Good morning, everyone

When wracking my brain, trying to think of a topic for my talk, which can be extremely difficult for me, I decided on Chakras as the topic.  They are such an important part of our daily lives, and they relate so much to our inner and outer physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being. I am sure many, if not all of you, know about chakras and can teach me a thing or two.

Chakras are the wheels of energy that flow through our bodies.  We have 7 chakras and those will be the focus for today’s talk. I have heard that we have 21-49 minor chakras and potentially hundreds up to thousands if you include all subtle energy parts throughout and beyond our bodies.

The 7 main chakras that run along our spine, from the base of our tail bone to the top of our head.  Each corresponding to specific organs, glans, emotions, and areas of consciousness

When these energy centers are balanced and open, we feel confident and connected but, when they are blocked or out of balance, we may feel or experience physical symptoms, emotional unbalances, or sense of disconnection.

Our first chakra is the root chakra, deep red in colour and located at the base of our spine.  Your spirit guide associated with this chakra, is your protector.  This chakra is about stability, survival, and feeling secure. It connects us to the earth and gives us a feeling of being grounded and balanced.  When balanced we feel safe, when blocked we may feel anxious, fearful or unstable.  Physically, we may feel unbalanced. Issues showing up in our legs, feet, lower back or in our immune system.  To help ourselves with grounding, we can do things like, take a walk barefoot in nature, practice yoga or mindfulness, stillness in our thoughts, which can bring us back into harmony.

Our second chakra is our sacral chakra which is orange in colour. Our spirit guide associated with this chakra is our chemist and related to creativity, pleasures and our emotions. It’s ability to experience joy, sensuality and healthy relationships. When this chakra is balanced, we feel open, expressive and emotionally well. When it is blocked, we may feel numb, uninspired or struggle with intimacy with our partners or people in our lives. We may even struggle with addictions when this chakra is unbalanced.  Physical signs can include reproductive issues and lower back pain. Some ways to help balance this chakra is dancing, painting, doing something creative or simply allowing yourself to feel emotions. I know in life it’s easy to suppress how we feel and how others can make us feel at times but, allowing ourselves to feel the feelings and acknowledge them, don’t react to them, just let them be recognized, breath and let them flow through you.

Story about Suzane Guismann “isn’t that interesting” approach to an issue in your life or around you.

Chakra #3 our solar plexus. This one I feel a lot! It is located in our upper abdomen. The colour associated with this chakra is yellow and our Dr. of Philosophy is associated with this chakra. It related to our digestive system and our ability to transform not just food but life experiences. It is your bull poop detector at times it’s your wisdom and personal power. When in balance, you feel motivated, strong, and in control. When out of balance, you may feel powerless, insecure. You may be over controlling, have digestive issues, fatigue and lower self-esteem are common signs that your solar plexes chakra may be out of balance. Practicing core strengthening, setting healthy limits and boundaries with other, also staying positive can help.  Saying positive affirmations may restore the energy center as well. A good affirmation to say can be one like:

I am enough

I am clam and capable

I trust myself

I am safe and supported

I choose peace

I can handle what comes my way.

Our 4^th chakra, our heart chakra is located in the chest. The colour green is associated here along with our joy child or children.  When balanced it allows us to give and receive love freely, not just in a romantic what but with love for others and for life! When blocked, we may feel a sense of loneliness, bitterness and we may feel closed off physically it can manifest as heart and lung issues. Breath work, forgiveness, act of kindness are amazing ways we can open our heart chakra.

Number 5, our throat chakra located in our throat, with a beautiful sky or ocean blue in colour! Our sister of mercy is associated with this chakra. I do find a lot of us can struggle with this chakra, myself included. It is related to communication and self expression. When balanced we can speak our truth clearly and listen openly. When blocked, we can struggle, at times, speaking aggressively, struggle to express ourselves or just talk excessively, sometimes without really truly being heard.  Physical unbalances may show up as throat problems, thyroid issues or neck pain. Singing, journaling or simply speaking honestly, but kindly, can help keep this chakra healthy!

Chakra #6, the third eye chakra located between our eyebrows and just up a little. This chakra resonates with the colour red indigo and the guides associated here is our master teachers, and sometimes our master healers.  It is linked to our intuition, insight, inner wisdom and clairvoyance.  It is about seeing beyond the physical world. Accessing imagination and spiritual awareness.  When balanced, we have clarity, intuition and good judgement. When blocked, we may experience confusion, overthinking or lack of focus.  Headaches or eye strain can also be signs it is out of balance.  Meditation and time in silence can be a very powerful way to awaken the third eye chakra.

Number 7. The crown chakra, located at the top of our heads. It is violet in colour and our guide associated here are the master healers.  This chakra is associated to our spiritual connection and enlightenment. Cosmic consciousness, access to higher consciousness when open and balanced. It is our sense of oneness with everything!  The divine universe or simply a higher state of consciousness.  When open, we feel peaceful, and sense of belonging in the world. When blocked, we may feel disconnected to ourselves or others or spiritually lost.  We can help this by saying prayers, whatever that means to you. Heather and Glen shared one of few years ago called the effective prayer.  If anyone would like to read it, I do have it with me today. And if it resonated with you, I can make some copies! Thing you can do to help with chakra, are things like meditating or doing wonderful things like spending time quietly under the stars with peaceful thoughts and stillness. This can help to activate this chakra.

So how do chakra connect to our health. Think of them as and energetic reflection of you physical and emotional state.  A blocked chakra can manifest tension, pain or emotional stress.  By paying attention to how we feel both physically and emotionally we can balance our energy naturally though movement, breathwork, mindfulness, creativity and self care.  Really chakra work isn’t about perfection it is about awareness.  When we listen to our bodies and tend to our energy, we nurture not just our health but our sense of wholeness. 

So, the next time you feel out of balance, anxious, tired or stuck take a moment and check in asking yourself where might my energy be blocked.  Try and get a sense of it’s location by sitting quietly. Ask your spiritual guides to help you with this.  They are there waiting to assist you.

Take a few deep breaths, a quiet walk or say a kind loving word to yourself.  Begin to shift everything

Thank you for listening and have and amazing rest of your day!

Effective Prayer

1. Release all of my past, negative fears, human relationships, self-image, future, human desires, sex, money, judgement and communication to the Light
2. I am a Light being
3. I radiate the Light from my Light Center throughout my being.
4. I radiate the Light from my Light Center to everyone
5. I radiate the Light from my Light Center to everything
6. I am a bubble of Light and only Light can come to me and only Light can be here.
7. Thank you God for everything, for everyone and for me.