Chakra Healing
Chakra Balancing: Creating Harmony for the Body, Mind, & Soul
The Chakra System is the core of the subtle energy body. The flow of chi, prana, or life force moves through the many chakras and nadis to connect the subtle energy body with the physical body.
Chakras are energy vortexes that process our energy. They filter, focus, receive, and disperse energy. We focus on the seven major chakras but it is worth noting that there are many minor chakras and ethereal chakras as well.
You have hundreds of chakras within and around you. In fact, every living being, including the earth, has chakras. Let’s focus on the major chakras that affect your daily life. These are located deep within the center of your physical body. The chakras in your lower body spin slower than those in your upper body and head. Also, your lower chakras correspond to issues of the material world, while your upper chakras are focused upon more spiritual issues.
Chakras spin in a clockwise direction. Imagine yourself looking at a spinning oscillator fan, similar to the silver ventilating fans you see at the top of industrial buildings. While you’re looking directly at a person, their chakras appear as fans that you’re seeing from the side. From above, their chakras would look an areial view of spinning fans.
Chakra (derived from the Sanskrit cakraṃ चक्रं, Phonetic pronunciation “chukr”, Pali: chakka, Tibetan: khorlo, Malay: cakera) is a Sanskrit word that translates as wheel or disc. Chakra is a concept referring to wheel-like vortices which, according to traditional Indian medicine, are believed to exist in the surface of the etheric double of man. The Chakras are said to be “force centers” or whorls of energy permeating, from a point on the physical body, the layers of the subtle bodies in an ever-increasing fan-shaped formation (the fans make the shape of a love heart). Rotating vortices of subtle matter, they are considered the focal points for the reception and transmission of energies. Seven major chakras or energy centers (also understood as wheels of light) are generally believed to exist, located within the subtle body. Adherents of Hindu and New Age tradition believe the chakras interact with the body’s ductless endocrine glands and lymphatic system by feeding in good bio-energies and disposing of unwanted bio-energies.
There is a wide range of literature on the history and philosophy of chakras and, beside the traditional Indian spiritual practices and religions, the concept of chakras have become popular in Western culture with new-age religion and medical practitioners. Much of the original information on Chakras comes from the “Upanishads”, which are difficult to date because they are believed to have been passed down orally for approximately a thousand years before being written down for the first time between 1200-900 BCE.
Chakra is believed to be a center of activity that receives, assimilates, and expresses life force energy. The word chakra literally translates as wheel or disk and refers to a spinning sphere of bioenergetic activity emanating from the major nerve ganglia branching forward from the spinal column. Generally, six of these wheels are described, stacked in a column of energy that spans from the base of the spine to the middle of the forehead. And the seventh which is beyond the physical region. It is the six major chakras that correlate with basic states of consciousness…
Each chakra in your spinal column is believed to influence or even govern bodily functions near its region of the spine. Because autopsies do not reveal chakras, most people think they are a fancy of fertile imagination. Yet their existence is well documented in the traditions of the far east…
Chakras, as described above, are energy centers along the spine located at major branchings of the human nervous system, beginning at the base of the spinal column and moving upward to the top of the skull. Chakras are considered to be a point or nexus of biophysical energy or prana of the human body. Shumsky states that “prana is the basic component of your subtle body, your energy field, and the entire chakra system…the key to life and source of energy in the universe”
The following seven primary chakras are commonly described:
- Muladhara (Sanskrit: मूलाधार, Mūlādhāra) Base or Root Chakra (last bone in spinal cord *coccyx*)
- Swadhisthana (Sanskrit: स्वाधिष्ठान, Svādhiṣṭhāna) Sacral Chakra (ovaries/prostate)
- Manipura (Sanskrit: मणिपूर, Maṇipūra) Solar Plexus Chakra (navel area)
- Anahata (Sanskrit: अनाहत, Anāhata) Heart Chakra (heart area)
- Vishuddha (Sanskrit: विशुद्ध, Viśuddha) Throat Chakra (throat and neck area)
- Ajna (Sanskrit: आज्ञा, Ājñā) Brow or Third Eye Chakra (pineal gland or third eye)
- Sahasrara (Sanskrit: सहस्रार, Sahasrāra) Crown Chakra (Top of the head; ‘Soft spot’ of a newborn)
The nadis are the energy channels that link the chakras together as well as linking to the physical body. Kind of like the circulatory system with the arteries veins, and capillaries. There a 3 major nadis the Ida, Pangela, and Sushumna. They run parallel to the spinal column and connect the major chakras.
Working with your subtle energy system is a cornerstone for well being. By bringing your chakras into balance working with them regularly you promote wellness and aide healing or the act of returning to a state of balance.
This is especially important when you find yourself in an environment or situation that is negative or fear based. Let’s face it as much as we would like to live in a state of harmony in today’s world that is very difficult. Your chakras are continually processing energy all energy including that low vibration energy.
As these energy centers get blocked different symptoms manifest, that’s why cleansing on a regular basis is essential. Daily cleansing and balancing of the chakras is easy and very quick and it yields big results. You keep the energy moving before it has a chance to get ‘stuck’ in your subtle energy system.
There are many methods to balance and cleanse the chakra. The quickest and easiest method is to direct your breath to each chakra for three breaths while visualizing the color for that chakra infusing in positive energy on the inhale and moving out any slow or blocked energy on the exhale. The colors are as follows:
Root – Red Sacral – Orange Solar Plexus – Yellow Heart – Green Throat – Blue Third Eye – Indigo Crown – Violet
End by moving the breath up through all of the chakras and visualizing a rainbow cascading all around you when you exhale. Repeat this three times.
We are all aware of the physical body, psychological awareness, and emotional mind where the mental and physical actually meet in the form of peptides. Many people also choose to acknowledge the spiritual realm of life; by this reckoning we now have four aspects of the human form.
