Conversely the fearful thoughts negatively affect your chakras' ability to function. They cause the chakras to become dirty, shrunken or swollen. That is why you may feel out of sorts or lethargic and not know why, and illness often results after a period of time. Obsessive thoughts cause the chakras to enlarge and become out of proportion, causing mental emotional problems. When neglected they move on to cause physical illness. It’s the repetition of similar events without relief that eventually closes off the chakra or causes the imbalance/energy blockage.
Most people close down the top three chakras (Crown, Brow, and Throat) by the time they are three years old and forget psychic spirituals abilities and past lives.
After leaving school, there is usually less pressure to conform and some people begin to reverse the process and start opening their chakras. Usually the Solar Plexus/3rd Chakra opens before the Heart/4th Chakra and so on successively upwards towards the Crown. But this isn’t always true. Some people don’t need to work on their higher chakras. It’s their lower chakras that need balancing. When your childhood and adolescence have been healthy and nurturing, you may be balanced and open in every chakra.
Yogis knew that a person’s illness often first manifests in the chakras before the physical body. They knew that no one could be completely healed if the chakra system continued to be out of balance. When there is a blockage or imbalance in one part of the chakra system, it has an impact on all the other chakras. Imbalances occur when there is too much or too little energy flowing through the chakras. By understanding how each chakra affects a particular body function and life issue, it is possible to identify where a chakra is malfunctioning.
Holding negative thoughts causes chakras to become dirty with dense, dark energy. Various techniques can then be used to balance the chakra system and restore health in the individual physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Many therapists believe that the imbalances in our chakras are in part from our childhood and cultural experiences. They say that one of the ways we try and protect ourselves is by closing down the relevant chakra so we won’t feel those uncomfortable emotions. It is a defense mechanism.
There are many ways to balance your chakras, clear the energy blockages/imbalances, and to better understand the reasons for the blockages so that you may move forward in your life. Spiritual healing is one of them. There is also Clear Intention, Love & Forgiveness, and Prayer. The willingness of the client to surrender to the Divine, to ask Spirit for assistance, and to willingly release and receive, is paramount to allowing Spirit to work. Chakras can also be helped back into balance during hands-on healing through entrainment.
We are made up of vibrating atoms, which appear to those who can sense the subtle energies as colour and sound. Colour and sound are forms of energy, which vibrate. As the vibration of sound becomes higher and lighter, the sound is transmuted into colour. Colour is visible sound. Both colour and sound affect the chakras, especially when used together. Each of the chakras or energy centers is associated with a specific tone of the musical scale and with a specific colour. Certain music and tones can help heal energy imbalances in the chakras by assisting the body to release unwanted thoughts and feelings and to come into its natural state of balance and harmony through deep relaxation and entrainment.
The body wants to vibrate at a healthy resonance and will readily move from an out of balance state towards a healthy state when healing energy is available. Lower chakras spin slower than those in the upper body and head. Lower chakras relate to issues of the material world, while your upper chakras relate to more spiritual issues. The direction chakras spin is often described as clockwise, they can also spin in alternating directions, figure of eight, and vary in the direction depending on if you are a man or a woman, this an be demonstrated with the pendulum and is a sophisticated revealing method of diagnosis in the right hands. [The sexing of a baby is accredited to this method!]
The concept of open or closed chakras is an oversimplification since there is really varying degrees of openness that can be experienced in different chakras. Even though we may be able to assign some illnesses, ailments, and emotional/mental imbalances to the chakras, there are interpretations that defy categorization and require intuition for understanding. The use of colour has been practiced for many ages. For example, if a baby’s skin is too red, it is overly excited and could lead to conditions such as heart troubles and high blood pressure later in life if it becomes habitual. You can help the baby and mother to relax by encouraging them to wear blue clothes, listen to soothing music, bringing in blue flowers, using blue light in the home, and other 'blue' techniques.
Illnesses and ailments respond well to treatments using colour visualization in combination with the other chakra balancing techniques already mentioned. Other ways to use colour vibration to help balance the chakras are by wearing clothing and jewelery with specific colours or by having certain colours in your home and office. Surround yourself with various colours of nature and flowers for balance as well. You can even ingest colour vibrations as a food or juice or as colored water. Visualize the colours through your inner vision and absorb them as colored light. Through our sense of smell, we can also breathe the colour essences or vibrations into our bodies through Aromatherapy.
