Your chakras are the energy centers in your body that allow the energy to flow in your body in order to allow you to experience excellent physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Whenever chakras are blocked, you will have imbalances and you will face issues with illnesses that include struggling with mental health. Negative experiences can easily cause blockages of the chakras.
It is important to meditate each day in order to help keep the chakras open after facing challenges. However, there are also foods that you should know about to eat in order to open up each of the chakras. Let’s go over those now.
The Root Chakra – This chakra is located at the base of your spine and it is the one responsible for grounding. Insecurity is a sign that this one is blocked, and it is associated with the color red. Red foods such as red apples, tomatoes, beets, strawberries, and pomegranates are good for this chakra.
The Sacral Chakra – This chakra is just below your navel and it rules libido and creativity, and imbalances can easily cause problems with either. The color orange is the one associated with this chakra and the best foods to eat are carrots, mango, apricots, peaches, orange peppers, salmon, and sweet potatoes.
The Solar Plexus Chakra – This one is located in the solar plexus area which is in the abdomen. Personal power, confidence, goals, and willpower and connected with this one. Poor self-esteem and poor motivation are signs that this chakra is blocked. Yellow is the color associated with this chakra, and the best foods to eat to keep it open are corn, bananas, lemon, pineapple, and brown rice.
The Heart Chakra – This one is in the heart region and it rules compassion, joy, and love. Any problems with this are signs that this chakra is out of balance and blocked. The colors pink and green are associated with it, and foods such as kiwis, leafy greens, green apples, green tea, avocado, lime, zucchini, cucumber, and mint are good for helping to keep this chakra open.
The Throat Chakra – This chakra is located right in the neck area and it rules your ability to express yourself, think clearly, and to speak the truth. Problems with communicating and having trouble concentrating, and thinking that is not clear are signs that this chakra is blocked. The color that is associated with this one is blue, and foods such as blueberries, plums, and blackberries are helpful to keep it open. Also herbal teas, coconut water, lemon as well as raw honey are good for soothing the throat.
The Third Eye Chakra – This one is right in between your eyebrows on your forehead and this is the one for intuition as well as the ability to learn. The inability to think clearly, grasp things and clogged intuition is a result of this chakra being blocked. The color associated with this is indigo. Foods such as blueberries, plums, purple grapes, purple kale, purple cabbage, and carrots, as well as eggplant, are good for this chakra.
The Crown Chakra – This is at the crown of your head and rules connectedness to your Higher Self and to spirituality. Blockages in regards to those are a sign that this one is blocked as well. The color clear is associated with this, and water will help this one stay open. But there are no associated foods for this chakra. Activities such as meditation, utilizing herbs such as sage and lavender for spiritual cleansing can help keep this chakra open.
Now you know what to add to your grocery shopping list!
