How to Unblock Chakras for Beginners (Restore Balance!)

Learning how to unblock chakras is an essential first step for anyone exploring energy healing practices like Reiki, yoga, or meditation. By unblocking stagnant energy in these centers, you can restore balance and harmony to your mind, body, and spirit.

As you may know, chakras are energy centers within the body that act like spinning wheels, circulating life force energy, often called chi or prana. There are seven main chakras, each located along the spine, from the base to the crown of your head. When they are functioning properly, energy flows smoothly through your body, promoting physical health, emotional well-being, and spiritual connection.

However, when a chakra becomes blocked or imbalanced, the flow of chi is disrupted. This can result in feelings of physical tension, emotional instability, mental fatigue, or even an overall sense of being stuck in life. These imbalances might also manifest as specific struggles tied to a certain chakra, such as communication issues with the throat chakra or confidence struggles linked to the solar plexus chakra.

The good news? You can unblock your chakras and get your energy flowing freely again. Using meditation, visualization, affirmations, and crystals can help. These tools can help you tune into your energy and bring your energy back into balance.

This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about howto unblock chakras. It’s perfect for beginners to energy healing and chakra work.

Dive in and discover how you can mend your energy flow and bring harmony back into your life!

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Chakras Locations in the Body

Chakras are spinning energy centers located along your spine. Each chakra is associated with specific aspects of your physical and emotional health.

There are seven main chakras, starting at the base of the spine and moving upward to the crown of your head:

1. Root Chakra (Muladhara)
2. Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana)
3. Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura)
4. Heart Chakra (Anahata)
5. Throat Chakra (Vishuddha)
6. Third Eye Chakra (Ajna)
7. Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)

How Chakras Become Blocked

Chakras can become blocked due to emotional distress, negative events, negative thoughts, unhealthy habits, or unresolved trauma disrupting the flow of energy. When one or more of these chakras becomes blocked, chi energy cannot flow freely.

Events that may disrupt chi energy and lead to chakras becoming blocked include separation, betrayal, injury, loss, or other distressing events.

How to Know Which Chakra is Blocked

Depending on what you’re struggling with, you may intuitively know what chakra needs healing. For example, if you’re having trouble being assertive, you may have stagnation in your throat chakra, which is related to communication.

More than one chakra can be out of balance or blocked, so when doing chakra healing, keep in mind every struggle you’re facing and how it relates to each chakra.

How to Unblock Each Chakra

Let’s look at signs of blockage for each chakra, and ways to unblock each chakra energy center.

1. Root Chakra (Muladhara)

Location: Base of the spine.

Signs of Root Chakra Blockage: Feeling insecure, anxious, unstable, ungrounded, not rooted, unsafe, or disconnected. Physical symptoms like fatigue, tension, or lower back pain.

Ways to Unblock the Root Chakra:

• Grounding exercises: Spend time in nature, walk barefoot on grass, practice grounding meditations, or tend to your home.
• Root Chakra affirmations: Repeat to yourself “I am safe in this place” or “I am financially secure.”
• Crystals: Meditate with black tourmaline, bloodstone, tiger’s eye, onyx, smoky quartz, moss agate, or carnelian. Hold the crystal while visualizing a red light glowing at the base of your spine. Focus on feelings of safety, security, and stability.
• Foods: Eat red foods like strawberries, beets, or tomatoes to strengthen the connection to this energy center.

2. Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana)

Location: Just below the navel.

Signs of a Sacral Chakra Blockage: Lack of creativity, emotional numbness, not feeling pleasure in things you used to, or difficulties connecting in relationships. Also, physical symptoms like reproductive issues.

Ways to Unblock the Sacral Chakra:

• Creative activities: Dance, paint, write, or do something that sparks your imagination.
• Water therapy: Take a relaxing bath or spend time near water to connect with the sacral chakra’s fluid nature.
• Crystals: Try aquamarine, citrine, orange quartz, sunstone, and clear quartz. Place one on your lower abdomen during meditation.
• Essential oils: Diffuse orange or ylang-ylang oils to stimulate this chakra.
• Try some sacral chakra affirmations for unblocking and healing this chakra.

3. Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura)

Location: Upper abdomen, near the stomach.

Signs of a Solar Plexus Chakra Blockage: Low self-esteem, indecisiveness, lack of motivation. Physically there may be digestive issues or chronic fatigue.

Ways to Unblock the Solar Plexus Chakra:

• Breathwork: Practice deep breathing exercises like diaphragmatic breathing.
• Power poses: Stand tall and imagine a bright yellow light glowing in your stomach area. There are many good yoga poses for the solar plexus chakra as well.
• Crystals: Citrine, amber, rose quartz, yellow jasper, and carnelian are excellent for restoring balance here. Place the crystal on your solar plexus while visualizing confidence radiating through your body.
• Use solar plexus chakra affirmations: Try “I am strong and feel good about my efforts” or “I am confident and capable.”

4. Heart Chakra (Anahata)

Location: Center of the chest.

Signs of a Heart Chakra Blockage: Difficulty forgiving, holding grudges, or feeling lonely; physical issues like tightness in the chest

Ways to Unblock the Heart Chakra:

• Practice compassion with yourself and others. Focus on love, including self-love. Work on forgiveness, give grace and kindness.
• Heart-opening exercises: Try empowering yoga poses for the heart chakra like cobra or camel to stretch and activate the chest area.
• Crystals: Use rose quartz, clear quartz, emerald, rhodonite, pink or green tourmaline, green aventurine, or peridot. Hold your chosen crystal/s close to your chest while imagining a warm green light radiating outward.
• Heart chakra affirmations: “I give and receive love freely” or “I am open to true soulmate love.”

5. Throat Chakra (Vishuddha)

Location: Throat

Signs of a Throat Chakra Blockage: Difficulty expressing yourself, fear of speaking up, feeling socially awkward, or throat discomfort.

Ways to Unblock the Throat Chakra:

• Journal your authentic thoughts ideas, and opinions. Practice speaking I am affirmations or positive words of encouragement to yourself aloud.
• Crystals: Turquoise, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, angelite, blue lace agate, and blue calcite are helpful for this chakra. Place a crystal on your throat during meditation or wear it as a necklace.
• Use affirmations to heal the throat chakra: Try saying “I speak my mind confidently” or “I speak in ways that are assertive and clear.”

6. Third Eye Chakra (Ajna)

Location: Between the eyebrows.

Signs of a Third Eye Chakra Blockage: Lack of clarity, poor intuition, unable to visualize, unable to make good decisions, confusion in life, or feeling disconnected from your purpose

Ways to Unblock the Third Eye Chakra:

• Visualization: Meditate on a glowing indigo light between your eyebrows and feel your intuition strengthening.
• Practice intuitive exercises like tarot card reading, scrying, or dream interpretation.
• Crystals: Use amethyst, lapis lazuli, black obsidian, clear quartz, selenite, fluorite, and angelite. Place one on your forehead during meditation.
• Essential oils: Use frankincense or clary sage to enhance focus and clarity.
• Use affirmations for healing the third eye chakra.

7. Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)

Location: Top of the head.

Signs of a Crown Chakra Blockage: Feeling disconnected from your spirituality, lack of purpose, or mental fog.

Ways to Unblock the Crown Chakra:

• Meditation: Focus on a white or violet light radiating from the top of your head. Meditate on your connection to God, your angels, or your Higher Self (according to your beliefs.)
• Nature connection: Spend time under the stars or in peaceful, quiet settings to feel aligned with the Universe.
• Crystals: Amethyst, clear quartz, selenite, diamond, fluorite, moonstone, lepidolite, and celestite are ideal. Hold one above your head or place it on your crown during meditation.
• Use crown chakra affirmations specifically to support, balance, and heal this chakra. An example would be “I trust the Universe’s guidance.”

Final Thoughts on Unblocking Your Chakras

I hope you’ve enjoyed this article on how to unblock chakras for beginners.

Unblocking your chakras is a powerful way to heal your energy and feel more balanced in daily life. By incorporating chakra healing practices such as meditating with crystals, visualizing energy flow, or connecting with nature, you can clear energy blockages, get chi moving freely, and strengthen your chakras.

Energy work takes time, so be patient with the process. Balance is within reach and freedom from stress and turmoil is possible.

Restoring harmony in your chakras can open doors to better health, emotional clarity, and spiritual growth. May you be blessed with positive energy and personal understanding as you work through your blockages and heal your energy.

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