What are Chakras and How to Balance Your Chakra

All of your senses, your perceptions, states of awareness, and everything it is possible for you to experience, can be divided into seven categories which are then associated with a particular chakra. The chakras coincidently transpose to represent not only particular parts of your physical body but also the bridge to your consciousness.

When you feel tension it is an alert from your consciousness. This feeling is transmitted from the part of your consciousness experiencing distress through to the associated chakra. Where you feel the distress depends upon why you feel the tension. This tension is detected by the nerves of the plexus associated with that chakra and travels to the parts of the body controlled by that plexus. When the tension continues over a period of time, or a particular level of intensity, the body creates a symptom on a physical level.

Balancing the Chakras means you balance the body and mind at a metaphoric and symptomatic root before it has the chance to manifest physically.

The 7 Common Chakras

Although everyone commonly talks about there being seven chakras, there are actually 114 chakras in the body!

Below is a more detailed insight into the 7 Chakra and Crystals:

• Crown Chakra – Clear Quartz
• Third Eye Chakra – Amethyst
• Throat Chakra – Lapis Lazuli
• Heart Chakra – Rose Quartz
• Solar Plexus Chakra – Gold Tigers Eye
• Sacral Chakar – Carnelian
• Root Chakra – Red Jasper

 

The Crown Chakra

Focused on opening and purifying the crown chakra. Your Crown Chakra’s purpose is to help us as human beings connect with the universe. When this chakra is open, the divine energy of the universe enters here and the individual experiences clarity, insight and knowledge beyond words and intellect. Your Crown Chakra’s purpose is to help us gain knowledge of spiritual matters. When this chakra is open, you access divine vision and intuitiveness to spark your creative side.

A Crown Chakra can become unbalanced when you allow someone to question your thoughts or ideas, shame or humiliate you, invalidate you or tell you you’re not good enough, make you feel unworthy or tell you how they think you exist in the world and what you should think of yourself.

• Colour – White
• Sensory channel – experience
• Position – top of the head
• Issues – inability to trust in life, problems with values and ethics, a lack of courage or faith and inspiration

 

The Third Eye Chakra

The Third Eye Chakra Crystal Collection is focused on opening up creation and intuition and that which is beyond science and physical manifestation. Through the Third Eye Chakra, you are invited to intuition and awareness in everyday life.

A Third Eye Chakra can become unbalanced when you allow someone to question your intuition, gaslight you, make you question your sanity or the ability to pick up on feelings, and cloud your judgement or ability to have clear thoughts.

• Colour – Indigo
• Sensory channel – thought
• Position – the centre of the forehead
• Issues – lack of intuition, empathy, and a feeling of inadequacy

 

The Throat Chakra

The Throat Chakra Crystal Collection is focused on opening up communication and expression dealing with hearing and listening to your inner voice. When this chakra is open, the translations from thought and sound to open communication and expression of feelings are made aware and more easily attained.

A Throat Chakra becomes unbalanced when you allow someone to tell you how you should speak, what you should speak on, when you should speak or how you come across when you communicate in the world.

• Colour – Blue
• Sensory channel – sound
• Position – throat
• Issues – struggle with personal expression, take no responsibility for your actions, can be judgemental and critical

 

The Heart Chakra

The Heart Chakra Crystal Collection is focused on the unconditional ability to love freely and without fear or self-consciousness. Your Heart Chakra’s purpose is to neutralise and expel negative feelings and emotions, enrich your heart and mind and open healing for the acceptance of past suffering.

A Heart Chakra becomes unbalanced when you allow someone to tell you how to feel and love, how you should show your affections, get over your past issues and self-love journey, and force their views on the things you love or feel in your heart.

• Colour – Green
• Sensory channel – touch
• Position – the centre of the chest
• Issues – lack of commitment due to fear, and loneliness, fluctuates between love and hate, grief and anger, resentment and bitterness.

 

The Solar Plexus Chakra

The Solar Plexus Chakra Crystal Collection is focused on the planning of and manifesting impulses, desires and wishes. Your Solar Plexus Chakra’s purpose is to act as the melting pot of spiritual and earthly aspects, it works to build your personality along with realising goals and dreams.

A Solar Plexus Chakra becomes unbalanced when you allow someone to influence your relationship with yourself, criticise your personal power or sense of purpose, what you should work toward and focus your energy on.

• Colour – Yellow
• Sensory channel – sight
• Position – under the rib cage
• Issues – weight in the stomach area, trust issues, and a lack of self-esteem and confidence.

 

The Sacral Chakra

The Sacral Chakra Crystal Collection is focused on sexual energy, creation and pure emotion. Your Sacral Chakra’s purpose is to entice the male and female sex drive combined with its response. Tap into and promote free-flowing feelings and emotions between lovers and friends, and balance the free giving and receiving of feelings and emotions.

A Sacral Chakra becomes unbalanced when you allow someone to scar you emotionally, unsure or unstable in sexual and emotional matters, suppress your expression of passions or pleasures, and how you trust in and ask to meet your own thoughts and feelings.

• Colour – Orange
• Sensory channel – taste
• Position – above the pubic bone
• Issues – fear of loss of control, flight or fight response, trust issues with money and sex, issues with power and control

 

The Root Chakra

The Root Chakra Crystal Collection is focused on strength and grounding to build and evolve you and your personality. Your Root Chakra’s purpose is to act as a foundation embracing aspects such as energy, self-expression, ambition, consistency, desire for security, and the survival of self and the species.

A Root Chakra becomes unbalanced when you allow someone to threaten your sense of security and safety, be manipulated to please others, focus on material possessions, and a need to satisfy your own desires above others.

• Colour – Red
• Sensory channel – smell
• Position – base of the spine
• Issues – struggle to stand up for yourself, trust issues, prosperity issues, fear of physical survival