Crystals for Energy Protection - Judy Hall 2020

The Chakras: Your Subtle Immune System
Understanding Your Energy Field

Your psychic immune system works in tandem with and is linked to your physical immune system, the endocrine system and the different energetic frequencies of the subtle biomagnetic sheath — your aura — that encloses your physical body.

The Chakra System

The chakras are energy linkage centres that connect your physical body with the subtle bodies contained within your aura. They distribute the life-force (often known as prana or Qi/chi) through the physical and subtle bodies and are the basis for holistic healing. If a chakra becomes blocked, the subtle energy flow becomes imbalanced and dis-ease or disharmony eventually results.

Specific issues, toxic emotions, mental states and positive or negative qualities can be supported or ameliorated by placing an appropriate crystal on the relevant chakra or chakras. While a rainbow of colours is often applied, this is a relatively modern invention and there are many crystals that have traditionally been used to support the chakras that don’t follow this colour scheme.

Traditionally seven major chakras are recognized, but as consciousness is raised, so more chakras become available, many of which have been known since ancient times.

The Chakras and their Functions

Gaia Gateway

✵ Position:Varies. May be a foot or so beneath the Earth Star or some distance into the planet.

✵ Function: Connects soul into incarnation. Links to the soul of Mother Earth.

✵ When this chakra is functioning at optimum you are comfortable in incarnation recognizing that although you have a physical body, you also have a soul and spirit and a purpose in incarnating on the Earth. Your higher crown chakras are open and function well.

✵ When this chakra is blocked, higher-vibration energies pouring into your higher crown chakras cannot be assimilated and grounded, leading to energetic overload.

Earth Star

✵ Position: A foot or so below the feet.

✵ Function: Grounding and protecting, cleansing and stabilizing.

✵ When this chakra is working positively, you’re grounded and operate well in everyday reality.

✵ When it is blocked or working negatively, you’re ungrounded, have no sense of personal power, cannot operate in everyday reality and easily pick up negativity from the environment.

Knee

✵ Position: Behind and through the knees, like a flat disc on which the upper legs and body rest.

✵ Function: The knee chakras ensure you are flexible and able to adapt to changing circumstances; literally able to ’go with the flow’ and yet having perseverance when required. You use your willpower to manifest a desired outcome rather than to insist on it. You have the ability to nurture and support yourself and manifest what you need on a day-to-day basis.

✵ When the knee chakras are balanced, you set realistic goals and outcomes, and let go when appropriate. You have humility and can offer service to others from an open heart.

✵ When blocked, you are likely to be hare-brained, inflexible or servile. There is fear of change, especially of death.

✵ Not only can the knee chakras be blocked or too open, but they can also suffer a left—right imbalance so check out each chakra and harmonize them with appropriate crystals. Generally speaking, the left knee represents the feminine, yin aspect that is receptive, emotional and intuitive. The right knee represents the male, yang, aspect that is factual, practical, managerial and outgoing.

Palm

✵ Position: Centre of the palms radiating up into the fingers and along the arms.

✵ Function: Hands are powerful sensors, part of a continual process of receiving and giving out. They assist you to interact with the world on an energetic level. The manifestation and healing chakras in the palm of your hand are what you use to sense energies and actualize.

✵ Fully functioning palm chakras help you to receive energy from the universe — or from crystals — and channel this into your energy field through the chakras, but they also project energy. This is where you experience expanded awareness and increased creativity in the physical and subtle energy worlds.

✵ Blocked palm chakras or ones that are too open limit your ability to handle and regulate energy efficiently.

Base

✵ Position: The base of the spine/perineum.

✵ Function: Energizing and motivating, sharpening the survival instincts, basic security, your sense of your own power.

✵ When this chakra is working positively, you’re active, independent and lead spontaneously.

✵ When it is blocked or working negatively, you’re impatient, fear annihilation, have a death wish, feel over-sexed or impotent and are vengeful, hyperactive, highly impulsive, angry, violent and manipulative.

Sacral

✵ Position: Below the navel.

✵ Function: Creation, fertility, procreation and manifestation.

✵ When this chakra is working positively, you have courage, assertion, confidence and joy, enjoy sensual pleasure and accept your sexual identity.

✵ When it is blocked or working negatively, it can lead to infertility. You have low self-esteem and may be cruel or sluggish, feel inferior or be pompous. This chakra can be the site of emotional hooks or thought forms from other people.

Solar Plexus

✵ Position: Above the navel.

✵ Function: Nurturing, emotional connection and assimilation.

✵ When this chakra is working positively, you have good energy utilization and are empathetic, organized and logical with active intelligence.

✵ When it is blocked or working negatively, you have poor energy utilization, feel lazy, are overly emotional or cold and cynical, carry emotional baggage and suffer from energy leaching, easily taking on other people’s feelings and problems.

Spleen

✵ Position: Hand’s breadth under left armpit.

✵ Function: Healthy boundaries and energy protection. A minor chakra but vitally important in energy protection.

✵ When it is working positively, energy pirates are prevented from tapping into your energy system and your boundaries are strong.

✵ When it is blocked or too open, energy pirates can hook into your energy, easily breaching your boundaries, and draw energy off for their own use.

✵ Energy pirates: People who intentionally or unknowingly tap into your energy for their own advantage.

Heart

✵ Position: Over the physical heart.

✵ Function: Love, healing, empathy, overcoming emotional distress.

✵ When this chakra is working positively, you’re loving, generous, compassionate, nurturing, flexible, self-confident and accepting.

✵ When it is blocked or working negatively, you’re disconnected from your feelings, unable to show love, jealous, possessive, insecure, miserly, resistant to change and mired in emotional pain.

Higher Heart

✵ Position: Over the thymus.

✵ Function: Links all the chakras with unconditional love and compassion. Connects to universal love.

✵ When this chakra is working well, you’re compassionate, empathetic, nurturing, forgiving and spiritually connected.

✵ When it is blocked or working negatively, you’re spiritually disconnected, grieving, unable to express feelings and emotionally needy.

Throat

✵ Position: Over the throat.

✵ Function: Communicating and expressing feelings.

✵ When this chakra is operating positively, you’re able to speak your own truth with clarity and are receptive, idealistic and loyal.

✵ When it is blocked or working negatively, you’re unable to verbalize your thoughts or feelings, feel stuck and can be dogmatic and disloyal.

Past-life

✵ Position: three fingers’ breadth behind your ears, and along the bony ridge to the base of the skull.

✵ Function: Storage of memories of your previous lives, deeply ingrained soul programs and emotional baggage from the past. This chakra holds all the traumas, dramas, gifts and lessons you have learned over many lifetimes, as well as outdated soul intentions you may well be holding onto from previous lives.

✵ When it is working positively, you reconnect to soul gifts that you have developed in the past.

✵ When it is blocked or too open, psychosomatic dis-ease or actual physical disease or memory overwhelm may result. This is a point where people from the past can attach and control you.

Alta Major

✵ Position: Merkaba shape inside the skull.

Merkaba

✵ Function: Expanding awareness. Also known as the ’ascension chakra’, the alta major is an important factor in accelerating and expanding consciousness. An anchor for the multi-dimensional lightbody, it unites metaphysical and intuitive insight. It, in conjunction with the causal vortex and past-life chakras, contains your past-life karma and the contractual agreements you made with your higher self and others before incarnating in this lifetime.

✵ When balanced, the alta major gives the ability to see the bigger picture; all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of life fit in their place. It enhances intuitive ideas and makes them more solid, tangible and achievable. This chakra holds valuable information about our ancestral past and the ingrained patterns that govern human life and awareness.

✵ If the alta major is functioning well your subtle endocrine system harmonizes the subtle bodies with the physical. You will have a strong sense of direction in life and a well-functioning subtle and physical immune system. If the alta major is out of sync, the physical and subtle bodies manifest dis-ease.

Brow/Third Eye

✵ Position: Above and between the eyebrows.

✵ Function: Attuning to psychic abilities and the subtle energy world, providing mental intuition and connection.

✵ When this chakra is open and working well, you’re intuitive, perceptive, visionary and in the moment.

✵ When it’s blocked or working negatively, you’re spaced out, fearful, attached to the past, superstitious and bombarded with other people’s thoughts.

Soma

✵ Position: Centre of the hairline on the forehead.

✵ Function: Connection to universal consciousness and the aura, particularly the soul and spiritual bodies.

✵ When the chakra functions well, the etheric body can leave the physical to travel to other dimensions and then safely return.

✵ If this chakra is blocked, consciousness cannot expand beyond the body. If the chakra is stuck open, there will be difficulty in uniting the physical and subtle bodies and in returning to the body after journeying or other dimensional travel. There is susceptibility to entity attachment and undue mental influence.

✵ Entity attachment: Another soul or consciousness ’takes over’ the physical body and influences behaviour and thoughts.

Crown

✵ Position: The top of the head.

✵ Function: Opening intuition and spiritual communication.

✵ When this chakra is working positively, you’re mystical, creative, humanitarian and willingly give service to others.

✵ When it is blocked or working negatively, you’re overly imaginative, delusional, arrogant and use power to control others.

Causal Vortex (Galactic)

✵ Position: 3—12 inches (8—30 cm) above and behind the head (dowse for exact placement).

✵ Function: Acting rather like a universal and cosmic worldwide web, the causal vortex accesses the Akashic Records, especially those of your own soul. It assists in assessing how far you have travelled on your spiritual journey and how well you are doing with your karmic lessons.

✵ When this chakra is operational, the spiritual will is activated, guided by the higher self and the universal mind. It keeps the connection to your soul purpose open and helps you access your karmic skills and abilities.

✵ When the chakra is blocked, spiritual disconnection ensues and psychic overwhelm can occur.

Soul Star

✵ Position: About a foot above your head.

✵ Function: An interface for your relationship with the universe and beyond, the soul star is a bridge between spirit and matter. This chakra adjusts extremely spiritually high frequencies so they can be integrated into matter. When assimilated by the physical body, they can be expressed here on Earth.

✵ When not functioning at optimum, this chakra may lead to spiritual arrogance, soul fragmentation or a messiah complex. It is the person who rescues and enslaves others rather than empowering them. It can also be the site of spirit attachment, extraterrestrial invasion or overwhelm by ancestral spirits.

✵ When it is functioning at optimum there is true humility, with a connection to overall soul intention and an objective perspective on the past that leads to spiritual illumination. This chakra also holds the collective karma of humankind and the history of the evolution of the cosmos.

Stellar Gateway

✵ Position: Above the Soul Star.

✵ Function: The stellar gateway is a dimensional portal rather than a physical site. It is a point of connection to the divine and to the multiverses surrounding us: where the soul can make a connection to its own higher self, other realms, higher dimensions, Source and All That Is.

✵ When it is functioning optimally, two-way communication with higher dimensional beings is possible and spiritual illumination results.

✵ When this chakra is imbalanced the soul is fragmented, disintegrated, disconnected and unable to function in the everyday world. This results in a ’space cadet’ who is open to cosmic disinformation as it is the lower astral plane rather than higher dimensions with which connection will be made.

Cleansing and Recharging your Chakras

When chakras are out of balance or blocked, they tend to pulsate at a slower or faster rate than usual and may well ’wobble’ or spin in a reverse direction. However, as different people’s chakras naturally spin in different directions, do not assume that because a chakra is not spinning in the direction someone says it should it is out of balance. A great deal of harm can be done by a well-meaning but dogmatic person ’regulating’ your chakras to conform to what they believe is the right direction of spin. It may not be right for you and may damage your natural protection.

Fortunately a crystal will quickly pick up any imbalance and cleanse and re-energize a chakra, rectifying any blockage as it does so.

TRY THIS: FOR A FAST CHAKRA CLEANSE

✵ Work with a long-pointed crystal — Clear, Laser or Lemurian Seed Quartz are ideal — and start at the base chakra, with the point out.

✵ Rotate your crystal over the chakra in a circular fashion, pulling the energy out to at least an arm’s length.

✵ Cleanse the crystal and rotate the energy back in the opposite direction, with the point pointing in.

Note: There are no strict rules about the direction in which you should rotate the crystal. Just do whatever feels right to you at the time.

Crystals are also useful for a full chakra cleanse and recharge. You can lay them on yourself or ask a friend to help you. Remember to cleanse them first.

TRY THIS: PROTECTING YOUR SPLEEN CHAKRA

If you have a nagging pain under your left armpit or experience a sudden loss of energy when in the presence of a particular person, remove any hooks from the spleen chakra and seal it. This is easily done with a Green Aventurine, Jade or Green Zoisite crystal.

✵ Cleanse the crystal and ask it to dissolve any hooks in your spleen chakra.

✵ Circle the crystal about a hand’s breadth underneath the left armpit. Circle around and then out through the subtle energy bodies. You may need to extend the circle so that you cover both the front and back of your body down towards your waist.

✵ Cleanse the crystal thoroughly.

✵ Circle back in to close the chakra and then tape the crystal over the spot or pop it into your bra.