Chakras and Past Lives: How Energy Reveals Your Karmic Memories
- Meli Guidance EN
- Nov 16, 2025
- 6 min read
Past-life trauma doesn’t always disappear. Even though the body dies, the soul holds onto these imprints, and they can resurface in this life as fears, blockages, or unexplained pain.
These memories don’t just manifest in the psyche—they also anchor into the body’s energy system, especially in the chakras. Understanding how the chakras reflect your karmic experiences is a key to releasing this weight and healing deeply.
What Are Chakras?
The word chakra means “wheel” or “center” in Sanskrit. Chakras are energy centers located along the spine, from the base to the crown of the head. Each chakra is associated with a color, an element, and a specific life theme: safety, relationships, power, love, expression, intuition, and spiritual connection.
The seven main chakras are:
The root chakra, at the base of the spine, linked to survival and safety.
The sacral chakra, below the navel, linked to creativity and relationships.
The solar plexus chakra, above the navel, linked to self-esteem and personal power.
The heart chakra, in the center of the chest, linked to love and compassion.
The throat chakra, at the base of the neck, linked to communication and truth.
The third eye chakra, between the eyebrows, linked to intuition and inner vision.
The crown chakra, at the top of the head, linked to divine connection and spiritual consciousness.
Together, these chakras form a living energy system that influences your physical health, emotions, thoughts, and spiritual growth. When past trauma remains unresolved, it can block energy in a chakra and create imbalances that still affect you today. Let's look at how chakras and past lives are connected.
How Chakras and Past Lives are connected
Each chakra is an energy center tied to an essential aspect of life: survival, relationships, power, love, truth, intuition, and spirituality.
When a past life ends in trauma, that experience doesn’t vanish—it can leave an energetic imprint in the corresponding chakra.
In your current life, this memory can reactivate whenever a situation resonates with that old wound. The chakra may then become deficient (blocked, low energy) or overactive (excessive, compensating energy), leading to imbalances that affect:
Behaviors (e.g., control issues, fear of intimacy),
Emotions (e.g., anxiety, shame, guilt),
Physical health (e.g., chronic pain, tension in specific areas of the body).
In this way, chakras act like the body’s living archives, replaying karmic wounds until they are acknowledged and healed.
The 7 Chakras and Karmic Memories
🌱 Root Chakra (Muladhara)
Theme: survival, safety, stability
Past-life link: dying of hunger, losing your home, or living through war can leave a deep fear of lack or danger.
Today:
Deficient → chronic insecurity, financial anxiety, never feeling safe
Overactive → obsession with money, rigidity, materialism
Want to go deeper? Try my sound therapy exercise to activate your root chakra
🌊 Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana)
Theme: relationships, intimacy, creativity
Past-life link: abuse, assault, or painful separations wound this center of pleasure and connection.
Today:
Deficient → fear of intimacy, creative blocks, emotional numbness
Overactive → emotional or sexual dependency, compulsive pursuit of pleasure, constant need for validation
Want to go deeper? Try my Sacral Chakra Healing Meditation
🔥 Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura)
Theme: self-esteem, personal power
Past-life link: lifetimes of servitude, public humiliation, or punishment for mistakes break confidence and self-worth.
Today:
Deficient → lack of confidence, fear of standing up for yourself, powerlessness
Overactive → perfectionism, control issues, anger or dominance
Want to go deeper? Try my Solar plexus awakening meditation
💚 Heart Chakra (Anahata)
Theme: love, compassion, openness
Past-life link: sudden losses (dying alone, losing a child, being betrayed) leave lasting heartbreak.
Today:
Deficient → inability to receive love, fear of attachment, emotional closure
Overactive → over-sacrifice, codependency, exhausting emotional fusion
Want to go deeper? Try my Lotus mudra exercise to open the heart chakra
🎤 Throat Chakra (Vishuddha)
Theme: expression, truth, communication
Past-life link: deaths linked to speech (execution for truth-telling, witch trials, heresy) block authentic expression.
Today:
Deficient → fear of speaking up, tight throat, imposed silence
Overactive → impulsive speech, uncontrolled chatter, rigidity in opinions
Want to go deeper? Try my Throat chakra clearing exercise
👁️ Third Eye Chakra (Ajna)
Theme: intuition, inner vision
Past-life link: persecution for psychic gifts, or being blamed for “not seeing” danger, leaves doubt and fear.
Today:
Deficient → distrust in intuition, confusion, over-rationalization
Overactive → illusions, over-interpretation, spiritual obsession
Want to go deeper? Try my Trataka meditation to open the third eye chakra
👑 Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)
Theme: spirituality, divine connection
Past-life link: spiritual rejection, loss of faith, or forced detachment from beliefs block this opening to the divine.
Today:
Deficient → spiritual emptiness, loss of meaning, disconnection from Source
Overactive → spiritual escapism, disconnection from the body, dogmatic rigidity
Want to go deeper? Try my Crown chakra opening meditation
Healing Karmic Imprints Through the Chakras
Working with your chakras helps you restore energy flow while also releasing the karmic imprints held there.
Meditation and visualization can reactivate healthy energy flow
Akashic Records readings reveals the exact origins of these imprints
Energy healing practices (sound, mantras, Reiki, crystals) support realignment
Recognizing that these blockages belong to the past allows your soul to release the weight and return to clarity and flow.
How the Akashic Records Help Heal Past-Life Trauma
This is where the Akashic Records come in. The Records are like a library of your soul’s journey, containing the memory of every lifetime you have lived. When you access them with intention and guidance, you can:
Identify the root of your fear, pain, or resistance.
Reassure the soul that the trauma belongs to a past incarnation, not the current one.
Ask your soul guides how to release and transform the imprint.
Integrate compassion—towards yourself, others, and the soul’s journey as a whole.
Once the soul “remembers that it remembers,” healing can unfold. The patterns lose their grip. You begin to feel lighter, freer, and more present in your body.
Akashic Records Readings and Courses for Healing
Exploring past-life trauma can be tender work. That’s why support is so important. Through an Akashic Records reading, I can guide you into understanding what your soul has carried—and how to heal it.
If you feel called to learn this work for yourself, my Akashic Records reading course teaches you how to open the Records, connect with your soul guides, and uncover your own past-life stories.
Want to start exploring right now?
Download my free Beginner’s Guide to the Akashic Records and discover:
What the Akashic Records are
How to access them through a guided visualization
A list of powerful questions to receive the best guidance Your soul is ready to release the weight of the past. The moment you recognize these echoes, healing begins.
Curious about what your soul remembers?
Book a past-life Akashic reading, or explore my Akashic Records course to learn how to do this for yourself.
FAQ: Chakras, Karma, and Past Lives
1. Do chakras really hold past-life memories?
Yes. Chakras act like energy receivers: they record your experiences, including past-life trauma. These memories can reappear as blockages, phobias, or emotional imbalances in this life.
2. How do I know if a chakra block comes from a past life or this one?
The difference is often in the intensity and “irrational” nature of the block. For example, a fear of water without ever having drowned could indicate a karmic memory. The Akashic Records help identify the true origin.
3. Is a blocked chakra always deficient?
Not always. A chakra may be deficient (low energy → fear, closure, withdrawal) or overactive (excess energy → obsession, rigidity, extreme behaviors). Both reflect a memory seeking acknowledgment and healing.
4. How can I heal karmic imprints in the chakras? Several practices can help:
Akashic Records work to uncover and release the root trauma
Meditation and visualization to restore energy flow
Energy healing (Reiki, sound, mantras, crystals)
And most importantly, awareness: recognizing that this memory belongs to the past and no longer defines you
5. Can a karmic wound be transformed into a gift? Yes. Once released, a karmic wound often becomes a source of wisdom and strength. For example, a throat chakra block (persecution for speaking truth) can transform into a gift for communication and inspiring others.
6. Do I need a practitioner to heal my chakras and karma? Not necessarily. You can start on your own with simple practices like meditation, journaling, or chakra balancing. However, many people find that working with a practitioner or through an Akashic Records reading offers clarity, safety, and powerful guidance from their soul guides.
Meli Guidance is a certified advanced Akashic records practitioner, a past-life psychic and a channelling coach. She is also trained in oracle cards and tarot readings. Her specialty is helping people grow by reconnecting them with their soul’s purpose and life missions. She believes that by remembering our past lives and seeing what our life plan is for our current incarnation, we can achieve our future self’s highest potential. In addition to channelling spirit guides for people from all over the world in English and French, she offers online courses and coaching sessions to anyone who wishes to develop their ability to communicate with the invisible world.
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