Of all the creatures on earth, only human beings can change the pattern of their behavior. Man alone is the architect of his destiny . . . Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

What are the Chakras?

Our physical body is not the only body we have. We have an energy body as well. We all know that everything on the cellular or atomic level is energy. Our energy body extends beyond the physical body creating layers of energies named the aura. Our aura communicates with our physical body and our chakras.

Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping-stones between heaven and earth. Our chakras absorbs energies from the outside (environment- the Universe) into our aura and then to our body. Our chakras connect and support our physical and energy bodies.

There are mainly seven chakras in our body as well as some small chakras around our body. Every chakra has specific responsibilities of the proper functioning or dysfunctioning of glands and organs as well as mental, emotional or spiritual matters.

What about animals and plants?

All living beings from animals to plants, tress and the Earth have chakras.

Chakra & Manifestation

Blocks in the chakras can take many forms. A chakra may be deficient in its functioning, meaning there is a constriction that results in too little energy flowing in and out of that chakra, or it may be excessive, meaning there is too much energy flowing. The goal of chakra meditation is to balance the energy flow through each chakra and through your whole mind-body-energy system.

Blocks in the chakras impede your ability to manifest because they impede the flow of energy. To manifest anything, you need all of your energies available and flowing. Trying to bring a dream to reality with a blocked chakra is like trying to paint a masterpiece without having one of the major colors of paint.

What is Chakra meditation?

Chakra meditation is a very powerful practice known to the Indian seers for over five thousand years. This practice basically involves concentration on the various chakras of our energy centers in the psychic body. Activation of these chakras would mean opening up various doors of your consciousness thereby taking you to a very divine state of existence.

You should sit comfortably with straight spine with your index fingers gently touching the thumbs placing both your palms facing skywards on your laps. Close your eyes deeply inhale and exhale, relax yourself completely. Wait for the chanting to begin and as you listen to the name of the chakra, you could visualize that chakra before your eyes or just concentrate on that spot in the body which will be mentioned periodically.

As you listen to the mantra (Video at the bottom) being chanted, you too could chant the same inwards or just silently focus on that chakra. When “Kundalini aruhanam” is chanted visualize a bright golden fluid flooding the chakra and turning it bright golden color. This practice must not be performed in the lying down posture.

I learned chakra meditation when I was introduced to one of my spiritual teachers “Tuba K. Aksu”. We did a specific chakra meditation process named “Chakra Dhyana”. This meditation was applied by Oneness university in India. This chakra meditation is powerful and I’ll include a link to it at the end of this page to do the practice on your own.

It is an easy process. All you need to do is follow the instructions as to focus on each chakra, then see each one flooded by a golden color that’ it. Any moment you feel you are thinking about something else other than the meditation, just simply bring your attention back to the audio and carry on.

Sound of Chakra Meditation

The sound the instructor (Beloved Sri Krishnaraj) says correlates to each chakra. Each sound is the Chakra’s own tone.

This Chakra meditation is a gift

“First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.”

Epictetus

Here’s a piece of advice before you do this chakra meditation. Declare an intention and commit to doing it regularly to reap the highest benefits. Put the full weight of your commitment behind it. This magical process will work invisibly in the background of your life.

But when you have conflicting intentions or beliefs, the process gets bewildered. This way your signal to the universe will be confusing. The universe doesn’t know what you want, so it gives you a little of this and a little bit of that.

When you discard the confusions and hold only one clear intention with no resistance, fear, or doubt, then that invisible force can work in the background to help you create what you intend. This exercise will enable you to clear the conflicts out of the way and open the path so your intention can flourish and manifest.

Benefits of Chakra meditation:

Balancing the chakras during chakra meditation has many positive attributes:

1 Nourishing the organs and glands of the physical and metaphysical body

2 Having feelings of prosperity, well-being, trust, good physical health and satisfaction

3 You will feel peace, higher confidence and security

4 You will feel joyous, and have healthy sexual confidence

5 You will feel that you are in control of your life, strength of will power, have a clear purpose and become more affectionate towards life and others

6 You will be compassionate, loving, caring. It will enable you to give and receive pure love

7 You will become more aware about the people and circumstances around you. You will also feel more creative.

8 You will feel insightful awareness, clairvoyance, clear communication, strong psychic perception

9 You will feel bliss in your life and extreme satisfaction. Experience a deeper understanding of the state of consciousness

Now, let me take every chakra and give you some information about their functionalities:

Chakra One (Muladhara):

Located at the base of the spine, is associated with survival. Its element is earth. This chakra is there for stability, physical health, trust, and obtaining prosperity. This chakra becomes activated during the period when you were in the womb until the first year of age.

Chakra Two (Svadhishtana):

Located in the lower abdomen is associated with healthy emotions, pleasure, and sexuality. Its element is water. This chakra becomes activated during babies 6 months to the age of two.

Chakra Three (Manipura):

Located in the solar plexus, is associated with personal power, will, and self-esteem. Its element is fire. It is where act on things in life. This chakra becomes activated during the 18th month of a baby until age four.

Chakra Four(anahata):

Located over the sternum around the heart area, is associated with love and relationships. It’s element is air. It is there for balance in life, compassion, self-acceptance, and having healthy relationships with others. This chakra becomes activated between the ages four and eight

Chakra Five(Vishuddhi):

Located in the throat, is associated with clear communication, resonance, and creativity. It is there to speak your truth and to be heard. Its element is sound. This chakra becomes activated between the ages of seven, eight, and thirteen.

Chakra Six(Ajna):

Located in the center of the forehead, is associated with clairvoyance, intuition, seeing through chaos and imagination. Its element is light. This is where a person sees the unseen by the usual eyes. Seeing through life. This chakra becomes activated during the adolescent years.

Chakra Seven(Sahasrara):

Located at the top of the head, the cerebral cortex, and is associated with awareness, knowledge, understanding, spiritual connection, and transcendent consciousness. It’s the place of knowing without seeing. Its element is thought. This chakra becomes activated throughout life.

Types of Chakras

Chakras can be open or closed, excessive or deficient,” or any of the various stages in between. These states may be basic traits of someone’s personality throughout their life or something that changes from moment to moment in response to numerous situations in life.

A weak chakra may be unable to change its state easily, being stuck in either an open or a closed state. If that’s the case, then the chakra needs healing by removing the blockages on it.

If a chakra is blocked in a closed state, then it won’t be able to create or receive energy on that particular plane, such as love energy or communication. If a chakra is blocked in an open or excessive state, that means it tends to channel all energies through that particular plane, such as using all situations to further one’s power or meet sexual needs, when other forms of behavior might be more appropriate. A closed chakra is a chronic avoidance of certain energies, while an excessively open chakra is a chronic fixation.

For example, someone with a  closed third chakra (personal power) would be scared of confrontation, while another who is more open, may thrive on it. Someone with an open second chakra (sexuality) may have many sexual partners, while someone who is closed may avoid feeling sexual.

Someone whose throat chakra is excessive may talk too much and not really listen, while another may be scarcely able to get their words out.

Signs and Symptoms of Chakra Dysfunction

– Regular Headaches

– Foggy mind; finding it hard to think

– Poor breathing

– Hip, knee, and ankle issues

– Poor digestion, bloating, distension, constipation,

– Consistent feelings and thoughts of being lost in life and confused; depression

– Difficulty to connect with others; occasional inappropriate behaviors

– Anxiety & anxiety attacks; nervous disorders

– Inability to express someone’s self or feelings to others

– Bad temper; frustration; irritability

– Talking too much or not enough

– Tight or restricted feeling in throat; hoarse voice

– Getting sick easily; poor immune system

– Stiff body and tight muscles

– Sore, dry and irritated eyes; eye problems; blurry vision

– Inability to experience joy, laughter, or silliness easily; being too serious

Chakra, Science & the Industry

Science and industry disregarded the existence of the chakras as there was no proof of their physical existence. For this reason, science and the industry took a different way to life. Denying the chakras is similar to denying consciousness giving birth to a world based on materialism.

The idea of materialism evolved as to take as much as you can even by force or against the will of creation. Such an approach made the world stuck on vibrational level on the lower chakras.

It became the reality of the centuries to exploit the Earth, its lands, animals, children and all humanity by constituting laws for each country to protect it from any opposing forces. Exploiting nearly everything with extreme consequences.

Earth became a planet and a world. They are not the same experiencing insane duality and ignoring or rather suspending the truth of oneness. There is no wonder you are confused. There is no wonder we are confused. In terms of consciousness, we as speeches are still in the beginning to grasp the concept of love and compassion as our languages contaminated the definitions.

The Chakra of the Collective Consciousness

The modern world we live in believes that having compassion is weakness. Compassion is the heart chakra and we are not collectively there yet. We newly moved to the third chakra, which is about power and strength on the positive as there are great stories in history show people and movements with purpose and confidence.

However, on the negative side the world experiences aggression, control and domination. Such dynamics are being exposed every now and then which shows that there is a steady progression to the golden age.

As science and the industry are on the front focusing and believing on the physical world, the metaphysical world was forgotten generation after generation. The world bought into misleading concepts of ideologies of half-truths.

The World of Separation

Meditation, yoga, and chakras were categorized as new age or spirituality practiced only by older people, psychotherapists, spiritually guided ones, the east, modern west, and the troubled curious. Spirituality is separated from life.  When you separate spirituality from this world, the world becomes a place without a spirit. We cannot separate spirituality from our lives.

Hopefully, by now you have come to see that chakra meditation is a very simple, easy, and effective technique that anyone can practice. It is not meant to be complicated, and it does not need any special knowledge, skills, or materials to be able to practice it, just intention and a willingness to participate. You have the capacity to balance your own chakras.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

Carl Jung

I hope you enjoyed reading this post. I look forward to hearing your suggestions & comments.

Love & gratitude.