Channel Energy to Heal Your Chakras

There are times in life when emotions hit us hard. We often look externally for help when we need support however it’s those times that really require us to look inward. We hold within ourselves the ability to heal and calm our emotions by harnessing the energy that surrounds us. We have to trust that we have the power to do so and we have to have the right tools to access the energy. Energy flows through us and around us all the time. If we can harness that energy, we can heal our bodies and emotions.

Chakras are the body’s energy centers that correspond not only with different aspects of our lives (safety, truth, intuition, etc.) but they also have ruling emotions and their counterparts. Chakra literally means wheel but I think of them more as three dimensional spheres of healing energy. Harnessing the spheres takes focus and a bit of visualization. There are two emotions that cause the most trauma and heartache: grief and fear.

Grief

Healing grief can be tricky. There was a time in my life when I couldn’t even say the word without being reduced to tears. I had experienced so much emotional trauma that it became stuck in my heart in an unyielding way. When I started to say the word grief over and over—in an effort to heal—it felt as though my heart were breaking. I realized the only thing I could do was to create more love in my heart, something I was so fearful of. You can mend the grief stricken heart by releasing it to make room for more love.

Begin by visualizing a sphere of energy in front of you. The sphere is green on the outside and pink in the center, like the colors of watermelon. There are the colors of the heart chakra which is ruled by love and defeated by grief. Imagine putting your grief, every last painful bit of it, into a hole at the top. Now think of something or someone that makes you feel a great deal of love and happiness. Take the energy of love you feel and use it to close the hole and surround the sphere. Now send it away. Watch it float far away from you. As it floats away, you feel less grief and when it’s completely gone from your sight it’s now released for good.

Fear

Ever feel butterflies in your stomach just above your belly button? They are tickling your Solar Plexus chakra which is the ruler of confidence and the defeater of fear. Fear can cause you to act and react in ways that are often contrary to what’s best for you. There is a time when acting out of fear is useful—when a bear is chasing you—but often that fear depletes our ability to act with confidence. Healing yourself of fear and increasing your self confidence isn’t an easy visualization. Thoughts of doubt will come floating in and out. Just know that the more you practice this, the better you’ll become at quickly sweeping out any fears that creep in.

Begin by visualizing a bright golden light the size of a walnut in your solar plexus. Think about any time that you’ve felt fearful. It doesn’t matter when or what it was. Start to expand your bright light of the solar plexus as you repeat to yourself “I am” and think about a time when you were full of confidence. Expand the empowered feeling through the light as it completely pushes out any feelings of doubt or fear. Once the fear is gone, try expanding the light a bit further from your body as you imagine others seeing this rediscovered confidence. You had it all the time, you just needed to access it.