What are Chakras?
2nd Mar 2008
Hello lovely people
You may be familiar with chakras, but I have to assume that some readers have never heard of chakras. The word chakra is Sanskrit for wheel. Chakras are described as energy vortices and are shaped like petals or spoked wheels that whirl at various speeds. Most people cannot see them with the naked eye.
Chakras form the basis of healing methods such as crystal healing. The chakras can be open or closed or somewhere in-between. Clairvoyants can diagnose the health of chakras by doing energy scans with their hands. Healers often use their intuition and sometimes pendulums to establish the status of the chakras, and they then focus their healing on the chakras that are not fully open. Balanced chakras are healthy, have clear colours, and rotate smoothly. Blocked chakras cause health problems.
There are seven major chakras and hundreds of minor ones. The Universal Life Force enters through the crown chakra and filters along the spinal column to the lower chakras. The higher the chakra is positioned on the spinal column, the more complex the chakra becomes.
Each chakra has its own colour associated with it. They also rotate at different speeds. Each chakra is associated with a major endocrine gland, a major nerve system, a major physiological system and a psychic function.
We will first focus on the three lower chakras in the body. These are feeling chakras. This means they regulate the way we feel about ourselves and the world around us.
The heart chakra is the bridge between the three upper chakras and the three lower chakras.
The three upper chakras relate to our spiritual beings and the connection between us and the Divine.
For more information on the meaning of colours, see this website
The Book of Chakra Healing provides beautiful detailed descriptions of the seven main chakras.
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Love and Light
Elsabe
