Energy Work
Chakra Balance
Seven centres, from the root to the crown. Answer honestly rather than aspirationally — the useful reading is the accurate one.
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In short
Answer seven questions and read which of your energy centres are blocked, balanced or overactive — with practices, crystals and mantras for each.
- Ten minutes on one centre beats a rushed sweep through all seven.
- The throat centre responds to actual speech and singing more than to visualisation.
- Grounding at the root before and after any upward work prevents the scattered feeling people report.
- If a centre feels persistently painful rather than blocked, that is a body signal — see a clinician.
7
Centres in this model
8–12c
Tantric source texts
1919
Avalon translation
10min
Suggested per centre
The chakra system comes from tantric Hindu and Buddhist texts of roughly the eighth to twelfth centuries, where the wheels are visualisation objects within yogic practice rather than anatomical features. Different lineages describe different numbers of them — four, five, six, seven, nine, twelve.
The familiar seven-chakra rainbow model is a Western construction, assembled largely from Arthur Avalon's 1919 translation and then colour-coded in the twentieth century. It is a useful map of attention through the body, provided nobody claims it is anatomy.
Questions Readers Ask
Where does the seven-chakra model come from?
Tantric texts describing six centres plus the crown, transmitted to the West largely through Arthur Avalon's 1919 translation and later colour-coded.
How long should a session last?
Ten to twenty minutes. Longer sessions on a single centre are common in formal practice.
Do I need crystals or sound for this?
No. Breath and attention are the tradition; everything else is optional support.