What an energy Chakra actually is …
What an energy Chakra actually is …
Written by Susan Clark and Dr Priya Vallabh -
Our chakras move the life force that keeps us alive. A chakra isn't a thing — it's a flow. The Sanskrit word translates loosely as "wheel," but it may be more accurate to picture a chakra as a small whirlpool: a place where life force energy gathers, spins, transforms, and moves on. When our chakras are flowing freely, we feel it — as vitality, as clarity, as the particular ease of being fully present in our own lives.
Our chakra system is where our energy and physical selves intersect and interact. Our chakras are how the body arranges the movement of energy within our specific embodiment. They direct our life force in different patterns, depending on where we are evolving, expanding and ascending. How that energy flows attunes us to a particular range of experiences and possibilities. And those experiences and the paths we choose, in turn, influence and affect the way life force moves through us. Think of our chakra system as an intimate and ongoing conversation with the universe, and with everything around us. When that conversation is open and unobstructed, life tends to feel like it's meeting us — ideas arrive, connections form, the body feels at home in itself.
Chakras respond to us. They change based on the decisions we make and what we choose to do with our energy. But they don't only move energy — they hold it. This is why thinking about chakras as whirlpools is useful: a whirlpool can carry things along, but it can also trap them. Debris accumulates. The spin slows, or distorts. An experience that never fully moved through — a grief that was never allowed to land, a fear the body absorbed while the mind kept going — gets caught at a particular centre, and the energy there begins to organise around it.
This isn't a malfunction. The chakra is doing exactly what it is meant to do: holding what wasn't yet ready to move, so that we can access it when we are ready. Our unprocessed experiences, our stored fears, our layered traumas — these live in us as energy, and the chakras are where that energy takes up residence. It's part of why working with the chakras can feel so surprisingly intimate. You're not just shifting energy. You're meeting what has been waiting there.
What makes stored energy ready to move is, more often than not, attention. Simply turning conscious awareness toward what has been held — not to fix it, not to extract it, but to witness it. Something that has lived unacknowledged in the body begins to shift the moment it is truly seen. From there, the pathways are many: breathwork, movement, sound, meditation, intentional energy work. Each, in its own way, creates the conditions in which what has been held can begin to flow again. Stored energy isn't stuck because something went wrong — it was held because, at the time, that was the wisest thing the system could do. The body and its energy field are always listening for permission: not to be pushed or forced, but gently invited toward release. And when it does, what was held becomes available — not lost, but transformed. Energy that was organised around an old wound can be reclaimed, and redirected toward who we are becoming. What changes is not the energy itself, but the conditions around it.
When we bring intention, spaciousness, conscious presence — the whirlpool begins to clear. There are seven main chakras in the physical body which do just that. Each of the seven have unique responsibilities. Our experiences are stored in the appropriate chakras until we are ready and equipped to process and release them.
** These blog posts were created through a combination of channeled messages and our own work as practitioners.
Visit Priya’s site: https://www.sovereign-self.org
Visit Susan’s site: www.wehealfromwithin.com
