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Chariss K. Walker, Author
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Category:
Spirituality
Publisher: Create Space
ISBN-10: 1460985591
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 162
Copyright: Mar 3, 2011
ISBN-13: 9781460985595
Price: $3.96 (eBook)
A color-illustrated guide to understanding your chakras, your personal energy wheels.
Color illustrated, Chakra Basics is the first step in understanding your personal energy wheels. This book has it all whether you are a beginner or advanced in chakra work. You will find fundamental and basic concepts about chakras that will enhance your personal and spiritual growth. This is the book you have been waiting for. Color illustrations to help guide your understanding of chakras and how they affect your daily life.
Chakra Basics discusses:
•Definition and use of chakras
•Emotional energy governed by chakras
•Blockages and imbalances
•Thought patterns that cause blockages
•Physical indications of a blocked chakra
•Healthy emotional chakras
•Exercises that promote chakra healing and continued health
•Meditation exercises
•And so much more!
Excerpt
Preface
This book is designed to teach more about the basic and fundamental uses of chakras, more about yourself, and more about living a conscious life.
If you have chosen this book to further your understanding about Chakras then you are aware that we are more than what we see in the mirror. We are multi-dimensional beings consisting of Body, Mind, and Spirit (or Soul).
The body is the physical shell for the soul and the mind. It acts from automatic responses signaled by the Mind or Central Nervous System (CNS). For example, as we learn to walk, we put one foot in front of the other until the body acquires the necessary skill and can use muscle memory to walk without thinking about it.
The mind can be classified as the brain or CNS – that part of us that experiences events and catalogues the emotional or thought reactions. The mind is like a computer. Life experiences, as well as the response to that experience, are programmed into the computer. We respond to these life experiences and events with automatic reactions (thoughts and feelings) for most of our lives. Each thought and feeling affects the energy of the chakras.
The spirit or soul is inside the physical shell of our body; however, it accesses the mind and all emotional and physical responses. The spirit is that part of us that has always lived – it has lived before and will continue to live forever. It is eternal. It is pure energy which cannot be destroyed or created; however, it can be affected by negative thought processes which cause disease and pain in the body. When the soul leaves the body, it retains the mind and body memories.
As you read and study about Chakras, you will discover how to better integrate the energy of body, mind, and soul into a more productive life-path.
A sound soul lives in a sound mind and body.
~~ Soul Eater
Introduction
The simple definition of chakras is “the energy wheels of the body.” The word Chakra (pronounced Shock-Ruh) actually comes from Sanskrit (the primary language of Hinduism and Buddhism) and means “wheels” or “turning.”
The wheels are constantly turning and supplying energy to our entire being. It is through the chakras that we receive and download Universal wisdom and intelligence which is consistently flowing into us from the source. This connection to the divine is always there but if we pollute our energy with negativity and pessimism the flow of information can become restricted and blocked. When this flow of wisdom is stunted, it is because our chakras have become clouded, darkened, or stagnated by the energy of our own negative thoughts and emotions and the negativity of the people around us.
Consider a clear stream that flows unhampered to the ocean. The water is clean and fresh. It flows joyfully along its path every day. One day, someone decides to dump his or her garbage on the banks of this little stream. Then more people dump their garbage there. Eventually the fresh water becomes dirty. Over time, the rains and other natural events push the garbage out into the stream, and it becomes blocked. The fresh, clear water no longer has a free path to the ocean; it has in effect, become dammed-up with debris and garbage.
The same example can be applied to the chakras. The energy wheels are affected by the thoughts we hold closest, the thoughts we focus on most often, and the thoughts of others who influence us. An old saying that can be applied to the chakras as well as our daily lives is, “If you lay down with dogs you will get up with fleas.”
Thoughts become things; choose the good ones.
~~ Mike Dooley
It has been designed that we find strength and understanding from these energy vortices. The chakras are our clear and open channel or pathway with the divine. If the chakras be- come damaged or hindered by the garbage and debris of negativity, the pathway becomes like a clogged drain or polluted stream. This book will teach you how to reopen that channel.
A few things to keep in mind:
• Traditional Christian religious beliefs do not teach or encourage the study of chakras; however, Christian doctrine doesn’t prohibit their study either.
• When we desire more knowledge and spiritual awareness, the chakras begin to play a major role in awakening and fulfilling that desire.
• The chakras are our gifts. Unless we unwrap a gift and take it out of the box, it remains a mystery; it is unusable. Opening up the box and examining the gift is also insufficient. We must begin to utilize the gift(s) in order to realize the full potential and benefits.
• This book teaches how to use these gifts. As we work through each level of the chakras, we grow exponentially compared to a life of only studying texts and doctrines; we open to receive the enlightenment that has been supplied to us.
• Please use the notations and footnotes as referenced. Sometimes they are definitions and sometimes they provide additional insight or information that should be utilized.
• Chakra-work closely resembles self-analysis. As you work with the individual chakra, it will open to you; it opens your understanding and recall of past events and issues associated with that area, whether these issues have been resolved or not.
• The lists of thought patterns, physical indications, and healthy chakras are general and not inclusive – there are many situations that can cause the chakras to become imbalanced and blocked. These sections are merely to help you find the pattern.
• Although there are many chakras throughout the body, this book will expand on the seven major chakras that form a vertical line from the top of your head to the base of the spine.
• You will work with each chakra, one at a time, as you read through the book. At the end, in the last few chapters, you will use all of the information together in new activities. Working through the book as designed will allow you to easily accomplish the activities.
• In essence, you are teaching yourself from the in- formation in this book; it is similar to a correspondence course. I am your instructor through this book, but because I am not physically present as you do the work, I have presented the chakra-work and exercises in a way that you can do it alone if you follow the directions.
• Be sure to have a notebook and pen handy so you can make notes as you read about each chakra.
• Make the practices at the end of the chapters a morning ritual; do them every day.
I urge you to put in the effort and time to do the work as it is presented in this book. You will find many self-help tips and suggestions in the chapters. Doing the exercises in the order presented will provide you with a strong foundation for spiritual growth and reconnect you to the power and force of the Chakras—Your Connection to the Divine Source.
Love and light,
Chariss
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