What Are Your Chakras?

Chakra Healing first originated in India between 1500 – 500 BC. It was first sited in the oldest text called the Vedas. According to the Vedas, your body contains seven energy centers called chakras, starting at your tailbone and ending above your head.

Each energy center is open free-flowing energy and creates harmony throughout the mind, body, and spirit. It is important to heal these chakras because they are the foundation of your consciousness. They decide how you think, act, and feel throughout your life.

Indulge yourself in this Chakra healing guide for beginners as you expand your consciousness of your energy centers.

Your seven energy centers consist of your Root Chakra, Sacral Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra, Heart Chakra, Throat Chakra, Third Eye Chakra, and Crown Chakra. The term “chakra” is derived from the Sanskrit word wheel. This relates the chakras to spinning wheels of energy within us.

Each chakra is represented by a different color, symbol, name, and location. Every chakra has an important effect on our physical, emotional, and energetic being every day of our lives.

Take the Chakra Assessment below to discover which one of your chakras is out of balance and how to bring it back to a balanced state.

Chakras and Psychology

Our chakras have actually been tied into different schools of psychology, each one being associated with a different level of consciousness.

• Root Chakra: Behavioristic psychology (center of organic behavior)
• Sacral Chakra: Freudian psychology (center of instinctual drives and impulses)
• Solar Plexus Chakra: Humanistic psychology (center of the man-to-man relationship on a human level)
• Heart Chakra, Throat Chakra, Third Eye Chakra, Crown Chakra: Spiritual experiences that correlate with pure spiritual existence and realization at the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (personal growth and self-actualization)

Different changes in consciousness lead to changes in the physiological process called psycho-physical parallelism. This means it is possible to achieve different changes in consciousness. However, this is only possible if your energy centers are in balance.

As a result, Chakra healing is so important in our every day lives. Healing these energy centers allows us to expand our consciousness and remain balanced.

With the advancement of technology, scientists have actually been able to document these centers of energy in concrete reality.

Scientific Proof of Our Energy Centers

Dr. Valerie Hunt, professor of Kinesiology at UCLA, measured the electromagnetic field of the human body using an electromyograph. An electromyograph measures the electrical activity of muscles.

In this study, Hunt discovered the physical body emanated radiation at certain sites throughout our body (the sites of our chakras). She also found certain levels of consciousness are linked to certain frequencies.

Her research shows people’s whose energy fields ranged at a frequency of around 250 Hz had thoughts of solely daily situations. Psychic individual’s energy fields were being measured at a frequency of between 400 and 800 Hz. Channeler’s energy fields measured frequencies in the range of 800-900 Hz. Mystics, those who continuously were connecting with their highest self, energy fields measured frequencies of 900 Hz or above.

Unbalanced vs. Balanced Chakras

Balanced Chakras

Your chakras are unseen and untouchable. They are energetic feelings that only you can feel.

Balanced Chakras bring peace with yourself and your life mentally, physically, and emotionally. Everything just seems to flow, as your energy is spinning and functioning properly. You go about your days with ease.

Unbalanced Chakras

Unbalance and blockages occur in the chakras when one specific energy center is more or less active than the other. When this happens, your life may feel confusing and difficult. Unbalanced chakras cannot be seen physically, as they are internal feelings of energy that constitute gut intuition.

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We can use holistic means such as healing gemstones, essential oils, sound healing, herbs, mantras, and meditation to balance our chakras and bring them back into alignment.

Why Worry About Our Chakras?

In life, it is good to keep our chakras aligned so that we may feel good emotionally, physically, and spiritually. If a chakra becomes out of balance, we tend to start wreaking havoc in our own lives.

To prevent this, balancing our chakras and understanding our own selves is very important. It is the easiest way to self heal yourself when you feel “out of it” or “down in the dumps”. When in the process of healing a certain chakra it is useful to wear that chakra’s color as much as possible.

For example, if you want to heal your Root Chakra:

• wear red
• paint your nails red
• set your phone background as something red
• eat red foods

This will remind you that you need to focus on healing your chakra.

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Above all, allow this information to bring about a new internal understanding of your energy and soul.

In this Chakra series, I will go into depth on the function of each one of your chakras. I will also explain the signs of imbalanced chakras, how to heal them, and how you can keep them aligned. Doing so will bring forth a healthier life mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Other articles in this series:

• The Ultimate Guide to Your Root Chakra
• The Ultimate Guide to Your Sacral Chakra
• The Ultimate Guide to Your Solar Plexus Chakra
• The Ultimate Guide to Your Heart Chakra
• The Ultimate Guide to Your Throat Chakra
• The Ultimate Guide to Your Third Eye Chakra
• The Ultimate Guide to Your Crown Chakra

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