The 7 chakras and why you should rebalance them - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life The 7 chakras and why you should rebalance them By You Magazine - March 13, 2018 Walking through the front door of Georgia Coleridge’s London home is like stepping into a rainbow. Georgia is wearing a violet jacket and blue scarf, which zing against sharp yellow walls as her scarlet-socked feet pad along orange-striped matting and past coral curtains. We sit at a long, white-clothed table where vases of multicoloured gerberas nod in the sunlight next to bowls of oranges and lemons. ‘I love colour,’ she says. ‘It brings joy.’ Colour is also integral to Georgia’s work. Once a children’s book reviewer, broadcaster and author of two parenting books – she and husband Nicholas have four children – Georgia now practises as an energy healer from her house. ‘One of my husband’s favourite jokes is that he comes home and sees beaming men departing and piles of banknotes on the table.’ It’s a good line, although she says that the majority of her clients are actually women, often professionals, bowing under the weight of modern living. Central to Georgia’s healing practice is locating and correcting imbalances in the chakras, the seven energy hubs that run down our spines from crown to base. Each chakra is represented by a colour and associated with different characteristics: mental, physical, emotional and spiritual. Nila Aye 7th: Sahasrara The Crown Chakra 6th: Ajna The Third Eye Chakra 5th: Vishudda The Throat Chakra 4th: Anahata The Heart Chakra 3rd: Manipura The Solar Plexus Chakra 2nd: Svadhisthana The Sacral Chakra 1st: Muladhara The Root Chakra In her new book, The Chakra Project, Georgia explains how she sees our physical bodies as a house, with the energy field around each person as a garden and the chakras as windows. ‘Windows need to be sparkling clean to let in light and air. In the same way, our chakras need to be clear and bright so the different energies that make up our life force – the magic stuff that makes everything work – can flow freely through our bodies and minds.’ When energy is stuck, she likens it to a river where leaves, twigs and branches have collected. ‘It may be stagnant on one side and racing too fast on the other. Similarly, a chakra may be under- or overpowered,’ she says. The chakras were first described in the Vedas, sacred Indian texts compiled 3,000 years ago, and are still a staple of Ayurvedic medicine with parallels in traditional Chinese medicine. Although the concept of chakras is sometimes seen as New Age woo-woo in the West, the late neuroscientist Dr Candace Pert, a leading researcher in the science of mind-body medicine, wrote: ‘The ancient wisdom of the chakra system…corresponds to modern scientific discoveries about the location of neuropeptide-enriched nodal points along our bodies’ longitudinal axis, [and] can help us enter a relaxed state of mind where natural recuperation and recovery can occur.’ In The Chakra Project, Georgia explains how to detect and rebalance any out-of-kilter chakras. It’s a special book of wisdom and insights and I loved the calm that it brought me. Georgia’s book The Chakra Project will be published by Aster on Thursday, price £16.99. To order a copy for £13.59 (a 20 per cent discount) until 25 March, visit you-bookshop.co.uk or call 0844 571 0640; p&p is free on orders over £15 Feature by Sarah Stacey RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved