chakras general information and excercises

[zhiva]

Root Chakra
• Kundalini center.
• Location: At the tailbone
• Color: Red /Black
• Tone: E
• Note: C
• Element: Earth
• Sense: Smell
The center of physical energy and vitality, the energy to succeed in business or material possessions. Center of manifestations. Throughout the ancient world in historical and mythological stories, the root chakra has been associated with dragons and snakes. These are symbols for the kundalini fire energy.
Glands and organs infuenced by the first chakra: Adrenals, kidneys, spinal column, colon, legs, bones,
Illness: Drug addictions, anemia, cancer, arthritis, heart disease, gynecological problems, Aids, herpes, candida. Balanced energy: Centered, grounded, healthy, fully alive, unlimited physical energy, can manifest abundance.
Excessive energy: Egoistic, domineering, greedy, sadistic, sexual energy entirely genital.
Deficient energy: Lack of confidence weak, can't achieve goals, suicidal, sexual energy, feel unlovable, little interest in sex, masochistic.
Gems/Minerals: Ruby, garnet, bloodstone, red jasper, black tourmaline, obsidian, smoky quartz.
How can you balance this chakra?
Dancing is very good for grounding. In the summer, go barefoot. House cleaning and cooking is also grounding. Hug a tree, take care of your plants. When the energies or vibrations from two people's chakras are mixed, the following takes place: the light from the one chakra affects the light from the other chakra, these lightwaves are mixed in a way, so they create different figures. The figures created by the lightwaves from the chakras become more beautiful, the more love there is between the parties.

Spleen Chakra
• Location: 1-2 inches below navel
• Color: Orange
• Tone: O
• Note: d
• Element: Water
• Sense: Taste
The second chakra is about friendliness, creativity, sexuality, emotions and intuition on the gut level. It's influenced by how emotions were expressed or repressed during childhood. The sexual center for women.
Glands and organs influenced by the second chakra: Skin, kidney, mammary glands. Ovaries, testicles, prostate, spleen.
Illness: Kidney weakness, constipation, muscle cramps, lack of energy, allergies, repression and inhibition. Loss of weight.
Balanced energy: Friendly, concerned for others, sense of belonging, intuitive, clairsentient. Good sense of humor. Radiate warmth and compassion.
Excessive energy: Emotionally explosive, overly ambitious, manipulative, caught up in illusions, overindulgent, sexual energy see people as sex objects.
Deficient energy: Shy, timid, immobilized by fear, overly sensitive, self negating, burdened by guilt, sexual energy-clinging, guilty about having sex, abused, frigid or impotent.
Gems/Minerals: Carnelian, coral, amber.
To balance this chakra: Express your creativity, dance, move your hips, laugh, have some fun. When two people make love, then the lights from their sex chakras are mixed, and the light are creating figures, whose beauty also in this case depends on the love between the parties. Two people, who really love each other, create a fantastic aura around them when making love - it can be compared to a forest of fairytale trees, whose flowers and leaves create an arc above the lovers, which has so powerful vibrations, that a lot of negative karma can be burned away. In other words, just by loving another person and showing it by sexual behavior which pleases and satisfies, one can develop very much personally and in the end thereby also spiritually.

Solar Plexus
• Location: Below the breast
• Color: Yellow
• Tone: A-O-M(ahh-ooo-mm)
• Tone: E
• Element: Fire
• Sense: Sight
• Center of personal power.
When the solar plexus is open, you have found your unique gift, the work that gives you pleasure and makes you feel fulfilled. One way to find your gift is to consider what you most enjoyed doing when you were a child, this will give you clues about your natural inclinations. In marital arts the third chakra is considered the center of Chi, the life force energy.
Glands and organs influenced by the third chakra: The diaphragm, the breath, adrenals, skin, digestive organs, stomach, duodenum, pancreas, gall bladder, liver.
Illness: Digestive difficulties, gas, food allergies, liver problems, diabetes, over-sexed, gall stones, muscle cramps, spasm, depression, difficulty breathing.
Balanced energy: Outgoing, cheerful, self-respect, respect others, strong sense of personal power, skilful, intelligent, relaxed, spontaneous, expressive, take on new challenges, enjoy physical activities and good food.
Excessive energy: Judgmental, workaholic, perfectionist, overly intellectual, may need drugs to relax, sexually inhibited, can't show emotional warmth.
Deficient energy: Depressed, lack of confidence, worry about what others think, confused, poor digestion, afraid of being alone, sexual energy-insecure, need constant reassurance, jealous, distrustful.
Gems/Minerals: Citrine, gold topaz, amber, tiger eye, gold calcite, and gold.
To balance this chakra: Rub your belly, visualize sunshine radiating out from your solar plexus, breathe using your diaphragm. When two people are quarreling, then the light from the solar plexus chakra is turning dark, and the way that the lights from the two chakras are mixed is characterized by negativity. Different figures can be seen here, The darker the light is, the more hate is there between the two, and when it turns dark enough, it turns into black and a blockage may arise in the solar plexus center in one or both of them.

Heart Chakra
• Location: Center of the chest.
• Color: Green or pink.
• Tone: A
• Note: f#
• Element: Air
• Sense: Touch
The heart chakra is the center of compassion, when the heart is open, you transcend the limits of your people, plants, animals, all of life. This is the humanitarian center, you care about social causes.
Glands and organs influenced by the fourth chakra: Heart, lungs, immune system, thymus gland, lymph glands.
Illness: Heart pain, heart attack, high blood pressure, negativity, fatigue, difficulty breathing, tension, insomnia, anger, paranoia, cancer.
Balanced energy: Compassionate, empathetic, humanitarian, see the good in everyone, desire to nurture others, friendly, outgoing, in touch with feelings, sexual energy-can surrender and merge in a love relationship, can wait for the right partner.
Excessive energy: Demanding, overly critical, possessive, moody, melodramatic, manic-depressive, use money or sex to control people. Martyr, a master of conditional love
"I love you if" withhold love to get the desired behavior:
"You wouldn't do that if you really loved me."
Deficient energy: Paranoid, feel sorry for yourself, indecisive, afraid of letting go and bee free. Sexual energy -feel unworthy of love, can't reach out, terrified of rejection, need constant reassurance.
Gems/Minerals: Emerald, green and pink tourmaline, malachite, green jade, green adventurine, rose quartz.
To balance this chakra: Give freely your service to others, watch tender movies, listen to romantic soft music, spend time with animals. Sit for a while with a baby in your arms. Give someone a hug. Most important: love and forgive yourself.

Throat Chakra
• Location: Bottom of the neck.
• Color: Light blue,turquoise.
• Tone: U
• Note :g#
• Sense: Hearing
• Element: Ether
Speech, sound, vibration, communication, creativity, telepathy, inspiration. This is the center for communication, when this center is open, you will have a powerful desire to talk about what you’re experiencing. When you do this, some of your old friends will fall away, but your true friends will always be there for you, so let go of the ones who are uncomfortable with the new person you are becoming. You'll find that there are many new and wonderful friends who will be magnetically drawn to you as your own energy changes.
Glands and organs associated with the fifth chakra: Thyroid, parathyroid, throat, mouth, teeth.
Illness: Communication and/or speech problems. Knowledge used unwisely, ignorance,lack of discernment, thyroid and immune system problems.
Balanced energy: Contented, centered, can live in the present, sense of timing, good speaker,artistic, can meditate and experience Divine Energy. Sexual energy, can seek bliss through meditation.
Excessive energy: Arrogant, self-righteous, overly talkative, dogmatic, addictive, sexual energy-macho, prefers partners who can be dominated.
Deficient energy: Scared, timid, hold back, quiet, inconsistent, unreliable, weak, devious, manipulative, can't express your thoughts, sexual energy-can't relax, feel conflict with your religious up bringing, may be afraid of sex.
Gems/Minerals: Turquoise, chrysocolla, blue topaz, aquamarine.
To balance this chakra: Sing, chant, hum. Listen to music that you really like.Take a walk and look at the beautiful blue sky and breathe consciously.
When two people mix the energies from their throat chakras, without the desire for dominating each other, then the most beautiful blue color appears, and within this color symbols for strength and solidarity, like e.g. a beautiful sword which protects the two against the dark forces, may appear. Also humorous figures, like laughing fairies, can be seen, for when there are no dark manifestations of power in the contact with another person’s throat chakra, there is humor. Humor is one of the most important qualities, for humor can to some degree protect against the kind of darkness that tries to gain power through the contact with human beings' throat chakras. Therefore: a good joke, when the conversation becomes a bit unpleasant, that is a good idea. This is what is meant when the humor is disarming.

Third Eye Center
• Location: At the base of the skull, at the medulla oblongata. Its location at the front of the head is between the eyebrows at the third eye.
• Color: Indigo. A combination of blue and red.
• Tone: OM
• (O represents the Sun or the third eye)
• (M represents the Moon or medulla.
• Element: Electrical or telepathic energy.
• Sense: Thought
The third eye is the center of psychic powers and higher intuition, you can receive guidance, channeling, and tune into your higher self. This is the center that enables you to experience telepathy, astral travel and past lives.
Glands and organs influenced by the sixth chakra: Pineal, pituitary, brain, eyes, ears, and nose.
Illness: Confusion, mental illness, bad eyesight, lack of clarity, psychic exhaustion.
Deficient energy: Non assertive, undisciplined, oversensitive to the feelings of others, afraid of success, schizophrenic (unable to distinguish between Ego self and Higher self).
Excessive energy: Egomaniac, proud, manipulative, religiously dogmatic, authoritarian.
Balanced energy: Charismatic, can receive guidance, not attached to material things, no fear of death, master of yourself, sexual energy-you no longer need another person to complete yourself.
Gems/Minerals: Lapis lazuli azurite, sodalite, quartz crystal, sapphire.
To balance and to awaken this chakra: Meditate, lay down with a crystal or a small pyramid on your forehead, visualize an indigo blue flame.

Crown Chakra
• Location: The entire top of the head
• Colour: Violet or Gold
• Tone: Ee
• Note: high b
• Element: Cosmic Energy
• Sense: Seventh sense
Illness: Stress, worry, hysteria, right-left brain balance, headache, depression
Balanced energy: Miracle worker, can transcend the laws of nature, total access to the unconscious and the subconscious.
Excessive energy: Constant sense of frustration, unrealized power, psychotic, depressed, manic-depressive, migraine headaches, destructive sexual expression, sometimes passionate, sometimes distant.
Deficient energy: No spark of joy, catatonic, can’t make decisions, Glands and organs influenced by the seventh chakra: Pituitary, pineal, nervous system, brain, Cerebral cortex, right eye.
Gems/Minerals: Amethyst, diamond, sugilite, purple fluorite, quartz crystal.
To balance this chakra: Meditation, guided visualization, peaceful and quiet surroundings.

Palm and finger Chakras

The chakras in the palms of the hands are often relegated to minor status.

These chakras transmit healing energy and receive energetic information from the universe. The palm chakras are used to channel healing energies to yourself and others and to receive impressions of the energy of a room, person, situation, etc. These chakras make a major difference in the quality of life when they can be opened by intention. Practice in becoming aware of the energy of the palm chakras is essential if you are at all interested in energy work and spiritual healing.

Transpersonal chakras

The most important of the transpersonal chakras are the thymus or etheric heart in the upper chest which governs compassion and inner peace and the connection to world soul.

The Soul Star about a foot above the head which brings in spiritual energy from the spiritual core and helps us connect with spiritual energy and information.

The Earth Star about a foot below our feet that bring in and connect us to the Earth energies and information. It is important to develop the Soul Star and Earth Star simultaneously.

The Hara is located about two finger widths below the navel on most people is a vital center for connection and storage of vital energies and concrete awareness of the spiritual. The most important function happening at this time in this energy body is the unification of all chakra functions as chakras are beginning to work together evenly excahnging energy to prevent overflow or drain.

Seven Chakras compiled from JB http://www.fenice.info/start.asp?p=/english/reiki.asp 2002
Transpersonal Chakras - zhiva 2003

[Syngin]

the notes of the chakras are very helpful in clearing them and most of the time I think we forget that when trying to explain to others.