The more balanced your energy system is, the more satisfied you are with the areas of your life: finances, freedom in expressing emotions, self-expression, relationships, and so on.
In this article, we will take a detailed look at what energy imbalance is, how it manifests overall and in individual chakras, and how it affects your life.
The Concept of Energy Imbalance
An imbalance in the chakras has a significant impact on a person’s life. From the perspective of energy structure, imbalance comes in two types:
- hyperactivity (when there is too much energy/activity);
- underactivity (when there is not enough energy).
Many people mistakenly believe that intense energy boosting is a good thing.
For example, there are people whose upper centers are highly developed. Ideally, such people should have well-developed intuition and be able to easily read the space around them.
But in reality, hyperactivity of the upper centers results in obsessive thoughts and a non-stop voice in the head. Such people come across as overly intellectual.
Some of them suffer from “verbal diarrhea.” This is how an excess of energy at the top manifests itself.
The chakra system works on the principle of communicating vessels: if there is an excess of energy in one part, then in another part there is a lack or deficiency of it.
For example, a person has a hyperactive 5th chakra (throat center). At the same time, their solar plexus is often blocked, with a deficit there.
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Hyperactivity of the Upper and Lower Centers
The human energy system includes seven chakras. The heart center is unifying: from it, three chakras branch upward and three chakras branch downward.
The three upper centers are connected to the unmanifest world. These chakras help establish contact with higher aspects and open access to the “Universal Internet.”
There are “balloon” people with a hyperactive upper part: everything above is open and developed, while below is mostly blocked. These people indulge in fantasies, projects, and ideas, but are unable to act and demonstrate a real (materialized) result.
The three lower centers are connected to grounding. They are responsible for material desires. People with a hyperactive lower part are characterized by stinginess, fixation on money, role status, and the like.
These are grounded materialists for whom comfort and a sense of security are important. Since such people have weakly developed upper centers, they are insecure, doubtful, distrustful of their own self, and follow the opinions of others.
The two described options are examples of extreme manifestations of hyperactivity in the upper and lower centers.
The Heart – A Center Uniting the Upper and Lower
The heart unites two systems – the lower (connected to the material world) and the upper (connected to the unmanifest world/Cosmos).
Thus, the heart is an integrating tool that unites “heaven and earth.” Anahata plays a key role in the balancing process.
Any grievances or disappointments lead to an imbalance in anahata. Its shutdown complicates the process of balancing energy flows, establishing (harmonious) relationships, the ability to express one’s feelings and accept the feelings of others, and so on.
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Imbalance of the energy system as a cause of diseases
When a person’s unifying center (heart) is closed, their body begins to suffer. An imbalance of the energy system as a whole (and in particular the closedness of the heart) leads to the emergence of diseases.
If you suffer from chronic diseases, you can correlate the imbalanced organ with the corresponding chakra. For example, study which organs are in the projection of a particular chakra.
This will help you determine which chakra’s energy imbalance caused the disease.
If you want to learn more about chakras, open them and activate them, take the free introductory course “Mini course on chakras”.
Heart chakra and grievances
If you experience periodic pain in the heart, work on balancing the energy state of your heart chakra. The cause of a heart attack is a colossal amount of grievances.
Grievances are vain expectations that you place on other people. These expectations are not realized because they should not be, and that is normal.
Be careful in (energy) work with the heart. Release grievances and claims in portions, little by little, work with forgiveness.
Feeling of loss/grief, disappointment in life is another common cause of heart problems. There are people who remain in mourning for departed loved ones for years, unable to cope with this loss. In such cases, consult specialists.
The longer your state of loss/deep disappointment lasts, the longer the therapy you will need. According to statistics, a huge number of people die from heart disease every day.
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Energy imbalance and the compensation mechanism
The first/lower root chakra (muladhara) “looks downward.” The last/upper chakra (sahasrara) “looks upward.” These two chakras work as a pair.
As a rule, the top is tightly blocked in a person who is focused on survival, excessively grounded, values material matters above all else (finances, family relationships, bringing everything into the home, etc. are important to them).
Conversely, a person whose lower part is tightly blocked has an open channel to the Cosmos, is indifferent to what they eat, their living conditions, and avoids contacts and connections (familial, social).
Thus, if there is too much at the top, there will be little at the bottom. And conversely, if there is too much at the bottom, there will be little at the top. This is the principle of communicating vessels.
An imbalance in this system activates the compensation mechanism (decrease at the bottom – increase at the top, decrease at the top – increase at the bottom).
Let us examine the compensation mechanism using the example of the interaction between the throat center (vishuddha) and the solar plexus center (manipura).
Hyperactivity of the throat center can manifest as excessive talkativeness, and may also indicate weakness in the solar plexus, which, among other things, is responsible for the ability to express oneself through action.
As a result, excessive talkativeness goes hand in hand with a lack of action. This is how the system balances itself.
This is a natural phenomenon (a manifestation of homeostasis). In nature, everything is naturally balanced. The same happens in the human body.
There are people who, on the contrary, have a strongly developed solar plexus, while the throat is weakened. Blockage in the throat can manifest as an inability to defend oneself or express oneself freely.
Another example.
The third eye chakra (ajna) is responsible, among other things, for intellect and mind. If you are plagued by obsessive and disordered thoughts, it is likely that your sacral chakra is depleted. It is responsible for the ability to create, expressing one’s individuality (including through sexual energy).
Engaging in sex can compensate for excess energy in the ajna. In the first stage of a relationship, people are attracted to each other on the principle of “trauma to trauma.”
At the same time, people are attracted to each other through the energy system.
Read about the meaning of each chakra in this article: Chakras: How to Use in Everyday Life
Manifestation of Energy Imbalance in Individual Chakras
Loss of Interest in Life as a Consequence of Imbalance in the Lower Centers
Loss of interest in life is a consequence of a serious imbalance in the lower energy centers. As a result, depression develops, which over time can progress into clinical depression.
And that, in turn, poses a threat to the life of the physical body (a person loses their appetite, etc.). A more or less conscious person, finding themselves in such a situation, must honestly answer the question, “Do I want to live?”
As soon as (against a backdrop of complete lack of interest in life) you answer “no,” many opportunities for transition open up.
If you want to live, there is one “route” – you pull yourself together and start working/acting. Most often, this work begins with a visit to a psychologist, with whom you discuss how serious your situation (condition) is and what can be done.
Solar Plexus Imbalance
People with a weakened solar plexus demonstrate suppressed willpower.
Manipura, or the solar plexus chakra, is responsible for the ability to freely express one’s own individuality, including through a volitional impulse and action. It begins to assert itself at the age of 2-3.
At this age, a child reacts violently to the outside world with the word “no.” Depending on the parenting model practiced, parents either suppress the child’s individuality, which expresses itself in this way, or allow it to manifest.
Adults (particularly the project’s listeners) work consciously – on opening up their individuality and accepting their uniqueness.
It can be concluded that the majority of the project’s audience has a weakened solar plexus.
People with hyperactivity of manipura “charge ahead like rhinos.” They can be rude, brazenly demand what they want, which causes bewilderment and irritation in people with a weakened solar plexus.
The motto of a balanced solar plexus is “I know I have the right to this, and I demand it.” Such a manipura is not ashamed to demand what is theirs. A weakened manipura, on the contrary, experiences a feeling of shame over any little thing.
People with a weakened solar plexus most often attract those with a hyperactive one, and the latter begin to suppress them.
The “lesson of suppression” (for a weak manipura) is the need to take one’s power and realize that one does not need to be a genius to consider one’s own interests. Personal interests are considered by default. This is not a manifestation of selfishness. It is a basic principle.
Visually, situations involving the manipura manifest themselves in family scenarios. Often in a family, either the husband/father or the wife/mother plays an authoritarian role. If a girl has an authoritarian father, as a rule, when she grows up, she attracts an equally authoritarian partner who suppresses her.
Sooner or later, such suppression leads to a “rebellion” (“How long? I’ve had it up to here!”), and the woman “wakes up” (claims her power).
In a man, a weak manipura is clearly manifested in the role of a henpecked husband. In this case, on the contrary, a strong woman (the mother in childhood) suppresses a weak man. This is how the energy principle of “communicating vessels” (strength/abundance – weakness/scarcity) manifests itself in action.
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Example of the appearance of a block in the first chakra
Children are born with an activated energy system. An imbalance in a child’s energy system can start with the parents’ input.
The first chakra, which is responsible for survival, finances, connection with the material world, etc., begins to form even during the period when the child is in the mother’s womb.
Accordingly, the mother’s attitude toward pregnancy and how safe she feels during this time leaves an imprint on the child’s attitude toward the world of matter and material goods.
In the first year of life, the voice is the only tool a child has to signal the discomfort they are experiencing.
In the old matrix system of upbringing, parents could deliberately avoid approaching the child until they “cried it out.” Such ignoring of the voice (the child’s messages) automatically blocks their first chakra. The child receives a signal that their survival is in danger – the root chakra closes.
A Common Problem of Humanity – Imbalance of the Root and Throat Chakras
Imbalance is any deviation from equilibrium. Therefore, the task is to bring the energy system into balance, that is, to harmonize it.
According to research, the majority of humanity demonstrates an imbalance of two chakras – the sacral and the throat.
The imbalance of the root chakra is most pronounced in those who, in one way or another, went through the “Soviet system.”
These are people living in Russia and other CIS countries, whose parents and ancestors “experienced” the Soviet and pre-Soviet historical periods of this geopolitical space.
In particular, women who emerged from this “system” carry a heavy sexual trauma.
An excess of the throat chakra leads to verbosity, an inability to filter words, and so on. One of the tasks of the life period from 20 to 30 years old is to learn to manage one’s words and emotions.
An energy deficiency in the throat center, on the contrary, leads to a person putting themselves last to please everyone else, ignoring their own desires, being unable to voice them aloud, and fearing to openly express themselves and their thoughts.
Balance of the spiritual (upper centers) and the earthly (lower centers)
Ascension/spirituality does not imply a complete detachment from the earthly. One way or another, you remain human and continue to exist on Earth, in a body.
Everything strives for equilibrium and balance. This is a Cosmic Law, the law of the Universe.
When you go entirely “upward,” this automatically means for you that your lower centers must be well-developed, and you must constantly maintain a powerful grounding.
The higher you rise, the stronger your connection to the Earth. Only in this case will you be able to continue your life in a physical body on planet Earth. Otherwise, you will leave.
Multi-layered nature of the energy system (using the sacral chakra as an example)
Chakras have many different layers and levels. For instance, the sacral chakra includes aspects such as:
- raw sexual energy (the sexual macho archetype);
- sensuality, the ability to feel in general;
- mastery of the art of flirting;
- creativity;
- the ability to create.
The layers and levels of a chakra also manifest differently if the chakra is imbalanced.
For example, sexuality may be well-developed, but self-acceptance as a woman/man may be absent, or a person may suppress their desires to please another.
The energy system is multi-level and multi-layered. The chakra center is one, but it is represented by different aspects. Each of these aspects is responsible for its own sphere.
Within one chakra, some aspects may be developed, while others experience a lack of energy.
How do you assess your energy system? Have you found manifestations of energy imbalance in yourself, or is it already in the past?
P.S. In the next article on this topic, we will talk about two approaches to restoring energy balance, and you will receive a tool for self-balancing the chakras.
P.P.S. And if you don’t want to wait, we invite you to the course “7 Keys of Mindfulness 2.0”, where you will get the best practical materials for harmonizing all seven chakras.
Article based on a broadcast from the #conversation_on_the_couch section “How to balance the chakras”