This is the perfect question to ask if we would like to understand our next level of personal growth. One of the most powerful places to look for the answer is within our own body, in terms of our lifestyle, emotions, thoughts, responses, environment, spiritual understanding, and attitude to life. All of these directly impact our wellbeing.

Your body is your best friend—and it will not lie to you!

It constantly gives you signals. At first, these signals are subtle… a whisper. But if you ignore them, they can grow louder—until they feel like shouts or even screams for your attention.

Your symptoms are not random—they are signals.
Many people look outside themselves for answers (some even blame others) or try to silence them with medications without asking why they appeared in the first place. It can be like turning off a fire alarm without putting out the fire!

Modern medicine is something we are incredibly fortunate to have. It saves lives every day. Ideally, when we need it, we use it—but we can also ask ourselves: “What part, if any, did I play in needing this?”

Often, by making changes to our lifestyle, mindset, and habits, we can reduce our reliance on medications (or at the very least reduce them) and in most cases improve our overall wellbeing.

Also see my post: What Are Chakras? Energy & Balance Explained

The Body, the Mind, and Your Internal Environment

Genetics plays a role in all of our lives, but modern research shows that our internal environment—what we think, feel, and do is the major influencer on how those genes are expressed.

We can influence our internal environment through:

• our thoughts and mindset, especially our attitude toward ourselves and life
• our emotional patterns
• the food we eat
• our level of activity
• our lifestyle habits
• the environments we place ourselves in
• a belief system that involves knowing that we are more than ‘physical’

Over time, many of us begin to realise:

I am not my thoughts.
I am the observer of my thoughts—

and some of those thoughts are not even true.

But if I believe they are true, so does my body!

This awareness alone can remove one of the biggest obstacles to good health.

So, Which Chakra Is Out of Balance?

Your chakra system gives you a way to observe what may be happening within you—physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

Each chakra is linked to certain areas of the body, and when energy flow is reduced or out of balance, your body often reflects this through specific symptoms or behaviours.

How to Use This Guide

As you read through the following, simply notice what resonates with you in regard to the symptoms you are experiencing.

You may relate to more than one chakra—but usually one or two will stand out more strongly. These are often the areas asking for your attention right now.

Sometimes it is not easy to know which chakra is ‘calling’ for attention, so here are some common chakra-related symptoms: 

1^st Base Chakra

• regularly feeling like you are a victim
• regularly feeling fearful, especially about change or the future
• feeling unstable or insecure in life – your foundation is not strong
• feeling ‘stuck’ in life
• feeling unsettled and/or unorganised at home
• relying on others to supply your basic needs-shelter, food, clothing, etc.
• joint or bone symptoms
• finding it challenging to exercise
• heaviness feeling
• obesity or too thin
• lower back pain
• pain or symptoms in the lower body
• sciatica
• rectum or anal problems

2^nd Sacral Chakra

• rescuing too many people or the same person too often
• not giving to yourself or feeling guilty if you do so
• giving opinions too often, especially those that are not asked for
• either not in touch with your sexuality or over-expressing it
• being a rescuer instead of a mentor
• caring for others, but not caring for yourself
• infertility or reproductive organ symptoms
• lower back pain or sciatica
• fatigue or adrenal exhaustion
• over or under emotional
• kidney symptoms

3^rd Solar Plexus Chakra

• often wanting to please others
• self-esteem is low
• self-respect is low
• letting what other people think of you be over-important
• feeling like a worrier instead of a warrior
• over-sensitive to how others feel toward you
• always needing approval
• often feeling anxious or depressed
• digestive or intestinal symptoms
• eating disorders
• middle back tension or pain

4^th Heart Chakra

• finding it challenging to love and respect yourself
• not feeling worthy of love
• feeling like you do not have a lot in common with others
• find it challenging to forgive or let go of incidents from the past
• find it challenging to have compassion for others
• often finding reasons outside yourself to explain your discontent
• shortness of breath or asthma
• a feeling of tight shoulders
• feeling lonely
• not feeling peaceful
• not feeling good about yourself
• feeling disabled with life in general
• finding fault (over-critical) with life or other people
• upper back tension or pain
• chest or breast symptoms
• heart symptoms

5^th Throat Chakra

• you say yes when you actually want to say no
• challenged in setting boundaries with another person’s behaviour
• always holding back what you really want to say
• grinding teeth at night or having a tight jaw
• sore neck or shoulders
• regularly get a sore throat or lose your voice
• regularly feels like there is a lump in the throat
• talking too much or not saying enough
• challenging to communicate what you are feeling or thinking
• holding back your creativity
• thyroid symptoms
• challenging to express grief or not allowing yourself to do so
• being too diplomatic on too many occasions

6^th Third Eye Chakra

• find it challenging to still my mind
• find it challenging to meditate
• a diminished trust or no trust in a higher power
• find it challenging to focus in the moment
• eye symptoms or headaches
• finding it challenging to trust your intuition
• mental stress
• difficulty concentrating
• living in your head too much
• hallucinations

7^th Crown Chakra

• challenging to listen to your intuition
• challenging to connect to your higher self or higher power
• challenging to listen to your conscience
• difficult to believe or have faith that life is unfolding as it should
• trouble meditating or paying attention for long periods of time
• regularly feeling confused, disoriented, or depressed

‘It is far easier for me to find
peace in the world when
I am at peace with myself.’  

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Our attitudes and responses are reflected in our minds and bodies and accumulate over time, eventually giving us symptoms. Symptoms, by definition means, ‘a sign of something’ and my work and treatments aim to create an understanding of what your body would like you to know, what is your body is wanting you to understand.

One way I help my clients regain and maintain their health is with, Integrated Massage Therapy, which is outlined later in this post.

Keep in Balance

Your body is your best friend, and it will not lie to you, although on occasion we would not mind if it were not so honest! You will only get the symptoms of imbalance when your body cannot compromise anymore and then it will ‘call’ for your attention or even a ‘cry’ for your attention.

Many people will look for answers outside themselves as to why they have their symptoms, or they may take medicine to put the ‘fire alarm’ out, yet do not attempt to put out the fire! We want to do our best not to accumulate medicines as we move through life by just putting out the ‘fires’! Many people end up taking many medicines daily!

Just to be clear. I would not want to be without many of the medicines and medical procedures we now have available. Many people would not be alive if it were not for modern medical practices! We are blessed to have them. Ideally, when we need medicine, we take it and at the same time we ask ourselves, “What part, (if any) did I play in needing the medicine in the first place?”

I have seen many people either reduce the number of medications they take, or the dosage of their medications simply by adopting a healthier lifestyle a healthier attitude to life. We also know that it is highly beneficial to resolve or let go of past challenges, anger, traumas, resentments, grievances, frustrations, guilt, and jealousy. Which Chakra is out of Balance?

What matters most?

Genetics also plays a big part in all our lives. We are all born with hereditary genes that can potentially lead to good health or illness. Modern research shows that it is the environment, especially within our body, (epigenetics) that determines if it is the healthy genes or the unhealthy ones that will get the upper hand and are therefore be encouraged to express themselves! We can control our internal environment with our thoughts, emotions, eating patterns, exercise, lifestyle habits, and by reducing the harmful chemicals and environments we expose ourselves to. Remember, your body is your best friend!

Integrated Massage Therapy ™
–honouring the body/mind/spirit connection

If you live on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia and would like a treatment or have any questions please contact me via email: stephencanning at chakrawisdom dot com dot au 

Integrated Massage Therapy is my specific therapeutic approach to promoting health and wellbeing that encourages the release of accumulated long-term stress and tension from the mind and body. This is achieved by combining Remedial and Deep Tissue Massage techniques with Acupressure, Reflexology, Polarity Energy Healing, Mindfulness, correct breathing plus passive stretching, all of which encourage tension release and healing. You will also be given insights as to why the body is exhibiting certain imbalances and symptoms. This session will lead you to experience a remarkable sense of physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.

Integrated Massage Therapy

The optimal functioning of all our body systems, (especially the nervous and immune systems), are compromised by accumulated stress and tension. By releasing this stress and tension from the body and mind, energy flow is optimised thus allowing us to move forward towards improved wellbeing and a step closer to reaching our full potential. 

One of my passions is to help people maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance as they travel through life. We are all pressured from so many directions and to perform in so many ways, that we may lose sight of what it feels like to be relaxed, rejuvenated and at ease. I aim is to help you regain this feeling!

An Integrated Massage Therapy Session can have the following benefits:
■ The release of accumulated stress, tension, anger & grief ■ Improved mental clarity & focus ■ Reduction of aches & pains ■ Strengthening of the immune system ■ Improved flexibility ■ Increased vitality & sense of wellbeing ■ Significant reduction of stress and/or anxiety-related symptoms   ■ Optimising the body’s energy systems ■Enhanced recovery from illness ■Feeling released from the past   ■ Feeling remarkably calm & relaxed.

A brief outline of some of the techniques that may be used during treatment:

Remedial Massage: A variety of specific massage techniques are used, and it is highly effective for focusing on particular problem areas. It is especially beneficial in releasing chronic stress and tension. An assisted passive stretching technique (known as PNF) is also used to increase flexibility & range of movement. Remedial massage can also help reduce limitations in movement brought on from past injuries that may be hindering your optimal physical performance.

Reflexology

Deep Tissue Massage: ‘Deep’ is a relative word and depends on the client’s needs and it does not need to be painful as we work together in determining the most suitable pressure. This specifically focuses on the deeper layers of muscle tissue and aims to release the chronic patterns of tension in the body through slow strokes and firm pressure on the contracted areas either by following or going across the fibres of the muscles, tendons, and fascia. Highly beneficial for chronic pain, limited mobility, recovery from injuries, repetitive strain injury, postural problems, fibromyalgia, and muscle spasms.

Polarity Energy Healing: Underlying the muscular and skeletal systems in the body is a pattern of energy that forms a matrix or blueprint that the body uses while maintaining as well as healing itself. This energy has been given various names such as Prana, Chi or Vital Force depending on the culture describing it and it connects through energy channels called nadis and energy centres called chakras.

Our true health is determined by the energy flowing through this system and symptoms arise when it is not flowing optimally. Your energy system will be optimised by using specific energy balancing techniques, including pressure on reflex points, slow rhythmic movements, rocking techniques & energy healing.

Acupressure/Reflexology: This involves massaging and stimulating specific reflex points, many of which are located on the hands and feet (which correspond to various organs and systems of the body) as well as using other specific energy balancing points on the body. This technique stimulates the body’s own healing and balancing processes.

Breathing Techniques: Your breathing patterns are observed during this treatment, as they can be a reflection of underlying stress, tension and ‘energy congestion’ in certain areas. You will be coached regarding the correct breathing patterns that will ensure you achieve the optimum results from the session.

I have practiced as a Naturopath, Homeopath, Nutritionist and Massage Therapist for the last 44 years and my approach to health and healing reflects the knowledge and experience gained during this time as to how the body functions at both a physical and energetic level. During this time, I have also trained massage therapists as well as being General Manager at a leading Health Retreat for 5 years. I practice at Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat on the Gold Coast, Australia as well as visiting clients on the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne.

Stephen Canning – Naturopath, Homeopath, Massage Therapist (N.D., Dip. Mass., Dip. Bot. Med., Dip. Hom., Cert IV Workplace Train. & Assess. A.N.T.A.B.)
If you live on the Gold Coast or Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and would like a treatment or have any questions please contact me via email: stephencanning at chakrawisdom dot com dot au 

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