Chakra Chart
- At March 31, 2019
- By Annie Bond
- In Healing, Meditation, School
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I first began to understand that we hold energy in our bodies when I started yoga, years ago. Every time I went into a specific position I was overwhelmed with grief for my father, who had died 10 years before!
One thing led to another and I tried to figure out how to remove painful experiences, as I knew I carried a lot. I doubled down to take some serious energy and sound healing schools and emerged to believe relief from suffering can be had by clearing out one’s chakras.
Vortexes of Energy
Chakras are vortexes of energy that connect our spiritual and physical selves, and they carry the blueprint of our destiny. The energy of the challenges we have had in life, back to when we were born–or even further, to past lives that have yet to be resolved –are held in our chakras.
They are also connected to our central nervous system and spine. Ultimately, our chakras are our place to integrate our life of Spirit and living in the 3D world on the planet. As this integration increases and more trauma (and karma) has been cleared, the more flow we are in our lives.
To perceive what is happening in a chakra is to have an entryway into the storyline of one’s spiritual and emotional journey. Each chakra characterizes different aspects of spiritual growth, from fundamental aspects of feeling safe on the planet, to relationships, to the most exalted connection to the All That Is.
The chart, below, can help you navigate your own journey towards being in better flow by understanding the stages of spiritual growth as represented by this brilliant design of our energy body.
1st CHAKRA – HAVE
What: Safety and security on the planet; knowing one’s tribe
Where: Root, bottom of spine to feet
Color: Red
Element: Earth
Archetypes: Victim versus healed mother
Challenges: Abuse, fear, distrust; no right to be here; lack; poverty; chronic illness; not enough love of the mother
Healing: Embraced by Mother, by Mother Earth
2nd CHAKRA – FEEL
What: Emotions, feelings, pleasure, family, sensuality
Where: Sacral center, 2” below navel point
Color: Orange
Element: Water
Archetypes: Martyr versus emperor/empress
Challenges: Needy, insecure, grim, unconnected to others, asexual, guilt, unfeeling, numb, out of flow
Healing: Pleasure, connections, emotional intelligence
3rd CHAKRA – ACT
What: Personal power in the world, self-esteem, ego
Where: Solar plexus
Color: Yellow
Element: Fire
Archetypes: Servant versus warrior
Challenges: Low self-esteem, shame, anger, disempowered, lack of willpower, wallflower
Healing: Self-love, ego identity, proactive, healthy personal power
4th CHAKRA – LOVE
What: Love of that which is bigger than oneself; love of other; authenticity
Where: Chest
Color: Green
Element: Air
Archetypes: Actor versus lover
Challenges: Co-dependent, poor boundaries, anti-social, lonely, carries grief, lack of empathy, narcissism, depression
Healing: Self-love, love of other, tuning into what feels true to self.
5th CHAKRA – SPEAK
What: Singing the song of who one is; Speaking one’s truth
Where: Throat
Color: Sky Blue
Element: Ether (Spirit)
Archetypes: Silent child versus the communicator
Challenges: Can’t listen, lies, interrupts, introverted, gossip, feels inferior, can’t express self, doesn’t talk
Healing: Shares, creative, can sing song of self, speaks one’s truth
6th CHAKRA – SEE
What: Vision for self; visionary; intuitive
Where: Brow, “3rd eye”
Color: Indigo
Element: Cosmos
Archetypes: Intellectual versus the wise person
Challenges: Can’t envision for self; denial, can’t “see,” obsessions, hamster-wheels, shut off intuition, poor dream recall, over-intellectual
Healing: Intuitive and perceptive, leadership, thinks with symbols
7th CHAKRA – KNOW
What: The connection to the all that is
Where: Crown
Color: Violet
Element: Cosmos
Archetypes: Egotist versus the guru
Challenges: Rigid thinking, invalidated beliefs, dissociated from body, lacks spiritual connection, attachment to ego constructs, addiction due to disconnected from spirit
Healing: Open-minded, the witness, in service, connected to Universal Consciousness
By Annie Bond, founder of The Divine Mother Modality and the HeartMind Healing School
Special call-out to two amazing authors on the chakras, both of whom I have learned from immensely: Anoeda Judith (Wheels of Life; Eastern Body, Western Mind; and more), and Ambika Wauters (The Book of Chakras).