LESSON 4: signs of imbalanced chakras

ROOT CHAKRA IMBALANCES

Signs of an Imbalanced Root Chakra

  •  Feeling "stuck" and unable to move forward in life.

  • Feeling ungrounded, insecure and unsafe.  This frequently happens following traumatic events, family problems, divorce, death of a loved one, career issues and other life upheavals.

  • A blockage in the Root Chakra can prevent the release of grief, guilt, and sadness, contributing to the inability to move forward and preventing you from following your life path.

Common Psychological Symptoms

  • Loneliness

  • Feeling insecure

  • Feeling ungrounded

  • Lack of confidence

  • Feeling abandoned

  • Indecisive

  • Depressed

  • Anxious

  • Addictions

  • Phobias

  • Obsessions

Common Physical Symptoms 

  • Lower-back pain

  • Sciatica

  • Varicose veins

  • Constipation

  • Diarrhea

  • Rectal/anal tumors, cancer, and other problems

  • Impotence/frigidity

  • Depression

  • Water retention and weight problems

  • Problems with groin, hips, legs, knees, calves, ankles, and feet

Benefits of Healing the Root Chakra

Feeling profoundly in touch with nature. Feeling grounded and trusting in the process of natural law. Moving and living in harmony with the ebb and flow of life. Coning from a place of understanding that the universe is abundant and we are always provided for. Healthy connections to and feeling safe among one’s family. Balancing and opening the Root chakra allows negative emotions to be released, regenerating confidence and your will to move forward in life. A healthy Root Chakra promotes feelings of security and encourages exploration to find your life's purpose and to achieve success.  A balanced Root chakra also generates the flow of energy to all other chakras building a solid foundation

SACRAL CHAKRA IMBALANCES

Signs of an Imbalanced Sacral Chakra

  •  Lack of energy flow

  • Extreme lethargy

  • Difficulty expressing feelings

  • Holding onto unprocessed anger

  • Lack of motivation for life, particularly exercise and sex, leading to sadness, loneliness, and mild depression

Common Psychological Symptoms

  • Eating disorders

  • Addictions

  • Low self-confidence

  • Dependency issues

  • Low libido

  • Unbalanced emotions

Common Physical Symptoms

  • Kidney problems and urinary tract infections

  • Chronic lower back pain

  • Sexual disorders

  • Infertility

  • Gynecological problems

  • Dysfunctional menstrual cycles

  • Problems with the intestines, spleen and gall bladder

Benefits of Healing the Sacral Chakra

Being in flow of creative expression and in touch with pleasure. Healthy ability to share and express feelings in healthy ways. Able to create and maintain healthy relationships. Being connected to the emotional aspects of sexuality in ways that sustain us. Feeling at peace with our abundance and in touch with our clairsentience. Having a healthy relationship to money, and easily able to cultivate abundance in our lives in balanced ways. Balancing and opening the Sacral chakra allows you to feel energized and confident in all aspects of your life. You feel inspired and life seems to flow. With a healthy sacral chakra, you are able to live in the moment and experience life to the fullest. Physical tasks become easier as stamina increases.

SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA IMBALANCES

Signs of an Imbalanced Solar Plexus Chakra

  • Feeling stressed and powerless to gain control, leaving you mentally and physically exhausted

  • Having ‘gut’ feelings but not knowing where they are coming from. This makes it difficult to trust yourself and contributes to your distress and discomfort

  • Poor memory and concentration

Common Psychological Symptoms

  • Lack of memory and concentration

  • Frequent feelings of fear

  • Feeling off-center

  • Sugar addictions

  • Insomnia

  • Eating disorders

Common Physical Symptoms

  • Digestive and intestinal disorders

  • Food allergies

  • Poor metabolism

  • Diabetes

  • Obesity

  • Eczema

  • Acne

  • Stress-related skin conditions

Benefits of Healing the Solar Plexus Chakra

Feeling whole and centered in who we are. Aware of our self-worth, cultivate our personal power in healthy ways, and in touch with inner warrior. Balanced between spiritual and material worlds. Developed tolerance and acceptance of ourselves and others and feeling inner-peace and calm. Balancing and opening the Heart chakra amplifies your love for self and others. It allows you to feel compassion, empathy, and forgiveness of others. It reconnects you to the loving world around you. You are able to connect with your Divine vision, embracing adventure and zest for life.

HEART CHAKRA IMBALANCES

Signs of an Imbalanced Heart Chakra

  • Feeling detached from the world around you.  Each breath we take that connects us to our physical and spiritual world is enveloped by the heart chakra, and if unbalanced or blocked it can lead to a separation from self-love, and disconnection from the people we love, love for the earth. 

  • Heightened problems in relationships

  • Feeling hopeless

  • Losing sight of beauty, love, empathy, and compassion

Common Psychological Symptoms

  • Apathetic

  • Faithlessness

  • Unforgiving

  • Hopelessness

  • Distrustful

  • Uncommitted

  • Detached


Common Physical Symptoms

  • Pneumonia

  • Asthma

  • Breast problems

  • Respiratory problems

  • Upper-back pain

  • Shoulder and upper-arm pain

  • Premature aging

Benefits of Healing the Heart Chakra

Being fully connected to ourselves, cultivating joy easily. Love and acceptance of ourselves (and, as an extension of others). Giving and receiving love genuinely, and cultivating compassion for self and others. Balancing and opening the Heart chakra amplifies your love for self and others. It reconnects you to the loving world around you. You are able to connect with your Divine vision, embracing adventure and zest for life.

THROAT CHAKRA IMBALANCES

Signs of an Imbalanced Throat Chakra

  • Unable to communicate verbally, physically, and emotionally

  • Subconscious feelings of being trapped and unable to surface

  • Severe trauma, making it difficult to express emotion

 Common Psychological Symptoms

  • Nervousness

  • Anxiety

  • Fear

  • Attention deficit disorders

  • Poor coping skills

  • Feeling isolated

Common Physical Symptoms

  • Problems with nasal area

  • Irritated sinuses

  • Sore throat

  •  Jaw pain and TMJ

  • Voice loss

  • Thyroid problems

  • Teeth and gum problems

  • Ailments of the esophagus and tonsils

Benefits of Healing the Throat Chakra

A strong will to live and an ability to follow our dreams. Ability to speak our truth where we say what we mean and mean what we say. Balancing and opening the Throat chakra allows you to express your feelings and communicate freely, without worry of criticism or judgment from self or others. It promotes honesty and harmony with your feelings and actions and helps you to live freely and more authentically. A balanced Throat chakra helps with successful communication in relationships and at work and is especially helpful to those whose careers rely on communication and self-expression.

THIRD EYE CHAKRA IMBALANCES

Signs of an Imbalanced Third Eye Chakra

  • Feeling bombarded with your own thoughts and unable to process them effectively

  • Feeling stuck in an emotional and intellectual rut

  • Lose sense of intuition, making judgment clouded and causing poor decision-making

  • Closed to new ideas causing you to fall off the paths of your true destiny

 Common Psychological Symptoms

  • Headaches and migraines

  • Nightmares

  • Seizures

  • Neurological disorders

  • Personality disorders

  • Neuroses

  • Learning difficulties

  • Hallucinations

Common Physical Symptoms

  • Eye problems

  • Glaucoma

  • Ear problems and difficulty hearing

  • Spinal conditions

  • Scalp/hair issues

Benefits of Healing the Third Eye Chakra

 Balancing and opening the Third Eye chakra promotes clarity, inspiration, and innovation. It allows you to follow your dreams and enhances your innate psychic abilities and spiritual connections. A balanced Third Eye chakra helps you process the timeline of your own life, enabling you to learn from your past, be present in the now, and see and achieve your future. Dream interpretation becomes easier, intuitions are stronger and clearer, and you feel a deeper connection to the Universal plan of your life. This sense of being “guided” opens doors of possibilities to reaching your goals.

CROWN CHAKRA IMBALANCES

Signs of an Imbalanced Crown Chakra

  • Feeling a lack of direction or purpose.

  • Many physical ailments and diseases surface without a root trigger or cause, as this chakra effects the six energy systems below, and practically your entire being.  

  • A blocked Crown chakra can lead to depression and nervous system disorders and feelings of being lost and incomplete.

Common Psychological Symptoms

  • Depression

  • Confusion

  • Loss of faith

  • Mentally disconnected

  • Dementia

  • Epilepsy

  • Schizophrenia

Common Physical Symptoms

  • Light sensitivity

  • Headaches

  • Dementia

  • Auto immune disorders

  • Neurological disorders, as the Crown chakra affects the health of our brains and therefore our entire mental, physical, and spiritual health.

Benefits of Healing the Crown Chakra

Balancing and opening the Crown Chakra is essential for a deep, spiritual connection within ourselves, the universe, and God.  Energy entering and leaving the Crown facilitates your flow of positive energy with the other six chakras and heavily influences the outlook you have on life.