About Chakras
The Energy Centers That Shape Your Life
--Scroll down for a Table of Contents for all 20 chakra pages on The Energy Healing Site.--
What Are the Chakras? Chakras are energy centers, or portals in the field. Located along the central channel of the body from the base of the spine to the top of the head, they are conceived of as whirling, wheel-like vortexes through which universal/cosmic energy flows into and out of a person.
The word in Sanskrit means "wheel" or "disk." The concept comes to us from Hindu and Buddhist traditions.
There are seven major energy centers, plus many minor ones. (At least one form of energy work, Restorative Touch, posits an eighth.) Each corresponds to specific glands, organs, and facets of your being.
Energy flows through the system in two ways. First, it flows up and down along the central channel, connecting each chakra. Second, it flows horizontally, in an exchange of energy with the cosmos.
Disturbances in a chakra's flow of the energy can result in disturbances in a person’s health, emotions, mind, spirit, or life.
Many forms of energy healing work with these energy centers. An energy healer can usually feel each of the vortexes and its relative strength.
The chart below gives you an overview of each of the chakras. Below that is a Table of Contents for 19 other articles in the Chakra Section of The Energy Healing Site.
An Overview of the Seven Chakras
| Number | Common English Name | Location | Related To |
| 1 | Root chakra | Base of spine | Physical self, self-preservation, survival instincts, connection to our bodies and the earth |
| 2 | Sacral chakra | Low abdomen, lower back, reproductive organs | Sexuality, emotions, eroticism, pleasure, creativity, sensation |
| 3 | Solar plexus chakra | Solar Plexus (upper abdomen between navel and sternum) | Ego, will, metabolism, personal power |
| 4 | Heart chakra | Center of body at heart level | Love, integration, self-love, compassion, healing, relationships |
| 5 | Throat chakra | Base of throat | Communication, self-expression, creativity |
| 6 | Brow chakra | Forehead, between and slightly above eyebrows | Sight, both physical and intuitive/psychic; intellect |
| 7 | Crown chakra | Top of head | Spiritual life and experience, deep self-knowledge, sense of oneness and unity, connection to the One, pure consciousness, transcendence |
Learn More
The Energy Healing Site has a whole section devoted †o the energy centers that shape your life -- 20 articles in all.
Chakras Section Table of Contents
General Info
Chakra Care
A user-friendly book devoted to the chakras, with some of the clearest explanations
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Additional information about each chakra in a handy format.
What is the color associated with each of the 7 chakras, and what do variations mean?
Sensing the Chakras
Sensing Your Chakras
Perceive your own subtle energy centers.
Chakra Healing and Clearing
Healing the Chakras
Learn about keeping your subtle energy centers healthy and balanced.
Learn about a common energetic phenomenon with major implications for your health.
Open your chakras using fun, everyday activities.
How and why to balance your energy centers.
Learn a chakra-healing meditation.
How to use vocal toning to clear, balance, and energize your energy centers.
Crystals and Stones for the Chakras
How to use the power of stones and gems to clear and balance your energy centers.
Essential Oils for the Chakras
Chakra essential oils and how to use them for healing your subtle energy centers.
Understanding and Healing Individual Chakras
1st Chakra Healing Activities
Overcome anxiety and fear.
Open to joy.
Unlock your personal power.
Open to the love that is all around you.
Speak and live your truth.
Develop your capacities for clarity, intuition, and insight.
Develop your capacities for spiritual growth.
And Another Resource
You might also be interested in chakra expert Anodea Judith's site, Sacred Centers.
Go to Human Energy Field main page.
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