Control Chakra

Our body is divided into seven chakras, or energy centers, with each chakra reflecting a region of the physical body as well as personality traits. Try the following strategies to control your chakras and achieve balance among them, promoting optimal emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

Steps

Meditation

1. Sit in a comfortable place, free of distractions and noise. Sit with your legs crossed, spine straight, and body relaxed. Focus on your breathing, deeply inhaling and exhaling, and clearing your mind of intruding thoughts.
2. Picture your root chakra, at the base of the spine. This chakra is associated with health, constitution, and security. Continue to focus on your breath and keep your attention on the energy in this chakra, allow yourself to feel anchored, rooted to the Earth. Visualize a bright red ball spinning clockwise.
3. Focus on your second chakra, the sacral or naval in your lower abdomen. Think about your feelings of love, passion, and sexuality. Relax the muscles in your buttocks, abdomen, and pelvis as you continue to breathe deeply. Visualize a bright orange ball spinning clockwise.
4. Direct your attention just above the navel and below your chest, the solar plexus chakra. This chakra is associated with concentration, will, and power; focus on your own personal energies as you continue to breathe deeply. Visualize a bright yellow ball spinning clockwise.
5. Think about your heart chakra, in the middle of your chest. Focus on feelings of love, forgiveness, compassion, and harmony as you meditate on this chakra, allow your mind to explore your personal link between body and spirit. Visualize a bright green ball spinning clockwise.
6. Open your mouth and breathe deeply, using your throat chakra. Think of the power of communication, the capacity for creating and sharing wisdom and knowledge. Focus your attention on the region between the chin and the top the sternum. Visualize a bright blue ball spinning clockwise.
7. Focus on your “Third Eye” Chakra located on the forehead, just above the eyes. This chakra is the key to our wisdom, learning, imagination, intuition, and perception. Consider the impact our eyes have on our perception of the world and ourselves; be mindful of your breath. Visualize a bright indigo ball spinning clockwise.
8. Take a deep inhale and release; focus on your crown chakra, the top of your head. This is our connection to our spiritual nature and where we find inspiration and a sense of a higher self. Continue to focus on your breath. Visualize a bright violet ball spinning clockwise.
9. Imagine a white light flowing down from the crown through all your chakras to your root, firmly planted on the earth. Visualize yourself as a glowing white being, with all your chakras within spinning brightly.

Meditation with Crystals

1. Lie down in a quiet place, either in silence or with sounds that will aid in relaxation (such as running water or the sound of the ocean). Turn off your phone, and eliminate any other distractions.
2. Focus on your breathing, imagining a healing white light entering your body with each inhale, and stresses and negativity exiting your body with each exhale.
3. Place stones on the corresponding chakra. Typically the color of the stone will correspond with the color of the chakra, for example: amethyst on the seventh or crown, lapis lazuli on the sixth or third eye, blue calcite on the fifth or throat, rose quartz on the fourth or heart, citrine on the third or solar plexus, carnelian on the 2nd or sacral, and black tourmaline on the first or root/base.
4. Imagine the stones as a glowing sphere in each color; visualize energy that is the same color as the stone, passing through the stone and entering into the chakra until you can clearly visualize that chakra as a large, glowing sphere of the appropriate color.
5. Ascend or descend based on your goals for the session. As a prelude to spiritual practice, focus on the chakras / stones in order from 1 to 7. For general health and wellness, moving downward from 7 to 1. In your selected order, focus on the color of the stone, which will naturally resonate with each chakra, and restore structure, harmony, and balance across the entire system.

Yoga Poses for Each Chakra

1. Root Chakra: Mountain Pose, Crow Pose, Bridge Pose, Warrior Pose, Corpse Pose, Side Angle Pose, and Standing Forward Bend.
2. Sacral Chakra: Cobra Pose, Frog Pose, Dancer’s Pose, Child’s Pose, and Twisting Triangle Pose.
3. Solar Plexus Chakra: Warrior I and Warrior II Poses, Bow Pose, Boat Pose, Lion’s Pose, and Stretch Pose.
4. Heart Chakra: Camel Pose, Cobra Pose, Forward Bend Pose, and Eagle Pose.
5. Throat Chakra: Plow Pose, Fish Pose, Cobra Pose, Camel Pose, Bridge Pose, Shoulder stand, and Plow Pose.
6. Brow / Third Eye Chakra: Thunderbolt Pose, Downward Facing Dog Pose, and Guru Pranam.
7. Crown Chakra: Corpse Pose, Half Lotus Pose, Headstand, and Sat Kriya.

Tips

• Images of each yoga pose can be found on numerous websites, though it is recommended to first work with a yoga instructor to ensure you are achieving the correct posture for each pose.
• Visit websites that teach you how to balance each chakra.
• Search online for helpful guides to assist you in selecting the best crystal for each chakra.

Warnings

• Be very cautious while practicing yoga poses; ideally, start with a yoga class where an instructor can help you achieve the correct form for each posture.

Things You'll Need

• Yoga mat
• Crystals

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Sources and Citations

See also

• Heal Your Chakras
• Open Your Spiritual Chakras
• Heal Using Chakra
• Open Your Third Eye

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