Chakra 6

Names: Ajna, Third Eye Center, Guru Chakra

Location: In the back of the head: Base of Skull.  In the front  of         the head: Between the eyebrows at the third eye

Area of face: eyes

Sense: sight

Color:Indigo

          Antidote:orange

Tone: Om or Aum.  Some people say this is the sound God                               made that created the world.

Note:high A

Crystals: Lapis Lazuli, Sugilite

Aromas: Juniper Berries, Rosemary

Statement: "I want to see clearly."

Explanation:

This is the center of higher intuition.  Through this chakra one can receive guidance and tune into one's higher self.  It not only has to do with psychic abilities, but being able to see the world clearly for how it is.  And being able to see oneself in the world clearly, not just how we experience it.  Creativity also comes from this chakra.

When this chakra is shut down it is often because a person is taught to fear the occult.  There is irrational fear and guilt that is created by taboos and it makes is hard for a person to get a clear perspective on whether or not a teaching is good for them, and judging becomes difficult.

When the third eye is opened we are able to merge our two views of the world:  our normal self with intellect and ego, and our higher self with the intuitive mind and spiritual feelings.  This is the meaning of self realization, and you can see your full potential.

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Balanced Chakra Energy Characteristics:

• charaismatic
• receives Guidance
• not attached to material things
• no fear of death
• clairvoyant
• not preoccupied with fame or fortune
• master of oneself 

Excessive Chakra Energy:

• egomaniac
• proud
• reliously dogmatic
• authoritarian
• manipulative 

Deficient Chakra Energy:

• nonassertive
• undisciplined
• oversensitive to the feelings of others
• afraid of success
• may be schizophrenic (unable too distinguish between ego and Higher self) 

Contraindications: schizophrenic, withdrawn

Glands and organs influenced include the pineal gland (endocrine gland that has the structure of an eye in the central part of the brain), pituitary, brain and ears.


This information was largely obtained from an awesome book.   Please see the post on the first chakra and scroll to the end to see.

Chakra 5

Names: Vishuddha, Throat Center

Location: Bottom of neck

Area of face:ears

Sense: sound

Color: blue

          Antidote: red

Tone: u (as in blue)

Note: g sharp

Crystals: Sodalite, Azurite,

Aromas: Blue (German) Chamomile, Eucalyptus

Statement: "I want to speak freely and openly."

Explanation:

Many people function from their lower chakras, and society even seems to encourage it.  Opening your fifth chakra is to start to function on a different level, and may be difficult.

This is the center of communication, and you will want to talk about what you are experiencing.  People may fall away, but true friends will always be there, so try to let go of those who are uncomfortable with you instead of holding back. New friends, more on your level, and where you want to be, will start to gravitate towards you.

Children with an open fifth chakra are those who are allowed to speak freely, sing, cry and scream when it is necessary.  They have been encouraged to trust their own instincts.  When they reach school they often have a hard time encountering a new set of rules and values.  This often results in chronic sore throats or ear infections.  They just need to be assured that their reality, although it is different, is valid.

Blue is soothing and calming, effects are especially apparent in small children and the dying. 

Balanced Chakra Energy Characteristics:

• content
•  centered
• can live in the present
• perfect sense of timing
• good speaker
• musically or artistically inspired
• can meditate and experience divine energy
• easily grasp spiritual teachings
• may be overwhelmingly prolific

Excessive Chakra Energy:

• arrogant
• self righteous
• talks too much
• dogmatic
• addictive

Deficient Chakra Energy:

• timid
• holds back
• confused
• quiet
• inconsistent
• unreliable
• weak
• manipulative
• can't express one's thoughts

Contraindications: too much blue for too long may make you sleepy or feel withdrawn.  Yellow and orange can help balance it.  Blue is not helpful for colds, muscle contractions, paralysis or poor circulation.

Glands and organs influenced include the throat, thyroid, nerves, eyes and muscles.


This information was largely obtained from an awesome book.   Please see the post on the first chakra and scroll to the end to see.

Mandalas

Mandalas are a great form of meditation for me.  Even though I am coloring, I'm focusing.  I have a busy mind, and I find in the time it takes me to color these I absorb what I focused on and my mind it quiet.  Another thing I've done to wind down is Sudoku.  It's simple, but requires my entire attention.  After a few it's much easier to meditate!

This book is so awesome I've bought it twice.  It's neat to see the differences when I re-color one. Click on it to buy it from Amazon.







                             Here are some examples I have colored: Click on the image to be taken to the blog with more info on that specific chakra.

Root Chakra:

 

 Sacral Chakra:

Manipura (3rd chakra at solar plexus.)

Heart Chakra:

Throat Chakra -no blog yet

Ajna (3rd eye): no blog yet

Crown Chakra: no blog yet

These are some other random ones from the book.
The Power of limitless love:

 Meditation

 Human Love

 Friendship

Each page has color recommendations and great affirmations.  I read them periodically as I work on them, it helps keep me focused.  Some of them take hours.  It's very soothing (coloring always has been for me) and gratifying.

Chakra 4

 

Names: Anahata, Heart center

Location: center of the chest

Area of face:nose

Sense:smell

Color: green or pink

          Antidote:none needed

Tone: a (as in ah)

Note: f sharp

Element: air

Crystals:Green Jade from British Columbia,                    Watermelon tourmalin, rose quartz

Aromas: Ylang ylang, rose

Statement: "I want to give and receive love."

Explanation:

The forth chakra is the center or compassion.  When this is open one can transcend their own ego and identify with other people (and all life), and often one gets involved with social causes.  

This chakra is considered one's most vulnerable place.  When one is hurt the first instinct can be to close your heart and build a wall.  Many people have done so from an early age (which is why a majority of the world seems so apathetic.)  

Green is the color of healing.  Green is found in the middle of the color spectrum, and is the most balanced color.  

Pink is the best color for sending love to another person. It is easier for woman to transcend to the 4th chakra, and men to the 3rd, because of the chakras of where the sexual organs are placed.  (Men are more physical, and woman are more emotional.)

Balanced Chakra Energy Characteristics:

• compassionate
• humanitarian
• balanced
• sees the good in everyone
• desires to nurture others
• friendly
• outgoing
• active in the community
• discriminating
• in touch with feelings
• empathetic

Excessive Chakra Energy:

• demanding
• overly critical
• tenseness between shoulderblades
• possessive
• moody
• melodramatic
• manic-depressive
• uses money to control others
• has the attitude of a martyr

Deficient Chakra Energy:

• self pity
• paranoid
• indecisive
• afraid of: letting go, being free, getting hurt, family members getting hurt, being     abandoned

Contraindictions: none

Glands and organs influenced include the heart, lungs, immune system, thymus gland, and lymph glands.


This information was largely obtained from an awesome book.   Please see the post on the first chakra and scroll to the end to see.

Chakra 3

Names: Manipura, Solar Plexus Center

Location: solar plexus

Area of face: throat

Sense:taste

Color: yellow

          Antidote: violet

Tone: a-o-m (ahh-oo-mm)

Note: e

Element:fire

Crystals: citrine, turquoise

Aromas: peppermint, lemon

Statement: "I want happiness."

Explanation:

The third chakra is the center or personal power.  When this chakra is open you have found work that gives you pleasure and makes you feel fulfilled.  (It make be outside of your job.)  One way to find this passion is to consider what made you happiest as a child.  It is good to build a positive self image when at this chakra level of development.  At the 6th you'll need to let go of that attachment.

In martial arts this area is considered the chi or life force energy.  This is the center of gut-level intuition.  There is another level of intuition at the 6th chakra.

When parents have goals for their children this sets up a conflict in the child's will.  The child will be torn between love for the parents, and will need to develop power and his or her own.  If the child is loyal to the parents he or she will most likely not find their own form of creative expression, and this may turn into a superiority complex (a reflection of parental pride.)  Secretly these people tend to feel inferior because they were never given the opprotunity to develop a sense of self-worth.

 

In a less developed person yellow will be mixed with red, indicating a obsession with accumulating things for one's self.  Personal power will be directed towards self serving, and will not bring about fulfillment.  Yellow is the color of happiness.

Balanced Chakra Energy Characteristics:

• Outgoing
• cheerful
• respect for self and others
• strong sense of personal power
• skillful
• intellegent
• relaxed
• spontaneous
• expressive
• takes on new challenges
• enjoys physical activity
• enjoys good food

 

Excessive Chakra Energy:

• Judgemental
• workaholic
• perfectionist
• overly intellectual
• as an employer:overly demanding
• as an employee:resentful of authority
• may need drugs to relax
• superiority complex fluctuating with inferiority complex

Deficient Chakra Energy:

• depression
• lacks confidence
• worries about what others will think
• confusion
• feels controlled by others
• poor digestion
• afraid of being alone

Contraindictions: people with nervous conditions and hot, red conditions (fever, infection, etc.) should limit use of yellow light to 10 minutes

Glands and organs influenced include the diaphragm (and breath), adrenals, skin and digestive organs.


This information was largely obtained from an awesome book.   Please see the post on the first chakra and scroll to the end to see.

Chakra 2

Names: Svadisthana, Sacral Center

Location: 1-2 inches below navel

Area of face: Mouth, gums, tounge, cheeks

Sense:taste

Color: orange

          Antidote: indigo

Tone: o (as in home)

Note:d

Element: water

Crystals: tigers eye, carnelian

Aromas: Jasmine, sandlewood

Statement: "I desire."

Explanation:

The second chakra is about friendliness, creativity, sexuality, emotions,and intuition.  It has to do with one's self-worth, confidence in one's own creativity, and one's ability to relate to others in a friendly, open way.  This is all influenced by how emotions were expressed or repressed in one's family during childhood.

The second chakra is one of the centers of the emotions and is in the large intestines.  One who is emotionally imbalanced may experience diarrhea or constipation.  The second chakra is the center of physical prowess.  This area is also known as the tan t'ien and the area.  People are taught to run their energy through here for things like martial arts and Reiki.

This is the area of sexual center particularly women, which may be the reason that woman tend to be more emotional about sexual relations.

The second and fifth chakras are both related to creativity.  Creative energy requires freedom, so this can lead to rebellion, unwillingness to be controlled and intolerance for authority.

Balanced Chakra Energy Charachteristics:

• Friendly
• Optomistic
• concern for others
• creative/ imaginative
• intuitive
• attuned to one's feelings
• gutsy sense of humor
• clairsentient

Excessive Chakra Energy:

•  emotionally explosive
• aggressive
• overly ambitious
• manipulative
• caught up in delusion
• overindulgent
• self-serving
• clairsentient, but can't distinguish one's own feeling from another's

Deficient Chakra Energy:

• Extremely shy or timid
• immobilized by fear
• overly sensitive
• self-negating
• resentful
• buries emotions
• burdened by guilt
• distrustful

Contraindictions: Excessive Energy, excessive sexual energy

Glands and organs influenced include the skin, mammary glands, female reproductive organs and kidneys.


This information was largely obtained from an awesome book.   Please see the post on the first chakra and scroll to the end to see.

Chakra 1

Names: Muladhara,Root Chakra, Base Chakra

Location: Tailbone

Area of face: Jaw, chin, lips

Sense: Touch

Color: Red

          Antidote: Blue

Tone: e (as in red)

Note: c

Element: earth

Crystals: Red Garnet, black obsidian.  Wear two in each hip pocket.

Aromas: Patchouli, Geranium

Statement: "I want stuff."

Exlpanation:

The first chakra concerns your connection with the earth, your culture, your foundation.  This chakra is influenced by your earliest relationships, and if you received unconditional love early on this chakra is likely to be strong.  If not you may need considerable healing of your inner child.

This is considered the center of manifestation and energy and vitality.  

Red is the color of passion, power, self confidence, intensity of energy (sometimes anger), and great strength.  Sometimes repressed anger will show as fever or inflammation. (Red conditions.)

Characteristics of a balanced 1st chakra:

• Balanced
• Grounded
• Self control
• Healthy
• Fully alive
• Abundant physical energy
• Abundance in life
• Ability to express anger without doing harm  

Excessive Chakra Energy:

• Egotistic
• Domineering
• Greedy
• Addicted to wealth

 Deficient Chakra Energy

• Lacks confidence
• Feels spacey and unfocused
• Weak
• Can't achieve goals
• self-destructive, suicidal

Contraindications:

 (Avoid red for all nervous and red conditions including)

•  Aigitation
• Hyperactivity
• Fever
• Ulcers
• High blood pressure
• Red face
• Swelling
• Inflammation
• Epilepsy

Glands and organs influenced by the 1st chakra include: blood, spine, nervous system, bladder, male reproductive organs, testes and vagina.

This information was obtained from an awesome book with a TON of great information on all sorts of things.  This is from the Energy Healing section. The link should bring you to a sample of the book with more about it.

Hiatus possibly over?

Okay, so I went on a little hiatus.  It gets overwhelming sometimes to organize my thoughts because I have so much to put up.  I actively started this 'journey' probably 3 years ago now when I took a Reiki course.  Since then I have become very interested in Eastern medicine, meditation, some-what actively pursuing my spirituality without being told what to believe, and improving myself.

I used to be very defensive, and I still am at times.  But when dealing with difficult people I can often distance myself from the situation, realize it is not personal, and move on.  Sometimes I can even feel compassion (sometimes) for these twits.  And a huge benefit is not carrying a giant stress ball around in my stomach that is actively attacking my insides and would like nothing better than to give me an ulcer. 

I have also come to terms with the fact that I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR MY OWN HAPPINESS.  I thought I would be depressed on and off for the rest of my life, but I had learned how to deal with it, so I was ahead of the game.  And I also assumed it was the outside world and it's events that was causing it.  I highly recommend chakra work and if you have the opportunity shamanistic work.  I know how it sounds.  I'm not talking new age bull, I'm talking old school.  Like before TVs and cars and electricity.  I'm not talking about the bored housewife who has money to spend, but people who had a simple but complete way of life.  There is something to it.  It caught my attention when I noticed correlations between chakra information in a class I was taking and many people in my life.  Just keep an open mind, then decide.

I've thought about posting the journies I've done with the shamanic work, but I'm not sure that would be beneficial to anyone.  (I'm also not sure that it matters because I'm fairly sure very few people would ever read it.) I'd like to post a lot of things that I have found useful (and I have a ton of information), but it is hard to determine what is most relevant.  And this blog was started as more of a way to keep my thoughts together in case I ever want them that way, instead of sifting through a million things later, and possibly losing things I currently find important.  If it helps some one else on their 'journey' that would be great.  I guess it is what it is.

Chakra Overview

When it comes to researching things on the internet, like chakras, you will find a lot of shit.  There is so much information out there.  I suppose that is true with anything.  I just spent the last half hour going googling chakras and most of it I wouldn't recommend.  Chakras are not new age nonsense, but I couldn't blame you if you believed that.

http://www.medical-look.com/human_anatomy/organs/Spinal_nerves.html

Chakras were written about in the Indian Vedas (an ancient set of doctrines consisting of mostly sacred hymns and rituals for a priest like class in India.)  Chakra is Sanskrit for wheel or disc.  Now that we are more advanced in medicine we now know that these chakras are located by the 7 major nerve ganglia along the spinal column.

I am very excited about this picture to the left.  I found it on a medical site, and it shows what those nerves are connected to.  I have a list I will share of what each chakra involves, as far as I know.

The chakras forms a column in our bodies called the sushumna.

Chakra locations

When I was first learning about the chakras I noticed that the physical and mental connections made a lot of sense.  People I knew where certain physical ailments had the corresponding mental affliction(s).  Eastern medicine (or what I know of it) to me is fascinating: Treating before the physical develops, maintaining energy balance (yin and yang.)  It can be very enlightening in understanding ourselves and others.

Chakra One starts at the base, and they work to the top.

This picture was taken from a site with more information than most people would need.  But it covers a lot of information for people who pretty much already know everything I've posted here.


The following is very limited information.  I intend to put up more information on each chakra at some point.  These are the basics I got off a paper from taking various sorts of classes and my Reiki certification from a wonderful woman I know.


Muladhara

• is located at the base of spine/ perineum.
• It's color is red, corresponding note is C.
• Deals with grounding and physical identity.
• Body parts are legs, feet, bones, with the adrenal gland, large intestine, blood and building of cells. 
• Malfunctions include obesity, anorexia, sciatica and constipation.

Swadhisthana  

• is located bellow the navel and above the gentitals
• It's color is orange, corresponding note is D.
• Deals with sexuality and emotional identity.
• Body parts are gonads, womb, genitals, kidney, bladder and lower back. 
• Malfunctions include sexual and urinary problems.

Manipura

• is located by the solar plexus.
• It's color is yellow, corresponding note is E (if you haven't already, you will start to notice a pattern here)
• Deals with will power and self esteem
• Body parts include pancreas, adrenals, digestive system, liver and gall bladder.
• Malfunctions can be digestive problems, chronic fatigue and hypertension.

 Anahata

• is located by the heart.
• It's color is green, it's corresponding note is F.
• Deals with feelings of unconditional love.
• Body parts are thymus, heart, lungs, circulatory system, arms and harnds.
• Malfunctions include asthma, coronary disease and lung disease.

Vissuha

• is located in the throat..
• It's color is blue, corresponding note is G.
• Deals with communication.
• Body parts include thyroid, parathyroid, throat, ears and mouth, neck and shoulders.
• Malfunctions yield sore throats, neck and shoulder pain, and thyroid trouble.

Ajna

• is located at the third eye.
• It's color is indigo, corresponding note is A.
• Deals with imagination, perception and intuition.
• Body parts are pineal gland, eyes, base of skull and brow.
• Malfunctions include vision problems, headaches and nightmares.

Sahasrara

• is located at the crown of your head.
• It's color is violet and white.
• Deals with spirituality.
• Body parts include pituitary glands, the central nervous system, and the cerebral cortex.
• Malfunction of this chakra are depression, alienation and confusion.

This really is just scratching the surface, but it's a basic overview.