Healing the Chakras - Using Energy Healing on your Energy Body.

When it comes to energy healing, healing the chakras is the focus, more often than not. Of course, it isn't the only way to go, and some healing methods (and I actually find myself using them more these days) bypass them entirely, but no study of energy work would be complete without at least covering the basics.

As I mentioned in the metaphysical dictionary and EFT sections, your body circulates energy. Much as it circulates blood, lymph, and air, your body also circulates energy (known as "prana". The pathways that the energy takes are called meridians (or "nadis"). Junctions of these meridians are referred to as "chakras". There are dozens of them, at least (it depends on who you ask).

Since most people in the West focus on the major chakras, and since most of my readership is in the West, this is where most of our focus will be, but we won't ignore the other ones either.

The Major Chakras, Complete and Unabridged.

Yeah, right. More has been written on the chakras than can be contained in most libraries. I'll go into each one in-depth, but for now, I'll list the major chakras here for a general overview, then we'll go into how healing the chakras is actually done:

• Starting at the top, we have the crown chakra. Located about where an infant has his or her soft spot, this (in the West especially) represents connection to the Divine.
• Next down, we have the brow chakra or third eye chakra. This one relates to mentality, perception, and the pituitary gland. It connects to one of three storage areas for energy.
• Then we have the throat chakra. Although thought in the West to be about communication and self-expression, this chakra has much to do with physical health as well.
• In the middle we have the heart chakra. This is the keystone, in many ways. It is where the raw physicality from below meets the sublime spiritual from above. Here we find another energy storage area.
• The next one down is the solar plexus chakra. This one deals with emotions, especially feelings of control. If you feel blown about by the winds of fate, and it hurts, this is where it hurts. You can actually see it in people's posture, if you pay attention.
• Next we have the sacral chakra. Located about where the uterus is (or would be), this chakra deals with day-to-day survival. Money, sex, creativity, these things which live just above raw survival dwell here.
• And last we have the root chakra. This one is purely about survival. It is physicality. Safety and security, instinct, all the things that we need when we wear bodies.

Now that we've touched on the major chakras themselves, we can turn to see how healing the chakras works. Elsewhere in the site, we've actually already started exploring this. From the chakra diagram to chakra healing with Reiki. There are more areas to explore, however.

There are exercises for chakra opening, techniques for chakra balancing healing; getting the chakras to "burn clear" and get rid of the psychic gunk that causes blocks. There are chakra tones that are used to much the same effect, and there is also working with the chakra colors (although this is a Western innovation; not part of the origin of the theory). There is also the matter of chakra balancing healing, which works for chakra energy healing by focusing on harmony, not picking a single chakra based on the visible trouble.

Even at that, there are many other, more subtle ways for healing the chakras. I know of a pretty good system out there that ignores the major chakras, preferring instead to focus on the smaller energy centers and strengthen the energy system from the ground up.



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For further reading:

• See how Reiki is used at Chakra Healing with Reiki.
• Or, check out the Chakra Diagram.
• Read up on Chakra Balancing Healing.>
• Return from Healing the Chakras to the main page.