Each chakra forms during a specific stage of your life. Traumas, neglect, or overwhelming experiences during a stage can create the very block you carry with you today.

Your body arms itself against pain; the armor is what creates chakra dysfunction.

The key to unblock your chakras is to first understand when and how the wound was formed in the first place.

This is an in-depth guide on why your chakras are blocked. What wounds create your current life patterns. And how to heal to truly transform your life. You’ll learn the ancient chakra wisdom and Western psychology. The trauma that creates blockages and precise healing through somatic therapy.

This guide is written for those who are ready for real spiritual work.

What Are Chakras? Your Body’s Energy System

Chakras in Sanskrit mean “wheel”; they are energy centers that run along your spine. Ancient wisdom has mapped these energy points through internal observation.

Modern research detects electromagnetic emissions from each chakra.

The Two Currents of Energy

Your chakras are created by the intersection of major currents:

• The Liberating Current (Upward): Takes you from physical limitation to expansive states through the energy rise from earth to cosmos. Moves up through your chakras.
• The Manifesting Current (Downward): Abstract ideas can move into tangible reality. Condenses cosmic energy into solid form.

Similar patterns of a whirlpool, healthy chakras spin like gears, turning the spiral of evolution to attract repelling activity on a specific plane.

The Three Gunas (Qualities of Matter):

All chakras are woven from three fundamentals:

• Tamas (inertia/matter): Dominates chakras 1-2, provides stability and mass
• Rajas (motion/energy): Dominates chakras 3-5, representing the force that breaks stillness
• Sattva (consciousness): Dominates chakras 6-7, representing abstract thought and spiritual connection

Know which guna is your dominant force, and it will help you significantly to unblock chakras.

How to Unblock Chakras Using The Developmental Map

Chakras are installed during childhood.

Chakras aren’t just energy centers; they’re developmental programs. Each program handles specific functions: Survival, emotion, power, love, communication, perception and consciousness.

Corrupt installation from trauma leads to chakra malfunction throughout your life.

The Seven Rights:

Each chakra has a fundamental human right. Chakra wound caused by violated rights:

1. Root: Right to be here and have
2. Sacral: Right to feel and want
3. Solar Plexus: Right to act and be free
4. Heart: Right to love and be loved
5. Throat: Right to speak and hear the truth
6. Third Eye: Right to see
7. Crown: Right to know

The Seven Demons:

Each chakra has one that creates a blockage:

1. Root: Fear
2. Sacral: Guilt
3. Throat: Lies
4. Solar Plexus: Shame
5. Heart: Grief
6. Third Eye: Illusion
7. Crown: Attachment

Root Chakra (Muladhara) – Foundation & Security

Location: Base of your spine
Element: Earth
Color: Red
Developmental Stage: Womb to 12 months
Developmental Task: Physical identity, self-preservation
Right: To be here and have
Demon: Fear
Symbol: Yellow square (four directions of material foundation) containing a downward-pointing triangle (energy descending into matter)

How the Root Chakra Forms

In the womb and continues through the first year of your life. The time when you learn one fundamental question:

Is it safe to exist?

A stage called “trust vs. mistrust.” One can’t survive alone as an infant. We depend on caregivers (our mother, father). If they respond to our needs consistently, feed us when hungry, hold us when scared, or keep us warm and safe, a basic trust in the universe develops.

Your root chakra programs: The world is safe. I belong here. My needs will be met.

Absent caregivers, neglectful, hostile, or inattentive, install a different program. The world is dangerous. I should not exist. Needs won’t be met.

Root Chakra Traumas

Birth trauma: First moments of life set the stage. Technological birth through incubator separation, circumcision without anesthesia, can cause dysfunctional root chakra.

Abandonment: Physical or emotional absent caregivers. Adoption, separation, or a parent who “checked out” will program the infant for “I’m not wanted.”

Physical neglect: Malnourishment, shame-inducing situations, or inconsistent care can program the body for scarcity.

Physical abuse: Creates dissociation. A child learns it’s not safe to inhabit the body.

Inherited trauma: A parent with unresolved survival fears (war, poverty, persecution, holocaust) can nonverbally transmit anxiety to children. Your nervous system might hold parents’ fears.

Boundary violations: Invasive medical procedures, lack of physical privacy, or enemas.

Severe wounded chakras, particularly rejected in the womb or early infancy, forms strong pattern:

• Question the right to exist
• Lives primarily in their head (upper chakras compensate for weak lower chakras)
• Has a thin, wiry body with a contracted torso
• Appears highly intelligent and creative
• Feels like they don’t belong in this world
• Has difficulty with physical presence and embodiment

Healing is slow to safely return to the body.

Deficient Root Signs:

• Disconnection from the body
• Underweight, spacey, ungrounded
• Fearful, anxious, restless
• Poor focus and discipline
• Financial difficulty
• Chronic disorganization
• Weak boundaries

Excessive Root Signs:

• Obesity, overeating
• Hoarding, material fixation
• Sluggish, tired, resistant to change
• Addiction to security
• Rigid boundaries
• Fear of change

Physical Malfunctions: Bowel disorders, bone/teeth issues, leg/feet/knee problems, eating disorders, frequent illness, and adrenal fatigue.

How to Unblock Root Chakra

The Core Work: Reconnect with your body. Without a solid ground, upper chakra work is spiritual bypassing.

The Science of Grounding:

Your body resonates at 6.8 to 7.5 cycles per second, matching the Earth’s frequency (Schumann resonance). Touch the earth to reduce stress and get in sync with the planet.

Somatic Practices

The Grounding Cord Visualization:

Sit or stand comfortably and visualize a cord of energy that extends from your spine deep into the earth. Like a lightning rod, use it to discharge excess stress and anxiety down to the ground. The earth absorbs and neutralizes. 5-10 minutes daily.

The Riding Exercise:

Stand on a moving train or bus without holding on. Use your knees to find the center of gravity and allow your body to balance naturally. It grounds your consciousness in the physical body.

Grounding Exercise (from bioenergetic therapy):

Stand with your feet apart shoulder-width with toes slightly inward and knees bent. Bend slowly and straighten your knees while breathing. Continue until your legs start to tremble. The tremble is new energy that enters your legs. Push against the ground to build a charge.

Body Drawing:

Draw your body’s felt experience with crayons on a large piece of paper. Do not think, just feel. What colors, shapes and densities represent the different areas? Then hold your drawing before a mirror. What does this vision reveal about your internal schema?

Therapeutic Approaches:

• Examine your earliest childhood and your mother’s relationship
• Regressive techniques (rebirthing, holotropic breathwork) for womb/birth trauma
• Lying-down work for pre-ambulatory stages
• Pushing feet, kicking for charge-discharge cycles

Affirmations:
“It is safe for me to be here. The earth supports me and meets my needs. I love my body and trust its wisdom. I am immersed in abundance. I’m here, and I’m real.”

Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana) – Creativity & Emotion

Location: Lower abdomen, sacral plexus
Element: Water
Color: Orange
Developmental Stage: 6 months to 2 years
Developmental Task: Emotional identity, self-gratification
Right: To feel and want
Demon: Guilt
Symbol: Crescent moon (emotional tides) containing the Makara (crocodile of dualistic passions)

Moving from root to sacral is to transition from unity to duality. The root chakra is singular (survival) and the sacral is polarity. Polarity of pleasure/pain, self/other and desire/fear.

Change is the interaction of these polarities (Yin/Yang) to ultimately return to unity. The opposites that generate all movement, emotions and creativity.

How the Sacral Chakra Forms

Your infant self begins to distinguish between the inner and outer world around six months. You want to explore, taste and touch. You have the urge to move.

The sacral chakra is about movement, sensation, emotion, desire, and pleasure. Separation vs. attachment is the primary developmental task. You move from symbiotic fusion with your mother to become distinct self.

Consistent emotional warmth from your mother makes you feel safe and desired. The world is yours to explore.

Sacral Chakra Traumas

Tactile deprivation: Not being held, touched or physically comforted. Touch is the first sensation we experience. Without it, a child becomes out of touch with self and others.

Emotional environment: A child absorbs the emotional climate around them. A household filled with rage, fear, or coldness builds the child’s emotional program. Volatile parents foster volatile or emotionally numb children.

Enmeshment: A child denied the opportunity to emerge as a separate self. Parents who need the child to satisfy their own emotional needs. The child’s feelings are stolen for family purposes.

Sexual abuse: Anything that violates natural development of sexuality. Invasion of privacy, exposure to porn, sexual teasing and overt abuse. Sexual abuse is the root cause of a dysfunctional sacral chakra. Pleasure/pain becomes confused and shatters boundaries. The body becomes an enemy.

Denied feelings: “You have no right to be angry.” “Do not feel that way.” Punished natural emotions or rejection programs the child to learn distrust of their own inner experience.

Movement restriction: A child must move according to feelings. Too much restriction creates a rigid, armored body that can’t flow.

One can develop patterns when deprived in the developmental chakras 1-2:

• Emotionally oriented toward merging and giving
• Dependent, seeks completion through others
• Soft, underformed body (often collapsed chest)
• Questions their right to have (not just exist)
• Desperately wants love; when frustrated, turns to food/substances
• Excellent at nurturing others; poor at self-nourishment
• Prime candidate for codependency

Deficient Sacral Signs:

• Rigid, stiff movements
• Emotional numbness or flatness
• Fear of pleasure, guilt about enjoyment
• Lack of desire or passion
• Poor social skills
• Fear of change
• Weak boundaries, easily invaded

Excessive Sacral Signs:

• Ruled by emotions, mood swings
• Sexual addiction or obsession
• Constant need for stimulation
• Poor boundaries (too open)
• Emotional dependency
• Addictive behaviors
• Scattered energy, can’t focus

Physical Malfunctions: Hip pain, reproductive issues, lower back problems, bladder issues, menstrual irregularities.

How to Unblock Sacral Chakra

The Core Work: Feel. Move. Allow pleasure without feeling guilt. Reclaim your right to want things.

Somatic Practices:

The Jazz Walk:

Walk with bent knees and swinging hips, intentionally, and let your pelvis move freely forward, back, side to side. This helps with pelvic freeze caused by sexual or emotional trauma.

The armor is often built on the pelvis first. Loosen to restore flow to your entire lower body.

What does your body do unconsciously? If you fidget, fidget more on purpose. If you contract, do it fully. This will bring unconscious patterns to your awareness. Ask then, “What is this movement trying to express?”

5-10 minutes a day.  

Emotional Release (with caution):

Sometimes emotional release can heal and other times retraumatize. Establish a grounding first. Have an anchor, a safe memory, a comfortable position and a connection to your inner strength. Release slowly and move up the intensity gradually. Add meaning to the release.

Containment (for excess):

Overwhelmed emotions need to be practiced and not acted on immediately. This doesn’t mean to deny, but to let feelings build, expand and deepen.

Working Through Guilt:

1. Put guilty behavior in context. What forces were acting on you?
2. Examine underlying needs. What were you trying to satisfy?
3. Look for modeling. Who taught you this pattern?
4. Find healthier ways to meet underlying needs
5. Make appropriate amends
6. Create new behavioral plans
7. Forgive yourself and move on

Yoga Poses:

• Pigeon Pose – Deep hip opening
• Goddess Pose – Sacral activation
• Bound Angle Pose – Hip opening
• Cat-Cow – Pelvic fluidity

Affirmations:
“I deserve pleasure in my life. I embrace and celebrate my sexuality. My emotions are free-flowing and balanced. I allow myself to feel fully.”

Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura) – Power & Will

Location: Solar plexus
Element: Fire
Color: Yellow
Developmental Stage: 18 months to 4 years
Developmental Task: Ego identity, self-definition
Right: To act and be free
Demon: Shame
Symbol: Ram (assertive energy) and T-shaped svastikas (Hindu solar fire symbols representing dynamic transformation)

How the Solar Plexus Forms

Your toddler self is still dependent and developing. You want to do things by yourself, but can’t do them well. You want to do them because of the sheer pleasure of it. Language offers you concepts of time, cause and effect. You choose impulses to act on.

The child develops will and personal power if this stage is handled well. Shame becomes the dominant life force if handled poorly.

The third chakra is about transforming instinct into willed action.

Solar Plexus Traumas

Authoritarianism: “Don’t talk back.” A parent who breaks a child’s will and thinks obedience is the highest good. It programs a child to give their will to others.

Shaming: “You should be ashamed of yourself.” This attacks the child’s being directly and not only their behaviour, falsely imprinting the idea that “I am fundamentally flawed.”

Punishment for autonomy: The child reaches for independence but gets slapped down.

Volatile situations: Unpredictable environment where a child can never know what’s coming. Hypervigilance replaces confidence.

Parentified child: Expected to fulfill adult roles to young. Raising siblings who support emotionally unstable parents. The child feels inadequate because expectations exceed the developmental capacity.

Physical abuse: This is abuse of authority that teaches power means domination.

Patterns of a disrupted third chakra development:

• Pattern of pleasing and resisting simultaneously
• Outer compliance, inner defiance
• Turns blocked energy inward (self-punishment)
• Dense, muscular body holding compressed energy
• Shame-based, fears humiliation
• Difficulty taking initiative
• Sees life as “have-tos” rather than choices

One is locked in a holding pattern. Can’t move forward. Turns against self. Tries to please but usually fails, then turns viciously self-critical. This nurtures the seed for a grim life.

Wants affection but has learned that affection requires surrendering autonomy. Feel both need and anger toward the same person.

Deficient Solar Plexus Signs:

• Low energy, weak will
• Easily manipulated
• Poor self-discipline
• Low self-esteem
• Collapsed middle, poor posture
• Victim mentality
• Passive, unreliable
• Avoids confrontation

Excessive Solar Plexus Signs:

• Dominating, controlling
• Need to be right
• Manipulative, power-hungry
• Temper tantrums
• Driving ambition (Type A)
• Competitive, aggressive
• Uses will to override feelings
• Workaholic

Physical Malfunctions: Eating disorders, digestive problems, ulcers, diabetes, chronic fatigue, hypertension, liver/gallbladder issues.

The third chakra can collapse because of shame and bring the whole torso with it. The chest caves. Breathing restricts. The throat constricts. The head feels out of alignment with the body.

Shame-bound personalities:

• Honor thoughts over instincts
• Constant internal criticism
• Not feeling good enough
• Monitor every impulse for potential failure
• Cannot risk exposure
• Experience shame attacks that spiral into self-condemnation

Fuses sense of shame and self, creating a block between mind and body. Sees the self as flawed.

How to Unblock The Solar Plexus Chakra

The Core Work: Attack shame and build authentic power through facing challenges. Build a strong ego strength.

Attacking Shame:

1. Recognize the critical voice. Whose voice does it resemble?
2. What forces acted on that person to create the criticism?
3. Make the internal monologue a dialogue. Where’s the rebellion that says “Back off!”?
4. See your childhood self in the context of the abuse and show it compassion.
5. Replace shaming programs with inner-child dialogues: “You did nothing wrong. You didn’t deserve this.”

For Deficient Third Chakra:

• Build metabolic energy through diet and exercise
• Engage in activities to leave you feeling energized
• Take on challenges; avoidance keeps you undercharged
• Develop will through routines and goals
• Risk being wrong; perfectionism is shame in disguise

For Excessive Third Chakra:

• Practice relaxation, guided meditation
• Let go of control
• Yoga for flexibility (rigid will = brittle will)
• Increase function in other chakras—heart softening, grounding
• Don’t engage the third chakra directly (creates a power struggle)

Working with Anger:

Give permission to feel anger; it’s empowering. Release original anger wound and stop it from spilling over to present relationships.

Yoga Poses:

• Boat Pose – Core activation
• Warrior III – Balance and strength
• Twists – Digestive fire, detoxification
• Sun Salutations – Building heat

Affirmations:
“I honor the power within me. I accomplish tasks easily and effortlessly. The fire within me burns through all blocks and fears. I can do whatever I want to do.”

Heart Chakra (Anahata) – Love & Balance

Location: Heart center
Element: Air
Color: Green
Developmental Stage: 4 to 7 years
Developmental Task: Social identity, self-acceptance
Right: To love and be loved
Demon: Grief
Symbol: Six-pointed star (integration of upward liberating and downward manifesting currents—the point where matter and consciousness perfectly balance)

Below your heart chakra is a tiny eight-petaled lotus called Kalpataru, the wishing tree. It holds your soul’s deepest longings. Wishes we might forgot or suppressed. Healing your heart chakra sometimes involves descending beneath the layers of conditioning into this space to recover what you truly want.

How the Heart Chakra Forms

Your social identity form between the ages of four and seven. You learn to relate beyond family. You reach toward others, form friendships, and develop empathy.

The heart chakra is the center. Lower chakras are for the body and the individual self. Upper chakras are of consciousness, mind and the connection to the universe. The heart is the bridge between.

This is where we learn and program relationships.

The template of all relationships is related to family matters. Conflict resolved with discussion or violence? Conditional love, or was it freely given? Relationship of balance or power struggles?

Your social identity develops at the cost of previous identities.

Heart Chakra Traumas

Rejection: The universal wound, rejection tells us we’re unworthy and triggers infantile abandonment fears.

Conditional love: “I’ll love you if you’re good/quiet/successful.” A child learns that love is earned.

Abuse within relationships: All abuse can traumatize the heart chakra because love is betrayed. Abuse is bad. Worse if it comes from the people we love and trust.

Divorce/family rupture: This shatters the template for relationships. Children often put the blame on themselves.

Loss: Death, abandonment, separation. Ungrieved losses armors the heart chakra.

Cold or unavailable parents: The child adapts and becomes emotionally unavailable.

A wounded heart caused by rejection, especially when a parent expects the child to “grow up,” can create patterns:

• Achievement-focused
• Afraid of intimacy, commitment, feelings
• Rigid body armor, held-back energy
• Excellent at work, troubled in relationships
• Can’t feel satisfied no matter how much they achieve
• Charming but emotionally unavailable
• Seductive but abandons before being abandoned

The authentic self, no matter accomplishment, never feels loved for who they are, only for performance.

The Hysteric variant (more common in women): Similar wounds, but feelings are pushed forward in melodramatic expression rather than held back. Exaggerated emotions mask deep disconnection.

Deficient Heart Signs:

• Cold, withdrawn
• Difficulty empathizing
• Bitter, critical, judgmental
• Fear of intimacy
• Can’t let love in
• Isolating, lonely
• Holds grudges
• Self-neglecting

Excessive Heart Signs:

• Codependent, smothering
• Jealous, possessive
• Uses love to meet own needs
• Poor boundaries in relationships
• Demanding, clingy
• Sacrifices self for others
• Can’t be alone

Physical Malfunctions: Heart disease, respiratory issues, chest tightness, circulation problems, and immune disorders.

Unresolved grief can restrict your breath, which closes the heart. Grief doesn’t only mean to stay attached to what was lost, but also reclaiming the part of yourself that has a bond to what you lost.

When a lover leaves, we don’t just lose them, we lose part of self that they activated, playfulness, sexuality and openness.

How to Unblock Heart Chakra

The Core Work: Self-acceptance. Grief work. Learning that love and autonomy can coexist.

The Task of Self-Acceptance:

Your inner world consists of many parts. The critic. The child. The achiever. The lover. And the rebel. Each wants different things. True self-love is to bring them into a loving relationship with each other.

Exercise: List your inner parts. What does each want? How realistic are those desires? Which parts need better relationships with each other?

Grief Work:

Deep breaths to release grief. Grief is clouds obscuring the sky; dissolve it and the sun shines.

Key questions:

• Why was this person/thing so special?
• What did they bring that I’m missing in myself?
• What part of me was bonded to them?
• What have I lost touch with in myself as a result?

Forgiveness:

Forgiveness is not justifying harm. It’s to understand the force that acted on others and self, using compassion. This frees the heart for spiritual growth.

Forgive yourself first. See your childhood in context and understand why you did what you did. Separate your thoughts from mistakes made.

Love Must Be Willed:

Love is action, not just a feeling. When feelings fade, one creates love through loving behavior.

Yoga Poses:

• Camel Pose – Heart opening
• Cobra Pose – Chest expansion
• Bridge Pose – Opening front body
• Fish Pose – Throat and heart opening

Affirmations:
“I am worthy of love. I forgive myself and others. My heart is open to giving and receiving love. Love flows freely through me.”

Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) – Communication & Creativity

Location: Throat
Element: Sound/Ether
Color: Blue
Developmental Stage: 7 to 12 years
Developmental Task: Creative identity, self-expression
Right: To speak and hear the truth
Demon: Lies

Communication is more than words. It’s a rhythmic force when vibrations oscillate at the same frequency to “entrain” and lock into phase with each other. You can observe this when conversations flow. You’re on the same frequency and struggle when it clashes.

The throat chakra resonates and not only broadcasts. A healthy chakra creates coherent vibration that syncs with others naturally.

How the Throat Chakra Forms

The age of seven to twelve is the hallmark of communication and creativity. Your master language and develop symbolic thinking. The child can mentally represent actions, reason and understand broader time frames.

A child earns recognition by producing things. School replaces family as the main focus. Tools become available: art supplies, books and instruments to open creative possibilities. The child brings home drawings and shares ideas to contribute to the world.

The throat chakra is the gateway between the inner and outer world. It’s only through self-expression where the outside world knows what’s inside us.

Throat Chakra Traumas

“Don’t talk back!”: Authoritarian environments where questions are forbidden. The child’s truth is devalued and learns that their inner voice doesn’t matter.

Lies and mixed messages: Being told “I love you” while being mistreated. Asked to apologize for things they’re not sorry about. Learns to lie to survive.

Secrets: Sexual abuse victims are threatened into silence. Family shame that can’t be spoken about outside the home. Secrets need to be monitored; everything that might escape can kill spontaneous expression.

Yelling and screaming: Hostile vocal environments teach either to turn off listening or defensively dominate conversation.

Not being heard: Ignored feelings and ideas teach the child that communication is pointless, shutting down the throat chakra.

Excessive criticism: Blocks creativity. If everything you create is wrong or bad, why even create?

Trust broken through manipulation, often by the opposite gender of a parent, a specific pattern forms:

• Brilliant communicators, charismatic
• Comfortable with power, make great performers
• Pull energy upward (broad shoulders, narrow hips)
• Passionately defends underdogs
• Attacks challengers when they feel challenged
• Vulnerability is intolerable
• Deception may become a survival strategy

Underneath this persona, they cheer the weak because they secretly identify with weakness.

Deficient Throat Signs:

• Fear of speaking
• Small, weak voice
• Difficulty expressing feelings in words
• Shy, introverted
• Tone deaf, poor rhythm
• Doesn’t occur to them to communicate
• Keeps secrets even when unnecessary

Excessive Throat Signs:

• Talks constantly as defense
• Can’t listen
• Interrupts, dominates conversations
• Gossips
• Loud or shrill voice
• Uses words to discharge energy without real content

Physical Malfunctions: Throat disorders, thyroid issues, neck/shoulder tension, jaw problems, and hearing issues.

Lies are held in the body; it’s not just words. One who is afraid to show excitement lies with the body by restraining the face and arms.

Living in truth creates a resonance between self and others. Living in lies creates suspension and interrupts natural flow.

Truth is needed for the lower chakras to function:

• Fourth chakra acceptance: You don’t need to deny truth
• Third chakra strength: You can express truth even when facing opposition
• Second chakra feeling: You can hold contradictory truths without forcing false resolution
• First chakra grounding: You feel safe enough to be authentic

How to Unblock Throat Chakra

The Core Work: Express. Eliminate sound pollution. Clear the gateway between the inner and outer.

Toning:

Toning is the key to basic vibration to emerge as sound. Pure expression and not forced into words or melodies.

Warm up physically. Shake, stretch and bounce. Then stand grounded, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and let sound emerge. It may be a groan, squeal, or changing tones. Let it come and don’t judge.

A note eventually settles that feels right for you; it’s your resonant tone. Sing it fully and let it come from your entire body.

Communication Skills:

The need to be heard: Often more important than finding solutions. Acknowledge feelings before problem-solving.

Active listening: Completely quiet yourself. When the other person finishes, respond back what you heard, but in your own words. Only when they confirm that you’ve understood correctly, you share your perspective.

Writing: If you freeze in conversation, write first by uncensored venting, then refine the communication.

Clearing the Field:

Eliminate toxic noise where possible; sound pollution is a real phenomenon. Have a silent time daily. A quiet environment helps reset your vibrational field.

Affirmations:
“I hear and speak the truth. I express myself with clear intent. Creativity flows in and through me. My voice is necessary.”

Third Eye Chakra (Ajna) – Intuition & Insight

Location: Forehead/brow
Element: Light
Color: Indigo
Developmental Stage: Adolescence
Developmental Task: Archetypal identity, self-reflection
Right: To see
Demon: Illusion

Your brain functions holographically, where every part contains information about the whole. Your third eye can perceive meta-patterns. A fragment of perception can reveal the whole picture.

This is why intuition often comes complete instead of being built piece by piece. This chakra accesses the holographic nature of consciousness itself.

How the Third Eye Forms

The capacity for abstract thinking comes when we’re teenagers. You can consider hypotheticals and recognize patterns across context and think about thinking. Who am I? What do I believe? Where do I fit in the larger scheme?

You start to recognize yourself as being part of something larger. Universal interest in philosophy and spirituality awakens.

The third eye chakra is about pattern recognition. To see beneath the surface reality. It’s also about how we see ourselves and the images that program our perception.

Third Eye Traumas

“What you see doesn’t match what you’re told”: Gaslighting. The child sees abuse but is told it’s love. Learns to distrust their own perception.

Invalidation of intuition: “You’re imagining things.” “That’s not real.” Dismissed psychic experiences or gut feelings, the child starts to revoke their inner knowing.

Ugly or frightening environments: War zones, domestic violence, visual horror. The child may entirely shut down visual processing.

Denial modeled: When parents refuse to see obvious problems, children learn that reality can be selectively edited.

Over-reliance on logic: Intuition is claimed to be irrational and only analytical thinking is valued.

Deficient Third Eye Signs:

• Insensitivity, poor perception
• Poor memory
• Difficulty visualizing
• Can’t see what’s obvious to others
• Denial
• Lack of imagination
• Rigid thinking (“one right way”)
• No dream recall

Excessive Third Eye Signs:

• Hallucinations
• Obsessive thinking
• Nightmares
• Difficulty concentrating
• Delusions
• Lives in fantasy, disconnected from reality

Physical Malfunctions: Headaches, vision problems, sinus issues, and neurological disorders.

Images shape your reality. The image you hold of yourself becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

How to Unblock Third Eye Chakra

The Core Work: Clear the filters. Learn to see what is, not what you expect. Develop intuition.

Practices:

Visualization: Your third eye responds to images. Practice creating vivid mental pictures. Visualize healing, desired outcomes, and symbolic representations.

Dreamwork: Keep a dream journal. Dreams are the sixth chakra’s native language. Work with dream images, not just interpretations.

Meditation: Trataka (candle gazing) develops concentration. Eyes-closed meditation develops inner vision.

The Photo Blink:
Quickly open and close your eyes to capture a “photographic” afterimage of what you see. This is useful to learn to perceive energy fields or auras. The brief look will bypass your analytical filter, making subtler perceptions register.

Art therapy: Drawing, painting, collage, working directly with images. Don’t worry about your skill; the process matters.

Pattern recognition: Look for the underlying patterns in your life. What’s the repeating theme? What archetypes are you living?

Yoga Poses:

• Child’s Pose with the third eye facing the ground
• Downward Dog (inverted blood flow to brain)
• Seated forward folds
• Shoulder stand

Affirmations:
“I see all things in clarity. I am open to the wisdom within. I can manifest my vision. I trust my intuition.”

Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) – Divine Connection

Location: Top of head
Element: Thought/Cosmic energy
Color: Violet or white
Developmental Stage: Early adulthood and beyond
Developmental Task: Universal identity, self-knowledge
Right: To know
Demon: Attachment

This chakra is like a collective network of thoughts and information. We are neurons in a global brain. Our consciousness contribute to (and is shaped by) a larger field of awareness. Healing your crown chakra includes reorganizing your role in this intelligence.

How the Crown Develops

Primary in adulthood as we pursue knowledge. From worldviews and seeking meaning beyond our personal identity.

Crown Chakra Issues

Spiritual disconnection: Cynicism, life feels meaningless, and closed-mindedness.

Spiritual bypassing: Using spirituality to avoid healing the lower chakras. “Transcending” emotions rather than healing them.

Attachment: Clinging to beliefs, identities, outcomes. Inability to surrender.

Dissociation: Consciousness flows above rather than through the body.

Deficient Crown Signs:

• Learning difficulties
• Rigid belief systems
• Spiritual skepticism
• Apathy
• Materialism
• Fear of spirituality

Excessive Crown Signs:

• Spiritual addiction
• Dissociation from body
• Over-intellectualization
• Confused spiritual identity
• Ungrounded “floatiness”

Physical Malfunctions: Migraines, light sensitivity, chronic exhaustion, and neurological issues.

How to Unblock Crown Chakra

The Core Work: Study and contemplation. Meditation. Stay grounded and connect with something greater.

Critical reminder: Crown chakra healing without healed lower chakras creates imbalance.

Practices:

Meditation: Silent awareness. Not visualization or mantra. Pure consciousness observing itself.

Following Thoughts: Trace a thought back to its origin. Where did it come from? Follow that source back further until you reach the “infinite source” that has no objective beginning. This practice will reveal to you that thoughts arise and return to emptiness.

Study: Philosophy, mythology, comparative religion. Learn to understand how humans across cultures have approached the ultimate questions.

Service: Connect with purposes greater than personal gain.

Silence: Make a habit to stay quiet because your crown speaks in silence.

Yoga Poses:

• Headstand (with care)
• Savasana – Surrender and integration
• Lotus Pose – Meditation
• Rabbit Pose – Gentle crown pressure

Affirmations:
“I am connected to all that is. Divine wisdom flows through me. I trust the universe. I am one with the infinite.”

Adult Development: The Second Cycle

You pass through the chakras twice. Once in childhood, to form the basic structure. And when you’re an adult, to consciously rework the structure.

The Second Cycle as Conscious Re-Parenting:

While your chakras open sequentially during childhood, often due to trauma or neglect, unblocking as adults is conscious practice.

The second cycle is when you break the childhood programs to truly unblock your chakras.

Adult Chakra Development:

1. Root: Establish independent survival (housing, income, self-care)
2. Sacral: Form sexual relationships, satisfy emotional needs
3. Solar Plexus: Individuate from conformity, develop personal power
4. Heart: Mature empathy, lasting partnerships, examine relationship patterns, integrate masculine/feminine
5. Throat: Personal contribution to community—art, business, service
6. Third Eye: Reflect on patterns, study philosophy, and spiritual meanings
7. Crown: Wisdom, spiritual understanding, teaching, mastery

The order depends on the individual. For adults, it’s mostly conscious. You must want to develop.

Many people are stuck in dependency and powerlessness. Breaking programmed patterns is key.

Complete Chakra Reference Chart

Creating Your Daily Practice

Morning (10-15 minutes)

1. Body scan: Which chakra needs attention?
2. Grounding: Feel feet, breathe into belly
3. Chakra-specific sound frequency (5-7 minutes)
4. One yoga pose
5. Affirmation as intention

Evening (15-20 minutes)

1. Full chakra sweep: all seven frequencies, 2 minutes each
2. Or deeper work on the primary blockage
3. Journaling: What came up today?
4. Gratitude and silence

Weekly

• One longer session (30-45 minutes)
• Review progress, adjust focus
• Epsom salt bath with chakra-relevant herbs

What to Expect When Chakras Unblock

Physical: Tingling, warmth, pulsing. Symptoms can intensify before release.

Emotionally: Unexpected tears, laughter, and old memories surface. Old grief moving through.

Energy: Fatigue after sessions (processing), followed by increased vitality. Vivid dreams.

Life changes: Relationships shifting. Career clarity. Creative impulses return. External reality reorganizes to match your internal shift.

Character structure changes: Slower and deeper. You may notice patterns you’ve had for decades gradually fading. The way you hold your body changes. Old defenses become unnecessary.

Last Important Words: How Do You Unblock Chakras?

Your chakras have been sending signals for years, and you know how to read them now.

Take the chakra quiz to learn which one is underactive or overactive.

The fatigue. The anxiety. The creative emptiness. The walls around your heart. Not character flaws, survival strategies that once served you.

This article gives you the entire map and knowledge on how to unblock chakras.

Always start with the root.

Chakra balancing with crystals is a good addition. You can also use specific chakra frequency sounds to help you immensely. Taking herbs for chakras is also another powerful way.

Sakral Chimes

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