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Love. It is the number one thing talked about in movies and sung about in songs. In Greek there are seven words for love highlighting familial love, romantic love, friendship, and the love of yourself. The Heart Chakra is the center of all forms of love, and when unbalanced it is much harder to let go of the past with understanding and compassion. Past relationships and emotional trauma can keep you from accepting unconditional love and hinder your spiritual growth. 

Imagine you’re taking a walk on a beautiful sunny day. You meander down your favorite nature path, just enjoying the scenery. Are you ever stopping to look at your shadow? Probably not.

Chances are, this is what it’s like with your inner shadow. It’s there. You might notice it every once and a while, but for the most part you’re just walking along your life path, not giving it too much thought.

This guide will serve you best if you are just beginning shadow work, and will give you insight into what has worked best for me so that you can incorporate them into your own practices.

Do you doubt that you have a connection to the higher power?

Are you accepting of yourself for who you are?

Do you feel disconnected from your spirituality?

Do you have a tendency toward self-destructive behavior?

If you want to understand whether your crown chakra is balanced, start by answering these questions. Then, read on to understand what the crown chakra is and how you can balance it.

Do you trust your intuition to guide your actions?

Do you dwell on your problems?

Or are you able to see beyond them to the solutions?

Do you seek to create new thought patterns?

Your answers to these questions can give you insight into whether your third eye chakra is balanced. 

Do you allow your creativity to flow freely?

Do you open your life up to infinite possibilities?

What are you a stand for? And are you expressing it?

Are you clear in your communication? Or do you hold back out of fear of being heard?

Do you know your purpose in life?

Take a moment to ponder these questions or even journal on them to gain an understanding of whether your throat chakra is balanced or imbalanced.

What is your relationship with your emotions? Do you allow yourself to feel them fully? Or do you suppress them?

Are you codependent?

Do you treat yourself with kindness, love, and respect?

Do you find it easy to forgive yourself and others? Or do you hold onto bitterness and grievances from the past?

Answering these questions can help you understand if your fourth chakra, the heart chakra is balanced, or not. But first, let's dive into what the heart chakra is.

Do you choose your path? Or do you allow your life's path to choose you?

Do you create your own current? 

Do you feel confident most of the time?

Are you full of self-judgment?

Are you accepting of who you are?

All amazing questions to ask yourself when trying to determine if your solar plexus chakra is out of balance. Let's dive into what the heck the solar plexus chakra is, and how you can balance it!

How do you feel about your body?

Do you love your body?

Do you have harmonious relationships?

Are you pursuing your passions?

Have you been honoring your feelings by allowing them to be and truly expressing them?

Answering these questions can give you insight into how balanced your second chakra, your sacral chakra.

Do you feel safe, supported and loved?

How are you relating to your tribe (family and friends)?

Do you feel loved?

Do you have a strong emotional base?

Do you feel like your basic needs are being met?

How much do you feel like you are willing to change and grow?

Your answers to these questions can give you a hint into if your root chakra is balanced or not. 

What do you really know about Reiki? 

Sometimes we resist trying something new because we don't understand it. While this is normal, it can keep you from missing out on a truly healing experience.

So, let's take this time to demystify Reiki so you can understand what it is, it's benefits and how it can be used to charge crystals.

Say you were dropped off into the wilderness for 30 days without food, water, shelter. There's no phone signal, so you can't call for help. No Wi-Fi so you can't Google, "How to survive in the wilderness". You just have you and whatever wilderness skills and knowledge you have accumulated in your lifetime. How would you do? 

You're just so sick of feeling not good enough, scared to take action on the things you know will move you forward in your vision for your life, like everyone else is better than you are. 

You know what that is, right? It's a lack of self-confidence. There's good news though! You don't have to live feeling like this forever. It's a mindset and with a little work on yourself and some help from your crystal friends, it can be changed!

We are always manifesting. We are always co-creating with the Universe. And while many of us know that intellectually, it helps us to focus and communicate with the Universe by creating physical representations of our desires. That might be through art, writing, vision boards, and yes, crystal grids.

Crystal grids are a powerful and gorgeous tool we can use to amplify our intentions and send a signal to the Universe of what we desire. They have been rising in popularity over the past several years as a growing number of people have experienced their manifestations coming to fruition.