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Chakra meditation involves focusing on the different energies that lie within our bodies. There are 7 known chakras, and they are known to be our energy vortexes; opening for life energy to flow into and out of our aura. These vortexes vitalise the physical body and to bring about the development of our self-consciousness. The reason why one needs to unblock their chakras is that a blocked or improperly aligned chakra will prevent your energies from flowing all throughout your body, causing disharmony and resulting in a very pessimistic or negative mood. In the process, you will regain a life balance which is critical to healing of both physical and mental. The steps involved to performing chakra meditation are simple and focus should be given to one chakra at one time. In general, 5 techniques to unblock chakras are:

Visualization Through Meditation

 A very effective technique, simple in execution where you will need to meditate and clear your mind, allowing you to focus on the chakra and visualize its associated color. You can then focus on the goal that you intend to achieve.

The Crystal Method

As the name suggests, this method requires the use of crystals, held directly on the chakra or right over the chakra for at least three minutes (but not longer than five).

Sound Therapy

Music bowls are used in this technique, which can be purchase at metaphysical stores along with a set of detailed instructions.

The Soothing Massage

 A full body massage is an effective way to unblock all 21 chakras in the human body. Besides that, it helps stimulate your vital systems and promote healing.

The Right Mix Of Exercise And Nutrition

Proper nutrition and sufficient exercise is needed to keep healthy and have a energized body, especially in your chakras and aura.

The practice of meditation aligns the seven major chakras (which correspond to the body’s major endocrine glands) with the power of the environment and the universe. It fairly simple to perform this meditation as long as one remembers to focus on one chakra at a time whilst having a clear mind.

Simply sit still with your spine upright and focus on the particular chakra while taking a deep slow breath. Start with focusing on the root chakra and working your way down slowly to the crown chakra.  Make sure you are in a comfortable position without any surrounding distractions. As you focus on each of the chakra’s see beams of light shooting out of you and entering the earth, the idea is to feel a sense of connection with everything around you. Spend about 3-5 minutes per chakra and do not take more than 30 minutes overall.

Although results are not achievable in a short time, 30 minutes of daily meditation will reap many benefits;  among them are as follow:

1. A more positive outlook in terms of your thought processes and in your perception and understanding of events and behaviours.
2. Increased concentration, awareness and memory.
3. Heightened creativity, better resourcefulness because of better perception.
4. Better and deeper sleep; they will awake more refreshed in the morning and overall health will also benefit by getting deeper sleep.
5. Reduction of stress in all areas of your life because you will have better control over your emotions and better patience
6. Improved  overall health and well-being. It helps to lower blood pressure which in turn can help prevent strokes and heart disease. It will also alleviate the stress effect on people suffering from chronic illnesses.
7. A balanced and harmonious interdependent functions of the body’s major chakras with one another is obtained. With that, the whole body’s biological, emotional, and spiritual aspects become more nourished and balance the body cleansing physical, emotional and spiritual toxins.

Chakra is actually the Sanskrit word that would mean wheel. The human body includes seven important chakras and also many minor chakras. These 7 chakras start from the bottom of the backbone and finish on the top of the head. Basically, those chakras possess the wheel of continuous revolving and rotating energy. The root (1^st chakra) has the slowest revolving speed while the crown (7^th chakra) rotates the fastest. As soon as these chakras are unhealthy, unbalanced or clogged up, one’s lifestyle tend to be out of sync. Weariness, stress and other health issues may set in. In such cases, it’s important to unclogged the affected chakras and restore its balance.

Stimulation for each chakras come from its individual and complimentary colour as well as a range of gem stones. Basically, these chakra colours consists of the 7 colours of the rainbow; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. However, do not go overboard in opening your chakras as too large an opening may lead to excessive universal energy coming into your entire body.  that will consequently lead to an energy overload.

Chakras have a clear connection among themselves and also the condition of its corresponding organ.The following are the 7 chakras and their related organs in the body:

• 1^st chakra (root) – connected to large intestines, anus, has some effects on kidney functioning
• 2^nd chakra (naval) – connected to the reproduction system, sex gland, testicles, urinary system, bladder and kidneys
• 3^rd chakra (solar plexus) = connected to gall bladder, spleen, liver, small intestine and stomach
• 4^th chakra (heart) – associated with the heart and arms
• 5^th chakra (throat) – associated with throat and lung area
• 6^th chakra (3^rd eye) – associated with the face, nose area, eyes and brains.
• 7^th chakra (crown) – related to the whole being, not corresponding to any particular organ.