7 chakras in human body pdf

A solid foundation embedded in firm soil will provide the stability you need to create a home filled with joy for years to come. The first chakra is comprised of whatever grounds you to stability in your life.

This includes your basic needs such as food, water, shelter, and safety, as well as your more emotional needs such as letting go of fear. When these needs are met, you feel grounded and safe, and tend to worry less day to day.

Physical imbalances can manifest as problems in the colon, with the bladder, with elimination, or with lower back, leg, or feet issues. In men, prostate problems might occur. Eating disorders may also be a sign of a root chakra imbalance. It is located above the pubic bone — below the navel — and encompasses the genital region and the hypogastric plexus. The focus of the sacral chakra is creativity.

As humans, it is part of our nature to create. When we use our creative energy — whether it is through cooking, baking, gardening, procreating, or even finding a new solution to an old problem — we are opening our second chakra. A balanced sacral chakra leads to feelings of wellness, abundance, pleasure, and joy. The Manipura chakra also controls metabolism and digestion. When you feel self-confident, have a strong sense of purpose, and are self-motivated, your third chakra is open and healthy.

Having clear goals, desires, and intentions allows you to move forward and achieve them. Each small step you take while honoring the larger intention helps to strengthen your third chakra. You can harness the power of Manipura to assert your will in a healthy way and achieve any goal you set out to accomplish. The digestive fire, called Agni, is also present in the third chakra — weak digestion may indicate a blockage.

It also rules the lymphatic system. When your heart chakra is open, you are flowing with love and compassion, you are quick to forgive, and you accept others and yourself. Physical imbalances may manifest as heart conditions, respiratory problems, or upper-back pain.

To be open and aligned in the fifth chakra is to speak, listen, and express yourself from a higher form of communication. Faith and understanding combine the essence of the Vishuddha chakra.

Work on the lower chakras will help prepare you for this level of communication. For example, when you align the first and second chakras, it helps with overcoming fear. Opening the third chakra helps you to feel your personal power and have the confidence to express yourself. Thyroid problems, a sore throat or stiff neck, and tooth and gum issues may also be a sign of fifth chakra imbalance. It encompasses the pituitary gland, eyes, head, and lower part of the brain. Ajna leads you to an inner knowledge that will guide you if you let it.

An open sixth chakra can enable expanded imagination, visualization, clairvoyance, telepathy, and lucid dreaming. With a blocked sixth chakra, only the mind, intellect, and ego are used in the decision-making process. When the third eye is open, however, the soul becomes involved as well. However, according to Sri Amit Ray, there are as many as all over the body.

In , Sri Amit Ray rediscovered the chakras in the human body based on his profound meditation experiences and the oral tradition [19, 20, 21]. He identified the names, locations and functions of all the chakras for the first time [21]. Scientifically, Ray linked the chakras with the glands, hormones, brain areas and neurons, neurotransmitters, brain-gut axis and the HPA axis.

Ray designed 21 chakra pathways for deep meditation [21]. They are designed to aid accuracy in meditation and the transmission of the healing energy and for the transformation of the soul. Neuropsychology of the Chakras Chakras are often linked to nerve centers, glands and major organs in the body, and each of the seven chakras is said to correlate with different abilities, expressions and types of health and psychological states of the mind.

Chakras balance two opposing forces. The balance between chakra excitation and chakra inhibition is crucial to healthy cognition and behavior. Glutamate and GABA are the two opposing neurotransmitters. When a brain dominated by glutamate would only be capable of exciting itself in repeated bursts of activity, conversely, a brain governed by GABA would only be capable of quiet and soft activities, with little synchronization necessary for meaningful communication between brain areas.

Healthy brain activity thrives in the middle area between these two extremes, where a balance between excitation and inhibition generates complex patterns of activity. Chakra Macrocosm and Microcosm In the framework of modern science: relativity or the physics of the extremely large is referred to as macrocosms. And the quantum mechanics or the physics of the extremely small is referred to as microcosms. According to the chakra system, in these two worlds and beyond, Shiva and Shakti are fully and eternally complete.

Shiva and Shakti are not separate; they are linked to each other as fire and heat [2]. Ray expressed that, Chakra system establishes a relationship between macrocosm and microcosm — inner world and outer world. He said that the ever-changing relationship between the two celestial poles is responsible for the constant flux of the universe and the life energy, in general — both in the inner world and in the outer world. When there is, too significant an imbalance, between Shiva and Shakti, in the external world, catastrophes can occur such as floods, droughts and plagues.

Similarly, in the micro world, if the chakras are imbalanced, you will feel a disturbance in the physical, mental and emotional world. Conclusion Chakra system will remain, a dominant force, not only in Indian spirituality but worldwide in positive psychology.

Chakra system is a path for inner revolution, and it is to drop all the religious beliefs, constraints, prejudices and create the space within that to conceive the infinite and timeless truth.

Revolution of the chakra system started long back, with the oral tradition, while maintaining exceptional accuracy of their knowledge across the generations.

Scientific studies for both the seven-chakra system and the Amit Ray's chakra system is crucial for modern positive psychology, neuropsychology and healing.

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