Eastern medicine believes there are 7 energy centers throughout your body that hold the key to a balanced long life.
These cultural medicinal traditions can be used as one pathway to wellness as we approach a new year. Understand our body’s energy center drives our emotional states. Emotions are powerful players in your physical, mental, and spiritual health. A concept that you may not be aware of is why unblocking your Chakras can be extremely beneficial to uncovering the root cause to poor emotional and physical health.
Your 7 main Chakras extend from the base of your spine to the crown of your head. Each corresponding to different parts of your body. The belief is when your Chakras are blocked or out of balance you’re prone to poor health. This can impact everything from your heart rate, metabolism, mood, attitude, and even your relationships. However, when you unblock your Chakras you learn to take your health into your own hands. By gaining and understanding about Chakras–you increase information needed to fight off illness and feel better in your own body.
Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary is a Western trained Neurologist who states unblocking your Chakras could be the key to your good health. Recently Dr. Chaudhary appeared on the Dr. Oz show to inform the viewers about this practice of eastern medicine. She states “the central nervous system holds the answers to unblocking energy.” She explained “the spinal cord is a relay system of information giving electrical signals to our nerve fibers.” Dr. Chaudhary believes “these bundles of nerves are linked to the different Chakras that are connected to different organ systems.” Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Oz a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon and television personality, believes “if we define life at the level of the cell of energy…then it stands to reason that energy is the currency of life.” When you understand the roots of why you have the problems that are blocking any one or all of your seven Chakras (energy sources) you can begin to repair your body’s weaknesses.
When Chakras’ are blocked you may experience:
ROOT CHAKRA – discourse in your body, mind, and emotions
SACRAL CHAKRA – lack of creative force, sexuality, and diminished emotions
SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA – lack of identity, self-esteem, motivation, ambition, and will-power
HEART CHAKRA- decrease of emotions of love, compassion and fear of intimacy
THROAT CHAKRA – difficulty in expressing feelings
THE THIRD EYE CHAKRA – depression and poor intuition
THE CROWN CHAKRA – inability to regulate sleep/wake cycles, difficulty meditating, feeling disconnected from your body or others and spiritual discomfort.
Below is a free image that illustrates where the Chakras are located and the benefits of unblocking them.
Incorporating mediation and proper nutrition allow for lasting results in this eastern medicine practice that deals with the root cause of problems that diminish mental and physical health.
Submitted by Lauren F. White-Johnson, LCPC
