Our chakra system is the foundation of mind, body, and spirit well-being.
When we experience challenging life circumstances, we often feel we have little control and as a result, are unable to express our deepest needs and feelings. These negative experiences and suppressed emotions are stored within our chakra system, which weakens it and subsequently affects the healthy flow of energy throughout our entire being.
This energy imbalance manifests as feelings of anxiety, irritability, and low mood which we attempt to relieve through external satisfying factors such as food, alcohol, cigarettes, gambling, work, sex, and drugs. These factors cause our chakra energy to become further depleted. We feel a constant sense of emptiness that requires filling, and this leads to addictions.
Depleted energy within our lower chakras is linked to our most common addictions:
- Depleted root chakra energy is linked to work, gambling, and shopping addictions.
- Depleted sacral chakra energy is linked to sex and food addictions.
- Depleted solar plexus chakra energy is linked to alcohol, drug, and caffeine addictions.
- Depleted heart chakra energy is linked to smoking addictions.
Empowering our chakras initiates our self-healing which assists in releasing our deep-rooted traumas, to return our body, mind, and spirit to its natural state of wholeness which gently releases our addictions.
Empower The Root Chakra
- Associated finger – firmly massage your ring fingers to strengthen your root chakra.
- Associated crystals – raise your root chakra energy with red jasper and black tourmaline.
- Essential oils – gently massage your lower back in an anti-clockwise direction for thirty seconds and then clockwise for five minutes, using diluted frankincense or sandalwood oil to rebalance your root chakra energy.
- Cold-pressed juices – detoxify your root chakra with beetroot or pomegranate.
Nature Healing
- Stand barefoot, outdoors on the grass, sand or bare earth which resonates with your root chakra.
- Lift your left leg and right arm simultaneously, and then lift your right leg and left arm simultaneously. Keep your knees and elbows bent as though doing an exaggerated march.
- Continue for up to ten minutes to absorb the universal healing earth energy; ground your emotions and calm your mind.
Crystal Visualization
- Place one of the above crystals on your root chakra.
- Breathe slowly and deeply and bring your awareness to your stored emotional pain.
- Visualize the crystal opening your root chakra.
- Allow your suppressed emotions to be freed.
- Release any resistance and affirm: ‘It is safe for me to allow the universe to support me and provide me with security and abundance’.
Empower The Sacral Chakra
- Associated finger – firmly massage your little fingers to strengthen your sacral chakra.
- Associated crystals – raise your root chakra energy with orange carnelian and amber
- Essential oils – massage your lower abdomen, as above, using diluted rosewood or jasmine oil.
- Cold-pressed juice – detoxify your sacral chakra with carrot or papaya.
Nature Healing
- Take detoxification baths to release physical impurities through perspiration, relax your mind and restore your sacral chakra energy which is associated with water.
- Add one cinnamon stick, one tablespoon each of fresh grated ginger and turmeric root, which resonate with your sacral chakra, to a liter of boiling water.
- Simmer for fifteen minutes, strain and add the spice-infused water to your hot bath.
Crystal Visualization
- Place one of the above crystals on your sacral chakra.
- Breathe slowly and deeply and bring your awareness to your stored emotional pain.
- Visualize the crystal opening your sacral chakra.
- Allow your suppressed emotions to be freed.
- Release any resistance and affirm: ‘It is safe for me to follow my deepest passions and desires to create my freedom and happiness’.
Empower The Solar Plexus Chakra
- Associated finger – firmly massage your thumbs to strengthen your solar plexus chakra.
- Associated crystals – raise your solar plexus chakra energy with lemon quartz or yellow tourmaline.
- Essential oils – massage your upper abdomen, as above, using diluted lemon or spearmint oil.
- Cold-pressed juice – detoxify your solar plexus chakra with lemon or pineapple.
Nature Healing
- Absorb the morning sun rays, which resonate with your solar plexus chakra.
- As the sun is rising, take a brisk walk for twenty minutes to infuse the body and mind with the purifying morning sun’s energy, which stimulates inner drive and optimism or practice Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) at this time.
Crystal Visualization
- Place one of the above crystals on your solar plexus chakra.
- Breathe slowly and deeply and bring your awareness to your stored emotional pain.
- Visualize the crystal opening your solar plexus chakra.
- Allow your suppressed emotions to be freed.
- Release any resistance and affirm: ‘It is safe for me to draw from the infinite well of power within me to proceed with courage and confidence’.
Empower The Heart Chakra
- Associated finger – firmly massage your index fingers to strengthen your heart chakra.
- Associated crystals – raise your heart chakra energy with unakite and rose quartz.
- Essential oils – massage the center of your chest, using diluted eucalyptus or rose oil.
- Cold-pressed juice – detoxify your heart chakra with holy basil or green grape.
Nature Healing
- Sit in Sukhasana (easy pose) outdoors in natural green surroundings which resonates with your heart chakra.
- Place your hands on your chest.
- Inhale nature’s positive cleansing energy and stretch your arms out to your sides.
- Retain your breath for ten seconds.
- During the retention visualize nature’s cleansing energy absorbing all of your anxiety, pain, and trauma.
- Exhale and bring your hands back to your chest.
- Repeat several times.
Crystal Visualization
- Place one of the above crystals on your heart chakra.
- Breathe slowly and deeply and bring your awareness to your stored emotional pain.
- Visualize the crystal opening your heart chakra.
- Allow your suppressed emotions to be freed.
- Release any resistance and affirm: ‘It is safe for me to allow the infinite well of love within me to radiate unconditionally to all’.
Apply the chakra-empowering practices to healthily process pain, stress or trauma, during life’s challenges to prevent addictions or two times a day for up to three months, to release long-standing addictions.
