This chakra is all about connection to the earth, from establishing a deep sense of physical body to understanding the environment that surrounds you. This is your primal, animal nature – your fight-or-flight response. Courage, resourcefulness, and the desire to live are this chakra’s biggest gifts.

This chakra seeks pleasure and enjoyment. It is the center of intimacy, sexuality, emotion, feeling, and connection. This chakra permits letting go, and the ability to experience in-the-moment transformation and bliss within the body.

This is located between the navel and the rib cage. This chakra beholds the core of ego. Here, our personality and our identity remain. It is the center of willpower. Self-esteem, responsibility, and reliability are the biggest gifts of this chakra.

This chakra exudes love, compassion, and pure warmth and joy. This is the center of ultimate care both within and without. Compassion for others is abundant, as is kindness and respect. The gift of this chakra is the energy of deep bonds, rooted from a place of ultimate love.

From here, words and thoughts of truth and wisdom are sought. It is a desire that transcends space and time. The biggest gift of this chakra is acceptance of an authentic voice that is original in thought and true in speech.

The gift of this chakra is insight into both the inner and outer worlds. Thoughts are clear here. To guide ourselves and others, we seek spiritual contemplation and self reflection. This is the chakra of pure intuition.

This chakra connects us to the divine source of creation – the Universe. This is the center for devotion, inspiration, happiness, and positivity. The biggest gift of this chakra is mystical unification – you are beyond the self, and understand that everything is connected on a fundamental level.