We like to talk about activating chakras. The thought came to my head today: overactive chakras can be as bad as underactive. How do you figure out that they are balanced? Just a personal feelings of some other sings might arise?
I dont know how to figure out anything, LOL
Chakras are often called mini-brains and they are self-regulatory. Advanced Yogis use prana to concentrate and then rotate at a chakra (which is a position in the subtle astral body) to rejuvenate it, cleanse and sustain its energy. But, they can do this after gaining ability to perceive the chakras as clearly as the physical body is seen. Any overactivation would thus be averted.
In the initial phases of chakra-activation, muladhara and swadhisthana are reactivated as the fountains of energy. This energy when in ascendance, essentially helps in regaining balance of negative-positive polarities of other chakras. For example, manipura may have become totally negative, as a storehouse of animal instincts and fears. Anahata is half-positive and half negative. Sahsrara again is likely to be fully negative with saturation. At this stage, one has to be concerned more about balanced and concerted chakra activation.
Chakra activation is sometimes “over-activation” in relation to the purity and strength of the physical body functions associated with that chakra. Physical and astral bodies have to be in harmony to co-exist. A keen observation and meditation is necessary to guard against effects of chakra activation. But, to a great extent, initial chakra activation is more imagined than real.
[QUOTE=Brother Neil;37500]I dont know how to figure out anything, LOL[/QUOTE]
Why to make posts like that?
[QUOTE=Suhas Tambe;37524]Chakras are often called mini-brains and they are self-regulatory. Advanced Yogis use prana to concentrate and then rotate at a chakra (which is a position in the subtle astral body) to rejuvenate it, cleanse and sustain its energy. But, they can do this after gaining ability to perceive the chakras as clearly as the physical body is seen. Any overactivation would thus be averted.
In the initial phases of chakra-activation, muladhara and swadhisthana are reactivated as the fountains of energy. This energy when in ascendance, essentially helps in regaining balance of negative-positive polarities of other chakras. For example, manipura may have become totally negative, as a storehouse of animal instincts and fears. Anahata is half-positive and half negative. Sahsrara again is likely to be fully negative with saturation. At this stage, one has to be concerned more about balanced and concerted chakra activation.
Chakra activation is sometimes “over-activation” in relation to the purity and strength of the physical body functions associated with that chakra. Physical and astral bodies have to be in harmony to co-exist. A keen observation and meditation is necessary to guard against effects of chakra activation. But, to a great extent, initial chakra activation is more imagined than real.[/QUOTE]
Thank you for the post! So, how do I know that all chakras are balanced? Should it be some physical bode sensations or is it something on the other level sensations?
Thanks
[QUOTE=Brother Neil;37500]I dont know how to figure out anything, LOL[/QUOTE]
I like that answer… especially when we are talking about ‘balancing chakras’?!? Yoga just keeps getting weirder and weirder!
[QUOTE=YogiAdam;37570]I like that answer… especially when we are talking about ‘balancing chakras’?!? Yoga just keeps getting weirder and weirder![/QUOTE]
Well you are on a Yoga forum. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=omamana;37584]Well you are on a Yoga forum. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
I wish there was an Asana forum.
I don’t fully understand if and why my post was ridiculed by some of the contributors. But of course they have their freedom to opine.
Advanced pranayama (very much Yoga) does address chakras and vayus. I would separately (not in this light-hearted forum) quote the specific sutras that explain this. Suffice it to reiterate here that balancing and rejuvenating chakras is a fairly advanced practice. One needs to have reached that stage under the supervision of a guru.
[QUOTE=YogiAdam;37586]I wish there was an Asana forum.[/QUOTE]
Really? But most of your discussions and opinions are not about asana?
[QUOTE=omamana;37590]Really? But most of your discussions and opinions are not about asana?[/QUOTE]
Yeah exactly, cause if you look at all the current threads they are about God, Hinduism, Levitation, Chakras etc. Not much in the way of actual physical Yoga practice at the moment unfortunately.
[QUOTE=YogiAdam;37591]Yeah exactly, cause if you look at all the current threads they are about God, Hinduism, Levitation, Chakras etc. Not much in the way of actual physical Yoga practice at the moment unfortunately.[/QUOTE]
Then why do you participate?
Or why don’t you start asana related threads yourself? We post threads we are interested in, that’s all…each to their own as they say. 
Namaste CM,
I was taught by my teacher and in my teacher’s course that every asana has apart from the physical awareness also a spiritual awareness on one of the chakras. I was also taught that every asana has specific benefits on the physical level, but also on the spirirutal level i.e the chakras. I have found personally over the years that through asana and the various pranayamas we bring not only harmony and balance into our bodies, but at the same time if your asana sequencing is well balanced it will bring greater harmony and balance into the chakras system as well.
In his book [I][B]Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha[/B][/I], Swami Satyananda Saraswati describes at length the connection between each asana and the spiritual focus of the asana in the chakra it relates to.
I personally, and this is my truth only, do not believe in the notion of an underactive or overactive chakra, I believe our chakra system is self-regulatory and subconsciously we will do certain things to bring the balance and harmony back when there are energy disturbances.
[QUOTE=Pandara;37628]Namaste CM,
In his book [I][B]Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha[/B][/I], Swami Satyananda Saraswati describes at length the connection between each asana and the spiritual focus of the asana in the chakra it relates to.
I personally, and this is my truth only, do not believe in the notion of an underactive or overactive chakra, I believe our chakra system is self-regulatory and subconsciously we will do certain things to bring the balance and harmony back when there are energy disturbances.[/QUOTE]
Thank you, I was going to ask about a book:)
[QUOTE=Pandara;37628]
I personally, and this is my truth only, do not believe in the notion of an underactive or overactive chakra, I believe our chakra system is self-regulatory and subconsciously we will do certain things to bring the balance and harmony back when there are energy disturbances.[/QUOTE]
I don’t know much about chakras I must admit. But, my boyfriend just happen to have his chakras ‘balanced’ over the weekend, and the lady told him his chakras were already well balanced and in harmony, and he did nothing consciously to achieve this…so I think you might have a point.
[QUOTE=omamana;37593]Then why do you participate?
Or why don’t you start asana related threads yourself? We post threads we are interested in, that’s all…each to their own as they say. :D[/QUOTE]
I do start my own threads. I just started one earlier on training with Kettlebells for example. The reason I participate in the other threads is firstly because I have the same rights to my opinion as everyone else, and also because I see a lot of irrational concepts, like chakras, levitation, prana, enlightenment, astrology, elves, unicorns, santa claus etc. I don’t expect to change anyones views, but I certainly encourage others to put some thought into what it is they believe and why. Truth is at the heart of my philosophy, and being concerned with truth, I dearly value things like evidence, rational thought, and logical analysis. When I post something I hope to get people thinking, and maybe even sow a little seed.
This particular thread is about ‘chakra balancing’. So I would like to know what evidence do we even have for chakras. What does balancing chakras mean and how do we know. Did someone tell us or is their clear evidence to support the idea of chakras. I would hate to think that people just automatically except the idea of chakras cause some book says we have them, or the guy at the crystals shop told me about them. I think it’s intellectually lazy, and dishonest to just believe something without evidence, rational thought and logical analysis… does that make sense?
[QUOTE=Suhas Tambe;37589]I don’t fully understand if and why my post was ridiculed by some of the contributors. But of course they have their freedom to opine.
.[/QUOTE]
dont see where your post was ridiculed, unless you are speaking of another post on another topic
CITYMONK, sorry for that post
well from what ive read, you could look at a kundalini bbook, or another book and see what they say for each chakra and it will tell you what a balanced and unbalanced chakra brings. a couple of books that have descriptions, http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Kundalini-Yoga-Meditations-Bhajan/dp/1888029056/ref=sr_1_22?s=STORE&ie=UTF8&qid=1284510629&sr=1-22
http://www.amazon.com/Your-Life-Chakras-Kundalini-Meditations/dp/1888029013/ref=sr_1_24?s=STORE&ie=UTF8&qid=1284510629&sr=1-24
Namaste,
Chakras are simply pranic plexus points in the pranic body and regulate themselves. To understand what they are from a scientific point of view, they are quantum circuits.
Anybody who is truly rational knows that we are more than a physical body. Any scientist worthy of the title will tell you that the physical body is not really physical, it is vibrations of energy. The quantum physicist will go further and tell you that the body is actually a single node in an interconnected web across all of space-time(i.e., it is a wave function) The metaphysician will go even further and tell you the body is a mental thought form.
I see the materialist as very much the vertical equivalent of the flat-earther. The flat earther was horizonally limited in that he thought all of existence was just the earth and there was a dome above it on which the stars, sun and moon are suspended. The materialist is the same they see the material world as all of existence and in this material world somehow the mind is suspended. The flat-earther broke his horizontal limit when he realised the earth was a sphere orbitting the sun in a solar system which is one of trillions. Likewise, the materialist will break their vertical limit when they realise that there are other dimensions to existence and the mind exists in another dimension.
[QUOTE=Surya Deva;37664]I see the materialist as very much the vertical equivalent of the flat-earther. The flat earther was horizonally limited in that he thought all of existence was just the earth and there was a dome above it on which the stars, sun and moon are suspended. The materialist is the same they see the material world as all of existence and in this material world somehow the mind is suspended. The flat-earther broke his horizontal limit when he realised the earth was a sphere orbitting the sun in a solar system which is one of trillions. Likewise, the materialist will break their vertical limit when they realise that there are other dimensions to existence and the mind exists in another dimension.[/QUOTE]
is it ok for people to be a materialist?
[QUOTE=Brother Neil;37672]is it ok for people to be a materialist?[/QUOTE]
Is it ok for people to be flat-earthers?