As with all of the Chakras, the Root Chakra has alternative names and numerous associations and attributes. The deeper you delve into the realm of energy, the more information you uncover. Here I outline some of the most common attributes you will come across;

•  Alternative names; The Base Chakra, The 1^st Chakra, Muladhara.

The word Muladhara means 'root place' - it is easier to think of perhaps as 'foundation'.

• Significant Color; Red

Red is often associated with things of a vital or dynamic nature - such as blood, danger, love, sex and passion.

• Symbol;

4 crimson red lotus petals with a yellow square at the center.

The yellow square indicates Earth, with the 4 petals said to signify the 4 compass directions.

The 4 lotus petals are also said to have direct implications to our experience of life in human form. It is hard to explain without getting too complicated but very briefly it is about;

How secure we feel about our foundation and stability in the world.

How we feel and experience our purpose in life.

How we deal with our desires and needs.

How effective we are at aligning with our true authentic self - how we deal with the ego and 'skin' we can often lose ourselves in.

• Mantra; The mantra for the Root Chakra is Lam.
• The animal associated with the 1^st Chakra is an elephant - with seven trunks. Again the implication is of solidness, stability.
• ·Location; The Root Chakra sits at the base of the spine. It is often shown as an energy spiral pointing downwards to the earth.
• Physical Associations; The Base Chakra is connected to the external sexual organs, often with the adrenal glands - specifically our fight or flight responses. Also it is linked to our legs and feet, the spine and hips. I usually take it further and find it has implications for our entire skeletal frame as I believe it is about how we stand in this world - not just physically but on many levels. I'll take this further in future posts though!

I made this short video especially to complement a deeply relaxing Chakra Meditation I recorded that works with your conscious brain and your own connection to the Universal Healing Energy.

It is so much more meaningful if you take an active part of your own healing.

At the beginning I talk you through a process of bringing down the healing, white light. 

After charging your own hands with that light, I guide you to open, cleanse and balance each Chakra - to a level that is perfectly right - just for you.

This clip is for the Base/ Root Chakra - the full version is well over 20 minutes long.

Please watch this and enjoy! Your comments are always welcome.

A deeply relaxing chakra balancing & cleansing video clip, concentrating on relaxation & healing energy to the base/root chakra.

This is a sample of the full version which is available separately. email for details: davina@chakrasecretsrevealed.com

Chakra is an ancient term that we continue to use today.  The most widely accepted translation of that term you will find today is wheel – not just because they are usually given the circular shape of the wheel.  It is more to do with the description of the motion of the wheel – turning round and round.

The ancient mystics regarded the energy within and around the body and noticed that where one or more streams of energy met, they would naturally converge and begin to spin around, hence the term.  Although there are more ,it became generally accepted that there were Seven Major Chakra points to the human body.

These main Seven Chakras are found along the entire length of the spine.  Starting at the very bottom of the spine is the Base Chakra, next comes the Sacral Chakra – below the navel. Then there is the Solar Plexus – slightly above the navel.

Naturally, the Heart Chakra is located in the region of the heart and it is no surprise that the Throat Chakra is found in the throat.

Then we come to the Chakras of the head; The Third Eye is in the area of the forehead and the Crown Chakra rests right at the top of the skull.

These energy centers do not just face forwards, affecting the front of your body, they are 3 dimensional and affect the entire region around them. This is easiest to imagine with the Throat Chakra – it affects not just the throat area but the neck too.

I see them as like miniature suns – they radiate energy out all the way round not just in any one direction. Actually they are so much more than that – they don’t just radiate energy outwards – they attract and absorb it in too.

You may not be able to see them with your eyes but you can become much more aware and conscious of them.  I firmly believe it is an advantage to be more aware of your Chakras and their energy.  They have links with just about every area of our lives and can reveal some very useful and important information about us.

Although the term ‘Chakra’  is thousands of years old, it doesn’t mean that it holds no relevance for you and I today.  In the fairly recent past it has been found that each of the main seven Chakras ‘happens’ to coincide with a major nerve plexus of the body. Each one is also associated to its’ own specific endocrine gland.

I have found some of the most profound readings I have had the privilege to be part of have incorporated not just the spiritual essence related to the chakra but the more human, down to earth stuff.  The ‘stuff’ I talk of is the more human side, how our energy is affected by our emotions and how that can reveal itself physically. There are often conscious and subconscious streams of information waiting to be revealed.

There is such force in emotional energy whether it is a good or bad, a positive or negative emotion.

Is an emotion in and of itself negative or is it more about how it is expressed?

When you feel the energy of an emotion you will usually notice it in more than one Chakra area. Let’s take Love as an example.

At times when you are feeling love it may not just be your Heart that is affected, your Third Eye may also come into play – by the thoughts you will be visualizing in your minds’ eye. Your eyes themselves will also convey that loving energy.

So it is with the other emotions too, even more apparent maybe with the feelings of fear or anger! Often you may even notice that there is a whole mixture of emotions going on at the same time – all of them dynamic in the Chakras- all at once!

This is how at times we can feel out of balance or overwhelmed, when you look at it from an energy perspective it is no surprise!

By many people it is thought that many if not all illnesses/ symptoms can have a psychosomatic link; the illness can be linked back to a prevalent thought, belief or emotion that has been ‘stored’ within the energy of the body – creating an imbalance which then manifests as dis-ease.

I have seen this many times, especially when reading auras and chakras for people. When we would talk about the weaker or out of balance energy I saw and use some of the ‘body reading techniques’ within metaphysics, there was often an emotional link, a trigger that the individual could relate to.

Just the mention of the Chakra area and what that could relate to was often enough to cause an emotional, usually tearful reaction in the client.

I have included some client case studies in my book Chakra Secrets Revealed available very, very soon…….

The Chakras are often called Energy Centers but the energy doesn’t just stay in there.

They are the processing stations, the hubs, the gateways, constantly absorbing and expelling energy. The energy is the life force energy but it can be affected by the energy of other people, places and environments.

These gateways are connected or fed by thousands of tiny energy routes – The Nadis.

Each of the major Chakras links with a major nerve plexus in your physical body and is linked with specific regions and organs of your body as well as the endocrine glands.

The endocrine glands deal with your hormones which as you know are directly responsible for a great many necessary daily functions; From your basic growth and metabolism to your fertility, even your production of insulin and adrenaline.

Themselves the Chakras can’t make you ill but it is thought that a physical illness or symptom is more likely to present itself within the area of the weakest Chakra energy or if it is chronically out of balance.

This is one of the reasons we try to achieve a balanced or more harmonious state.

For example;It is all too easy to think “ Yeh the solar plexus  is yellow and is sometimes linked with digestive problems, but hey  I don’t have digestive problems so that doesn’t affect me!”

It goes so much deeper than that.

To me the Chakras are an energetic link directly to your subconscious mind. They can reveal so much more and as you delve into them deeper, they can reveal many of your subconsciously held patterns, behaviours, fears and programming.

A good way to highlight this way of thinking is to take the throat chakra. We already know on a basic level it is the centre of communication, linked to the whole throat and neck area. The whole respiratory channel.

On a deeper spiritual level it is often linked with the ability to stand up and speak our own truth.

On an every day level, we are all much more aware of the significance of body language, that no matter what we are saying, the body may be giving different clues away!

We know that if someone is not telling the truth, they very often scratch the nose area, or touch the mouth etc. This is their throat chakra – actually giving physical signals it is uncomfortable with what is being said! Although the person may be using their mind to manipulate or cover something up, their TRUE, AUTHENTIC SELF, directly linked with the chakras and the energy of the soul is wanting to say something else.

You may even recall feeling uncomfortable telling an untruth yourself in the past, the energy doesn’t sit in one place, it has an affect elsewhere, it is intricately linked with your subconscious, as it can’t verbally talk to you, it has to give you tiny, almost imperceptible sensations, within or around you. As you slow down your conscious race to get through the day and become more aware of your own energy, then you are more likely to be able to interpret and understand what your own authentic self/subconscious is trying to tell you.

Every single chakra is linked and related and works in this way, they can make you aware of habits or even thought patterns you might have, that could be holding you back, at work or in relationships. It could even highlight where you might be physically weaker and more prone to illness or disease.

There is so much more to learn about ourselves than we consciously know.

The accepted translation is that it means spinning discs, or wheels. This was how the ancient mystics viewed the energy around the body; where more than one energy converged at certain points it naturally created a swirling motion. we see this all the time in nature, where two bodies of water meet or two cloud systems meet, mini cyclones are formed.

It has become accepted to talk about there being mainly seven chakras- there are more but to simplify things, it is best to stick with the basic seven. These span the length of the spine and reach out through the various layers of the aura. They take in energy and let it out as required.

Personally I see them more as funnels or take the spinning disc image and pull it up and out( a bit like a pot on the potters wheel) so that they become a 3D spiralling funnel. They are connected through a myriad of tiny lifelines and cover the body – inside and out- building a web or matrix effect.

The energy I talk of is not just life force energy, which I see as mainly travelling up and down the spinal column and then out through the matrix but the chakras also act as filters and sometimes sponges, to the other energies around us. By that I refer to the environmental energies, the mobile phone transmissions etc but also the energy of thoughts and words- our own and other peoples.

Just because we can’t see the energy behind such things, doesn’t mean we don’t feel it – even if we are not always conscious of it. Think about listening to certain types of music, different tunes inspire you to move or act in different ways, your ears hear the music but how you feel is interpreted elsewhere- through the intricate network of energy channels.

The three aspects of us, The Mind, The Body and The Spirit are all very delicately but very precisely linked. We truly do need balance, to consistently ignore any one will have a compensatory affect on the others.

The aura does reflect this, as do the chakras.

What I have noticed in my readings is that, people may read that statement above and can comprehend it but they only really UNDERSTAND it, if I can relate back to them what I see, in a way that fits their daily life and experiences.

Only then does it truly become alive and real to them.

Just yesterday, I was reading for a businessman, I picked up that his throat chakra was slightly low in energy; this could indicate he might be suffering from a sore throat or,as the chakra goes right through to the back, it may mean there was a problem with his neck.

DAVINA WITH THE BUSINESS MAN

He was shocked that I had picked that up, as the day before he had been aware of having slightly strained his neck and it felt “knotty inside”.

This was not outwardly visible at all (he was not wearing a neck brace or even showing discomfort!)

That was just the physical level, if I went deeper, I would look at why that tension was there, did that link to an emotional issue.

(The throat chakra is linked with communication, so sometimes a low energy would indicate there was possibly an issue over something said or even not yet said! All at the same time I often get a sense as to whether that relates to a past or present event, sometimes even the other person involved.)

If I had simply said Oh your throat chakra is low in energy, that would have meant very little to him, but when we talked about the actual issue and how it was affecting him. This lead on to discussing how his thoughts and emotions have HUGE impact on his experiences; then he began to see a much bigger picture.

It truly did open a doorway.

The seven chakra colors and very basic attributes are as follows;

This really is a very simplistic overview, as each one delves so much deeper not only into its links with the physical body itself but also the tendrils that splay out into the other layers of the aura, affecting the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of ourselves. What will start to become clear to you is that everything is somehow connected and affects us on many levels. These basic seven colors are also the main colors we deal with when describing the aura although they are by no means exclusive, but for simplicity’s sake I will keep to those for now.

If you have been fortunate enough to experience some spiritual healing of one form or another, you may well have heard your therapist talking about chakras and attempting to bring balance back to them. As they are opening and closing constantly bringing in and letting go, there is great potential for blockages or imbalance, it is my belief that if we can bring balance back to the mind and emotions then the body can get on with the process of healing, so much better.

We are all perfectly capable of bringing balance back to ourselves a lot of the time, especially as we become more aware of our own true nature and make up. We simply need to incorporate some simple measures into our daily life but as with most things we often overlook the simple things and deem then unnecessary or unimportant. For example spending more time outside, taking time to just sit and be quiet, still the mind, relax or use simple meditation techniques. You would be amazed how such simple things can very positively affect your aura and the chakras and ultimately your physical well being too.