Chakras (Blog)

[Erin Pavlina]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Erin Pavlina's blog:

Chakras

[yesyesyes]

Excellent!

Will try to start incorporating this into a daily routine.

[Khristine]

Erin,

When you said you'd put this on your list...I figured well maybe in a week or so.
I was sure you had enough material that you had planned on getting to first.

Thank you so much. This is exactly what I needed.

Ask and it is Given...this is the fastest answer I have ever received.

Big Hug to you and that tea toting higher self of yours.

[Erin Pavlina]

Hahaha, actually this particular topic has been on my list for a couple of weeks but you reminded me how many people ask about it. Also, for some reason, my higher self is getting really pushy about the posts I'm doing. The last four have been more of her than me. I might try doing a blog entry where I simply show a dialogue that I have with her. Might be insightful to see how our conversations go.

Thanks for the compliment.

[Khristine]

The last four have been more of her than me

Then again she is You.

[Dating Specialist]

Thanks Erin on this awesome post on chakras. After reading it, I feel that I have been most connected to my crown chakra. Sometimes my heart chakra too, but it seems like lately this hasn't been too opened.

Will test out the cleaning experiment too.

Thanks again! You're great. Hugs!

[mind-energy]

When I was taking a course on parapsychology (private, nothing formal), I've been taught about chakras as well. Interestingly, I've been taught a similar meditation for clearing the chakras, where one should imagine them spinning in their color.

There are some differences, like we made sure chakras 2-6 were closed and 1,7 open. Plus, chakras 2-6 go both to the front and to the back of the body.

But like you said, Erin, there are many ways of taking care of the chakras and the method you described is very easy and should do the work, so to speak.

[Slade]

Happy Thanksgiving, Erin!

And thank you for this awesome post - it's a great 101 breakdown, and I particularly dig your visualization of the spinning energy, and the Plug-in /Cord /Electrical Socket image is a great insight.

I'm with you on the "if you'd asked me at age 30..." I've found that the more I learn about Spirit, the more I have to be willing to totally revamp my earlier beliefs and as you put it "eat my words."

Tuning the Heart Chakra
One of the chakra-basics I was really clueless about until recently was the importance of the Heart Chakra, and how we try to process - plug in cords from Source - using the wrong socket.

We have a tendency to Process Feelings as Information - emotions are not data.

We acquire Wisdom through the Heart, not the Head. Knowledge and Understanding is not the same thing as Wisdom - experience, with the powerful emotional component, leads to wisdom.

We over-think, get stuck in our Thinking Mind, trying to force the wrong Cord into the wrong Plug.

Wisdom and the Heart are the reason why Stories and Fiction remain so powerful in this age of data and information.

Several months ago, Sonia Choquette shared a great exercise on her radio show for Tuning the Heart Chakra.

The exercise is SO simple, takes only moments to execute, and my personal results from using it are too many to mention here.

Read my interpretation of How to Tune Your Heart Chakra.

[Khristine]

OH MY GOD!

This has totally amazed me. I did the chakra cleansing last night before I went to sleep. Tweeked it a bit to personalize it. And my "radio" started to tune in, in a very audible way.

First it was a blip and I felt goose bumps, then it was a bit louder blip and the goose bumps again. So I asked for "them" to slow down so I could hear them. And behold... a very clear 3 word sentence. This voice didn't come for inside my head...it was like someone was standing to my right and speaking to me.

Today I feel absolutely wonderful, at peace, joy, joy, joy.

Happy Thankgiving everyone!!

[ScottS]

Hey Erin, I'm skeptical when it comes to chakras. I'll give you the benefit of doubt and assume that they exist, but how do I detect/verify for myself where the major ones are located and what color they are? So I can reinvent the wheel at discovering chakras so to speak.

[Erin Pavlina]

I was skeptical too. But I did the cleansing and the tuning and great things started to happen. Just try it and see. Also, chakra information is very old. Google it and see what you find. And share what you find so we can read it too

[ScottS]

The thing is, I've been looking for information on how to "derive" the chakras for some time now (and I was hoping you'd be able to answer it ). That's what frustrates me the most about all these new age beliefs. Practitioners and people on the forefront will say huge claims as fact but when it comes to how one can verify or discover these things on their own, they'll change the subject.

But in any case I'll try the chakra cleanse you suggest and if I discover some new information, I'll definitely post it. I'm not holding my breath though.

[Holistic Star]

Thanks for this post - it was very timely for me.

I met a someone about a month ago and he explained how he had cleared his eczema bit by bit doing the meditation you describe above every day for about three months. I thought it was interesting, but didn't do anything about it. However, every book I have read since then has mentioned chakras and chakra clearing exercises. So ok - I have the message, I need to clear my chakras!


I just did the exercise. At first I wasn't sure how I would know when I had cleared one chakra and was ready to move onto the next. Because I can self-test using kinesiology I was able to test to find out when each chakra was clear. I was surprised how long it took before I got a 'yes' to say I could move on and funnily enough when I did get the 'yes' the energy did feel subtly different around me. So if you are doing this - I would suggest you might need to spin the energy for longer than you think.

My husband just commented that I seem to have loads more energy than usual this evening even though I've had a much longer working day than usual, so I thought I would take a break from bouncing around the house to tell you my results. Thanks

[babuji]

I just realized that the colors corresponding with the chakras from bottom to top follow the colors of the Rainbow or as some of you probably know the acronym ROY G BIV

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet

I guess its an easy way to remember and easier to visualize. cheers.

[Luca]

Hi Holistic Star

How did you self-test using kinesiology? About how long did it take you to clean each chakra?

Thanks

[stephencp]

Good post, however...
Energy should still be considered a part of the sensory/illusory world that you eventually will need to detach from to reach higher levels. Playing with energy/chi/prana and thier attendant feelings is still just play.

Stephen
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[mind-energy]

Originally Posted by ScottS

Hey Erin, I'm skeptical when it comes to chakras. I'll give you the benefit of doubt and assume that they exist, but how do I detect/verify for myself where the major ones are located and what color they are? So I can reinvent the wheel at discovering chakras so to speak.

You should be able to see where the chakras are using a pendulum.
Take a pendulum in your hand and lower it so it becomes between your legs, centered with the body, close to it. Start lifting it bit by bit and wait several seconds. The pendulums should spin where your chakras are. The stronger the chakra, the more it should spin.

[Kimberly]

I have two questions for Erin, or for anyone with enough knowledge on the subject to be able to answer them:

Is it possible that, even though you've never cleansed your chakras before, that not all of them are blocked?

How important is it that you follow the 'order of the chakras' (from bottom to top) when cleansing?

I tried this exercise last night in bed and for some reason I was automatically drawn to the Solar Plexus to begin with. In the beginning there was a lot of resistance though, every time I tried to focus on myself lying there, its like something was trying to prevent me from 'zooming in' on myself. I also felt a lot of pressure in my stomach area, like a big knot. In the end I think it may have worked because I started to feel really good all of a sudden. However, afterwards when I tried to move on to the other chakras, it was like I couldn't connect anymore and I'm not sure whether that's because there was nothing to cleanse or if it was because of something else (something wrong with my visualization perhaps).

Hope someone can help me out.

[ScottS]

Originally Posted by mind-energy

You should be able to see where the chakras are using a pendulum.
Take a pendulum in your hand and lower it so it becomes between your legs, centered with the body, close to it. Start lifting it bit by bit and wait several seconds. The pendulums should spin where your chakras are. The stronger the chakra, the more it should spin.

How is this different from the ideomotor effect?

[Erin Pavlina]

Kimberly, I have done work on one chakra, like my heart chakra or throat chakra, on numerous occasions. You can definitely isolate and work on one.

Going from bottom to top allows you to raise your vibration as you go.

[qiflow]

What is the distinction between clear chakras (no gunk), and open chakras? Is a clear chakra necessarily open, and is an open chakra necessarily clear? Thanks!

[Anagogy]

One thing that has always perplexed me about chakras, and hopefully someone can answer this for me, because I haven't found any satisfactory answers to date; why is it necessary for centers that are allegedly non-physical in nature, to have physical locators?

For example, why is the "root" chakra at the base of the spine rather than the solar plexus? Or, why is the "third eye" chakra not where the "brow" chakra should be? Would an alien that had a completely different set up of organs have a different arrangement of chakras? Apparently they have SOME sort of connection with the physical body, else why would the "sexual chakra" be right where the genitals are? Or how about invertabrates -- what would their chakra system look like? Would they still have seven?

As you can see, I have alot of questions about chakras. I think there is something to them, but from what I've seen, they appear to be a little understood phenomena. If someone has any of these answers, please share them with me. I'm very curious. PM me if you like, or just post it in this thread. I want to understand. I get somewhat tired of people religiously quoting their functions without explaining why they exist in accordance with the how. I would be especially interested in hearing what individuals who have conscious connections to the ethereal or nonphysical world have to say, posing these questions to their various sources.

[ethereal]

From what I've read...

Physical reality is only one small portion of a larger spiritual reality... a good analogy is that we can only see the visible light spectrum, but light itself can take many different frequencies, and they are all happening at the same place and time but we just don't notice them. This is likewise true -- the astral/celestial realms are theoretically "here", but we don't perceive them, it's as if it's another dimension that we can't see, i.e. 5D.

The physical chakras roughly correlate with the actual chakras in the etheric and causal bodies, in 5D you could say. The physical reality is just the appearance of what really goes on in other realms -- the "eyes" and the "brain" actually don't see anything, it is consciousness itself that sees. An easy proof of this is that your sight stays with you when you are OOBE or astral projecting. The physical body and its chakras are just the effects of a greater spiritual reality.

So anyway, things are just the way they are, especially in the physical world. To answer your question, it's the other way around -- it's the physical body that has some sort of connection with the nonphysical bodies and world Seeking for answers here in the world of effects probably won't do too much good It's all we have to work with, but we can recognize its limitations and work around them with faith and personal experience.

[Anagogy]

Originally Posted by ethereal

From what I've read...

Physical reality is only one small portion of a larger spiritual reality... a good analogy is that we can only see the visible light spectrum, but light itself can take many different frequencies, and they are all happening at the same place and time but we just don't notice them. This is likewise true -- the astral/celestial realms are theoretically "here", but we don't perceive them, it's as if it's another dimension that we can't see, i.e. 5D.

The physical chakras roughly correlate with the actual chakras in the etheric and causal bodies, in 5D you could say. The physical reality is just the appearance of what really goes on in other realms -- the "eyes" and the "brain" actually don't see anything, it is consciousness itself that sees. An easy proof of this is that your sight stays with you when you are OOBE or astral projecting. The physical body and its chakras are just the effects of a greater spiritual reality.

So anyway, things are just the way they are, especially in the physical world. To answer your question, it's the other way around -- it's the physical body that has some sort of connection with the nonphysical bodies and world Seeking for answers here in the world of effects probably won't do too much good It's all we have to work with, but we can recognize its limitations and work around them with faith and personal experience.

That is originally what I came to believe. That the "locations" were simply a manifestation of "higher activity". Sort of akin to how you might say that a bird doesn't fly because it has wings -- it has wings because it flies. It is the incarnation of "birdness", just like we are incarnation of "humaness". The only problem I have with this concept is when it comes to relating it to some things involving the chakra system. For example, emotions are said to emanate from the heart chakra, yet, in my experience, my emotions are not localized to my heart region as far as I can percieve. I feel them reverberate through my entire being. Same goes for say, my sense of security and survival, said to be located in my root chakra, yet for me, in experience, my sense of security and survival is a purely mental construct that doesn't feel localized to the base of my vertabrae. Or the communication center at the throat. If it was in fact a manifestation of a higher vibratory form maker for communication, why localize in the throat area? One would tend to conclude that telepathy is the most sensible way to communicate in the inter-life.

I guess my problem really extends from the fact that I have always felt that location was part of the illusion. I expect illusions to dissolve the more "form" I shed, so to speak. So the concept of non-physical "form" perplexes me. In stripping away illusions, I find myself wondering as to the actual reality (or un-reality) of chakras. Certainly many people report experiences involving the existence of chakras. Who am I to discount their experience? But if these chakras do represent certain spiritual and physical aspects of our beings, one would still wonder if it would be more efficacious to work on the aspects the energy centers represent, rather than the centers themselves.

For example, if my sexual center were unbalanced, I would search myself to figure out what the imbalance was caused by rather than visualizing the activity as a color at a certain locator along my spine. I guess I'm really on a quest to find out which is more efficacious to change. Certainly I find the notions of energy, chakras, and kundalini fascinating, but I have many reservations. Maybe when I become more clairvoyantly aware, I will percieve something regarding these chakras that will reveal the answers I seek, who knows. I guess I'll just keep experimenting until then.

[Lallymac]

When I was teaching aura classes a friend of mine who was a Reiki Master said that his new iniates chakras stood out 'like dogs balls' (kiwi expression) or traffic lights. I got him to invite them along to my class periodically and they really do. They were very easy for my less able students to see. Are the only times I've seen them so clearly and all lit up in a row. Pets chakras are easy to practice on seeing if they're sleeping.
Lallymac

[Lallymac]

The 'Magic Eye' 3D imagry books or pictures are good to practice with. The process of softening and blurring your vision is the same. Auras are easier to see in a twilight or half light setting. The auras of trees are quite easy to see just as the suns setting and the colours are usually full and bright. Casually hold a soft focus just past the outline of the trees against the sky.
lallymac

[Natasha]

As someone who would not consider myself at all "in tune" with spirituality or all that stuff, I found it interesting that I have been feeling certain negative feelings in the solar plexus area (navel to low-mid chest). When I looked at the chakra list on Erin's blog the problems and negative feelings I have been experiencing correspond to the Yellow/Solar Plexus Chakra.

[run_fly]

"If you are empathic or psychic, you may be attracting other people’s emotions and issues to you like a magnet. Other people’s issues might stick to you because you don’t release them, and that can cause your chakras to get a little clogged as well. There is no earthly reason to carry around someone else’s burdens or pain. You’re just gumming up your own system."

Is there a way to stop other people's emotions and issues from ever going into you in the first place? when I am around certain people I feel negative energy in my right chest and it's strong... It's almost umbearable and I need to get away from them ASAP. It happens every time I encounter them and for the time being I must encounter them every day.

[Erin Pavlina]

Run Fly: Before you encounter those people again imagine a mirror over your chest, blocking their energy from hitting you and reflecting back onto them or just going out into the air. Don't absorb it, let it bounce off of you. See what happens.

[rjeenah]

I have been doing this chakra cleaning exercises and I've felt much lighter, and suddenly developed more clarity. The only odd thing was that the instructions are to spin the chakras clockwise - and every time I do this they want to spin counter-clockwise, which I find interesting. I'm amazed how much this simple exercise makes a difference.