What are Chakras | 7 Chakras for Beginners | 7pranayama.com

It is orange in color and situated between the base of the spine and navel. It concerns our lower abdomen, bladder, kidneys, circulatory system as well as reproductive organs, and glands. It is associated with emotion. This chakra represents our desire, sexuality, pleasure, procreation as well as creativity.

Its blockage can lead to mental and emotional problems, obsessive and compulsive behavior as well as sexual guilt.

Colored in yellow, it is situated a few inches above our navel in the area of the solar plexus. It is associated with the digestive system, pancreas, adrenals, and muscles. It is also the emotional life’s seat. Feelings of laughter, personal power, anger, and joy are duly associated with this chakra. Our sensitivity along with ambition as well as ability to achieve are stored in this chakra. 

Blockage of this chakra can lead to anger, lack of direction, or victim feeling and frustration.

It is green in color that is situated within our hearts. It is center of compassion, love, peace, and harmony. It is also thought as the house of the soul. It is associated with lungs, arms, hands, heart and thymus gland. We experience love through this Chakra which leads the feeling of unconditional love moving to the emotional centre also known as solar plexus. 

Blockage of this chakra leads to problems related to immune system, lungs and hear as well as the manifestation of inhumanity, unprincipled behavior as well as lack of compassion.

With the colour of blue or turquoise, this chakra is situated within the throat of our body. This chakra is concerned about communication, self-expression, creativity along with judgement. It is also associated with our Neck, shoulders, hands, arms, parathyroid and thyroid glands. It is also concerned about our senses of inner as well as outer hearing along with synthesising of ideas, transformation and purification as well as healing. Its blockage can lead to creative blocks, dishonesty or particular problems in communication with one’s desires and needs to others.

Coloured in Indigo, the combination of red and blue, it is situated at the forehead’s center at our eye level or just above it. This chakra is associated with the question of the spiritual nature of our life and its existence. It signifies the question, perception as well as knowledge of the person. It is regarded as the point of vision, intuition along with wisdom. Our dream of current life, as well as recollections of previous lifetimes, are held in this Chakra. Blockage of this chakra can manifest problems such as lack of foresight, selective memory, mental rigidity and depression.

This chakra is violet in color which is situated at the top of our head. It is associated with our cerebral cortex as well as the central nervous system along with the pituitary gland. It concerns about information, acceptance, understanding as well as bliss. It is also regarded as our own place of connection with the one and only God, the Chakra of Divine purpose, and our personal destiny. 

Blockage of this chakra can lead to psychological problems and emotional instability.