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Chakras are energy centers in your subtle (or astral) body. They correspond to various glands and nerve plexi in the body, and reflect your state of consciousness. The more opened are your chakras, the more easily the kundalini ascends. The more closed are your chakras, the more susceptible you are to dis-ease and emotional imbalance. There are countless chakras in your subtle body. Here we refer to the seven primary chakras that correspond to the spine and reflect your evolutionary state. You have seven basic personalities reflected in seven chakras, all of which require equal attention. You have within yourself a survivor (the base chakra, reflecting the earth element), a lover (the second, or sexual chakra, reflecting the water element), a buddha (providing peace in the belly, reflecting the fire element), a christ (providing compassion in the heart chakra, reflecting the air element), an alchemist (the throat chakra, reflecting the “ether” or subtle element), a visionary (the third eye, revealing inner light), and a god/dess (the crown chakra, reflecting Infinite Awareness). Yogis are know to meditate for years on one particular chakra. Short-term focus on one chakra may be exactly what you need to master your overall personality. On the other hand, dis-ease will set in when you overstimulate one chakra and ignore the others. For example, if you overstimulate the sexual chakra you may find tremendous pleasure in the short-run, but in the long-run your overall growth will suffer as long as sexuality remains your only reason for living. Balance is the key. We must all be survivors, alchemists, and visionaries.
Opening the Chakras Chakras are vortexes of light and music, gateways to other dimensions, and psychological mirrors. There are countless chakras. Here we focus on the seven main chakras that correspond to the spine and mirror our evolutionary state. The kundalini, or life force, sleeps at the base of the spine (the root of the tree of life). The kundalini is like a hooded cobra that, once awakened, rises up the spine through the chakras, causing tingling sensations and bursts of energy and insight. Energy remains at the root chakra when you worry about survival (food, shelter, and money). Worry pulls your personality to the lowest level: fear, anger, and greed. Perhaps this explains, "For the love of money is the root of all evil." (1 Tim. 6:10) The antidote of this is: "Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself." (Matt. 6:34) This awakens you to possibilities hidden in the mystery of the moment. Solutions for survival come easily. You have shifted polarity (Week 7), so energy ascends upwards. When you are jealous or think about sex-without-love, then your attention flows to your sexual center, the second chakra. As your attention goes, so your kundalini flows. When you think in terms of good versus bad, you versus them, then your attention flows to the seat of judgement and power struggles: the third chakra in the navel area. Together, these three chakras create a cycle of struggle: a zombie-like state seeking security, sex-without-love, and power struggles. We move from one limited action to the next and wonder why we create so many hellish situations. When we can't stand it anymore, we begin a spiritual search. Perhaps we pray. Our praying hands (Week 14) can act as a concentration aid and as an energy accumulator to draw us up and out of struggle. Our pure intent lifts the kundalini up to the heart chakra. We are rising in love. At this level, however, love is still enmeshed in human emotion. There still exists us and the object of our love. In other words: duality, time and space, traces of illusion and confusion. We open our hearts to someone, then wonder why they do not return our love. We open our hearts to the world, then wonder why there is so much suffering and cruelty. Thus the heart chakra is the seat of compassion, but not the final destination. So astronauts of the soul ascend upwards by nurturing themselves as much as they would love a helpless babe. The body feels increasingly light and the mind increasingly clear. They rocket beyond faith into the science of conscious evolution. Next is the throat chakra, the seat of expression and alchemy. To have the kundalini move to this point, we must freely express our hearts, our insights, our shame and guilt until the past no longer holds us back. Then we become endlessly creative. To ascend higher, we must learn to transmute this energy into something more subtle. We see that emotions, intellect, and the arts can inspire us up to the crown chakra--but not into the next octave. Inner light and music must become our inner art. As ice turns to water, then to vapor, so does It requires all our courage and focus to reach the third eye. We see love and light equally in everything. We learn to consciously enter light without a near-death experience. This is the art of dying to live (Week 48). "Those afraid to die never learn to live." Inwardly, we enter a bright white light while our physical bodies bathe in a healing bliss. The enchanting call of celestial music guides us further into pure light. Meditation stops being difficult and becomes a delightful adventure inwards. "The kingdom of God is within." —Luke 17:21 The crown opens as the ego stops resisting; we allow powerful energy to flow up through our heads. We have moved well beyond the cycle of struggle. Heaven is where we are. Our bodies move closer to the frequency of light (ascension).
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