In many religions and practices, there is a belief that there are many energy centers in the body that are tuned to an aspect of life. The energy centers, charkas, are represented with colors and are believed that the person has the ability to open and close them individually with practice and discipline. This is a subject which most people have heard of but few know the details. In order from lowest to highest, here are the charkas.
1. Root Chakra
The Root Chakra is located between the anus and genitalia. It is represented with the color red. The Root Chakra is the energy center that helps you feel at home in situations. It is also what controls your feeling of physically being there. You will have a sufficient trust level for other people. When you feel nervous or fearful this Chakra is under-active or blocked. When it is over active, you will tend to obsess with security and very resistant to change. You may also be materialistic and greedy.
2. Sacral Chakra
The Sacral Chakra is located at the sacral bone, or lower back. It is represented by the color Orange. The Sacral Chakra is the energy center in control of feelings and sexuality. Being open does not mean you are over-emotional but that you can express your feelings freely. You will not feel ashamed to let your feelings be known. You are also secure with your sexuality. This doesn’t mean bragging about how much sex you have. When this Chakra is under-active, you tend to bottle up all emotions or tend to have a permanent poker face. Over-emotionally attached to people is characteristic of over-active Sacral Chakra.
3. Navel Chakra
The Navel Chakra is located on the spine a little higher than the navel. It is sometimes referred to as the Solar Plexus Chakra. It is represented by the color yellow. The Navel Chakra is associated with asserting yourself and your self-esteem. Under-active Navel Chakra usually has reference to being timid and indecisive. You probably don’t get what you want or have a hard time letting someone know your opinions about the situation. Being over-active, you are probably aggressive and domineering.
4. Heart Chakra
The Heart Chakra is located at the spine and level with the heart. It is represented by the color green. This Chakra is the energy center for love and affection, your kindness to others, being compassionate and friendly. You live in harmony with your friends and easily make new friends. Being closed or under-active, you will tend to be cold and distant. Others tend to not notice you or you are very rude to them. Being over active, you will tend to smother your relations. You love will usually have a very selfish reason.
5. Throat Chakra
The Throat Chakra is located at the base of the throat. It is represented with the color blue. This Chakra is the energy center for talking and self-expression. When this Chakra is under-active you are likely to be introverted and shy. You probably don’t talk too much and may have a tendency to lie. Being over-active you can tend to be over bearing with how much you talk and tend not to listen very well.
6. Third-Eye Chakra
The Third-Eye Chakra is located between and slightly above your eyebrows. It is represented by the color purple. This is the center for premonition, insight and visualization. When this Chakra is open you will tend to have a normal instinct and will tend to fantasize. You will have good intuition. When it is closed, you are not very good at thinking for yourself. You may tend to rely on others for basic instructions. You may get confused easily and rely too much on beliefs. When it is over-active, you may live in a fantasy world or even have extreme hallucinations.
7. Crown Chakra
The Crown Chakra is located about 4 finger widths above your head. The color white or violet represents it. The Chakra is the center for wisdom and being one with the world. When active you may be unprejudiced and aware of you surroundings. Being under-active you are probably a one way thinker and not very aware of spirituality. When this Chakra is over-active you may be ignoring you bodily needs. You are more obsessed with spirituality and may tend to over analyze everything around you.
Source: MindWorks
Contributor: Ravyn
Is there a listverse Chakra?
i don’t really believe this…sorry guys
Yea, We used these in my ***** therapy Practice like spots you hold stress, just target that Chakra so the body is in balance…but this goes a lil further than that! lol I agree, alil silly…
Juggz: yes – it is shaped like a bottle of red wine
srichards: don’t apologize – I don’t believe it either – but some of our readers do and I am happy to put up lists that they like too
I’m a ***** therapist, and was once asked what color the heart chakra was on a certification exam. I didn’t know and fail to see how knowing that would make me a more effective ***** therapist.
//No, I don’t do “happy endings.”
Gotta admit, growing up on the Great Plains, I’ve never been exposed to the chakra.
The Midwest chakra is shaped like a Skoal can and is located on the left butt cheek of a pair of Wranglers. When over active, it excretes a brown viscous goo. . .
Never mind.
somnium72: hahahah what a brilliant end to your comment
Welcome to the site.
bucslim: I think you just slipped a little in my estimation – it is dinner time over here!
Sorry bro, they can’t all be winners.
Kinda cool. For someone who has never really been exposed to that, I think its cool to read up on.
i taint never heard of a root chakra
I think my sacral chakra is hyperflexed. =(
Is this one of those New Age-thingys?
Nowhere near. The Hindus have practiced the Chakras for ages; the “New Age” Pagans have adopted them.
1) I gotta say that my root chakra shoots up my spine when I stand on the end and look over extreme high places. Who’s with me?
2) I think the sacral is more of a tomato paste/orange.
3) does the navel chakra differ with innies and outies(sp?) ?
4)envy- green, but didnt the ole sckool egyptians believe the heart was the center of the soul?
5)receptive to slight atmospheric changes perhaps like a barometer?
6)Ahhh! the stalk! the stalk! Ever seen the Lovecraft story-based movie “From Beyond” ? an antenea receiver / sensitive receptor. maybe, the reflectant yellow dashes on the highway at night.
7)graffitti on the wall. wipe it clean so that we show ourselves properly before the shadows of relations.
yah.
Top 7 Chakrams? I thought Xena only had 2.
Oh….nevermind
Wow – what a mixed bag of comments – more than any other list I think
hmmmm…. i read this list top to bottom….twice…..amazingly it still doesnt make any sense to me
I do yoga and it helps to under stand the chakra’s when you do some of the movements.
I live in India and trust me…there are folks here who make a living out of convincing people that their lives are hell ‘cos they don’t know their chakra’s. These so called chakra’s are the root of all the eastern myticism back in the 60′s and 70′s, all those yogi’s ang guru’s. For me, it’s all in the mind….
Chakras are pseudoscience. It’s not a matter of “belief”; it’s perfectly okay to admit they’re bull*****.
Why?
The supporters throw around terms like energy and make false claims that can be scientifically tested. So far, all “predictions” done by chakra freaks have turned out false or don’t require “magical points” to explain away.
Jamie: I agree with you on the melting pot of comments. I was hoping to get a response like this out of this list. It is wonderful to see what people think about something a little different.
Like OMG!, The Lucifer Principle, your chakras are (like) so out of balance. You’re (like) emitting some really harsh karma there, you got (like) a really dark aura around you. You need to do some (like) yoga or meditation or something.
hey gr8 list mate
this site has lists for all
i am from india and was really amazed to read something i am familiar to
It’s a top 7 cuz there are only 7 chakras! That’s so cute! I love this site so much.
I am glad to see some people who like this list. Makes me feel all that much better.
I didn’t know we had all this chakra in our body, that means that we can do ninjutsu tricks like naruto!!??
Kage Bunshin no Jutsuuu!!!
Dam! it didn’t work.
I’ve heard of these when doing yoga, it helps me to focus when the dvd yoga instructor goes over each chakra.
Hey, you folks can’t just enjoy the list and let the chackras live? Look, they’re colorful and shiny.
Not that I’m into, say, that random requests in certification exams.
Is there a Chakra for the rectum?
This smells *****ty.
I like this. I know a lot of people who swear by these, and their lives are much more harmonious than mine. I am wanting to look at this more carefully for personal reasons. Keep an open mind, y’all.
Inner Strength: I think the root chakra (at your anus) would count.
I just don’t get why people are so afraid of new things. People get so wrapped up with the mundane things of there lives and when something else pops up it made fun of. Chakras are a natural part of a persons being, think of it like this, The Matrix (movie…really big movie….starring Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving, Lawrence Fishburn…you get the point) was about machines using the electricity in the human body to power the machines. That is really not far from the truth; science has already proven that our brain works like an electrical tower send messages to other parts of the brain. This is the reason why we can walk and talk and type and read. It is however very evident that some brains are short circuiting. Think of chakras as an electrical terminal that helps send messages to other parts of the body. When all terminals are functioning properly a person tends to feel better about themselves are able to show the best qualities of who they are. It’s like turning on your lights in your home and getting nothing or very little power and saying that hey electric company something is wrong and you call and ***** that the electric company needs to get there act together, and then when they do you are a happy person. It the same thing with our bodies Electric company=Brain, Chakras=Terminals and our Body=Home.
James – Chakras are bull*****. The Matrix is a fictional movie, not a medical documentary. Don’t blur real science with fiction and pseudoscience. And for the record it is not a matter of being afraid of new things, science loves new things, they just need to be real and not fantasy. Google whatstheharm it’s good site with some information relevant to this sort of woo woo.
mnl, keep living your life the way it is and you will understand very little by the time you are old and "wise". Sure you may know how to raise a family, and how to make money, but you seem to be very out of touch with what life really is if you actually step back and look at it. Life IS fantasy, people like you are just too caught up in "real life" to actually realize how amazing of a being you really are. But no one but yourself can teach you…so I'm wasting my time anyway.
Guys mabey the chakras are sensitive parts. esaide they are located along the back where a part of the nervous systen is…
Are you afraid of new things, James? This one is brand new:
I have shpoolocks on my elbows – the minor shpoolock on my right elbow and the major shpoolock on my left elbow. They have trapezoidal energy relative to light, and their reflective alignment allows for creative flow and establishes an inverse lassitudinal state in my spectroplasmic being.
I can also come up with a metaphor like you. The body is like the Amazon River, and phlegm is like debris from overharvesting the rainforest. When the debris hits eddies on the opposite sides of the bank (the shpoolocks), the phlegm is loosened and I breath easier (the water) and now I can run around the block! Now that I have a metaphor that you can relate to, shpoolocks must exist!
Nice ignorance there Steve. Your chakras seem to be over-active.
The chakrams corresponds to the nerve ganglia present outside brain and spinal cord. You don’t need to know them to live happily but you will certainly need them if you want to delve into yoga and meditation; they are the best method for relaxation.
Steve: There’s one flaw in your consideration. Phlegm are restricted only to the respiratory system, they can’t travel up your arm. So, your basis is wrong. Maybe, your ‘shpoolocks’ exists somewhere near respiratory system ( hint: throat chakra). That would explain about the whole phlegm and water thing.
i like this list
People are having some fun at the expense of the chakras. For all you believers, you should be able to take this light-hearted poke sportingly for chakras cannot be scientifically proven. I happen to believe in chakras but that crosses into belief and it is NOT science. All of us have our own set of beliefs and we must learn to admit that many of our beliefs cannot be proven. But this does not mean that we should try to force other people into accepting our beliefs.
I forgot to include that I really enjoyed reading the comments
Wow, I never knew all this! Thanks.
Which creed or culture does this originate from?
(for. Everyones comments) science dosnt always prove things, hell, science can’t even tell why we feel love, or why dreams are .. Science just tries to ass-u-me about everything we don’t understand. And some of you don’t believe any of this, fine, you don’t believe den just keep it to yourselves and let it be. And I kno some of you are just gonna pick everything I say and try to go against me, well watever, just try and get some common sense and don’t look at the world as a one-sided card.. It may have many other sides! And the culture of the chakras..I’m not too sure but, it may have rised from both Asian and African tales, native beliefs mite add. I’ve always been interested in asian cultures and legends, soo yeah, chakras are mostly used to (not make u a super-ninja) make u better, spiritualy and physicaly at times.. It’s sort of.. Making u a bit.. Well a better you(not that u aren’t) :]
Chakras are originated in India and are the subject of personnel experience.
dear all
just because if you dont know about something, it is not bull*****. if you had talked about going to moon,airplanes about some 150years back people would have laughed at u.
if you want to criticize something 1st learn about the topic/subject so that u know it, try it then judge. even albert einstien was impressed by bhagwad gita (though bhagwad gita doesnot explains chakras but it is base of hindu religion which deeply believes in chakras.
PS: i sometime feel sorry for people(indian hindus) who think that to appear modern they have to denounce everything our culture/religion says
this.. only reminds me of.. naruto
dear Anshul
Are you from India or still here? I doubt it. You must be among the lucky ones who make a dash to the West and enjoy the serenity there and yet continue to fantasise and blabble about something that has devastated our country. Or you must be among the elite of India drownning in the maaya (fantasy) created by the hindi filmdom.
It is a good thing people like you and your ideas are getting exported to the West, because that will be the easiest way to bring the downfall of the West. Coupled with this, the decline of these ideals in India, will surely ensure our rise.
Thinking of it honestly, if the Britishers and their influence and ideals hadn’t come here, India would have been the worst country in the world now. Worse than Somalia, Afghanistan, Sudan combined together.
Hinduism has brought nothing to the masses of India except centuries of untold misery, massacre and devastation. But of course the blame is on others – Muslim invaders, Christian crusaders and now Chinese communists. If it is pretending to do anything good now, it is only as a result of being influenced or as a result of feeling threatened by other ideals, especially Christian. On it’s own, hinduism is just a huge mass of virus laden ***** ready to infect others.
And don’t be awed by the enormity of the hindu mythologies. It’s easy to dissect. Read carefully and one thing becomes clear: to cover up or justify a wrong or a lie, hundreds of further lies or wrongdoings are needed. That is the great secret in these mythologies. And that is the essence of hinduism and that is the bane of India.
The real moksha, the real nirvana, the real chakric bliss is escape from this hindu *****hole, to the serenity and goodness of the West. And bet you a thousand rupees that whoever has escaped once and forever would never return.
@ Santh – for me, one of the best things about the goodness of the West is how much it makes you appreciate the goodness of home (India)! My greatest pleasure always comes from returning home from the bliss of the West. No offense to the West of course. But India has a warmth to it that I can never find anywhere else in the world.
Hello,
Agree to all this.
But doubt the colour of third eye as experiencing bright white light at Ajna.
Wow, so much negativity, especially from the pro-science crowd and the <snigger> crowd.
I'm pro-science, and not religious, but I get a great deal from chakra meditation. It helps me feel energised, focused and can help me relax. Some people take it very seriously, some don't, so what? If it can benefit people, what's the big deal? It's not the be-all and end-all of the psyche, so if you know that then why crap on other people's parade, especially if it helps people to identify their problems and deal with them?
well you ppl might condecend the chakras and everthing but thats whats expected from u although i have to say that some the comments posted here are quite creative but in yoga term there are many chakras the root being the loest from of chakra among human beings but highest among animals and activation of crown chakra through meditation of other form of concentration yields great power and wisdom great ppl who had activated their crown chakras are like oj JESUS,KRISHNA,BUDDHA to name the famous
few further information can be found on wiki
in most cultures these aren’t meant to actually exist. Yogi’s belief system was based on the idea of them…also- top 7? there are only 7…
I’m surprised a therapist would firstly word his thoughts in such a way, and secondly be so ignorant into thinking that chakras have nothing to do with modern day psychology, hell they are the BASIS of modern day psychology- it sums up that human emotions, conflict and metaphysical capabilities are evident in 7 parts, and also how parts react and relate to each other. i have done no work on psychology what so ever, yet i know this…just wondering- ddid you fail that said test?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZg_DqkIWo
Look at this and then make up your mind
Peace
that doesnt matter if you believe or not.
but the existence of chakras is caring you.
you must heard movie as named “20,000 leagues under the sea”. its about a deadly fighter submarine and you must know that in that era the submarine was just an unbelievable imagination only. no one can believe that this type of machine can ever be, but now you must aware of these type of machines.
SO THE THING IS IT DOESNT MATTER THAT YOU BELIEVE OR NOT.