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Muladhara, or Root Chakra, rules our physical energies, and all feelings and beliefs regarding a sense of safety, security, and support.
- Color: red which represents movement and awakening.
- Location: the tailbone
- Balanced: safe, motivated, energetic, reliable and grounded in reality.
- Deficiencies: passive, financial struggles, and poor boundaries.
- Excessive: greed, paranoia, overeating, fear of change, or obsessions with security.
Svadhisthana, or Sacral Chakra, rules our emotions, creativity, and sensuality.
- Color: orange to represent warmth and emotion
- Location: 3 centimeters above the Muladhara and just below the navel.
- Balanced: sense of friendliness, vitality, compassion, and bondedness.
- Deficiencies: rigidity of both mind and body, lack of social skills, lack of creativity.
- Excessive: addictions, irresponsibility, obsessive attachments, manipulation.
Manipura, or Solar Plexus Chakra, rules our personal power, self-esteem, and willpower.
- Color: yellow which represents wisdom and intellect
- Location: right behind the stomach.
- Balanced: a healthy assertiveness, intelligence, productivity, healthy digestion
- Deficiencies: low self-esteem, low confidence, poor digestion, unhappiness with one’s life situations.
- Excessive: dominating behavior, controlling, stubbornness, and competition.
Anahata, or Heart Chakra, is the energy center of love and relationships.
- Color: green represents health, prosperity, and abundance
- Location: between the breasts.
- Balanced: a sense of wholeness, sympathy, nurturing, acceptance, and kindness.
- Deficiencies: an inability to forgive, loneliness, indifference and withdrawing.
- Excessive: jealousy, martyrdom, self-centered, and codependency.
Vishuddha, or Throat Chakra, rules our communication and expression.
- Color: bright blue represents self-expression, creativity, and communication
- Location: at the base of the throat.
- Balanced: can communicate clearly and positively, listen well, contentment
- Deficiencies: inability to express one’s truth or a fear of speaking as well as throat related maladies such as teeth grinding, underactive thyroid.
- Excessive: gossiping, lack of consideration for others and can lead to compulsive behaviors
Ajna, or Brow Chakra, is the seat of our vision and perception
- Color: Indigo represents intuition, perception, inner wisdom
- Location: at the mid-eyebrow point
- Balanced: keen intellect, strong intuition, can perceive the big picture, establish goals and can take action
- Deficiencies: abusive relationships, lack of joy, anxiety, chaos, difficulty planning the future.
- Excessive: fantasizing, difficulty concentrating, nightmares, turmoil
Sahasrara, or Crown Chakra, is our spirituality.
- Color: Violet represents the universe, spiritual connection, or consciousness
- Location: top of the head or possibly four fingers widths above the head
- Balanced: released from ego-driven desires, self-trust, selflessness, humanitarian nature
- Deficiencies: lack of purpose, ethics, joy, trust, spiritual cynicism
- Excessive: feeling superior, manic-depressive behaviors, fanatic spirituality
