I'll be honest, when I first heard people talk about chakras I pictured something complicated and a little intimidating. It's really not. A chakra is just an energy center in the body, and the classic system names seven of them, running from the base of your spine up to the top of your head. Each one is tied to a part of how we move through life, and each one has a color.
That color part is what hooked me, because color is already my whole language. Once I started painting the chakras, the system stopped being an abstract chart and started being something I could feel.
The seven, quickly
Using color on purpose
Here's the simple practice I come back to. Notice which part of life feels stuck, find the chakra that matches, and bring a little more of that color into your day. Feeling unheard and swallowing your words? That's throat territory, so wear something blue, paint something blue, look at the sky for a while on purpose.
It sounds almost too easy, and that's kind of the point. You're not trying to fix yourself. You're just giving your attention a gentle nudge toward the thing you want more of, and color is one of the fastest ways I know to do that.
Why I paint them
When I make a chakra piece, I'm not trying to teach a lesson. I'm trying to catch the feeling of that energy waking up. The throat one above poured out on a day I'd been holding too much in, and finishing it genuinely loosened something in my chest.
If you take one thing from this, let it be that. Color isn't decoration, it's information your body already knows how to read. Start noticing which ones you reach for, and you'll learn a lot about where you are.
