TonytheRainbowHealer

Today is the second installation of my three part series on the human energy system.  If you did not get a chance to read part 1, please go here. 

Chakras

A key component of the human energy system is the swirling vortexes of energy known as chakras. The word chakra translates to the word wheel in Sanskrit. Chakras are the centers in our body of prana, life force, or vital energy. Each chakra corresponds to certain areas of the body, nervous system, and endocrine system, and each chakra has a different function. All humans and animals have chakras.

There are seven main chakras in the human energy system. There are also many more minor chakras all over the body. Some methods teach that there are even more chakras above and/or outside of the physical body, but still in the energy field. I included two diagrams because I have learned two different methods of defining the chakra colors. Visually you can see that the chakra colors correspond to the colors in a rainbow. The chakras can also be represented in sound by moving through each note in an octave. In some spiritual practices, people will chant in the notes throughout the scale to help balance, align, and connect with their chakras. Many people have assigned certain musical tones known as solfeggio frequencies to each chakra which can be used in music to help with healing, balancing, and aligning chakras through sound healing. For people that work with crystals in healing, crystals also can assist with healing certain chakras. Some crystals are specialized to address issues in an individual chakra.

Here is a brief overview of each of the chakras in our body and their function.

1st: Root Chakra – This chakra is located at the base of the spine and is represented by the color red. This is the chakra that grounds us to the earth plane. It pulls up earth energy and runs it through our energy system. A healthy root chakra should go all the way down our legs and into the ground. This chakra relates to our connection to the physical body and world around us. It also pertains to instinct, survival, security, human potential, and fear. It governs our bones, muscles, blood, colon, tailbone, and our entire region from our hips to our toes.

2nd: Sacral Chakra – This chakra is in the pelvic region and is represented by orange. This is our creative center and emotional body of our energy system. This chakra relates to sexual fulfillment, emotions, creating the lives we want to live, and our ability to accept change. This area connects to our reproductive system, lower back, appendix, urinary tract, bladder, kidneys, and adrenal glands.

3rd: Solar Plexus Chakra – This chakra is in the stomach or gut and is represented by yellow. This is our power center. Here we get strength, courage, will, autonomy, spontaneity, metabolism, ego, and energy. It is the mental body of our energy system.  This area pertains to the esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, pancreas, liver, spleen, bile ducts, gall bladder, mid spine/back, and the endocrine system.

4th: Heart Chakra – This chakra is centered near the heart in our chest and is represented by green and sometimes pink. This is about giving and receiving love, both for ourselves and for other beings. It also relates to compassion and breathing in and loving the life around us. The heart is where our center is. It is where the physical meets the spiritual, where the human personality meets the Soul. This chakra connects with the heart, lungs, arms, hands, breasts, circulation, thymus gland, rib cage, and upper back.

5th: Throat Chakra – This chakra is located at our throats and is represented by blue. This is our communication center. It is about expression as well as speaking, living, and receiving truth. The throat chakra governs the mouth, jaw, teeth, gums, tongue, larynx, tonsils, adenoids, thyroid, the vertebrae in our neck, and the epiglottis. I have sometimes heard the nose and ears connected here as well as the arms and hands.

6th: Third Eye Chakra – This chakra is located on our foreheads between and above our eyes. Some systems have this chakra as indigo and some show this as violet. This chakra is about our intuition and awareness. It also balances our masculine, physical, logical, rational, giving selves (left brain which governs our right side of the body) with our feminine, non-physical, emotional, sensitive, nurturing, creative and receiving selves (right brain which governs our left side of the body). Our patriarchal society currently tends to put a ton of emphasis on preferring the masculine side, but to be healthy, we need both halves to be functioning and in balance. This chakra is connected to our brain, pineal gland, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and our eyes. I have sometimes heard the nose and ears connected here as well.

7th: Crown Chakra – This chakra is located at the top of our heads. This is represented as either the color violet or the color white depending on which philosophy you go by. This is our chakra that connects us to Source (God/Goddess/Universe/Creator/Light and Love/our Higher Selves/our Soul/etc.) and spirituality. This is the chakra that pulls in energy from Source and moves it down throughout our body and into the ground. This chakra is also about Universal wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. It governs the central nervous system and our skin.

Finally, you will notice from the pictures above that the root chakra connects us down with the earth and the physical while the crown chakra connects us to Source and the spiritual. The rest of the chakras extend out from the front and the back. On our front side, the chakras give out energy to the Universe and other beings. The back side of our chakras is where we receive energy. Both sides should be balanced to be in alignment. Many people either give too much or receive too much, and we need to do both to be in balance.

There is a tendency for people to believe that the lower chakras are “bad” while the upper chakras are “better.” This is simply not the case, and to ignore any of the chakras, one would be opening themselves up to disease. We need to be grounded and connected to this earth. It is true we are spiritual beings living lives in physical bodies, however part of the agreement to come to this physical plane is to experience the physical world in all its wonder and beauty. Our physical bodies need us to be connected to them and to this earth to maintain health, and this is what the lower chakras help us to do. It should come as no surprise that most of the diseases humans experience are usually rooted in imbalances in the lower three chakras.

Many times, there will be issues in several chakras involved in the cause of a disease or injury. However, you can get a sense of what might be the cause of a disease by looking at which body parts are affected and then examining which chakra that system or body part is governed by. For instance, someone who is feeling disconnected, lonely, and depressed could have an imbalance with their crown or root chakra. Someone with stomach and intestinal issues might be feeling powerless in their lives. Someone feeling guilt, shame, or frustration over how their life is going and what they have created for themselves might develop issues in the second chakra such as urinary tract or reproductive issues.

Sometime in the near future, I will be creating online chakra clearing energy sessions and protocols which I will stream free on my YouTube channel. These will be distance session so you will be able to access the healings just by watching and doing the protocols. I plan on diving deep into each chakra to open, clear, align, restructure, and reset each chakra. This process will facilitate rapid healing as you open all the scars from all the trauma and programming you have accumulated in our chakra systems. Unfortunately, the only way to heal is to move through these scars and release them so the process is challenging, but well worth the effort. You cannot block, ignore, or bury your head in the sand with your own personal healing or else you lock your energy system into the disease state. These protocols will heal on all levels – physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. I will post them to my blog as I complete them.

I also want to briefly mention the nadi and meridian systems in the body. Many who are familiar with kundalini, yoga, and eastern medicine practices such as acupuncture might already know a lot about these already, but they also pop up in my work as an energy healer.

Nadis

Nadi is a Sanskrit word that is translated as tube, channel, or flow. Basically these are channels which life force energy, reiki, and prana can flow through in the body. There are estimated to be 72,000 nadis in the human body however there are three main nadis.

The three main nadis are:

1. Ida nadi – Called the left channel, ida nadi starts in the muladhara (root) chakra, flowing to the left and weaving in and out of the chakras before ending in the left nostril. This nadi represents mental energy.
2. Pingala nadi – Referred to as the right channel, pingala nadi also starts in the root chakra, but flows to the right, weaving in and out of the chakras in a mirror image of ida nadi and ending in the right nostril. Pingala nadi is the origin of prana.
3. Sushumna nadi – The central channel, sushumna nadi runs straight up the spine and through the chakras from just below the root chakra to the sahasrara (crown) chakra. This is the nadi of spiritual awareness.

Meridians

A meridian is an energetic highway in the human body. Meridians allow for the flow of life force energy, reiki, and prana to circulate throughout the body. Meridians exist in corresponding pairs and each meridian has multiple acupuncture points along the pathway. Energy workers can also flow energy up and down the meridians to help clear blockages and to help assist the body with healing. There are 14 main meridians which consist of 12 organ meridians and 2 centerline meridians. See the chart below to see where they fall on the body and which body parts are governed by each meridian.

That’s it for this week. Stay tuned for the final part next week! 🙂