Learn how to navigate change with these self-care tools for the chakras in this podcast episode. The chakras are powerful energy centres that are part of your energetic body. When the energy in your chakras and your aura are well balanced, you feel alive and vital in a total state of well-being.

When there is a lot of change and disruption in your personal life, or just in the world in general, adding self-care strategically to your routine can help pull you through all the disruption. Even a few minutes of each of these strategies will help you thrive no matter what is happening.

 

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Self-Care for the Crown Chakra

The crown chakra is located right at the top of your head and helps with connection to something greater and spirituality. Even if you don’t have a particular faith or spiritual outlook, everyone has a crown chakra and its job is to help us feel like we have a place in the universe and a connection to something more.

The best self care tool for the crown chakra is meditation. Even if meditation has been a struggle for you, just take a gentle approach. Keep trying different styles of meditation until you find one that works for you. Even if your mind gets busy, you’re not doing meditation wrong, you are actually clearing out those thoughts so they’ll bother you less during the rest of the day.

Begin simply with a few minutes at first – set a timer, close your eyes, and breathe slowly. You may also like the Infinite Universe Meditation or any of our other meditations on Insight Timer.

Self-Care for the Third Eye Chakra

The third eye chakra is located in the centre of your head at the level of your eyebrows. It is the point where you receive and understand information about the world. The third eye chakra governs both your intellect and your intuition and helps to bring a clear balance between the two.

A powerful self-care tool for the third eye chakra is journalling. Not only does journalling give you a chance to empty out your thoughts and feelings, but you can also gain a greater perspective and awareness when you write that you may not otherwise access. 

Writing is a natural process of organizing your thoughts so instead of having all of that energy spinning you in circles, journalling can help you focus and get clarity even when everything else is topsy turvy.

You can also powerfully access your intuition when you write simply by allowing the kindness and love of the Universe to say nice things to you. You can use your imagination to answer your questions with love and care. Even imagining that you are your own best friend and writing down the advice you would give a friend is massively helpful to gain perspective and a little bit of self-compassion and love.

Try the Creative Warm-up process to get your pen flowing, meditate for 2 minutes and free write for 2 minutes and see what happens.

Self-Care for the Throat Chakra

The throat chakra,  located in the centre of your throat,  is the centre for communication, speaking, and listening. When the throat chakra is well balanced you can easily express yourself and you can also listen to others with ease and grace. Good communication is mostly about being an expert in listening both to yourself and the other person.

A wonderful self-care tool to heal the throat chakra is to sing or chant. Making music with your own voice, even if no one else hears it, is deeply healing. Listening to music is also a wonderful way to flow energy through this chakra, but singing and chanting are just going to turbo charge that energy. Put on your favourite tune and sing along!

Playing an instrument or receiving a sound healing session can also help you clear and balance this important energy centre. 

Self-Care for the Heart Chakra

The heart chakra is located in the centre of your chest and helps you feel connected, loved, and compassionate for yourself and others. When your heart chakra is well balanced you feel content and joyful and steady. 

A wonderful self-care tool for the heart chakra is mindful breathing. Because the physical heart and the lungs are linked together, when you slow down your breathing rate, your heart rate also drops.

Mindful breathing helps your heart rest and also reach a coherent energy field that is healing all on its own. Focus your attention on a part of your body that is feeling tension, like your jaw or your neck and then slowly breathe in and out to the count of seven.

You may also want to try the Mindful Meditation for Pain Relief or the Heart Meditation to help the energy flow through and heal the heart while you practice mindful breathing.

Self-Care for the Solar Plexus Chakra

The solar plexus chakra is located in your upper belly and is the centre for confidence, boundaries, and energy. When the solar plexus chakra is well balanced, you feel happy and energized, ready for anything.

A key self-care tool for the solar plexus chakra is to protect your energy reserves. Notice what tasks give you energy and which ones drain your energy. The skill is to tune into your energy levels before you say yes or no to anything. 

This is always an important skill but becomes absolutely crucial when you are dealing with a lot of upheaval or working through big changes or healing something massive in your body, mind, or emotions. In order for you to do your big work, you need energy.

Your energy is a precious thing as are you, and it needs your protection and wisdom. Only you can know if something is in alignment for you or not. There is no other person who can know this better than you, everyone else is just guessing. 

Saying no can be daunting, especially if it is a new skill for you or you are in the habit of putting everyone else first and not even considering your own energy levels. But that is all okay, this is a self care skill that you have to practice to be good at it. 

Just begin gently and start by simply noticing what kinds of things lift you and which deplete you. Over time you can rebalance your energy by choosing to add one small thing that recharges you and leaving out one small thing that drains you. Even a tiny change can shift everything and give you your energy back.

Try the Activating Divine Will Meditation to give you a bit of a boost before you say your kind “no”.

Self-Care for the Sacral Chakra

The sacral chakra is located in your lower belly and is the centre for abundance, sexuality, and creativity. When the sacral chakra is well balanced you feel a natural joy and vitality, there is a zest for life and a zip in your step. Things sparkle when the sacral chakra is full of energy.

Spending time on creative projects is a very nurturing way to care for your sacral chakra. Especially if you approach your creative and crafty time with the attitude of play and participation that happens in kindergarten. You get a sticker just for showing up!

Let yourself dabble in anything that captures your interest with no expectations of results. Making anything with your hands will put you in your spatial awareness and activates your right brain. The right brain helps you also access your connection with the vastness of the universe and is the part that can see things from a gentler view. 

Simply by spending a few moments making art you can calm your mind and understand things differently. Plus, it’s fun!

Self-Care for the Root Chakra

The root chakra is located at the base of your spine and its energy extends down your legs to help you feel rooted and stable. When your root chakra is well balanced you feel steady and safe. This is the chakra that is most often affected by big changes in our routine and in the world. It’s our foundation so when big world events unsettle you, spending time on the root chakra can help you find your path through all the uncertainty. 

The key self-care tool for the root chakra is grounding. Connecting to the earth, either by visualization or spending time outdoors is very healing to every part of your energy and root chakra. The best is to simply spend time in nature, look out a window, and watch nature moving. Observing the wind moving, animals and birds, looking at all the plant life, creates a peacefulness all on its own. Nature is the best healer.

Grounding meditations are also helpful to consciously connect to the energy in the earth and feel the resonance of your nature with Mother Nature. You can practice grounding wherever you happen to be, it is literally a thought away. Try the Grounding Meditation or the Tree Meditation to help connect to the earth.

Self-Care for the Aura

Last but not least is the aura, the electromagnetic field surrounding your body. The aura is especially important for highly sensitive people and empaths, as it is your literal force field helping you to filter out everyone else’s energy. When your aura is bright and strong you feel a perfect balance of cozy safety and spacious expansion.

Our favourite way of balancing the aura is Reiki. You can try the Self Healing Meditation to practice on your own or the Aura Flame Meditation to clear out old energies and boost up the power of your aura. 

A Reiki session will help you stay in your bubble and get a great energetic reset especially if you have been going through a lot lately. Learning Reiki is also a phenomenal way to learn how to take care of your energetic boundaries so you can stay in the light and shine.