Understanding the 7 Main Chakras

The art of chakra meditation involves focusing your mind on specific energy centers within your body. Each energy center corresponds with a different aspect of your life, so you can target a specific chakra depending on the problem you want to solve or the goal you want to achieve.

There are 7 chakras which are:

Root Chakra (Muladhara)


The root chakra is located at bottom of the spine and affects our basic needs and desires. Imagine a glowing red light near the base of your spine for increasing the energy in this area. Focus can be assisted by holding a Ruby or Garnet crystal while chakra meditating.

Naval Chakra (Svadhisthana)


The naval chakra is located in the lower abdomen, and is associated with physical feelings, especially those of love, sexuality, and passion. You can activate and clear this chakra by focusing your attention on a bright orange light in that area. Focus can be assisted by holding amber crystals while chakra meditating.

Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura)

It is located above the navel, just below the chest. It is believed that focusing on this point will help in issues related to self-control, discipline and ego. It helps if you imagine a pure yellow light in this area Use amber or gold to intensify this meditation.

Heart Chakra (Anahata)


The heart chakra is the center of compassion, understanding, and forgiveness. You can use chakra meditation to focus on a green light glowing in this area. This will help you clear away feelings of resentment, guilt, and anger. Focus can be assisted by using emeralds and malachite crystals.

Throat Chakra (Vishuddha)

It is located just below your chin and is useful to help you with issues of truth and knowledge, and can help you communicate with clarity, empathy, and wisdom. The throat chakra is associated with the color blue, Focus can be assisted by using turquoise or blue topaz.

Brow Eye Chakra (Ajna)


The brow chakra is located in the middle of your forehead, just above your eyes. It is the center of spiritual knowledge and understanding. Imagine an indigo light in this area while dealing with spiritual issues or concerns. Focus can be assisted by using Lapis lazuli and sapphires.

Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)


It is located at the top of your head and is associated with self-actualization, inspiration, divine wisdom, and the higher self. Focusing on the chakra will help you increase your sense of awareness and purpose, and develop a connection with universal wisdom. It is represented by the color violet and can be assisted by using amethyst and quartz crystal stones.

Chakras In The Human Body

Chakra is actually the Sanskrit word that would mean wheel. The human body includes seven important chakras and also many minor chakras.

These 7 chakras start from the bottom of the backbone and finish on the top of the head. Basically, those chakras possess the wheel of continuous revolving and rotating energy. The root (1st chakra) has the slowest revolving speed while the crown (7th chakra) rotates the fastest.

As soon as these chakras are unhealthy, unbalanced or clogged up, one’s lifestyle tend to be out of sync. Weariness, stress and other health issues may set in. In such cases, it’s important to unclogged the affected chakras and restore its balance.

Stimulation for each chakras come from its individual and complimentary colour as well as a range of gem stones. Basically, these chakra colours consists of the 7 colours of the rainbow; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

However, do not go overboard in opening your chakras as too large an opening may lead to excessive universal energy coming into your entire body.  that will consequently lead to an energy overload.

Chakras have a clear connection among themselves and also the condition of its corresponding organ.The following are the 7 chakras and their related organs in the body:

•    1st chakra (root) – connected to large intestines, anus, has some effects on kidney functioning

•    2nd chakra (naval) – connected to the reproduction system, sex gland, testicles, urinary system, bladder and kidneys

•    3rd chakra (solar plexus) = connected to gall bladder, spleen, liver, small intestine and stomach

•    4th chakra (heart) – associated with the heart and arms

•    5th chakra (throat) – associated with throat and lung area

•    6th chakra (3rd eye) – associated with the face, nose area, eyes and brains.

•    7th chakra (crown) – related to the whole being, not corresponding to any particular organ.

Buteyko “Control Pause” and measure your own breathing pattern. | Holistic Directory

Objective accurate measurements are critical for any intelligent diagnosis. Otherwise one is left with vague generalities. Therefore measuring the ventilation and its correlation to related disease pathology is essential.

 

Professor Buteyko developed a simple way to measure the breathing that can be done by nearly anyone, anywhere and at anytime. To accurately measure lung ventilation with conventional equipment is a laborious and extremely complex task. Any form of resistance, like a breathing tube to the apparatus for example, will distort the measurement and have an influence over the breathing, which is supposed to be measured without interference.

 

Professor Buteyko developed a better and easier system, that is a more indicative and precise measure of overall health, than any other test known to medical science.

 

Professor Buteyko developed what is called the Control Pause, and it only takes a few minutes, and the only equipment you need is a watch with a second’s hand. The idea is based on the fact that our breathing is driven by the Respiratory Centre, located in the Medulla Oblongata part of the brain; which provides the involuntary stimulus to breathe, due to its sensitivity to carbon dioxide.

 

By measuring the time it takes for it to respond to the accumulation of carbon dioxide, (due to a breath hold), will tell us the amount a person ventilates on average per minute.

 

Very simply, the Control Pause is a breath holding manoeuvre, wherein we deliberately stop breathing and time the number of seconds that pass, until we feel the first urge to breathe again.

 

The Control Pause is a precise diagnostic manoeuvre – and certain rules need to be adhered to obtain a correct result.

 

1. A C.P should not be done immediately after a meal.

 

2. The person should be sitting upright and comfortably.

 

3. The breath holding should be preceded by a normal inhalation and exhalation. It should not be a deep breath or a shallow breath—but a normal breath in and out.

 

4. After the breath out, the breath should be held with the mouth closed and the nose pinched closed with the fingers.

 

5. During the breath hold, one should pay attention to the time keeping – so that when the involuntary urge to breathe occurs, you will know exactly how many seconds have transpired.

 

6. As soon as the urge to breathe occurs, the nose should be released and the breathing resumed. The number of seconds that transpired during your breath hold is your Control Pause.

 

A common mistake:

 

If the breath in after the Control Pause was in any way exaggerated, it means the Control Pause was not done properly, because the breath was held beyond the first urge to breathe.

Source: Learn Buteyko Newsletter

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Author: Kostas Kapelas
http://www.totalhealthnow.co.uk