r/Chakras

If someone had an astral parasite or attached spirit lingering from childhood trauma, and it blocked or imbalanced most chakras, could opening the crown chakra or raising its activity be a first step toward balancing?

I've been reading Llewellyn's complete book of chakras and some of Anodea Judith's books. So the concept of jagan mohini came up with kundalini descending when we are created but it's described as loss of divine knowledge and becoming ignorant by disconnection from the Spirit.

If that person were to dissociate or be kicked out of their body by a parasite and wanted to open the crown to begin reconnecting with their body instead of root... as if rebirthing or manifesting their spirit back into the body in order to begin their chakra journey... could the crown energy be like accepting the trauma of the past and recognizing the parts of themselves that are open to change opposed to the parasites energy that wants to block out change?

I'm having some trouble putting it into words. I know it sounds a lot like the root chakra but I'm thinking it's because the crown and root are mirrored in a way? They may find parts of themselves or experiences that they wish didn't happen and may not find closure, but they did happen so in order to open the crown to descend they must become open to to accepting some things may not be resolved beyond their acceptance.

Does this make sense? It's for a story but it doesn't feel right that they would travel from root to crown if they're outside the body for some reason. I keep coming back to it. The person has just made a big change in life and perhaps the inner doubt that she is allowed to have that change, become open to new things, move on past the oppressive nature of their culture, and let go of the traumas including by the parasite has allowed the parasite to take up the new extra space in her energy and kick her consciousness out. Like the culture has firm boundaries that kept them safe but also unable to stretch so when they left the box and became open to new things the parasite is vying for control over the new space as well. The person ends up floating in the crowns energy field which may feel like a state free of worldly things but it's a false sense of bliss that may be corrupted by losing their body to the parasite if they don't accept that life is both worldly and spiritual.

I'm not really sure how to say all this. I'm speaking out loud and transcribing this. I'm really trying to use my voice more. I suffer from CPTSD. That's mostly because of emotional neglect, lots of isolation. I am undiagnosed autistic and probably have a few other neurological conditions. It's so hard to say these things out loud. I think it's a part of unmasking/healing.

I think that just by speaking what I'm thinking, rather than journaling it in writing, is opening my throat chakra. I have done a lot of Self-Healing. So, getting an overview of so many different modalities, including looking into chakras. I know I have my like base needs met but I'm really trying hard to grow as a person.

I have a lot of shame around sexual stuff, I have been practising tantra a bit to help understand things.

I've been crying a lot, really confronting things like sad memories, and grief. I think there's a lot of layers of sadness around my heart. By grieving a lot of things it's getting through the layers and allowing me to love myself.

Love for myself at different points in my life (being there for me in memories), being able to recieve the love of other people, and love them deeper. So working my way slowly upwards, opening up, unmasking?

So yeah, opening my throat by speaking my truth. Verbally out loud. And looking forward to what's going to come in the future.

-I edited out all the "umms" and things for formatting, added one or two things for context. I'm also isolated again and developing agoraphobia so just putting this out there and seeing what happens. I should also add I have practiced a little chanting in the last 5months or so

During breath work, I usually "blow" through my chakras to clear them. Over the past week, I find myself blowing through 12 (in the body) instead of the usual 7. Anyone else experiencing something similar?

Hello wonderful people. I had reiki today and it was truly amazing, I felt so frazzled entering the room and I could feel the sensations being worked on and had a deep out of body sleep but not actually falling asleep.
My master mentioned my solar plexus is really blocked and advised citrine and meditation.

Any guidance on how to use citrine effectively and in the right way? Any useful meditations to share?

Thank you all

Jenny was 25, living in London, and from outside her life looked normal enough. She had a job, rent to pay, groceries to buy, group chats to answer, friends asking if she was coming out this weekend, family expecting her to be okay. People at work would say “you good?” and she would say “yeah, just tired.”

But it wasn’t normal tired. Not the “I slept 5 hours and need coffee” kind. She could sleep the whole weekend and still wake up with the same heaviness in her chest and stomach, like her body had already started the day defeated.

She told me rest was not really fixing it.

Her mind was always in the future. Preparing, managing, checking if something bad might happen. Did she reply wrong? Was her mum okay? Was someone upset with her? Was she falling behind? What if she lost someone? What if life changed suddenly and she was not ready?

London around her was moving fast. Tube, phones, work pressure, everyone pretending they have life together. Jenny was functioning, yes, but not really living inside her body. Even when nothing was happening, she felt like she had to keep watch.

There was also fear of loss, especially around people she loved. It was not always loud panic. More like emotional alertness all the time, as if stopping the watch would make someone disappear.

And this is the part many ppl don’t understand about anxiety and exhaustion. Sometimes it is not one clear panic attack. Sometimes it is living like you are responsible for preventing loss itself.

So in the healing Soul Journey, we asked Higher Self to show the root of this tiredness and fear.

Higher Self took her into another life.

Her name there was Mary. She was around 40, standing near a river with a basket, bread inside, old black shoes, heavy grey dress, dark curly hair pinned under a hat. There was no big cosmic scene at first. Just a tired woman doing what had to be done.

Mary had children, a house, cooking, shopping, chores, and a husband who was harsh. He was grumpy, short-tempered, easy to anger. She had to walk on eggshells around him, careful what she said, careful how she moved, careful not to make the room more dangerous.

When I asked Jenny where Mary felt this in the body, she said it was in the diaphragm. Tight there.

That detail felt very real to me, bc many ppl live like this now too. Not in an old village, maybe, but with the same body pattern. Tight diaphragm, shallow breath, always reading someone’s mood, always adjusting yourself so another person doesn’t explode.

Then Higher Self showed the deeper pain. Mary had lost children. Some died very young, some maybe never had a real chance to live properly. Each loss made her feel like she failed as a mother, as a woman, even as a body.

And there was no time to grieve.

Food still had to be cooked. Children still needed mother. Husband was still angry. Life did not pause and say, “go feel this now.” So Mary made one inner program: keep going.

One foot in front of the other.

Not “I need support.” Not “I am allowed to collapse.” Not “my grief matters.” Just keep going.

And this old program was still active in Jenny’s current life. Different city, different clothes, different century, but same instruction inside the body: keep going, don’t stop, don’t feel too much, watch everyone, prepare for loss, survive first and feel later.

This is what old energy can do. It doesn’t always return as a clear memory. Sometimes it returns as personality, anxiety, tiredness, being the “responsible one,” not being able to rest even when nothing is wrong.

Jenny thought she was just bad at relaxing. Higher Self showed she was carrying old survival.

The energy from Mary’s life felt heavy and stale, like it had been packed into the belly and chest for a long time. That kind of tired where sleep helps for a few hours, then the same weight comes back before the day even starts.

I think many ppl know this feeling. You call it burnout, depression, “I don’t know what is wrong with me,” or maybe even laziness, bc the world loves to blame tired people.

But sometimes it is not laziness. Sometimes it is duty with no love in it.

In that old life, Mary did learn responsibility. She learned endurance. She learned how to continue when life gave her no space. But she also forgot presence. She learned how to survive life, not how to be inside life.

At the end of Mary’s life, she was old and dying in bed, with her grown children around her. And only then she felt it fully. They loved her. She loved them. This noisy, messy, painful life had love in it all along, but she had been too busy surviving to feel it.

That was the wisdom for Jenny: don’t wait until the last moment to become present. Don’t wait until something is gone to realize it was precious. Don’t wait until the deathbed to feel the simple love that is already in the room.

Her guide gave this very human message: appreciate it even when they are loud.

That line made me laugh a little and hurt at the same time. Bc yes, people are loud. Kids are loud. Life is loud. Dishes, bills, neighbours, messages, bodies, emotions. It is not some aesthetic spiritual movie with candle and perfect silence.

But it is still life.

And when the nervous system is stuck in “just keep going,” even love feels like another job. Even good things become more things to manage. Even rest becomes another task you fail at.

So the healing was not only understanding the past life. The old survival energy had to leave the body.

Jenny felt fear in the sternum, like the body still believed loss was coming and she had to watch for it. With Higher Self, her guide, and Archangel Raphael, she breathed into that fear. Not thinking about it, not analyzing it, just feeling it and letting it move.

Layer by layer, the sternum softened. Then the stale Mary-energy around the belly and chest began to release too: old grief, old duty, old “no time to feel.” It was like the body finally understood that life was over.

You are not there now.

You don’t have to carry Mary’s basket in London.

After that release, the message was simple: you are doing good.

Not “you must do more.” Not “fix yourself faster.” Not “be more spiritual.” Just: you are doing good.

And honestly, this is such a different voice than the human mind. The mind says you are behind, you should be stronger, why are you still tired, why can’t you relax, why can’t you be grateful, why can’t you get your life together like everyone else?

Higher Self was more gentle. It showed that this tiredness had history. This fear had root. This body had been carrying an old instruction that said survival first, feeling later.

But later never comes. That is the trap.

We keep saying “after this week.” After this deadline. After this person is okay. After I have more money. After life calms down. After I fix myself.

But life doesn’t always give perfect quiet doorway into presence. Sometimes you have to enter life while it is still messy.

So maybe the question is not only “why am I so tired?” Maybe it is also: where am I only keeping going? Where did I learn nobody will come help, so I must not stop? What grief did I never have time to feel? What ordinary love is already here, but I am too tired to receive it?

Sometimes healing is not a big cosmic download. Sometimes it is a tired part inside finally hearing: you can stop now.

You can breathe now. You can feel now. You don’t have to wait until the end of life to be here.

Usually I move energy from my root chakra to solar plexus to transmute sexual energy. And the daily solar plexus meditation I do involves box breathing while imagining a big ball of golden white light going into me with each breathe.

Hi y'all, I'm a big skeptic when it comes to spiritual ideas but I have have been going through intense experiences I really can't deny and try to keep an open mind.

I've practiced meditation on and off over the years. For awhile now I've had a lot of trouble getting into meditative states because of a painful lump in my throat that arises early in my meditation. I always thought this was just my throat drying out from deep breaths but I recently had the idea that it could be related to chakras. The pain only begins when I get into a meditative state and goes away a little while after.

I tried a guided meditation for throat chakra connection yesterday and the pain became so unbearable that I had to stop the meditation within 10 minutes. I've read what the throat chakra is generally thought to be related to and I have struggled a lot throughout my life feeling safe to express my truth.

Any advice on ways to start working with this? I don't have the funds to pay a teacher and wouldn't know how to find someone who could actually help me or not, but I just don't see how much luck I'm going to have with random YouTube videos.

Thanks for reading :)

i know this sound weird, but this is what happened in one deep healing journey I facilitated.

The subject had strong social anxiety. When he imagined walking in a busy street, the anxiety first appeared like blue energy in the chest. We breathed it out, like smoke leaving the body.

But after that, he didn’t feel peace.

He felt cold.

Not calm cold. More like shut down cold. Like “I don’t care about people anyway.” And this coldness was sitting lower, in the solar plexus, between chest and stomach.

When we looked deeper, it showed as a purple cube.

And this cube was not random. It was protection.

His Higher Self showed a classroom moment from around age ten. Other kids were together in groups, and he felt excluded. Like he didn’t belong. Like something was wrong with him.

In that moment, small him created belief: “I am not worthy.”

That pain was too much for a child. So his system made this cold protection around it. Almost like freezer around wound. Very clever, actually. The younger part basically decided: if people hurt me, I will stop feeling, I will not need them, I will stay safe.

And years later this protection looked like social anxiety.

Not only fear of people, but fear of opening again.

Fear that if he shows real self, people will reject him again.

Maybe this is why some anxiety feels so stubborn. Because it is not just “bad thoughts.” It is a younger part still doing old job.

In the session, being of Light helped purify this cube slowly. It was not forced away, bc protection was created for reason. Then the ten year old fragment came back into him, through solar plexus, and he felt warmth, adventure, confidence and more love.

This part touched me a lot. Because many ppl hate themselves for being anxious or closed. But maybe some part is not broken. Maybe it just protected you long time ago and nobody updated it.

Later his guide gave very simple advice. Stop feeding every thought. Notice when the mind takes over. Go into nature. Create something. Do what feels alive again.

I see this again and again in healing soul journeys. The visible problem is often only top layer. Under it can be one moment, one belief, one frozen younger part, one protection that became prison.

If you struggle with social anxiety, maybe ask gently:

what am I protecting inside?

when did people start to feel unsafe?

what part of me decided “I am not worthy”?

Don’t attack anxiety first. Listen to it. It may be guarding something very young.

I'm a medium so I'm use to seeing apparitions on the day to day. However, today when I was at work I saw a green silhouette which I have never seen before, and when I looked up what it might mean it said it could be a spirt linked with the Heart Chakra. Now I don't particularly work very much with Chakras so I still have no idea what message this send. If anyone could help me understand what it was that I saw and what it could mean I would greatly appreciate it. 🙏🏻

I know some of you might say that learning chakras via analogies distracts from what they are, but I'd like to know anyway if you please.

For example I'm confused if a deficient root chakra is more like sinking or floating, because if you don't have enough energy to support your physical existence and be structured in life would you be swallowed by the physical world? Or would inability to use accumulate and hold onto root energy mean there is less physical structure and presence to remain?

Would sinking be an inability to support the life one has? And then floating is lack of structure to have life at all? Would deficiency then be lack of energy and excessive is inability to refine/control it? I'd like to know your nuanced takes on chakras like this.

More examples:

Is deficient sacral rigid/frozen/dry like ice or a cold shoulder because one uses little emotion? And excessive like turbulent steam or a storm that blasts with emotion without control?

Is deficient solar like a sticky tar or a dimness as one isn't confident in performing action and stuck with demotivation? And excessive like burnout from trying to shine too brightly, or scorching self or others to stay in control?

Is deficient heart like suffocation of life from lack of gentle compassion? And excessive like a heavy air condensed into a headstone of the grief of loss being carried weighing one down?

Is deficient throat like a fuzzy, muffled, muted expression from lack of self knowledge? And excessive like top much noise to differentiate self-truth from lie?

Is deficient third eye dimness or haziness from lack of clarity or desire for it? Is excessive from too much information without discerning reality or deductive probability?

Crown to me feels more like a state of mind but would deficiency be close-minded and rigid thought because of pre-existing notions or is that more third eye? Would it be rejecting spiritual concepts because theyre holding onto what is concrete and pragmatic? Would excessive be false spirituality, head in the clouds, thought without basis in reality?

When I intentionally try to open myself to what I think of as spiritual transformation, I close my eyes and focus inward. Within a few moments I feel a warm vibration in the center of my chest that spreads outward through my arms and up into my head. It feels like a mix of warmth, tingling, and chills. The sensation is very noticeable and often feels like energy moving through my body. However, it usually reaches a certain point and then stops, and I can’t seem to go any deeper into the experience. It feels like something is blocking me opening my mind’s eye. Has anyone else experienced something similar, and how do you interpret it?