The chakras are the energy centers of our body, each one has a meaning individual and his colors relate to is flowing energy. They go through us and connect the earthly with consciousness. Our physical and emotional well-being depends on its balance.
Chakras: origin, meaning and colors
The Chakras are points or vortices of energy flow through which life energy flows. Each one has an influence on a particular sector of our body. It depends on its harmony that we feel full and at peace. Like everything in life, the important thing is that they are in balance.
Each organism and animal has its chakras, we are all energy
The first notions about the chakras come from the Hindu tradition, which considers that we actually have an incalculable number of energy bodies. Organs and cells are energetic bodies because they process and produce energy, although this act is not conscious.
But there are certain energy points that channel and connect all that energy with the plane of consciousness, which are the chakras. Each tradition associates a number of chakras that can be from four to eleven. Although in the West seven have been incorporated, which can be found in cultures such as the Chinese of Tibet or even the Mayans.
According to the Hindu traditions, every living being contains in its body forms of incalculable energies. As many cells as organs are energy bodies because their function is absorb, transmit and distribute energy. However, they are considered as raw or physical energies, considered as unconscious unlike the “extra material” energy that is concert.
Thus, the so-called subtle energy bodies correspond to invisible organs that have the ability to transform the physical energy into immaterial energy and vice versa. In the same way, it plays a fundamental role in energetic communication within the human body and with respect to the cosmos that surrounds it. Be within the material and the immaterial.
The heart of this energetic anatomy inherited from the philosophies of dedantha, refers to the Tantras. It corresponds to 4 Hindu sacred texts, which are considered founders (1500 BC).
Each tradition associates a definite number of chakras with their system of thought and practice, usually between 4 and 11. Potentially though, we will focus on the 7 main chakras.
To unlock or activate them, there are multiple practices you can do respecting its colors and energetic vibration. From yoga, meditation, reiki, to dressing up in the colors of the chakra you want to unlock!
chakras: colors, symbols and meanings
It is also important to know the meaning of the color of each chakra, since they are related to energies that we want to enhance to be in harmony with the universe.
1- Root chakra or muladhara: it is located at the base of the spine, at the height of the coccyx and is associated with the Red color. It represents the ground wire, personal safety, basic needs, love and subsistence. Its symbol is the square, the earthly. He is represented by an orange lotus with 4 petals, his symbolic animal is an elephant or a buffalo and his earth element.
2- Sacral Chakra: It is the energy center of sexuality and creativity. Governs emotions and pleasure. The color that identifies it is orange, its symbol is the crescent moon. He is also represented by an orange lotus with 6 petals. It is the second chakra; the energy system of the chakras connects it with the ritual ablutions of water, milk and sexuality, especially since it is related to bodily fluids.
3- Solar plexus chakra: It is located at the level of the stomach and the navel, its symbol is the inverted triangle and it is usually represented with the 10 petals of the lotus flower. It is related to personal power. The symbolic animal that represents it is a ram or a sheep and its element is fire. Solar plexus is the third chakra, the last of the lower body chakras, related to physiological functioning according to the energy system of the chakra. So it is responsible for collecting the vital energy associated with fire and sunlight.
4- Heart Chakra: Its color is green, it is in the center, at the height of the heart. Due to its position, it is the one that connects the three lower chakras with the three upper ones. Its symbol is the six-pointed star and it is associated with unconditional love and humility. It is represented by a green lotus with 12 petals. His symbolic animal is a bird or antelope and his element is air. It is the fourth chakra; it is the union between the three lower chakras (bodily functions) and the three upper chakras (the spirit). It represents love, tenderness, compassion, faith and humility.
5- Throat Chakra: Turquoise in color and located at the height of the throat, it is responsible for communication. His symbol: the circle. It is represented by a blue lotus with 16 petals, its symbolic animal is a white elephant and its element is Ether. It is the fifth chakra, but the first center of spiritual energy in the upper part of the body. It collects the energies related to voice, speech and structured thoughts. It is related to the communication, concentration, learning ability and maturity.
6- Third Eye Chakra: Located on the forehead, between the eyebrows. his symbol is a circle with two lotus petals, appearing to be “winged”. It represents transcendence and intuition, it is the ”third eye”. Its color, indigo blue. the sixth chakra, The intermediate of those found in the upper part of the body, related to spiritual energies. It also represents wisdom and creativity.
7- Crown Chakra: Its color is purple and it is symbolized by a lotus with a thousand petals that represents elevation and spiritual connection. Its color is purple or white. The symbol that represents him is the lotus, while his symbolic animal is the snake. It is the seventh chakra. This is responsible for collecting the energy of nature and the earth of the Kundalini Serpent, fed during its ascent from the root chakra by the six chakras that precede this crown chakra. represents the enlightenment, absolute self-realization, cosmic consciousness, peace and bliss.
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Chakra colors, images: Here you can see how each point and each color is related to a function or organ of the body.
Chakras, colors and mantras
Just as each one has its color, vibrates at a specific frequency and has its own mantra. Mantras can be sounds, syllables, words or groups of words that have a transformative energetic power. Depending on which one you need to heal or cleanse, it will be the mantra you should repeat:
- LAM: Root
- VAM: Sacral.
- RAM: solar plexus.
- YAM: Heart.
- HAM: Throat.
- OM: Third eye.
- HA: Crown.
In this video you can see and hear the chakra colors and sounds. With Tibetan bowls, the exact notes of each chakra vibrate and their mantras are also repeated.
chakras: colors and stones
There are also certain colored stones that are meant to balance, amplify, or activate that chakra energy center. Your choice depends on several factors, such as energy charge or intuition, but there is also a list of those associated with each.
Chakras: colors and stones
Here we leave you a useful video where you can see how to choose and use them:
chakras, colors, reiki
Some practices such as yoga, meditation and reiki can help us cleanse and unblock them, enhancing our inner power and harmony with the world around us.
The reiki is an energy healing therapy with multiple benefits, both physically and mentally. Reiki chakra colors are used in visualizations to help unblock these energy nodes in people.
Each one offers a special type of healing, in some cases people manage to visualize them in a session. This happens precisely because the therapy is working!
Which of these therapies would you try to balance your inner energy? Tell us!
Sources: Karmawheater, hola.com, Wikipedia.