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Chakra of the Week: Sahasrara

 

DISCLAIMER:
I am by no means an expert on each chakra, and I don't know everything. I have read extensively and taken an online course through a Jain instructor. This is just a general outline with a couple tips I've learned from experience. Please do your own research on top of this, because our practices are all different. 

We made it! Today is the last of the seven main chakras.

What is the Sahasrara Chakra?

As always: A chakra is a sphere of energy in our astral body that is connected to a place in our physical body.

The Sahasrara Chakra is located just above the top of the head, or the crown.

The symbol is a lotus with a thousand petals. Typically, not all of these are drawn, but there are many. When drawn with one thousand petals, it's usually 20 rows of 50 petals each.

Watercolor of the Sahasrara chakra next to a mirror and a tiara

Element

There are no elements surrounding the Crown Chakra. It is the only chakra that is free of elements.

When I meditate on this chakra, I imagine the energy that has been drawn up through the others flowing out and then through me. Rather than focusing on my environment, I focus on the energy created through balancing my other chakras.

Color

The color associated with the Sahasrara is a bright purple. Imagine a bright divine color

Diet

Really clean eating is best for this chakra. Pure food helps purify the energy for this chakra. Vegetarian foods are best.


Signs of imbalance

A balanced Sahasrara means clarity. When you are out of balance, which is very common, you might experience a lack of clarity about the big picture, like your purpose in life. Headaches are also common.

A balanced chakra

A person with a balanced Crown Chakra will have clarity and perception on a large scale. They will know what their next step in life should be, they will be able to see how energies have brought them to where they are, and have wisdom about many things.

To balance the chakra, meditate chanting the seed sound: Aum (pronounced aumn). This sounds similar to the seed sound for Ajna, but instead of it coming up through the body and stopping, imagine the energy coming up through the crown then back down, recycling the energies.

Inverted yoga poses are best for this as well, to bring blood flow to the brain. Things like shoulder or head stands.




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