Chakras 101

You may experience some of these common signs associated with a blocked Solar Plexus Chakra:

• Feeling powerless or victimized
• Giving your power away to others as you feel this is necessary to keep peace in relationships
• Not committed to acting on your plans or dreams because of poor self-esteem
• Digestive issues and abdominal pain
• Low self-esteem
• Overinflated ego
• Inability to commit
• Inability to follow through with goals 

You may experience some of these common signs associated with a blocked Heart Chakra:

• Fear of commitment and feeling like you have to please others to be loved
• The need to hold grudges
• Asthma, and allergies
• Pain in your upper back or chest
• Tight shoulders or, alternatively, overly flexible shoulders
• Inability to receive love in any of its forms
• Lack of self-compassion
• Unable to emotionally connect to others, especially with love 

You may experience some of these common signs associated with a blocked Third Eye Chakra:

• Struggle to find meaning in life and often ask yourself, “Why am I here?”
• Difficulty making decisions
• Headaches and tension in your brow area
• Brain fog
• Lack of Inspiration
• Overactive imagination
  

You may experience some of these common signs associated with a blocked Crown Chakra:

• Loneliness, insignificance, and aimlessness
• Overly attached to material objects or achievements while having difficulty connecting to the more spiritual part of living
• Migraines and tension headaches
• Unable to see others point of view or ideas

 What Causes Chakras to be Blocked?

Some of the most common causes, which create a blocked chakra, include stress and anxiety. These have a direct influence on our body creating a tightness within the body’s tissue, which then restricts the flow of Qi or Prana. Ongoing stress, anxiety, or negative emotions, can reduce our mind’s ability to focus peacefully (meditating) on the movement of energy throughout our body.

When we experience a blocked chakra, it means our energy in that area is sluggish or hampered from flowing smoothly as it should. Picture a stream with many rocks in it, the more the rocks, the slower the stream will flow. As we remove the rocks, the stream will flow more smoothly.

 Another way to look at it is having a blocked artery. For our energy to flow, the paths that they flow need to remain open and not blocked. Just like when you are having a hard time driving to work because the traffic is blocking the route you are traveling.

 In a very similar way, our chakras cannot function at their best when there is a blockage in the energy pathway. Common causes that hamper a smooth energy flow through our chakras include physical blockage, emotional or psychological blockage, or spiritual blockage. 

Emotional and Spiritual Blockages

Blocks or barriers in the energy flow to the chakras can also be emotional or psychological, such as stored emotions from the past or mental illness such as anxiety, depression, or addiction. Usually this occurs when emotionally negative energy from improperly dealing with emotions and experiences buildup. This results in a clogging or blocking the energy flowing to the chakras.

These barriers can even be spiritual in nature. Coming from outside spiritual forces or from within. By not honoring the spiritual side of ourselves, we are in effect blocking our chakras from functioning at their optimal. By not being physically and spiritually open can restrict the flow of energy. Remember, no matter if the influences causing the blockage are external or internal, without you being mentally aware of them, they can still cause harm.

4 Of The Simple Ways Of Knowing If Your Chakras Are Blocked 

There are a few telltale signs that your chakras may be blocked. Being able to recognize them quickly will put you on the road to recovery and healing quickly, too.

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One of the first ways to recognize if your chakras have become unbalanced is experiencing unexplainable anxiety or even nightmares.  This can also become overwhelming frustration because of feeling other people are not listening or do not hear what you are trying to say. Physically, experiences of health problems connected to elimination and colon, or bladder, lower back, feet or the legs. 

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Often connected to a blocked chakra is when experiencing hypertension that causes tightness of the chest when breathing, including symptoms of allergies or asthma related breathing problems. This is also felt through tension headaches, which can be triggered by the energy channel of a chakra becoming blocked.

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When experiencing jealousy, anger, or resentment, focused at others or perhaps yourself. For example, not letting go of a grudge connected to someone or something. Whenever hurt cannot be channeled and released, it can all too commonly fester into negative feelings, which then cuts a person off from positive opportunities to achieve greater inner peace and to love.

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Finally, are the thoughts or even deeper emotions of feeling a lack of purpose. This may include a lack of self-confidence, lack of focus or thinking is scattered. All of this leads to difficulties in making decisions, or a feeling of ungrounded in thoughts or physically within the body. These experiences commonly lead to becoming emotionally or physically disconnected from people or life.  

Chakras are a Vital Part of our Daily Lives

• connected to various organs and glands within our body responsible for life energy
• all around us and within us, to keep us healthy, happy and vibrant
• Seven chakras throughout our body influenced by our emotions and activity

As circular vortexes of energy located at seven areas along our spinal column each of these chakras are important in circulating Qi or Prana. Each is connected to psychological, emotional, and spiritual states of health and wellbeing.

When working properly we feel abundantly alive with energy. However, chakras can become blocked. In this article, you will learn how to know if yours are blocked along with what to do about it. The chakras, spinning wheels of energy, are interconnected along our spine and influence both the nerves as well as the major organs. 

When allowing our mind to be involved in our activity of aligning our chakras helps us connect to our body while also unblocking the chakras, which will help us you feel more peaceful, and therefore, more grounded.

Therefore, if you were going to balance your Solar Plexus chakra to have more energy throughout the day you could wear something yellow or have a picture of yellow flowers will also help with meditation. On the other hand, need to have more creativity energy; the Sacral chakra, then wearing orange will open the passionate energy to spark your imagination and vision. Or can have a picture of an inspiring sunrise near you.      

Practicing daily gratitude & Meditating has been shown to raise our vibrational frequency. Gratitude has a positive influence on all of the chakras it is that powerful! When you mindfully raise the vibration of your chakras, you become more receptive to attracting positive energy into your life, such as abundance, happiness, peace and even improves relationships!  

Once you know more about your chakras, you can really begin to understand your innermost thoughts and feelings. Connecting to this part, deep within yourself, is the step you need to take toward healing and personal growth.