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What are Chakras?

Chakras are energy vortices.  A series centers which help to regulate the flow of energy in the subtle body, corresponding to glands and emotions, located (approximately) along the spinal column.  Chakras can be open closed, or blocked.  They are Indo-Tibetan in origin and part of the most energy and meditative practices in the world.

The body contains seven energy centers, known as chakras:

These include the Crown (7), Third Eye (6), Throat (5), Heart (4), Sacral (3), Spleen (2), and Root Chakras (1). 

Chakra Seven: Thought, Universal identity, oriented to self-knowledge.  This is the crown chakra that relates to consciousness as pure awareness.  It is our connection to the greater world beyond, to a timeless, spaceless place of all-knowing.  When developed, this chakra brings us knowledge, wisdom, understanding, spiritual connection, and bliss.

Chakra Six:  Light, Archetypal identty, oriented to self-reflection. This chakra is known as the brow chakra or third eye center.  It is related to the act of seeing, both physically and intuitively.  As such it opens our psychic faculties and our understanding of archetypal levels.  When healthy it allows us to see clearly, in effect, letting us “see the big picture.”

Charka Five:  Sound, Creative identity, oriented to self-expression.  This is the chakra located in the throat and is thus related to communication and creativity.  Here we experience the world symbolically through vibration, such as the vibration of sound representing language.

Chakra Four:  Air, Social identity, oriented to self-acceptance.  This chakra is called the heart chakra and is the middle chakra in a system of seven.  It is related to love and is the integrator of opposites in the psyce  mind and body, male and female, persona and shadow, ego and unity.  A healthy fourth chakra allows us to love deeply, feel compassion, have a deep sense of peace and centeredness.

Chakra Three:  Fire, Ego identity, oriented to self-definition.  This chakra is known as the power chakra, located in the solar plexus.  It rules our personal power, will, and autonomy, as well as our metabolism.  When healthy, this chakra brings us energy, effectiveness, metabolism.  When healthy, this charka brings us energy, effectiveness, spontaneity, and non-dominating power.

Chakra Two:  Water, Emotional identity, oriented to self-gratification.  The second chakra, located in the abdomen, lower back, and sexual organs, is related to the element water, and to emotions and sexuality.  It connects us to others through feeling, desire, sensation, and movement.  Ideally this chakra brings us fluidity and grace, depth of feeling, sexual fulfillment, and the ability to accept change.

Chakra One:  Earth, Physical identity, oriented to self-preservation.  Located at the base of the spine, this chakra froms our foundation.  It represents the element earth, and is therefore related to our survival instincts, and to our sense of grounding and connection to our bodies and the physical plane.  Ideally this chakra brings us health, prosperity , security, and dynamic presence.

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Man creates his own confusion just because he goes on rejecting himself, condemning himself, not accepting himself.

Then a chain of confusion, inner chaos and misery is created. Why don’t you accept yourself as you are? What is wrong? The whole existence accepts you as you are, but you don’t.

You have some ideal to achieve. That ideal is always in the future – it has to be, no ideal can be in the present. And the future is nowhere; it is not yet born. Because of the ideal you live in the future which is nothing but a dream; because of the ideal you cannot live here and now; because of the ideal you condemn yourself.

All ideologies, all ideals, are condemnatory because then an image is created in the mind, and when you go on comparing yourself with that image you will always feel that something is lacking, something is missing. Nothing is lacking and nothing is missing. You are perfect as far as there is any possibility of perfection.

This is how the ideal is created, and because of the ideal, you become condemned. Compare yourself with the ideal and you will never be perfect, it is impossible. If you say ‘if’, then bliss is impossible because that if is the greatest disturbance.

And I can tell you if you try first to make arrangements for the wrong to disappear, it never disappears. It is just like fighting with darkness. Your house is filled with darkness and you ask, ‘How can I light a candle? Before I light a candle this darkness has to be thrown out.’

Celebrate, become a blissful flame, and all that is wrong disappears. Anger, greed, sex, or whatsoever else you name, are not solid; they are just the absence of a blissful, ecstatic life.

Please feel free to share your experiences, challenges, successes, stories, and understandings as we learn to become still, silent, accepting, home.

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