The Positive Effects Of The Seven Chakras

June 22, 2010 by Jonathan Benjem  
Filed under Health

Chakras are the foci within our bodies where the energy which makes up our life force is generated. Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning wheel; a good representation of the spherical energy field the word refers to.

There are six Chakras which are located along the spine and a seventh one above these, removed from the physical element of your body.

While we understand these Chakras as energy, you need to understand that these seven Chakras influence your body.

Having your Chakras in the proper alignment will also keep your physical, mental and spiritual health in good condition.

Muladhara

The Muladhara is the Chakra of your lower body. This Chakra is responsible for your survival instinct and other related primal behaviors. Located in the perineum, the Muladhara relates to the potentiality of human life.

This is the Chakra which corresponds to the adrenal glands in the physical body and produces the fight or flight response.

Swadhisthana

The Swadhisthana is the chakra that contains the reproductive parts. The chakra is located in the area known as the sacrum. It relates to emotions such as sexuality and creativity. The chakra corresponds to the sexual organs, and produces the sexual hormones that guide our lives.

This Chakra also governs the production of sex hormones and plays a role in producing mood swings. This Chakra is symbolized by a six petal lotus.

Manipura

The Manipura is the navel. It is considered to be the solar plexus chakra. This chakra deals with the transitions that are found between base emotions and complex emotions. The chakra itself is in charge of base emotions and complex emotions, and dictates the way that they flow into each other. It deals with the flow of energy, the flow of digestion, and can be compared to the way that the pancreas functions in the body.

This Chakra is responsible for energy flow and digestion - it governs the conversion of food into energy.This Chakra is symbolized by a ten petal lotus.

Anahata

The Anahata is the heart. It is responsible for complex emotions like love and also controls your equilibrium and overall well being. This Chakra corresponds to the thymus gland, located in the chest. It also corresponds to the immune system in the physical body.

This chakra is symbolized by a twelve petal lotus. The love and the compassion are dictated by this chakra.

Vishuddha

The Vishudda is the throat. This Chakra is responsible for your faculties of communication. This Chakra corresponds to the thyroid gland in the physical body. This Chakra is symbolized by a sixteen petal lotus.

It also controls your powers of communication and corresponds to the thyroid gland in the physical body.

Ajna

The Anja is your eyebrow or forehead. This Chakra is also known as the third eye. The Ajna comtrols your visualization abilities and is the Chakra which has to do with time, light and awareness.

This Chakra is also in charge of the sleep cycle. The symbol of this Chakra is a two petal lotus.

Sahasrara

The Sahasrara is the final Chakra. This is the Chakra which is responsible for consciousness; it is connected to every other system in your body and is the most important element in consciousness. This Chakra corresponds to the pituitary gland in the physical body. The symbol of this Chakra is a thousand petal lotus.

Jonathan Benjem writes for the popular chakra-balance.com site. To learn how knowledge of the seven chakra can transform your whole life and how you can get free chakra balancing meditation and healing Audios visit here.

Chakra Balancing -The Secret To Wellbeing and Contentment

March 9, 2010 by Jo Taylor-Combes  
Filed under Featured

Modern science goes about eliminating from the minds of various individuals the very existence and significance of the spiritual being that lies within the physical being.

However, in the Hindu thoughts of life, the flame of spiritual healing is still burning brightly alongside the advancements in science and technology.

There are many secondary chakras as well as 7 primary chakras in the body. In Sanskrit Chakra means Wheel of Light. All the chakras work together constantly vibrating and rotating within a healthy human body.

Therefore, any type of imbalance in the movements of chakras will result in an overall imbalance of a healthy functioning body. Chakra balancing then is essential for having a healthy mind, body, and soul.

Chakras are the centers of activity that receives, integrates and expresses life-force energy. They are the Entry Gates to the human Aura. They are located along the midline of the body from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. The seven main Chakras absorb and transmit energies back and forth into the universe, nature, celestial entities, and from other individuals.

What changes Chakra Balancing?

Energy cannot flow harmoniously through the Chakras when one or more of them are blocked. Blockages result in an imbalance along the Chakras. These imbalances then manifest themselves in other areas of our lives.

Many factors such as illness, toxic exposure, stress, an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise as well as childhood traumas, emotional injuries, an inability to express emotions, beliefs incongruent with Truth, cultural conditioning, and so on can alter the harmonious functioning of the Chakras.

Chakra Balancing Secret to Happiness and Health

It is an admirable yet unpractical idea that Chakras function harmoniously and naturally. Although, many individuals do try to correct any dysfunctions in order to achieve a finer balance between the chakras. Self-healing is a theory that originates somewhat from chakra balancing.

Our thoughts, behaviors, body shape, glandular processes and any type of recurring ailments depend upon the condition of our chakras. Chakra balancing assures that all of these limitations work towards the goal of a achieving a healthy mind, body and spirit.

Chakra Balancing Benefits include:

* Recognition of your True Self

* Physical health and energy

* Inner peace and complete happiness

* A loving and compassionate heart

* Being Consciously in touch with your body

* Accelerating spiritual growth and development

* A Sexually content life without the negative influences of lust

* Enhancing the ability to attract and express love

* Enhancing the ability to attract and express love in ones life

* Immense levels of confidence, but short of being overly confident

* Spiritual healing through higher patterns of awareness, consciousness and acceptance

How to achieve Chakra Balancing

You can use any number of various techniques to achieve chakra balancing. One or more of these techniques are helpful for harmonizing the functions of the chakras within the body.

* The use of Aromatherapy

* Use Touch Therapy

* Always Think Positively

* Participate In Physical exercise

* Color and Light Therapy

* The Use Of Gemstones and Crystals

* Binaural Sound Frequencies

* Other Healing Therapies, such as Reiki

* Balancing using Pendulums and using Hands

* Positive Affirmations, using Hypnosis and so on

* Meditation and Yoga, and breathing exercises

Our body being a container of energy releases and disposes of any spent energy through the organs of our body and then replenishes itself with new supplies of energies.

Chakra balancing helps to ensure that new energy is generating and sends the energy to all the vital organs and cells of the body for its optimal use, while ensuring that all parts of the body shares in this supply of new energy.

While in such a great and desirable state, there is a natural flowing of health, happiness as well as inner peace. Bringing the chakras back into their natural state of frequencies and vibrations is what chakra balancing is all about.

The author Jo Taylor-Combes is a writer for the popular http://www.chakra-balance.com site. To understand how chakra meditation can give you a new lease of life and to get 29 Free chakra balancing Audios visit here.

How The Seven Chakras Impact Us

July 16, 2009 by Jai Dahalli  
Filed under Health

We daily discover newer secrets about the facts that make us a superior race and helped us survive and evolve through extremely competitive and tough environment. Of these numerous unexplored mysteries about our existence there is the theory of the seven chakras or energy points in our bodies that regulate our physical as well as mental self.

Apart from the physical energy that we get from substances that we consume as a part of our routine diet, the human body also requires a good amount of cosmic energy that is a result of the energy exchange between the seven chakra network in our body and the heavenly bodies above us.

On most occasions people fail to understand the kind of effect the chakras in their body have on the attitude they wear as well as the kind of life they lead. A very popular theory states that a person with positive thoughts ends up achieving better results as compared to a person with a negative frame of mind. The reason is simple as positivity in thoughts is the result of the abundant positive energy in the chakra governing the thoughts.

Each circle of energy is an active participant in the process of monitoring and enhancing a body part or its activities, the effect that these chakras have on different body parts and attitude is different, hence most chakras independently affect their respective body organs.

All chakras end up influencing various aspects that are important for the well being of an individual, you will be able to understand the impact in detail in the following explanation.

The chakra that is placed at the bottom is the root chakra which helps regulating the actual personality and the character of the person. When positive the chakra helps the individual to enhance his/her ability to stand strong against the odds. Root chakra is said to control the large intestine, rectum as well as other digestive organs below the stomach.

Genital Chakra lies above the root chakra and is very important as it helps to control the organs that are important for excretory purposes. This chakra with positive energy could mean that a person is not distracted by luscious offers and can help to have a broad mind. With negativity it can lead to establishing negative vibes and feelings.

The third chakra is the Umbilical chakra, it helps a person to remain calm and stable mentally as well as helps bring out apt responsiveness to any kind of a situation that he/she faces. In case of this chakra imposing negativity the persons behaviour is not stable as he develops feelings of embarrassment and other unstable actions come along. The organs that this chakra regulates include the stomach and other organs which help in digestion.

The fourth chakra from the bottom is the heart chakra that is responsible for the generation of various emotions as well as inspires feelings of liking and admiration. As the name suggests it has firm control over the human heart and if filled with negativity can lead to feelings of hatred and hypocrisy.

Above the heart chakra is the fifth chakra referred to as the throat chakra, it controls the way we speak as well as what we speak. It helps to regulate critical organs including the mouth and the lungs.

Towards the forehead is the third eye chakra that is important in the process of having perception and also helps making impressions, it enhances your sight, hearing power as well as recognizes smell easily.

The seventh chakra or the crown chakra is towards the crown of the head and in a positive state helps people achieve enlightenment.

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