Heart Chakra Basics

Heart Chakra


This image was made with the intention to help your heart chakra, which is located at the center of the chest, including heart, lungs, breasts, thymus gland. Up to this point, the three chakras (Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus) govern the physical aspects of your person. The three chakras above the Heart Chakra (Throat, Brow, and Crown) deal with spiritual aspects of your person. The Heart Chakra connects the three above with the three below.

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts. - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts. - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf So imagine the color orange over this area extending through your body to your back. It could be orange light, an orange flower or lotus, this orange image, or whatever you come up with, just get the orange color there.

Heart Chakra (Anahata) has everything to do with love, compassion, joy, forgiveness, and acceptance, and thus the affirmation, "I love." Imbalances here show up as unresolved grief, holding grievances, jealousy, anger, negativity, betrayal, and hatred.

This is one way of working and maintaining balance with your chakras, by closing your eyes, taking deep breaths and imagining specific colors placed over or in your body along the specific main chakras.Whether you imagine a green light, a green whirligig, a green flower, put the green over your Heart Chakra while taking deep breaths, for as long as you feel you can. Of course this depends on your time or environment constraints.

Please remember there are many different ways and things to do to activate and balance your chakras. This is very basic information and I welcome more input here. I am learning, too! Please give yourself the opportunity to investigate online, or find a book, as this information here is very, very basic. But please don't be afraid of this! This could be invaluable to your physical and spiritual health.


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Solar Plexus Chakra Basics

This image was made with the intention to help your Solar Plexus Chakra, located above the navel over your solar plexus up to the breastbone. So imagine the color yellow over this area extending through your body to your back. It could be yellow light, a yellow flower or lotus, this yellow image, or whatever you come up with, just get the yellow color there.

Solar plexus or third chakra (Manipura) has everything to do with the perception of who you are, your personal power, being confident, responsible, reliable, your self-esteem, the power of transformation, inertia into action and movement, and thus the affirmation, "I do." Imbalances here show up as metabolism and digestion difficulties, emotional outbursts, feeling stressed out, being passive and inactive, having low self-esteem, difficulty making decisions, and having anger or control issues.


It is important to realize that the use of color and breath meditation are not the only ways to activate and balance your chakras. Activities that involve your senses or using things in your environment can also help, especially when used with your INTENTION to open and balance your chakras. Try wearing a yellow shirt or blouse, burning a yellow candle (this chakra is associated with the element of fire), wearing yellow earrings, carrying golden tigereye. Investigate other solar plexus chakra activities, specific yoga poses, or chants (RAM). Your intention is key here, as it is with so many other things. Intend to balance your chakras, specifically here, burn that yellow candle for instance, with the intention of balancing or activating your Solar Plexus Chakra, and it will be so.

More of the chakras coming up in future posts!
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Sacral Chakra Basics

This image was made with the intention to help your sacral chakra, located above the pubic bone and below your navel. So imagine the color orange over this area extending through your body to your back. It could be orange light, an orange flower or lotus, this orange image, or whatever you come up with, just get the orange color there.

Sacral chakra (Svadhisthana) has everything to do with being passionate, pleasure, feeling emotions, creativity, sensuality, and being in the moment, and thus the affirmation, "I feel." Imbalances here show up as fear of changes, sexual dysfunctions, bladder, kidney or bowel problems, disconnecting, as with addictions, or depression and feeling stuck.

It is important to realize that the use of color and meditation are not the only ways to activate and balance your chakras. Activities that involve your senses or using things in your environment can also help, especially when used with your intention to open and balance your chakras. The list is long, including crystals and stones, essential oils, candle therapy, yoga, dance, art, pendulums, water, earthing, chanting, sound... My goal here is to get you to think about your chakras, and start your own investigations. Whether you believe it or not, you embody this energy system, for lack of better words at the moment. This magic is in you, and could be affecting you more than you think! And you don't have to be a yoga guru to help yourself, you just have to be an expert on YOU.

More of the chakras coming up in future posts!
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~Leslie

Root Chakra Basics

Very basically, color therapy involves the sense of vision, but yet your eyes do not need to be open. You can take an image you have seen, maybe like this one, and close your eyes and still see it. That is your IMAGE-ination.

Some people believe they have no imagination, but I want to challenge that person. Have you ever seen the color red (never mind the image here for now)? If you close your eyes, can you imagine the color red, if even for an instant (before your mind wanders)?

This is one way of working and maintaining balance with your chakras, by closing your eyes, taking deep breaths and imagining specific colors placed over or in your body along the specific main chakras.
If you do this, you are meditating! This is energy work you can do in any moment of your life.

This image was made with the intention to help your root chakra, located at the base of your spine. So imagine the color red over the base of your spine coming through to the front of your body. It could be red light, a red lotus, this red image, or whatever you come up with, just get the red there.

Root chakra (Mulhadara) has everything to do with being grounded, feeling solid in your own physical body, and on the face of the Earth; feeling secure, as it is the location of your body's survival center, thus the words "I am." Imbalances here show up as fears, anxieties, or insecurities about basic needs (food, shelter, safety); pain at that spot or in your lower back, your legs or feet.

Red is the beginning, where you start. Up the spine, the colors correspond to the colors of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green/Pink, Blue, Indigo/Purple, Clear or white/Purple.

More posts on each Chakra are coming up SOON!
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Leslie

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Chakras Overview: What is a chakra, anyway?

Please note: There are numerous online valid resources for information about the chakras (613,000 results with a search on google.com for "basic overview of chakras." I encourage you to question and search as you see fit. This is not an indepth description, but I thought it might be useful to people who follow this blog for me to briefly explain about the chakras. I am not trying to rewrite the book. I will list a few key articles at the end of this post.
I plan on making this a series, as I do my own chakra work, including different tips and techniques as I go along. Please feel free to share about your own discoveries, what helps, what doesn't, and maybe we can all learn.

The word chakra means disc or wheel (Sanskrit, I believe). The idea is that there are seven discs of energy, seven main chakras, that align along the spine, from the base of your spine to the top of the head. This energy is the life spirit, life energy, or prana. Prana follows along meridians through the body (but that may be another discussion). Chakras can be envisioned as swirling wheels of energy at those different spots along the spine and body.

There are seven main chakras, and reportedly hundreds of chakras along the meridians on the human body. They have corresponding energies, and each are associated with specific colors, sounds, vibrations. (If you want, you can follow my Color Therapy Board on Pinterest.) Each chakra directs this life energy to specific parts of your body and being, including emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual aspects, and each chakra interacts with the world around you.


The reason the chakras are significant, is that the life energy in your body, your prana, needs to move and flow, in order for the whole of your body or self to function properly. Prana can get blocked at various levels, at these chakras, because of all kinds of influences. When your chakras are not functioning properly, there are blockages, energy is not flowing freely, the chakras are not balanced, and problems arise because of these blockages and imbalances. A blockage in one chakra can cause another chakra to overwork. When your chakras are open, unblocked, and balanced, then there is health and freely flowing life energy, in all aspects of self, your body, your being, including emotional, mental, physical and spiritual.

What causes blockages of prana? What causes the chakras to be blocked? The simple answer is just about anything. Remember, that chakras on your body interact with the world around you. Toxins in our environment, in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the food we eat, anything you put into your body; physical, emotional, spiritual damages or injuries, anything that happens to your self; overusing or over-doing in one aspect of our lives... anything that causes a disturbance in our daily lives. The importance in all of this is in achieving balance. The importance is in your intent to achieve a balance, your intent to pay attention to all the things going on with your self, to become aware of, and pay attention to, your chakras and energy system, and applying your attention to your inner self and prana.

Chakra names, locations, corresponding emotional, mental, and spiritual influences

The next blog post will focus on how to pay attention to your chakras, tests for chakra health, and depending on length, how to positively influence your chakras.

ONLINE RESOURCES:

http://www.chopra.com/ccl/what-is-a-chakra

http://chakraenergy.com/intro.html

http://www.eclecticenergies.com/chakras/introduction.php

http://www.the-energy-healing-site.com/chakra-blockages.html

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-13433/warning-signs-your-chakras-are-out-of-balance.html

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Perspective And Looking At The Sky

5:18 am.

That's when I woke up this morning. I didn't need to be up, and have no clue why I was up at this time. The clock on the bureau is covered up so that I won't have the tendency to watch it while laying in bed, but this morning I peeked as I went to the bathroom. I remembered about the meteor shower, and decided I was up for the day.

I have a few friends who cue me in to these things when they happen, the things in the sky that are taking place, like moon phases, meteor showers, planetary alignments. It all affects us somehow.

The Orionid Meteor Shower is the dust from Halley's Comet that is swinging around our little planet, apparently from October 2 to November 7, with the peak last night. Halley's Comet takes 76 years to come around (next visit 2061), but this shower is just the dust of it, as it hits the atmosphere. There is another meteor shower around May from Halley's, called the Eta Aquarids.

Got the coffee going and out the door I went. Not even the dogs wanted to be out yet.

When that moment hits you, you know it.

Stars galore. No hint of the sun yet, just me in my light blue bathrobe standing in the dark in my backyard.

HOW SMALL I AM.

Really, how very small.

I am but one tiny light blue dot on one tiny planet in one small galaxy. Sure, I am valid, I'm alive, I walk, talk, breathe, cry, laugh, hug, run to, and walk away. But in the Big Picture of things, I'm just little-ol'-light-blue-dot-me in this beyond-comprehension-huge picture.

This perspective shift has only happened a handful of times in my lifetime, and most of them were while standing at the ocean. Another night sky moment occurred in 1984, August, in Weare, NH. I had never seen a shooting star, and laid on my bed that night with my arms on the windowsill, resting my head, and witnessed the Perseid Meteor shower. That night I saw over 200 shooting stars in just over an hour, then I stopped counting.

It makes me think of Bigger Things, like God, and Creation, and The Wonder Of It All. How wondrous it all is, and how alive I felt right then, because even when I'm only a tiny light blue speck, I AM.  RIGHT NOW.

Most of our modern days here are spent in front of millions of dots or pixels, and I can't even pretend to understand it all, how electronics work. But I do know that when watching tv, or looking at my phone, or even typing here, if I did that for a million years, I would never catch the buzz I caught this morning in 15 minutes while standing outside.

I have a grandson and he is two. I want him to know about all the good stuff. I want him to experience it, and have the experience to fall back on, should he ever need it in his lifetime. I want people to remember the wonder of being in this moment right now. I want people to experience it, and I'm sure some of you do. Have you? I want to hear about it, because that's the good stuff.

These dots on this screen can not do it justice. Please go out and try to catch some of those shooting stars. Orionid lasts til November 7.

Even though I did NOT see a single one, I have had an amazing day.


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Reviving, Renewal and the New Moon

I find the rhythms of my life very interesting.

So it comes as no surprise that, since I have been thinking for the past few weeks about vamping up my blogging, that TODAY was the day that I actually got back on blogger, and started editing, and adding and moving things around, changing fonts, colors, adding widgets, trying to remember how to do things.

Today is a New Moon. For some that do not know, a New Moon is a time of beginnings. It is a time of taking a deep breath, setting intentions, beginning anew, or starting something new.

In the midst of all of my editing, I remembered today's New Moon, and had my "A-ha!" moment.

It has been quite a while since my last blog post. Really, a couple of years??!!! At this moment, I believe that I will keep the previous posts up, because it shows that I really was here a few years ago, and gives a little bit of indication about who I am. Those things that I wrote about back then are still all very valid, very real parts of who I am, and how I operate in life.

Keeping those posts up is also is part of my frugality. I don't want to waste my efforts. I remember writing those posts. It gives me a sense of validation to see them still there. Even if my life has had a bunch of twists and turns, I realize that every twist, and every turn, makes me into who I am at this moment.

And so today, I am reviving this blog, and renewing the commitment to myself. My journey has brought me here, back to this space on the big WWW, on this Earth, and I believe I have some good vibrations to share. I will be sharing about my life, and how I try to keep my own vibrations up, my belief system, my work, and even how I sometimes get lost and discouraged. My idea is that by sharing, I will help someone along in their own journey through life, and thus make this World a better place.

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