✨Healing Crystals 101: Chakra Balancing
- David Stuhlman
- Feb 2
- 5 min read
The Chakra are the main energy vortex points of the body. When these energy vortexes are healthy, they are often referred to as “open” or “activated.” Living beings emit energy from their entire body, particularly powerfully in specific locations. We have come to a general understanding of these energy sites and have discovered that they have differing associations with areas of our life and physical reality. When fully activated, a healthy Chakra system will be recognizable in ourselves in the form of feelings: such as security, belonging, fulfillment, love, vulnerability, intuitive awareness, and connectivity. Over time, however, we will inevitably get out of alignment with these Chakra, and their emitted energy flow will be lessened. From here we can approach things in several ways. We can either investigate these areas of our lives like a detective trying to find the source of our problems, and then take action to combat them, or we can opt for a more fundamental approach: using methods to enhance the energetical flow from our Chakra. Proactively moving into a state of alignment before taking action will produce results that we would likely never arrive at through more reactive approaches.
Learning what each of our Chakra represents will give us the chance to maintain a healthy flow of energy to and from the body, through each of these points, by living a wholesome life of love and authenticity to our higher self. We will undoubtedly struggle with this from time to time, each of us in our own aspects, and when we do we can turn to crystals to aid in the specific growth and change that is required. Here we will briefly touch on what each of the Chakra centers in the body are associated with in our human lives, along with a list of minerals that are particularly beneficial to these aspects:
Seven Chakra System:
Root Chakra
The Root Chakra is the frequency we are born into, anchoring us to the physical dimension. It is the essence of survival. We have a strong sense of tribe, safety, and security when this Chakra center has a strong flow of healthy energy. If you are feeling angry, afraid, forgetful, physically exhausted, weak, or unsafe, there is a good chance you are not “grounded” or “rooted” in this physical world.
Sacral Chakra
The Sacral Chakra is activated when we experience compassionate, creative, or sexual energies. Giving us a sense of belonging and security, this frequency allows us to express our true selves without fear of tribal rejection. We passionately use our abilities to create when this chakra is empowered. If you feel lonely, uninspired, bored, or apathetic, try improving your relationships, to increase energy flow in this Chakra.
Solar Plexus Chakra
The Solar-Plexus is where the ego resides: the part of us concerned with self-preservation. It is the Chakra that empowers us to take action. We have a healthy, positive self-outlook and take inspired actions that are aligned with us on an individual level when we live fully in this Chakra. If you feel disempowered, inadequate, insecure, or jealous, you may need a recharge to this Chakra center.
Heart Chakra
The Heart is the headquarters for our emotions. It is our place of vulnerability, as we connect with the world around us. The Heart should be our compass for our lives, as we allow ourselves to be pulled toward what feels best to each of us individually. Unconditional Love and Compassion will naturally pour out of those living fully in this Chakra. If you are feeling depressed, brokenhearted, lost, or self-doubting, get back in touch with the sensations you feel within your body as you experience life.
Throat Chakra
The Throat Chakra is our center for communication and connection with other beings. It is where we will discover our own inner truths, and learn to express them to the world. We easily maintain mental focus and flow in the direction of our personal truth when we are living fully in this Chakra. If you feel disconnected, confused, rigid, or easily distracted, try to get back in the flow with your truth, this will give you confidence in choosing your path in life.
3rd Eye Chakra
Our Third Eye allows us to receive information from the world around us that escapes our physical senses. It is what gives us our extrasensory abilities. Heightened intuition and insight come naturally to those living fully in this Chakra. If you feel disconnected from your intuition, unsure of what is paranoia versus premonition, try to boost this Chakra with meditation.
Crown Chakra
The Crown Chakra helps us to experience the universal truth that we are one with everything in the universe. We are interconnected with everything in a way that is not always visible to the physical eye. We are a branch on the tree of life, a fractal of the whole. We view the world in this way when we are living fully in this Chakra. If you feel aloof, doubting, disbelieving, foggy, unimportant, broken, or fractured, try to reconnect to nature and the ethereal realm. The key to ascension is a proper foundation upon which to build.
Ten Chakra System:
Earth Star Chakra
The Earth Star Chakra is what helps to ground us to this physical plane that we exist on currently. We are children of this Earth, and this Chakra helps us to maintain this connection to our mother planet. A healthy Earth Star Chakra is very important for those wishing to reach the highest of vibrations. A tree can only grow as tall as its roots grow deep. Stability, balance, and a strong sense of foundation are felt when we are living fully in this Chakra.
Higher Heart Chakra
The Higher Heart is where our “Higher-Self” resides, and is where our truest desires come from. To be “Living in alignment”, one must release all resistance to going in the direction that the Higher Heart wishes to go. We are filled with the desire to go forth on our life’s path, to fulfill our dreams, and to be whoever we wish to be in each moment when we are living fully in this Chakra.
Soul Star Chakra
The Soul Star connects us to the divine world that exists, unseen, just beyond our fingertips. Angels, spirit guides, and other-worldly beings connect with us through this Chakra. The heightened frequency of this Chakra allows us to communicate with these beings in the form of vibrations, emotions, and images instead of spoken language, which can be clumsy and misinterpreted. A sense of divine guidance is felt by those living fully in this Chakra.
Crystal Suggestions:
Earth Star:
1. Black Obsidian
2. Petrified Wood
3. Smokey Quartz
4. Black Tourmaline
5. Jet
6. Black Onyx
7. Picture Jasper
8. Septarian
9. Brown Calcite
10. Dalmation Jasper
Root:
Garnet
Ruby
Red Tiger’s Eye
Red Jasper
Bloodstone
Cinnabar
Hematite
Dragon Bloodstone
Red Calcite
Black Kyanite
Sacral:
Spessartine Garnet
Sunstone
Orange Kyanite
Fire Agate
Fire Opal
Botswana Agate
Peach Moonstone
Tangerine Quartz
Orange Calcite
Carnelian
Solar Plexus:
1. Citrine
2. Yellow Calcite
3. Heliodor
4. Tiger’s Eye
5. Gold Apatite
6. Pyrite
7. Yellow Zoisite
8. Spodumene
9. Gold
10. Golden Healer Quartz
Higher Heart:
1. Dioptase
2. Green Kyanite
3. Turquoise
4. Neon Apatite
5. Ajoite
6. Chrysocolla
7. Blue-Green Tourmaline
8. Azurite-Malachite
9. Copper
10. Vivianite
Heart:
1. Rose Quartz
2. Seraphinite
3. Moldavite
4. Watermelon Tourmaline
5. Rhodochrosite
6. Kunzite/Hiddenite
7. Morganite
8. Emerald
9. Thulite
10. Pink Moonstone
Throat:
1. Blue Lace Agate
2. Larimar
3. Blue Calcite
4. Aquamarine
5. Blue Chalcedony
6. Blue Kyanite
7. Opal
8. Blue Aragonite
9. Amazonite
10. Shattuckite
3rd Eye:
1. Tanzanite
2. Azurite
3. Lapis Lazuli
4. Indicolite (Blue Tourmaline)
5. Blue Tiger’s Eye
6. Blue Sapphire
7. Cavansite
8. Iolite
9. Blue Fluorite
10. Sodalite
Crown:
1. Amethyst
2. Sugilite
3. Charoite
4. Lepidolite
5. Tiffany Stone
6. Scapolite
7. Labradorite
8. Grape Agate
9. Rubellite Tourmaline
10. Honey Calcite
Soul Star:
1. Herkimer Diamond
2. Selenite
3. Phenacite
4. Danburite
5. Apophyllite
6. Celestite
7. Angelite
8. Natrolite
9. Scolecite
10. Rainbow Moonstone
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