I’m a firm believer in tuning ones Chakras. In my opinion, tuning ones energetic body is just as important as taking care of our physical bodies. Blocked energy in our seven chakras can often lead to illness, so it's important to understand what each chakra represents and what we can do to keep this energy flowing freely. Here's a quick breakdown of The 7 Chakras :
1. Root Chakra — Represents our foundation and feeling of being grounded.
• Location: Base of spine in tailbone area.
• Emotional issues: Survival issues such as financial independence, money and food.
• Overactive: Fearful, nervous, insecure, or ungrounded; materialistic or greedy; resistant to change
• Underactive: Lacking a sense of being at home or secure anywhere, codependent, unable to get into one’s body, fearful of abandonment
• Associated Endocrine Glands & Organs: Adrenal glands, spine, blood, and reproductive organs
• Physical Symptoms of Unbalance: Inability to sit still, restlessness, unhealthy weight (either obesity or eating disorder), constipation, cramps, fatigue or sluggishness
2. Sacral Chakra — Our connection and ability to accept others and new experiences.
• Location: Lower abdomen, about two inches below the navel and two inches in.
• Emotional issues: Sense of abundance, well-being, pleasure and shexuality.
• Overactive: Overemotional, very quick to attach and invest in others, attracted to drama, moody, lacking personal boundaries
• Underactive: Stiff, unemotional, closed off to others, lacking self-esteem or self-worth, possibly in an abusive relationship
• Associated Endocrine Glands & Organs: Kidneys and reproductive organs: ovaries, testes, and uterus
• Physical Symptoms of Unbalance: Lower-back pain or stiffness, urinary issues, kidney pain or infection, infertility, impotence
3. Solar Plexus Chakra — Our ability to be confident and in control of our lives.
• Location: Upper abdomen in the stomach area.
• Emotional issues: Self-worth, self-confidence and self-esteem.
• Overactive: Domineering, aggressive, angry, perfectionistic or overly critical of oneself or others
• Underactive: Passive, indecisive, timid, lacking self-control
• Associated Endocrine Glands & Organs: Central nervous system, digestive system (stomach and intestines), liver, pancreas, metabolic system
• Physical Symptoms of Unbalance: Ulcers, gas, nausea, or other digestive problems; eating disorders; asthma or other respiratory ailments; nerve pain or fibromyalgia; infection in the liver or kidneys; other organ problems
4. Heart Chakra — Our ability to love.
• Location: Center of chest just above the heart.
• Emotional issues: Love, joy and inner peace.
• Overactive: Loving in a clingy, suffocating way; lacking a sense of self in a relationship; willing to say yes to everything; lacking boundaries, letting everyone in
• Underactive: Cold, distant, lonely, unable or unwilling to open up to others, grudgeful
• Associated Endocrine Glands & Organs: Thymus gland and immune system, heart, lungs, breasts, arms, hands
• Physical Symptoms of Unbalance: Heart and circulatory problems (high blood pressure, heart palpitations, heart attack), poor circulation or numbness, asthma or other respiratory ailments, breast cancer, stiff joints or joint problems in the hands
5. Throat Chakra — Our ability to communicate.
• Location: Throat.
• Emotional issues: Communication, self-expression of feelings and the truth.
• Overactive: Overly talkative, unable to listen, highly critical, verbally abusive, condescending
• Underactive: Introverted, shy, having difficulty speaking the truth, unable to express needs
• Associated Endocrine Glands & Organs: Thyroid, neck, throat, shoulders, ears, and mouth
• Physical Symptoms of Unbalance: Stiffness or soreness in the neck or shoulders, sore throat, hoarseness or laryngitis, earaches or infection, dental issues or TMJ, thyroid issues
6. Third Eye Chakra — Our ability to focus on and see the big picture.
• Location: Forehead between the eyes (also called the Brow Chakra).
• Emotional issues: Intuition, imagination, wisdom and the ability to think and make decisions.
• Overactive: Out of touch with reality, lacking good judgment, unable to focus, prone to hallucinations
• Underactive: Rigid in thinking, closed off to new ideas, too reliant on authority, disconnected or distrustful of inner voice, anxious, clinging to the past and fearful of the future
• Associated Endocrine Glands & Organs:Pituitary, eyes, brow, base of skull, biorhythms
• Physical Symptoms of Unbalance: Vision problems, headaches or migraines, insomnia or sleep disorders, seizures, nightmares (though this isn’t a physical symptom per se, it is a common occurrence)
7. Crown Chakra — The highest chakra represents our ability to be fully connected spiritually.
• Location: The very top of the head.
• Emotional issues: Inner and outer beauty, our connection to spirituality and pure bliss.
• Overactive: Addicted to spirituality, heedless of bodily needs, having difficulty controlling emotions
• Underactive: Not very open to spirituality, unable to set or maintain goals, lacking direction
• Associated Endocrine Glands & Organs: Pituitary and pineal glands, brain, hypothalamus, cerebral cortex, central nervous system
• Physical Symptoms of Unbalance: Dizziness, confusion, mental fog, neurological disorders, nerve pain, schizophrenia or other mental disorders
