There is so much content out there about chakra meanings that will tell you the colors that are associated with them, chakra meanings around body part, even chakra meanings around psychological themes. Everyone knows that chakras are a thing, but even with all of this content, I feel like they are under appreciated. I want to go deeper and showcase their real, day to day, value. I want to bring the chakras to life for you. If you can recognize the moment you feel a chakra off in your body, then you can do something to address it.

When I think of the Root Chakra, I think of a tree. I love to say, “Root and Bend to Ascend.” In order for a tree to grow, it must be firmly rooted into the Earth. In order to evolve, we must first Root. This is the role of the Root Chakra. When the Root Chakra is healthy and balanced, we feel secure and stable. We are not in a place of fear or anxiety, rather we feel safe and calm.

The Sacral Chakra is one of the most complicated chakras. There are so many layers to it and it can be a delicate balance for many people. At the most basic level, is it about feeling and flowing. Feeling physical sensations, feeling emotions, feeling sexual desire, feeling pleasure, but also flowing through the emotions, sensual experiences, sexual experiences, and using those feelings to allow creativity to flow through us.

Our sacral chakras are where desires lives, it is what gives us direction. When that energy rises to our solar plexus, we have the fire to take action on that desire. The Solar Plexus has a vibe of manifesting, taking power of your life and putting your dreams into action.

After the lower chakra tasks have been worked through, we reach outward to others in love. This is the Heart Chakra. It is no accident that it also includes our arms which help us to literally reach out and connect with others. As the center chakra, the Heart chakra is about balance. Through love, we open ourselves up to higher levels of consciousness. Love is a high vibration and healing energy. As souls, we are comprised of Divine Love. Love is our essence. It is inside us. Love is the magnet that binds the universe together.

When we enter the throat chakra, we are reaching above the physical lower chakras, and up into the realm of ether, to vibration and sound. We are integrating all that we are, and all that has manifested from the lower chakras into our authentic self which we project onto the world through our energetic vibration, our voice, and our words. It’s about purification. We are the purest versions of ourselves, by being authentic and truthful. By working through the issues of the lower chakras, we free ourselves from negativity. The vibration of the Throat Chakra, our voice, purifies our energy systems, as we communicate with balance and truth.

As it is above the Throat Chakra, the Third Eye Chakra is the visual extension of the words we choose, our authenticity, and our understanding of the truth about the world. In our Throat Chakra we find our authentic selves. From there, the energy rises to our Third Eye Chakra and we actually envision what life as our authentic selves look like. We picture what we want in life and send the energy of that image into the world. It is vision that is the basis of goal setting, and manifesting the lives we want. Our visions will be high vibration, or low vibration, based on what we believe to be true about the world.

An awakened Crown Chakra is constantly seeking out wisdom, as it questions previous beliefs. It integrates new understanding and new perspectives to evolve. This capacity to learn through the Crown Chakra shifts our vibration.  The pattern of our lives breaks free of the circular hamster wheel, and with this consciousness it takes on the pattern of a spiral.  With each new integration, we raise our vibration and expand our spiral growth pattern, mirroring the cosmic spiral.  We will face the same challenges and struggles, with a slightly different or elevated perspective each time, integrating new learning as we slowly spiral, expand our consciousness, and ascend into alignment with our souls.  Our universe is in a state of constant expansion along with us, making more space for our own expanding consciousness, as we are co-creating microcosms of our universe.