The Seven Chakras — the Wheels of Life

FIRST CHAKRA — MULADHARA (Root Chakra)

Associations: Physical body, material wellbeing, abundance, security, groundedness, connection with nature, kundalini, initiative, the desire to live, physical presence, attitudes towards material possessions and money.

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Imbalances associated with the first chakra:

Fear of change and difficulty adapting to changing circumstances: Resistance to change and leaving the comfort zone, even when necessary.

Financial problems: Constant worries about money and resources. A feeling of scarcity or stockpiling. Excessive wastefulness or excessive thrift.

Distorted ideas about the material world: Overidentification with the material world or its total rejection. Feeling superior when you have more money or material possessions, or inadequate when you do not.

Lack of purpose and direction: A feeling of anxiety and uncertainty about the future.

Distance from nature: Lack of connection with nature. Separation from the plant, animal and mineral worlds.

Fear for one's health: A constant feeling that something bad could happen or that things will not work out as they should. Excessive caution, fear of illness or accidents. Excessive concentration on minor physical discomforts.

SECOND CHAKRA — SVADHISHTHANA (Sacral Chakra)

Associations: Emotional balance, sexuality, creativity, passions, desires, relationships, spontaneity, attraction, pleasures, physical vitality.

Imbalances associated with the second chakra:

Emotional instability: Unpredictable emotional reactions, lack of control over feelings. Excessive or inappropriate emotional expression. Excessive suppression of emotions, spontaneity and individual emotional expression.

Problems with sexuality: Excessive or insufficient sexual desire, fears or traumas related to sexuality and intimate relationships. Avoidance of relationships or excessive pursuit of sexual attention.

Creative block: Lack of inspiration, difficulty expressing one's ideas and feelings. Suppressing the creative side and having no hobbies.

Relationship problems: Difficulties communicating, excessive dependence on or distance from others. A need for drama and emotional conflicts to sustain interest, passion and excitement.

Excessive or insufficient gratification: Too much engagement with quick, momentary pleasures that satisfy only briefly, such as fast food and superficial entertainment activities like films, clips and so on. Avoidance of pleasures, or a strict and repressive way of life that judges life's enjoyments as sinful or wrong.

Lack of passion: Lack of energy, motivation or passion in what we do and towards life in general.

THIRD CHAKRA — MANIPURA (Solar Plexus)

Associations: Self-esteem, willpower, ambition, determination, action, personal power, personal control, metabolism, transformation, digesting information and emotions.

Imbalances associated with the third chakra:

Low self-esteem: Self-denial, lack of confidence, a sense of inadequacy.

Problems with willpower: Inability to set or pursue goals, lack of consistency and progress in life.

Passivity: Avoiding conflict, indecisiveness, excessive compliance. Difficulty setting boundaries.

Aggression and domination: Excessively domineering behaviour, suppressing others, an explosive temper.

Lack of coordination between thought and action: Inability to turn ideas and desires into action.

Excessive ambition: A desire for power and control over others, excessive competitiveness.

Fear of rejection or criticism: Avoiding putting ourselves in front of others, fear of failure.

Unregulated energy: Feelings of exhaustion or excessive energy without clear direction. Lack of focus and appropriate direction of the energy of will.

FOURTH CHAKRA — ANAHATA (Heart Chakra)

Associations: Love, compassion, forgiveness, emotional equilibrium, empathy, gratitude, connection between the individual and the universal. Service to humanity.

Fear of loss or rejection: Fear of deep closeness and sharing one's authentic essence because of fear of being hurt or rejected, fear of losing loved ones, and excessively prolonged grief after a loss.

Emotional instability: Inability to handle and recognise strong emotions such as anger, sadness or joy.

Artificial moral values imposed from outside or within: Naive and reckless acceptance of rules and norms. Artificially creating or adopting dogmas about good and evil. A lack of one's own deep judgement about right and wrong. Creating one's own excuses to support unethical or immoral actions.

Giving excessively to others: A pronounced neglect of one's own needs, feelings or health for the benefit of and assistance to others, when there is no need or when help has not been requested.

Closing the heart and emotional pain: Avoiding the processing of old emotional wounds, losses or traumas. Inability to forgive, or to rationalise or integrate a past conflict through conscious communication and reaching an understanding.

Lack of compassion: Inability to empathise with others. A sense of separation from others, living by the principle “everyone is on their own”.

Problems with the heart and respiratory system: Heart disease, asthma or other respiratory problems.

Conditional love: Calculating who has given and who has taken what. Who has done or not done what, in order to calculate how much love each person deserves. “If you love me, you will do… this for me”; “Look at all the things I did for you, and this is how you repay me…” Threats to end the relationship or impose other emotional sanctions if the other person does not follow a certain behaviour or meet certain conditions.

FIFTH CHAKRA — VISHUDDHA (Throat Chakra)

Associations: Communication, self-expression, truth, honesty, artistry, listening, sound, music, intuition in expression, a sense of the soul's purpose and mission. Synchronising personal will with divine will. Using the influence we have in service of the whole. Transmitting truth.

Imbalances associated with the fifth chakra:

Communication problems: Difficulty expressing thoughts and feelings. Fear of speaking the truth or excessive caution in choosing words.

Imbalance in speaking: Speaking too quietly for fear of not being accepted, shouting, aggression and rudeness in expression. Lack of tact in communication — when, how and what to say in different situations so that we are understood correctly. A poor vocabulary, use of memorised phrases, filler words or outdated, conditioning, superstitious sayings.

Inability to listen: Disregarding or ignoring other people's opinions. Frequently interrupting the person speaking or failing to pay attention to what they say.

Lack of alignment between one's true mission in life and the work that earns money: The feeling that a person's profession or work does not match their true purpose or mission in life.

Manipulation with words: Through lies, deception, withholding information or distorting the truth. Creating false impressions of oneself or others for someone's benefit. Disinformation, creating intrigue, gossip and rumours.

Abuse of influence: Using a position or status to manipulate others, disregarding others' feelings and needs in favour of one's own interests.

SIXTH CHAKRA — AJNA (Third Eye)

Associations: Intuition, perception, vision, knowledge, wisdom, predictions, contemplation, understanding, creative thinking, visualisation, structuring information, processing information and remembering ideas, concepts and images.

Imbalances associated with the sixth chakra:

Conflicting and deceptive perceptions of reality: Inability to understand what is real and what is not. Constantly wondering which information is true and which is not. Indecision and hesitation in thought processes. Being torn between ideas. Following ready-made concepts from religions, sects or authorities without intuitive understanding, deep analysis and awareness of the depth of reality.

Difficulty shifting focus between detail and objectivity: Focusing excessively on unnecessary details or overlooking details in favour of objectivity. Inability of the mind to distinguish and quickly shift its mode of perception between the individual parts and the big picture.

Belief only in science and material reality: Refusal to accept the spiritual or metaphysical aspects of life, restricting oneself to what can be measured or proven.

Disconnection from intuition: Inability to trust one's own intuitive feelings or insights. Disregarding one's inner voice. Inability to distinguish mental patterns arising from external or internal limiting convictions and beliefs from true insights.

Inability to visualise: Difficulty creating mental images or representations, which can impede meditation, concentration or creative processes.

Mental closedness: Difficulty accepting new ideas or different views.

Blind faith in spiritual frauds or teachers: Believing in predictions, tarot, bean or coffee readings, astrologers or clairvoyants who deceive using techniques called “cold reading”. Naivety without inner assessment and connection with the Higher Self to distinguish frauds from true prophets and clairvoyants.

Reliance on knowledge from external sources: Lack of connection with the Higher Self and replacing it with external sources of occult, esoteric or mystical knowledge. Reliance on information instead of wisdom and truth channelled directly from higher dimensions. Self-doubt and underestimating the true power of the pure individual spirit.

SEVENTH CHAKRA — SAHASRARA (Crown Chakra)

Associations: Spiritual awakening, universality, enlightenment, unity, connection with the Universe, cosmic consciousness, liberation from the material, inner peace, realisation of the soul.

Imbalances associated with the seventh chakra:

Absence of spiritual connection: A feeling of isolation or separation from the Universe. Lack of a higher meaning or purpose in life.

Fear of death or reincarnation in a lower form: The feeling that this is our only life and clinging to the material. Attempts to prolong life artificially. Transhumanism, desires to transfer consciousness into a digital device and move it into another body. Fear that, if we do not live righteously or according to certain religious or sectarian beliefs, we will be reborn in a lower animal or plant form.

Lack of connection with the divine: Closing ourselves to inspiration from the Higher Self and operating only on an intellectual level. Inability to translate spiritual messages and signs. Failing to notice signs, synchronicities or warnings appearing as events, people, words and phrases that seem to occur by chance.

Excessive attachment to the material: Continually seeking pleasures and possessions without recognising the spiritual value or essence of life.

Fear of God or other spiritual beings: Fear of karma, gods, extraterrestrials, beings from other dimensions, spirits or other nonmaterial entities.

Author's interpretation: the chakras, aura and energetic relationships are part of the author's spiritual model. The descriptions of states are intended for self-reflection and do not constitute a medical diagnosis or treatment.

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