Balance and Transformation Through the Chakras

By Wandee 'WandeePop' Candelario

As I continue to grow evolve and transition on my spiritual path... I look at people, places and things with more love and compassion.

I am observing from a place in the light, and my heart is fuller with the compassion, hope, belief, faith, and laughter!!

I've embarked on a journey that has moved me in many different directions. At times challenges occur but I respond and react differently, with love a smile and yes at times cleansing tears; the should a, could a, would a, that seemed important to me no longer do! I am learning to release those every, every, everyday!

I practice mind-fullness, which means respecting how I am feeling and how my actions may affect others... that I respect care for, and the way I bring in new things into my life; and how I release what no longer suits my purpose.My purpose is grand, It’s beautiful; it's light full with unlimited potential. As we all have a purpose... on this planet we call EARTH!

I have two questions for you.
1. Do you feel your living up to your true potential?
2. Do you know your purpose?
   
 I've connected my work, the work that I need to do for my spirit/dance/creativity, to be just what it needs to be... allowing it to flow, flourish in its own divine timing, it doesn't matter how fast /slow just the mere fact that I am always learning growing and connecting with my inner light, my beliefs, my love for the ARTS, TRU ESSENCIA DANCE and WELLNESS,  HIP-HOP, along with balancing Snap Pop n' Rock (our signature classes, and products plus services), Food for Fuel Not Emotions, and Herb Ready, that to me is huge part of my purpose.

The transformation is allowing me to be free to express my visions when creating and I have whole new love for my HIP-HOP it’s all transcending on its own…

I dance freely, with a lighter smoother two-step, and a slicker coy groove box step, my foundation is part of me a woman always representing the true essence in life and culture of Hip-Hop!!!

Part of growing is sometimes changing. The best thing is staying focused, committed and maintaining a healthy balance.
One of the beautiful things I've connected with is learning about CHAKRAS, and how important it is to have balance in our lives (What are chakras)?

Chakras are like filters that bridge your physical body and the world around you.  They allow energy from the universe in and the energy out through your subtle field.

I'm going to give you basic information on the seven basic chakras, seven basic herbs to help chakras remain balance. Whenever our bodies and our spirit are not balanced it can manifest in different ways... like becoming sick with fever and colds or flu. I've learned to use the herbs in herbal teas, or soaking in the bathtub to be beneficial, during the days that I may feel are heavy.

Please don’t wait till your feeling heavy begin working on your balance now.

You’ll notice a difference in how your feeling… the shift in energy level, how your mental health is upholding, how you deal with people, and how you react to certain situations.

Below you’ll find information to help you start the process.

Remember whenever embarking on a new journey start from a place of self-love and appreciation!
 

1. Root Chakra - Represents foundation feeling of being grounded.

Location: Base of Spine in tailbone area

Emotional Issues: Survival issues, financial worth or lack of money, and food.

Herb: Dandelion root is a great herb is an abundant herb that can help keep you consciously to our bodies so we can align synchronicity and manifest your purpose.

Color: Red

 2. Sacral Chakra - Connection and ability to accept others and new experiences.

Location: Lower Abdomen 2 inches above navel and 2 inches in.

Emotional Issues: Sense of abundance, well-being, pleasure and sexuality.

Herb: Calendula, by drinking this tea is will help boost creativity and will give you a better sense of intimacy. Its also been known to help with clarity in decision making.

Color: Orange

 3. Third Chakra - Helps us soften our personal efforts to control ones life. Especially when you feel a sense of urgency and attachment to the outcome of a situation.

Location: Solar Plexus

Emotional Issue: Allergies, muscle aches and sometimes related to diabetes.

Herb: Marshmallow root can allow you to surrender to the flow of the moment, and has been known to release knot feeling in the stomach.

Color: Yellow

 4. Heart Chakra - Located in heart and chest this place for integration for the upper and lower chakras open the heart to cosmic energies, our ability to love.

Location: Heart and Chest of body

Emotional Issues:  Immune system issues, fatigue, continuing to catch a colds and flu.

Herb: Hawthorne herb enhances the process of life and promotes encouraging heart strength.

Color: Green 

5.Throat Chakra - Gives us the ability to communicate, speak our truth with honor.

Location: Throat

Emotional Issues: When the throat chakra is un-balanced, you may find yourself not able to speak with clarity. You may find yourself feeling as if your throat is shutting down.

Herb: Red Clover Blossoms are a great source of herb to steep, it assists in helping with free flowing communication.

Color: Blue

6. Third Eye Chakra - it is our center of intuition allows us to see everything clearly.

Location: Between the Eyebrows

Emotional Issues: when imbalanced you will be prone to headaches, visions problems and may find your mood to swing back and forth (good and bad).

Herb: Eyebright enhances our ability to have a better perception and not second guess what when where and how? This herb brings back the balance for our intuition.

Color: Indigo

 7. Crown Chakra - Is associated with happiness and is linked to our higher power.

Location: Crown/Top of the Head

Signs of Imbalance: Epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, extreme fatigue and self-doubt.

Herb: Lavender is a wonderful herb to use for aromatherapy it assists our seventh chakra in opening the alignment to our divine power. This herb is wonderful to enhance when meditating.

Color: Purple/Violet

Please be mindful when including plants, drinking herbal elixirs internally, as well as externally to consult with someone. Some herbs are just great to use while soaking in the bathtub.

I have found since working with plants, herbs internal and external, I have more of a balanced life, light and heavy along with dark and clear.
Balance is necessary and most helpful during seasonal changes.

For more information on to properly steep teas, and how to create your bath tonic contact via Email.

May the spring renewal be raising upon you,
with Blessings, Peace, Love and Light!

Rose Quartz Crystal... Resonates Loving Goddess Energy

Rose Quartz Crystal is a quartz crystal that derives its name from its lovely rose pink color. These crystals come in a range of beautiful shades of pink.

It is known as the 'love stone' as the message it emits is the strong vibration of unconditional love, joy, warmth and healing.

This beautiful pink crystal has a powerful energy that resonates within both the heart chakra and the higher heart chakra, or thymus chakra. This stone will also resonate out the love energy into its surrounds... and aid all those nearby, such as your nearest and dearest.

Not only will it assist you with healing yourself but its energy may bring faith and hope to all in the vicinity... and this energy is well known for its action to stimulate romance in your life.

As quartz crystals are profound amplifiers of energy, it may help to kindle happiness, love,romantic feelings and sensuality.

Rose Quartz Meaning ... A Powerful Love Stone
Rose Quartz is a pink quartz crystal whose meaning is about love.... as it is a stone that epitomizes the vibration of love. This may be why this stone is symbolic of the energy of love, peace and calming energy. One of the facts about Rose Quartz Crystal that is very important is its effectiveness at healing personal relationships.

Rose Quartz Healing Effect
Quartz crystal healing using Rose quartz will heal you on both a physical and emotional level. This lovely stone will resonate out the love energy into its surrounds... as all quartz crystals are profound amplifiers of energy. Not only will it assist you with healing yourself but its energy may bring faith and hope to all in the vicinity.

The presence of Rose Quartz will send a soothing vibration throughout the room where it is located.

Using this crystal will enable you to heal old negative emotions such as anger, resentment, fear and jealousy that may result from past experiences.

As you are freed from these feelings, you may find that you feel less restrained... and that you can unlock your imaginationand discover how to be happy.

Where Does it Come From
Deposits have been found in Madagascar, India, Japan and Brazil, as well as in South Africa and South Dakota in the USA.

Rose quartz crystal colors range from very pale pink through to deep pink, and all have that wonderful loving vibration.

There are not a lot of quartz formations that this stone naturally occurs in. It is less often available as crystals... and is more commonly found in the massive form.

It may be translucent or transparent, although most pieces are fairly opaque. All colors and types have excellent healing qualities. There is also a variety called Strawberry Rose Quartz, and many of these are deeper colored stones... as well as some lighter very beautiful orangey pink stones.
To read Strawberry Quartz meaning, Click Here

Why Would You Use It
All areas of the home will benefit by putting rough rose quartz stones in each corner of the room. Even eating areas can benefit from this soft sweet energy... and it may also improve your digestion too. All types of quartz is easy to fashion into carvings... and using one of the Rose Quartz crystal skulls or other carvings made from the stone... is also another very special way of using this stone.

Of course as it is a heart chakra stone its major impact is in the area of the heart. It is able to also assist in physical problems as it has a lovely balancing energy on the heart chakra organs. It is also especially powerful to heal the upper chakras above the heart chakra.

It can stimulate the thymus chakra, the throat chakra, the third eye chakra and thecrown chakra... and bring their vibrations into line with the heart's... as they beat as one... with the vibration of love and compassion... and you begin living from the heart.

If you are keeping your crystals or stones on you all the time... remember to methodically cleanse them. Cleansing quartz crystals is very simple, as they are some of the easiest crystals to cleanse... so do it regularly for best long term results.

How To Use It
Holding a piece in your hand while speaking aloud, will enhance the power of positive affirmations.These pink stones are a variety of quartz... so that they have an amplifying effect... and any use that you put them too will be heightened by the quartz vibration.

That is why using a Rose Quartz pendulum is so powerful... as it expands the energy available to you while using it.
These crystals are excellent to use during your dailycrystal meditation. They will enable you to heal old negative emotions that you have not let go of... such as anger, resentment, fear and jealousy from past experiences.
Learn easy meditation techniques so you can be freed from these feelings. You may find that you feel less restrained... and that you can unlock your imaginationand discover how to be happy.

You may find that wearing one of these lovely pink crystals, will help you to feel more balanced emotionally... and that any relationship issues may be healed.

The main thing is to keep this stones loving vibration close to you... and they are a beautiful stone to wear as jewelry. They are a Taurus birthstone... so they are on thezodiac birthstones list... so you may easily find beautiful jewelry made from these lovely pink crystals.

Wearing Rose Quartz

This lovely pink stone vibrates strongly within the heart chakra and the higher heart chakra... and as the vibration of the heart chakra is all about the concept of 'loving' you can understand why this would be powerful to have close to you.

This concept is about love not only on the physical level but on the deeper emotional and spiritual levels, and so it is powerul to use as one of the ways to relieve stress, tension, resentment and anxiety.

Rose quartz crystals have a loving vibration that is a powerful energy to help heal relationship problems. These are also lovely stones to wear. I love these lovely pink stones... not only for their physical beauty... but for the emotional healing they will bring to the wearer.

If you are able to obtain one of the beautiful rose quartz gemstones, you will appreciate the quality of this lovely stone.

Wearing Rose Quartz jewelry or holding a piece of Rose Quartz in your hand, will bestow a peaceful and calming sensation that can assist in healing of the heart... by dissolving anger and resentment.

In these stressful days we live in many of us are in need of emotional healing.  Wearing Rose Quartz crystal jewelry... such as earrings, pendants or rings made from natural stones is very powerful, as this is a crystal with strong metaphysical properties.

Rose Quartz jewelry is easy to buy, as they are birthstones for January and May as well as zodiac birthstones for Taurus... and they make wonderful birthstone jewelry.

If you find that Rose Quartz jewelry is not within your budget, a less expensive solution is rose quartz tumblestone. It is easy to buy Rose quartz, in many different forms... including rough rose quartz crystals or tumble stones, which are relatively inexpensive and are easy to acquire.

Who Should Use it.. How Will it Help You
Simply place one of these wonderful healing stones in each corner of the bedroom, or alternatively on your bedside or under your pillow. This will allow the energy to resonate out into the area where you are sleeping.

When you bring this lovely energy into any area where you locate them, their loving vibration is powerful to help your relationships, and a bonus is that you will also wake more refreshed.

Those of you who have old inner child issues associated with your father or other male relative may be healed by the energy of Rose quartz. Old stored feelings may be released and healing may occur.

So if you are not able to get jewelry, simply put a piece of Rose Quartz crystal in your pocket. These are easy to buy, and putting one or more in your pocket... or for the ladies in your bra, is most advantageous.

Rose Quartz gemstones are lovely to wear, and are easy to find... especially if you simply ask the universe to bring one to you.

My gorgeous Mother of Pearl and Rose Quartz heart necklace... in the photo above, came to me after I simply sat and thought about what I wanted... and soon after I saw it for sale.

Courtesy of
http://www.healing-crystals-for-you.com/rose-quartz-crystal.html