Understanding the Hindu Chakras

The Seven Hindu Chakras

• Chakras are subtle energy bodies located within the spinal cord, housed within the innermost core of the Sushumna nadi, which is called the Brahma nadi.
• The core of the Sushumna nadi is considered a spiritual energy body, not a material energy body, and the chakras are often referred to as subtle in nature.

Chakra Functions

• Chakras govern significant aspects of our lives, and subtle energy medicine is largely based on chakra work.
• Each chakra has a specific purpose, emotional focus, and spiritual concern, which can help diagnose issues and create a healing plan.
• Chakras correspond to specific locations within the physical body and are related to particular endocrine organs.

Working with the Chakras

• Chakras can be used to diagnose problems and create a healing plan for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual concerns.
• Understanding the chakras can help:
  • Use physical symptoms to clarify emotional, mental, and spiritual components of an illness.
  • Trace emotional issues back to the development of a certain part of the body or to the age at which the issues originated.

The First Chakra (Tribal Chakra)

• The first chakra is located at the base of the spine and corresponds to the area where the body makes contact with the earth when seated in meditation.
• It grounds us in physical life and connects us to the groups that support our life.
• The energy content of the first chakra is tribal power, which includes group identity, group force, group willpower, and group belief patterns.
• The first chakra affects our sense of identity, belonging, and power, and is related to the physical body's connection to the earth.

Characteristics of the First Chakra

• Balanced energy: centered, grounded, healthy, fully alive, unlimited physical energy, manifesting abundance, master of oneself.
• Excessive energy: egotistic, domineering, greedy, addicted to wealth, indiscriminate use of sexual energy, nervous sexual energy.
• Deficient energy: lack of confidence, not grounded in physical reality, weak, can't achieve goals, self-destructive, feeling unloved or abandoned.
• Illnesses associated with the first chakra: chronic lower back pain, sciatica, varicose veins, rectal tumors/cancer, depression, immune-related disorders, constipation, diarrhea, urinary tract infections, cold hands/feet, kidney stones, irrational fears, financial problems.

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