Muladhara: Your Physical Nature
Your first Chakra governs all beginnings in the physical world, including your money, health, family and survival issues. When you have a healthy “Root Chakra”, you are grounded in all the goodness of mortality. This earth element chakra, is the root or foundation of the all the other chakras, and physically situated at the base of your spine, legs and feet. It is considered the “sleeping place” of Kundalini Shakti—the awakening manifestation we call “Mother Nature”. Your Root holds all your potential in the raw. The vibrational range of the red color spectrum, things move pretty slow at the Root. Issues that arise from your Root Chakra usually arise for you to learn let go of your fears and embrace greater patience in the foundational circumstances of your life.
How is your Root Chakra 1: How often are you afraid of life’s risks, over-committed, physically tired, in financial lack, or manifesting the life you dream of?
These are all indications that your Root Chakra 1 needs you to get back to basics.
Swadhisthana: Your Emotional-Sexual Nature
Your second chakra governs your sexuality, emotional well-being and your creativity. When you have a healthy “Sacral Chakra”, you naturally enjoy life’s eb and flow, and have a strong instinct for fun. This water element chakra holds your instinctual emotions of creativity, movement and playfulness. This Chakra is at the reproductive center of the low abdomen and sacral plexus. The vibrational range of orange on the color spectrum, things begin to move in relation to others in your circle. Issues in your Sacral Chakra usually arise for you to learn to play a more healthy balance between expression and repression of your emotions, sexuality and instinctual creativity, which can flow more easily when you let go of those over doses of guilt in your life.
How is your Sacral Chakra 2: How often do you feel guilty, sexually frustrated or exploiting yourself, creatively blocked, over-emotional or indulgent, sad, depressed or over-isolated and lonely?
These are all indications that your Sacral Chakra 2 needs your nurturing.
Manipura: Your Ego’s Nature
Your third chakra governs your personal power to transform and empower your life to become the way you would choose. When you have a healthy Solar Chakra, you are motivated to make great things happen for yourself and others. This fire element chakra connects us to our self-esteem, personality and will-power; located at the solar plexus, core-body. Your solar chakra is the hub of the digestive processes, both physically and metaphorically, transforming raw material into empowering energy. The vibrational range of yellow on the color spectrum, things begin to heat up and get you motivated to shine on your potential. Issues in your Solar Chakra usually arise for you to learn to take a stand, OWN who YOU are, BIG-TIME, and shed the shame in your life that arises from the distorted use of power.
How is your Solar Chakra 3: How often can you loose the weight you want, manage your anger, ask for that raise, be manipulated or take advantage of others for your personal benefit?
These are all indications that your Solar Chakra 3 is way out of whack.
Anahata: Your Altruistic Nature
Your fourth Chakra governs your ability to both give and receive a healthy balance of love; a bridge for balancing heaven-earth, spiritual-physical, yin-yang, and female-male relationships in your life. The name Anahata means “un-struck sound” referencing the space for potential. The vibrational range of green, that balancer on the light color spectrum, located from your heart, out though your arms and hands. Your heart is the central hub for rhythms beating between your physical and spiritual life. A healthy “Heart Chakra” is where you find “middle ground” or balanced rhythms in your relationships, your surroundings, people, places and things. Issues in your Heart Chakra usually surface to help you learn to embrace all that life has to teach you more wholeheartedly and trade your grieving for an atmosphere of gratitude, respect and love with a capital “L”.
How is your Heart Chakra 4: How comfortable are you in your relationships, giving or receiving touch, love or gifts, feeling like your life is balanced and fresh, how easy are you breathing right now?
Take a deep breath and let out a nice, long, sighhhhhhhh…You are now on your way to balancing your Heart Chakra 4.
Visuddha: Your Vibrational Nature
Your fifth Chakra governs your ability communicate. A great communicator is someone who can both hear and be heard, as well as understand the “vibe” of any given experience. This sound element chakra encompasses all the way down to the “vibrational” level of the bright blue color spectrum. Your surroundings also “say” a lot about who you are communicating yourself to be. When you live in integrity with who you present yourself to be, your presence will have cleansing effect on others. When you enjoy a balanced Throat Chakra (the throat, mouth and ears) you can speak your truths, as well as listen to others truths of who you are to them. Issues in the Throat Chakra usually surface to help you learn to live more honestly, to purify yourself from the lies or stories you’ve been telling yourself, and let the truth of who you are raise your “good vibrations” to the surface.
How is your Throat Chakra 5: How freely to you speak your truth, how honestly do you hear how others speak of you, would you rather just listen to yourself talk, how much do you value your ethics, reputation and personal integrity, what kind of face do you put on for others, what do the people, places and things you surround yourself with “say” about you, how many people really know the real YOU?
Most of us would rather drop down into control, denial, and fear, rather than face our honest truth. Your Throat Chakra 5 is your last chance to make things right before you either create more karma, or you are able to enter the higher realms of your “Dharma” (magnify your life’s potential). Either way, doing some purifying here is well worth your while!
Ajna: Your Intuitive Nature
Your Sixth Chakra governs both intuition (knowing what’s going on inside), and insight (knowing what’s going on outside), as well as commanding the indigo spectrum of your inner desires outward into full fruition. This space element chakra is located between the brow center of the forehead, with the pineal gland, developing even before the brain in embryo, often called “the third eye”. This center is where you learn how to “move mountains” with your inner vision; to create the most abundance with the least amount of effort. This center also governs your inner life cycle clock, triggering puberty, adulthood and eventually the timing of transitioning from your body into Spirit, through a process we call death. Issues in the Brow Chakra usually surface to help you learn to trust your sixth-sense, and let go of illusions, as you discern the difference between the time being right as apposed to “RIPE”.
How is your Brow Chakra 6: How much do you worry or over-think your life. How well to you trust your own sense of intuition, how clearly to you see and use your senses when making decisions and plans, how often are you willing trust your promptings and align your actions in your life with your intuition, at the “RIPE” time and place?
Your Third-Eye Brow Chakra 6, will only lead you off-course, if you are trying to skip steps. When you’ve begun clearing your karmas in the lower chakras as you go, you have nothing to worry about here.
Sahasrara: Your Divine Nature
Your Seventh Chakra governs your thoughts and beliefs; your chakra of enlightenment, rules the sealing connection between you to your Divine Source. On the light-speed Violet spectrum, there are more neuro-connections in your brain than stars in the universe and more cells in your body, than grains of sand on the planet; so who is bigger? When your “crown chakra”, the top of the head, is healthy, it can witness your Essential Truths in every other center of the body, right down to the cellular level. Issues in the Crown Chakra usually surface to help you learn that it is your attachments that can distract you from what’s most important. When your crown is open, healing occurs at quantum speed; it feels like coming home to the essence of who you really are, with Grace pulsating through you, witnessing to you your Divine paths, realized potential and infinite value.
How is your Crown Chakra 7: Do you feel your life has purpose? Do you understand the big-picture easily? Do you feel you are connected in your life and in your spirituality? Do you have one way of thinking, doing and being? Are you manifesting the life you were born to live right now?
Your Crown Chakra 7, moves you beyond any time-table, and helps you feel purpose. Your days will fly-by when your chakras are in alignment, because you are at home in your own potential… Welcome home! If you are not here yet, you will love the Bodhi Yoga Chakra Deck™