What are the Chakras?
Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning wheel, or vortex, and it refers to each of the seven energy centers of which your consciousness, your energy system, is composed.
The chakras are not physical. They are aspects of consciousness in the same way that the aura is an aspect of consciousness. The chakras are more dense than the aura, but not as dense as the physical body. They interact with the physical body through two major vehicles, the endocrine and nervous systems.
Each of the seven chakras is associated with one of the seven endocrine glands, and also with a group of nerves called a plexus. Thus, each chakra can be associated with particular parts of the body and particular functions within the body controlled by the plexus or the endocrine gland associated with that chakra.
All of your senses, all of your perceptions, all of your possible states of awareness, everything it is possible for you to experience, can be divided into seven categories. Each category can be associated with a particular chakra. Thus, the chakras represent not only particular parts of your physical body, but also particular parts of your consciousness.
When you feel tension or stress, you feel it in the chakra associated with that part of your consciousness experiencing the tension or stress, and in the parts of the physical body associated with that particular chakra. Where you feel the tension or stress depends upon why you feel the tension or stress. The tension or stress in the chakra is detected by the nerves of the plexus associated with that chakra and transmitted to the parts of the body controlled by the plexus. When the tension or stress continues over a long period of time or to a particular level of intensity you experience a symptom on the physical level.
The symptom speaks in a language that chooses to accept the idea that we each create our own reality. The metaphoric significance of the symptom becomes apparent when the symptom is described from this point of view. Rather than saying, “I can’t see,” the person would describe it as keeping themselves from seeing. “I can’t walk away,” means the person has been keeping themselves from walking away from a situation in which they are unhappy and so on.
The symptom is present to communicate to a person through their body what they have been doing to themselves. When a person changes something about their way of being or way of living they get or receive the message communicated by the symptom. At this time the symptom can be released. Please keep in mind this depends upon a persons individual belief system.
When we believe anything is possible, we believe that anything can be healed. It’s just a question of how to do it. Understanding the chakras allows you to understand the relationship between your consciousness and your physical body and thus see your body as a map of consciousness. It gives you a better understanding of yourself and those around you.
Through regular yoga and meditation, you become automatically grounded, healthy, creative, confident, intuitive, humble, loving and compassionate. It is a process which starts to develop by itself when the Kundalini rises and starts to nourish your chakras.
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