In this post we explore an amazingly effective guided chakra meditation which helps us regain our energetic balance. This is our favorite method, and why we want to offer it to you as a free printable guided meditation.
Attached is a fully guided meditation video you can use as often as you wish, and then you can download the free printable guided meditation script as a pdf. You will find the link to the pdf at the end of this post. If you enjoy them, they are yours, to use as you wish!
When you use this chakra balancing and healing meditation in your regular practice you can easily open and balance the chakras. You will also clear your energy centers of any trapped emotion or energetic blocks. This meditation is extremely effective and easy to use! It was designed specifically to aid healing at the individual chakra level bringing your body, mind and spirit into harmonious balance.
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Understand Chakra Balancing and Its Significance
This meditation stems from ancient practice and focuses on activating and balancing the energy centers within your body, known as chakras. This meditation not only enhances your physical health but also supports your emotional and spiritual well-being. This guide will explore the effects of chakra balancing meditation and how you can integrate this practice into your daily life.
Chakras are vital energy centers located throughout the body. Each chakra corresponds to specific physical, emotional, and spiritual functions. When you balance your chakras, you are rebalancing your life force energy, which leads to improved health and emotional stability.
The chakra system works at maintaining the balance and flow of energy. When the chakras are aligned, energy flows smoothly around your body, enhancing your physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Imbalance or blockages in the chakra system can lead to physical ailments, emotional imbalance, or spiritual disconnect.
As you engage in this meditation, you will tap into the incredible power of your chakras, fostering balance and harmony within your body. Let’s explore the benefits that chakra meditation brings:
- Energetic Balance: Chakra meditation first opens and activates the energy centers and enables you to promote a healthy and balanced flow of energy. By working with each chakra individually through meditation, you can address any specific issues that may cause imbalance and clear any blockages. This allows the energy to flow freely in a balanced way throughout your system.
- Enhanced Physical Health: Each of the seven chakras provides energy to specific organs, and bodily functions and processes. Through meditation, you supply the body with balanced, pure energy, rejuvenating your physicality and boosting vitality.
- Emotional Stability: Through chakra meditation you are able to release past hurt and trauma, clear unresolved emotional blockages, and regain greater emotional stability. When you start working with the chakras linked to emotion you begin to discover the true you, you are able to identify what is in your best interest, grow your resilience, and gain real contentment and peace.
- Enhance Self-Awareness: Chakra meditation strengthens the connection to yourself allowing you to grow in self-awareness. Focusing your meditation on each chakra, you gain insights into your strengths, skills, talents, and discover your areas for further growth. With heightened self-awareness you open the door for your authentic self, and gain wisdom to guide you on your life path.
- Develop Intuition And Spirituality: Chakra meditation is a powerful tool for cultivating a deeper connection with your higher self and the divine. Working with specific chakra energy helps you grow your intuition and access higher states of consciousness. With patience and practice your spirituality centers will open, and may lead to a spiritual awakening offering profound insights.
- Achieve Deep Relaxation: Chakra meditation is highly effective for releasing worry and stress, which allows you real relaxation. When your chakras are balanced and aligned, the flow of energy clears tension and releases accumulated stress. You can then experience relaxation like never before. This enables you to achieve inner calm and a true sense of peace.
Chakra Balancing And Healing With The Free Printable Guided Meditation.
This Chakra balancing meditation involves several steps from preparing your space to focusing on each chakra. Here’s a quick guide to get you started:
- Get your space ready: Find a peaceful and cozy spot where you can meditate without interruptions. Promote an atmosphere of peace and relaxation by adjusting the lighting, lighting candles, or playing gentle music. Make sure your area is tidy and free of clutter to help you concentrate and unwind completely.
- Set Intent: Prior to starting your chakra meditation, pause and take some time to establish your intention. Consider what you wish to accomplish, or feel, during this practice. It may involve healing, balance, self-awareness, or any other purpose that feels right for you. Clearly defining your intention will guide your meditation and boost its impact.
- Make yourself comfortable: Choose a seated posture that works for you, either on a cushion or a chair. Just make sure your back is straight, and your shoulders are relaxed. Most important is the position you choose needs to be comfortable for the duration of the meditation. Alternatively, you can opt to lie down if you find it more relaxing.
- Focus on Your Breath: Close your eyes and bring your attention to the breath. Take a few long, deep breaths. Inhale through your nose and exhale slowly and softly through your mouth. While you focus on your breath, note the sensation as the breath enters and exits your body. As you inhale become aware of how much more and more relaxed you are. And as you exhale sense that your breath is clearing all remaining tension or stress , bringing an even greater sense of relaxation and presence to your body and mind.
- Working with Chakras: In this meditation you will begin with Muladhara the root chakra which is located at the base of your spine. You will then focus on each chakra individually as you move upwards. For each chakra visualize it as a rotating wheel or a radiant sphere of light. Give yourself time to pause and observe any emotions or physical sensations that arise in each chakra.
- Breathe into Each Chakra: As you focus on each chakra, visualize your breath going towards that particular area of the body. Inhale positive, healing energy and see it flow in your nose, and then travelling along the spine and into the chakra. Then as you exhale visualize that any negative or stagnant energy is being released and cleared on the breath. You can enhance this using positive affirmations or a mantra linked to each chakra. For instance, when working with Anahata the heart chakra, you could silently affirm “I am love” or “My heart is open to love.”
- Dedicate Time to Each Chakra: Invest ample time focusing on each chakra. Give yourself the opportunity to establish a connection with its energy and to truly sense what that feels like. Be attentive to any feelings, thoughts, or revelations that surface while you are focused on each chakra. Should you come across any obstacles or feelings of unease, simply approach it with kindness, without any judgement, and then let it pass. This enables the energy to circulate, to flow with the other energies and to balance and align organically.
- Conclude the Meditation: After spending time with each chakra, take a few moments of quiet to rest in this refreshed energy and move your attention back to your breath. This rest period allows your body to adjust to your more potent energy, allowing it to settle and regain its natural flow. When you feel the time is right, slowly shift your focus back to your environment. Pause to give thanks and gratitude for the experience and the wisdom acquired.
- Journaling or Reflecting: Following your chakra meditation, I really encourage you to take some time to reflect on your experience and to add this to a journal. Note down down any thoughts, emotions, or realizations that surfaced during the session. This reflection should be done straight after your meditation while things are still fresh in your mind, and the outside world hasn’t recaptured your attention. Reflecting on your meditation enhances your self-awareness and allows you to monitor your progress as you continue with your practice.
- Incorporate the Practice: To gain the real benefits of chakra meditation, consistency is key. So try to build into your daily or weekly schedule. You can choose to focus on a specific chakra, or all of them in a session. Try different options, different times of the day, or use different mantras. This helps you discover a rhythm and routine that is right for you, and allows the advantages of chakra meditation to manifest in your life.
Regardless of your experience with meditation, whether you are a complete novice or an experienced meditator, you will experience moments when you find your normally happy, healthy, holistic lifestyle completely out of balance.
You recognize that right? That is the moment when you need to refocus on you. Refocus on realigning your energy centers. Refocus and restore balance to the mind, body and spirit. That’s when you need to bring attention back to your energy centers. Ensuring you maintain equilibrium and balance within the body’s 7 Chakras is absolutely vital.
Energetic balance is the only way you are able to maintain yourself physically, emotional and spiritually. This post provides you with the very best and most effective free printable guided meditation for chakra balancing.
Opening, Aligning and Balancing Individual chakras.
After mastering the basics of chakra meditation, you can elevate your practice by concentrating on aligning and balancing individual chakras. Each chakra corresponds to distinct attributes and aspects of life. By centering your focus on a particular chakra, you can harmonize it and stimulate healing in that specific area. Here are various methods for healing and balancing specific chakras:
- Root Chakra (Muladhara): Visualizing a bright and vibrant color red at the base of your spine will start the process of healing and harmonizing the root chakra. Once you have the chakra fully open, and spinning in its clockwise fashion, see it start to send roots out from your tailbone. See these roots as they travel deep down into the Earth, anchoring you and offering stability and steadiness. Using affirmations like “I am safe and secure” is beneficial for balancing this chakra. This is your center for safety, security and stability so build in some grounding practices like using a grounding mat, walking barefoot in nature, or practicing yoga postures that emphasize the legs and feet.
- Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana): To heal and harmonize the sacral chakra, see the chakra as a vivid, deep, beautiful orange color in the lower abdomen. Before or after the meditation do things that engage your emotions and creativity. Activities like dancing, painting, or journaling are perfect to get the sacral energy flowing. Make sure to be kind to yourself and perform acts of self-compassion. You are relearning that you must treat yourself as well as you would treat others. Embrace your sensuality. Give yourself permission to enjoy pleasure and happiness without judgement or criticism.
- Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura): To restore and harmonize the solar plexus chakra, imagine a bright and glowing yellow hue in the region above your belly button. Focus on enhancing your self-esteem and self-confidence. Participate in activities that are empowering, things that acknowledge your strengths and showcase your abilities, setting and attaining goals, and ensuring you practice being assertive. Watch your diet, ensure your food choices are nutrition rich and that support a your digestive system.
- Heart Chakra (Anahata): To heal and harmonize the heart chakra, visualize beautiful, vibrant shades of green or pink within the center of your chest. Foster the art of self-love and compassion for yourself and those around you. Practice acts of kindness, offer and accept forgiveness, and when possible show appreciation to those around you and gratitude for what you have in your life. Connect with nature and focus on cultivating loving relationships. Engage in heart-opening yoga poses and pursue activities that bring happiness and fulfil you emotionally.
- Throat Chakra (Vishuddha): To balance and heal the throat chakra, visualize an electric and vibrant blue light surrounding your throat. Practice authentic self-expression and ensure you offer your truth when asked your opinion. Participate in any activities that require clear and confident communication, even if it scares you! Try activities like singing, speaking in public, or even reciting poetry to commuters on your way to work. Just as you need to communicate, you also need to foster good listening skills, remembering if asked for an opinion to do so openly and kindly.
- The Third Eye (Ajna): To heal and balance your third eye chakra, visualize the deep blue and purple colors of indigo. See a clockwise spinning wheel of indigo shades forming in the center of your forehead. Participate in activities that improve your intuition and call on your inner wisdom. Mindfulness and meditation are excellent for this purpose. Also engage in activities that boost your creativity and require intuition, such as creative visualization, aura reading or keeping a dream journal. Rely on your inner guidance. Pay attention to your gut (instincts) and your intuition.
- Crown Chakra (Sahasrara): In order to restore harmony and health to the crown chakra, imagine the pure hues of violet and white above your head. Participate in spiritual practices like meditation, prayer, or establishing a connection with your higher self. Embrace and surrender to the present moment and participate in activities that deepen your connection and bonds with the higher realms and the universe. Indulge in pursuits provide space for spiritual growth, of transcendence and that elevate your consciousness.
The Chakra Script – Free Printable Guided Meditation
This is probably my favorite guided meditation, just for the sheer simplicity. Then taking into account how exceptionally effective it is for maintaining aligned and balanced energies it becomes a complete “no-brainer” as to why it is often first choice for many. I would love to hear about your experiences when using it.
Chakra Awakening, Opening And Clearing – The purpose of this meditation is to open, clear and balance each of the chakras. It is an exercise best known by followers of Reiki. Try to perform this regularly, preferably one or two times per week. It will aide aligning your higher frequency energies and release any stored negative emotions from your aura.
Balance Your Energy With Meditation
Sit comfortably on a chair with your hands on your legs (I have found with the palms facing upwards more beneficial). Whilst sitting close your eyes and concentrate on your breath. Take long slow deep breaths. As you inhale, visualize your breath travelling down filling your lungs. As you exhale, see your breath travelling back, up from the lungs and flowing out through your mouth. Every breath in takes you deeper into relaxation. Every breath out releases any tension and stress
The Root Chakra
Now move your focus to Muladhara the Root chakra. Visualize the center opening at the base of your spine, like a flower opening to the sun, its petals opening wide, folding back, revealing their full beauty to the sun. Now see the now fully open, vibrant flower as a bright red ball that is spinning clockwise.
As you focus on Muladhara inhale and see the breath as a rich vibrant red. As you exhale, see the breath flowing up and out as vibrant deep rich red. Repeat this cycle of breathing another two times. When complete see the rich vibrant energy of Muladhara flowing down, down through your legs and out through your feet. Flowing deep into Mother Earth, like a tree spouting its roots. These roots are connecting you, and attaching you firmly to the earth. Now that you are grounded, move your focus to Swadhisthana the Sacral Chakra.
The Sacral Chakra
Once your focus is on Swadhisthana the Sacral Chakra visualize the center opening – approximately 3 inches below the navel. Opening like a flower opens to meet the sun, its petals opening wide, folding back, revealing their full orange beauty. Now see the chakra fully open, and vibrant, a rich orange flower, see this brilliant orange lotus as a vortex of energy spinning clockwise.
As you focus on Swadhisthana inhale and see the breath as a rich vibrant orange. As you exhale, see the breath flowing up and out as vibrant deep shade. Repeat this inhalation and exhalation another two times.
The Solar Plexus Chakra
Move your focus to Manipura the Solar Plexus Chakra. Visualize the chakra opening just above the navel, like a pure yellow flower opening to the sun, its petals opening wide, folding back, revealing their full beauty. See the vibrant electric yellow flower transformed into a vibrant yellow vortex that is spinning clockwise.
As you focus on Manipura inhale and see the breath as a rich electric yellow. As you exhale, see the breath flowing up and out in the same vibrant pure shade. Repeat this inhalation and exhalation another two times.
The Heart Chakra
Move your focus to Anahata the Heart Chakra. Visualize the chakra opening in the center of the chest, like a beautiful vibrant fresh green flower opening to the sun, its petals folding back wide, revealing their full beautiful shades of green. Now see this beautiful fresh flower as a vibrant green ball of energy spinning clockwise. As you focus on Anahata inhale and see the breath as a fresh electric green. As you exhale, see the breath flowing up and out in the same tones. Repeat this inhalation and exhalation another two times.
The Throat Chakra
Move your focus to Vishuddha the Throat Chakra. Visualize the chakra opening in the center of the throat, like a beautiful electric blue flower opening to the sun, its petals folding back wide, revealing their full beauty and shades of blue. Now see this beautiful colored flower as a bright vibrant blue ball of energy spinning clockwise. As you focus on Vishuddha inhale and see the breath as a deep vibrant blue. As you exhale, see the breath flowing up and out in the same electric shades. Repeat this inhalation and exhalation another two times.
NOTE: If you wish to manifest something into your life, ensure you see Vishuddha spinning clockwise and then see the energy flowing down from the Throat, into your arms and out though your fingers and thumbs. See the energy flowing from both hands and meeting, joining together around five feet in front of you. As these energies connect, in your mind state clearly what it is you wish to manifest. While Vishuddha is open and the energy is flowing it is the prefect time to bring your goals into reality as physical manifestations.
The Third Eye Chakra
Move your focus to Ajna the Third Eye Chakra. Visualize the chakra opening in the center of the forehead, like a beautiful vibrant indigo flower opening to the sun, its petals folding back wide, revealing their full beautiful shades of indigo. Now see the beautiful flower as a bright vibrant indigo ball spinning clockwise. As you focus on Ajna inhale and see the breath as a deep purple. As you exhale, see the breath flowing out as deep Indigo. Repeat this inhalation and exhalation another two times.
See the chakras purple blue energetic tones spinning clockwise. In your minds eye see yourself enter the vortex of indigo. As you enter you see a chair. Go and sit on it. You scan around the room and notice, the floor, the walls, the ceiling, and even the chair, are all shades of beautiful Indigo.
As you sit in the chair, you notice a window in the Indigo room, look through it, gaze out of the window into an endless universe of planets, stars and creation. You realize this is your room of intuition, you are sitting in your third eye and staring out into a world where everything can be understood and revealed. Keep gazing out into the universe and allow the scene through the window to become whatever it is your intuition wishes to show you. This exercise done regularly will help to open and strengthen your your sixth sense and psychic potential.
The Crown Chakra
Move your focus to Sahasrara the Crown Chakra. Visualize the chakra opening on the top of the head, like a beautiful vibrant violet flower opening to the sun, its petals folding back wide, revealing their full beautiful shades of violet. Now see this beautiful flower as a bright vibrant violet ball spinning in a clockwise direction. As you focus on Sahasrara inhale and see the breath as vibrant violet. As you exhale, see the breath flowing down and out in the same rich tones. Repeat this inhalation and exhalation another two times.
Now focus on the circular clockwise spinning motion of Sahasrara. See the chakra as a beautiful violet flower bud. Watch as it opens slowly. As it opens you see the many rows of gorgeous violet petals folding back on themselves to bask in the sun. And you now see that the fully formed thousand petalled lotus is open. Look closely at the open lotus and sense its magnificent energies.
Finally visualize a brilliant electric-silver and white light flowing down. This is the vibration of the universe. As it flows down from the heavens, see it enter the Crown and travel down into all the other centers in your body. You see it now flowing down the spine, into your legs and then exiting through the feet. See the energy traveling still reaching deep down into Mother earth.
Relax, enjoy the sensation, and when you are ready take three long, deep, slow breaths in and out. When you are ready slowly open your eyes. You should feel exhilarated!
This link is the downloadable PDF version of the free printable guided meditation above – Chakra Awakening, Opening And Clearing. If you are interested in meditation and mindfulness I recommend our other posts on the benefits of meditation for sleep and our Ultimate Meditation Guide. I would love to hear your feedback on this meditation. Please leave me a comment in the thread below or contact me directly.
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