Balancing Your Root (Red) Chakra - Grounding

Root vegetables: carrots, potatoes, parsnips, radishes, beets, onions, garlic, etc.
Protein-rich foods: eggs, meats, beans, tofu, soy products, peanut butter
Spices: horseradish, hot paprika, chives, cayenne, pepper
Physical exercise and restful sleeps, gardening, pottery and clay. Red food & drink. Red
gemstones, clothing, bathing in red. Using ylang ylang or sandalwood essential oils.
Balancing Your Sacral (Orange) - Nourishing the Sexual/Creativity Center
Sweet fruits: melons, mangos, strawberries, passion fruit, oranges, coconut, etc.

Honey

Nuts: almonds, walnuts, etc.

Spices: cinnamon, vanilla, carob, sweet paprika, sesame seeds, caraway seeds

Hot aromatic baths, water aerobics, massage. Embracing sensation (such as different
food tastes). Orange gemstones and orange clothing. Using orange oils such as melissa or
orange essential oils.

Balancing Your Solar Plexus (Yellow) Chakra - Boosting Self-Esteem/ Self-Love

Granola and Grains: pastas, breads, cereal, rices, flax seed, sunflower seeds, etc.
Dairy: milk, cheeses, yogurt

Spices: ginger, mints (peppermint, spearmint, etc.), melissa, chamomile, turmeric,

cumin, fennel

Taking classes, reading informative books, doing mind puzzles. Sunshine. Detoxication
programs. Yellow gemstones and yellow clothing. Using yellow oils such as lemon or
rosemary essential oils.

Balancing Your Heart (Green) Chakra - Healing Emotional Hurts

Leafy vegetables: spinach, kale, dandelion greens, etc.

Air vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, squash, etc.

Liquids: green teas

Spices: basil, sage, thyme, cilantro, parsley

Nature walks, time spent with loving family or friends. Green gemstones and green
clothing. Using green oils such as eucalyptus or pine essential oils.
Balancing Your Throat (Blue) Chakra - Speaking One's Truth
Liquids in general: water, fruit juices, herbal teas
Tart or tangy fruits: lemons, limes, grapefruit, kiwi

Other tree growing fruits: apples, pears, plums, peaches, apricots, etc.

Spices: salt, lemon grass

Singing, reading or saying poetry out loud. Having meaningful conversations. Blue
gemstones and blue clothing. Using blue oils such as chamomile or geranium essential oils.
Balancing Your Brow (Indigo) Chakra - Awakening Third Eye Senses
Dark bluish colored fruits: blueberries, red grapes, black berries, raspberries, etc.

Liquids: red wines and grape juice

Spices: lavender, poppy seed, mugwort

Star gazing. Meditation. Indigo gemstones and indigo clothing. Using indigo oils such as
patchouli or frankincense essential oils.

Balancing Your Crown (Violet) Chakra - Opening/ Clearing the Spiritual Centre
Air: fasting / detoxing
Incense and Smudging Herbs: sage, copal, myrrh, frankincense, and juniper
Focusing on dreams. Writing down ones visions and inventions. Violet gemstones and
violet clothing. Using violet oils such as lavender or jasmine essential oils.
Everyday we stimulate our chakra centres in one way or another, for example, through the
different thoughts we have or physically through our senses. Daily we energize our centres,
consciously or unconsciously, through various methods.
Following is a list of common ways we can charge and balance our chakra centres:
Thoughts
Thought is an energy form. Science has proven a positive thought allows our energy to flow
freely and unrestricted. Whereas, negative thoughts decrease energy within our body. Every
thought (whether mental or emotional) is connected to a chakra. For example, a passionate
thought is a red energy stimulant, but an angry thought decreases one's positive red energy
flow. This means that continual angry thoughts will lower your root chakra's energy.
The Sun
This is our most important energy source. Through light all the seven colour energies flow
from the suns rays to the earth. People, animals, plants, minerals, water and our chakras
receive energy from the suns light. (If you are not able to enjoy the sun for a few hours
daily, add a quality full spectrum light bulb to a light source in your work area or in a lamp at
home.)
Food
When the suns rays bless all plant life, it gives the plant life/energy. Once the plant absorbs
energy, the colour energy that remains is the energy of that fruit, vegetable or flower.
Without this energy our body could not assimilate the nutritional value of the food. Balance
your chakras daily by eating foods that contain each of the seven colour energies (thats why
the doctor always said to eat a plate of different coloured foods... for the colour value!).
Visualisation
Meditation & Breathing (Yoga). Since thought is an energy form you can stimulate your
chakra centres through meditation, visualization or breathing energy into your various chakra
centres. By adding the colour intention adds additional power from a chakras vibration.
Gems/Minerals
Gemstones and minerals are also energy forms. For example, crystals contain a similar
crystalline structure as the human body. Crystals amplify energy and can be programmed
(e.g. computer chips and watches). Wearing gemstone jewellery or placing gemstones and

minerals in your environment is a simple way to absorb the stone or minerals healing
vibrations.
Color Bathing
(One of my favorites!) Water is a conductor of energy and colour is an energy. While lying in
the coloured water your body absorbs the vibrational frequency from the colour. Take the time
to give back to your body and soul! While bathing, balance that chakra by thinking about
what you would like to achieve from that specific energy and maybe add the correlating
aromatherapy oil. Do not use chemical food colouring to dye your water. I recommend Colour
Bath by Colour Energy Corporation, as it is totally organic and therefore safe to use.
Aromatherapy
Essential oils are the pure essence of the plant or flower. Every oil has a vibration that
correlates to a colour. Oils contain the healing properties of herbs, flowers or plants. Use only
therapeutic quality oils (inexpensive oils may contain toxins). Also never apply oils directly on
your skin (dilute with a carrier oil or in a bath).
Music & Dance
Music affects us in a positive or negative way. Every musical note corresponds to a colour and
chakra centre. Certain sounds can stimulate an emotional, mental, physical or spiritual
response. E.g. Listening or dancing to primal music, such as the beating of drums, can
energize your physical body and stimulate your root chakra.
Toning & Sounds
We can vocally make sounds to vibrate at the same frequency as various organs in our body.
Regular toning can help keep our bodys organs functioning properly. Noise pollution can be
very disturbing to our environment. Surround yourself with sounds, which make you happy
and productive!
Color Tonations
By shining of light through various colour filters directly onto the body, the vibration of the
colour will be absorbed through your skin effecting the designated area.
Solarized Water
Charge water by filling a coloured glass with water or by placing a coloured filter in front of a
glass of water and let the suns rays kiss the water with colour energy. Make sure the glass is
not leaded and of a clean colour hue.
Syntonics
Is the use of colour through the eyes. Via our eyes colour stimulates our pituitary gland,
which in turn releases hormones connected to the correlating organ of the same frequency.
Therapeutic eye glasses that are manufactured with various coloured filters can be simply
worn whenever you need a boost of a certain colour or chakra energy. Make sure the colour
eyeglasses are 100% UVA & UVB coated if wearing outdoors and again the exact colour tint of
the lens is very, very important. Note: Unless the colour glass manufacturer or distributor is
aware of colour therapy, chances are their coloured lenses are not made for healing purposes.
Decor
Use colours consciously in your home or work environment to give you more positive and
productive energy. Paint a room or add different coloured pillows, artwork, carpets, etc.
Clothing
What we wear will influence our mood, mind and energy level. Light penetrates through our
clothing amplifying the colour energy we are wearing. The more vibrant the clothing the
better the energy transfer.
Art & Colour
Art and colour can be used as an outlet to either express or stimulate. Surround yourself with

the colours, which are suitable for what you need to accomplish in that area. Use calming
colours in your bedroom and mentally stimulating colours in your workspace.