The chakra system seeks balance. People often look for remedies to blocked chakra centers or weak energy flow, but the truth is problems also arise when too much energy is passing through a chakra center.

For instance if your base chakra is overactive you might become extremely angry and explode over the smallest provocation. Or, if your third eye chakra is working too hard you may experience nightmares and unpleasant waking visions.

Balance is the key to bliss and happiness. I know it’s sometimes easier to talk about this than to embody it, but we must seek a balance if we are to grow to our full potential.

Pay attention to your thoughts and feelings. If you find yourself obsessing over one or two subjects much of the time, you are unbalanced. If you experience sadness or anger for long periods on a daily basis , you may be noticing an imbalance in your subtle energy. Ideally your thoughts and emotions engage a full spectrum of topics and feelings.

The subject of balance is HUGE and can range from physical health to psychological and emotional wellbeing. Clearly it is beyond the scope of this blog post.

But what I want to emphasize here is the importance if finding an intuitive balance. Without even meditating on individual chakra systems you can stop at any moment and get a feel for how balanced or unbalanced you, as a person, are right now.

Deep breathing exercises, meditation, regular exercise, and actively voicing your opinions and feelings to avoid bottling them up are all healthy balancing routines. You deserve to feel calm, centered, and neither under stimulated or overactive in any one area of life.

You can include each of your main seven chakras in a simple visualization and breathing meditation to help keep each center in a balanced state. After lowering your heart rate and relaxing deeply with a few minutes of breathing, simply pass over each chakra with the palm of your hand. Visualize the correct color and find the subtle, warm sensation of each individual point. Feel/see the chakra pulsing with colored light, freely receiving energy from the previous charka and releasing energy into the next chakra. This exercise will only take a few minutes and will help to bring your subtle energy body into balance.

There is no such thing as a real lack of energy. All the energy in existence is available to us here and now; what matters is that we accept and embrace it.

And there is no need for an excess of energy. Overcharging our chakras and our mental/emotional processes is not the solution to problems in our lives; we must learn to trust the flow of life and avoid excess strain.

A balanced chakra system reflects a balanced life and vice versa. Anything you can do within or without to promote healthy balance will serve your greatest good.