40. Healing the Chakras to Restore Safety, Identity, And Intuition

When the world feels unsteady, it's more important than ever to bring balance back into our lives. I use the chakra system as my guide for restoring balance, and I love that it gives me a clear path to figuring out where exactly the imbalance is showing up in the first place. 

This episode is an exploration of the seven chakras and how they show up in daily life — from nervous system regulation and emotional permission to authentic identity, courageous expression, reliable intuition, and a felt sense of connection to something larger. The focus is on practical tools you can use today: breathwork and barefoot grounding for the root, intuitive movement and uncensored journaling for the sacral, core strength and values work for the solar plexus, grief rituals and receiving practice for the heart, truth-telling reps and humming for the throat, stillness and dream journaling for the third eye, and agenda-free meditation in nature for the crown.

Along the way, we unpack how suppressed emotions harden into anxiety, insomnia, and chronic fatigue, why people-pleasing erodes self-trust, and how boundaries can be acts of love rather than walls. We also explore the difference between grounded spirituality and avoidance, and why the crown opens naturally as the lower centers stabilize. If you’ve ever asked, “Who am I when I’m not performing?” or felt that vague, persistent sense of “something’s missing,” this conversation offers a body-led map back to yourself.

You’ll leave with signs to spot blocked energy, simple daily practices, supportive foods, and reflective prompts to guide your next step. Start where you are, choose one practice, and watch energy begin to move again. If this resonates, tap follow, share with a friend who needs it, and leave a quick review to help more listeners find the path from conditioning to consciousness.

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Transcript

Why Chakras Matter Now

Jess Callahan 0:02

Hey guys, welcome back to the Conditioning to Consciousness podcast. I'm really excited about our topic today. Um, you know, it's lately we've been doing a lot of talking about deconditioning and reconnecting with our bodies, bringing regulation into the body, and um the lens through which we've been having these conversations is just that like the world is hard right now and heavy, and there's a lot that we're going through both individually and collectively. And so that's why this conversation is so important to me because the chakra system is really like it's a guide to help us find balance, to help us find stability when the world feels really hard. It gives us a way to sort of look inward and figure out where that heart is like showing up in our lives and how we can start to heal it. The podcast itself, Conditioning to Consciousness, is it's actually like a journey through the chakras. Because if you think about like the seven chakra system, right? It's like the seven um seven chakras that build on top of each other, starting with the root chakra, moving up through the crown chakra. When we work to like heal and stabilize each layer, we can then more expansively work towards healing in the next layer. Um, you know, once we have stable foundations, we can bring just like more of a depth to healing ourselves and understanding ourselves as we work towards those higher chakras, which give us access to our intuition and to connection to each other and collective consciousness. So today I want to talk through like what the chakras actually are, what each one of them represents. And then at the end, we're gonna cover how we can heal each of those chakras. So, like, what are some of the signs that one of the chakras is off balance, and what are some of the tools that we can use to bring balance into that system? Because we really want all seven chakras to be open and balanced, and we want this like free flow of energy through the chakra system. That's when we're really living in our vitality and in wholeness. Okay, before we get started though, I want to quickly start with just like a reminder that the body is not just physical matter. So I'm not gonna dive into the different like subtle layers of the body, but I just want to start with a reminder that we are more than just physical matter. We have five subtle layers to the body, five primary subtle layers of the body being the physical body, but then the energy body, the emotional body, the wisdom body, and the bliss body. So we have these different ways that we experience and feel how things are showing up in our lives. So I start there to just say that as we talk through the chakras, as we talk through the impact of a balanced and blocked chakra in our lives, it doesn't just show up in the physical body, it manifests across each of these subtle layers that exist within the body. Okay, so what are the

Energy Bodies And Nadis 101

The Seven Chakras Overview

Root: Safety And Nervous System

Sacral: Emotion, Pleasure, Creativity

Solar Plexus: Power And Identity

Heart: Boundaries, Love, Grief

Throat: Truth And Voice

Third Eye: Intuition And Knowing

Crown: Spiritual Connection And Unity

Spotting Blocks In Your System

Healing The Root: Grounding Tools

Healing The Sacral: Permission And Flow

Healing Solar Plexus: Agency And Values

Allegra Chapman 3:20

chakras themselves? So they are energy energy centers, right? So let's take a minute to sort of figure out what that means. So chakras come from ancient Indian philosophy and they help us understand how energy actually moves through the body. The word chakra itself literally means wheel or disc. So you can think of them as like spinning energy centers or disks located along the spine. And as we talk about each chakra, I'll talk to you about like where that chakra lives. Visualization is an important part of it. So knowing where that like spinning energy disc lives within you is an important part of it. Okay, so if there are seven main chakras along the spine, the chakras are connected by a series of nadis. You could think of them like a network of pathways that carry energy or prana through the body. So you want energy free-flowing from the root chakra to the crown chakra, up and down throughout the body. When there's a kink in a nodi, or when the chakra itself is blocked, the energy gets stuck. And that's when you start to feel these like manifestations of stuckness in the various layers of your body. To unstick the nadis themselves, there's tools that you can use like breath work, um, even just something as simple as like deep belly breathing consistently starts to unstick that energy. Um but and then uh the chakras themselves, that's really where we're gonna focus our energy today. But I always like to sort of start by giving you an idea, an overview of how the body works in this like chakra and kosha system, and you know, how the energy is flowing or not throughout the body. Okay, so we'll start the conversation going chakra by chakra, beginning at the base at the root chakra, and working our way up. But I want to start by just talking about the energy that lives within each of these chakras and um, you know, what part of our lives, what functionality is sort of like governed in each space. Then when we go through all seven, I'm gonna circle back, and that's when we'll start to talk about like how do you know if a chakra is blocked, and then what are the tools that we can use to start to open up that blockage? Okay, so the root chakra is associated with the color red, and your root chakra sits at the base of your spine. It's responsible for things like safety, survival, and the nervous system. So we talk a lot here about the nervous system, nervous system regulation, about how that is so foundational to absolutely everything else that we're doing in our lives. Um, this like felt sense of safety is like completely foundational for any other healing, expansion, or transformation work that you want to do. Um so, okay, but because before anything can shift, the body has to feel safe. It all comes back to the um flexibility between the two sides of your two primary sides of the nervous system that we talk about here, parasympathetic and sympathetic. So um rest and digest, and then fight or flight. We want to be living in rest and digest most of the time, but when we have chronic stress moving through our body, it keeps us stuck in fight or flight. It reduces our flexibility, our ability to go back and forth between rest and digest and that activated state of the nervous system. So we first have to fix those foundations, and that's what happens at the root chakra. Some other like stories or um like safety narratives that could live here, you know, it might be financial anxiety, scarcity narratives, generational trauma lives here too. That's the trauma that's passed down epigenetically. Um, it can be passed down behaviorally, but primarily we're talking about the epigenetic trauma that lives in the expression of our DNA. So basically, like you can't even start to think about deconditioning or healing anything else until you bring that felt sense of safety back to the nervous system. So root chakra, directly linked to safety and the nervous system. The sacral chakra is represented through the color orange, and the sacral chakra you'll find just above the root chakra, it's maybe like two inches below your belly button along your spine. And this is where emotions live, pleasure, creativity. It's also where suppression, like emotional suppression, lives in the body. So um it's also, and it's like one of the most conditioned layers because systemically we have been taught to suppress our emotions, to that it's not safe or rational to feel the full spectrum of emotions that we're feeling at any given time. Um, shame, especially, shame around desire, need, and feeling lives here. Um, like sexuality lives here, and there's a lot of shame that people store here around sexuality. So um, this is also the place where people are generally like hemorrhaging energy without even realizing it. Opening the sacral chakra means that you're allowing that full range of emotional experience back into the body, releasing the shame stories, living into pleasure and creativity. The solar plexus chakra's next. So the solar plexus lives, like if you touch where your ribs meet, that sort of like um softer spot at the top of your belly, right where your ribs meet, that's where you'll find your solar plexus chakra, represented by the color yellow. Um, if you've seen any kind of map of the chakra system, you probably know that it is, it goes in like Roiggy Biv colors, right? So we've talked about the root is red, sacral is orange, solar plexus is yellow. And this is our center of personal power, will, and identity. And I'm not talking about the identity that we source through our job titles, the groups that we belong to, maybe like political groups. This is the identity that we source within ourselves. It is the identity that we take time to cultivate on our own versus just sort of absorbing or adapting from our environment and from like who the world told us that we should be. Um, so basically, like if you talk about the chakras building on each other after safety, after restoring emotional access, then come the harder questions like, who am I when I'm not performing? The solar plexus chakra really governs like autonomy, self-worth, having the courage to take up actual space in the world. It's where conditioning around like feeling small, people-pleasing, feeling unworthy or feeling like um worthiness has to be earned. All of that's stored in the solar plexus chakra area. Um, so reclaiming the solar plexus chakra means understanding your core values. That's one, you know, great way to do it, understanding your identity. Um, again, not what you inherited, but the values and the identity that's like actually authentic to you. All right, the next chakra is the heart chakra, and it is right around, you know, your heart center area, um, represented by the color green. And here we find boundaries, love for the self and others, grief, and integration. So the heart chakra is really the bridge between the lower and upper chakras. So it's where the personal healing that you've done in the lower chakras starts to expand outward. Right? So um, here we know that healthy boundaries aren't walls, they're an expression of self-respect, which is something that lives in the heart chakra. Unprocessed grief, relationship wounds, that like deep longing for genuine connection that all moves through the heart chakra. It's where we feel compassion for ourselves and compassion for others, and it's where we start to really live and lead through love. All of it happens at this point that really is just like a bridge between all that inner work and then your connection with the outside world. So as we move on to the next chakras, you'll start to understand what that connection looks like through the chakra system, right? Okay, so throat chakra, right in the middle of your throat along the back where your spine is, represented by the color blue. And here is where authentic expression lives, truth and your voice. So again, if we go back to the idea of the chakras building on each other, it's really hard to express yourself authentically and in a way that feels really like right, aligned, and good if you don't already have the other chakras stabilized. So when we feel safe in who we are, when we can actually experience what it feels like to live life through emotion, when we know who we are, when we have a sense of identity outside of our jobs and the groups we belong to, and when we're expressing compassion for ourselves and living through love, then we can move on to authentic self-expression. So, you know, here we find truth telling, you know, on the flip side, we might find the cost of swallowing your voice or always having that need to like edit yourself before you speak. Um, these are some of just like the different ways and expressions of how your throat chakra may be operating. But overall, it carries voice and authentic self-expression. The next chakra is the third eye chakra. And your third eye chakra, it's represented by the color indigo or purple, and it's right in between your eyebrows, like a little bit above in your forehead. And this is where intuition lives: your inner knowing, your inner sense of guidance. The third eye doesn't just switch on, it comes back online after the lower chakras stabilize. Um, your intuition was never absent. It's never, as it was never that you didn't have intuition. Um, it's usually just that when you don't feel connected to your intuition, it's being drowned out by survival suppression or noise. When the body isn't regulated, it's really hard to know the difference between a reaction in your body and an intuitive ping. Like your body will give you a yes or a no, depending on, you know, the answers you're seeking and what the response is. Um, you know, for me, like I start to I've I understand now like how my body shows up, where where a yes is, where a no is, where a fear response lives, they all live differently in my body, but in dysregulation, that's a it's really, really hard to hear those pings because um when you're you know when your nervous system is activated and you're constantly surveying for threats, it's not responding to intuition in the same way as it would if it was living in rest and digest. So once you have those lower chakras stabilized, um, this is when we can really reconnect with our intuition and build a deep sense of trust that we get when we start to follow that inner guidance system. Our intuition will speak to us more often and more clearly the more we have stabilized the lower chakras and then worked to um like heal the third eye chakra. Okay, and then the last chakra is the crown chakra. It sits right at the top of your head and it's represented by white or violet, could be either. I usually see it as white. Um, and this is where our connection to each other, our connection to collective consciousness, um, unity consciousness, it's where we feel connected to each other, but on that like deeper level of knowing that we are all one and that we are all part of something larger. So, like true spirituality lives here. Um, that doesn't have to be mystical spirituality by any means. Like, you don't have to believe in anything mystical, it could simply just be a connection with nature and the knowing that we are part of nature, we are one with nature. Um, it's really where grounded spirituality lives. So not bypassing, um, you know, it can't be all love and light all the time. Um, that perspective really does just bypass the important work that has to be done in the lower chakras before you can feel this connection to the universe. Um, it's also not generally not like, well, be careful how I say it here, because it is there are um religious practices that do practice deep spirituality in this way. But there are also many religious practices that have sort of built their um built what they do off of conditioning, and you know, power and control is sort of like sourced at the base of it all. So um I think it's important to differentiate spirituality from religion in that way. Um a lot of, you know, if you trace it back historically, there are many uh practices of, especially like Christian religions, that have actually aimed to disconnect us from ourselves, disconnect us from our emotions, our sense of identity, uh, our inner source of power, the idea that we are innately powerful beings. Um, there's a lot of conditioning that taught us that when we're when we source that power from within ourselves, we don't need someone else to tell us what to do, someone else to um control us, right? Because we were not afraid of death, especially if you like, you know, believe in eternal consciousness, which would mean, you know, the the um soul is energy. And if energy can't be created or destroyed, where does the soul go after death? And, you know, thousands and thousands of like past life regression um cases and studies and near-death experiences all reveal similar patterns of the soul progression after death, right? The soul moves into um basically different phases in between life and then into a new body and into a new incarnation. And when you don't when you have like a religious practice that disconnects you from this idea of eternal consciousness and instead tells you that you have to comply or obey, or else you're going to go to hell, you're going to suffer in hell for eternity. Um, it's like fear-based control, right? And so um there was just like there there are still Christian practices that say you can't meditate, you can't do yoga. And it's not because in meditation or yoga you are praying to any other being, it's that you're reconnecting with yourself. And so there's just been this like systemic disconnection of the self from the self. And so this process of reconnecting through the chakras allows us to connect back to who we are. Um, and I say all of that, like not there are definitely religions that have um stripped away a lot of that. They've done a lot of work to strip away that conditioning. Um, but I think it's important to just name if we're talking about spirituality as it lives in the crown chakra, it is about the individual connection of self to the infinite, the knowing that we're part of something greater. Um at the crown chakra, really, like it represents the understanding that the that individual healing is never just individual. So what you heal, you stop passing on, whether that's to your kids or to those around you. What you integrate, you stop projecting onto others. So this is consciousness. It's not as an abstract concept, but as a lived experience of being connected to the self, to each other, to the infinite, being an embodied and awake human being. Okay, so we have covered the seven chakras and what they represent. I want to move in now to talking about how to heal the chakras. And if you reflect on the seven chakras that we just went through, you might be able to start thinking about like maybe where some of your blocks are showing up, right? Like, is it um emotional expression? Is it a disconnection from this idea of like, who am I? You know, I hear this all the time in interviews and discussions and circles, and you know, mostly, mostly women. Um, but I know it happens in men too. Like this, there's this point that we get to in life for many of us where it's like we've worked our whole lives and we've gone through the steps that they told us to go through, and we've done everything that we were supposed to do, or or not. We've made choices even against what they told us to do, but we still there's still just like this feeling of something missing, like unfulfillment to just like a void somewhere, and it's a matter of trying to like uh fill the void, and I think that this. This is a great way to start to fill that void generally. So, okay, let's go. Let's start back with the root chakra and figure out. Um, okay, we'll start with a couple of signs that that this is a chakra that could be blocked for you. At the root chakra, you could be feeling chronic anxiety that has no clear cause. It could be um obsessing about money, safety, basic survival, feeling that like doom or dread and not really understanding why, or feeling like ungrounded or scattered. Um, I call this like when my root chakra is not spinning correctly. I say that I feel untethered, like I'm just like a hot air balloon, just like swaying in the wind. Um, so you heal the root chakra through safety, through real embodied physiological safety. So that means regulating the nervous system first. Before anything cognitive, you have to start with the nervous system. And a lot of times you can do that through movement, rhythm, contact directly with the earth. These are like the primary medicines that can heal the root chakra. You can journal, um, some journaling prompts could be like, what did safety look, feel, and sound like in my childhood home? And which of those patterns am I still carrying in my life today? Where in my life am I still operating from scarcity or threat? And if there's like a persistent fear that's sort of nagging you below the surface, you can start to explore like, what what does that fear look like? What happens if that fear comes through? Um, what is, you know, what are what are the doomsday scenarios and and how can you work through those to bring a feeling of comfort back to the body, of acceptance, even just acceptance of what those could look like and and just like knowing, building this, like knowing that we are capable of doing the next right thing. We are capable of um, you know, finding ways with intention to pull us through the patterns that are holding us down. Um, and of course, like as I say that, I'm weighing my words, because all of us have been born into different circumstances. Safety means something really different for everyone. And, you know, as we talk about root chakra healing, like sometimes there are real traumas to heal. Sometimes like deep therapy is needed. Some people have been born into circumstances where safety is means something very different than like what safety might mean for me. And so, you know, as I say that, I don't want to bypass any of that. I think that um, I think that therapy is a wonderful tool when it's accessible. And um there are so many tools available online, groups available online, but however it is, however you have to find safety in your body, um, whatever that means, it has to start there. Um, okay, so I want to move on to a couple of other tools that we can use for each of the chakras. So I love working with crystals. I'm really energetically sensitive. So often I can feel energetic differences in the different crystals, but they're also really great just even for programming with intention. So if you keep a crystal out on your desk and you start to use it to think about grounding and safety, eventually the two will go hand in hand and you'll just be able to hold the crystal, see the crystal, and it will bring up this like, you know, this felt intention of bringing safety back into the body. So black tourmaline is a really great one for the root chakra, offers protection and grounding and a physical reminder that you're allowed to feel safe. You can also work with food. And again, if the root chakra represents red, um, really working with red in any way is helpful. Um, you can wear red clothing, but eating eating red foods is a great way to work with the root chakra, but also like root vegetables, vegetables that come from the earth. So beets, I mean, they all, you know, they come from the earth, but like if they're root, you know, they've lived in the earth, like beets, carrots, potatoes, parsnips, anything that grows underground. Some practices that can be helpful, walking barefoot on the grass or soil. Umatic shaking. I love using a shaker plate. I think I carry, I carry um a lot in like my hips, especially. And so shaking on like a vibration plate really helps me. Um, also just like even establishing small and consistent daily routines. Um, routine is a way to bring predictability and safety. So it can be something as like waking up at the same time every day, having meals at the same time every day, going to sleep at the same time. Small routines can start to just bring that felt sense of safety back into the body. Um, I also like personally love like anything that brings me comfort is helpful for me here. I love weighted blankets, heating pads. Um, it's really like just a matter of tuning in, listening to your body and seeing what your body is asking for in the moment and nurturing it, nurturing your body, showing your body that like you are going to take care of it and help and help your body feel safe. Okay, in the sacral chakra, so ways that you might be um experiencing an imbalance here could be emotional flatness or like a sudden overwhelming flood of emotion when you've been suppressing emotion and not working to actually like feel and release your emotions as they come through your body, it can cause a lot of like peaks and valleys in emotion because we don't have the tools to express emotion in a really healthy way. So um often we feel frustration and we can be pretty like reactive with anger if we're suppressing other emotions. But you know, when emotions aren't when we're not feeling them, like when when you start to feel an emotion in your body, research shows it's like a it's a body experience more than a cognitive experience. So when you start to feel an emotion, we're supposed to be naming the emotion, sitting with the emotion, and finding ways to allow that emotion to be processed. We're not supposed to just tuck it to the back and be like, oh, I'm not supposed to feel angry or sad right now, or even like some other some emotions like pure joy, um, pleasure, you know, these are emotions that we're taught to suppress because they're indulgent, you know. So we have to, an emotion that does not, the an emotion that we don't feel gets stuck in our body. It gets stuck as energy in the body, and research shows that that's turning into, you know, maybe it's anxiety, maybe it eventually manifests into insomnia. Then later chronic pain, chronic fatigue, uh, autoimmune disease. Like there are so many ways that suppressed emotion that we're starting to understand that suppressed emotion is actually causing physical ailments in the body. Um, but as you start to feel your emotions again, it can feel a little bit destabilizing at first because you can feel these like big swings in emotion and you have to just stick with it and keep working through it. Um, okay, other signs could be like shame or discomfort around your own needs and desires, like creative blocks, creative stagnation, um, not being able to like come up with, you know, solutions to problems, feeling disconnected from pleasure entirely, how to heal it. So the sacral heals through permission, not permission from someone else, giving ourselves permission to feel, to want, to create without justification. It responds to pleasure, flow, and the slow undoing of shame. You cannot rush this one open, um, but you can open it through creativity and not the type of creativity that comes with, like, you know, thinking that it's a waste of time unless we create something perfect or beautiful that we can gift or sell or um display in a museum. It's just the actual art of creating. You could journal through like what emotions were acceptable in my family, which ones did I learn to hide or punish myself for having? Where am I currently suppressing a feeling? A great crystal to work with is carnelian, and it's really representative of like vitality and the creative life force. It's associated with warmth and courage and the restoration of energy that has been suppressed. If sacral is orange, um, you could eat orange food, sweet potatoes, oranges, mangoes, carrots. And then like water and hydration are really important here. Um, some of like the more physical practices, you could do intuitive movement or dance without choreography, just like figuring out how your body wants to feel. If you do journal, really focus on that stream of conscious journaling, uncensored journaling, um, especially through emotional expression. And then again, going back to like creative work, not because of any type of end goal, but purely for how the act of creating feels. Solar plexus chakra, yellow. Again, this one is um in between your ribs and where your like belly and ribs meet. And this one again is identity. So identity and um autonomy, that sort of thing. So, okay, solar plexus might be blocked if you are feeling chronic people pleasing, difficulty making decisions without having to like source those answers from people around you. If the idea of having personal power doesn't land with you, like if the idea that like we are each individual powerful beings, um if that doesn't resonate with you, then that's a sign that this chakra is blocked. Um, maybe anger that never surfaces or comes out like uh sideways, like in an unhealthy expression of anger, like those are all signs that the solar plexus might be blocked. How to heal it? So the solar plexus heals through agency, small, consistent acts of choosing yourself. So every time you honor your own preferences, the things that you want over or the things that you need, or you know, just honoring yourself over someone else's approval, you start to rebuild what the conditioning like dismantled over time. You could journal through, like, where did I first learn that making myself small kept me safe or allowed me to be more loved? What would I say, do, or stop tolerating if I genuinely believed my needs were just as valid as everyone else's? A crystal to work with is citrine, representing personal power and confidence. It helps dissolve self-doubt and rebuilds a relationship with your own will. Citrine actually carries like a solar energy with it, so it's really activating instead of calming. Foods, so you'd work, you'd have yellow foods, so um, bananas, corn, ginger, turmeric, lemon. Um, you could also consume like complex carbohydrate uh carbohydrates that sustain your energy. Practice. So um practices you could do like boundary setting here. Um boundaries live like in a couple places, but boundary setting for your own like energy and autonomy. Um you could do core strength work. So not not for like aesthetics, but like for actually the felt sense of building physical strength in your center. Um, you know, it is about personal strength, personal willpower, identity agency, and that lives in your core. You could also identify non-negotiable personal values. So go back to those core values, figure out what are three of your core values, not the core values that you learned through family, not the core values you think you should pick, but three values that are just inherently yours. And figure out where in your life you're honoring them and where you might be like violating them. Because when you violate your core values, like they're there no matter what. The authentic you is there, and you have values that align with that authenticity. And so when you are speaking, thinking, behaving in ways that conflict with those values, you're creating a sense of dissonance in your body, which creates like a stress response. Um, and so when you are going against your values, oftentimes, like maybe you you have a conversation with somebody and you say something that maybe you wish you didn't, you had wished you didn't say, or it's just sitting with you wrong. Sometimes you can source that back to like I wasn't living in alignment with my values at that time. Okay, the heart chakra. Um, again, love, compassion, the bridge from inner to outer world represented by green, the heart chakra um might be blocked if you are experiencing like a difficulty receiving love or care without deflecting it. Um, when somebody tries to help you genuinely offers you a compliment, and you're unable to just sit in the receiving of that compliment. Um boundaries, um, especially boundaries around like self-love, connection, compassion, um, when they're either non-existent or maybe just like too rigid. And then it could also be like a grief that never moves, it just sits there. I think we have um, there's there's a lot, actually. Maybe I'll come back and talk about grief at some point because we have been taught to grieve completely wrong. Um, we have been totally disconnected from the right way to grieve. And a lot of times when something happens that really elicits a grief response, we stuff it down, we don't process that in the right way, and it really does get stuck, and that's a big block in the heart chakra area. So, okay, how to heal the heart chakra. The heart heals through grief, through safe connection. Um, you know, loss doesn't have to be one of the big losses that we sort of use to validate someone else's grief. There are a lot of situations that do elicit a grief response. Um, and so we have to not bypass the loss. Um, we have to hold our boundaries. We have to understand that self-love does not mean self-erasure. Um, you could journal. So, what am I still grieving that I haven't allowed myself to actually feel? Where do I abandon myself in relationships? What am I afraid will happen if I stop? You could use rose quartz here. It's a great stone for unconditional love, starting with the self. Foods, so green foods, leafy greens, broccoli, avocado, cucumber, and heart-healthy foods actually are really good here too. Practice. So I love there's like a loving-kindness meditation that you can do where you sit in stillness, and once you feel settled, you start to just offer love for yourself and then feel that almost as like this expanding light, growing warm light radiating outward, and you just continue to share that love outward further and further. You could write a letter to someone that you need to forgive without sending it. Consciously practice receiving, so letting a compliment land, letting somebody help you without redirecting or minimizing that help. Okay, throat chakra. This might be blocked when you find yourself editing yourself before you speak. Um, a lot of times we do that before we even realize we're doing it. Maybe physical tension in the neck, jaw, or shoulders, or a persistent sense that your truth isn't welcome or won't be heard, or that, like, you know, that idea of like, who am I to to speak my truth? Like, who cares? What difference does it make? Like, why do people want to hear my voice? Those are all, those all happen when you're when your throat chakra is blocked. So the throat chakra heals through using it. So through gradual, courageous practices of saying true things out loud. Does not require a big audience, just requires honesty, starting with yourself. It can even just be speaking a small truth out loud to yourself. Um, starting to tell a friend or a partner, no, actually, this is where I want to go for dinner tonight. Small truths. Um, you could journal through like what is something I've known to be true for a long time, but I haven't said out loud. Whose voice am I most afraid of disappointing when I speak? And when did that fear begin? Crystal could be blue lace agate, which is a calmstone, helps with clear expression, and it cools the anxiety you might feel around like speaking or second guessing yourself. Um, blue and purple foods. You could do both here. So blueberries, blackberries, purple cabbage, and like throat soothing, herbal tea, broth, honey, any of those would help. Um, some other practices could be singing or humming, actually, just like like humming or using your voice in any way to like break up stagnation is a great way to heal the throat chakra. Um, free writing with the specific intention of saying what you actually think, not what sounds like acceptable from others. Um, no editing yourself based on what other people might think. Third eye chakra. So this is the chakra of intuition, and it's purple or indigo, depending on you know, if the crown chakra, if you're using violet for that, you would use indigo for the third eye chakra. And here you might experience chronic overthinking that overrides any felt sense of knowing. Um, maybe it's just distrusting your own perceptions or second-guessing yourself constantly. Could be a disconnection from meaning or a sense of direction in your life. So the third eye heals through stillness and through learning to distinguish your felt sense of like intuition from a react like a reaction in the body. Journaling questions could be when did I last have a strong inner knowing about something? And did I override it? Or did I honor it? What do I actually believe beneath what I was taught? Beneath what's socially acceptable about who I am and why I'm here. Crystal could be amethyst. That's a really powerful stone for your third eye chakra. Quiets mental noise, it offers clarity, spiritual perception, protection of the mind. It's actually long been used to support dreaming too. And that's another, um, maybe we'll come back and talk about dreaming someday. It's another practice that we've been systemically disconnected from. And I've actually had a recently had a course on dreaming that was really, really cool. Um, and so yeah, I think I'll come back and share some of that with you at some point because I think it's a practice we need to um bring back. I don't know. Okay, purple foods, grapes, eggplant, purple kale, and any food that supports cognitive clarity would be good. A daily stillness practice would be good. Five minutes of sitting in stillness or meditation, dream journaling, you know, writing down your dreams immediately after. You wake up and then later starting to like interpret patterns. And then you could do like somatic decision making, so really working with your body to understand what is showing up as a yes and what's showing up as a no. All right, and finally the crown chakra. So remember, this sits at the top of your head, it's white or violet, and this is our connection to spirituality, our connection to each other, to unity, collective consciousness. Some blocks could be like having a profound sense of isolation, even if you have people around you, you might not feel truly connected. Um, maybe your experience. Experiencing like spiritual cynicism or a like disconnection from anything larger than yourself. It could be just like going through the motions of life without a felt sense of purpose. So the crown cannot be forced open. None of them can really be forced open, but the crown really requires patience and gradually really working with the chakras below it. Um it sort of like opens as the work below it settles as each of those chakras come back into balance. The crown will open. So really like what blocks it is usually the unresolved material in the lower chakras. Um practices here is like integration, um, you know, integrating the healing that you've been doing and then reconnecting with your intuition because intuition is a pathway to connecting with collective consciousness. And collective consciousness isn't just spirituality, oneness with each other. Um, collective consciousness, it's the the realm of all, you know, information, past, present, and forward, where uh psychic experience lives, telepathy, mediumship, and that sort of thing. So um it really requires a stable foundation, stable six lower chakras before you can access everything else that is available to you. Um, so questions could be: where in my life am I using spiritual concepts or practices to avoid feeling something else that I haven't processed? Um, what does it feel like to be connected to something greater than myself? A crystal could be clear quartz. It's a crystal for amplification and clarity. So at the crown, it actually supports integration of all of the work done below. And it's it acts as this like conduit between personal consciousness and something larger. Foods, um, so in the crown chakra, foods like it's actually more about less than more. So fasting is relevant here. Um, but you could do like light, clean foods, um, herbal infusions, and it's more about an intention brought to actual like nourishment, nourishing your body as it is asking to be nourished. Practices could be like meditation without any agenda. So don't, you know, not like a guided meditation, not a visualization, just sitting in silence. Could be spending time in nature with just the intention of feeling connected to nature. Um, not even like intending to be restored, like just feeling connected and one. Could be sitting with the question of purpose, not as like what's my life purpose and how can I shift my work and make money off of it, but like, what is the work that I'm here to contribute to the world around me? Okay, so there you have our healing through the chakra system. Um if you have questions, if you get stuck somewhere, please, please reach out. I love to hear from you guys and um always happy to help point you in the direction if you are stuck in a specific chakra area. Let me know. Um, I'm working on redoing some of my courses so that they more directly correspond to each of the chakras so that I offer support as you're going through the chakra system. Like, how can you start to really work with and unblock one of them? So, all right, guys, until next time. See you later.