Located: Solar Plex (upper part of belly)

Characteristics:

• Will, personal power
• Taking responsibility for one’s life
• Intellect
• Making decisions
• Clarity in judgement
• Personal identity, personality
• Confidence
• Self-discipline
• Independence

Element: Fire

Color: yellow

Imbalances:

• Need for control over people & environment
  • Blockage is opposite
• Lose sight of big picture
• Manipulative
• Lack of clear direction
• Overeating
• Fatigue
• Poor self-image

To Open try:

• Aromatherapy:
  • Grapefruit, orange, ginger, mint, chamomile
• Yoga: Create the fire within
  • Focus on core strength
  • Warrior pose
  • Navasana: boat pose
  • Surya namaskar: sun salutation
• Outdoor activities in the sun
• Mediate

Stones:

• Citrine
• Tigers eye
• Agate
• Shungite
• Pyrite
• Golden Lemurian
• Orange Calcite
• Amber
• Gold (the metal or stone)
• Chrysoberyl

Purpose:

• Energy amplifier & cleanser
• Enhance personal gifts
• Rids pollution
• Dispels negative energies
• Change patterns, behavior ways of thinking
• Realize change is healthy
  • Come to terms
• Create new inspirations
• Increase drive and motivation
• Enhance intuition & psychic ability
  • Boosts memory
• Release feelings of suicide, depression, and anxiety
• Boosts vitality, sexuality, self-healing

Wealth:

• Promotes leadership through trust
• Reach financial goals with connections of others
• Wisdom during daily stresses
• Confidence & determination
• Overcome financial challenges
• Attract money & new opportunities
  • Innovative solutions
• Inspire to expand your business
• Wards off procrastination
• Increase energy… snowball into productivity

Love:

• Reduce emotional fears
• Emotional release
  • Forgive to release
• Desire to find happiness
• Hope and positivity
• Inspire to leave past behind
• Accept change
• See other’s perceptions
• Strengthens sexual energy

Located:

• Level of the lumbar vertebrae
• Three inches below the navel

Characteristics:

• Emotions / feelings
• Relationships / relating
• Expression of sexuality
• Feeling outer/inner worlds
• Creativity
• Fantasies

Element: Water

• “Movement & flow of our emotions and thoughts. Supports personal expansion and formatting identity.”

When Imbalanced:

• Co-dependency with other people or substances that grant easy access to pleasure
• Being ruled by emotions
• Or feeling numb - out of touch
• Overindulge in foulosy/sexual obsession
• Or lack of sexual desire
• Feeling stuck in a feeling or mood

Ways to Balance and Open Sacral Chakra:

1. Practice emotional catharsis
   1. Jumping, screaming, laughing, crying, etc.
2. Explore creative self-expression
   1. Try a new hobby
3. Identify your sexual blocks
4. Meditate and carry crystals
5. Become mindful of emotional triggers
6. Explore the root of your addictions
7. Practice self-care toward your body
8. Color therapy
   1. Indulge in orange
9. Sacral chakra visualizations
10. Get sexually creative
11. Aroma therapy
12. Yoga
    1. Positions: cobra, butterfly, camel, goddess, reverse warrior, pigeon pose
13. Chant “VAM”
14. Daily affirmations
    1. I am passionate
    2. I feel pleasure and abundance with every breath I take
    3. I am open to experiencing my present moment through my senses
    4. I value and respect my body
    5. I allow myself to experience pleasure
    6. My sexuality is sacred
    7. I am at peace
    8. Emotions are the language of my soul

Stones to Open and Activate:

• Orange and coral calcite
• Citrine
• Orange carnelian
• Orange aventurine
• Orange or blue kyanite
• Tangerine quartz
• Shungite
• Goldstone

Best Stone to Sooth overactive chakra:

• Orange carnelian
• Snowflake obsidian
• Amber

Purposes:

• Protection 
• Absorbs negative energies and pollutants from the body. 
• Guards against radiation
• Clears electromagnetic pollution
• Heals earth's energies, creating a stronger connection with Nature
• when traveling:
  • overcome fears of travel
  • empowers oneself 
  • reduces jet lag
  • protects against others energies

Physical Healing:

• Female problems
  • regulating menstrual cycle and cramps
  • eases labor
  • treats sexual diseases, especially ones caused by traumatic experiences
• Within the body, it aids or relieves:
  • cold sweats, malaria
  • trembling
  • Parkinson's disease
  • asthma
  • intestinal problems
  • rheumatic pain
  • When used as a diuretic, helps aid kidney and gallstones
  • Osteoarthritis
  • lower blood pressure
  • travel sickness and vertigo
  • swollen joints
  • growths
  • tumors
  • torn muscles
  • broken bones
• Enhances immune system 
• Stimulates release of toxins within the liver. 
• Strengthens memory 

Emotional Healing:

• Encourages change, allowing one to take emotional risks.
• Show's us what is blocking our spiritual growth by drawing out deep feels and psychosomatic causes. 
  • break the unwanted patterns and emotional ties
• Encourages expression of feelings
• Gives Confidence by showing us one's thoughts and actions manifest our realities. 
• Heals past emotional abuse, especially ones caused in childhood
• Overcoming fear of confrontation

Chakras:

• Heart

Everyday Uses:

1. Keep around electronics to dispel electromagnetic pollutions
2. In office, protects against noise, over bright fluorescent light and electromagnetic pollutions
3. Carry while traveling

Purposes:

• Manifests optimism, joy, happiness, and overall positivity
• Natural Antidepressant
  • aids in depression, anxiety and stress
• Reminds us to look at the brighter side of each situation
• Calms intense emotions before they present themselves in our physical bodies
• Sense of Universal love
• Shows us Divine light of inner truth
• Releases negative emotions such as grudges
• Hear our heart's innate wishes and truths

Chakras:

• Heart Chakra

Practical uses:

1. Body layout
2. Crystal Grid
3. Worry stone
4. Yoga
5. Meditation
6. Manifestation
7. Bath
8. Elixir