What are Chakras and what do they have to do with Crystals?
Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning wheel or vortex and that is just what they are. The human form has over 200 chakras, located all over the body. We can think of them as intersections of primary or secondary energy channels. Energy channels being the Meridians, the veins and arteries, the nervous system, the lymph system, etc. Where ever these systems intersect there is a vortex of energy. There are seven (or eight again depending on what tradition you follow) primary chakras these are the largest and most influential on the bodys energy system as a whole. These seven chakras are based along the spine and correspond to major organs within the body. Starting at the base of the spine and moving through the body to the top of the head the chakras are as follows; root, sacral, solar plexus, heart, throat, brow and crown. When looking, from a metaphysical point of view, at how the body develops disease and or illness we see the chakras have a major roll in the well being of the human system
