How To Open Your Chakras: Meditations, Activities, Journaling Prompts, and on the Go Self Improvement Activates and Meditations for Busy Bees

On The Go and Daily Grind Meditations and Rituals

• 5-10 minute bath soak: let your body soak in the water and feel the dirt being cleansed off your body. Concentrate on all the negative energy from the day being soaked off your body or any emotion that was bothering you throughout your day.

  Great additions include bath salts, crystals, dimmed lights, soothing music, candles, and essential oils.

• Car karaoke: singing unfiltered can be freeing and is a great way to elevate your mood no matter the time of the day. It also helps to open your throat chakra by communicating your emotions vocally and by letting go of the boundaries placed on vocal self expression.

• Mood booster playlist: create a playlist and whenever moments in your life start to feel dull and you can no longer enjoy the smaller things in life play your trusty mood booster playlist. Filled with songs that elevate your mood, calm you down, and make you feel free.

• Grounding Ritual: stand on the ground and as you feel the grass touch your feet. Allow yourself to slow down and feel balance within your body. This meditation is a great reminder that we are one in a billon and that it's ok to slow down once in a while when you need to reset or ground yourself. Let the roots of the earth anchor you down into safety and peace.

• Sun charging ritual: stand in the sun and soak in the heat. Imagine energy currents transferring from the sun to your body charging up your body and mind with positivity, fuel, and the grace needed to start the day.

• Moon charging ritual: in the moonlight, similar to the sun exercise visualize the energy flowing into your body. However, if you don't work night shift I would recommend imagining this energy transfer as restorative, calming, or similar to a dandelion wish releasing.

• Protective bubble ritual: this one is extremely simple just close your eyes no matter where you are and imagine you are surrounded in a protective bubble. Personalize your bubble to whatever colors or images make you feel safe. Affirmations can also assist in this visualization by saying phrases such as I am safe and protected, As you surround me blank emotion can not get to me, etc.

• Journaling: whether you are at home or having a slow day a work releasing your thoughts onto anything external like paper or a computer can be a great way to free yourself of draining emotions and discover more about yourself. And, if you have any emotions that your particularly want to address, past trauma, addictions, etc. google and Pinterest will always have you covered.

• Organization and Cleaning: organizing your life either through planning or physically cleaning is a great way to ease your mind for tomorrow and also an opportunity to turn the devices off and listen to your thoughts as you complete your day to day chores. You may just learn something about yourself. Decorating your space is also a great option. This not only makes you feel more at home in your environment but is a great way to self express and remind yourself of your own energy.

• Starfish: star fishing in the water in complete silence is a freeing feeling. It allows you to feel as if you are on vacation which helps to add a little sunshine to your day. Just spread your arms and legs apart and let the water drift you into freedom. Allow yourself to embrace the feelings of freedom and let go of control. This exercise is a great reminder that we are only human. We embody energy but a lot of things are out of our control and sometimes we just need to let go and release all that is harmful to us.

• Slow the fuck down: take time to enjoy the senses when you can. It is a great meditative process to help you rediscover the joy in the small things. Start to take notice to things you haven't before, and she how it impacts your day. Don't rush through your skincare routine or nightly bath, instead take the time to really feel it.

• Dancing or exercise: intuitively moving your body helps to work your sacral chakra and allows you to become more Intune with your body. Feel your movements and remind yourself that your only human. Humble yourself and feel the power of just moving and being.

• Nature walks: enjoying nature, breathtaking scenery, or in your neighborhood while taking daily walks is a restorative, peaceful, and energizing experience. Let your mind be free and enjoy the experience of being as you connect with your environment.

• Meditation Beats: Using sound therapy to connect with chakras or promote different emotions (happiness, calmness, etc.) is also an easy practice. Most sounds are readily available on YouTube.

  
  

Chakra Meditations

Meditations for the Root Chakra

Root Chakra:

The root is the foundation and projects grounding and balancing energy. Providing a sense of stability and security. Making sure your basic physical needs are always met is the best way overall to help activate your root chakra. Identity and survival are also major aspects of this chakra. The base of the spine is this chakra's central location; maintaining the body's stability and security.

More Meditations and Rituals:

• Activating the senses is a great way to access your root chakra such as walking barefoot in grass, listening to good music, taking yourself to eat delicious food, and indulging in favorite scents. This practice can be heightened if you activate your senses that make you feel immense comfort that projects feelings of security, peace, and stability.

• Decluttering your space is also a great way to feel balanced in your life and free you of any unwanted chaos in your home. With this being said after your home feels comfortable and safe a night in with yourself in an environment nurtured to you is also a great way to activate this chakra. Spending more nature is also a given for activating the root chakra because the earth is restorative and helps ground you to reality.

• Take deep breathes in and imagine that air moving all the way down to your feet.

• Another great meditation exercise would be to imagine roots growing from the earth radiating red energy or you could always garden and watch your plants grow from the roots up in real time.

• Taking time to notice your own growth from your roots to who you are now rather that be by reminiscing on the past, journaling, or visiting old loved ones who made you feel secure and safe.

• Affirmations while you close your eyes and imagine your safely secure in a red light bubble of your imaginations creation such as I am safe, I am secure, I am grounded, and I have found immense peace with my life.  Other affirmations include I will never let anyone threaten my secure and stability, I will not let other people impact by wellbeing, security, and stability, and my energy remains grounded despite outside influences. To amplify this affect you can grab something meaningful to you that is red or a red crystal like garnet, ruby, or red aventurine.

• Don't forget to slow down and enjoy the world around you this is also a way to activate your root chakra.

• Also since your spine is the location of the root chakra a good back message with essential oils and candles is a great physical activity for this chakra to remain activated.

• Journaling about ways or situations that made you feel unsafe. Especially if you had trauma related to your basic needs not being met or family trauma. You can also note the different ways you feel balanced and secure in your life as a gratitude journaling exercise.

• Other good journaling exercises include noting ways you don't and do feel grounded, writing 50 of your traits that are part of your identity down, and writing ways you don't feel at home with yourself.

Meditations for Sacral Chakra

Sacral Chakra:

Your center that is associated with creativity, emotions, and sexuality. And, most importantly my favorite out of all the chakras. Yes, I am biased. I digress, I'm only human.

Meditations and Rituals:

• Creating art in general rather it be jewelry, painting, clay art, ceramics, sketching, or whatever you heart desires is a great form of self expression of your emotions. In particular anger art is a great way to create and release negative emotions at the same time. Channel all your anger into whatever you create.

• Throwing paint on a canvas or throwing darts at paint balloons like in princess dairies is also another way to access your emotions and creativity especially stress or anger

• Masturbation and sex is an obvious way to connect to your sensuality. Take your time discover your kinks and what you enjoy. Then seek out your own pleasure.

• Wearing sexy lingerie or wearing anything that makes you feel sexy or sensual is also a great way to open this chakra.

• Hip rotation yoga is a great way to exercise this chakra.

• Connecting with water is another major way to connect with your sacral. Therefore, star fishing and bath soaks which are mentioned above is also a great alternative. Water fights is another alternative and a great way to release suppressed anger.

• As an energy meditation exercise, grab your belly or your center and allow yourself to feel the energy flow in and out your gut as you breathe in and out.

• Journaling about sexual trauma or blockages, creativity blockages, body insecurities, and troubling emotions can also help.

Meditations for Solar Plexus Chakra

Solar plexus:

The nerve endings in your body. Near your navel and connected to your feelings of willpower, power, and gut feelings.

Meditations and Rituals:

• Speak your mind about a topic that interests you or issue that concerns you.

• Take the time to sit with yourself and feel your energy. This is a great way to connect to your body and the energy that brings you power. Feel your energy flow through your body. You can start by focusing on a body part like your fingers and as you move them back and forth feel the energy flow through you with every movement.

• Accepting your emotions and embracing how you feel can be one of the most powerful things you can do. Self reflection, awareness, journaling, therapy, and even joining classes or events to find your community are just a few examples of accepting your emotions and taking back your power.

• Finding your group of people and surrounding yourself with people who love you for you and have similar lifestyles as you can be a great way to gain power within community rather than having your friend group being people who drag you down, threaten your sense of safety/security, and have no respect for you. Having people around you can help you to have more positive outlooks towards the way you view yourself and life making you feel powerful in your life. Which in turn, increases willpower in your daily life. Having a community you choose and built yourself is powerful and having one that makes you feel safe, secure, and stable in turn activates your root chakra.

• Take charge of your life with planning, events, or decisions that will benefit your life. This could be adding a new hobby, learning self discipline, or taking charge of your health.

• Wearing or participating in activities that make you feel confident is also a great pick me up to feel powerful.

• Time in the sun at a beach or even just taking a walk on a sunny day is another great technique since the solar plexus is associated with the sun.

• Journaling about your fears in regards to loosing power, scenarios where you felt that your willpower was lost or taken from you, and times when you listened or didn't listen to your gut feelings and the impact it had on you.

Meditations for Heart Chakra

Heart Chakra:

Located in the center of your body above your heart. This chakra is associated with love, relationships, giving and receiving, and self trust.

Meditations and Rituals:

• Close your eyes and imagine you heart opening up slowly, peacefully, and without struggle which holding a crystal such as emerald, green aventurine, and malachite.

• Listen to love songs or movies that remind you somewhere deep in your heart that good relationships are possible platonic or not.

• Focus on building and maintaining relationships that make you feel immensely loved. Visit your family aunt, start talking to people around you that you didn't notice before, go out more, and join clubs or groups. Forming relationships with substance that have respect, effort, and love will help heal your self trust around making right decisions. Because you picked the right friends or partner but if this isn't the case in your life and someone has immensely betrayed you just know that they left so better things can come your way and heal you in ways that you didn't know were possible. I speak from experience.

• Gift givers are going to love this one but you can either buy gifts for loved ones or create custom gifts reflective of your relationships not only for the means of giving but to build the love in your relationships and show them that they are appreciated

• To gain self trust that has been broken focus on inner child exercises, past traumas where you didn't follow your intuition, focus on intuition vs anxiety, and start 5 small habits that you do each day. Consistently following these habits that you know are good for you and can build your character such as reading 10 minutes a day, drinking water, having tea, etc. can help you to trust yourself again because you are following through on what you told yourself you would do. Or create an easily yearly goal that you can realistically obtain and prove yourself proud. Don't strive for perfection strive to achieve write that article, start learning music production, because just like you regret not starting now if you never start 10 years later you will just repeat the same cycle.

• Journaling about bad experiences in love or relationships, trauma around giving, and self trust issues is a great way to gain self awareness and heal.

Meditations for Throat Chakra

Throat Chakra:

Knowledge, truth, clarity, wisdom, communication, and self awareness. As mentioned in the name, this chakra is located on the throat.

Meditations and Rituals:

• Practice neck stretches and focus on your breathing.

• Work on your communication with family, friends, and with the general public. Take speech classes, practice writing, and work on nurturing your relationships. Create art that communicates messages or feelings of knowledge, truth, clarity, and wisdom. An example of this would be writing a memoir or painting universal truths to give society knowledge and wisdom.

• Journal about your emotions, communicate troubling events, and write down ways you have grown and become wise. Don't forget to ask for insight from trusted individuals and analyze thought processes and bad habits to gain that clarity and wisdom. Tarot readings, divination, and prayer is a great way to give you the clarity, wisdom, and truth you desire.

• Humming and singing is also a great way to activate this chakra.

• Repeat affirmations and manifestation to communicate what you want to whichever entity above you believe in.

• Speak your mind about issues or situations that trouble you. For example, create that boundary with that one friend who keeps pushing you above your means.

  Imagine blue energy around your throat come out as you sing, hum, or breathe. Let it be released into the universe as a depiction of the truth, clarity, and wisdom you have to offer yourself and others.

• Converse with older wiser women, different cultures, and different groups of people to take away wisdom, clarity, and truths through the conversations you have with them.

• Safely leave your comfort zone to gain self awareness and pieces of wisdom. Go eat out even though your scared of going alone. Start subtle and leave preconceived notions behind to learn hidden truths that will help you to gain more perspective.

Meditations for Third Eye Chakra

Third Eye Chakra:

Located in the forehead this chakra governs your spiritual insight, intuition, and imagination.

Meditations and Rituals:

• Imagine light or use sunlight, moonlight, and even starlight and imagine energy coming through your head and down your body charging you with spiritual insight, intuition, and imagination.

• Get in touch with your religion or spirituality. This could range from prayer and going to church to spells, connecting with nature, and meditation.

• Keeping track of spiritual messages such as angel numbers showing up a lot in your life or seeing a cardinal constantly. Search up the meaning of these messages for spiritual guidance.

• Tarot readings and prayer is also a great way to connect with your spiritual guides.

  Keep a dream journal to analyze dreams and any spiritual insights about your life and decisions.

• Journaling about religious trauma, conceived notions about religion and spirituality, times you did and didn't follow your intuition and its impact, and imagination exercises can also help. Imagination exercises can range from meditation visualization as mentioned above, daydreaming, and creating art straight from your head without any additional help just pure imagination. Recreating memories, visualizing your future, and manifesting are other ways you can tap into your imagination.

• Connect to people who inspire you and decipher why they inspire you to unlock more of your imagination and consume art such as music, cinema, and books that nurture your mind. Books that teach you about intuition, spirituality, or inspire your imagination is always a bonus.

• Place a purple crystal between your forehead and imagine energy flowing from the crystal to your body to bring you intuition, spiritual awareness, and imagination.

Meditations for Crown Chakra

Crown Chakra:

Right at the top of your head this chakra takes charge of your spiritual connection, wisdom, and unity.

Meditations and Rituals:

• Join spiritual groups or connect with groups that preach some sort of wisdom.

• Journaling about spiritual connections and trauma in regards to unity. Analyzing connections around you can bring you wisdom and spiritual connection as well. This includes challenging any preconceived notions you may have and pessimistic outlooks regarding life.

• Take time to connect with your own mind for 20 minutes because getting to yourself better helps to promote your own internal wisdom.

• Spending time in nature increases connection and unity to the universe and can help with spiritual connection.

Author's Notes:

Meditation is about self discovery, peace, and reflection. This article mainly focuses on internal healing and connection. How you meditate is entirely up to you and customizable based on your own personal intentions. Meditation is not just sitting quietly in a corner closing your eyes and trying not to think. It is human nature to question things, have thoughts, or general opinions that may have not been originated by us. That's life and the most meditative experience of all is allowing yourself to slow down and experience not just life but your connections, your senses, nature, and your own wants and desires. May you eventually find the love, peace, and self discovery that we all deserve. For any additional meditation practices look into more affirmations and journaling prompts. Their are plenty of free resources to assist you in your healing journey. Yoga poses for each chakra are also easy to find.

Sincerely, Natalie Dupre.