What are chakras?

The word “Chakra” comes from the Sanskrit shakra and means wheel of life. Chakras are centers of energy, shaped like swirls, located at specific points in the body, and are intended to metabolize and maintain the continuous transfer of energy between the physical body and the spiritual and material planes. Subtle, they feed the aura.

How do they work?

All people have seven chakras, located along the spine of the human body. Each of them is associated with a color and a gland of the physical body, and governs a specific part of the functioning of our psychological body, as we will see below.

Base Chakra, Base Chakra, first chakra or Muladhara (Sanskrit)

It is responsible for transmitting the energies that are more connected to the physical plane: vigor, disposition, security, survival instinct, sexuality and adaptation to the environment. It is located throughout the pelvic area.

Color: red.
related body part: adrenal glands

Umbilical Chakra, Sacral Chakra, second chakra or Svadhisthana (Sanskrit)

It is responsible for our emotions and also acts on sexuality, creativity, intimate and social sharing, pleasure and curiosity. It is found in the lower abdomen region.

Color: orange.
related body part: reproductive glands

Solar Plexus Chakra, third chakra or Manipura (Sanskrit)

It transmits heat (energy) to the body that is in the conscious mental plane (reason, ideas and planning) and also to psychic health. It relates to action, power, self-acceptance and standards, conditioning and values. It is located in the area of ​​​​the mouth of the stomach, spleen-pancreas.

Color: yellow.
related body part: pancreas

Heart Chakra, fourth chakra or Anahata (Sanskrit)

It is an intermediary chakra between the upper and lower parts of the body, it has the role of transmitting vital energy to the organism (life and oxygenation) and is integrated with love, peace, community and self-sustainability. It is found in the thoracic region, region of the heart.

Color: green Pink.
related body part: thymus gland

Throat Chakra, fifth chakra or Visuddha (Sanskrit)

It has the role of concentrating vital energy, which is distributed to the entire energy complex and is related to expression, internal and external communication and our intimate needs. It is located throughout the neck region.

Color: light blue.

related body part: thyroid gland.

Brow Chakra, sixth chakra or Ajna (Sanskrit)

It is responsible for raising man to the spiritual plane. It is related to intuition, perception, sensitivity and evolution and mental understanding. It is located in the forehead region.

Crown Chakra, seventh chakra or Sahasrara (Sanskrit)

It is a chakra with a spiritual characteristic, which can only be reached through the sixth chakra. Considered the link between human beings and the spiritual universe, it is located in the region above the head.

Color: Lilac/gold.
related body part: pineal glands

applications

As they are responsible for various functions of our body at all levels, when we have a problem on an emotional or physical level, for example, we have problems with the functioning of the chakras.

Thus, learning to care for them can bring more quality of life. Through the therapeutic methods below, it is possible to unblock, activate or rebalance the energy of each one of them:

Chromotherapy

As mentioned earlier, each of the chakras has a corresponding color. Chromotherapy is a therapy that uses the colors of the solar spectrum (from red to violet) to treat chakra imbalances. The therapeutic properties of each color act on the energy centers, correcting and reactivating their vibratory energy pattern.

crystal therapy

In this therapy, the stones and their respective healing energies are applied to the energy centers (chakras) that need to be harmonized, rebalancing the health and physical and emotional well-being of the person.

Meditation

To activate the chakras through meditation, it is necessary to visualize the area that this chakra occupies in our body, so that it can release the energy contained in it. There is also meditation that uses the visualization of the colors corresponding to the energy center you want to activate.

reiki

Gentle and natural technique that helps us to seek a better way to deal with our emotions. Reiki energy heals the chakras, first doing an “emotional cleaning”, cleaning the negative energies (fear, anger, sadness, jealousy, etc.), then nourishing and restoring the balance of the body with positive energies.

Learning to take care of your energy centers is one more way to feel good about yourself, simultaneously taking care of your body and your emotions, on your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.