Many people are curious about the best ways to balance their chakra system. It’s a good idea to balance your chakras because when they are operating properly and in balance your life is in alignment with the Universal Flow and everything seems a lot more graceful.
There are a lot of factors that go into whether a chakra is open and functioning properly. It can be blocked from operating in a balanced way due to traumas, or a build up of negative thought forms. It can be over active from too much focus there, or its swung from being too under functioning to being overly functioning.
To guarantee that your chakras are in balance it would be recommended that you do one of the following exercises everyday. For some people this works and they love it. Other people like to change it up a bit (like me!).
Personally, I tend to focus on filling my life with various exercises based on the chakras that I want to work on or the quality that I desire to have in my life. For instance, I do a lot of yoga that focuses on the solar plexus and the heart. My meditation practices tend to be based on the sacral and third eye chakras right now. But it shifts depending what I’m working on.
The Crystal Method
The crystal method is a really simple laying on of stones healing practice that most people find hugely effective. First you gather seven minerals together. You can usually find chakra sets for sale for around $25 including taxes at your local metaphysical stores, or even online maybe. You can also pick out your own stones for your chakra set, which is my preferred method.
Typical choices might include for each chakra the following. You only need one mineral per chakra!
Root Chakra: Black tourmaline, hematite, obsidian, smokey quartz, tiger’s eyes, jasper, garnet and ruby.
Sacral Chakra: Bloodstone, carnelian, red garnet, red jasper, ruby, orange calcite, fire opal.
Solar Plexus Chakra: Aragonite, citrine, golden calcite, malachite, rhodochrosite, ritulated quartz, pyrite, tiger’s eye, unakite, imperial topaz.
Heart Chakra: Aventurine, emerald, green calcite, green tourmaline, lepidolite, malachite, pink calcite, thodocrosite, Rhodonite, rose quartz, malachite, kunzite.
Throat Chakra: Angelite, aqua aura, blue lace agate, blue topaz, celestite, chrysocolia, larimar, turquoise, sodalite, aquamarine.
Third Eye Chakra: Amethyst, azurite, charolite, hawk’s eye, kyanite, lapiz lazuli, sodalite, moss agate, sugilite, sapphire.
Crown Chakra: Clear calcite, clear quartz, danburite, herkimer diamond, selenite, amethyst, diamond.
Once you have your minerals and have charged them by either keeping them in a bag with citrine (my favorite solar plexus mineral when doing a chakra balance) or running them under cool running water find a comfortable spot to lie down.
Place the applicable minerals on the chakra and visualize a gold/white light from Source entering the crown chakra, and going through the mineral on the crown chakra. See the gold/white light flowing through the third eye and its mineral and so on, until you get to the root chakra. When you are at the root chakra visualize the energy flowing down your legs through your feet connecting to the Earth. The energy goes deep, deep down into the ground, connecting you firmly.
Then see the Earth’s energy rise up, following the flow of energy all the way back into your body, up through the chakras, connecting through the crown chakra to Source.
You’ve now created a powerful flow of energy that is circulating Source Energy with Earth Energy, providing sustenance from the two most important energy sources we have as humans on the planet. We are feeding both our soul and our human body with this flow of energy.
Allow yourself to relax, focusing on your breath and the feeling of the minerals if you feel anything. Allow the minerals to guide your consciousness. In about twenty minutes you will have more balanced chakras than before you began!
In my experience it takes several sessions to have fully balanced chakras. Also the sessions may last longer than twenty minutes, however, the minerals will tell you when your session is done. You will know – sometimes it feels like you’ve been dropped back into your body, or you are suddenly wide awake, etc.
The Meditation Method
This is the method I use on myself more frequently than with the minerals. I just find this method to be faster for me, and it typically is faster for people who are doing this meditation as upkeep to already fairly in balance chakras. I tend to use this method in combination with specific exercises for chakras I have challenges in.
This method is really good at developing your clairvoyance (ability of clear sight) and clairsentience (clear feeling) too!
Find a comfortable place to sit or lie down. Take a few deep breaths, and then systematically go through your body using your breath to relax tensed muscles as best you can. Start at either your toes or the crown of your head working your way up or down your body respectively.
When you are complete, take a moment to visualize your chakras as best you can. Now see white/gold energy coming through your crown chakra, balancing and clearing it as it travels to down to the third eye. At the third eye, wash that chakra with this white/gold light before continuing down to the next chakra and continue the process all the way down to the root chakra.
At the root chakra see the energy move down into the Earth, deep down, connecting and grounding you to the Earth. Once you feel firm in the Earth see energy move up from the planet, washing and clearing each chakra all the way back up out of the crown chakra connecting to Source.
Do this a few times. You may notice that you feel the energy not moving as much in certain spots, or that you see a black spot. Those are blockages/traumas/imbalances. During the meditation you can ask about them to find out more information. You can also focus a lot of energy on them which sometimes will clear it away. Other times you will need to do outside work to dissolve the blockage or rectify the imbalance.
This meditation will take only about ten to fifteen minutes at most. I maybe spend five minutes a day on it however, I’ve done this meditation for over five years. Feel free to adapt it and change it to what suits your mind and method of intuition. 🙂
by Anodea Judith.
. Sometimes I’ll use the Liquid Crystal Oracle cards too. After a while you’ll get to know the minerals better and will begin to trust when you intuitively pick out the crystals. Often I’ll just ask my minerals “Who would serve me best in my water?” and go from there.
