3 Myths Of Chakra Healing You Should Know
Dr Raven Dolick M.s.D.
Apr 9, 2015
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Apr 9, 2015
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If you visit an upscale day spa, you might notice a "chakra balancing" treatment on the list of services. You may not be sure what your chakras were, or if they needed balancing, but it's definitely intriguing!
Reiki masters know how to work chakras with an astoundingly simple healing technique that is nothing short of miraculous.
But is that day spa worker actually a great Master?
Reiki masters know how to work chakras with an astoundingly simple healing technique that is nothing short of miraculous.
But is that day spa worker actually a great Master?
Maybe you have even had your chakras dowsed with a pendulum. Watching a crystal spin above your heart area is quite interesting, and it's not just a party trick.
I have hands-on experience with sensing chakras and helping my clients understand them. Allow me to give you a little insight before you slap down the cash for a treatment that you don't really know if you need.
I have hands-on experience with sensing chakras and helping my clients understand them. Allow me to give you a little insight before you slap down the cash for a treatment that you don't really know if you need.
Your chakra system consists of seven main energy centers, and actually there are many more, that reside along the spinal column. Although they are less dense in nature than tissue or bone, they are one of the major ways that your body receives energy from the Universal Energy Field and assimilates it for your use.
The energy centers govern many aspects of your physiology, including organ systems and psychological tendencies, and reflect the well-being of the individual. Each has a frequency, a color and a sound, moving in a clockwise direction.
I know it's weird to try to understand the nonphysical parts of you, so think of each chakra like a vortex or funnel, which is a few inches wide at the top, and the motion of this vortex pulls energy down the funnel and into the body.
There is a front and rear aspect for each chakra, and they extend into your energy field a few inches above the body on certain points along the spinal column.
The energy centers govern many aspects of your physiology, including organ systems and psychological tendencies, and reflect the well-being of the individual. Each has a frequency, a color and a sound, moving in a clockwise direction.
I know it's weird to try to understand the nonphysical parts of you, so think of each chakra like a vortex or funnel, which is a few inches wide at the top, and the motion of this vortex pulls energy down the funnel and into the body.
There is a front and rear aspect for each chakra, and they extend into your energy field a few inches above the body on certain points along the spinal column.
Myth #1 - Chakras are supposed to be balanced and perfect.
Many of the diagrams in books or online show the seven major chakras as they would be in an ideal world - in other words, perfect. They are all a similar shape, size and spin effortlessly with a colorful glow specific to each chakra.
We live in the real world and hopefully understand that nothing is actually perfect. The real world is quite messy, unpredictable and above all else, constantly changing. This is also how your chakras behave. They are flexible and responsive, adjusting to psychological and physical factors, which affect us every day.
Your chakras have a baseline that is generally unique to you and reflects your current emotional and physical patterns, but this baseline can change over time as you grow and change.
Insisting that your chakras always be "perfect" is not productive in the real world. It's important to honor where you are in your process and to encourage opening and stability, no matter how you measure up to a diagram or picture in a book. You are not a picture.
When you are on a healing table and a practitioner balances your chakras, he or she is imposing a mental ideal on your very real physiology.
They may not be respecting where you are in your process and might force your chakras to be more open than they are naturally capable of in that particular moment.
After the treatment, your chakra system probably won't be able to integrate and actually hold the work that they tried to impose on you. Consequently, your chakras will go back to where they were before the treatment and may be a little wonky for a bit.
Many of the diagrams in books or online show the seven major chakras as they would be in an ideal world - in other words, perfect. They are all a similar shape, size and spin effortlessly with a colorful glow specific to each chakra.
We live in the real world and hopefully understand that nothing is actually perfect. The real world is quite messy, unpredictable and above all else, constantly changing. This is also how your chakras behave. They are flexible and responsive, adjusting to psychological and physical factors, which affect us every day.
Your chakras have a baseline that is generally unique to you and reflects your current emotional and physical patterns, but this baseline can change over time as you grow and change.
Insisting that your chakras always be "perfect" is not productive in the real world. It's important to honor where you are in your process and to encourage opening and stability, no matter how you measure up to a diagram or picture in a book. You are not a picture.
When you are on a healing table and a practitioner balances your chakras, he or she is imposing a mental ideal on your very real physiology.
They may not be respecting where you are in your process and might force your chakras to be more open than they are naturally capable of in that particular moment.
After the treatment, your chakra system probably won't be able to integrate and actually hold the work that they tried to impose on you. Consequently, your chakras will go back to where they were before the treatment and may be a little wonky for a bit.
Myth #2 - Balancing my chakras will improve my health.
It might be easy to think that if my chakra system affects my organs, then I will be healthier if my chakras are perfect.
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. The chakras are actually evidence of where you are physically, emotionally and psychologically, and it is only by working on those issues that your chakras will shift and change.
Believe me, if there were a magic switch that could make you perfect, I'd turn it on for you, but true healing generally requires a shift in consciousness. Yeah, I said it. You have to be intimately involved in your own healing process to reap the rewards. No one can do it for you.
When you experience illness, it is your body calling out for you to pay attention. Honor it. Listen to it. The answers you need for your healing will come through your consciousness, not just your chakras. Get to know yourself, and you'll move through your own health issues, rather than giving that job to someone else.
It might be easy to think that if my chakra system affects my organs, then I will be healthier if my chakras are perfect.
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. The chakras are actually evidence of where you are physically, emotionally and psychologically, and it is only by working on those issues that your chakras will shift and change.
Believe me, if there were a magic switch that could make you perfect, I'd turn it on for you, but true healing generally requires a shift in consciousness. Yeah, I said it. You have to be intimately involved in your own healing process to reap the rewards. No one can do it for you.
When you experience illness, it is your body calling out for you to pay attention. Honor it. Listen to it. The answers you need for your healing will come through your consciousness, not just your chakras. Get to know yourself, and you'll move through your own health issues, rather than giving that job to someone else.
Myth #3 - I have no power over my chakras.
Most people think that they have no real authority over their physiology. We are constantly turning to experts to tell us what is wrong with us and how to fix it.
While there is much that a healer can do to help you understand where you are and to help you along the way, it is up to you to change the beliefs that are negatively affecting you.
There are lots of simple exercises, similar to many common yoga postures, which have been used for centuries to shift the psychological or physiological health of an area governed by a chakra.
Sometimes all it takes to shift a negative or unhealthy pattern is just giving it some positive attention and a concerted effort to move toward something healthier.
For instance, if you are experiencing a sluggish second chakra and not feeling that romantic spark toward your partner, having that chakra balanced will have some effect on your love life, but not as much as if you begin practicing something like belly dancing. Get that area moving for yourself and your chakras will respond in kind.
Another person can't change your life for you, especially if you have invested behaviors and beliefs in a particular issue for many years.
Actively working with your issues, however, will be positively reflected in your entire chakra system, and you will feel better on many levels.
Most people think that they have no real authority over their physiology. We are constantly turning to experts to tell us what is wrong with us and how to fix it.
While there is much that a healer can do to help you understand where you are and to help you along the way, it is up to you to change the beliefs that are negatively affecting you.
There are lots of simple exercises, similar to many common yoga postures, which have been used for centuries to shift the psychological or physiological health of an area governed by a chakra.
Sometimes all it takes to shift a negative or unhealthy pattern is just giving it some positive attention and a concerted effort to move toward something healthier.
For instance, if you are experiencing a sluggish second chakra and not feeling that romantic spark toward your partner, having that chakra balanced will have some effect on your love life, but not as much as if you begin practicing something like belly dancing. Get that area moving for yourself and your chakras will respond in kind.
Another person can't change your life for you, especially if you have invested behaviors and beliefs in a particular issue for many years.
Actively working with your issues, however, will be positively reflected in your entire chakra system, and you will feel better on many levels.
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