As most of my sparklers know along with my soul cleansing I use reiki. I am only level 2 trained as personally I didn’t feel I needed more than that. But understanding the chakras is pretty easy, but when they are not aligned it can be very difficult.
So lets answer the question no one every asks, what are chakras? Chakras are spiritual hot spots within our bodies that most feel or understand. They hold on to all our emotions and actually our health as well. We use the term aligned, but really they are always in a line, it’s more the energy they are holding. So you can actually have the opposite of the alignment. If you are over lined, I will also explain this in this post.
Root chakra
This is the root chakra, it is based at the bottom of your spine, where your tail bone. Most know the colour of it is red, and connects us to the earth. So what does that mean for what it actually does and how do you help it to align you ask! This is important, because if you don’t feel grounded you will be floating around, very aloof. This could be your too much in the spiritual realm, which is at the opposite end of the chakras. Also, you may not feel like you are surviving, just existing day to day, this could lead to a struggle of feeling you don’t belong. There could be health issues to go along with it, especially in your lower back, legs, feet, intestines and immune system.
What are the signs if it is underactive? Feeling floaty (walking through a mist), Not able to move on, being afraid of everything, as well as financial stress.
What are the signs if it is overactive? Connection with more material items, being too alert, being greedy and controlling behaviors.
What can you do to help this? Daily meditation, connecting with your root chakra, walking on a natural substance, spending time outdoors, eating red foods, holding crystals. (These will be named below)
Crystals:
- Black onyx
- Bloodstone
- Bronzite
- Garnet
- Green banded Agate
- Leopard skin Jasper
- Moss agate
- Red Banded Agate
- Snowflake obsidian
- Zebra Jasper.
Sacral Chakra
The Sacral chakra is the spiritual energy force at the lower stomach, just above the pubic bone. This chakra holds so much that links to sexual behaviours as well as relationships. It’s colour is orange, and connects us to water, which makes a lot of sense. When you think this is where a woman grows a baby in water, men’s sexual reproductive systems is fluid and out bladder is here as well. This is an important one to have in line, because it is the key to intimate relationships as well as our hormonal balance.
What are the signs if underactive? Again the same as grounding fear will be present. But you will also feel depressed, lack of connection causing poor social skills, not wanting to do anything with creativity, and struggling with desire as well as passion. You may find physically you suffer with a lot of UTI’s (Urine tracked infections), or even kidney issues. This could even cause issues with fertility.
What are the signs if overactive? Now this one is crazy if it is overactive and causes a lot of the red flags in a relationship. Cause where if it is underactive the desire for sex is not there but overactive the desire for sex is over the top. This can also cause addictive behaviours as well as codependency. The worst one is your emotions can be everywhere and you can feel a lack of control of them.
What can you do to help this chakra? Meditation, yes I know I am always on about meditation! Setting boundaries with people, be it partners or family members or friends. Connecting to this chakra, best place for this is in water. Eating orange foods, and getting more creative such as writing, or painting.
Crystals:
Solar chakra
The solar chakra is an energy force at the top of the stomach, just below the where the ribs. This is the hardest one to have aligned at all times, as said by Raychel the colour witch on my podcast. She actually has an amazing book for this. This sign can be helped by being near fire, one of our best forms of this is actually the sun. One of the reasons I get winter blues, even with taking vitamin D, is because I miss the sun’s energy. Only the other day, I sat soaking in Apollon’s rays, it’s amazing how much better it makes you feel.
What happens if it is underactive? Well, where do I start! This is your body’s power house. You will again feel fear, but worse than that low self-esteem. One of the biggest emotions I feel with my girls with this chakra is anxiety as this is where we hold all our confidence. There may be struggles with will power, like stopping smoking or doing something you need to change. This may show up physically as in issues with your gallbladder (yes had mine removed), liver, stomach and pancreas.
What happens if it is overactive? Well, again it’s our power house. This can show as arrogance of being over confident. Not even adding the high self-esteem. They may also struggle with not controlling everything going on around them. And one thing that I struggle with shockingly as mine is usually underactive, but workaholism!
What can you do to help this chakra? Yes you know, but I will repeat meditation. Eating yellow foods, this is actually something I do a lot, especially cheese. As I said before connecting with Apollon’s rays or with Helios himself (sun)! If you cannot do this light a candle and connect with the flame.
Crystals:
Heart Chakra
This is the one everyone thinks is the core, but it’s not. But this is an important chakra, as it is in the middle of the grounding and spiritual chakras. This means that it feels everything from what is going on in this realm and the other. Which is why we hold our grief here, and why we hold so much in our heart. Unlike our heart is slightly on the left this is in the center, where I sternum is. Also it’s colour isn’t pink, I know shock horror, it’s actually green! Just like the air which is between the divine and this realm, our heart chakra is, that is why it’s element is air.
What happens if it is underactive? Wow, this is a crazy one as most can have an ache here. But this one controls your healing, because if underactive it is very hard to show and give forgiveness. It also is hard to regulate our emotions and we can be confused about what exactly we are feeling. So you may feel over whelmed with grief, too much guilt, and not accepting who you are, which can make you over critical of you.
What Happens if it is overactive?  This one is a worry, people may not show empathy. They will hold on to grudges with the thought of vengeance, not guilt. They will be a red flag in a lot of relationships and possibly not care about hurting the partner they are with.
What can you do to help this chakra? I know, I know, but it is the best way meditation. Not forgetting spending time in nature. The reason both of these really help because of the air your breathing taking it in as deep as you can. Never though forget your self care!
Crystals:Â
Throat Chakra
This is where your truth is held, as well as much more. Linking in also to the spiritual realm. The throat chakra is at the voice box, this is blue in colour. Here we hold as well as our speech it holds our ability to listen as well as our ability to be heard. Which the best way to show this, is when you get a cold and you throat glands swell, this causing your hearing to feel like it needs unblocking. This is the Eustachian tube, that connects all of these areas. This is also why the element for this is space and sound, now when you think about it, this makes perfect sense. As the voice box produces sound that can travel through space and our ears hear that sound made by others and our selves.
What happens if underactive? If this is underactive you may have fear of speaking, this can be in shyness or speaking up for your self. You will struggle to feeling heard, and a well as that possible not hearing what the other person is trying to explain. But this won’t be helped with you inability to express your emotions.
What happens if overactive? If this is overactive you may find you struggle with not interrupting others, be harsh with your wording as well. It may also show as incessive talking, and struggling to listen to others. As well as critical speech towards others.
What can you do to help?  Of course, meditation. Singing can also help with this as sound is one of the best therapy for this. If you are struggling to be heard keeping a journal can also help and actively listening to others.
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Third eye
Everyone thinks this is just at the center between your eyes, but this is actually at you pineal gland. This is at the center of your brain. It is the light, which actually makes sense as we need light to see. As well as when we think about what Craig said on my live about that we can only see 0.0035% of proven light, that means there is 99.965% of proven light that is unseen. The colour of your third eye is indigo. Third eye is not just for seeing spirits but also for intuition, perception and foresight, so the best friend for any clairvoyant.
What happens if you are underactive? This can be one of the hardest one to know if active or not. Because if active it can make you question your sanity. If it is underactive you will find you are skeptic to everything. Also find that you have mental fogginess as well as being disconnected from your intuition. There could also be a chance of inability to focus.
What happens if you are overactive? Well this can cause spiritual psychosis, and you will find that you can get these issues. Nightmares, these can feel real. You may also see find that you have delusions and this can more into hallucinations.
How can you help with this? I know, I know, you know what’s coming, meditation. But also when meditating concentrating on the 3rd eye. Nature can also help, as connection to our natural ways. Eating indigo foods link blueberries. Keeping a journal, this could be for meditation and dreams.
Crystals:
Crown Chakra
This is the purple chakra, it lays right at the top of your head, as it is the one that links you to the spiritual realm above. This will need to be open for divination and connection to spirit guides. Some people will see this chakra slowly turn white as it links further with the spiritual realm. But as well as all this it is the chakra for knowledge and wisdom. If active you will be willing to learn as much as you can, no matter what the persons reasons are.
What happens if you are underactive? I personally find this to be the saddest one when it’s underactive or overactive. When you are struggle to activate this chakra you will find a feeling of not knowing your purpose, this includes on a spiritual level. Most that have an underactive crown chakra also can be very selfish, one of the hardest parts and that I struggle with.
What happens if you are overactive? Overactive is similar to third eye, we have the worry of spiritual psychosis. You will be strict about your spiritual beliefs and not willing to learn about other things. The one that is most worrying is the disconnection with the real world, so seeing everything as a sign, or seeing paranormal in everything. There will highly likely be overthinking and this will lead to confusion because you won’t be thinking with the wisdom you already have.
What can you do to help?  Ok last time, Meditation! Getting back to nature, eating purple foods and sitting in silence.
Crystals:
Thank you for all reading, if you have more questions, feel free to pop them below.
Keep Sparkling!
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