Chakra Balancing
The chakra system
…discovered/originated in India between 1500 and 500 BC in the oldest text called the Vedas. … According to the scholars. Knowledge of healing the chakra system was passed down through an oral tradition by the Indo-European people, also called the Aryan people.
Chakra balancing is founded on the ancient occult physiological practices of certain forms of Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism.
There are a series of seven chakras or life-energy centers in the body.
Chakra is the Sanskrit word for wheel. These life-energy centers are believed to be placed at particular points between the base of the spinal column and top of the skull.
Some esoteric training systems include additional chakras, said to extend beyond the physical body into the human auric field. Each chakra within the body is believed to relate to particular organs — however, different systems or sources that use the idea of chakras and may disagree about the details.
Now that the chakras have become part of New Age speech, there are many interpretations of their meaning and functions. While this popularity is making the chakras a household word, it is also spreading a lot of confusing, conflicting, and often erroneous information. It is essential to realize the chakras come from an ancient tradition, which many New Age teachers have barely explored.
The conception of chakras plays a key role in two ancient systems: ayurvedic medicine and yoga. In many modern alternative energy therapies (like Reiki, polarity therapy, therapeutic touch, acupressure, core energetics from the 1970s) they have incorporated the idea of chakras into their practices of healing.
A Clean Chakra is believed to promote wellness by maximizing the stream of energy in the organic structure, much as a tune-up enables a car to operate on at peak efficiency.
These traditions were handed down orally for thousands of years before being codified by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras, several centuries before Christ.
The ancient healing science of Ayurveda is on a collection of scriptures known as Vedas (a Sanskrit word meaning knowledge or wisdom). Ayurveda means “life knowledge.” It remained the predominant form of care in India until the British colonial government tried to suppress it during the nineteenth century.
Over the last half-century, however, a modernized form of energy work has gained considerable popularity in India.
More recently, the healing of these energy centers has been popularized in the West by such high-profile advocates as Deepak Chopra.
Balancing the chakras is said to promote general and well-being by ensuring the free-flowing of life force energy (also known as prana or qi) throughout the physical body.
It is believed that blockages in these energy centers will eventually result in mental, emotional, and touchable illness. By removing such blockages, practitioners said to enable the body, mind, and spirit to function a lot better and heal itself. Some alternative psychic practitioners, such as medical intuitives, say they can “read” a patient’s chakras to detect imbalances and diagnose problems.
Reading chakras is sometimes done using a pendulum.
The chakras are often shown as circles, spaced at intervals along the vertebral column, or sometimes as funnels of energy. Specific chants or sounds are used in some yogic meditation practices as tools for healing. They work with the different chakras and the clearing of negative energy within each.
By meditation and clearing each of the seven chakras is said to enrich your body’s physiological and metaphysical functions.