Chakra means Wheel in Sanskrit. Consciousness and energy move from one frequency to another in spiraling fashion.
The body has energy centers that look like spinning wheels and are called Chakras. They allow energy to flow from one part of the body to another.
As with all things in our reality, they are linked to sound, light and color.
To heal, is to bring the chakras into alignment and balance
then understand the nature of creation and your purpose in it.
It's all in motion in the alchemy of time.
Kundalini
The Flow of Energy
The Chakra Wheels
Crown Chakra
Brow Chakra
Throat Chakra
Heart Chakra
Solar Plexus
Spleen Chakra
Root Chakra
Chakras above the head bring one into higher frequency.
They range from 4 fingers to one foot above the crown chakra.
The highest chakra is also often referred to as the Soulstar.
Chakras as Spiral Cones
Third Eye
Pineal Gland
12 Around 1
Spiraling Cones of Creation
Chakra and Color Frequencies
RED
1st Chakra: Base or Root Chakra: Kundalini: Root Chakra:
Located at the base of the spine.
Earth, survival, grounding, stillness
Contains the primary 8 cells that have all of the knowledge of
creation and remain the only cells in your body that do not
change in your lifetime. It grounds us in the physical world.
ORANGE
2nd Chakra: Spleen: Located just beneath the navel, and
related to our sexual and reproductive capacity.
Blockage manifests as emotional problems or sexual guilt.
YELLOW
3rd Chakra: Solar Plexis: Seat of Emotions. Gives us a sense of
personal
power in the world. Blockage manifests as anger or a sense of
victimization.
GREEN
4th Chakra: Heart Chakra: Blockage can manifest as immune
system or heart problems, or a lack of compassion.
Heart Center - Seat of the Soul in the hourglass of time - Zero Point
BLUE
5th Chakra: Throat: Tied to creativity and communication.
Feels pressure when you are not communicating your emotions properly.
INDIGO
6th Chakra: Third
Eye Pineal Gland:
Often connected to the forehead.
Is a physical eye at the base of the brain
with the capabilities of looking upward.
Clairvoyance, psychic abilities, imagination, dreaming
PURPLE
7th Chakra Crown: Connects you with message from higher realms.
Can be experienced as a pressure on the top of the head.
spiritual connection, understanding, knowing, bliss, God
Crystals
are used with chakras
to create balance and healing.
Chakras and Sound
No | Chakra |
Note | Color
|
8 | |
C ' |
|
| 7 |
Crown |
B |
Violet |
| 6 |
Third Eye / Brow |
A |
Indigo |
| 5 |
Throat |
G |
Blue |
| 4 |
Heart |
F |
Green |
| 3 |
Solar |
E |
Yellow |
| 2 |
Sacral |
D |
Orange |
| 1 |
Base |
C |
Red |
Crystal Bowl Harmonics and Chakras
The use of quartz
crystal bowls in the
correct harmonic can activate and align chakras.
Crop Circles and Chakras
June 1996...Alton Barnes, England
This Crop Circle
allegedly depicts 12 Chakras
and the Activation of human DNA
12 Around 1
Earth Chakra System
The Earth, as a living organism, has chakra centers.
They link with major grid
points.
Our chakras are aligned to the Earth's grid system.
Kundalini
Caduceus and Related
Symbology
DNA, Snakes, Dragons, Creation
Chakras and the Endocrine System
Pineal Gland
Pine Cones and
the Pineal Gland
Tantric Chakras
Tantra (Shakta or
Shaktism) describes eight primary inner chakras:
1. Sahasrara
2. Ajna
3. Vishuddha
4. Anahata
5. Manipura
6. Swadhisthana
7. Muladhara
8. Bindu
Lovers connecting their chakras
grid matrixes and auric fields.
Body, Mind and Soul
The word comes from the Sanskrit "cakra" meaning "wheel, circle", and
sometimes also referring to the "wheel of life". The pronunciation of
this word can be approximated in English by 'chuhkruh', with ch as in
chart and both instances - the commonly found pronunciation 'shockrah'
is incorrect.
The seven main chakras are described as being aligned in an ascending
column from the base of the spine to the top of the head. Each chakra is
associated with a certain color, multiple specific functions, an aspect
of consciousness, a classical element, and other distinguishing
characteristics.
The chakras are thought to vitalise the physical body and to be
associated with interactions of both a physical and mental nature. They
are considered loci of life energy, or prana, which is thought to flow
among them along pathways called nadis.
In Mysticism, a Nadi (plural: Nadis) is an energy channel in which prana
energy flows and may connect chakras. It is not accepted by mainstream
science. The main nadis include Shushumna, Ida and Pingala.
Nadis are thought to carry a life force energy known as prana in
Sanskrit, or qi in Chinese-based systems. They are also said to have an
extrasensory function, playing a part in empathic and instinctive
responses.Nadis are sometimes viewed as extending only to the skin of
the body, but are often thought to extend to the boundary of the aura.
The Ida and Pingala nadis are often seen as referring to the two
hemispheres of the brain. Pingala is the extroverted, solar nadi, and
corresponds to the left hand side of the brain. Ida is the introverted,
lunar nadi, and refers to the right hand side of the brain.
The two nadis are stimulated through the practice of pranayama, which
involves alternate breathing through left and right nostrils, which
would alternately stimulate the left and right sides of the brain.The
word nadi comes from the Sanskrit root nad meaning "channel", "stream",
or "flow".
Traditional Chinese medicine also relies on a similar model of the human
body as an energy system.
The New Age movement has led to an increased interest in the West
regarding chakras. Many in this movement point to a correspondence
between the position and role of the Chakras, and those of the glands in
the endocrine system. Some people in New Age also claim that other
chakras, besides the above, exist - for instance, ear chakras.
The chakras are described in the tantric texts the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana,
and the Padaka-Pancaka, in which they are described as emanations of
consciousness from Brahman, an energy which comes down from the
spiritual and gradually crudifies, creating these distinct levels of
chakras, and which eventually finds its rest in the Muladhara chakra.
Muladhara is positioned close to anus, at the perineum, and it has four
petals which match the vrittis of greatest joy, natural pleasure,
delight in controlling passion, and blissfulness in concentration.
In Samkhya philosophy, the concept of Muladhara is that of moola
prakriti, the metaphysical basis of material existence. Muladhara is the
chakra that draws down spritual energy and causes it to assume a
physical existence. It is like the negative pole in an electrical
circuit, which provides the potential for the evolution of form.
Within this chakra resides sleeps the kundalini shakti, the great
spiritual potential, waiting to be aroused and brought back up to the
source from which it originated, Brahman.
Muladhara is the base from which the 3 main psychic channels, nadis,
ida, pingala and sushumna, emerge.It is related to the physical
processes of reproduction and excretion, and also to the various fear
and guilt complexes associated with them. All a person's Samskaras (
potential karma ), are expressed here, in a physical form.
This chakra is associated with the deities Indra, Brahma and Dakini, the
element Earth and the color red.
They are therefore part of an emanationist theory, like that of the
kabbalah in the west, or neo-platonism. The energy that was unleashed in
creation, called the Kundalini, lies coiled and sleeping, and it is the
purpose of a tantric yogi to arouse this energy, and cause it to rise
back up through the increasingly subtler chakras, until union with god
is achieved in the Sahasrara chakra at the crown of the head.
Sahasrara is positioned above the head or at the top of it and it has
1000 petals which are arranged in 20 layers each of them with 50 petals.
For a discussion about the petal count see also petal (chakra)Often
referred as thousand-petaled lotus, it is said to be the most subtle
chakra in the system, relating to pure consciousness, and it is from
this chakra that all the other chakras emanate. When a yogi is able to
raise his or her kundalini, energy of consciousness, up to this point,
the state of samadhi, or union with god, is experienced.
Apart from this primary text from India, different western authors have
tried to describe the chakras, most notably the Theosophists. Many new
age writers, such as the Danish author and musician Peter Kjaerulff in
his book, The Ringbearers Diary, or Anodea Judith in her book Wheels of
Life, have written their opinions about the chakras in great detail,
including the reasons for their appearance and their functions.
The seven chakras are said by some to reflect how the unified
consciousness of man (the immortal human being or the soul), is divided
to manage different aspects of earthly life (body/instinct/vital
energy/deeper emotions/communication/having an overview of life/contact
to God). The chakras are placed at differing levels of spiritual
subtletly, with Sahasrara at the top being concerned with pure
consciousness, and Muladhara at the bottom being concerned with matter,
which is seen simply as crudified consciousness.
Origins and Development of Chakra Theory
The earliest known mention of chakras is found in the later Upanishads,
including specifically the Brahma Upanishad and the Yogatattva
Upanishad. These vedic models were adapted in Tibetan Buddhism as
Vajrayana theory, and in the Tantric Shakta theory of chakras.It is the
shakta theory of 7 main chakras that most people in the West adhere to,
either knowingly or unknowingly, largely thanks to a translation of two
indian texts, the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, and the Padaka-Pancaka, by Sir
John Woodroffe, alias Arthur Avalon, in a book entitled The Serpent
Power.
This book is extremely detailed and complex, and later the ideas were
developed into what is predominant western view of the Chakras by the
Theosophists, and largely the controversial (in theosophical circles) C.
W. Leadbeater in his book The Chakras, which are in large part his own
meditations and insights on the matter.
That said, many present-day Indian gurus that incorporate chakras within
their systems of philosophy do not seem to radically disagree with the
western view of chakras, at least on the key points, and both these
eastern and western views have developed from the Shakta Tantra school.
There are various other models of chakras in other traditions, notably
in Chinese medicine, and also in Tibetan Buddhism. Even in Jewish
kabbalah, the different Sephiroth are sometimes associated with parts of
the body.
In Islamic Sufism , Lataif-e-Sitta ( Six Subtleties ) are considered as
psychospiritual "organs" or faculties of sensory and suprasensory
perception , activation of which makes a man complete .
Attempts are made to try and reconcile the systems with each other, and
notably there are some successes, even between such diverged traditions
as Shakta Tantra, Sufism and Kabbalism, where chakras , lataif and
Sephiroth can seemingly represent the same archetypal spiritual
concepts.
In Surat Shabda Yoga, initiation by an Outer Living Satguru (Sat - true,
Guru - teacher) is required and involves reconnecting soul to the
Shabda and stationing the Inner Shabda Master (the Radiant Form of the
Master) at the third
eye chakra.
Yoga view of chakras
Yoga
Yoga creates balance.
Parallels have often been drawn, by supporters of the existence of
chakras, between the positions and functions of the chakras, and of the
various organs of the endocrine system.
The highest crown chakra is said to be the chakra of consciousness, the
master chakra that controls all the others. Its role would be very
similar to that of the pituitary gland, which secretes hormones to
control the rest of the endocrine system, and also connects to the
central nervous system via the hypothalamus. The thalamus is thought to
have a key role in the physical basis of consciousness.
The Ajna Chakra, or third eye, is linked to the pineal gland. Ajna is
the chakra of time and awareness and of light. The pineal gland is a
light sensitive gland, that produces the hormone melatonin, which
regulates the instincts of going to sleep and awakening. It also
produces trace amounts of the psychedelic chemical dimethyltryptamine.
(Note: some argue that the pineal and pituitary glands should be
exchanged in their relationship to the Crown and Brow chakras, based on
the description in Arthur Avalon's book on kundalini called Serpent
Power)
The throat chakra, Vishuddha, is said to be related to communication and
growth, growth being a form of expression. This chakra is paralleled to
the thyroid, a gland that is also in the throat, and which produces
thyroid hormone, responsible for growth and maturation.
The heart chakra, Anahata, is related to love, equilibrium, and
well-being. It is related to the thymus, located in the chest. This
organ is part of the immune system, as well as being part of the
endocrine system. It produces T cells responsible for fighting off
disease, and is adversely affected by stress.
The solar plexus chakra, Manipura, is related to energy, assimilation
and digestion, and is said to correspond to the roles played by the
pancreas and the outer adrenal glands, the adrenal cortex. These play a
valuable role in digestion, the conversion of food matter into energy
for the body.
The sacral chakra, Swadhisthanna, is located in the groin, and is
related to emotion, sexuality and creativity. This chakra is said to
correspond to the testes or the ovaries, that produce the various sex
hormones involved in the reproductive cycle, which can cause dramatic
mood swings.
The base or root chakra, Muludhara, is related to security, survival and
also to basic human potentiality. It is said the kundalini lies coiled
here, ready to uncoil and bring man to his highest spiritual potential
in the crown chakra. This center is located in the region between the
genitals and the anus. Although no endocrine organ is placed here, it is
said to relate to the inner adrenal glands, the adrenal medulla,
responsible for the fight and flight response when survival is under
threat. In this region is located a muscle that controls ejaculation in
the sexual act. A parallel is drawn between the sperm cell and the ovum,
where the genetic code lies coiled, and the legendary
kundalini, ready to
express itself as a fully developed human being.
Chakrology is a neologism sometimes employed by Alternative
Medicine practitioners or esoteric philosophers for the study of
chakras. There are many different chakrologies, some of them based on
ancient Indian Hindu Tantric esoteric traditions, New Age
interpretations, or Western occult analyses, as well as ancient Greek
and Christian references. Croatian esoteric philosopher and physicist
Arvan Harvat notes that it would be very difficult to develop a unified
coherent chakra science that would integrate all the elements of the
various present chakrologies.
Theories
The idea of chakras as understood in Eastern philosophy does not exist
in Western medical science. In Eastern thought, the chakras are thought
to be levels of consciousness, and states of the soul, and 'proving' the
existence of chakras is akin to 'proving' the existence of a soul. A
mystic deals with these metaphysical concepts on the metaphysical plane,
as a model for their own internal experience, and when talking about
'energy centres', they are generally talking about subtle, spiritual
forces, which work on the psyche and spirit, not about physical
electrical or magnetic fields.
The primary importance and level of existence of chakras is therefore
posited to be in the psyche and in the spirit. However, there are those
who believe that chakras have a physical manifestation as well. Although
there is no evidence that Indian mystics made this association
themselves, it is noted by many that there is a marked similarity
between the positions and roles described for chakras, and the positions
and roles of the glands in the endocrine system, and also by the
positions of the nerve ganglia (also known as "plexuses") along the
spinal column, opening the possibility that two vastly different systems
of conceptualization have been brought to bear to systemize insights
about the same phenomenon. By some, chakras are thought of as having
their physical manifestation in the body as these glands, and their
subjective manifestation as the associated psychological and spiritual
experiences.
Indeed, the various hormones secreted by these glands do have a dramatic
effect on human psychology, and an imbalance in one can cause a
psychological or physical imbalance in a person. Whether these changes
in body state have a bearing on spiritual matters is a subject of
dissent even among the Indian theorists, and the different systems of
conceptualization, Indian and Western, make only a partial convergence
in this case.
Perhaps the most psychologically dramatic and potent secretion of these
glands is the psychedelic drug DMT (which is synthesized by the pineal
gland, corresponding to the brow chakra). At least in the West, some
individuals have sought spiritual breakthroughs through the use of such
chemical aids, occasionally referred to as entheogens in this context.
Chakras are spiraling cones of
energy that interact through sound, light and color.
Quote by Ellie Crystal
Image by Barbara
Brennan
Mike's Chakra Meditation
Prepare as you would for meditation. Close your eyes. Visualize your
left hand holding balloons on strings, each one following the
visual color spectrum
which is the colors of the chakras ... plus one pink balloon. Next,
visualize the red balloon moving across your field of vision from left
to right. Let go of the string and focus on the balloon as it floats up
and out of sight. Following the color spectrum
ROY G. BIV, visualize
the orange balloon floating in the same pattern as red one took.
Continue with each color until all that's left is the pink balloon which
moves across your field of vision until it too floats away as far as
your consciousness can travel. Allow each balloon to go progressively
higher than the one before it. Next envision the balloons in your right
hand and repeat the exercise. You are balancing the chemistry in your
brain and your chakras.
