Let’s talk about energy chakras. Do you know how to balance your own energy to balance your life?

At the moment I have it in abundance and if I am being truthful, I usually have lots of energy. I have been researching the 7 chakras lately and now realise how my thoughts control the energy that flows through and around me. Hey, I have pretty positive thoughts most of the time – the glass is always half full in my eyes.

So what is a chakra? Imagine chakras as energy centres within your body. Each energy centre is shaped like a wheel, with blades constantly turning and overlapping each other. The body has 7 of these wheels of energy and these are called chakras. (Chakras in the ancient eastern language of Sanskrit means wheel). When these chakras are in balance, so too are our thoughts, energy levels and feelings about life.

What are the 7 chakras?

IMBALANCED: If the root chakra is imbalanced, the emotional ramifications can be related to:

• Excessive negativity, cynicism
• Eating disorders
• Greed, avarice
• Illusion
• Excessive feeling of insecurity, living in survival mode constantly

IMBALANCED: If the sacral chakra is imbalanced, it can manifest itself in the following ways:

• Dependency, co-dependency with other people or a substance that grants you easy access to pleasure
• Being ruled by your emotions
• The opposite: Feeling numb, out of touch with yourself and how you feel
• Overindulgence in fantasies, sexual obsessions
• Or the opposite: Lack of sexual desire or satisfaction
• Feeling stuck in a particular feeling or mood

IMBALANCED: If the Solar Plexus chakra is imbalanced, it can show up in emotional and physical ways such as:

• Excessive control and authority over your environment and people
• Or the opposite in case of deficiency or blocked energy: Feeling of helplessness, irresponsibility
• Being obsessed with minute details, seeing life through a filter of plus and minuses while losing sight of the whole picture
• Being manipulative
• Misusing your power
• Lack of clear direction, lack of purpose or ambition
• Making plans or having a lot of ideas without finding efficient ways to realise them

IMBALANCED: If the Heart chakra is imbalanced, difficulties can emerge in the following ways:

• Being overly defensive
• Feeling closed down
• Jealousy; fear of intimacy
• Codependency, relying on other’s approval and attention, trying to please at all cost
• Always putting oneself in the role of the saviour or the rescuer; or on the contrary, falling into victimisation
• Excessive isolation, being recluse, antisocial
• Holding grudges, not being to forgive

IMBALANCED: If the Throat chakra is imbalanced, it can manifest in the following ways:

• Lack of control over one’s speech; speaking too much or inappropriately;
• Not being able to listen to others
• Excessive fear of speaking
• Small, imperceptible voice
• Not being able to keep secrets, to keep your word
• Telling lies
• On the opposite side, a closed throat chakra might manifest as excessive secretiveness or shyness
• Lack of connection with a vocation or purpose in life

IMBALANCED: If the Third Eye chakra is imbalanced, it can manifest in the following ways:

• Feeling stuck in the daily grind without being able to look beyond your problems and set a guiding vision for yourself
• Not being able to establish a vision for oneself and realise it
• Rejection of everything spiritual or beyond the usual
• Not being able to see the greater picture
• Lack of clarity

• IMBALANCED: If the Crown chakra is imbalanced, it can manifest in the following ways:
  • Being disconnected to spirit, constant cynicism regarding what is sacred
  • On the opposite side, an overactive crown chakra could manifest as a disconnection with the body
  • Living in your head, being disconnected from your body and earthly matters
  • Obsessive attachment to spiritual matters
  • Closed-mindedness

After reading about the 7 energy chakras, are you able to identify where you may be lacking balance in your life?

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