Oh the Chakras.

As a regular girl doing regular things, it took me a bit to really embrace the idea of the 7 Chakras. I already knew that science had proven that everything was made of energy and that energy connects us on all levels, but the only people I knew who talked about energy Chakras were my hippy dippy friends who were not exactly into the same things I was.

Well, unless one of those things was Happy Hour and then we were magically all on the same page. But I digress.

It wasn’t until I started to study my abilities and embrace who I was on a spiritual level that I thought I should figure out what those suckers are and why I should care.

If you are like me, you will need a left and right brained explanation for this, so here it goes…

You know how I said everything is made of energy? The left brained side of me gets that pretty easily. Energy can be blocked, which in turn has a cause and effect sort of thing happen. All science.

So Chakras are energy centers in our bodies in which various forms of energy flow through. When that energy gets blocked, stuff happens to us physically. Make sense? It’s the cause and effect thing I just mentioned but pertaining specifically to the energy flowing through our bodies.

There are 7 places on our body that correlate with the seven Chakras and each of those has been assigned a color. Each place in our bodies represents different areas in our lives (a.k.a. the different energies we associate with that life area) and when blocked have different effects on our bodies and overall well-being.

When someone mentions clearing a chakra, it means that the chakra (life area) is blocked and needs to be cleared. It’s sort of like cleaning cobwebs from a dusty corner of your house. There are many ways of clearing your Chakras and they all include using meditation, guidance, and specific intention for the Chakra to be cleared.

The first technique I came across was from Doreen Virtue in her book Chakra Clearing which clears each Chakra one by one in a sort of long out (but effective) process. Next, I came across a metaphysical teacher in the Seattle area named Loretta Brown from Reiki Oasis who taught the class to clear all the Chakras at once. It was a much faster process.

I have heard of people mental ‘seeing’ an angel ‘vacuuming’ the chakras so they are clear, using guided imagery of the Chakra spinning and clearing itself, or even thinking of each Chakra as a blooming flower which clears as it opens.

It doesn’t really matter what you use, as long as it works for you.

Be as woo-woo or as grounded as you’d like in clearing your Chakras. As long as you can set the intent for each Chakra to clear, it will be done.

One thing to keep in mind though…much like those cobwebs in the corner, your Chakras need some regular housekeeping.