Chakras For Beginners
Feel like a complete novice when it comes to your chakras? I hope this can help you. 1 year ago I didn't know a whole lot but I read a book guys, and read some things on the internet. Here's a summary.
Chakras for beginners
Chakra 1
Root Chakra
Color: Red
Element: Earth
Crystal/ Gemstone: Red jasper
Location: Base of spine
Energy center of physical safety, strength, vitality and
survival methods
Balancing nutrition: Protein, minerals, root vegetables
Off balance: Pain and stiffness in your feet and legs, excess
flexibility in your hamstrings/low sense of physical stability, feeling
ungrounded, unsafe, and insecure, home life feels chaotic and unsettled, feeling
stuck in life/low sense of flexibility
Chakra 2
Sacral Chakra
Color: Orange
Element: Water
Crystal/ Gemstone: Carnelian
Location: Below bellybutton
Energy center of emotion, genitals, likes and dislikes,
sensuality, attraction and social connections
Balancing nutrition: Fats/oils, fermented foods, tropical
fruit, fish oil, nuts/ seeds, orange foods
Off Balance: Pain and stiffness in your low back and hips, feeling
easily overwhelmed emotionally, loss of imagination and no creativity, out of
touch with emotions and closed off, sexual and reproductive issues
Chakra 3
Solar Plexus
Color: Yellow
Element: Fire
Crystal/ Gemstone: Pyrite
Location: upper tummy/ diaphragm
Energy center of sense of self, individuality, integrity,
will power and productivity
Balancing nutrition: Carbohydrates, healthy sweet foods,
soluble fibre, legumes, whole grains
Off balance: Digestive issues and abdominal pain, low
self-esteem, overinflated ego, inability to commit, inability to follow through
with goals
Chakra 4
Heart Charka
Color: Green
Element: Air
Crystal/ Gemstone: Rose quartz
Location: center of chest/ near heart
Energy center of love, forgiveness and compassion
Balancing nutrition: Leafy greens, “hearty meals”
Off balance: Pain in your upper back or chest, tight
shoulders or, alternatively, overly flexible shoulders, inability to receive
love in any of its forms, lack of self-compassion, feeling a sense of lack or
loss with regards to love
Chakra 5
Throat
Color: Blue
Element: Akasha (sometimes regarded
as sound)
Crystal/ Gemstone:
Location: Throat
Energy center of communication, creative expression. A key
channel to your heart.
Balancing nutrition: Soups, moist fruits, teas
Off balance: Sore throat or laryngitis, jaw pain or habit of
grinding your teeth, pain or stiffness in your neck, a habit of talking all the
time/not knowing when to stay quiet, inability to speak up, set boundaries, or
stand up for yourself
Chakra 6
3rd Eye chakra
Color: Indigo
Element: Light (a combination of water, earth, fire and air)
Crystal/ Gemstone: Amethyst
Location: Between eyebrows
Energy source of insight, psychic information and
imagination
Balancing nutrition: Berries, omega-3/ brain food,
caffeine*, pungent spices, dark chocolate, blue/ purple foods)
Off balance: Headaches, brain fog, lack of intuitive
guidance, lack of inspiration, overactive, overwhelming imagination
Chakra 6
Crown Chakra
Color: Violet
Element: Pure light
Crystal/ Gemstone: Lepidolite
Location: Top of the head
Energy source of connection to the Universe/ god, divine guidance
Off balance: Headaches, inability to concentrate or focus on
the task at hand, seemingly constant drama in your life, inability to see
beyond your own small corner of the world, inability to take on other’s
perspectives or practice empathy
More balancing methods:
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Wearing colors of the chakra that’s off balance
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Crystals/ stones the color of the chakra off balance (I have only used 1 popular example of each)
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Essential oils
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Meditation and the visualization of the colors
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Sounds: 1-c, 2-d, 3-e, 4-f, 5-g, 6-a, 7-b
- Reiki
Keeping a journal
Crystals/ Stones
Red Jasper
Carnelian 
Pyrite
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| Rose Quartz |
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| Amazonite |
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| Amethyst |
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| Lepidolite |
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