Each chakra has an associated color, in addition to their associated qualities and benefits. The heart chakra is oddly, green. The root chakra is red. The creative chakra, your womb space, is orange.

One of the simplest ways to open your chakra, or enhance the qualities of one of the chakras is to wear the associated chakra colors. Add a green scarf to open to love more fully. A purple accessory will open your crown chakra, creating a more open spiritual experience. A blue dress will help you express yourself more easily.

We are naturally drawn to colors based on our energetic work. You might love greens and blues because you’re all about the expression of love. I rock orange and blue because I’m into creative expression. You might be really into material worldly power, and sport a lot of red, a power color. Wear the colors you’re drawn to.

This week intentionally look at the colors you’re naturally drawn to and see how it might relate to your chakras and the spiritual issues you’re working out. If you’re working on a chakra, wishing to open more, pick up that color of scarf and strut it like a peacock.
 At the beginning of 2013 I was dogasstired. Having come out of a stressful 12 year marriage and a divorce, I was depleted, exhausted and burned out. I was of no use to anyone and I knew it.

I knew that if I didn’t take care of myself and heal then I’d continue to be no use to myself or my kids and we couldn’t afford that. I vowed to spend 10% of my income for the entire year on healing myself. I had decided too, when I was 37 or 38, that I was going to walk into 40 clear of my stuff, all the nonsense and burdens I’d built up for the first 40 years.

I invested in me. I invested in my energetic self. I invested in my Soul. It was one of the most powerful things I’ve ever done for myself.

I have a client, Bina Mehta, of Feminine Divine, a healer who helps people clear their ethereal garbage. Everyone builds up ethereal garbage just from living on the planet.

Old hurts and pains and resentments and traumas and imaginary boogie men. If you’re alive you’ve collected some of this etheric garbage. It’s psychic clutter if there ever was any.

If your chakras are blocked, it’s blocked by this junk. If your heart is closed, this psychic trash is the cause.

There are lots of modalities and strategies you can use to clear this stuff out and I tried a lot of them. I did past life regression therapy, clearing out etheric garbage from other lifetimes. I did chakra clearing. I did hypnosis.

I saw an energy worker regularly, going deep to clear out my Spiritual Soul *Stuff.* One of the things my energy worker recently taught me is that when you clear something out, you have to fill the empty hole with something better.

For example, when I quit smoking it left 20, 15 minute holes in my day when I used to spend smoking. When I didn’t have anything to fill it with, I wandered around my house lost and feeling uncomfortable, like I was coming out of my skin. When I filled those holes with other activities: working out, meditation, drinking water, deep breathing I felt a lot better.

When you’re clearing out your energy centers, or your chakras, make sure you fill up those empty spaces with your whole Soul’s energy. Focus on expanding the love in your heart chakra, expanding the creative energy in your womb space, visualize new roots in your root chakra.