 Meditation chakras: what they are, and how they affect you.
Whilst we humans maybe at the top of the evolutionary chain in many respects we are very similar to our animal counterparts from whom we have evolved from. We have hearts and in order to pump the blood around or bodies and have livers to neutralise toxins that enter our bodies. We have hunger urges and stomachs to sate them, but the one crucial aspect that differentiates man from beast and which gives us our superiority is our capacity and capability for emotions. However where as we have a specific organ to deal with a specific problem or issue, such as the liver to remove toxins or the intestines to digest food, according to the teachings of meditation chakras there is not one single location where our emotions are governed or are to be found but rather, seven in total.
There is a tendency among the Western world to regard logic and emotion as two separate entities that are best divorced from one another and more extreme views hold that the two cannot and indeed should not mix. This is why novices who are attempting to practise chakra meditation for the very first time will struggle with this, because they have to spend a considerable amount of time trying to overcome this rather counter-productive mindset. Meditation chakras are concerned not only with improving a practitioner’s emotional health but also with the way they use their emotions to reach decisions. The meditation chakras represent the means by which the sources of our emotions and emotional energy are located and if they are suffering from imbalance (either too much or too little) then we need to ensure that we reduce our meditation chakras to a more acceptable level.
Like a large number of alternative methods of meditation, meditation chakras has a number of specific techniques which are used in order to prepare the practitioner for the mediation and thus remove external and internal inhibitions to their meditation session. The first of these is known as “grounding” and it involves a visualisation technique that requires the practitioner to sit perfectly still (whilst in a comfortable position) and to then mentally imagine that there is roots emitting from their body and anchoring themselves into the floor. The grounding exercise is a crucial one in order to clear the mind and focus the practitioner more clearly for the exercising of the meditation chakras.
Another technique (which is strikingly similar both in effect and method of execution) is the “centering” exercise which is little more than a breathing exercise which itself is used to relax the practitioner. Centering will require the practitioner to take a number of deep breathes and then slowly but surely release their breath. This will slow down the heart rate by means of a physiological process (more oxygen entering into circulation) as well as a mental process (focusing the mind on a specific task reduces stress levels and external stimuli.) Breathing, just like the grounding exercise is an essential precursor before the meditation chakras can be adjusted and regulated.
One the practitioner has relaxed in this manner this means that they are now in a better position to begin the meditation session in earnest. The practitioner should rotate through each of their respective meditation chakras, taking care to ensure that they do so in the manner so specified by the teachings. Always begin with the root meditation chakras which can be found in the base of the spine and then move onto the navel chakra and so on ensuring that the energy flows in the correct manner at all times.
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