by | Feb 15, 2024

Redefining how we approach Chakra healing with a groundbreaking fusion of EFT and Breathwork can help you unravel the layers of your being one chakra at a time – sparking a transformative journey within as you release burdens, invite positivity, and align your chakras as a renewed sense of balance emerges across your physical body (muscles, cells, blood, organs), mental/emotional body (emotions, patterns, beliefs), and energy body (Chakras and trapped energy).

It’s time to clear, rebalance, and harmonize, creating a profound shift in your overall well-being.

Understanding The Chakras

Understanding Chakras is like unlocking the secret code to your well-being. By understanding what each Chakra represents and what you can do to keep this energy flowing freely, you can achieve an optimal quality of life for yourself and those around you.

Picture them as spinning wheels of energy along the spine, intricately linked to specific facets of our being. When these energy centers are in harmony, a profound sense of vitality and balance permeates our existence. However, imbalances in these Chakras may manifest as physical or emotional discomfort.

Understanding EFT

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), or tapping, is a transformative method that combines gentle tapping on acupressure points with a focus on the body’s energy centers or chakras. Addressing emotional issues and tapping into the energy flow associated with each chakra, EFT helps to release stress, negative emotions, and physical tension, fostering emotional freedom and overall well-being.

Understanding The Power of Breath

Your breath is a vital force connecting mind, body, and spirit. By consciously and intentionally using the breath, we can tap into a potent healing force that influences the energy within your chakras. This simple yet powerful breathwork practice empowers you to clear and release lingering traumas, patterns, and narratives. This not only cultivates balance but also nurtures a harmonious equilibrium, profoundly impacting your overall well-being and enhancing your health.

 

The Rainbow Within: Understanding and Nurturing Your Chakra System

Chakras can become imbalanced by becoming blocked (underactive).  When this happens, our being as a whole is impaired, often leading to illness and/or emotional blocks and creating an unhealthy environment.  The following information can help you determine the well-being of your chakras.

 

Root Chakra

Purpose:  Survival, Security/Stability

Location: Base of spine

  • Color: Red
  • Element: Earth
  • Spiritual Meanings: Foundation, grounding, and connection to the physical world
  •  In Balance:  Basic survival needs met, feels supported by life, money comes easily, strong and stable.
  • Out of Balance Emotionally:  Constant fear, easily startled, anxiety, fear and uncertainty of the future or direction of life, always in debt or struggling with money, ungrounded, deep guilt.
  • Out of Balance Physically: Lower back, sciatica pain, weak legs, feet, knees, groin, hips, ankles, addictive and obsessive behaviors, adrenaline junkie, depression, ongoing constipation or diarrhea, fatigue.

Sacral Chakra

Purpose: Authentic Creation/Creator, Soul, Fire, Sexuality

Location: Slightly below the navel.

  • Color: Orange
  • Element: Water
  • Emotions: Associated with pleasure, desire, and emotional well-being
  • Spiritual Meanings: Exploration of creativity, passion, and embracing change
  • In Balance: Healthy creative expression, balanced hormones, healthy sexuality, enjoyment of the physical, energetic, motivated.
  • Out of Balance Emotionally: Guilt and shame around sexuality, perversion, obsession with sex, or lack of it. Unemotional, guarded, self-deprivation, sexual repression, poor social skills.
  • Out of Balance Physically:  Bladder and kidney problems, fertility issues, sexual organ problems, fatigue.

Solar Plexus Chakra

Purpose: Power/Sel-Worth, Self-Confidence, Self Esteem

Location: Slightly above the navel.

  • Color: Yellow
  • Element: Fire
  • Emotions: Connected to self-worth, ambition, and inner strength
  • Spiritual Meanings: Manifestation of personal power, growth, and transformation
  • In Balance: Responsible and reliable, healthy self-esteem, spontaneity, playfulness, sense of humor, able to make decisions and meet challenges, warmth
  • Out of Balance Emotionally: Low self-esteem, lack of self-trust, weak will, victim mindset, unreliable, lack of personal responsibility, attraction to stimulants.
  • Out of Balance Physically: acne, eczema, food allergies,  eating disorders, intestinal or digestive disorders, diabetes, overweight/underweight, lack of muscle tone, poor digestion, liver disease.

Heart Chakra

Purpose: Love, compassion, connection, inner peace. 

Location:  Center of the chest, near the heart.

  • Color: Green
  • Element: Air
  • Emotions: Governs love, forgiveness, and compassion
  • Spiritual Meanings: Unconditional love, harmony, and spiritual growth
  • Emotions: Governs love, forgiveness, and compassion
  • Spiritual Meanings: Unconditional love, harmony, and spiritual growth
  • In Balance: Unconditional love, acceptance, compassion, understanding, loving of self and others, empathic, inner peace.
  • Out of Balance Emotionally: conditional love, fear of rejection, jealousy, poor boundaries,  codependency, smothering love, and hopelessness
  • Out of Balance Physically: Disorders of the heart, lungs, thymus, breast, and arms, shortness of breath, circulation problems, immune deficiencies, insomnia, asthma, and fatigue.

Throat Chakra

Purpose: Communication, self-expression, truth

Location: Center of throat/neck

  • Color: Blue
  • Element: Ether/Sound
  • Emotions: Associated with clear communication and authenticity
  • Spiritual Meanings: Expression of truth, self-realization, and divine guidance
  • In Balance: Communication of truth, good listener,  assertive, able to express self clearly, confident, comfortable with body language. 
  • Out of Balance Emotionally: Fear of judgment, oppresses feelings and truths, lies often, unclear speech, self-doubt.
  • Out of Balance Physically:  Asthma, stiff neck and shoulders, sore throats, teeth and gums, TMJ, tonsils, ongoing coughing, weak voice.

Third Eye Chakra

Purpose: Intuition, insight, spiritual awareness

Location: Between the eyebrows, in the center of the forehead.

  • Color: Indigo
  • Element: Light
  • Emotions: Connected to intuition, wisdom, and inner guidance
  • Spiritual Meanings: Perception beyond the physical, spiritual awakening, and clarity
  • In Balance: Intuitive, sees through appearances, psychic, optimistic, imaginative, aware, wise, good memory, able to plan, carry out plans, calm mind.
  • Out of Balance Emotionally: Critical, judgemental, over plans, worries, ADHD, nightmares.
  • Out of Balance Physically: Headaches, migraines, seizures, personality disorders, scalp/hair issues, mental illness, brain fog.

Crown Chakra

Purpose: Connection to the divine, spirituality, higher consciousness

Location:  Top center of the head.

  • Color: Violet or White
  • Element: Thought
  • Purpose: Connection to the divine, spirituality, higher consciousness
  • Emotions: Associated with spiritual awakening and enlightenment
  • Spiritual Meanings: Unity, transcendence, and the realization of higher purpose
  • In Balance: Connection to higher consciousness, awareness, open-mindedness, ability to recognize and receive spiritual guidance, and understanding of higher purpose.
  • Out of Balance Emotionally:  lacks direction in life, overly intelligent, spiritual addiction, dissociation from the body, feeling lost, depression, selfish.
  • Out of Balance Physically: Dementia, autoimmune disorders, epilepsy, migraines, brain fog, cognitive delusions, lethargy, neurosis. 
About Mikki Proffitt
My mission in life is to create a space where women like you can share your stories from a place of truth, vulnerability, and safety. Where you can be raw and real, without masks or pretense. You can come as you are, feel seen, heard, held, and witnessed without judgment, and be surrounded by love. As a woman whose own healing journey through childhood trauma, abuse, and addiction I have spent over three decades in a career of service to others as an addictions counselor, trauma-informed breathwork, grief movement, and EFT Practioner. My deepest desire is that my work helps women end their suffering as they remember who they are, reclaim their power, and reignite their purpose.

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