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Chakras: Yes, it is complicated.
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Have you ever heard the term Aura? This is the energy that eminates from and surrounds you and that some people are sensitive enough to see or to feel (or both). Often, it appears to human perception as colors swirling around the body.
Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning wheel, or vortex, and it refers to each of the seven energy centers of which our consciousness, our energy system, is composed. Working with our chakras is one way by which we attempt to open these energy centers and allow energy to flow throughout our bodies - following a natural and unobstructed path. These chakras, or energy centers, function as pumps or valves, regulating the flow of energy through our energy system. The functioning of the chakras reflects decisions we make concerning how we choose to respond to conditions in our life. We open and close these valves when we decide what to think, and what to feel, and through which perceptual filter we choose to experience the world around us. Very few people can flick their chakras on and off like a light switch. Often, we may feel that we have opened our chakra but, in reality, energy still only drizzles through the center. However, we are so unaccustomed to any increase in the flow of that energy that we may feel a great sense of relief and as if we have accomplished the entire task. In a sense we have and in a sense, we have not. Learning to completely open our chakras can take a lifetime. Until then, we can enjoy and reap the benefits of even the smallest efforts. Traditional chakra meditations can be very sexist. The father God is associated with the crown chakra and higher thought and the mother Goddess is associated with the base chakra and animal instincts and survival concerns. Naturally, the feminine is placed at the furthest point from rational thought. Do not let this prejudice discourage you. What you call God/dess should be the focus of your crown chakra. The chakras are not physical. They are aspects of consciousness in the same way that the auras are aspects of consciousness. The chakras are more dense than the auras, but not as dense as the physical body. They interact with the physical body through two major vehicles, the endocrine system and the nervous system. Each of the seven chakras is associated with one of the seven endocrine glands, and also with a group of nerves called a plexus. Thus, each chakra can be associated with particular parts of the body and particular functions within the body controlled by that plexus or that endocrine gland associated with that chakra. All of your senses, all of your perceptions, all of your possible states of awareness, everything it is possible for you to experience, can be divided into seven categories. Each category can be associated with a particular chakra. Thus, the chakras represent not only particular parts of your physical body, but also particular parts of your consciousness. When you feel tension in your consciousness, you feel it in the chakra associated with that part of your consciousness experiencing the stress, and in the parts of the physical body associated with that chakra. Where you feel the stress depends upon why you feel the stress. The tension in the chakra is detected by the nerves of the plexus associated with that chakra, and transmitted to the parts of the body controlled by that plexus. When the tension continues over a period of time, or to a particular level of intensity, the person creates a symptom on the physical level. Organs cease to function properly. Dysfunction becomes rampant. Disease finds an easy foothold. The symptoms speak a language that reflects the idea that we each ACTUALLY create our reality, and the metaphoric significance of the symptom becomes apparent when the symptom is described from that point of view. When we adjust our point of view and realize that our thoughts and attitudes have a great effect on our bodies - down to the cellular level - we set our foot on the proper path toward physical and spiritual health. Negativity always harms. Positivity always heals. The symptoms of illness serve to communicate to the person through their body what they had been doing to themselves in their consciousness. When the person changes something about their way of being, getting the message communicated by the symptom, the symptom has no further reason for being, and it can be released, according to whatever the person allows themselves to believe is possible. We believe everything is possible. We believe that anything can be healed. It's just a question of how to do it. Understanding the chakras allows you to understand the relationship between your consciousness and your body, and to thus see your body as a map of your consciousness. It gives you a better understanding of yourself and those around you. 
Location of your chakras There are more than seven chakras. There are additional major chakras which are centered off the physical body as well as minor chakras throughout the body. Some of the most significant minor chakras are found in the hands, feet, fingertips and behind the eyes. Although there are many chakras in the human body, we will be focusing on the 7 Major Chakras. The chakras are often pictured as a ball of light in the center of your being. They are, in effect, a paired set of vortices linked to the major nerve ganglia along the spine (or central energy column known as the Sushumna). In other words, there is a front and a back to each Chakra as shown in this image: Your Chakras Following is a brief list of your seven major chakras and of what realm each is the ruler. Often we choose a stone that matches that realm and color to help us to focus and open the chakras. The stones do not have to be large or expensive. They should be ones that you have picked out yourself and that you feel drawn to.
Here the sounds and musical notes for each chakra. Remember, our chakras are effected by energy and sound is energy.
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