Chakra Health, Excessive, and Deficient Signs in the Chakras

The First Chakra

  • Healthy signs: Stability, grounding, physical health, prosperity, trust
  • Excessive: Heaviness, sluggish, monotony, obesity, hoarding, materialism, greed
  • Deficient: Fearful, undisciplined, restless, underweight, spacey

The Second Chakra

  • Healthy signs: Fluidity, pleasure, healthy sexuality, feeling
  • Excessive: Overly emotional, poor boundaries, sex addiction, obsessive attachments, hungry ghosts, addictions
  • Deficient: Frigid, impotent, rigid, emotionally numb, fearful of pleasure

The Third Chakra

  • Healthy signs: Vitality, spontaneity, strength of will, purpose, self-esteem, having agency, able to create appropriate boundaries
  • Excessive: Dominating, controlling, aggressive, scattered, constantly active
  • Deficient: Weak will, poor self-esteem, passive, sluggish, fearful

The Fourth Chakra

  • Healthy signs: Balance, compassion, self-acceptance, good relationships
  • Excessive: Codependency, poor boundaries, possessive, jealous
  • Deficient: Shy, lonely, isolated, lack of empathy, bitter, critical

The Fifth Chakra

  • Healthy signs: Clear communication, creativity, resonance, tolerant and non reactive of varied views
  • Excessive: Excessive talking, inability to listen, stuttering
  • Deficient: Fear of speaking, poor rhythm, asphasia

The Sixth Chakra

  • Healthy signs: Psychic perception, accurate interpretation, imagination, clear seeing
  • Excessive: Headaches, nightmares, hallucinations, delusions, difficulty concentrating
  • Deficient: Poor memory, poor vision, unimaginative, denial

The Seventh Chakra

  • Healthy signs: Wisdom, knowledge, consciousness, spiritual connection
  • Excessive: Overly intellectual, spiritual addiction, confusion, dissociation
  • Deficient: Learning difficulties, spiritual skepticism, limiting beliefs, materialism, apathy

some adaptation from Eastern Body Western Mind by Anodea Judith