Your body is more than just bones and muscles; it is also an energy system. According to ancient wisdom, chakras are spinning energy centers within the human body that influence your physical, emotional, and spiritual health. When energy flows freely through your chakras, you feel balanced and alive. When they are blocked or out of balance, it can lead to emotional struggles, physical discomfort, and mental stress.

​In this blog, we will discuss blocked chakras, provide understanding through symptoms, and share some easy remedies to revive equilibrium to allow the energy to flow freely again.

What are Chakras?

Chakras are the seven central energy centers that run along your spine, from the base to the crown of your head. Each chakra impacts different aspects of your body, mind, and emotions, and a blocked chakra can turn into repetitive negative behavior, low energy, or even physical illness.

​Signs Your Chakras are Blocked

Root Chakra (Muladhara) – At the base of the spine

Symptoms of blockage:

  • Experiencing anxiety, feeling fearful, and insecure.
  • Facing financial setbacks or feeling “ungrounded”.
  • Physical issues related to lower back pain, leg pain, and fatigue.

​Suggestions:

  • Grounding practices for feeling more stable in life (for example, walking barefoot on grass). 
  • Meditating and self-affirmations, such as “I am safe, I am grounded”. 
  • Eating red foods, such as beets and strawberries, and doing yoga stretches like the ‘Mountain Pose’. 

Sacral Chakra (Svadhistana) – Lower abdomen 

Symptoms of blockage:

  • Experiencing no creativity or passion. 
  • Inability to express emotions. 
  • Problems in relationships, or no libido. 
  • Physical issues related to reproductive health or tight hips. 

Suggestions:

  • Dance, art, or any sort of hobby that allows the expression of creativity. 
  • Eat orange foods, such as oranges, carrots, and mangoes. 
  • Do hip-opening yoga stretches like ‘Bound Angle Pose’. 

Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura) – Where your stomach is 

Symptoms of blockage: 

  • Low self-worth or self-esteem
  • Inability to follow through on commitments, or lack of willpower. 
  • Digestive health issues, or tiredness. 

​Suggestions: 

  • Use affirmations for self-confidence and worth (I am powerful, I can achieve anything I want).
  • Practice core strengthening exercises. such as planks.
  • Eat yellow foods like bananas, sweet corn, and ginger. 

Heart Chakra (Anahata) – Center of chest

Symptoms of blockage: 

  • Unable to give or receive love. 
  • Holding grudges or being envious of others. 
  • Physical issues related to the heart or lungs. 

Suggestions: 

  • Practice loving, kindness, and forgiveness for your heart chakra to open. 
  • If you practice yoga, do yoga heart-opening stretching exercises (for example, camel pose, cobra pose); 
  • Eat green foods (spinach, kale, matcha) and go outdoors in nature.

Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) – Throat region

Blocked Symptoms:

  • Difficulty speaking one’s truth or fear-based avoidance of self-expression
  • Issues communicating within relationships
  • Physical issues: sore throat, challenges with the thyroid, jaw pain

Suggestions:

  • Singing/chanting or journaling.
  • Consume blue foods (blueberries, herbal teas).
  • Use affirmations like “I express myself clearly and confidently.”

Third Eye Chakra (Ajna) – Forehead, between eyebrows

Blocked symptoms:

  • Inability to focus or poor intuition.
  • Overthinking or confusion.
  • Physical Issues, such as headaches, eye strain, and insomnia.

Suggestions:

  • Meditation, visualization, and mindfulness practices.
  • Indigo foods (grapes, purple cabbage).
  • Spend time in silence, retrospection, or maintain a dream journal.

Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) – Top of the head

Blocked symptoms:

  • Feelings of disconnection from spirituality or a sense of purpose.
  • No motivation or sense of inspiration, and/or feeling isolated.
  • Physical issues, such as migraines, disorders of the nervous system.

Suggestions:

  • Meditation, prayer, or spiritual studies.
  • White or violet light visualization.
  • Practicing gratitude daily.

General Remedies for Chakra Blockages

Although there are methods of healing that are unique to each chakra, some methods can be used for all energy centers. 

  • Meditation and Breathing: Both can help calm the mind and rejuvenate energy flow.
  • Yoga and Movement: Can also help balance energy in the body as well as strengthen the connection between mind and body.
  • Sound Healing: By chanting a mantra, singing bowls, or frequencies, you can realign chakras.
  • Reiki or energy healing: A Reiki or energy healing professional may help clear some deep blockages. 
  • Eating a Mindful Diet and Lifestyle: Whole foods and stress reduction can help restore natural balance.

Conclusion

If you have blocked chakras, it can impact every aspect of your life, from health to relationships and happiness.  The first step to healing those blockages is recognizing the symptoms of the blockages and then slowly beginning to heal those energy centers.  Even implementing small remedies for your chakra centers, such as meditation, yoga, affirmations, and mindful living, is a very positive step towards restoring energy flow and finding harmony in energy levels in your life to help you find a greater sense of balance, peace, confidence, and spiritual connection in your life. 

​Finally, don’t forget that healing chakras is not about being perfect; it is about awareness, self-care, and practice.