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Simply sit on the ground in whatever position feels most comfortable. You’ll first want to focus on grounding. Feel your tailbone connect with the ground you’re sitting on. Imagine that energetic cords are connecting you to the earth beneath you (if you’re secular, you may want to conceptualize these cords as gravity).
After you feel sufficiently grounded, move into chakra clearing. Move along your spine, starting with the root chakra and moving upward. At each chakra, imagine a bright ball of light in the chakra’s corresponding color, and imagine that ball of light circulating and shining around the area, opening up and releasing any blocked energy. The colors of the chakras are as follows:
- Root chakra: Red
- Sacral chakra: Orange
- Solar plexus chakra: Yellow
- Heart chakra: Green
- Throat chakra: Blue
- Third eye chakra: Indigo
- Crown chakra: Violet or White
If it seems too daunting to clear all your chakras at once, feel free to concentrate on one chakra per meditation session. You can also repeat a chakra as many times as it takes for you to feel ready.
| Color | Chakra | Chakra location | Alleged function | Associated system |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red | First | Base of the spine | Grounding and Survival | Gonads, kidneys, spine, sense of smell |
| Orange | Second | Lower abdomen, genitals | Emotions, sexuality | Urinary tract, circulation, reproduction |
| Yellow | Third | Solar plexus | Power, ego | Stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas |
| Green | Fourth | Heart | Love, sense of responsibility | Heart, lungs, thymus |
| Blue | Fifth | Throat | Physical and spiritual communication | Throat, ears, mouth, hands |
| Indigo | Sixth | Just above the center of the brow, middle of forehead | Forgiveness, compassion, understanding | Eye, pineal glands |
| Violet | Seventh | Crown of the head | Connection with universal energies, transmission of ideas and information | Pituitary gland, the central nervous system and the cerebral cortex |