The Seven Chakras in the body are energy centers that start at the top of your head and end at the bottom of your spine. They regulate all parts of your bodily systems, influencing everything from emotional processing to resistance to disease. When a chakra is not functioning properly, or if it is blocked, illness is more prone to occur.
Sometimes chakras become blocked because of stress, emotional or physical problems. If the body’s “energy system” cannot flow freely, it is likely that problems will occur.
Chakra 1 – The Root or Base
Its color is red, crystal is the Red Jasper, and it is located at the perineum, base of your spine. 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. When your first chakra is balanced, you will feel a sense of accomplishment and peace when you think about things like money, safety and shelter.
Chakra 2 – The Sacral or Navel Chakra
Its color is orange, crystal is the Carnelian, and it is located between the base of your spine and your navel. 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. When your second chakra is balanced, you will relish in the pleasurable things life has to offer, without overdoing them.
Chakra 3 – The Solar Plexus
Its color is yellow, its crystal is the Citrine, and it is located a few inches above the navel in the solar plexus area. 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. When your third chakra is balanced, you will feel a sense of wisdom, decisiveness and personal power.
Chakra 4 – The Heart
Its color is green, its crystal is the Moss Agate, and it is located within your heart. It is the center of love, compassion, harmony and peace. The Asians say that this is the house of the soul. This Chakra is associated with your lungs, heart, arms hands and thymus gland. When your fourth chakra is balanced, you are able to equally feel love for yourself and others.
Chakra 5 – The Throat
Its color is blue or turquoise, its crystal is the Dumortierite, and it is located within the throat. It is the Chakra of communication, creativity, self-expression and judgment. It is associated with your neck, shoulders, arms, hands, thyroid and parathyroid glands. When your throat chakra is balanced, you will be able to clearly speak with love, kindness and truth.
Chakra 6 – The Third Eye (or Brow Chakra)
Its color is Indigo (a combination of red and blue), its crystal is the Labradorite, and it is located at the center of your forehead, at eye level or slightly above. This Chakra is used to question the spiritual nature of our lives. It is the Chakra of question, perception and knowing. A balanced Third Eye is a beautiful thing, and it’s really what you are trying to achieve when you start on a path to spiritual development.
Chakra 7 – The Crown
Its color is violet, its crystal is the Amethyst, and it is located at the top of your head. It is associated with the cerebral cortex, central nervous system, and the pituitary gland. It is concerned with information, understanding, acceptance and bliss. Balancing this Chakra brings us happiness, good health and wisdom.
The Clear Quartz Crystal
The Master of all healing crystals is the Clear Quartz Crystal and should be used with other crystals for maximum results. Clear Quartz Crystals encourage clarity of thought and purpose to one’s heart and mind. Clear Quartz is known as the “master healer” and will amplify energy and thought, as well as the effect of other crystals. It absorbs, stores, releases and regulates energy. Clear Quartz draws off negative energy of all kinds, and balances the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual planes. The use of clear quartz crystals facilitates the harmonious vibrations in all seven chakra centers at the same time while holding precise alignment with the light.
The openness and flow of energy through our chakras determines our state of health and balance. Keeping a chakra open is not difficult when you have awareness. Being fully aware of all the Seven Chakras, their respective colors, crystals, and the organs they impact, will help you notice the improvements you can bring to your body. If you have an area of concern, consider wearing the crystal related to your problem area. Either alone or in jewelry, that flow of energy from the crystal should bring good energy. Including a clear quartz crystal in your jewelry of choice can only be a positive.
Yoga postures have been recognized as a fantastic technique to release stuck or stagnant energy out of the body. The Chakra Essential oils also form an important part of Chakra healing and are generally used when combined with massage techniques. Forgiveness is one of the most important ways to heal blockages in the chakras. If forgiveness is true and unconditional, amazing healing occurs in all areas of the body.
Each of us has our own aura that reflects our personal energy and affects our ability to connect with others. Our Aura is formed from the energies around our body. This energy field not only goes around us, but throughout and into our body. Our aura interacts with other people’s auras and this is how we are affected by others. Auras are not only beautiful, but helpful in understanding what someone is thinking and feeling.
Auras vibrate to different colors, sounds, and lights. The color spectrum varies with our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual state. This aura reflects much about us. It can read our mental and physical health. For best results, we should be willing to meditate to see Auras.
Aura colors represent different things, and to be able to see auras enables a person to manipulate energy fields for better health and stability. When a person maintains their bio-energy system in a flowing, open and balanced way, they will experience health and good emotional, mental and spiritual well being.
Auras appear as a shimmering, multi-colored field, radiating from the heart or the head, while surrounding the body. A person skilled in the practice of the Metaphysical can interpret a person’s state of mind and their spiritual and personal health by observing their Aura.
With practice, it is not difficult to see auras. A good way to begin is to practice sensing them. That means paying attention to how you feel in someone’s presence. Take a deep breath, exhale and then focus on the physical sensations in your body and your gut reaction. Ask yourself how being around the person makes you feel–serene? jumpy? agitated? Think about what color you would attach to this person. As your abilities are enhanced, sensing and seeing auras will become easier. The brightness of a person’s aura has a lot to do with how they feel. If they feel happy and full of life their aura is stronger, larger and brighter. Try playing your partner’s favorite music to help energize his or her aura and make it easier to see.
Auras expand and retract throughout the day as a reaction to what the environment or people in the environment are sending out. For example, if you are around those you are comfortable with your aura will be a bit larger because you feel more comfortable sending out your energy. However, if you are in a hostile or unfamiliar surrounding you may contract your aura as a form of protection. Similarly if you are tired your aura will contract and become muted or muddy, but if you are rested it should be relatively vibrant and expansive, provided you rested well.
A great way to cleanse your aura of negative energies is Smudging. Burning sage is an ancient tradition used to clear rooms or people of negative energy. If our aura is clear and strong, it will guide us and put us in the position to live the best life we know we deserve and desire.
The human Aura is both an energy field and a reflection of the subtle life energies within the body. These energies make us what we are, and in turn, are affected by our surroundings and life style. The Aura reflects our health, character, mental activity and emotional state. It may also show disease, often long before the onset of symptoms.
The color of the Aura is impacted by health—both physical and mental—what we are experiencing in the moment, and how we “run” our energy most of the time. Drug use, trauma, prayer, and healing work can all change the substance of the Aura for better or worse. What we spend our time thinking about, viewing, doing, and believing, all have an impact on the quality of our Aura.
When you are depressed, your psychic energy is also depressed. Negative emotions like fear and anxiety create blockages to our physical energy as well as our emotional energy and Aura. When you can clear your Aura of negativity, you have freedom from what is holding you back.
Surround yourself with sunlight. Spending as much time in the sunshine with nature is, for the Aura, like honey to a bee. Try to get as close to the Earth as you possibly can, whether that means hugging a tree, smelling flowers, walking barefoot, or meditating.
Practice Forgiveness. Not only letting go of the pain in your past but forgiving the person who caused it, can clear the negative energy from your Aura. Instead of focusing on your wounded feelings, and thereby giving power over you to the person who caused you pain, look for the love, beauty, and kindness around you.
Try Smudging to get rid of any bad energy. The fragrant smoke from burning herbs or resins has been used for cleansing negative energy for centuries. Most people interested in clearing energy start with sage. It is the smoke from burning the sage that purifies. Using a sage bundle or stick incense, light the end, let it burn a few moments, and blow it out. The end should be glowing red, with smoke coming out of it. Move the smoke over and around you, or the person to be cleansed.
Gratitude is an important tool to change your Aura. An ungrateful person will have a dull, gray Aura and keep attracting negativity in life. On the other hand, belief in the Law of Abundance brings positivity and the gifts life has to offer. Be grateful for all that you have and keep praying and giving your thanks for it.
Take full responsibility for your life. Your thoughts and your actions are important to creating a more positive life. Positivity is a step-by-step process when you do it solo, but a positive group of friends can be a blessing.