Chakras

Welcome to the world of Chakras. First thing is to know and understand our own energies. Everyone is filled with these energies. Chakras are the centers of our bodies in which energy flows through. This is what makes them so important. When the energy in our seven chakras is blocked it can lead to illness. In this article we will talk about each Charka and how they affect you. 

1.The Base (Root Chakra)

Color: Red

Location: Perineum or base of the spine

Attributes: It is the Chakra closest to the earth. Its function is concerned with earthly grounding and physical survival. This Chakra is associated with your legs, feet, bones, large intestine, and adrenal glands. It controls your fight or flight response.

Blockage: may manifest as paranoia, fear, procrastination, and defensiveness.

2. The Sacral (Navel Chakra)

Color: Orange

Location: Between the base of the spine and navel

Attributes: It is associated with your lower abdomen, kidneys, bladder, circulatory system and your reproductive organs and glands. It is concerned with emotion. This chakra represents desire, pleasure, sexuality, procreation, and creativity.

Blockage: may manifests as emotional problems, compulsive or obsessive behavior and sexual guilt.

3. The Solar Plexus

Color: Yellow

Location: a few inches above the navel

Attributes: This chakra is concerned with your digestive system, muscles, pancreas, and adrenals. It is the seat of your emotional life. Feelings of personal power, laughter, joy, and anger are associated with this center. Your sensitivity, ambition, and ability to achieve are stored here.

Blockage: may manifest as anger, frustration, lack of direction or a sense of victimization.

4. The Heart

Color: Green

Location: a few inches above the navel

Attributes: Centre of love, compassion, harmony, and peace. The Indians say that this is the house of the soul. This Chakra is Associate with your lungs, heart, arms hands and thymus gland. We fall in love through our heart Chakra, then that feeling of unconditional love moves to the emotional center commonly known as the solar plexus. After that, it moves into the sexual center or Base Chakra where strong feelings of attraction can be released. When these energies move into the Base Chakra we may have the desire to marry and settle down.

Blockage: can show itself as immune system, lung and heart problems, or manifest as inhumanity, lack of compassion or unprincipled behavior.

5. The Throat

Color: Blue or Turquoise

Location: located within the throat

Attributes: The Chakra of communication, creativity, self-expression, and judgement. It is associated with your Neck, shoulders, arms, hands, thyroid and parathyroid glands. It is concerned with the senses of inner and outer hearing, the synthesizing of ideas, healing, transformation, and purification.

Blockage: can show up as creative blocks, dishonesty or general problems in communicating ones needs to others.

6.The Third Eye (Brow Chakra)

Color: Indigo

Location: Located at the center of your forehead at eye level or slightly above

Attributes: Chakra is used to question the spiritual nature of our life. It is the Chakra of question, perception and knowing. It is concerned with inner vision, intuition, and wisdom. Your dreams for this life and recollections of other lifetimes are held in this Chakra.

Blockage: may manifest as problems like lack of foresight, mental rigidity, 'selective' memory and depression.

7. The Crown

Color: Violet

Location: At the top of your head

Attributes: It is associated with the cerebral cortex, central nervous system and the pituitary gland It is concerned with information, understanding, acceptance, and bliss. It is said to be your own place of connection to God, the Chakra of Divine purpose and personal destiny.

Blockage: can manifest as psychological problems

Learning and understanding the seven Chakras is a great place to start when embarking on this spiritual journey. Take everything you learn in during this self-finding journey.