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What are Chakras?

The human body contains hundreds of locations where there is focused and concentrated energy. There are seven major energy centers, commonly referred to as "chakras." Chakra is a Sanskrit word which means "wheel." The chakras are similar to wheels in that they are spinning vortexes of energy. They are centers of force located within our etheric body, through which we receive, transmit, and process life energies.
Each chakra in the body is recognized as a focal point for life-force relating to spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental energies. The chakras are the network through which the mind, body, and spirit interact as one holistic system. The seven major chakras correspond to specific aspects of our consciousness and have their own individual characteristics and functions. Each has a corresponding relationship to one of the various glands of the body's endocrine system, as well as to one of the seven colors of the rainbow spectrum.
The main purpose in working with and understanding the chakras is to create integration and wholeness within ourselves. In this way we bring the various aspects of our consciousness from the physical to the spiritual, into a harmonious relationship. Ultimately, we begin to recognize that the various aspects of ourselves all work together, and that each aspect is as much a part of the whole as the others. We must be able to acknowledge, integrate, and accept all levels of our being.
To help us in the process of our unfolding it is most important to understand that the chakras are doorways for our consciousness. They are the doorways through which emotional, mental, and spiritual force flow into physical expression. They are openings through which our attitudes and belief systems enter into and create our mind/body structure. The energy created from our emotional and mental attitudes runs though the chakras and is distributed to our cells, tissues and organs. Realizing this brings tremendous insight into how we ourselves affect our bodies, minds, and circumstances for better or for worse. To understand the chakras and their relationship to our consciousness, is to better understand ourselves. Understanding ourselves will enable us to make our choices and decisions from a place of balance and awareness, rather than being blindly influenced by forces we do not understand.

Other Minor Chakras:

There are hundreds of minor energy centers scattered throughout your body, especially around the joints and other areas that move.

The following are three of the more interesting “smaller chakras” of the body:

“High Heart”

The “high heart” chakras are two symmetrical chakras which inhabit the front of each shoulder

(forming an inverted triangle with the heart chakra). They support the heart chakra energy.

“Ground” 

 This chakra is thought to exist below the root chakra, at the base of the feet (or between the feet).
It is our connection with the earth and the very ground we walk upon. For people whose root chakra is weak or unsteady, it sometimes helps to visualize energy here, rising from the earth up into the feet and from there to the rest of the body.

The colour of the grounding chakra is magenta.

“Thymus”

Located on the breastbone directly over the thymus gland, which feeds the immune system, this chakra has been introduced recently as relating to our connection to divine truth. This is where we can bring in the new energy to revitalize our tired planet, our lives, and our selves.

The thymus chakra is turquoise or a brilliant, pale green-blue.

Crystals and gem stones have many healing properties and powers. Crystals focus energies from the earth and amplify our inner energies at chakra points. Rose quartz, amethyst and clear crystal quartz are naturally adapted for healing work. However different crystals are suitable for different types of work. Dark crystals remove pain and clear crystals are good for energizing and removing blockages but you need to experiment and find what works best for you.

Charging and cleansing healing crystals: crystals need to be cleansed and charged for healing work. Sprinkling them with salt, washing them in clear running water, and leaving them out in the sun or moonlight, removes negative energies. Use a clear pendulum-shaped crystal for charging your crystals, visualizing positive energy flowing into them.

It is believed that the right hand is controlled by the left side of the brain which tends to be the dominant, assertive side: therefore hold your energising crystals in your right hand for healing and use clockwise movements. To remove pain or to calm someone use the left hand, which is controlled by the right "feeling" side of brain, and use anti-clockwise movements.

Crystal chakra healing: use a clear pendulum-shaped (long cylinder shaped to focus energies) crystal passed over the body to locate the chakras, noting points where the pendulum spirals as this may indicate a chakra. If the pendulum feels heavy or vibrates slightly at any point then the chakra may be blocked.

If you decide to work on a particular chakra, you can hold a crystal of the appropriate colour over it. See chakras for colours, symptoms and location on the body. Pass the crystal over the area ruled by the chakra you need to work on and visualize health and positive energies.

Base Chakra - Red

Crystal	Name	Suggestions
	RUBY	Fires enthusiasm, courage, drives away sadness and melancholy. Useful for adrenals and circulation and for protection.
	HEMATITE	Restores strength, regulates blood flow, strengthens will, vitality. Can aid pain relief.
	GARNET	Fortifies inner flame, strength of character, stimulates metabolism.
	JASPER	"Grounding", Stimulates determination and courage and stimulates the circulation.
	APATITE	Aids motivation and drive, enlivens, helps dispel apathy and lack of incentive.

Sacral Chakra - Orange

Crystal	Name	Suggestions
	BLOODSTONE	A member of the Jasper family, it improves sense of creativity and intuition.
	CHRYSOPRASE	Enhances feelings of trust, security and independence and our sense of contentment with ourselves. Can help sexual problems, fertility and de-tox. Can help us to 'let go' and 'move on'.
	ORANGE CALCITE	Fortifies the body, balances emotions, and aids feelings of stability. Gall bladder and reproductive organs. (Lower three chakras.)
	CARNELIAN	Encourages a spirit of community, lifts emotions, dispels apathy. Can be helpful for rheumatism, arthritis, neuralgia, infertility and depression.

Solar Plexus Chakra - Yellow

Crystal	Name	Suggestions
	AMBER	Encourages a sunny nature, self confidence. Can help problems with the stomach and spleen, liver and gallbladder.
	CITRINE	Encourages self confidence and self realization free from oppressive influences. Can help to stimulate digestion.
	MALACHITE	Can be helpful for the liver, travel sickness, dispelling inhibitions, encouraging quick thinking and de-tox.
	TOPAZ	Can help to strengthen the solar plexus chakra.
	RHODONITE	Restores energy depleted by trauma or shock. Helps heals wounds both emotional and physical and aids forgiveness. Heart/solar plexus chakras.
	RHODOCHROSITE	Symbolic of re-birthing. Helps to bring painful events to the front so they can be cleared and we can move on. Can also aid emotional stress and the circulatory system. Helpful in heart and solar plexus chakras.

Heart Chakra - Green

Crystal	Name	Suggestions
	EMERALD	Encourages harmony and justice, friendship and unconditional love. Can help to strengthen the respiratory tract and immune system.
	JADE	Balancing, calming for irritability. Can be helpful for encouraging tranquility, kindness and nurturing.
	ROSE QUARTZ	Gentle but firm helpfulness for openness, sensitivity and empathy. Encourages proper self-love and ability to love others unconditionally. Aids calming of stress.
	AVENTURINE	For relaxation, patience, tolerance. Regenerates heart energies.
	AGATE	Good overall healing stone - all chakras. Acts as a bridge between the physical and etheric/spiritual.
	DIOPTASE	Links solar plexus and heart energies. transmutes negative energies to positive.

Throat Chakra - Blue

Crystal	Name	Suggestions
	SODALITE	Brow and throat chakras. Helps us find our 'own truth'. Calming. Helps dispel rigid thought patterns, phobias.
	MOONSTONE	Helps composure and emotions. Calming.
	AQUAMARINE	Harmonizes thyroid. Helps hayfever, immune system, allergies. Enhances relaxed disposition. Encourages foresight.
	SAPPHIRE	Throat and brow chakras - aids communication with higher self. Helps to expel fears, bringing peace. Enhances ability to listen and understand as well as communication.
	TURQUOISE	Bestows inner calm. Helps with control of viral infections, anti-inflammatory, relaxes cramps. Powerful healer strengthening entire anatomy and in absorption of nutrients.
	KAYANITE	Strengthens the throat and larynx, but can actually helpful for all chakras, especially the throat, brow and crown as it aids connections with Universal energy.

Brow Chakra - Indigo

Crystal	Name	Suggestions
	DIAMOND	Encourages spiritual freedom. Helps develop clear insight, integrity and justice. Enhances our qualities and fortifies control in the body.
	SODALITE	Also for throat chakra.
	LAPIS LAZULI	For wisdom, honesty, reveals own inner truth. Helps to open higher awareness, thus aiding understanding of ancient wisdom.
	SMOKEY QUARTZ	Increases stress tolerance. Relaxing, encourages sobriety, pragmatism and realistic consideration. Can help pain relief.
	ANGELITE	Sometimes known as the awareness stone. Can enhance telepathic communication, aids attunement.

Crown Chakra - Violet

Crystal	Name	Suggestions
	AMETHYST	Aids spiritual wakefulness, quietens the mind. Links to reverence for all life and high ideals.
	AMETRINE	Yellow/violet for inner well-being. Enhances autonomic nervous system.
	APOPHYLLITE	Aids conscious connection between physical and spiritual. Calming, helps overcome uncertainty. Helps rid negative thought.
	PREHNITE	Helps overcome fears, nightmares and phobias. Encourages serenity, dignity and service to others. Encourages contact with higher self.