Seven Chakras
The Chakra literally means a "wheel", a circular disk that regulates energy flow through your body. Chakra meditation is a process that heals you on a physical, mental & spiritual level.
In our Body, there are 114 points where veins cross each other in the form of a triangular shape. These points radiate energy that balances human life & these points are known as The Chakra. Although they are in the form of a triangle shape, they radiate energy and glow as a circle thus known as The Chakra.
Within 114 chakras, two chakras are rest out of the human physical body. Other 108 chakras are responsible for your physical, mental, and spiritual health. And, the remaining four chakras are the results of other chakras. As you work on other chakras these 4 chakras get balanced by the influence of others.
So out of 108 chakras, there are seven chakras in human body located from the bottom of your spine straight towards your head. Each chakra has its own energies, its own characteristics, its own magical and spiritual power that shapes your personality and balances you on a physical, mental, and spiritual level.
Let’s get familiar with these main seven chakra of body, where they are located, and how they shape our health.
Now let's see 7 chakras characteristics:
Each chakra has its own unique quality and control over specific areas of the body. Each chakra influences a different area of physical and mental abilities. Each Chakra has its own frequency, color, and energy it radiates.
Lest see Seven chakra names, their location, color & element, chants, and stones by which they get influenced, area of the body and mind they control:-
Sanskrit Name: "Muladhara " (a root of Existence)
Location: at the bottom of your spine
Colour: red
Element: Earth
Chant: LAM
Gemstones: Red Jasper, Bloodstones, Garnet, etc
Area of the body it influences: the Parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest system), legs, feet, spine, bones, blood, sciatic nerve, adrenal glands, bladder, hips, teeth, etc. Security and Stability are core areas where Root Chakra provides you energy.
It governs your senses of stability, safety, strength, and commitment. It controls our physical and emotional needs of survival and self-preservation.
When this chakra gets blocked you feel unstable and insecure physically and emotionally. You feel disturbed, unstable, unambitious, fearful, insecure, often frustrated.
Sanskrit Name: "Svadhisthana"
Location: in the pelvis area of your body
Colour: Orange
Element: Water
Chant: "Vam"
Gemstones: Carnelian, Orange Calcite, Sunstone, etc.
The area of the body influences: sexual organs, spleens, kidneys, womb, lower vertebrae, pelvis, hips, bladder, intestines, adrenal glands, etc
This chakra governs your emotions, pleasure, nurturing, and creativity.It’s the center of your feelings and sensations. It plays a major role in your sexuality and the expression of your sensual and sexual desires.
When Sacral Chakra gets blocked you feel imbalanced, irritated. You lose creativity, always obsessed with sexual thoughts. If your chakra is stable then you will feel positive, satisfied. You will enjoy little things without overdoing them again and again.
Sanskrit Name: "Manipura"
Location: in the belly area
Colour: Yellow
Element: Fire
Chant: "RAM"
Gemstones: Citrine, Sunstone, Amber, etc
The area of the body influences: stomach, liver, gallbladder, kidneys, intestine, muscular system, adrenal glands, pancreas, diaphragm, skin, etc
It governs the area of self-confidence and personal power. This chakra also controls your digestive system and metabolism rate.
When this chakra is unbalanced you feel depression, lack self-esteem. You find a lack of purpose or ambition, digestion problems. But, when it balances you feel energetic, productive, confident, focussed.
Sanskrit Name: "Anahata" (unhurt/invincible )
Location: in the heart area
Colour: green
Element: Air
Chant: "Yam"
Gemstones: Green tourmaline, rose quartz, emerald, etc.
The area of the body influences: heart, circulatory system, emotional regulations, lungs, shoulders, arms, hands, breasts, lymph system,
It is also referred to as the center of seven chakras. It connects your lower three chakras and upper three chakras. The heart chakra governs love and compassion, charity to others, and psychic healing. It also controls the feeling of Love, Kindness, Attachments, Forgiveness & Acceptance.
When it is balanced by you, you will feel surrounded by love, joy, rooted within relationships. And when this chakra gets unbalanced you may feel jealous, brokenhearted, lonely. It makes you difficult to trust others, angry, anxious, unable to absorb love, etc.
The Throat Chakra
Sanskrit Name: "Vishuddha"
Location: at the center of the neck in the region of the throat
Colour: Blue
Element: Space
Chant: "HAM"
Gemstones: Amazonite, Turquoise, Aquamarine, etc
The area of the body influences: lymph system, throat, pituitary gland, thyroid, parathyroid, ears, nose, jaw, neck, mouth, shoulders, etc.
This chakra governs your ability to communicate, sharing your creativity and your expression.
If this chakra gets blocked you feel unable to communicate with others, shy. You may not be able to express your thoughts and creativity.
The Third Eye
Sanskrit Name: "Ajna"
Location: between your eyebrows in the forehead
Colour: Indigo
Element: Light
Chant: "AUM"
Gemstones:
The area of the body influences: pineal gland, brain, pituitary glands, hypothalamus, eyes, frontal sinuses, skull, ear, nose, endocrine system, parasympathetic nervous system, etc
This chakra is the energy center of your intelligence, wisdom, consciousness, visualization. It helps your perception of what you see & develops mental abilities & psychological skills.
Blockage of this leads to insomnia, lack of clarity, lack of vision & intelligence. You have a feeling of getting stuck in a particular routine, unable to focus. But, If you balance it, you find a pathway to connect yourself with spirituality. A Perception of your environment, intelligence, and self-knowledge develop with this chakra.
Crown Chakra:
Sanskrit Name: "Sahasrara"
Location: top of the head
Colour: Violet
Element: Cosmos Pure light
Chant: “AH”
Gemstones: Amethyst, Sugilite, charoite
The area of the body influences: Brain, Spinal column, nervous systemCrown chakra is known as "the bridge to the cosmos". It's mostly associated with spirituality. It is the center of your consciousness.
So, now we have seen each chakra and its characteristics, we can determine which of your chakra is blocked by simply paying attention to the behavior of your mind and body. You may wonder why do chakras get blocked, but it's not them who have blocked it themselves. Blockage of chakra can occur due to many reasons like our environment, childhood experience, sudden loss of loved ones or anything close to you, daily routine, lifestyle, attitude, daily habits, socialism, accident, injury, etc.
Seven Chakra Meditation benefits:-
Why should you balance the seven chakras?
We know our body is made up of different energy sources of the universe and these chakras act as a vortex of energy to emit as well as to receive. Chakra absorbs energy from the surroundings and supplies it to our bodies. Each chakra has its specific energy and purpose. When your chakra is not aligned or balanced it fails to emit energy that you need to be healthy. With each unbalanced or blocked chakra, you can see problems that arouse and affect you on a physical as well as mental level. Therefore it is important to balance your chakra to align your body and mind. This meditation allows you to tap into the healing powers of chakras and develop you physically, mentally, and spiritually.
There are many doubts about how do I unblock my chakras and people think it's a very hard or spiritual thing to unblock chakra but it's just a simple process that needs to be done for opening of chakra.
So, how do you open your 7 chakras? There is a simple trick to activate your chakra.
Sit down. Take a deep breath and with each breath try to focus on the location of each chakra. Visualize seven chakra colors and with each breath, they are growing, radiating more energy, glowing more and more.
Each chakra has a specific Gemstone and essential oils which helps it to be active and open more efficiently. Place Gemstone near the location of chakra. Burn oils while meditating.
Each Chakra has its own element that boosts its powers. Be in touch with that element.
Each chakra vibrates at its own frequency which can be tuned with chanting seven chakra mantras. Sit down and chant each mantra for each chakra daily.
It's not just breathing yoga, it's more than that. Seven Chakra Meditation gives you stability, enhances your physical abilities and connection with your higher consciousness.
(This article is originally published here: https://healchakras.in/the-seven-chakras-meditation-healing-for-beginners )
