What are the Chakras?
Now that we have a better understanding of the Energy Body from my previous blog, let’s examine what chakra’s are and how they functions within the Energy Body.
The chakras are literally the energy centers of the energy body. The first five chakras draw energy from the earth, like a tree root that draws water and nutrients up from the earth and distributes them through the trunk, branches and leaves, similarly our first 5 chakras draws in the refined energies of the earth to nourish and inform our energy and physical body. The sun feeds the two upper chakras with pure white light. This divine light is brought down through the crown chakra and energizes-illuminates the energy and physical body, much like a tree uses photosynthesis to convert light into energy.
We have 7 major Chakras, starting with the first chakra “Root”, second “Sacral”, third “Solar Plexus”, fourth “Heart”, fifth “Throat”, sixth “Third Eye” and the seventh “Crown” including all the acupuncture meridians of the body and eight chakras if you count the energy body or aura as we do in the illustration below. Chakras are spinning wheels of light, swirling energy vortexes, the word chakra in Sanskrit literally means wheel. They spin clockwise about 3 or four inches outside the physical body and link to our spine and nervous system, they each uniquely inform our neural network with vibratory energy associated with the 7 colors of the rainbow. The shamans from the Peruvian tradition I was trained in called our energy body the rainbow body, when all of our chakras are open and spinning the energy body is illuminated like a rainbow to the trained shamanic eye.
- First chakra “Root” located at the base of the spin color= Red,
- Second chakra “Sacral” located 3 inches below the belly button= Orange
- Third Chakra “Solar Plexus” located 3 inches above the belly button= Yellow
- Fourth Chakra “Heart” located at the center of the chest= Green
- Fifth chakra “Throat” located at the base of the neck= Blue
- Six chakra “Third Eye” located between the eyebrows = Indigo
- Seventh chakra “Crown Chakra” located at the top of the head= Violet
- Energy body or Aura located 6 feet around the body in a Taurus or donut.
Each chakra has a unique energetic expression and performs a specific function. In the upcoming blogs we will explore and dissect each unique energetic chakra expression and the function of each starting with the root chakra.
*My chakra clearing video to help keep your chakras clear and vibrant as a rainbow.
