The Chakras and care taking
- mathewrhyswalker
- May 26, 2024
- 6 min read
What are Chakras? Chakra comes from the Sanskrit term meaning “Wheel”, they are the energy centres in the body, a great emphasis is placed on them in many traditions. The human body has many thousands of chakras, however the seven major energy centres or chakras run along the spinal column, from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. Each chakra has a different colour and helps to govern different areas of your life, such as security, emotions, and clairvoyance for example.
I teach my own students that the chakras in the human body and the meridians are very much like our own energy plumbing. The meridians are channels in the body for energy to move through, and the chakras are energy centres where this energy can radiate, (radiators essentially). As the chakras are an integral part of your systema and overall health, it is important to clear them regularly and ensure that your energy system is closed off from the outside world when your balancing is finished.
Some people find that when their aura has weakened, that their energetic system is impacted, particularly their chakras. In my own experience, chakras should only be opened, purged, worked on or rebalanced when in a completely protected space to avoid any entities siphoning your energy. Clear signs that your chakras are being affected or your psychic awareness has unintentionally become too open at an inappropriate time is:
- Feeling particularly vulnerable for no legitimate reason
- Noticing unusual energy changes, such as crashing
- Feeling quite sludgy and heavy
- Feeling overwhelmed in public
- Mood changes in public as you take on the psychic energy of others
- Feeling new anxieties when you are not being threatened, physically
- Seeing the auras of others or energy shifts in the environment
- And finally, seeing spiritual entities, or feeling their touch
I drum it into my students to absolutely NOT engage their psychic awareness in the context of spirits outside of class at first or outside of protected workings, which helps to keep them safe, keep them closed and energised, and to have a stable foundation for magickal workings.
Techniques to clear your Chakras:
VISUALISATION
Countdown to your meditative state and be sure that you have your aura and protection set strongly to keep your centres protected as you purge them. When you are ready, begin to see at the base of your spine, near your pelvic floor, a beautiful ruby red wheel spinning clockwise, is it slow? Is it fast? Dark? Blocked? Attempt to manipulate the speed at which your chakra moves, if you see any dark patches, visualise your chakra throwing them off outside of your body and down into the Earth, but not into the aura, or in time you will manifest cold-like symptoms.
Repeat this process for your sacral near the belly button; see an orange chakra, move up and for the solar plexus near the diaphragm, and see a beautiful midday yellow sun. For your heart chakra we do not use the traditional colour green, but the colour pink to correspond with divine love, when you reach the heart see a 12 leaf pink lotus flower opening and visualise a pink flame consuming any dark spots, this is the core of who you are, your heart and love.
For the throat, move up and see a dusk time blue chakra begin to appear in your throat, when you are ready move up to your brow, between and just above the eyes and see the third eye, and the colour indigo and finally for the crown chakra visualise it not as violet in keeping with the rainbow, but as gold, and when you open it see it as a halo, reaching out and covering your head/face, this is corresponding to the colour of enlightenment.
When you feel like you have given them a thorough clearing, say:
“I am cleared, I am flowing, I am light”
The chakras, very briefly are responsible for particular areas of your life:
Crown – Top of your head – Gold – Enlightenment, connection and purpose
Third Eye – Brow – Indigo – Spiritual sight and senses, truth and intuition
Throat – Throat – Blue – Communication, speech, expression
Heart – Sternum – Pink – Unconditional love, mercy, compassion
Solar Plexus – Diaphragm – Yellow – Seat of emotions, personal power
Sacral – Belly – Orange – Sexuality, fertility, creativity
Base – Perineum – Red – Grounding, survival instincts, finances
To protect your chakras, repeat the process but in reverse so seeing the golden halo retreating and the crown chakra fading, then see the indigo third eye close and fade, move to the blue throat, then your pink lotus heart, down then to the yellow solar plexus, to the orange sacral and finally the red root and then return to your normal awareness knowing your chakras have been cleaned, closed and protected.
HERBS
Famous herbs for cleansing and protection are Sage, particularly white, Rosemary, Vervain, Oak, Holly and Yarrow. If you feel so inclined and creative you can gather these herbs and blend them into a loose incense mix, these can be easily burned on a charcoal disc in a flame proof vessel, what you then do is waft the smoke of the burning herbs toward your aura and around your body and affirm the cleansing and protection of your chakras.
You can also infuse these herbs into a lovely cleansing and protection spray, sadly infusions do not last because microbes often grow in solutions quickly that are not preserved with additions, such as alcohol. When you have made your infusion, affirm the cleansing and protective nature of this solution and when you are ready to use, you can spray it around your aura and body and affirm that it helps clear all of the sludge from your chakras and body.
MUSIC
You can find a lot of music on Youtube that can help purge chakras, either as a whole system or chakra specific tracks that focus on frequencies. For myself, akin to cleansing my space, I like to ring a bell repeatedly and somewhat aggressively to help shake things up, and then I whip out my Shamanic drum, I drum and chant the sound of creation: "Om", which is pronounced as the following in three syllables: "A - U - M", so "Au-Uh-Mm". I really do feel like I have had a nice release after doing this.
CRYSTALS
In order to use crystals to help clear and balance the chakras, there are two ways I do this. The first is to obtain a single-pointed crystal, preferably Amethyst as it is known for its transmutative properties, perform your psychic hygiene, open your chakras and you place the flat end close to your chakra and the point away from your body, ask the crystal and its spirit to work with that particular chakra and to draw out the excess or harmful energies. When you are at ease, you can actually feel a very soft flow through your body and out into the crystal. After you have done this, thank the spirit of the crystal and then cleanse it with the smoke of your cleansing incense.
The second technique is to lay down and partner with 7 beautiful crystals, each corresponds to and works well with each chakra, they are as follows:
Clear Quartz - Crown - Top of head
Amethyst - Third Eye - Just above the nasal bridge
Sodalite - Throat - On the throat centre
Rose Quartz - Heart - Middle of the chest
Citrine - Solar Plexus - Atop the diaphragm in the centre
Orange Carnelian - Sacral - Near the belly button
Red Jasper - Base - At the base of your body, between the legs
After ensuring that your crystals are cleansed and charged ready to partner with you, lay down in a place you will not be disturbed, perform your psychic hygiene to protect your space and open up your awareness and chakras, ask the spirit of each individual crystal to work with each chakra, to absorb any stagnant or harmful energy and also to gently charge your chakras to help re-balance them. When you feel the process is complete, thank the spirits, remove the crystals, cleanse them and return them to their resting place, close down your awareness and chakras and enjoy the feeling of lightness that comes from cleansings.
I would recommend using any of the above techniques at least once a week to help keep your energy body clear of any external energies or influences that do not belong.
Blessed Be, Mat. XxX
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