, you will be able to feel blissful all the time. This is the chakra that liberates you from all kinds of fear and favors. You reach a state where you can remain unaffected by everything around you. Neither joy nor sorrow would be able to move you spiritually. However, the reverse is also true in case of an imbalance of power in this chakra. In such a case, life can become really difficult as you can start having all sorts of visions and dark energies around you would start creating impressions upon you. 

Sahasrara

·       Physical Level: This is the only chakra that doesn’t influence any internal organ of your body directly. The physical position of this chakra is at the top of your head. However, this chakra influences the whole energy field around you. This chakra has a deep impact on your mind and spirituality. This is the chakra that can literally help you in rising above your current stature of a mortal afraid being to a person who stops fearing death and, on the contrary, accepts it as a reality. This chakra opens the doors of spiritual connection for you. Of all the chakras in the body, this is the most difficult chakra to attain as there is no specified path to activate and energize this chakra. Imbalance of power in this chakra can also be the most devastating in this chakra as the intensity of this chakra is the highest, and knowledge to really control anything in this chakra is very limited.

·       Mental Level: This chakra opens the door for inner knowledge. There’s nothing you would want to know and wouldn’t know. This chakra liberates you from physical boundaries of knowledge, and hence, your abilities to amass knowledge increase considerably.

·       Emotional Level: Balance of energies in this chakra brings a greater calm. It helps in the development of a deeper understanding of the self and others. It makes you unaffected of anything that happens in and around you. Complete emotional calm is the greatest gift of this chakra. When the energies in this chakra blossom, they help you in rising about the usual trials and tribulations of life. You begin to understand the greater purpose of life and your role in the grand scheme of things. It all sounds like a fairy tale, but to a great extent, this chakra in itself is like a fairy tale exposed only to a few who could gain that kind of physical, mental, emotional, and physical maturity.

·       Spiritual Level: This is the chakra of higher consciousness. It helps you in establishing a deeper connection with the universe. It makes you rise above the bonds of physicality and dwell in the realms of greater spiritual influence.

The Science of Chakras

The Pranic system states that there are 72000 main ‘nadis’ in our body. They help in the transfer of energy or ‘prana’ from one point to another. ‘Prana’ in Sanskrit means life energy.

There are 114 junction points of these nadis, and those junction points are called the chakras. Out of these 114 chakras, 2 are outside of our body, and they don’t need any kind of management. If the other chakras are in sync, those 2 chakras will automatically remain aligned. These 2 chakras don’t have much physical impact but help in the enlightenment process and achieving higher consciousness.

The remaining 112 chakras are further divided into 7 main chakras. The virtual location of these chakras is along the spine, and they influence the endocrine and the nervous system.

All the major functions of the body are governed by the nervous system and the endocrine system. The nervous system controls the response and communication of the body, and the endocrine system has several ductless glands that produce various hormones to control physical processes. Together, both these systems can govern the way your body and mind would react in any particular situation. The chakras have a direct influence on major endocrine glands like the adrenals, ovaries and testes, pancreas, thymus and lymph, thyroid, pineal, and the pituitary glands.

The Vedas say that to lead a normal and healthy life, one doesn’t need to focus on all the 112 chakras. Even if 21 chakras in the body are functioning normally, a person can lead a very healthy, meaningful, and joyful life. If more than 21 chakras blossom in a person’s life, they will increase the capability of that person to unimaginable levels. However, the problem is that identification and selective conditioning is difficult. Hence, the best way out is to know the problems that can occur due to imbalance in the main seven chakras and to address them.

Many people also think that because the chakras are outside the body, it is difficult to manage them. Although the main 7 chakras are outside our body, they are getting affected by the energy balance in the body. Hence, it is very much possible to balance them and use them to positively influence various organs in our body. The science of doing so is called chakra healing and balancing.

The seers and sages meditated for centuries and perfected the art of activating, balancing, and healing the chakras. They mastered the art of using the chakras to achieve longevity, wisdom, and complete control over personal desires. They discovered new ways through which the chakras could help them in looking beyond the visible things.

Chakra meditation, yoga, a balanced diet, healthy lifestyle, and other such means can help in bringing the right balance in the chakras and give you control of life.

Chapter 3: The Basics of Chakra Meditation

What Is Chakra Meditation?

Chakra meditation is the term used for meditations that help in activating, unblocking, opening, and balancing the chakras. Chakra meditations are much like other meditation practices; however, they are more focused on restoring the balance in the chakras. These meditations are designed to activate and strengthen specific energy centers in your body.

The energy balance in the chakras is very delicate, and sometimes it gets disturbed very quickly. It can bring targeted changes in your behavior, confidence, character traits, and mannerisms. These meditations can help you in keeping the balance intact. With chakra meditation, you will find that maintaining the flow of life is very easy as your energy centers remain in complete harmony.

The chakras touch our lives in many ways in most subtle ways. Even though we can’t feel it, most of our character traits are a result of the prevailing energy balance in the body. In the same way, our behavior and mannerisms would also change if there is a shift in the energy levels in our chakras.

Have you ever felt that you no more feel very confident in things you used to be so sure about? Have you started feeling more insecure lately? Do you feel you have started to lose trust in people or your abilities?

All these are the signs of changes taking place in the energy levels of various chakras. Chakras have a very delicate balance. The energy levels can start shifting due to various reasons like your current emotional, physical, or mental state too. There can be an influence of the energies radiated by the people around you. Your levels of physical activity, food, and even current successes and failures can also bring changes in the balance of energies in your chakra.

Change is the only fixed thing in this world. In fact, change is constant. You can’t have control over the things that could change; you can only try to control the effect they could have on your life. The important thing is to understand the subtle hints of these changes and take corrective measures.

The chakra knowledge will enable you to understand these changes, and with the help of chakra meditation, you will be able to maintain or restore the energy balance.

Chakra meditations are like other meditations practices, the only difference being, they are more focused on certain energy centers, and hence, you are able to feel the changes more rapidly in the desired areas. They help in increasing your confidence and also fill you with positivity.

Chakra meditations don’t require any specific preparation other than the ones you do for other meditation practices.

Chakra Meditations Aren’t Part of Black Magic or Any Other Dark Practice.

Chakra meditation sessions simply help you in feeling the energy and consciously raising it to become more active and effective.

However, chakra meditation is only one way among several other methods available for healing the chakras. In fact, some of the chakra healing methods are quite popular and prevalent in the western world.

The other methods to heal the chakras are:

·       Yoga

·       Reiki

·       Acupuncture

·       Tai Chi

·       Qi Gong

If your chakras are out of balance, you can also take the help of crystals, essential oil massages, and lifestyle changes to restore energy balance in your body. No matter what practice you use or you choose to employ a mix of various methods, the important thing is to understand the imbalance and take conscious corrective steps to correct the imbalance. This book will help you in doing that.

Why Is It Important to Do Chakra Meditation?

The chakras are real, and they have a deep impact on the lives of all of us. None of us can remain unaffected by their power. As long as there is a ‘Prana Vayu’ in our body or the flow of life energies, the chakras will keep influencing our lives. The movement of energy in the body is a constant, and the chakras are the points that allow the swift transfer of this energy from one point to another. Hence, chakras are undeniable facets of life. The longer you ignore them, the more complex would the problems of life would become.

It is an obvious thing to come to mind that millions of people pass their whole span of existence ignorant of this aspect of life, and yet they are able to live their life fully, then why do you need to understand the chakras and ways to heal them? However, if you look closely, they simply spend their lives without having any actual control over the turn of events in their lives. Most of us lead our lives symptomatically. We address the problems as and when they arise without doing anything to address the root cause of the problem. The knowledge of chakras helps you in finding the root cause of the troubles and treating it before it leads to a domino effect.

Chakra meditation is one of the most important tools in addressing the problem of a chakra imbalance. There can be innumerable reasons for blocking of chakras. The reasons for a chakra becoming overactive or suppressed can be even more. Emotional trouble, trauma, bad memories, suppression, injury, karma, poor diet, lousy lifestyle, high stress, loss of loved ones, deceit, and many other such things can lead to chakra imbalance. It is very difficult to control the external factors in life as they are happening all the time. The most important thing is to identify a problem in a timely manner and address it immediately.

As Murphy’s law states, ‘if something can go wrong, it will,’ it is important to identify the things that are going wrong and address them. Even better, keep your body in a mode where it can begin the damage control in a much efficient and effective way. Chakra meditation is just the way to do that.

Chakra meditation can help you in keeping your chakras open and in sync. It will enable you to keep the flow of energies smooth so that neither the energies are suppressed in any one chakra nor they become overactive in another as both the states can be problematic.

As has been stated earlier, too, chakra meditation is also like other forms of meditation. The only difference is that in chakra meditation, you are more focused inwards, and you try to raise the specific energy centers with the help of your awareness. You visualize the energy centers and bring power to those areas. This meditation makes it practically possible to channelize energy from one area to another. All you will need is focus and determination. Chakra meditation is the art of science of learning to do that.

The sages and seers developed the art of meditation through hundreds of years of practice. It is a very tried and tested way to concentrate life energies and move them as per wish. However, it requires practice, patience, and perseverance. The right kind of environment and preparation can make things easier for you.

In this part, we will understand the ways in which we can get the maximum benefit from chakra meditation.

Preparing for Meditation

Meditation is an important process of raising your level of consciousness. It is a way to become aware of your own self and your surroundings. We all feel that we know ourselves and have reasonable control over our bodies. Whereas the truth is that we literally don’t control anything in our body. The body keeps functioning on its own, and we don’t have any control over the mechanics of it. We might think that we have some control over our mind, but we all know very well that the mind controls and not the vice-versa.

Meditation is the way to take some control of your body and mind. It is a way to condition your body and mind to function in a certain way. This isn’t easy, and it doesn’t happen on its own. It will take some time and a reasonable amount of practice.

Meditation is the way to bring this change in your body.

To gain this control, you will have to make yourself more disciplined and follow certain procedures. This will help you in getting success faster. If you meditate properly, you’ll not only be able to gain better control over your body and mind; you will also be able to practically channelize the energy in your body and bring a balance in your chakras.

Although chakra meditation is very similar to other forms of meditation, there are some important differences. First, regular meditation is usually done to calm the mind and bring physical relief. Chakra meditation is more specific as it is specifically aimed at channelizing energy in certain areas. While you can follow regular meditation in a relaxed manner, too, for chakra meditation, it will be important for you to sit in certain positions and meditate in a specific way. However, sitting in a certain position doesn’t mean that it has to be very difficult. There will be easier alternatives for people who find certain positions difficult.

Second, while you can do regular meditation at your own pace and time, you will have to follow certain timelines and restrictions while doing chakra meditation.

These two simple things can help you in bringing balance in your chakras and gaining better control of your body and mind. If there are blockages in your chakras or some chakras are overactive or suppressed, they can also be healed through these meditations.

Important Parts of Chakra Meditation

Posture

Posture plays a very important part. While doing chakra meditation, you are trying to bring all your chakras in sync. For this, it is important that they remain aligned properly so that the unobstructed flow of energy can be ensured.

There are 8 simple rules that you must follow to get the most out of your meditation sessions.

1. Keep Your Spine Straight

This is the golden rule of meditation. If your spine is not straight, it is curved or slumped back, you will start having severe backache very soon, and the flow of energy in your chakras would also get obstructed. Hence, you must keep your spine straight. If someone is unable to sit for long periods due to any medical condition but wants to do chakra meditation, then he/she can use a backrest, but the spine needs to be kept straight. Not only slouching back but bending forward or bending sideways can also cause problems.

Vedas say that:

If you bend forward while you meditate, you will have depressing thoughts. In such a state, the flow of positive thoughts isn’t possible.

If you slouch backward, you will experience restlessness, and your thoughts would keep wandering here and there. Paying attention to the process would become very difficult for you.

In case you tilt a bit to your right, it would make you feel lethargic, and you’d want to get out of the meditation session soon. You might also start feeling drowsy.

Leaning to the left will lead to an increase in sexual desires. You will start having sexual thoughts, and meditation would become difficult.

The best posture for meditation is sitting straight.

2. Your Shoulders Must Remain Relaxed but Straight

Keeping the shoulders straight helps in preventing the body from tilting sideways. Only a little bit of tilt can cause distraction, and hence, you must keep your shoulders straight. If you want to keep your shoulders straight without having to pay much attention to them during the meditation session, adjust the position of your hands beforehand. Choose the way you want to place your hands. Whether you want to keep them in your lap or want to keep them in a folded position, whatever may be the position, it should be decided beforehand to ensure that your shoulders don’t keep moving.

3. Don’t Use a Neck Rest

The neck plays a very important role in ensuring that your chain of thoughts remains aligned. The neck held straight experiences a little bit of tension, but that also ensures that you have active control of your thoughts. If you use a neck rest, you may start feeling drowsy. 

4. Lift Your Chin a Little

When you meditate, your chin must be raised a little. This helps you in achieving the meditative state faster.

5. Rest Your Hands Properly

Chakra meditation sessions can be long, and hence, it is important that the hands are rested properly in your lap or on your knees as per the mudra or hand posture required. If your hands are not rested properly, you’ll soon start feeling the discomfort and get distracted.

6. Use a Comfortable Cushion

You will need to sit for a certain amount of time in a cross-legged posture. This can start to hurt if you are not sitting on a comfortable cushion or mat. Choose wisely.

7. Always Keep Your Feet Firmly Rested on the Mat

Chakra meditation involves establishing a connection with all the five elements in our body, and the earth is one among them. To keep you grounded, it is important that you keep your feet rested properly on the ground. If you are not sitting firmly, you can start getting negative thoughts.

8. Relax

It is very important that while you do the chakra meditation, you keep your body and mind completely relaxed. If there is any kind of stress in your body, your focus will keep shifting repeatedly.

Sitting Posture

Full Lotus Pose

The best way to sit for chakra meditation is the full lotus pose as it puts pressure at the right spots and makes reaching the meditative state fast. It keeps you firmly rooted in the ground, and the base of your spine is almost touching the ground. Hence, the root chakra will be able to make contact with the ground easily.

Half Lotus Pose

In case you find full lotus pose difficult, you can also sit in the half-lotus pose.

Quarter Lotus Pose

This is an easy position where you can simply keep one of your feet on the other thigh and let the other foot lie on the mat.

Burmese Position

If you find all the lotus positions, you can begin with the Burmese position and then slowly pick the lotus postures.

Breathing

Breathing is a very important part of meditation. Breathing helps you in inhaling the ‘Prana Vayu’ or life energy and exhaling all the negativity inside you. It is important to carry out breathing in the right manner.

You must inhale and exhale very slowly when you meditate.

You should inhale from your nose slowly and exhale from your mouth even more slowly.

Your exhalations should be longer than your inhalations.

This would help you in drawing in more positive energy and drawing out even more negativity.

Time

Chakra Meditations should be carried out at specific times in a day. It is usually very good to do chakra meditation early in the morning. If the time of meditation corresponds to the time just before the sunrise, it would be even better. Doing it at night is also good. You must keep in mind the duration of each meditation.

Place

It is very important that you do chakra meditation at a fixed place. There are some very important reasons for this.

When you are doing chakra meditation, you are trying to deal with energies. Meditation helps in the generation of positive energy. This positive energy stays at the place where you meditate even after you have finished your meditation. Therefore, the next time you sit there for meditation, there will already be some positive energy at that place. It will help you in gaining focus faster.

If you keep changing the place of your meditation or meditate at random places, you will not have this advantage. Doing meditation anywhere is fine as long as you are doing it for relaxation or anxiety relief. However, when you do it for bringing a balance in your energies, it is important that you get all the help you can.

Prepare the place of your meditation carefully. If you can find a separate room for meditation, then it would be wonderful; however, if that’s not possible, ensure that there is a minimum intrusion of anyone else in that room. Every person has his or her aura or energy field. That energy field will interact with the energy field created in your room. If random people keep walking in that room, it will become very difficult to control the interaction of negative energies.

You must also keep the place of meditation as much decluttered and clean as possible. Even objects have their own energy field that can interfere.

Light incense sticks and candles at the place of your meditation and try to keep it well lit. This would infuse positive energy in that area.

Chapter 4: Other Methods of Chakra Healing and Balancing

Chakras are nothing but energy centers, and hence, they get influenced by various things that have their own energy fields like the crystals and essential oils. Not only that, with the help of yoga to you can influence your chakras as Yoga ensures that the smooth flow of energy in the body remains unobstructed.

Not only these, using colors, sound vibrations or mantras, and specific diets, you can influence the flow of energy in your body.

The best way is to use as many of these methods as possible along with meditation so that the energy balance in your chakras gets restored fast.

However, there are specific procedures to use every method.

Yoga

Yoga is a very helpful exercise that helps you in strengthening your body and mind for dealing with higher energies. Yoga also enables you to sit in the meditative position for longer periods. In fact, meditation is also a part of yoga. Out of the 8 parts of yoga, the upper four parts are related to controlling the breath and getting into the meditative state.

If you want to do chakra meditation for longer and want to get the most out of it, various yoga poses can help you in restoring the flow of energy in various chakras. We will read about all the yoga poses in detail while discussing the healing of every chakra.

Crystals

Crystals are natural rocks that are rich in certain elements. We all know that every crystal radiates the energy of a different kind. This can be used to manage the deficit of energies in any specific chakra in your body. You can also use the crystals for canceling out certain energies in case of any specific chakra in your body has become overactive.

However, while handling chakras, it is important that you remain careful as chakras absorb energies of all the people who have handled them. Therefore, before you start using any chakra, it is important to purify that chakra to clear out the influence of previous energies.

You can follow 3 simple ways to clean the crystals before use:

Smudge with White Sage

White sage can help in cleaning the influence of energies on crystals. Simply take white sage and light it. Once it lights up, put out the flame and let the smoke of the white sage pass over the crystals. This cleans the effect of past energies on the crystals.

Keep Them Under the Moonlight

Before you start using the crystals, simply lay them under the moonlight on your terrace or anywhere else where they can absorb the moonlight for the whole night. This simple process will help in clearing out the negative influence of energies from the crystals.

Hold Them Under Running Water

Keeping the crystals under running water for a few minutes is also a good way to clean the influence of negative energies from the crystals. While you keep the crystals under running water, you must ensure that the crystals don’t have a very high salt content. Soft crystals with high salt content will start dissolving under the running water. For them, you can use other cleaning methods described above.

Essential Oils

Essential oils are plant extracts with a distinct aroma. Aromatherapy has emerged as a well-known practice for healing various problems. In Ayurveda, essential oils have been used for treating illnesses, and they also play a role in restoring the energy balance in the body.

You can use some specific essential oils to treat the energy imbalance in your body. Using essential oils is very simple. You can take 5-6 drops of essential oils and mix them with some carrier oil like jojoba oil and apply them directly to the affected spot. You can also rub them on your palms and then massage the affected chakra for relief.

The use of these external methods helps you in restoring the balance in the chakras faster. These are simple tools that can keep working along with your meditation and will provide an added effect. The use of these methods is simple and doesn’t require much extra effort. However, the advantages of using them are plenty.

Chapter 5: Introduction of the 7 Chakras

There are 7 main chakras, and every chakra has its own characteristics. Understanding these characteristics can help you in identifying your strong chakras as well as the chakras, which may have an energy imbalance.

It is important to understand that chakras don’t produce energy. They are just the centers of energy transfer in your body. These are the points where the groups of minor chakras send their energies, and then these chakras have to maintain the flow of that energy throughout the body. Whenever there is a blockage in a chakra, it not only creates a problem in that chakra, but it also creates a problem for other chakras as well. It is the same energy that has passed from the root chakra that will also go to the crown chakra. Only the intensity of the energy flow keeps changing as it moves up the ladder.

All the chakras are powerful and can have a deep impact on your life. Each chakra has its own qualities and intensity of expression. The lower three chakras affect you physically. Their impact is more on the physical nature. On a physical level, you don’t experience life very intensely. They affect you locally, and hence, any change that you might experience will come from within. The changes would be subtle and often mistakable.

However, as you move up, the intensity of your experience starts to rise. You start experiencing life with greater intensity. Your experience starts crossing the bounds of physicality, and hence, not only you but even others can feel the changes coming in you quickly. The upper chakra may not be very subtle.

Every chakra has its own qualities. It helps in establishing a set of characteristics. However, when the energies in that chakra get overexpressed, those qualities may become very intense and take a negative form for others around you. If a chakra is overactive in your body, the people around you will be able to feel the expression of those energies.

On the other hand, if the energies in a chakra are low, they may not find proper expression. It means the qualities that a chakra brings may not fully develop in you. You may experience stunted growth of certain qualities. The negative influence of this may be more on you.

It is very important that the energies remain balanced, and all the chakras are in sync.

Some people try to activate only one chakra and don’t pay attention to others. Even this is a wrong practice. It is very important to understand that chakras don’t function as individual units. Every chakra constantly radiates energy that transfers on to the next chakra. They act as a spinning vortex of energy. They aren’t static in nature. If you try to activate one chakra without ensuring that all the other chakras are open, it is very likely that the energies in that chakra might become overactive, and that would also cause problems for you.

Therefore, it is important that while you try to activate one chakra, you must ensure that all the other chakras are open and in sync. It is only then that you’ll be able to get benefitted. 

Muladhara - The Root Chakra

This is the base chakra in the body. In Sanskrit, the word ‘Mula’ means ‘foundation’ or ‘the root.’ This chakra is associated with your connection to your roots. It provides you the grounding effect. Your bones, spine, pelvis, rectum, legs, immune system, nervous system, feet, and sexuality are influenced by this chakra.

This is the first chakra in the body, and also the first one to open up. It is active even while you are still in the mother’s womb. This is the chakra of base feelings. If the root chakra is powerful in your body, only survival would be your main concern. Food and sleep would be your prime concerns in life. The biggest thing you’d seek is safety and security. This chakra is highly active in kids, and that’s the reason even when they don’t have consciousness of anything else, they have some basic fears of security. However, as you grow, this chakra evolves, and the fear gets replaced by logic and structure. This chakra calls for order in life. However, the focus of this chakra usually remains primal feelings. This chakra always pursues family, group safety, and security. The need to fulfill the basic requirements of life always remains the main concern of this chakra.

Active and Balanced Root Chakra

If your root chakra is balanced and fully active, you will feel humble, polite, down to earth, and completely grounded in reality. This chakra makes you a person with clear priorities. You will always remain centered towards your goals, and wouldn’t get swayed by fancy ideas and Ponzi schemes. This chakra also brings with itself the gift of health. It will make you feel energetic and full of life. People with balanced root chakra never feel the dearth of physical energy. This is the chakra that establishes you in this world. If living in this world fully is your desire, this is the chakra to begin with. Although the sacral chakra is known for providing pleasure-seeking abilities but the capabilities to enjoy those pleasures come only through the root chakra.

The root chakra helps in the development of the five senses that help you in discovering this world fully. In fact, if the spiritual path is what you are seeking, it wouldn’t be possible without the opening up of this chakra. This chakra keeps you grounded in reality when you are dealing with a world of perception. The physical boundaries seem to diminish in the higher chakras, and you start dealing with energies that can be very powerful. They can start playing with your mind, and you may begin to see and feel things that are unreal. Even in those circumstances, if your root chakra is open and active, it will keep you firmly grounded in reality. You wouldn’t feel scared or paranoid as many people do who don’t have an active root chakra.

This is the most basic but very important chakra. This chakra is open from the very beginning, but it can get blocked very easily. Stress, fear, insecurities, jealousy, greed, loss, and lust are some of the feelings that can lead to the development of negative energies in this chakra. On the physical level, if you are trying to lose weight, keeping this chakra active is very important. Imbalance in energies in this chakra can lead to unexpected weight gain besides other problems.

Overactive Root Chakra

If your root chakra is overactive, it can make you a despicable person. It can inflate your ego and make you a person that has lost the connection with the ground. From a humble person, it can transform you into a domineering person who wouldn’t consider the feelings of others. Greed to acquire everything will become your defining quality. Although you may not be able to amass huge wealth, you’d have the unquenching lust for power and success. Your addiction to wealth may turn into a degradation. One of the most troubling aspects of the overactive root chakra is the indiscriminate use of sexual energy. Accumulation of a lot of nervous sexual energy takes place that’s never good for anyone, neither the victim nor the culprit.

Underactive Root Chakra

Low energies in this chakra can make you appear as an underconfident and dreamy person. You’d have to connect with the ground realities, and you may simply remain hooked to a dreamy world. Such people are always busy making billion-dollar plans that have no practical application. They keep blaming others but are unable to take any action on their own. Physical, moral, and sexual weakness is also a characteristic of the people falling in this category. This chakra provides power and stability that makes you strong, but if this chakra lacks energy, you’d appear lackluster.

The people with weak root chakra would find it very hard to achieve their goals. No matter how hard they try as per their standard, it never seems to be enough. This happens because they are living in their own world with shifting standards for everything. They start moving on a path of self-destruction without realizing it.

Low energy root chakra can also fill such people with great insecurities. This chakra provides survival instincts; however, when it is low in energy, the flight response is very high in people. Such people become insecure about everything and start distrusting people. Feeling unloved or abandoned is very common in them.

A weak root chakra will not allow a smooth flow of energy even in other chakras, and hence, it is very important that the imbalance in this chakra is corrected at the earliest possible.

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

People with an imbalance in this chakra can face chronic back pain issues, especially in the lower back region. As this chakra also influences your lower body, sciatica and other such problems can also surface. Varicose veins can also affect people with an imbalance of energies in this chakra.

This chakra can also cause immune-related disorders, diarrhea, constipation, urinary tract infections, and kidney stones.

People with poor root chakra can develop irrational fears and may also suffer from clinical depression. Their financial health also remains dwindling due to their illogical plans and lack of concrete steps in their careers.

Svadhishthana - The Sacral Chakra

This is the pleasure seeker’s chakra. This is the chakra of joyfulness. This chakra starts opening up once a child starts crossing the age of 2. This chakra opens a whole new world of limitless possibilities to be joyful. In a child, only two major chakras are functioning, and while the child is living in protected statuary, the fear from root chakra is low. Hence, the child is the biggest pleasure seeker. You would need force to convert the joy of a child to sorrow. Children don’t need reasons to be happy. Being joyful is their second nature, thanks to this chakra. For them, everything around them is a new experience, and hence, they want to feel and absorb everything. As you grow, other chakras also become active and start influencing your nature; however, the basic qualities of the sacral chakra are always present.

A person with balanced energies in the sacral chakra would be a pleasure-seeker in true senses. The meaning of ‘Sva’ in Sanskrit is one’s own. This is the chakra that establishes you in this world fully. It helps in complete immersion. All the five senses find complete expression in this chakra. You will be able to enjoy every relic you find. You’d long to break free of the monotony of the world and explore new avenues. Even in the regular things, you’d find extraordinary opportunities to enjoy, and your mind is constantly seeking pleasure in everything. This chakra simply makes you interested in everything around you.

The sacral chakra is the second chakra, and hence, its physical impact on you is very high. This physical location of this chakra is around two inches below your navel region, and it influences your reproduction abilities. As this chakra is really given to seeking pleasures of the body and the mind, any imbalance in this chakra can lead to overexpression of sexual energies. The dangers of developing addictive tendencies are also great if this chakra goes out of balance.

People with problems in this chakra usually have issues about money, sex, and power, as these are the main sources of pleasure. Imbalance in the chakra can easily make you cross the boundaries of ethics and honor in relationships. Development of deep guilt is also highly possible as people are mostly not able to come to terms with their actions. 

Active and Balanced Sacral Chakra

This chakra will fill you with flawless optimism. There’s nothing in which you wouldn’t see an opportunity. You wouldn’t see things in a negative light as everything opens up an opportunity to explore. This chakra also makes you a very friendly and caring person. You’d have a genuine concern for people around you as they also contribute towards the joyful environment.

The biggest plus point of this chakra is that it infuses you with a sense of belonging. You’d seldom feel out of place or undesired. All your five senses blossom up when this chakra is balanced, and hence, you can really feel this world. This would mean that you’d become creative, intuitive, and imaginative. People with balanced energies in the sacral chakra are very comfortable with their feelings. They aren’t shy about admitting their feelings. This makes them frank and outgoing. They may have a great sense of humor as no one else likes to laugh openly like them.

The biggest asset of the sacral chakra is that it helps you in establishing a solid connection with this world. This chakra makes a living this life a thrilling and joyful experience. There are very few dull moments that pass uneventfully. This chakra opens up very early in life, and hence, it gets a lot of time to develop. As you grow and your upper chakras start dominating your personality, many characteristics of other chakras may get suppressed. However, some of the qualities of the sacral chakra still find expression in your personality as they become your second nature. Complete development and proper working of this chakra are very important, and if you to live a life that’s full of experiences and joy.

This is called the pleasure-seekers chakra but this doesn’t mean that it would propel you towards sinful life and make you indulgent. It simply means that it would enhance your abilities to experience this world. As long as you want to enjoy this world, you will have the ability to do so. You’d find many people around them who have lost the ability to be happy. It isn’t that they are sorrowful or they lack something in life but being grumpy becomes their second nature. They need reasons to be happy while it should be the other way around. People start losing interest in having sex with their partners and become forceful workhorse due to their inability to find pleasure anywhere else. All such people have problems in their sacral chakra, and resolving the problems can give them their life back.

Overactive Sacral Chakra

While a balanced sacral chakra makes you jovial person with a great sense of humor, excessive energy in this chakra can make a person emotionally explosive, aggressive, and abusive. It can make you cave-in to the carnal pleasures and from that point, there is no coming back. Overindulgence is the biggest problem people face when this chakra becomes overactive. There is a kind of addiction to pleasure that people feel most of the time, and they find themselves drawn towards it. This takes away all the productivity from life.

Another problem this chakra creates is that it makes you a self-serving person, and people generally don’t hesitate to become over-manipulative for that. This takes out trust from the equation.

If the energies are very high in this chakra, they can also push you into a world of illusion that simply doesn’t exist on any level.

Sex is also an important part of the problem in this chakra. People develop an unnatural obsession for sex when the energies in this chakra are overactive. You may start having obsessive thoughts about sex and sexual acts that are not natural. Your whole world starts revolving around sex and pushes you towards perversion. It may make you envision people only as a sex object, and you’d have limited power of discernment to consider them otherwise. This is a dangerous stage, as this behavior is not only immoral but dangerous. If you witness any signs of this behavior, you must immediately seek help.

Underactive Sacral Chakra

If the energies in this chakra are low, your ability to absorb this world becomes limited. You’d find it very difficult to open up and explore this world. It makes you a timid and extremely shy person. Even small things in life can immobilize you with fear. You may get tormented by unnecessary things in life. Joy is a precious commodity for people falling into this category. It isn’t the lack of opportunities to be happy, but the inability to be happy that’s the problem.

People in this category turn out to be overly sensitive to things. They have very thin skin and may feel hurt even by innocent words and actions. It isn’t the insensitive attitude of others but their repressed and buried emotions that make them feel so.  Such people generally feel resentful of others and also have self-negating feelings.

The main issue is that they have a lower appetite for happiness, and they simply don’t find themselves worthy of enjoying openly.

These are some very negative emotions, and they lead to the development of a distrustful attitude. Such people do have the desire to be happy but not the ability to show it openly. They can’t seek pleasure in public, and hence, they are always planning that in private. This means that they can also become conniving.

Low energy in the sacral chakra can also lead to development in the sexual areas. Such people may become frigid or impotent. They may also face difficulty in conceiving. They generally feel guilty about sex, and that may also lead to abuse.

Physical Issues Related to This Chakra

The most common physical problems faced by people suffering from energy imbalance in this chakra are sexual potency issues and urinary tract infections. However, people also suffer from lower back pain, gynecological problems, and sciatica.

Manipura- The Solar Plexus Chakra

This is the chakra of proactive people. It infuses you with unlimited energy to work tirelessly towards a set goal. This is the chakra that makes you the engine of any project or organization. The word ‘Mani’ means ‘jewel’ in Sanskrit and ‘Pura’ means city or place. This chakra is the city of jewels as per the Vedas. They say that a person in whom this chakra has blossomed fully will know no boundaries when it comes to conquering or achieving. No goal would be big enough for such a person.

This chakra makes you the star in any organization because you will be inspiring to others. You will be the problem solver or the troubleshooter. You don’t see impediments on the way just learning opportunities, the attitude of this chakra is out and out optimistic.

Personal power is the strength of this chakra. This is the top chakra that keeps you tied to physicality. The first chakra makes helps you in remaining grounded to the roots. The second helps you in forming a bond of close interaction with the world. The third chakra helps you in adding your contribution to this world so that you can form an integral bond of ownership.

This chakra fills you with unlimited energy to transform. It empowers you to change the things you don’t like. This isn’t the chakra of accepting things as they are. It helps you in molding them as you want.

The color of this chakra is bright yellow as the color of the rays of the sun. This is the color that symbolizes power and prosperity. Like the sun, this chakra is also filled with the energy to do anything it likes. It gives you an appetite to take unimaginable challenges and fulfill them.

Active and Balanced Solar Plexus Chakra

If the energies in this chakra are balanced, it’ll make you proactive and powerful. You’d become a person who’d have the ability to digest life as it is. Fretting about things wouldn’t be your part of the game.

People with a balanced solar plexus chakra find their gift early on in their lives. They aren’t fooling around for long and have their path laid out in front of them clearly. There is very little scope of ambiguity in this chakra.

As a person, people with balanced solar plexus chakra would be cheerful, outgoing, respectful, and confident. It’d be natural for them to have great personal power that gets reflected in their demeanor.

People with strong solar plexus chakra are skillful, intelligent, and spontaneous. They don’t need to be pushed into action as they are always ready to take the leap. Proactivity is their forte and nature. They’d love to take new challenges and wouldn’t hesitate to take risks that can pay off well. These people are born entrepreneurs.

Working hard isn’t a compulsion but nature for such people, and that’s what presents them as inspiration in work environments. They lead by example and can charge up any room by their presence.

Overactive Solar Plexus Chakra

This is a chakra that is already filled with a lot of energy. It keeps you all charged up internally at all times. However, in case the energies in this chakra become overactive, they can become too much for people to bear. There is a very thin line that differentiates between a hardworking person and a workaholic. Such people easily trespass personal boundaries and come out as overbearing.

These people start expecting others to work like them and become overly judgmental. This is an area where they start causing discomfort to others. Their addiction performing actions in a particular way and consideration of that way to be the best may present them as a perfectionist. All these things make work with them difficult. So, even a little bit of extra energy in this chakra can easily throw you out of balance.

As you keep moving up the ladder, the balance of power in the chakras keeps getting delicate. This happens because the level of intensity in each chakra starts increasing. The upper chakras are already so charged up that even a little bit of excess can throw them off balance. It happens with this chakra easily.

People with excess energy in this chakra seem to overly demanding and unjustified. Not only this, but they also sound overly intellectual, which is hard to grasp for others. They simply start losing the connection with the ground.

Excessive energy in this chakra not only poses problems with the subordinates but also with people of authority. A person with an overactive solar plexus chakra would find it really hard to take orders and would be resentful of authority. The excess energy fills them with so much overconfidence and the superiority complex that they find it hard to come to terms with others giving orders.

All this can build a lot of pressure on these people, and taking the help of drugs and other addictions are common.

Underactive Solar Plexus Chakra

Low energy in this chakra can be catastrophic as far as personality is concerned. This can make you feel underconfident and depressed. It’d be a stark opposite of the true nature, and hence, there will be a great tussle inside.

Such people start worrying more about the opinion of others and give less thought to what they should do. Their life starts revolving around the opinion of others. This takes away the control of life from them and gives it to others. It can make them feel miserable.

They can become fearful and distrustful of others. In fact, worrying about others becomes their second nature, and hence, they lose all kinds of initiative in life. They feel afraid of being alone and need constant reassurance.  They may develop poor digestion of food and also of this world. Jealousy and contempt come walking in their lives, and they aren’t able to resist the temptation.

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

Pancreatic issues, diabetes, hypertension, and liver dysfunction are common in people facing an imbalance in this chakra. Indigestion, intestinal problems, and ulcers also noticed in them. Such people may also suffer from arthritis, bulimia, and adrenal dysfunction. 

Anahata – The Heart Chakra

This is one of the most important and interesting chakras in the 7-chakra system. It is a chakra that neither lies in the top three, nor does it fall in the bottom three. Therefore, neither it is binding you to the earth nor helping in liberation. It is somewhere in the center providing you a middle ground. It prepares you for final liberation and also teaches you the importance of attachment.

This chakra plays a very important role in our physicality and an equally important one, if not more, on the emotional and spiritual level. The meaning of the Sanskrit word ‘Anahata’ is ‘the unstruck sound.’ It means a sound that has been there eternally and has no point of origin. Anahata is the confluence of two very different kinds of energies. The lower chakras are very physical in nature, and their powers are drawn inwards; the upper chakras are intellectual and spiritual in nature and their powers are drawn outwards. But this is the point that allows the passage of the powers of upper chakras downwards and also allows the energy of the lower chakras to move upwards to complete the cycle. Therefore, this chakra has the qualities of both levels.

Anahata is also called the heart chakra as it lies in the region of the heart. At this level, harmony is very important. This level is not about struggle or fight. At this point, the energy chakra is struggling to strike a balance between two opposing forces. This chakra starts finding expression in us between the age of 6-12. This is around the same time sexual development is also taking place in the body, and hence, this chakra also represents that struggle where you discover the true nature of your sexuality. The Vedas don’t draw a line on sexuality. As per the texts, male and female are two different interpretations of the same power. In fact, we have all the qualities of the opposite sex; it is only a matter of finding the right expression. Whichever quality would be stronger would find expression in our personality. In fact, Shiva, the ultimate and founder of the principles of chakras, has a form where he is both a male and a female at the same time.

The heart chakra is all about fluidity. There’s nothing rigid in this chakra. This chakra longs to establish a relationship. Love, creativity, and the expression of creative arts are the mainstay of this chakra. If the heart chakra blossoms in your body, it’ll make you a creative person. You don’t necessarily have to be an artist. But you will have the power to understand and appreciate art. Your life would be more intense than others. You’ll feel things in life more intensely. Your emotions would be stronger, and your longings would be different.

Active and Balanced Heart Chakra

If this chakra is balanced in your body, you’d be physically and mentally in sync. It means you’ll feel perfectly comfortable in your skin. You wouldn’t have the usual insecurities. Neither aggression nor unnecessary melodrama, your demeanor would be above these gestures. This is a chakra of empathy. It gives you the power to feel the pain and problems of others. You would become compassionate and friendly.

One of the biggest fortes of this chakra is that it makes you capable of service. Community service or social service comes naturally to people with a strong heart chakra. You’d have a genuine eye to see the good in people around you, and that ultimately makes you an even better person.

The power of discernment is another gift of this chakra. People with power in this chakra seldom get fooled by fakeness. It is very difficult to fool them and take advantage of their goodness.

The heart chakra also makes you capable of showing and accepting love. This may look such a simple thing but in reality, it isn’t. We all are usually making a trade. We choose to love people on the things they can bring into our lives and not on their merit. We want something concrete in exchange for the love we are giving, and that really leads to most of the fallouts in the relationships. The heart chakra can genuinely help you in loving others unconditionally. Complete surrender in love is a hard thing to come by usually, but it comes naturally with this chakra in balance.

Overactive Heart Chakra

If the energies in this chakra go out of control, they can make you demanding, possessive, and cringy. Such people are overly critical of others, and that makes relationships difficult.

Due to this chakra, there is an innate longing for love and relationship, but the energy imbalance makes relationships very difficult. People start putting conditions on love, and that leaves them unsustainable in the long run. If you have been facing problems in relationships where you find it difficult to commit yourself fully, trust others, or you try to withhold your love, these are clear signs of excessive energy in this chakra.

It can also make you melodramatic and may also have the martyr-complex. If this goes on for very long, it can cause serious problems in relationships and even your personality.

Underactive Heart Chakra

If the energies in this chakra are suppressed, you may face problems in striking a balance. It may fill you with all sorts of fears as the intense upper chakras start exerting pressure, and the lower chakras keep trying to push upwards. All of this can lead to the paranoia of sorts.

Such people would always remain indecisive, and their power of discernment would be weak. They’d never be able to really make up their minds about things in life. This indecision affects their relationships the hardest.

These people also find it very difficult to let go of things, although they don’t have the power to hold on to them anymore. This is a big problem as it keeps them hanging too. They are afraid of being alone, but they also have a fear of being free. They might find it hard to trust others and commit but also have a fear of the same degree of being abandoned.

They need constant reassurance of everything in life, even their own worth, while they are trying to belittle everyone else on the way simple for the sake of proving their worth. Their personality becomes a perfect example of contradictions.

Feeing of unworthiness is one of the biggest fears that grabs a person when this chakra is low in energy. This chakra really longs for love and expression of love, and that’s the thing it’d not find at all.

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

High blood pressure and heart-related diseases are the most common in people with problems in this chakra. People also experience acute pain and tension between their shoulders, among other problems. This chakra dominates the whole circulatory process and the lymph system, and hence, all the problems related to them can arise.

Vishuddhi- The Throat Chakra

This is the first of the three upper chakras but immensely powerful. The upper chakras are more intellectual and spiritual in nature than physical, and in those terms, it is the least powerful. However, when it comes to providing power in the real world, there can be nothing more powerful than this chakra.

The throat chakra known as ‘Vishuddhi’ in Sanskrit means ‘pure.’ The power of this chakra is undiluted and secondary to none. If this chakra blossoms fully in your body, it can make you a world leader. This chakra gives you the ultimate gift of learning and perfection. It makes you a master communicator, and you will have sway over all the people you communicate with. You will command the unflinching devotion of the people under your command.

It doesn’t matter which walk of life you are in; this chakra can make you a master in it. Learning becomes natural on the level of Vishuddhi. This is the chakra perfected by the occult masters for gaining powers beyond human comprehension. Activation of this chakra becomes very important if one really wants to harness the powers of the upper chakras like the third eye chakra and the crown chakra as they need greater focus and skill. An active throat chakra makes it easier to learn the ways to master the upper chakras.

Physically this chakra influences the throat region and the thyroid gland. It helps in the overall development of the body and ensures proper growth. This chakra can improve your communication skills exponentially. If you have always desired to be a master communicator, you must work on improving the energy balance in this chakra.

This is the chakra of strength, which is complete. A person with a fully blossomed Vishuddhi chakra will look more powerful than the roomful of armed people. It isn’t the muscular power that has made a difference in this world but the power of thought, communication, and conviction. This chakra brings all these qualities to the table.

However, despite being a very powerful chakra, the focus of energies in this chakra is not inwards. If this chakra is active in your body, your focus would be on providing for others and not for yourself. This chakra brings with itself the intent of the greater good. In fact, as you move up the chakra ladder, the intent swiftly changes from working for the self to working for others.

If this chakra is powerful in your body, you’ll be powerful but selfless. You’ll be a master communicator but would be spreading the message for the greater good.

Active and Balanced Throat Chakra

If the energies in this chakra find expression and they are not out of sync, you’ll be content. This chakra is the first step towards realization. You’ll know the real things that matter in life, and hence, you’ll be able to put an end to futile races in life.

The best thing about this chakra is that besides all other wonderful things, it gives you the power to be in the moment. Most of us have an illusion that we are living in the present while our lives are simply revolving around the instances of the past and the insecurities of the future. We fail to live in the present and enjoy this world as it is on its merits.

Your awareness of time would increase exponentially. Be it your timing or your ability to use time, every aspect of your life would improve.

It goes without saying that this chakra makes you a master communicator. You will be able to convey your messages with the utmost clarity. People would not only understand but feel you. The throat chakra completely transforms you as a person. Your preferences, motives, intentions, and abilities change as this chakra opens up in you.

People with active throat chakra may be artistically inspired and gifted. They would have the natural talent of being prolific and expressive.

This chakra also enhances your understanding of the spiritual concepts as it is the ladder to spirituality. The development of the abilities to meditate for gaining spiritual knowledge also begins at this level. It is only after the opening of this chakra that you will be truly able to experience divine energy and keep your sanity intact. Most people who have had any kind of spiritual experience but didn’t have had this chakra open prior to the experience often end up losing their sanity. It is a different thing that they find no particular use for their sanity afterward, but the same knowledge and experience could have been put to better use of humanity if their throat chakra would have been open like many other learned people do.

Overactive Throat Chakra

The bigger the power, the greater the responsibility. If the energies in this chakra become overactive, they can make you an overly self-righteous person who might become unbearable. It is one thing to possess the knowledge, and flagrant display of it is completely different.

The gift of communication is natural with this chakra; however, if the energies in this chakra get overexpressed, the person might become overly talkative. This not only takes away the point away but also leaves a very poor impression.

Another issue at this level is of a person turning dogmatic about a few principles. This has a high potential of turning into fanaticism. Believing in something is a different thing, and declaring it to be the only and universal truth is another thing. Sadly, if the energies are very high in this chakra, it always remains a possibility. In fact, most of the people, even with a balanced throat chakra, show these tendencies to a great extent.

The development of addictive tendencies is another problem that may arise in this situation as you find yourself stuck with one truth.

As this is the chakra of supreme authority, many a time, people with excessive energy in this chakra also start dominating others sexually and in other modes. It is simply the desire to rule and exert authority that leads to such a situation. However, this can turn ugly very fast.

Underactive Throat Chakra

If the energies in this chakra don’t find proper expression, the results could be similarly ugly. It could leave you the exact opposite of an authoritative person. It can make you timid, unreliable, overly quiet, unsure, nervous, and devious. You may find it difficult even to convey the most basic things to others.

Such people may struggle even in expressing themselves clearly. Their realization of time is poor, and hence, they are not able to make use of it effectively.

Low energy in the throat chakra also affects the clarity of mind, and the people facing this can have serious doubt and conflicting thoughts between sex and religion. It can also lead to a feeling of guilt.

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

Physically this chakra affects the throat region and your jaw area. If there is an imbalance in this chakra, you can have chronic throat issues, raspy throat, mouth ulcers, swollen glands, along with thyroid issues.

Ajna Chakra- The Third Eye Chakra

This is one of the most talked-about chakras and has remained the center of attraction for people interested in the chakra system. First, there should be no doubt that the great interest people have in this chakra is due to the amazing psychic powers that can come along with the activation of this chakra. Second, people have somehow been able to convince the masses that activation of the third eye chakra is very easy and safe.

The first idea is correct, but it is only one part of the story. The third eye chakra can give you amazing psychic powers, but that’s a minor part of what that chakra can do for you. The third eye chakra is called the ‘Ajna’ in Sanskrit, which means to command. This literally means that the third eye chakra can also help you in commanding all other chakras in your body. If this chakra is active and you are able to use its powers properly, healing the body and mind would become a piece of cake for you. It is the chakra of clairvoyance and perception. To an extent, your power of perception reaches the next level, and you get ahead of everyone else.

That being said, it isn’t as easy as being said. In fact, the second thing mentioned is so difficult most people, even at the level of mastery, give up on it. The intensity of the experience at this level is so high that it can leave you utterly frightened and paranoid. The intensity with which the external energies start to interact with you is so great that most people find themselves unable to cope up with it, but sadly, there is no turning back.

Thankfully, this comes at a very later stage, and the power of perception can be achieved before that. Yet, it is never safe to try to activate the third eye without having your all other chakras open and your body ready for it.

To properly hold the power of the third eye and not get overwhelmed by it, you must even be physically equipped. That’s why awakening the kundalini is also important. You will need to practice yoga and meditation consistently for preparing your body and mind for the third eye activation.

The problem when dealing with higher energies is that you can never exercise exact control over how much and when to take. Beginning underprepared can cause mental, emotional, and spiritual problems.

The third eye is the source of enlightenment. It opens the doors of higher consciousness. If your third eye is active, you’ll know bliss like no one else. It is an all-seeing eye that opens up inwards.    

Your awareness of time increases. Your sense of perception multiplies. You are even able to feel energies around you and their interaction with your energy field. All these things keep happening all the time. There is no stopping or taking breaks as it is difficult to control the external energies that interact with you.

Even your sixth sense heightens, and you are able to get a sense of things that might happen. Simply your understanding of the world around you improves and using that you are able to judge things better than others.

All this and much more can happen when your third eye chakra blossoms, and your body and mind are ready for it.

However, even if you are not trying to power up your third eye chakra, it is important that your third eye chakra remains open and working as it helps in the transfer of energy to the highest level.

Active and Balanced Third Eye Chakra

If the energies in the third eye chakra are balanced, it will get reflected in your personality. You’ll become charismatic, fearless, unmoved, and aware. This chakra takes away the focus completely away from the materialism of the world.

Most people think that once they have a higher sense of perception and sixth sense, they can take greater advantage of it. However, that never remains your concern once your third eye chakra opens up. This is the beauty of the higher chakras that they have the ability to take away your focus from the mortal material world to greater issues. It isn’t something that needs to be pledged but happens when your mind prepares for it internally.

The balance of energies in the third eye chakra takes away the fear of death and the greed for life. At this chakra, your deeper understanding of this life and cosmic energies improves considerably.

Your mental abilities improve exponentially, and the power to communicate without words, the ability to feel things, and a heightened sense of perception are among them.

This chakra can also invoke the feelings of detachment from relationships and bindings of love and affection. It rises you much above the singularity of your being.

This may sound strange, but third eye activation is more common than you might be thinking at the moment. In fact, activation of the third eye is not a difficult task at all, handling of powers after the activation can be difficult, and that’s why it is not advised to everyone. Yet, there are thousands of people who have their third eye open. It can also open by accident at times, and people have no other option than to deal with it. Sadly, most people fail to understand the power and its implications.

The third eye chakra is a powerhouse. It is very important to keep is open and balanced as it helps in a smooth transfer of energy. This also ensures that the third eye chakra doesn’t open up accidentally and causes problems.

Overactive Third Eye Chakra

Excessive energy in the third eye chakra can make a person egoistic, proud, and mean. It can become extremely difficult for a person to even manage a balanced third eye chakra without proper preparation and practice. Without them, handling excessive energies can get beyond abilities, and it can make a person demonic too.

If a religiously or spiritually inclined person gets excessive energy in the third eye chakra, it can make him or her religiously dogmatic. The beliefs can even turn tyrannical at times that may not be very logical. 

Underactive Root Chakra

If the energy in the third eye chakra is low, it can leave a very poor impression on the intellectual powers of the person. Indiscipline and lack of will are characteristic properties in such people.

Such people may also become highly impressionable. The energy fields of others may start affecting them easily. They may come under negative influences very quickly.

Exhibition of passive behavior and fear even of success is common in such people.

The intensity with which the chakras express their positive or negative aspects at this level is very high. Your level of experience is always intense. In this case, it happens in a negative sense.  

Third eye meditation is the best way to get out of the trap of their eye chakra suppression. If left untreated for long, it can also cause schizophrenia.

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

Neurological problems, seizures, stroke, and spinal issues are very common in people with problems in their third eye chakra.

Sahasrara- The Crown Chakra

This is the topmost chakra in the body. The physical location of this chakra is outside the body. It just lies at the top of our head or the crown, and that’s why it is called the crown chakra.

This chakra is called ‘Sahasrara’ in Sanskrit because it means ‘a thousand petals.’ A thousand petals signify limitless possibilities of anything that you perceive. Here, thousand may look like a simple number but it a representation of ways that open countless possibilities in every direction.

This chakra represents the vastness of the universe and also of the innumerable ways we can adopt to get in unison with the divine force. 

The Vedic culture didn’t believe in a singular path to achieve the divine. In fact, it encouraged people to find their own ways. Maybe that’s the reason thousands of sages and seers would have activated their crown chakra yet there is no documented path to achieve ‘Sahasrara.’ The Vedas have described numerous ways to activate the six chakras in the body. They have developed various systems. There are countless tools in the form of yogic practices, mantras, oils, herbs, crystals, therapies so that the six chakras could be opened and activated in the people who were worthy of receiving the powers or the people who were ‘Patra.’ Even in the times when there was no trend to record such things, the ways to open the chakras were recited as mantras from one generation to another. However, the way to open the portal to the seventh chakra is nowhere mentioned. The Vedas call the way to achieve the seventh chakra the pathless path. Once you have mastered all the six chakras in your body and you have the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual abilities, you will have to take a leap of faith in the bottomless pit inwards and find the way towards consciousness on your own.

The powers provided by the seventh chakra have little worldly application. It is the chakra that opens the door to ultimate knowledge. It will help you in establishing the link with the divine energy. At this level, there is no fear of dark energies. At this level, there is no need to learn to navigate. Simply arriving can suffice, and it has been the ultimate goal of the whole intellectual society in the Vedic culture.

The opening of this chakra means your intellectual and spiritual abilities would improve manifold. If spiritual awakening is your goal, then you should seek activation of this chakra.

Active and Balanced Crown Chakra

If the energies are balanced in this chakra, you’ll be more open to receiving divine energy and intervention. Your chances of spiritual realization would increase tremendously. If the energy in this portal blossoms in you it will give you ready access to the conscious and the subconscious. Above all, it can make you more realized and aware. You’ll get free from the fear of death and temptation of life. This is the chakra of liberation, and it helps you in rising above the normal standards of this life.

Some people can experience increased abilities to perform miracles. This chakra can transcend the laws of nature and make you more powerful than others in many ways.

Overactive Crown Chakra

Excessive energy in this chakra can be very dangerous in fact, lethal. As I’ve already mentioned several times in the book, as you move up the chakra ladder, the intensity with which you experience life increases tremendously. At the base chakras, the intensity of the chakra is limited to a particular region. As you move up, it starts increasing. This is the top chakra, and hence, the intensity at which it can express itself can rise beyond anyone’s imagination and control.

If the energies are mildly aggressive, they can lead to a constant sense of frustration. The person might find it difficult to comprehend things around. There can also be unknown desperation. This also happens when one is about to get realized and is almost at the brink. However, the biggest part of the frustration may come from the feeling of unrealized power lurking nearby.

People can also get manic-depressive, psychotic, or destructive. Frequent migraine headaches are also common in such people.

Underactive Crown Chakra

If the energies in crown chakra become underactive, they can cause cognitive difficulties. A person may face difficulties in making decisions. There may be a state of utter confusion without any reason. The affected person may also feel a complete lack of joy in life. He/she may become incommunicative or may also suffer from catatonia.

Physical Issues Related to this Chakra

Imbalance of energy in this chakra can cause depression, chronic exhaustion, extreme sensitivity to light, sound, other environmental phenomena, and muscular system problems, etc.

Chapter 6: Muladhara - The Root Chakra

Yoga for the Root Chakra

·       Chair Pose

·       Tree Pose

·       Standing Forward Bend

·       Head to Knee Pose

·       Warrior 1

·       Warrior 2

·       Supported Child’s Pose

·       Supported Corpse Pose

Crystals for the Root Chakra

·       Garnet

·       Black tourmaline

·       Ruby

·       Bloodstone

·       Hematite

·       Obsidian

·       Red jasper

·       Onyx

·       Lodestone

·       Fire agate

·       Smoky quartz

Meditation to Heal the Root Chakra

The root chakra is located at the base of your spine, and the main focus during the meditation would be at this point.

Sit in a cross-legged posture

Keep your hand in your lap with your palms facing upwards

Keep your back straight

Your spine should be upright at all times during the meditation session

If you want, you can use a backrest but not a neck rest

Hold your neck straight but don’t try to stretch it

Your shoulders should be straight but not stiff

Position your chin tilted slightly upwards; it would help you in getting into the meditative state faster

Now close your eyes gently. There should be no pressure on your eyes. Close them gently.

Try to gather all your thoughts and let them go

Take some time

If there are some thoughts in your mind, let them pass

Simply draw your awareness towards your breath

Breathe gently

Take a deep breath through your nose, slowly and gently

Inhale

Let it pass through your nose and your throat to your stomach

Hold it for a few moments

Now exhale slowly and gently through your mouth

There is no rush

Be gentle

We’ll now inhale again

Gently through the nose

Keep your awareness focused on your breathing

Feel the air that passes through your nostrils

Try to assess its warmth

Feel the intensity of the air through which it passes through your nostrils

Follow the path of this air in your body

See the light that enters with the air

Follow that light

Feel the way it fills your lungs

Sense the way it inflates your chest

Look at the way it fills up your stomach

Now hold it for a few moments

Let this air revitalize your body

Let it rejuvenate your body

Sense the calm around you

At this moment there is nothing else more important than this breath

Now exhale through your mouth

Very slowly and gradually

Follow the path it takes

There is no rush

There is no hurry

There is just relaxation

As you exhale all, feel all the negative energy going out with the breath

Relish the relaxation you feel at this moment

Take a deep breath again

Very slowly and gradually

Imagine the white light entering your body along with the air

Let it light up your whole body

This light will illuminate you from inside and remove all the negativity

Follow this light that’s traveling inside your body along with the air

Follow its path

Watch it fill your stomach

Feel the way it has illuminated your spine and your back

Feel it going down through your legs

Feel every nerve and muscle in your body getting illuminated by this light

Hold your breath for a few moments

Now, exhale very slowly

Feel every negative thought going out with the breath

This air will take away all the negative energy and restore the balance

It will repair every damage that has happened

Feel the calm inside you

Enjoy this calm and relaxation for a few moments we will begin when you are ready

Now, bring your focus to the base of your spine

Try to find the red light of the Muladhara through your eyes of your mind

It will be glowing like a red fireball

This point is similar to the core of the earth

It holds the warmth of the mother earth

It is soothing and calming

Feel the red light from your Muladhara seeping into the earth

The energy in your body is uniting itself with the mother earth

The mother earth is caring and nurturing

It heals all the wounds

It restores the balance

Feel the love of the mother earth towards you

Feel the healing energy coming back to you

Mother will never let any harm come to you

Don’t shy away

The mother is forgiving and nurturing

Feel the nourishment the mother earth is providing to you

Try to feel the warmth at the base of your spine

The mother earth is nourishing your root chakra

It is filling your energy center with all the energy you need

The mother earth has much more in store

Don’t feel afraid to ask for more

Let it refill your root chakra with all the energy you need

Feel the warmth of the earth penetrating your stomach, back, and other organs

Let the earth replenish the energy that was missing

There is no rush

There is no hurry

Ask the mother for all you want

Don’t be afraid

Let all your fears sink into the earth

Let the mother earth fill you with positive energy and confidence

Let your insecurities pass into the earth

Let all your negative thoughts and toxins seep in

Feel every pore of your body getting filled with positive energy

Look at the way the earth trusts you with its energy

Feel that trust inside you

You must know that you are valuable

You must believe that you are loved and wanted

You are the beloved child of the mother earth

Feel the connection with the mother

Feel it as your family

Accept whatever the mother is giving you

There is no shame in asking the mother

There is no harm in asking for more

Every breath you take is filling you with more and more positivity

You are feeling positive and firm now

There is no fear

There is no insecurity

There is no guilt

There is ultimate calm in your mind and your heart

Inhale slowly

Exhale even slower

Inhale slowly

Exhale even slower

Inhale slowly

Exhale even slower

Now shift your focus to your breathing again

You are feeling positive now

You are feeling healed and nourished

Relish the warmth for a few more moments

Repeat the process a few more times

There is no hurry

You are with the mother

She’s caring, forgiving, and nurturing

She’ll provide when you ask

There is no shame in asking the mother

Keep breathing slowly

Open your eyes slowly when you are ready

Chapter 7: Svadhishthana - The Sacral Chakra

Yoga for the Sacral Chakra

·       Child’s pose

·       Happy baby pose

·       Warrior poses

·       Four limb staff pose

·       Downward facing dog

·       Cow face pose

·       Bound angle pose

·       Open-angle pose

Crystals for the Sacral Chakra

·       Sunstone

·       Amber

·       Moonstone

·       Orange tourmaline

·       Carnelian

Meditation to Heal the Sacral Chakra

Sit in a cross-legged posture

Keep your hand in your lap with your palms facing upwards

Keep your back straight

Your spine should be upright at all times during the meditation session

If you want, you can use a backrest but not a neck rest

Hold your neck straight but don’t try to stretch it

Your shoulders should be straight but not stiff

Position your chin tilted slightly upwards; it would help you in getting into the meditative state faster

Now close your eyes gently. There should be no pressure on your eyes. Close them gently.

Try to gather all your thoughts and let them go

Take some time

If there are some thoughts in your mind, let them pass

Simply draw your awareness towards your breath

Breathe gently

Take a deep breath through your nose, slowly and gently

Inhale

Let it pass through your nose and your throat to your stomach

Hold it for a few moments

Now exhale slowly and gently through your mouth

There is no rush

Be gentle

We’ll now inhale again

Gently through the nose

Keep your awareness focused on your breathing

Feel the air that passes through your nostrils

Try to assess its warmth

Feel the intensity of the air through which it passes through your nostrils

Follow the path of this air in your body

See the light that enters with the air

Follow that light

Feel the way it fills your lungs

Sense the way it inflates your chest

Look at the way it fills up your stomach

Now hold it for a few moments

Let this air revitalize your body

Let it rejuvenate your body

Sense the calm around you

At this moment there is nothing else more important than this breath

Now exhale through your mouth

Very slowly and gradually

Follow the path it takes

There is no rush

There is no hurry

There is just relaxation

As you exhale all, feel all the negative energy going out with the breath

Relish the relaxation you feel at this moment

Take a deep breath again

Very slowly and gradually

Imagine the white light entering your body along with the air

Let it light up your whole body

This light will illuminate you from inside and remove all the negativity

Follow this light that’s traveling inside your body along with the air

Follow its path

Watch it fill your stomach

Feel the way it has illuminated your spine and your back

Feel it going down through your legs

Feel every nerve and muscle in your body getting illuminated by this light

Hold your breath for a few moments

Now, exhale very slowly

Feel every negative thought going out with the breath

This air will take away all the negative energy and restore the balance

It will repair every damage that has happened

Feel the calm inside you

Enjoy this calm and relaxation for a few moments we will begin when you are ready

Now focus on your sacral chakra

It is just a few inches below your navel

You can feel it as your stomach rises and falls

Focus on that point through your awareness

Let your awareness be still on this point

Try to visualize the bright orange color rising from this region

Look at its brightness and the glow

It looks like the sun of the dawn

Soothing yet fiery

Full of energy and vigor

This is the point that fills this world with zest

It is the area that increases your appetite to soak in this world’s bounties

Feel the orange light rising up and filling your entire body

This is the energy that’s powering this whole world

Our existence isn’t possible without this energy

There is nothing to be ashamed about it

You can’t run away from it

You can’t hide from it

You shouldn’t hide from it

Let it fill up your entire existence

Feel it rising inside you as you breathe

As you exhale, watch the orange color go out with your breath

The feeling is relaxing

This is the masculine energy stored inside you

Take a deep breath and feel the refreshing orange color filling your body

This is the feminine energy making you complete

This is the yin and yang

Both the energies are inside you

They have always been inside you

The whole world is made up of the union of both the energies

Don’t feel ashamed

Don’t be afraid

Accept the beauty of both

Appreciate the miracle they create by uniting

There is nothing to be ashamed about

Sexual energy is at the center of the existence

It gives us the power

It makes us whole

Feel the power of sexual energy inside you

Visualize the orange color getting stronger and wider

Let it fill your body and make you stronger

Don’t feel ashamed of your sexual needs

Don’t think too much of it

It is also an aspect of life

Let it have its place in life

It is natural to have sexual urges

It is normal to feel attracted to others

You know the right way to express yourself

There is no need to fear

Let the fears pass away

Let the orange color spread

It will fill you up

It will make you whole again

Breathe

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Repeat the whole process a few more times

Keep breathing at a normal pace

Open your eyes slowly when you are ready

Chapter 8: Manipura - The Solar Plexus Chakra

Yoga for the Solar Plexus Chakra

·       Cat pose

·       Cow pose

·       Boat pose

·       Half-boat pose

·       Sun salutation

·       Pranayam or breathing techniques

·       Bellows breath

Crystals for the Solar Plexus Chakra

·       Amber

·       Yellow citrine

·       Yellow topaz

·       Yellow tiger’s eye

·       Rutilated quartz

·       Yellow agate

Meditation to Heal the Solar Plexus Chakra

Sit in a cross-legged posture

Keep your hand in your lap with your palms facing upwards

Keep your back straight

Your spine should be upright at all times during the meditation session

If you want, you can use a backrest but not a neck rest

Hold your neck straight but don’t try to stretch it

Your shoulders should be straight but not stiff

Position your chin tilted slightly upwards; it would help you in getting into the meditative state faster

Now close your eyes gently. There should be no pressure on your eyes. Close them gently.

Try to gather all your thoughts and let them go

Take some time

If there are some thoughts in your mind, let them pass

Simply draw your awareness towards your breath

Breathe gently

Take a deep breath through your nose, slowly and gently

Inhale

Let it pass through your nose and your throat to your stomach

Hold it for a few moments

Now exhale slowly and gently through your mouth

There is no rush

Be gentle

We’ll now inhale again

Gently through the nose

Keep your awareness focused on your breathing

Feel the air that passes through your nostrils

Try to assess its warmth

Feel the intensity of the air through which it passes through your nostrils

Follow the path of this air in your body

See the light that enters with the air

Follow that light

Feel the way it fills your lungs

Sense the way it inflates your chest

Look at the way it fills up your stomach

Now hold it for a few moments

Let this air revitalize your body

Let it rejuvenate your body

Sense the calm around you

At this moment there is nothing else more important than this breath

Now exhale through your mouth

Very slowly and gradually

Follow the path it takes

There is no rush

There is no hurry

There is just relaxation

As you exhale all, feel all the negative energy going out with the breath

Relish the relaxation you feel at this moment

Take a deep breath again

Very slowly and gradually

Imagine the white light entering your body along with the air

Let it light up your whole body

This light will illuminate you from inside and remove all the negativity

Follow this light that’s traveling inside your body along with the air

Follow its path

Watch it fill your stomach

Feel the way it has illuminated your spine and your back

Feel it going down through your legs

Feel every nerve and muscle in your body getting illuminated by this light

Hold your breath for a few moments

Now, exhale very slowly

Feel every negative thought going out with the breath

This air will take away all the negative energy and restore the balance

It will repair every damage that has happened

Feel the calm inside you

Enjoy this calm and relaxation for a few moments we will begin when you are ready

Focus your awareness a few inches above your navel

The spot few inches below your rib cage

This is the power center

This is the point of all achievements

Everything you have achieved in your life

Even the smallest accomplishments and the bigger victories

All were powered by this point

Visualize the bright yellow light coming out of this spot

The sparkling yellow light of the glowing sun

The light so bright it can become difficult to look at it

The golden beams coming out of this center are beautiful

It is the center of gold

You have dug some gold from here, but a lot is still there

It has a lot in store for you

Imagine the most successful life you wanted

Feel the power it holds

Imagine the attention you would attract

Feel the admiration people would have for you

Foresee the goals you would achieve

Everything is there in this center of power

You can get all that if you want to

It is within your reach

It is inside you

You don’t need to ask anyone

It is yours to take

You are the master of your destiny

You have the power to accomplish anything you want

There have been failures

There have been mistakes

But those are the things of the past

You have learned

You have become more powerful

You want to achieve everything you can

You will use this power to rise again

You will again give it a try

You will not surrender

You will not submit

You will work harder

You will push harder

You have the potential

You have the energy

You have seen it for yourself

This ball of energy can rise as much as you want

It can keep you powered

It can keep you going

Just put your heart to it and start working

No goal is far and no fight is hard

You are feeling positive

You are feeling fiery

You want to do it again

You want to try again

You are confident

You are positive

You are happy

You believe in yourself

You believe in your power

As you think, see the yellow rays rising even higher

With your confidence, you can clear all obstacles

You are positive now

Bath in the glory of this new energy

Let it drench you

Relish the feeling and relax

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Let your breathing return to normal.

Repeat the process twice

Keep breathing slowly

Open your eyes slowly when you are ready

Chapter 9: Anahata- The Heart Chakra

Yoga for the Heart Chakra

·       Seated spinal twist

·       Eagle pose

·       Camel pose

·       Arm balances

Crystals for the Heart Chakra

·       Green calcite

·       Green kyanite

·       Rose quartz

·       Jade

·       Emerald

·       Green tourmaline

Meditation to Heal the Heart Chakra

Sit in a cross-legged posture

Keep your hand in your lap with your palms facing upwards

Keep your back straight

Your spine should be upright at all times during the meditation session

If you want, you can use a backrest but not a neck rest

Hold your neck straight but don’t try to stretch it

Your shoulders should be straight but not stiff

Position your chin tilted slightly upwards; it would help you in getting into the meditative state faster

Now close your eyes gently. There should be no pressure on your eyes. Close them gently.

Try to gather all your thoughts and let them go

Take some time

If there are some thoughts in your mind, let them pass

Simply draw your awareness towards your breath

Breathe gently

Take a deep breath through your nose, slowly and gently

Inhale

Let it pass through your nose and your throat to your stomach

Hold it for a few moments

Now exhale slowly and gently through your mouth

There is no rush

Be gentle

We’ll now inhale again

Gently through the nose

Keep your awareness focused on your breathing

Feel the air that passes through your nostrils

Try to assess its warmth

Feel the intensity of the air through which it passes through your nostrils

Follow the path of this air in your body

See the light that enters with the air

Follow that light

Feel the way it fills your lungs

Sense the way it inflates your chest

Look at the way it fills up your stomach

Now hold it for a few moments

Let this air revitalize your body

Let it rejuvenate your body

Sense the calm around you

At this moment there is nothing else more important than this breath

Now exhale through your mouth

Very slowly and gradually

Follow the path it takes

There is no rush

There is no hurry

There is just relaxation

As you exhale all, feel all the negative energy going out with the breath

Relish the relaxation you feel at this moment

Take a deep breath again

Very slowly and gradually

Imagine the white light entering your body along with the air

Let it light up your whole body

This light will illuminate you from inside and remove all the negativity

Follow this light that’s traveling inside your body along with the air

Follow its path

Watch it fill your stomach

Feel the way it has illuminated your spine and your back

Feel it going down through your legs

Feel every nerve and muscle in your body getting illuminated by this light

Hold your breath for a few moments

Now, exhale very slowly

Feel every negative thought going out with the breath

This air will take away all the negative energy and restore the balance

It will repair every damage that has happened

Feel the calm inside you

Enjoy this calm and relaxation for a few moments we will begin when you are ready

Bring your awareness to your heart chakra

Look at the refreshing green light emanating from the center of your chest

Green is the color of prosperity

It is the color that fills the world with happiness

It is the color of nature

It is the color of the soothing energy

As the green color spreads out, try to see the pink dot at the center of your chest

Appreciate the beauty of this contrast

This is the nature of love

So much love coming out from such a small dot

Love is overpowering

But it is also forgiving

It is all-absorbing

Focus your attention again on the spread of the green color

It has covered you completely

You are now full of love

All covered in it

All drenched in love

There is no place that left dry

There is no place left desperate

You don’t need anyone else to feel loved

You have the ocean of love inside you

You are the reservoir that can fill this world with love

Feel the comfort it is providing to your heart

There is no room for contempt now

There is no need for grudges

You don’t need to ask love from anyone

You have all the love you need in this world

Look how beautiful things have become after getting drenched in this green color

This green color is healing every wound

It is providing the comfort you needed

Now you know you can get it whenever you want

Let it spread to every corner of your body

Let it spread even out of your body

You have it in limitless quantity

It wouldn’t come to an end

Forgive anyone who didn’t give it back

Share it with anyone who needs it

Feel the love inside you

You are feeling calm now

This is a relaxing feeling

This calm is complete

It doesn’t rely on others

You have forgiven everyone who has hurt you

You only have love and compassion for them now

As the green light evaporates, you are feeling light

You are completely relaxed now

There is no stress

There is no longing

There is no wanting

There is just calm

You are positive now

Bath in the glory of this new energy

Let it drench you

Relish the feeling and relax

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Let your breathing return to normal.

Keep breathing slowly

Open your eyes slowly when you are ready

Chapter 10: Vishuddhi - The Throat Chakra

Yoga for the Throat Chakra

·       Warrior pose

·       Bridge pose

·       Triangle pose

·       Camel Pose

·       Plow pose

·       Extended side angle

·       Shoulderstand

Crystals for the Throat Chakra

·       Lapis lazuli

·       Iolite

·       Turquoise

·       Aquamarine

·       Celestite

·       blue kyanite

·       sodalite

Meditation to Heal the Throat Chakra

Sit in a cross-legged posture

Keep your hand in your lap with your palms facing upwards

Keep your back straight

Your spine should be upright at all times during the meditation session

If you want, you can use a backrest but not a neck rest

Hold your neck straight but don’t try to stretch it

Your shoulders should be straight but not stiff

Position your chin tilted slightly upwards; it would help you in getting into the meditative state faster

Now close your eyes gently. There should be no pressure on your eyes. Close them gently.

Try to gather all your thoughts and let them go

Take some time

If there are some thoughts in your mind, let them pass

Simply draw your awareness towards your breath

Breathe gently

Take a deep breath through your nose, slowly and gently

Inhale

Let it pass through your nose and your throat to your stomach

Hold it for a few moments

Now exhale slowly and gently through your mouth

There is no rush

Be gentle

We’ll now inhale again

Gently through the nose

Keep your awareness focused on your breathing

Feel the air that passes through your nostrils

Try to assess its warmth

Feel the intensity of the air through which it passes through your nostrils

Follow the path of this air in your body

See the light that enters with the air

Follow that light

Feel the way it fills your lungs

Sense the way it inflates your chest

Look at the way it fills up your stomach

Now hold it for a few moments

Let this air revitalize your body

Let it rejuvenate your body

Sense the calm around you

At this moment there is nothing else more important than this breath

Now exhale through your mouth

Very slowly and gradually

Follow the path it takes

There is no rush

There is no hurry

There is just relaxation

As you exhale all, feel all the negative energy going out with the breath

Relish the relaxation you feel at this moment

Take a deep breath again

Very slowly and gradually

Imagine the white light entering your body along with the air

Let it light up your whole body

This light will illuminate you from inside and remove all the negativity

Follow this light that’s traveling inside your body along with the air

Follow its path

Watch it fill your stomach

Feel the way it has illuminated your spine and your back

Feel it going down through your legs

Feel every nerve and muscle in your body getting illuminated by this light

Hold your breath for a few moments

Now, exhale very slowly

Feel every negative thought going out with the breath

This air will take away all the negative energy and restore the balance

It will repair every damage that has happened

Feel the calm inside you

Enjoy this calm and relaxation for a few moments we will begin when you are ready

Bring your awareness to your throat

This is the center of communication

This is the center of making a connection

Visualize the bright blue light filling your neck

There are various shades of blue

It started dark but it's getting lighter and lighter as it spreads to your shoulders

Fill it with more power

It’s your focus and will that makes things happen

Visualize the blue getting darker

You are getting your power back

People are recognizing you now

They are getting prepared to listen to you

Some have ignored you

But now they are ready

They are all ready to listen to the things you have to say

You have been meaning to talk to them

You know the things you want to say

You have prepared it well

You know they want to listen to you now

Don’t feel nervous

Don’t be in doubt

Simply think of the things you want to say

Organize your thoughts once again

Gather all your thoughts at one place

Put them in order

People should understand you loud and clear

You know what you want to say

Your fear was baseless

You were afraid that people wouldn’t want to listen to you

Some of them may not

But you don’t have to care for them

Talk to the people who want to listen to you

They have been longing to hear you

You have some important things to say

You can’t keep them to your heart

Those things need to be said

But they needed to be said in an organized manner

You needed to put them in order

You have done so now

Now you know that people would understand them

There will be no confusion

You have listened to your fears and addressed them

Now you aren’t afraid

Now you are confident

You see that the shining dark blue color has spread uniformly. It is even on some people who had come to listen to you

They are smiling

They know that you are now sure of the things you want to say

You have no confusion

There is clarity

There is an order

You are feeling relaxed now

There is no anxiety

There is no stress

You are confident now

You are sure of yourself

Relish the feeling and relax

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Let your breathing return to normal.

Keep breathing slowly

Open your eyes slowly when you are ready

Chapter 11: Ajna - The Third Eye Chakra

Yoga for Chakra

Yoga, in general, is good for balancing this chakra. There are no specific poses that would help.

Crystals for Chakra

·       Lepidolite

·       Sugilite

·       lapis lazuli

·       amethyst

·       fluorite

·       tanzanite

·       clear quartz

·       star sapphire

·       kyanite

Meditation to Heal the Chakra

Sit in a cross-legged posture

Keep your hand in your lap with your palms facing upwards

Keep your back straight

Your spine should be upright at all times during the meditation session

If you want, you can use a backrest but not a neck rest

Hold your neck straight but don’t try to stretch it

Your shoulders should be straight but not stiff

Position your chin tilted slightly upwards; it would help you in getting into the meditative state faster

Now close your eyes gently. There should be no pressure on your eyes. Close them gently.

Try to gather all your thoughts and let them go

Take some time

If there are some thoughts in your mind, let them pass

Simply draw your awareness towards your breath

Breathe gently

Take a deep breath through your nose, slowly and gently

Inhale

Let it pass through your nose and your throat to your stomach

Hold it for a few moments

Now exhale slowly and gently through your mouth

There is no rush

Be gentle

We’ll now inhale again

Gently through the nose

Keep your awareness focused on your breathing

Feel the air that passes through your nostrils

Try to assess its warmth

Feel the intensity of the air through which it passes through your nostrils

Follow the path of this air in your body

See the light that enters with the air

Follow that light

Feel the way it fills your lungs

Sense the way it inflates your chest

Look at the way it fills up your stomach

Now hold it for a few moments

Let this air revitalize your body

Let it rejuvenate your body

Sense the calm around you

At this moment there is nothing else more important than this breath

Now exhale through your mouth

Very slowly and gradually

Follow the path it takes

There is no rush

There is no hurry

There is just relaxation

As you exhale all, feel all the negative energy going out with the breath

Relish the relaxation you feel at this moment

Take a deep breath again

Very slowly and gradually

Imagine the white light entering your body along with the air

Let it light up your whole body

This light will illuminate you from inside and remove all the negativity

Follow this light that’s traveling inside your body along with the air

Follow its path

Watch it fill your stomach

Feel the way it has illuminated your spine and your back

Feel it going down through your legs

Feel every nerve and muscle in your body getting illuminated by this light

Hold your breath for a few moments

Now, exhale very slowly

Feel every negative thought going out with the breath

This air will take away all the negative energy and restore the balance

It will repair every damage that has happened

Feel the calm inside you

Enjoy this calm and relaxation for a few moments we will begin when you are ready

Bring your awareness between your eyebrows

The point slightly above the bridge of your nose

See the vortex of light spinning there

It looks white

It looks brighter than anything else you have ever seen

It is simply spinning in a slow motion

You can actually see it spinning

As you look closely, there is indigo light inside it

The indigo light has started to fill the spinning vortex

It is getting darker and darker in there

It doesn’t look like a flat surface

It’s three dimensional

It seems you can put your hand inside that vortex

You are still feeling hesitant

You don’t want to risk that

But you know it’s deep

It feels as if anything can get lost in this vortex

There’s a bag on your shoulders

You take it off

There are all these useless things in this bag

These are worries, anxieties, grudges, useless expectations,

You have been carrying them on your shoulders for so long

There is no need to do that

Let’s try to throw a few things in the vortex and see if they get thrown back

You take out one and hurl it towards the vortex

It made a low sound and disappeared in the spinning poor of indigo

This looks like a pretty game

Throw the other useless things

One by one

Look at them and throw them if you don’t need them

There is no hurry

Take your time

Make your decision

This vortex would absorb everything

Throw the useless things one by one

The things that are a burden

The things that are clouding your mind

The things that don’t allow you to think clearly

The things that have been occupying your mind for so long
Let’s get rid of all of them now

We don’t need them

You have started to hurl them into the vortex one by one

Again

Again

Again

Your bag is empty now

There is no baggage of the past

You are free of the past

You can now live in the present

The vortex has started to slow down

It is even changing its color again

It is turning white once again

There is so much light now

You are also feeling light now

There is no stress

There is no burden

You have liberated yourself of the clutches of the past

The things that clouded your judgment

Relish the feeling and relax

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Let your breathing return to normal.

Keep breathing slowly

Open your eyes slowly when you are ready

Chapter 12: Sahasrara - The Crown Chakra

Yoga for the Crown Chakra

·       Shoulderstand

·       Headstand

Crystals for the Crown Chakra

·       Clear quartz

·       Labradorite

·       Moonstone

·       Selenite

·       Amethyst

·       White topaz

Meditation to Heal the Crown Chakra

Sit in a cross-legged posture

Keep your hand in your lap with your palms facing upwards

Keep your back straight

Your spine should be upright at all times during the meditation session

If you want, you can use a backrest but not a neck rest

Hold your neck straight but don’t try to stretch it

Your shoulders should be straight but not stiff

Position your chin tilted slightly upwards; it would help you in getting into the meditative state faster

Now close your eyes gently. There should be no pressure on your eyes. Close them gently.

Try to gather all your thoughts and let them go

Take some time

If there are some thoughts in your mind, let them pass

Simply draw your awareness towards your breath

Breathe gently

Take a deep breath through your nose, slowly and gently

Inhale

Let it pass through your nose and your throat to your stomach

Hold it for a few moments

Now exhale slowly and gently through your mouth

There is no rush

Be gentle

We’ll now inhale again

Gently through the nose

Keep your awareness focused on your breathing

Feel the air that passes through your nostrils

Try to assess its warmth

Feel the intensity of the air through which it passes through your nostrils

Follow the path of this air in your body

See the light that enters with the air

Follow that light

Feel the way it fills your lungs

Sense the way it inflates your chest

Look at the way it fills up your stomach

Now hold it for a few moments

Let this air revitalize your body

Let it rejuvenate your body

Sense the calm around you

At this moment there is nothing else more important than this breath

Now exhale through your mouth

Very slowly and gradually

Follow the path it takes

There is no rush

There is no hurry

There is just relaxation

As you exhale all, feel all the negative energy going out with the breath

Relish the relaxation you feel at this moment

Take a deep breath again

Very slowly and gradually

Imagine the white light entering your body along with the air

Let it light up your whole body

This light will illuminate you from inside and remove all the negativity

Follow this light that’s traveling inside your body along with the air

Follow its path

Watch it fill your stomach

Feel the way it has illuminated your spine and your back

Feel it going down through your legs

Feel every nerve and muscle in your body getting illuminated by this light

Hold your breath for a few moments

Now, exhale very slowly

Feel every negative thought going out with the breath

This air will take away all the negative energy and restore the balance

It will repair every damage that has happened

Feel the calm inside you

Enjoy this calm and relaxation for a few moments we will begin when you are ready

Bring your awareness to the top of your head now

With your eyes closed, try to look at the point just above your skull

I know you can’t

But you haven’t even tried

Try to find the gush of bright white light floating just above your head

Look closely with more intent

Excellent!

You see the cloud of white light floating just above your skull

This white light is different

It’s so white yet it isn’t hurting the eyes

It is so soothing and benevolent

You are feeling so nourished by this light

It feels as if all the troubles have got washed away in this light

There is no complaint now

There is no regret now
You are feeling so utterly content

This light is different

It is making you feel so blissful

You are smiling without a cause

You are just feeling the happiness

It’s so natural

You don’t want anything

There are no desires

There is no want

There are no feelings

Nothing positive or negative

You are feeling like a blank slate

This feeling is amazing

You just want to stand in this soothing white light

But the cloud has started to move away

It is time for you to get back

You are feeling utterly relaxed

Relish the feeling and relax

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Inhale slowly through your nose

Exhale even slower through your mouth

Let your breathing return to normal.

Keep breathing slowly

Open your eyes slowly when you are ready

Conclusion

Thank you for making it through to the end of this book, let’s hope it was informative and able to provide you with all of the tools you need to achieve your goals whatever they may be. The concept of chakras is amazing, and it provides great clarity over the things that happen in life, and we are not able to quite pinpoint the reasons for them. This book has tried to explain the concept of chakras in detail and the ways in which it really affects our lives.

The emphasis of this book has been to explain that we may not have any real control over the things that happen in life, but we can become proactive through the methods given in this book and hold the command of our lives despite all the odds. You can also get all the benefits of the process by following the simple steps given in the book. I hope that this book is really able to help you in achieving your goals.

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