Root Chakra / Muladhara: Grounding and Safety

With feelings of security and foundational emotions stored here, We find our inner child may be stuck in this and the sacral chakras if experience presented to block the flow of development up the the chakra system.

Anatomical location: areas of elimination.

Sacral Chakra / Svadhistana: Creativity and Nourishment

Somatic memories stored here can affect our sexual development. We find our inner child may be stuck here with limitations in personal development during our childhood. You can absolutely redefine the development in this and the root chakra during adulthood. It can take time, therapy, or holistic therapeutics like yoga to regain sense awareness of your continued development as an adult individual.

Anatomical location: organs of creation (uterus, fallopian tubes, vaginal wall)

Solar Plexus Chakra / Manipura: Digestive Fire and Gut Brain

The gut brain is house here and responsible for the "instincts" we often feel. This is directly connected to the third eye chakra via the vagus nerve. The inner communication begins in the solar plexus chakra and travels to the frontal cortex of the brain. Becoming aware of the brilliance of this communication pathway is essential to beautifying your personal awareness and bodily intelligence housed here.

Anatomical location: the digestive organs

Heart Chakra / Anahata: Desire and Vitality

The organ of the heart invites its own chakra, for it houses your most unique feelings that you carry, your desires. These are as unique to you as your footprint, or astrological natal chart. You are meant to realize these desires in your lifetime. If unrealized in the early - mid adulthood, you may experience what is commonly known as a "mid-life crisis". Humans are wired to realize your desires, as they may correlate to the evolution of humans. We each carry these unique feelings in our body and when in alignment, we are able to realize them.

Anatomical location: the heart organ

Throat Chakra / Vishudda: Personal Truth and Synthesis of Lower Body Communications

The throat is a synthesizer of information from the somatic body to the brain. Through blood flow, nervous system activity, and articulation of the voice in the mouth, we find attunement like that of a musical instrument to be happening each day. Consider this your vessel for appropriating your deepest desires. This can be your space where you speak your truth. Often many have much to overcome from childhood relations who quieted them too much in their childhood. Therapeutics can be beneficial to open this chakra anew at any age.

Anatomical location: the throat and neck

Third Eye Chakra / Ajna: Intuition, Connection to Solar Plexus Chakra

This connection to the vagus nerve synchronizes the information from the gut brain, to the third eye. The third eye is also seamlessly connected to the crown chakra when flowing and fluid. We are born with this chakra fully engaged, as babies use intuition along with observation to survive and ignite their throat chakra to communicate beyond vision and touch. It may be such that individuals who grow from childhood may lose their way with intutitive processing. A return back to it is always possible with practice of meditation and getting into a flow of observation or within any sense awareness. The skin is a powerful part of your intuitive awareness. Keep skin clean and free from debris for attuning receptivity of energetic awareness.

Anatomical location: between the eyebrows

Crown Chakra, Sahasrara: Universal Connection, Life's Engagement

Top of head connects the delicate vulnerable part of our head to the universal laws and awakening that is accessible to all with attunement of your sense awarenesses. The crown chakra can be accessed at any point and can override all of the other chakras. However, like any system, when there are energy blocks below, this will offer limitations to development. There may be a workaround to get to the crown chakra, but the fluid ability to give and receive energy will be thwarted in a way that lacks potency. Engaging with clearing each chakra regularly can remove blocks long-held from early childhood, teen time, and other times of your younger self.

Anatomical location: top of the head

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