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HOW TO PRACTICE CHAKRA HEALING?

FIRST CHAKRA ROOT CHAKRA

SECOND CHAKRA SACRAL CHAKRA

THIRD CHAKRA SOLAR PLEXUS

For the first chakra, the best, long-term healing comes from very physical activities – like hatha yoga, because the first chakra is the densest and most related to the physical body. Smell-oriented treatments, like aromatherapy, work well too because this chakra is related to your sense of smell. Gemstones (Crystals) are great for first chakra healing as well, because stones are from the earth, the element of this chakra. Gardening is also really good for healing your first chakra.

For the second chakra – which is still very dense and physical – hatha yoga is good – especially tantrically-oriented yoga and hip poses (see the above video). Healing with chakra foods (juicy, orange foods like oranges, mangoes & pumpkins) is good for this chakra since it’s related to taste, and doing aquatic bodywork – like watsu(pictured) – is really good too, because the second chakra is related to the water element.

For the third chakra – Visual therapy like working with yantras is very good here. Our conscious, mental reasoning ability, and our self-image are both associated with the third chakra. Sunbathing is good, because the third chakra is related to the fire element, and it’s located in the solar plexus. And if you’re up for it, fire walking will stoke your third chakra in a major way. Any method that builds confidence is good for the 3rd chakra too. Some folks think affirmations do this, but I disagree. Finally, any kind of actual core work — like power yoga — or breathing that stokes your core — like yoga’s “breath of fire”, is really good for your solar plexus chakra.

For the seventh chakra, meditation – pure, silent, thoughtless openness is the best. Just opening to the space that we are, with nothing added. Now, this is not to say that

meditating won’t help the first chakra, it can. But we’re talking about a super subtle technique being used on a super-dense chakra (kind of like “hammering” a nail with a pencil).

HOW TO USE CHAKRA HEALING TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE

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YOUR CHAKRAS

FOURTH CHAKRA HEART CHAKRA

FIFTH CHAKRA THROAT CHAKRA

SIXTH CHAKRA THIRD EYE

For the fourth chakra – the bridge between the lower (more “physical” chakras) and the upper (more “spiritual” chakras), touch is good. Studies show that babies thrive when nurses and nannies hold them, and so do adults. Humans need hugging. Hugging –even self-hugging (do it now!) is one of the simplest ways to boost and balance heart chakra energy. EFT – the process of tapping – is great for this chakra too, as are all forms of breathwork, because we breathe in and out of this chakra and the element here is air.

For the fifth chakra – sound healing takes the cake. You can use this technique two simple ways – putting sound out, in the form of mantras, chanting and seed sounds (or even just singing a favorite song that makes you feel good) and taking sound in, in the form of crystal bowls, mantras or again, a favorite song.

For the sixth chakra – visualization is the best tool since our third eye is ground zero for all our dreams and visualizations. You can do this inwardly or outwardly, and I recommend both. Meditations are the best way to do inward visualizing. Just close your eyes and create a positive world within you. See and feel what you truly want and as you do this, you change your whole physiology in a way that causes you to interact more positively and confidently with your external world (and thereby change it). You can also visualize externally by creating an Amazing Vision Board, that will ignite your creative energy in a major way and take your life to the next level.

HOW DO THEY WORK?

Think of your six bodily chakras stacked up like a sort of pyramid – with the lowest one, your first chakra creating the wide and heavy base of the pyramid, and the highest one in your body, your sixth chakra, representing the highest tip of the pyramid. It’s light

and airy and easily mutable, while the first chakra is dense and heavy and more difficult to change (in fact, the first chakra represents and strengthens stability, so its very nature is the opposite of change.

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