The 12 Chakras: An Overview

Chakras are individualized expressions of one’s vital life-force having specific relationship to the various functions of one’s entire being.

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These functional relationships are typically regional in orientation as well as being consistent with the location of each chakra. For instance, the yellow chakra, located at the region of the solar plexus, has functional domain over the vital organs of this region (the liver, stomach, gall bladder, pancreas). Interestingly, the function of all of these organs is to successfully break down and process those external elements with which we come in contact. Specifically, this means food on the physical level, while on the emotional, mental and spiritual levels the yellow chakra has a similar function to successfully respond to external situations or circumstances that need to be ‘broken down’ and processed as we go through life.

When there are problems with successfully carrying out such functions, the yellow chakra in a given layer/body of the aura will experience energy loss. Concurrently the person will have some degree of loss of power as experienced by the inability to successfully break down and process ‘the food of life’s situations’, being left feeling blocked, stuck or frustrated (disempowered). Conversely, when the yellow chakra is strong in all bodies, one will feel confident, self-assured and empowered about life and what it may bring.

The above example, with the yellow chakra, can be applied to understanding all 12 chakras in all four bodies/layers of the aura (the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual), each having a different emphasis and meaning for each body. For those only familiar with the system of 7 chakras, the additional 5 relate to a split during our human evolution when we became polarized into yin and yang (female/earth-based and male/heaven-based). So as we heal this polarity or split on the planet at this time, both individually and collectively, these other chakras that are earth-based and have been latent until recently are now coming ‘into phase’ to help us heal our very out-of-balance (white male dominant) world or outer reality. It is our human birthright potential to have all 12 chakras present in all 4 bodies of our aura.