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Live Better and Enjoy Life More Through Chakra Healing
by Anne-Marie Laureaut
What is Chakra
The human body consists of 88,000 chakras, also referred to as
continuously spinning or active energy points that act as portals to
receive, interact and transmit life forces between an individual and
his surroundings. Chakra is Hindu for spinning wheel. Of the body's
88,000 energy points, seven are regarded to have major importance in
the overall function of our being.
Although there is no common denominator between the ancient Hindu and
Chinese cultures, they are very similar in their interpretation and
explanation about the role of these energy points in our health and
lives in general. Both the Hindus and the Chinese look at the body's
major energy points as playing important roles in our conscious and
subconscious experiences. And that these seven energy points are the
keys to a healthy and successful life.
One interesting aspect of the explanation and characterization of
chakras is the uncanny similarity reached by both the Hindus and
Chinese that they are an integral part of man's conscious and
subconscious experience. Add to this the fact that both civilizations
use the same theory for promoting a healthy and successful life of an
individual.
Since the chakras are constantly in motion regardless if we are awake
or not, their constant activity influences our body's structure and
appearance, glandular processes, physical disorders, even our thoughts
and conduct. Therefore when one or more of our chakras malfunction due
to any number of reasons, the result is an imbalance that becomes
manifest in all aspects of our being.
Each of these energy points have a direct influence on a particular
endocrine gland in our body which is how imbalance and ill health can
be made known to us.
Maintaining Chakra Balance Using the above as our starting point, we
can then safely conclude that most of our major illnesses and ailments
are chakra related. Although there may not be enough physical
manifestations of the illness or imbalance (yet) there may be emotions
and concerns from way back our childhood that affect us today
-physically, spiritually or emotionally.
These factors could be anything ranging from repressed traumatic
incidents during early childhood to wrong diet, unhealthy lifestyle
and the like. One thing is certain, and that is we have to remove
these physical or emotional toxins from our bodies because they affect
us greatly.
Advantages of Chakra Healing What most people are not aware of is that
we have the resources to control and manipulate our energy points to
our advantage. By knowing how to influence and manipulate the
functions of our major chakras we can then control how they function
so that we can achieve the benefits of balance and harmony, not only
within us but with our surroundings as well.
Simple and straightforward practice of color and aroma therapy,
controlled breathing exercises and rhythmic exercise routines, Reiki
healing and directed meditation with the use of audio even crystals
and gemstones are but some of the ways we can do on our own to
influence the process of interaction of our body's energy points.
Other methodologies of chakra healing are meditation (keeping the mind
focused on an object of thought or awareness for a certain period of
time), guided visualization (done with the aid of audio tapes or CDs
to promote natural healing and relaxation techniques to reduce stress,
promote relaxation and harness the power of the mind).
Despite the fact that we can see or touch our energy points, aside
from the above there are other ways that we can keep them healthy in
order for them to better support our body.
The human body has to be healthy and fed properly in order for us to
have balanced chakras. There are foods that help maintain the balance
of each of the seven primary chakras.
The first energy point, the root, is nourished by tubers and food rich
in protein. The navel's energy point on the other hand is benefited by
our diet of sweet fruits and nuts while our energy point in our solar
plexus chakra gets nourishment form wheat products, dairy and cereals.
The heart chakra thrives on our intake of green leafy vegetables and
green tea. Our throat chakra needs lots of liquid like water and fruit
juices and tangy fruits including apples and peaches.
By eating blueberries, grapes and drinking wine or grape juice, we
help nourish our brow/third eye chakra which is responsible for making
our third eye senses sharper and more attuned to our psychical
abilities.
The spiritual and emotional center (our crown chakra) of the human
body however does not need nutrients but requires detoxification by
means of fasting.
With these simple methods of influencing our body's energy points
(chakras), we are at the same time also influencing our physical
wellness towards a more responsive way of life completely with our
body and our environment. They are very simple ways but very effective
at the same time in order for us to achieve a goal of physical and
emotional wellness.
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