Of course, parents want to raise a child who is not only healthy, but also happy, harmonious, and self-confident.
So what can we do for our growing or future children?
Find out how, with knowledge of the chakra system, you can help your children.
Each energy center is responsible for one or more areas of life. In this article, we will go through the entire energy system of a child, telling you how chakra development occurs from the moment of birth and even before conception, including adolescence.
How chakra development occurs in children from birth, including adolescence
Development of the root chakra
The first energy center is the most important, as it serves as a pump that energizes our entire body.
If this center is blocked or inactive, we do not receive enough energetic nourishment, there is no physical strength, sexuality suffers, and energy is at zero.
The first center is formed while still in the mother’s womb and up to one year of age for the already born child.
Since this center is connected to the physical world and how we can manifest our desires and needs in the physical world, all of this is established from the first days of pregnancy and in the first year after the child’s birth.
During this period, it is important for the child to have constant, close physical contact with the mother and father, and possibly with grandparents and close friends.
The more interaction there is, the easier it will be for the child later to stand on their own two feet, anchor themselves in the physical world, and achieve success.
During this period, it is important for the child to feel themselves in their physical body. Focus on physical movements, motor skills, stretching, stroking, bathing, and games to help the child understand how their body moves.
During this period, trust is also established: trust in parents, trust in the world. Therefore, it is important to create a safe and comfortable environment for the child.
Meeting needs for food, warmth, communication, attention, and cleanliness all help the child feel safe.
This same center is also responsible for confidence. Therefore, every step parents take should be aimed at strengthening this confidence that all their needs will be met.
During this period, their future attitude towards the world is established. Either they will believe that the world loves them, and their dreams and plans are easily realized, or, on the contrary, they will be unsure of everything and doubt their actions.
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Development of the sacral chakra in a child
The second center is responsible for life force, self-esteem, and instincts. It is also the center of sexuality and creativity.
The sacral chakra develops in a child between the ages of 6 and 18 months.
The moment this chakra begins to form is marked by separation and attachment. The child starts taking their first steps and separating themselves from the surrounding space.
It is important to support them during this period. They try to break away from mom, then reach for her hand again. It is important to support both moments: when they are close and when they move away. Later, there will be no issues with independence.
This is the moment when the child begins to explore the world around them, and it is important to support this desire by removing overprotectiveness, not cushioning every fall where it isn’t needed. The child is developing; they need to learn from their bumps and bruises. This is a defining trait of a child — to explore, despite the bumps and falls.
During this same period, the child explores their senses. So, provide them with plenty of toys, objects of different colors, different materials, different sounds, and various games that help awaken all their senses.
Create a safe space for them to explore, visit different parks and different places, and give the child as many opportunities as possible to learn new things.
During this period, the child learns to react to emotions. They read their parents’ emotions and behavior. And they themselves react very emotionally to everything. If a child is punished at such a moment, it leaves a certain imprint. They receive a powerful program, which goes into the subconscious, that emotions are bad, that feeling and being emotional is harmful.
You can teach emotional management from very early childhood. During this period, the child cannot yet understand the emotion itself or what they are feeling; they cannot identify it. Therefore, it is helpful to verbalize it: if they cry — “you are upset right now, what caused it, let’s try to do this or that.”
In the conversation, you name the emotion so that the child understands this cause-and-effect connection, what the emotion they are experiencing is called.
Create an atmosphere where they can express all of this and receive protection and safety. Then the child will understand that their emotion has a name and that there is a person who can take care of them. They will develop the confidence that everything always happens as it should. This is what modern people are missing.
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Formation of the Solar Plexus Chakra
The third chakra is responsible for will, authority, and the ability to achieve goals.
It develops in a child from 1.5 to 3 years old.
This is the moment when their autonomy and will develop. The child learns to say the word “no.” It’s important to give the child a sense of choice. If they learn to make choices at this age, they won’t have problems in adult life.
When you’re getting ready for a walk or lunch, offer 2-3 options to choose from. Find options that you are also comfortable with.
This is the stage when the ego begins to form. Therefore, it’s important to focus your attention on the baby’s achievements, praise them, and encourage their ability to do things and make decisions.
At this age, a program of insecurity can be laid down, and later the person will doubt whether they need to do something and how to do it. It can arise from the parents’ reaction to the child’s creative endeavors. The child made something, but dad didn’t praise them and said it was nonsense, that it needs to be redone, that it’s all wrong.
If this situation repeats several times, the child receives a powerful program that goes into the subconscious: that trying new things is bad, and taking action and showing initiative is harmful. Later in life, the person will be in a state of turmoil, not knowing where to go or which offer to choose.
Another important moment at this age is potty training. Parents often force the child to sit on the potty and scold them if they can’t do something.
This subsequently leads to the child developing programs that the physical body and its needs, including sexual ones, are bad. At these moments, the child concludes that their body is somehow wrong, that they are doing some kind of wrong physical actions.
At a later age, this can result in rejection of their physical body, body parts, and difficulties with expressing sexuality, which negatively affects absolutely all areas of life.
During the formation of the third chakra in a child, it is important to pay attention to discipline. Clearly state what the child can and cannot do, and be sure to explain why they cannot.
If you simply forbid something, the child perceives it as an inability to satisfy their needs, that it’s not worth asking because they won’t get it anyway.
If you explain to the child several times why not, or why not right now, they will eventually understand, and the situation won’t come up again.
Treat your child as if you were talking to an adult. If you can’t give the child something and they are crying, redirect their attention.
When you tell a child that you don’t like something, it’s important to emphasize that you don’t like the action the child performed, not the child themselves. Because otherwise, they take it all personally. If you scold them without explanation, the child will feel unloved and that they are bad.
Later, in their teenage years, if you build communication this way, the child will develop trust in you as understanding parents. If something happens to them, they will come to you to solve the problem, not to someone else, because they will know that you will accept them and listen to them, regardless of whether they are right or wrong.
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If you often experience fatigue, depression, lack of energy even after rest – your third chakra may be deficient.
Development of the Heart Center
The heart center governs inner strength, emotions, and the mind. It begins to develop between the ages of 4 and 7.
At this stage, the child is already conscious, understands what is happening, and clearly learns to manipulate their parents (this is a property of their psyche). The child lays down models of role-based relationships with people and watches the relationship between their parents closely and attentively.
Special attention should be paid to sincerity. At this age, a child’s intuition is very developed; they are very sensitive to their parents’ moods and feelings. If you deceive them (feeling one thing but saying another), they will begin to doubt their intuition and stop trusting it.
Show positive examples of strong women and examples of men being allowed to show weakness. It is important for the child to see that femininity can be successfully combined with achieving success. Also, if a child (a boy) cries, do not scold him or shame him, but explain that expressing one’s feelings is natural. Don’t be overly sentimental, but show that such emotions have a place.
Talk a lot about the relationships between men and women, because the child absorbs it like a sponge. If you don’t explain why people behave the way they do, they may form an incorrect picture of relationships.
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Formation of the Throat Center in a Child
The fifth (throat) energy center is responsible for self-expression, expressing one’s emotions, feelings, and truth. It begins to form between the ages of 7 and 12.
This center is responsible for communication — all types of communication.
To help the throat chakra develop actively, it is useful to ask the child questions so they try to find the answer themselves. Have more conversations about global concepts, the structure of the world, planets, and space. Let the child reason things out. This will allow you to plant a thought, a seed, in the child that we are not limited only to the physical body, that there is something beyond us.
Broaden the child’s horizons, travel to different places, galleries, museums, other cities. They begin to see and expand their boundaries, their field of vision.
The more novelty they receive, the more they stretch their perception of the world, the easier life will be for them later on.
Encourage creativity in any form: clubs, sections, craft kits. At this moment, creative potential is developing. If you want your child not to become a pale, directionless adult drifting aimlessly, focus on creativity during this period.
Positive evaluation of the child’s actions is important, so they feel that everything they do evokes a positive response.
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Development of the Third Eye Chakra
The sixth energy center is responsible for intuition and discernment. This center and the seventh one form later in life, during adolescence, and as we begin to mature.
Since children are already adults and have separated from the family, it is important to encourage them to take responsibility for their own decisions and also to give them the opportunity to take that responsibility.
Remove overprotectiveness and control, allow a young adult of 15-17-20 years old to learn from their own mistakes.
Parents often try to cushion every fall, afraid their child will fall in with a bad crowd, constantly monitoring them and checking their grades. If you can stop this or minimize it, that would be wonderful. It is precisely at this moment that a sense of responsibility for one’s actions will appear.
If a son wants to go to the movies, it means he needs to earn the money. This is where a young entrepreneur is born.
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Developing the Crown Chakra
The seventh center signifies connection with the soul, spirit, inspiration, and wholeness. It develops during the period of growing up and beyond.
At this age, we as parents can help our maturing child search for pearls of wisdom. Mistakes are very important; they shape experience. Here, your expression of support in difficult situations, if they occur, is crucial. Do not blame them for missteps, but help them see the meaning in the situation.
All of these recommendations will help you raise a happy, self-sufficient child.
If you feel that some of your own energy centers are not sufficiently developed, use these recommendations. Because you can develop energy centers at any age.
This article is based on materials from the educational webinar “Energy Health of Children: Developing Chakras from Childhood.” Watch the recording with comprehensive recommendations on this topic:
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