Deficiency & Excess
The Full Chakra Test
A blocked centre and a flooded centre feel nothing alike, and they need opposite treatment. This test measures both poles for all seven centres.
Twenty-eight statements
0 of 28 answered
1.I often feel unwelcome, unsettled or vaguely unsafe, even in familiar places.
2.Money and practical matters make me anxious out of proportion to the facts.
3.I resist change hard, even when the change is clearly an improvement.
4.I accumulate things — money, food, possessions — well past what I need.
5.I struggle to know what I actually want, or feel guilty when I enjoy something.
6.My creative and sensual life feels flat or switched off.
7.I chase intensity — stimulation, drama, new attachments — to feel alive.
8.My emotions flood quickly and take a long time to drain away.
9.I defer to other people's decisions rather than make my own.
10.I apologise reflexively, even when nothing is wrong.
11.I take charge in rooms where nobody asked me to.
12.When plans slip out of my control I become sharp or defensive.
13.I keep people at a measured distance, even ones I love.
14.There is grief or resentment I have never actually put down.
15.I give past my own capacity and call it love.
16.I lose the shape of myself inside close relationships.
17.I hint rather than say the difficult thing outright.
18.I hold tension in my jaw, neck or throat when I need to speak up.
19.I talk over people, or fill silence rather than let it sit.
20.I say more than the moment requires and regret it afterwards.
21.I dismiss my gut sense until somebody else confirms it.
22.I overthink decisions into fog rather than clarity.
23.I read significance into coincidences more often than is useful.
24.I live in ideas and images and lose touch with the plain facts of the day.
25.Life feels mechanical — a list of tasks with nothing behind it.
26.I am cynical about meaning, and slightly tired of being cynical.
27.I use spiritual language to avoid ordinary responsibilities.
28.I find it hard to stay in my body, especially when things are difficult.
In short
A 28-question chakra test that measures each of the seven centres for both under-activity and over-activity, with a tailored opening or discharging practice for every result.
- Retest monthly rather than weekly; the system responds to sustained practice, not to daily monitoring.
- Under-active lower centres will distort every reading above them. Start at the root and work up.
- Physical symptoms named here — jaw tension, shallow breathing — are descriptive language, not diagnosis. Persistent physical symptoms belong with a doctor.
- Keep the result in the journal so you can compare states across a season rather than across a mood.
28
Statements
7
Centres
2
Poles measured
14
Practices
The chakra system reaches us through the tantric traditions of India, systematised in texts such as the sixteenth-century Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, which described a subtle anatomy of centres strung along the spine. These were originally objects of meditation rather than diagnosis — visualised seats of syllable, colour and deity, not a wellbeing scorecard.
The seven-centre model familiar in the West owes its shape to Arthur Avalon's 1919 translation The Serpent Power, and then to the psychologising of the mid-twentieth century, which paired each centre with an emotional theme. Later teachers, notably in the humanistic and body-psychotherapy traditions, added the crucial distinction this test uses: a centre can be under-charged or over-charged, and the two require opposite handling.
That distinction is what makes the model practically useful. Advice to 'open your heart chakra' is actively unhelpful for someone who is already over-giving and needs boundary rather than opening. Measuring both poles is what turns a pretty diagram into something you can act on.
Questions Readers Ask
How is this different from the shorter chakra page?
The Chakra Balance page gives a quick seven-slider snapshot. This test uses twenty-eight statements — two for deficiency and two for excess per centre — so it can distinguish an under-active centre from an over-active one.
What does 'mixed' mean?
You scored above fifty per cent on both poles for that centre, which usually indicates swinging between suppression and overflow rather than sitting in either.
Which practice should I choose?
Each result names one. Over-active centres get a discharging practice, under-active centres get an opening practice, and balanced centres get maintenance.
Is this a health assessment?
No. It is a reflective exercise offered for interest and entertainment, and it is not a diagnosis of any physical or psychological condition.