If you are a spiritual being like me and have been following a few mindfulness practices, then you must have heard of the words called Chakras. If you haven’t been to any yoga class or watched any yoga and mindfulness related video, being an Indian you must be aware of the 7 chakras of our body.
By our ancient definition, these chakras are energy points inside our bodies starting from the bottom of our spines or tailbone and ending at the top or crown of our heads.
If you want to know more about these energy points and how to unblock chakras, read on.
When someone says that their chakra is blocked, what does it mean?
As per many spiritualists, the chakras can never be blocked. But there can be low stimulation of the chakras or overflow of energies to these centers in your body. Thus, making its energies unbalanced in your life.
The low stimulation or overflow can manifest in various forms in a person’s life. It can take both physical and emotional forms. If there’s low energy, a person will face difficulty in expressing or feeling the properties associated with that particular chakra. In case of an overflow or over-activeness, these properties will dominate the life of that person.
For example, if the root chakra is blocked, the person will feel insecure and depressed about everything in their lives as it is associated with feeling secure and stable in life. But when it gets overstimulated, the person might feel fearless and start doing things without taking any precaution or thinking about the consequences.
Can a blocked chakra be harmful to health?
When a chakra is blocked, it generally affects the organs, tissues, bones and muscles in the area where that particular energy centre is located. There can be both physiological and psychological imbalances in your body.
Depending on which chakra is blocked, a person can feel depressed, insecure, hopeless numb. There would also be a physical sensation in the body. Thus, one must look at both of these manifestations to understand the blockage.
How to Unblock Chakras?
The blockage of your energy and spiritual centres can be caused due to an inactive lifestyle, unhealthy eating habits, poor posture or self-destructive behaviour.
If you think you have a blocked chakra, here is a list of yoga poses to undertake about how to unblock chakras.
Yoga Poses to Unblock Chakras
- Root Chakra
The root chakra, as mentioned, is associated with the foundation of your body. You can try the tree pose or warrior pose which encourages you to balance your body. These will help you connect with your root chakra and find the balance in your life.
- Sacral Chakra
The sacral chakra is associated with your sexual and reproductive health. To learn how to unblock chakras, you should try yoga poses which helps in opening your pelvic floor along with strengthening it, like a pigeon or lizard pose.
- Solar Plexus Chakra
Located in your stomach area, this chakra is aligned with the fire of your core. If you feel that your solar plexus chakra is out of balance, you should try doing a boat or a triangle pose that helps in reigniting the power in your stomach and would strengthen your abs as well.
- Heart Chakra
The fourth one on the list, the heart chakra is the integration between the lower three and the upper three chakras. To open up your heart chakra, you need to include the wheel pose, camel pose, cow pose and the humble warrior pose which will open up your upper body so that you can embrace others in life.
Also Read: 5 Best Yoga Poses for a Healthy Heart
- Throat Chakra
When it comes to the question – how to unblock chakras – there can be questions about how can the throat chakra be opened? It is associated with our communication abilities and plow and fish poses can really open up the front and back of our vocal cords.
- Third Eye Chakra
The Ajna is associated with your imaginative powers and your ability to dream new possibilities. The Forward Pose or the Folded Eagle pose helps you connect with other physical parts of your body like hands, legs which are going to help you convert those possibilities into reality.
- Crown Chakra
The Sahasrara is about your connection with the higher power. When it comes to unblocking this energy centre, it is recommended that you do a Savasana or the corpse pose. Focus on yourself, moving it from each part to the top of your head and then to the universe and connect your body with the universal power.
Other Ways to Cleanse Your Chakra Energy
Apart from doing specific yoga postures, you can follow these steps to remove negativity and open up the energy centres of your body.
- Mantra Chanting
A mantra is a short repetition that you can chant after your yoga practice. Try positivity mantras from any Sanskrit Vedas and chant them at least 108 times daily. The repetition of the mantra can calm your mind and allow you to reconnect with your body.
- Mindful Meditation
Along with following the positive mantra Jaap, you can also try focused meditation. Find a comfortable spot around the house and sit in a cross-legged meditation position. Close your eyes and repeat positive affirmations in your mind while focusing on the chakra that is blocked. This will help in removing any negative energy that is associated with the particular spiritual centre. Repeat this daily to find a reconnection to your body.
- Essential Oils
Essential oils are bestowed upon with the power of reaching various points in our body and opening them in an unseen way. These oils are being used from treating and calming an anxious person to helping someone dealing with chronic pain as well. When used to unblock the spiritual centres of our body, these essential oils work by reformatting our old patterns and helping us open our chakras to new energies. Add essential oils to your bathing water, a diffuser or a pillow before you go to sleep and let it open your channels of energies for positivity.
- Nutrition
Many of our articles talk about the three ayurvedic doshas that keep our body in balance and harmony. Each of these doshas controls and regulates the composition of five universal elements in our body – air, water, earth, fire and space. These five elements are associated with these seven chakras as well and guide the energies that are being absorbed as well. When one of these doshas gets aggravated in our body, we balance these out by bringing nutritional and lifestyle changes. Similarly, while working on unblocking our chakras, we need to make changes to our diet and eat food that will open up the energies of the specific centre in our bodies.
- Heal with Nature
One of the best answers to how to unblock chakras is reconnecting with nature’s energy that is present all around us. Spend time outdoors surrounded by greenery, walk barefoot in the grass and absorb the positive energy from the mother earth. You can also combine this with other activities like yoga or meditation in nature and align your energies with earth and the universe.
The Bottom Line
The seven chakras are the energy centers in your body that are associated with different organs and body parts. When a chakra is blocked or is out of balance, its properties can manifest in both physical and emotional forms.
If you want to know how to unblock chakras, follow the yoga poses, daily meditation and breathing practices.