Introducing Chakras (Our Body’s Energy Centers)

With the popularity of yoga and new age teachings the word chakra has become more common in our daily conversations. What are chakras and what do we do with them? The term chakra came to us from Hindu and Buddhist spiritual traditions. Chakra is defined as wheel or cycle depending on tradition. They can be visualized as a spinning wheels or disks of energy located within the body. We focus in on those areas though meditation to enhance our physical and mental wellbeing. Each chakra not only represents a physical aspect of our body but also specific emotional properties as well. When we experience uneasiness or distress, we can usually correlate that feeling to the properties of one or two chakras. We then focus in on the energy center and visualize energy cycling within the wheel, clearing out the old distress and bringing in a sense of ease. This is called balancing. As we balance and align our chakras, we may experience a greater sense of emotional stability and physical ease. With practice we can start to focus and be more present within our bodies and emotional states.

While some practices have indicated as many as 114 chakra points within the human energy field, most western yogis and energy workers interact with seven primary chakras set within the physical body.

They are as follows:

Muladhara: The Root Chakra; primary color: red: location: below the tailbone, at the base of the spine; function: basic needs, survival.

Swadhisthana: The Sacral Chakra; primary color: orange; location: 3-4 fingers below the belly button; function: creativity, sexuality, abundance.

Manipura: The Solar Plexus Chakra; primary color: yellow; location: situated between the belly button and the breast bone; relates to self-worth, self-awareness, confidence;

Anahata: The Heart Chakra; primary color: green; location: the center of the chest; function: self-love, compassion for others, empathy.

Vishuddha: The Throat Chakra; primary color: blue; location: the center of the throat; function: self-expression, speaking our truth.

Ajna: The Third Eye Chakra; primary color: indigo; location: behind the eyebrows, in the center of the head; function: inner guidance, discernment, intuition.

Sahasrara: The Crown Chakra; primary color: violet or white; location: the top of the head; function: spirituality, connection to God/Universe/All that is.

An easy meditation practice to balance our chakras can be to visualize a stream of light or prana (universal energy) enter our bodies. Using your inner senses, follow the light as it expands downward from the top of your head through the soles of your feet and in to the ground. Using your breath expand the energy outwards through the body and further into your surrounding energetic field. Using your imagination visualize that you are fully immersed in this light/energy, allowing it to fill in any areas you may intuitively feel depletion or thinning. Once you feel the fullness of energy, start focusing each of the 7 spinning chakras, from the root to the crown. Slowly, one chakra at a time, give yourself permission to hone in on any feeling or belief that may arise. Bring them to the forefront as you focus on the spinning chakra. Concentrate the light/energy now on the chakra as you visualize the color becoming clearer and brighter, letting go of the old beliefs and feelings that keep you down and replacing them with new beliefs that will lift you up.

For example: as you focus on the root chakra, you may start to feel or have thoughts of being unsupported by friends or family when you visualize the light coming in, let go of those feelings and beliefs and visualize and start to feel what it would be like to have what you want, like being seen and appreciated, having more physical support, being surrounded by friends and family or living in a place that feels safe. Revisualizing and concentrating and infusing the light/energy into the chakra allows our subconscious rewrite our inner stories, releasing resistance to bringing in our desires. Continue do do this until your inner senses indicate the red of the root chakra has become clear and vibrant. Once you feel that the process is complete, move our attention to the next chakra up, the Sacral chakra, and repeat the exercise until you have moved through each remaining chakras.

At the end of the meditation, move your attention to the energy moving within and surrounding your body. Start to visualize all the chakras spinning together in unison expanding the color of each chakra and allow them to blend into the colors of the adjacent chakra energy until they become one light, blended, white, and pure. Release yourself from the light/energy coming down and ending your practice with gratitude.

More information about chakras can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra
To listen to guided chakra meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ri2uy9Hgs

Kris Krueger Hypnosis offers one on one chakra work for our clients. In each 90 minute session, we use hypnosis to explore each of the 7 chakras, addressing core beliefs and blocks similar to the process outlined above. If interested, you can book a session here.

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