Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means “wheel”. You can imagine a chakra as a wheel that allows energy to flow through your body.
In our bodies there are seven main chakras that have their own theme and colour. You can find these main chakras along the spine. From your perineum, all the way up to the crown of your head.
Apart from these seven chakras, we have hundreds of energy points in our body. All these energy points help our energy flow through our system.
To keep yourself in balance, to not fall ill or depressed, it is important that the chakras are working well. This will allow the energy to flow well through our bodies.
Chakras are also called lotus flowers, because when they open and close they look like the petals of a flower.
A balanced chakra is a chakra that’s not too open and not too closed. An open chakra means it is overactive and a closed chakra means it is inactive. Whether the chakra is open or closed, can cause different behaviour and blocks.
Each of them have their own corresponding colour and element.
After accumulating energy from outside of our bodies, chakras channel it to our centre. From our centre, chakras can then channel energy throughout our bodies.
You can think of chakras as a network for receiving, retrieving and transporting life energy. The information that is going through our chakras is determined by our daily behaviour.
Chakras hold onto information from our childhood through the present. All of this influences how our chakras work and how we behave.
When one of the chakras is affected, you often see that the chakras above or under it, are affected too. This is caused by a stagnation of energy flowing from the affected chakra. When you want to balance your chakras it’s important to understand the relationship of the chakras that need attention. Here’s a simplified illustration: when you start to get mad quickly (third chakra) and this is unusual for you, you can think back to whether or not you have been connected with your inner strength lately. Maybe you allowed others to influence how you do certain things. This could affect how you feel (second chakra), and how you behave towards yourself (fourth chakra). It is important to give attention to all three of these chakras during balancing. But it’s most important to start with reconnecting with the root chakra first. This is where all balance starts.
Once we learn how to read our chakra system, we can use it as a map to self-healing and self-balancing. This is why I incorporate a lot of chakra work in this platform. When you learn how to read and balance your chakras, you work on getting to know yourself better. By getting to know yourself better, you learn how to take care of yourself.
Below you will find a short overview of the seven chakras.
When working with your chakras, you can use their corresponding colour or element during your meditation to help balance them.