CHAKRAS
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Power Base, Physical Body, Family Identity, Boundaries
Determines your ability to feel safe, secure and grounded, strength of your physical body and your sense of belonging to a family or tribe. When open, can be used to safely release any unwanted energy to the Earth. Maintains lower body, including low back, legs and feet.
Can be damaged, distorted or clogged if environment at birth and early childhood was chaotic or hostile. Primary distortion = FEAR. Can be healed through connecting with the Earth and sensory mindfulness meditations. "I am safe."
SANSKRIT NAME: Muladhara (meaning "root support")
COLOR: Red
ELEMENT: Earth
VOWEL SOUND: "Uh"
SEED SOUND: Lam (pronounced "lahm")
Emotions, Creativity and Sexuality
Determines how freely your emotions, sexual energy and creativity flow. Determines your ability to feel pleasure and to manifest financial abundance. Maintains reproduction system, lower back, urinary system.
Can be damaged by pent-up emotions or any kind of abuse, abandonment, trauma, fear of being controlled, fear of addiction, fear of abandonment or financial loss. Primary distortion = SHAME. Healed through emotional process and release, movement meditations, and meditation on self-acceptance. "I love and accept myself."
SANSKRIT NAME: Svadhishthana (meaning "dwelling place of self")
COLOR: Orange
ELEMENT: Water
VOWEL SOUND: "OO" (like the "oo" in "Moo")
SEED SOUND: Vam (pronounced "vahm")
Personal Power, Confidence
Supplies motivation and ambition to achieve goals and make healthy choices. Grants wisdom and courage, as well as intuitive guidance. Creates balance in caring for others and caring for self, and in maintaining healthy boundaries. Maintains digestive tract and major organs, including liver, spleen, gall bladder.
Can be clogged by controlling relationships, self-sabotage, shame, blame, self-sacrifice, fear of criticism or poor self-care. Primary distortion = ANGER. Healed by establishing healthy boundaries and structure, especially around health and within relationship. "I am free."
SANSKRIT NAME: Manipura (meaning "seat of gems")
COLOR: Yellow
ELEMENT: Fire
VOWEL SOUND: "O" (like the "o" in "row")
SEED SOUND: Ram (pronounced "rahm")
Relationships, Ability to Love and be Loved
Determines your ability to establish loving relationships and to heal, trust, forgive, hope and feel compassion. Maintains heart, respiratory system, upper back, breasts.
Can be blocked by unprocessed loss, regret, resentment, fear of loneliness, fear of commitment, fear of betrayal, fear of being vulnerable or inability to forgive. Primary distortion = GRIEF. Can be healed by meditating on forgiveness, compassion, love and trust. "I forgive. I love. I trust. I accept."
SANSKRIT NAME: Anahata (meaning "unstuck, unhurt, unbeaten")
COLOR: Green
ELEMENT: Air
VOWEL SOUND: "Ah" (like the "aa" in "baa")
SEED SOUND: Yam (pronounced "yahm")
Communication, Self-Knowledge, Faith
Determines your openness to receive, as well as your ability to communicate clearly, keep your word, have a sense of self within your profession, speak your personal truth and ask for what you need. Maintains throat, mouth, jaw, thyroid, upper digestive tract.
Becomes blocked through a crisis of faith, abandonment, fear of surrendering to a higher power, or prolonged difficulty finding your place in the world. Primary distortion = UNTRUTH. Can be healed through sound, singing or toning, breath work, and meditating on divine will, the divine plan and surrender. "I speak my truth. I trust. I am."
SANSKRIT NAME: Vissudha (meaning "purification")
COLOR: Blue
ELEMENT: Ether
VOWEL SOUND: "I" (like "eye")
SEED SOUND: Ham (pronounced "hahm")
Reasoning, Connection to Spirit, Psychic Gifts and Higher Vision
Determines your ability to understand mental concepts, reason and carry out your ideas. Grants psychic gifts, higher vision and intuitive reasoning and creativity. Maintains neurological system, spine, brain, eyes, ears, sinuses.
Blocked by fear of personal shadow, fear of introspection, fear of discipline or punishment, or fear of external guidance. Primary distortion = ILLUSION.
Can be healed by meditating on spiritual masters and unconditional love, doing shadow process work, visualization and breathing exercises. "I see."
SANSKRIT NAME: Ajna (meaning "beyond wisdom" or "perceive")
COLOR: Indigo
ELEMENT: Light
VOWEL SOUND: "A" (like the "ay" in "hay")
SEED SOUND: Om (pronounced "ohm")
Faith, Insight into Healing, Connection to Divine
Determines your ability to connect with the divine and receive insight into healing. Grant higher powers. Controls ability to perceive, analyze and assimilate information. Maintains neurological system, DNA, skeletal system.
Blocked by loss of identity, forced religion or invalidation of belief systems, misinformation, or fear of spiritual abandonment. Primary distortion = ATTACHMENT.
Can be healed through meditating on the oneness of all creation and on white light. "I am one with all of creation."
SANSKRIT NAME: Sahasrara (meaning "thousand petaled")
COLOR: Purple or white
ELEMENT: Thought
VOWEL SOUND: "EE" (like the "ee" in "see")
SEED SOUND: Ngg (like the "ing" in "ring")
