How To Identify The Symptoms Of Blocked Chakras

The seven chakras are a great way to understand the interconnection between your physical and spiritual body. Here, you will learn what the symptoms of blocked chakras are.

Which of your chakras needs your attention most? You’re about to find out.

Why Do Chakras Get Blocked?

When illness manifests in a part of the body, there will be a correlated block or imbalance in one or more of your chakras.

By identifying and understanding the way your different body parts relate to your seven energetic wheels, you can easily address the energetic source of physical and emotional ailments.
The word chakra means wheel in Sanskrit. This is because each of the chakras is connected to the next and creates loops of energy that surround the body.
Generally, the seven chakras are classified from the bottom to top of the head in an ascending manner. Each chakra has a corresponding color. All colors combined create an ascending rainbow.

How do you know if your chakras are blocked?

Here’s a description of the 7 most significant chakras and how to recognize if you have symptoms of blocked chakras:

1. Root Chakra

Color: Red
Element: Earth
Position: Base of the Spine
Objective: It corresponds to the physical body and connection to the Earth. Just like a foundation, it is concerned with the basics of survival:

food, shelter, safety, comfort, and belonging.

When your Root Chakra is blocked you may experience…

Feeling stuck and sluggish
Stress due to over-reliance on external circumstances
Persistent financial problems
Feeling that you have been abandoned by your parents
Constantly getting by or going without
Hatred and anger toward your body
Feeling you are not good enough the way you are
When your Root Chakra is open you…

Have a strong connection with your family
Have friends that are like family to you
Feel wanted and loved
Feel content with your body
Are confident with money
Always have enough for what you need and want
2. Sacral Chakra

Color: Orange
Element: Water
Position: Below the belly button. Looking at the body from head to toe, this is your physical center.
Objective: Sexuality, the nature of your relationships, freedom from guilt, pleasure, sensation, creativity and the joys of life.

When your Sacral Chakra is blocked you may experience…

Difficulty allowing yourself to become emotionally and sexually intimate
The belief that sex is bad, that it can hurt you, or you feel you have to be sexy to be loved
Feelings of abuse, hurt, and confusion
Distrust that you can be loved for being you
A struggle toward a healthy self-image
A string of unsuccessful, toxic relationships
When your Sacral Chakra is open…

You have a strong sense of your sexuality and recognize it as one of your most powerful creative energies
You create healthy sexual experiences with others that honor you, you enjoy pleasure in many different ways in life
3: Solar Plexus Chakra

Color: Yellow
Element: Fire
Position: Above the navel – two inches below the breastbone.
Objective: Relationship with yourself, personal power, self-esteem, self-worth, and freedom from shame.

When your Solar Plexus Chakra is blocked you may experience…

Feeling powerless or victimized
Giving your power away to others as you feel this is necessary to keep peace in relationships
Difficulty taking action on your dreams due to low self-esteem
Stomach pains and anxiety
When your Solar Plexus Chakra is open you…

Have a strong sense of your own power and how to use it in healthy ways
Admire others with power and influence and choose to emulate people who are
Want to use your power and influence for good in the world
4. Heart Chakra

Color: Green
Element: Air
Position: Center of chest
Objective: Love and spirituality, compassion, emotional zone, masculine/feminine of the self, and forgiveness. Love doesn’t mean only love for others; it also applies to self-love and self-acceptance.

When your Heart Chakra is blocked you may experience…

Fear of commitment and feeling like you have to please others to be loved
Hurt from past relationships and now feel like you have to guard yourself against being hurt again
Trouble with giving and receiving love and being compassionate
The need to hold grudges
Heart disease, asthma, and allergies
When your Heart Chakra is open you…

Are comfortable in your relationships
Give and receive love easily
Feel a heartfelt sense of gratitude for how wonderful your life is
Appreciate others and feel compassion for yourself and others without feeling sorry for anyone
5. Throat Chakra

Color: Blue
Element: Sound
Position: Hollow of throat
Objective: Your communication center — your voice, your creative self-expression. Speaking your truth, coming from the center of your willpower, listening and being heard.

When your Throat Chakra is blocked you may experience…

Fear of speaking up and saying what you want or feel
Feeling inclined to go along with others so you don’t upset anyone
Frustration because you don’t feel that other people hear what you have to say
Sore throats or feeling like your throat is blocked
When your Throat Chakra is open you…

Are comfortable speaking your truth
Experience others listening to you
Feel that you are heard and honored for your truth
6. Third Eye Chakra

Color: Indigo
Element: Light
Position: Between the eyebrows
Objective: Responsible for psychic abilities such as intuition as well as your sense of purpose in life — self-reflection, visualization, discernment, and trust of your own intuition.

When your Third Eye Chakra is blocked you may experience…

A struggle to find meaning in life and often ask yourself, “Why am I here?”
Disconnect from your intuition
Difficulty making decisions
Feeling lost when it comes to your spiritual purpose and path in life
Frustration that there is something wrong or out of alignment
Headaches and tension in your brow area
When your Third Eye Chakra is open you…

Trust and act with confidence
Have a strong sense of your own inner truth and listen to and follow it as it guides you on your life path
7. Crown Chakra

Color: Violet
Element: Thought
Position: Top of the head
Objective: This is the connection between you and the divine. It is responsible for spirituality, belief systems, revelation, divine consciousness, and enlightenment. Your brain functions and central nervous system are controlled by the crown chakra.

When your Crown Chakra is blocked you may experience…

Loneliness, insignificance, and aimlessness
A strong attachment to material possessions and achievements (and define yourself according to them) and a disconnect from the spiritual side of life
A lack of connection or guidance from a higher power
Feeling unworthy of spiritual help and anger that your higher power has abandoned you
Migraines and tension headaches
When your Crown Chakra is open you…

Feel connected to a higher power and sense that you are being watched over and cared for
Know you deserve immense blessings
Feel immense gratitude for the universal love and appreciation you feel towards yourself and others
A blockage in one primary chakra causes imbalances in the rest.

Now, this list of symptoms of blocked chakras can be overwhelming. But remember, you most likely have a blockage in one primary chakra that causes an imbalances among the rest.

That’s why it’s important to find out where the main blockage is and what caused it. Then, with simple knowledge and exercises, you can restore the free flow of energy in your body.

When the seven chakras are in balance, life feels good, and all is as it should be.

This small introduction to the seven chakras is just the start of that journey.