Healing the Chakras

Working with Your Subtle Energy Centers to Improve Health and Happiness

Healing the chakras--clearing, opening, and balancing them--can help  you maintain the health of your physical and energetic bodies.

Chakra healing can be done in many ways. It's something that an energy healer can do for you, or that you can learn to do for yourself or for members of your family. A sensitive healer can feel when a chakra is out of balance and work with it to bring it back into balance. Tools such as pendulums can also be used as aids in to assessing whether a chakra is functioning in a healthy way.

What Are the Chakras?

Chakras are energy centers or portals in the energy field. They play an important role in the health of your energy systems, including your physical body.

Located along the central channel of the body from the base of the spine to the top of the head, you can think of them as whirling, wheel-like vortices through which universal/cosmic energy flows into and out of a person.

There are seven major chakras, plus many minor ones. Each chakra corresponds to specific glands, organs, and facets of your being. You can learn about each of the individual chakras here.

Chakra Health

Chakras can become blocked or imbalanced. With a chakra blockage, the free flow of energy in and out, plus the flow of energy to other chakras, is impeded. If the chakras are imbalanced, one or more chakras is over-active or underactive compared to the others.

Blockages and imbalances in a chakra can result in disturbances--sometimes profound--in a person’s health, emotions, mind, spirit, or life.

What does a healthy chakra system look like?

On the subtle level, the chakras in a healthy chakra system are each a clear vibrant version or their true color; each is spinning clockwise; and each is clear and open. The chakras as a whole are in relative balance to each other--that is, none is extremely overactive or underactive compared to the others. Energy flows freely into and out of each one. Energy also flows freely vertically up and down the central channel, between the seven chakras.

On a physical level, a healthy chakra system usually manifests as:

• a relatively healthy physical body with good vitality
• a basic sense of security and safety in the world
• balanced sexuality, neither under- nor over-active; creatively active
• a strong sense of self-worth, good boundaries, and an ability to make things happen in the physical world
• balanced, healthy relationships, ability to give and receive love, strong connection to nature, extends compassion to oneself
• the ability to express one's own truth, to express one-self, to listen as well as speak, creative
• intellect balanced with other attributes of intelligence; active intuition, clarity
• sense of meaning in life; sense of connection to a higher power or larger purpose; sense of connection and unity with all of being

As you can see, a person with a totally healthy chakra system would be a very healthy person indeed, in mind, body, and spirit. Don't expect yourself to fulfill the ideal in each chakra!

What Does A Chakra Healing or Clearing Look Like?

I think every individual energy worker probably works a little differently, so it's hard to give an absolute or definitive description of what to expect from a chakra healing. In general, though, I'd say that many energy healers who work with the chakras would start with an assessment, slowly moving their hands through your energy field, starting with the first chakra and moving upward to the seventh, pausing at each chakra to assess the information they are receiving. Some healers might use a pendulum to help in the evaluation.

After assessing each chakra, a healer might return to any of the seven chakras that they sense are out of balance or that need clearing. Some healers might just use their hands to modulate the chakras they sense need some support. Others might include tools such as crystals, or sound-based tools such as singing bowls or tuning forks. Personally, I have also used essential oils and plant allies.

A chakra healing might end with strengthening the connection between individual chakras, usually starting with the 1st and supporting its connection to the second, then the second to the third, and so on. A healer might also sense a need to connect non-sequential chakras. For example, I often work to strengthen the bond between the 2nd and the 5th chakras, or the fourth and the 6th, etc.

This description is just to give a general idea of how a chakra healing might go. As I said, each healer will work a little (or a lot!) differently.

It's also completely possible to work with your own chakras. For example, you might do a chakra meditation or work with specific colors. You can use essential oils or crystals as well. You can also heal and support your chakras through intentional activities, as my book, Chakra Care describes. For example, you might support your 1st chakra by paying special attention to fundamentals such as healthy food and quality rest. You could support your second chakra by taking a walk in the full moon. The key to using this method is intention, one of the most powerful tools we have for working with energy.

Learn More About Healing The Chakras

The Energy Healing Site has a whole section devoted to the energy centers that shape our lives -- 20 articles in all, including many on specific techniques and practices for healing the chakras. Each chakra has a page devoted to it, with many more specifics and lists of practical ways you can support its vibrant health. Find them (with links) below.

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Nothing on this website is intended as medical or psychological advice. Energy healing is not a replacement for conventional
medicine. Whenever you have concerns about your health or mental well being, you should seek and follow the
advice of a qualified medical or mental health practitioner.

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