Most of what I'm going to post is what I've learned through personal experience and to my detriment. Right now I've been trying to repair a totally busted chakra system for about 7 months. Due to the fine tinkering unfortunately I haven't been able to find a healer who can fix it. Although I am damaged, just like a little kid taking apart a remote controller to see how it works I've learned a lot of the intricate details of the chakras and how they work. Here's a copy of one of my posts:
The Front chakras govern unity/oneness. You could say they are female.
The back chakras govern separation. You can say the are masculine.
So to make it simple our chakra system is a dynamic between two concepts:
That of separation and that of unity.
Its far too difficult in this world to exist without emotional barriers, we are made far too vulnerable. Or we disregard what is best for us for the sake of another. Without emotional separation from a traumatic event, you would never heal. Without a balance of separation/unity, you become too attached, needy, dependant.
The negative effects of having too much unity go on and on. We must have a balance of separation.
The reason why our chakras have this dynamic is because they function as energy batteries.
You can't store if there is no container. A container, contains because it has a region within itself that is separate from the outside.
The back chakras governing separation act as containers. They hold energy. The more separation you have, the greater your back chakras are, the bigger your capacity to hold energy.
The next step is to charge the battery. Charging is the equivalent to investing energy in yourself. I call this charge, "SELF"
This is how to build SELF
Root chakra Self - Money, security, material possessions.
Spend time building a respect and love for money and the resources that make your life secure. This feeling that the rich have, almost like a lust, lust for money and possessions - is actually what the Self is on the root level. This is not bad, This is the feeling of LIFE. Living to the fullest. However an excess is not good of course so when the time is right -discharge is needed for balance.
Second chakra Self-
Build up your sense of feeling attractive and desirable. Your sexual self I guess you can call it, confidence with the opposite sex.
Third chakra Self-
Acts as your inner coach. If you have committed to a diet and feel tempted to indulge in something unhealthy, it is within your Solar Plexus that you build the discipline to control yourself. The Solar Plexus is where we feel tension of what we want selfishly, as opposed to acting responsibly.
To charge it - empower your inner coach. Act responsibly, learn to discipline yourself and cultivate self control.
Fourth chakra Self-
Love unconditionally. This means truly forgiving, sacrificing one's hurt feelings for the sake of harmony in the relationship.
Fifth chakra self-
Match your actions/behavior with your beliefs. Practice what you preach. Align to a higher truth whatever it is (higher truth for your job, Higher truth as a husband etc.)
Sixth chakra self-
Focus. Meditate by settling ones mind on only one thing. When thoughts lead you astray, return your focus. Keep trying until focus becomes soo deep you enter "Samadhi", total absorption of your mind with the object of focus.
seventh chakra self-
Develop a plan for your life and commit to that plan.
As a result of building self and charging the chakras - the endocrine glands are activated. We feel more alive, which is proportional to the amount of Self or charge we are putting into the chakra.
Now the front chakras (the most well known and used) they are responsible for the discharge of energy. After a while of charging the gland/chakra, the self starts getting too big. An excess of energy occurs and a release needs to happen. That's what the front chakras do.
They do this by returning the energy to unity. And no self can enter unity while remaining separate so the energy constituting self is dispersed and distributed among the whole.