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The art of alignment

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Your Energy Gates Chakra Locations

How do the seven Chakras shape the way I move through my life?

You may have heard the Seven Chakras mentioned in conversations about healing, meditation, or emotional wellbeing. For many people the idea can feel distant or overly symbolic, as if it belongs only to specialists or deeply spiritual practitioners. In reality your Chakras are simply energy centres within you. They influence how you feel, how you think, how you communicate, and how you move through your daily experience. Understanding them is not mysterious. It is a quiet invitation to recognise yourself with greater depth and clarity.

 

Each Chakra carries a natural vibrational frequency, and these frequencies correspond with specific stones and crystals found throughout the earth. When you understand how these seven energy points shape your inner experience, and when you choose stones that support their resonance, you create subtle shifts in alignment that can influence both your emotional and physical wellbeing.

 

The word Chakra comes from the Sanskrit term for wheel. These seven wheels function as energetic hubs within your body and shape intuition, grounding, creativity, confidence, emotional expression, and mental clarity. When an energy centre becomes blocked or drifts out of harmony, it can affect the way you feel both physically and emotionally. When it is supported through intention, awareness, and the stones you choose to wear, it can return to balance and restore a more natural sense of steadiness and connection.

 

 

BALANCE YOUR CHAKRAS

 

Balancing your Chakras does not require elaborate rituals. It begins with awareness. Notice how your body feels. Notice where you hold tension. Notice where your energy rises easily and where it feels depleted. Practices such as meditation, breathwork, movement, and moments of quiet reflection naturally support this awareness. Stones and crystals can offer an additional layer of resonance that helps your system return to a more harmonious state.

 

Each stone carries its own frequency. When it is paired with the Chakra it naturally supports, it can encourage a gentle recalibration of your internal rhythm. This process can uplift emotional balance, grounding, creativity, focus, or calm. The influence is subtle yet meaningful and can support both your physical wellbeing and your psychological clarity.

 

If you are beginning this journey, the most natural place to start is the Root Chakra. It represents stability, safety, and foundation. Every structure depends on a strong base, and your energetic system follows the same principle. When the root is supported, the remaining Chakras can rise and harmonise with greater ease.

The Root Energy Gate is the most instinctual of all chakras - it is your survival centre.

The primal energy of survival is a fight or flight response and is initiated from the Root Chakra energy.

It is located at the bottom of your spine near the perineum.

 

Associated colour: Red

Element: Earth

Too Open (chakra spins too fast)

Bullying, overly materialistic, self-centred, and engages in physical boldness.

Blocked (chakra spins sluggishly or not at all)

emotional, needy, low self-esteem, self-destructive behaviour, fearful.

Balanced (chakra spins and maintains correct vibrational speed) 

demonstrates self-mastery, high physical energy, and a grounded, healthy demeanour.

Black Agate, Black Tourmaline, Black Rutilated, Garnet, Obsidian, Red Agate, Red Jasper, Red Tiger, Smoky Quartz

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ROOT (muladhara-chakra)

The Sacral Chakra is the second chakra and is related to everything about you that is tied to creation. It is the key to your creative energy, sexuality and your capacity for change in all areas of life. It is located just above the navel.

Associated colour: Orange

Element: Water

Too Open (chakra spins too fast)

emotionally unbalanced, a fantasist, manipulative, and sexually addictive.

Blocked (chakra spins sluggishly or not at all)

over-sensitive, hard on yourself, feeling guilty for no reason, frigid, impotent.

Balanced (chakra spins and maintains correct vibrational speed)

Trusting, expressive, attuned to your feelings, creative.

Blood Stone, Bronzite, Carnelian, Orange MoonStone, Pink Opal, Red Aventurine, SunStone, Rose Quartz

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Navel/SACRAL (swadistana-chakra)

The Solar Plexus Chakra is often thought of as vital for self-esteem, autonomy, and determination. Consequently, it is sometimes called the “personal power” chakra. It is located just below where your ribcage meets.

Associated colour: Yellow

Element: Fire

​​Too Open (chakra spins too fast)

Angry, controlling, workaholic, judgmental and superior.

Blocked (chakra spins sluggishly or not at all)

overly concerned with what others think, fearful of being alone, insecure, needs reassurance 

Balanced (chakra spins and maintains correct vibrational speed)

Respects self and others, has personal power, spontaneous, uninhibited.

Citrine, Mookaite Jasper, Picture Jasper, Yellow Agate, Yellow Putilated, Tiger Eye, Ocean Jasper, Lemon Quartz

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SOLAR PLEXUS (manipura-chakra)

The Heart Chakra is intimately connected to your capacity for love and compassion in all its forms. It is sometimes described as a bridge between the mind, body, and spirit. It is located in the middle of your chest.

 

Associated colour: Green, Pink

Element: Air

​​Too Open (chakra spins too fast)

Loves conditionally, holds back emotionally, 'to punish', overly dramatic.

Blocked (chakra spins sluggishly or not at all)

fears rejection, loves too much, feels unworthy to receive love, self-pitying

Balanced (chakra spins and maintains correct vibrational speed)

Compassionate, loved unconditionally, nurturing, desires spiritual experience in lovemaking.

Diopside, Green Agate, Aventurine, Indian Agate, Malachite, Moss Agate, Peridot, Prehnite, Rose Quartz, Unakite

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HEART (anahata-chakra)

The Throat Chakra regulates your self-expression in all senses, influencing how authentically you convey your deepest self to the world. Your directness, emotional honesty and ownership of your needs connect to this area. It is located in the little pit of the throat.

Associated colour: Blue

Element: Ether

​​Too Open (chakra spins too fast)

Over talkative, dogmatic, self-righteous, arrogant.

Blocked (chakra spins sluggishly or not at all)

Holds back from self-expression, unreliable, and holds inconsistent views.

Balanced (chakra spins and maintains correct vibrational speed)

Good communicator, contented, finds it easy to meditate, and artistically inspired.

Amazonite, Aquamarine, Chalcedony, Hemimorphite, Kambaba, Kyanite, Larimar, Turquoise

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THROAT (vishuddhi-chakra)

The Third Eye Chakra is a powerful energy source when it is working well. It determines your intuition, your alignment with the Universe, and your ability to see the bigger picture in life. It is located just above your eyebrows in the middle of your forehead.

Associated colour: Indigo

Element: Light/telepathic energy

Too Open (chakra spins too fast)

Highly logical, dogmatic, authoritarian, arrogant

Blocked (chakra spins sluggishly or not at all)

Undisciplined, fears success, tendency towards schizophrenia, sets sights too low.

Balanced (chakra spins and maintains correct vibrational speed)

charismatic, highly intuitive, not attached to material things, may experience unusual phenomena.

Apatite, Blue Agate, Blue Tiger Eye, Fluorite, Lapis Lazuli, Sodalite, Blue Aventurine

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THIRD EYE (ajna-chakra)

The Crown Chakra, the highest chakra, is what determines your spiritual connectivity. This chakra is sometimes called the “thousand-petal lotus” chakra. Given its place as the highest chakra, it is vital in creating a life you love and in attaining a feeling of peace. However, working with it is a notoriously subtle process. It is located on the top of your head, where the soft-spot is as a baby.

Associated colour: Violet, gold, white

Element: Through cosmic energy

Too Open (chakra spins too fast)

Psychotic or manic depressive, confused sexual expression, frustrated, sense of unrealised power.

Blocked (chakra spins sluggishly or not at all)

Constantly exhausted, can't make decisions, no sense of 'belonging'

Balanced (chakra spins and maintains correct vibrational speed)

Magnetic personality, achieves 'miracles' in life, transcendent, at peace with self.

MoonStone, Fluorite, Clear Quartz, Howlite, Spodumene, Morganite, Phosphosiderite, Amethyst, Labradorite, Lepidolite

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CROWN (Sahasrara-chakra)

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