Looking for happiness? Balance your chakras. According to the Dalai Lama, your body is a God-given gift. By loving and appreciating your body you begin to walk the path to consciousness. Opening or balancing all your chakras is the key to that happiness.
Simply open your hands so that your chakras, the subtle whirling wheels, open out from the physical body to the aura or the ethereal, restoring balance and harmony to the body energy centres. The act clears the energy blocks and opens the meridians for free movement of life force through them. The body's energy circuit gets completed. This gentle experience provides healing - not only at the physical, mental and emotional levels - but also, gradually, it leads one to spiritual awakening.
Seven major chakras are located along the spinal column from the base to the top of the head in and around the body and dozens of minor chakras in the hands, feet and other body parts. The crown chakra - the entrance gate of life force energy - is located on the top and root chakra is at the base with the other five chakras, namely, third eye, throat, heart, solar plexus, and sacral plexus situated in between in that order.
Chakras manage your body's energy. They receive, assimilate and distribute energy to our energy centres. Malfunctioning of chakras triggered by negative thoughts and actions may restrict the movement of life force from one to the other centre and cause the energy system to go haywire. You could fall ill. So, tuning the chakras continually is vital for regular upkeep of physical, mental and emotional health.
Balancing chakras is central to our well-being. There are many ways to balance chakras. Meditation, yoga, aroma therapy, mudras, music, chanting or crystal healing are some examples. Often, individual chakras may get over or undercharged, throwing the system off balance.
The simple technique of inter-balancing chakras takes about 15 minutes to execute and all chakras - except the crown chakra - are manipulated in the process. The crown chakra gets automatically balanced. The practice is best done lying on a bed.
Lie down on your back and close your eyes. Place one hand on your forehead and the other on the root chakra. Keep your hands in this position till such time as equal vibration is felt in both palms, equal warmth observed and the energy is absorbed into the body for up to five minutes. Now move the hand from forehead to the throat and other hand from root to sacral plexus and balance the energy in this position till such time you feel the energy is absorbed or up to five minutes.
Finally, move the hand from throat to the heart chakra and the hand from sacral plexus to solar plexus. Allow the hands to rest in this position till you observe the energy is balanced or up to five minutes. Finish by bringing the hands together in a prayer position. However, in order to keep the chakras in a balanced state, it is helpful to repeat the act as frequently as convenient.
Blockages get cleared. At the physical level, balancing chakras reactivates the endocrine glands to resume secretion of hormones - so important for maintenance of good health. The immune system gets stabilised, manifestation of diseases stopped and detoxification process is accelerated. You can feel the radiance emanating from your body and mind and experience the bliss of joyful spirit.
The Dehra Dun-based writer is a Reiki Sensei.