We’ve explored how you can use the Root, Sacral, and Solar Plexus Chakras build the foundation of your book. Now, let’s consider to the upper chakras, where your book transforms from a personal project into a shared treasure with universal impact, potentially achieving bestseller status.
The Heart Chakra (Anahata – Green): The Power of Connection
At the center of your chest, the Heart Chakra embodies love (self and others), compassion, acceptance, and trust. For authors, this chakra is crucial for sharing your idea and story, building your production team (editors, designers), accepting feedback, and reaching out to early readers. The heart chakra is green to this chakra, symbolizing growth, renewal, and true, expansive love.
How to know if it is blocked: Difficulty forming connections, inability to empathize, reluctance to share personal stories, or feeling unworthy of success.
Energize the heart chakra: Practice loving-kindness meditation, write from the heart, connect with nature’s green, express gratitude, and use affirmations like “My stories spread compassion”.
The Throat Chakra (Vishuddha – Blue): The Publishing Chakra
Located in your neck, the Throat Chakra is the hub of communication, self-expression, and truth. I call it the “Publishing Chakra” because it governs getting your words out into the world through publishing, marketing, and networking. It facilitates crucial two-way communication, enabling you to speak your truth while also listening to feedback.
Signs of Blockage: Fear of public speaking or judgment, struggle to communicate your core message, or miscommunication.
Energize It: Sip soothing teas, practice speaking your truth, develop a marketing plan, network with others, and care for your voice.
The Third Eye Chakra (Ajna – Indigo): Vision and Strategic Promotion
Positioned on your forehead, the Third Eye Chakra provides intuition, insight, vision, and inner knowledge. This chakra is your “internal GPS”, vital for promoting your book, finding your audience, and making strategic decisions about how to best present and share your work.
Signs of Blockage: Hesitation, lack of clarity, unsettling dreams, headaches, or being overly rational and rejecting new ideas.
Energize It: Meditate with indigo light visualization, use affirmations like “I trust my intuition,” reduce screen time, and take nature walks.
The Crown Chakra (Sahasrara – Violet or White): The Bestseller Chakra
Hovering above your head, the Crown Chakra is your link to spirituality, higher consciousness, and universal wisdom. This is the “Bestseller Chakra” or “Guru Chakra,” signifying universal impact and legacy. A book with an activated Crown Chakra “takes on a life of its own,” deeply impacting readers, prompting thought, re-reading, and profound connection, almost as if it has its own soul. At this point, you, the author, become a “conduit” for a creation that transcends your control.
Signs of Blockage: Feeling lost or powerless, despair, abandoning promotion efforts, mental confusion, or a lack of connection to higher purpose.
Energize It: Practice meditation with violet/white light, seek silence and solitude, cultivate gratitude, connect with nature, use creative visualization for your book’s impact, and connect with “gurus” or positive people.