Hello everyone,
I have been practising Kundalini yoga and working on clearing my chakras. Can someone tell me please how I will know when I have opened my root chakra as I am very new to yoga? I realise it is not something to be rushed and that it could be a long process, but I would like to know how I will know when I am ready to progress to the next chakra and what to expect.
Many thanks
Sorry to disappoint you, but you need to examine your concepts of a “chakra”, “opening” and “clearing”. Chakra is not an organ and has no fixed location. Chakras belong to a subtle domain that is inaccessible to ordinary senses and hence requires unconventional perception. So, as a first step, give up your set ideas about chakras.
Meditate on another thing, a “word”. Spoken word, can you see it, catch it, store it? But how sure you are when you hear it. In reality, its a vibration pattern. Likewise, chakra is a vibration pattern of a special kind that creates centrifugal force. It is not known by itself, but known from ?what it does?.
?Opening? also need not mean anything conventional. Chakra being a force could be rejuvenated, streamlined. Its clearing could mean unclogging the channels that supply energy to a chakra.
Don?t [U]think[/U] chakras, [U]feel[/U] them.
Thanks for your reply which is much appreciated. I was already aware that a chakra is not an organ to be physically opened as such, perhaps I didn’t explain myself clearly.
I am new to yoga and was wondering what kind of feelings to expect and how I would know when I was ready to move on. Your comments are helpful, am I right in understanding that it cannot be described but you will just know when it happens?
Best wishes
it cannot be described but you will just know when it happens
You said it. Trust Ishvara, the inner guru.