What Is Your Power Chakra? Options

We all have at least one chakra that is more easily opened than others and can draw a great deal of energy quite quickly from it. In my case, my solar plexus, brow, and crown chakras are all like this, but my brow chakra takes the lead a little in how quickly it opens. It opens in seconds when I think about that spot and it is highly pleasurable once open (it's like a high and I'm almost laughing it feels so good). The effects stretch from my brow to almost my temples, and from above my hairline down to the bridge and sides of my nose, almost like a cross.

So what's your power chakra and what effects does it have on you once active?

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It seems that I will reread my source material.
Nicely articulated! I still have lingering arguments but... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/giveup.gif)

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It seems that I will reread my source material.
Nicely articulated! I still have lingering arguments but... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/giveup.gif)

By all means, I always love to hear either opposing or expanding perspectives.

I have read tons of material on chakras, starting with new agey books on them, and eventually getting into the original sources, the vedic texts on the matter. The problem I had with those texts when I got to them, was that they don't speak plainly. They were intended to be read and interpreted by spiritual masters instructing their students. I wouldn't say that I didn't get anything from reading them, but I was left with a general rather vague theory of the energy centers. For instance, all nadis are said to radiate from the heart center. This suggests that the heart center is actually the 'power house' which transfers energy to the entire body. No where in the vedas are the chakras explained in relationship to one another in their interactions to produce changes or states of mind in the body - they are dealt with individually, as though they operate only individually.

Far be it for me to criticize the ancient illumined who first recorded their observations of the chakras and the energy bodies - but they either didn't write everything down, or it has been paraphrased so many times over the ages that the subtlties and specifics have been misplaced.

It gets even more confusing when the chakras are viewed from a higher dimensional perspective, beyond the physical body. We imagine them and even experience them as correlating to particular areas of the body, but from a different perspective outside of that physical shell, they are all extensions of a single point, like a sphere with cones pointing into it - on a higher level still, it's a single sphere, with various layers, in another perspective it's a single line that vibrates at different rates along the length of it. And these descriptions, without the vision behind them to illuminate them, would make no sense at all if I read them without that experience.

And I think that's how it is with the original texts. Everything is described in symbolism - the petals and seed sounds of the chakras represent their various qualities and the energies they process. Their color describes the 'tones' that they process, the images of the deities describe the various divine qualities that they give us access to, and so on, but nothing is described directly as it is, because it can't be.

I work as a massage therapist primarily, but a part of that in my private practice involves energy work for healing - it has always been my forte in the mystical artes, and while it came naturally to me, I have had a lot of training from teachers, non-physical entities of varying descriptions, and of course, good old fashion 'poke around till you get it'. I experiment a lot with my clients - never in a way that will harm them, and I set everything right before they leave! - on myself, on my willing but likely uninformed friends, and with my fellow students under my previous teachers. There is no better teacher than experience. If you 'plug' one chakra or another, it will cause an immediate response astrally, and that will cause a reliable, predictable set of responses in the rest of the bodies, first mental, then emotional, and if it gets that far, on the etheric and physical bodies. If you push it, you can cause reactions in the physical body as well.

All this just to say, I would agree that the various very old sources of material on the energy system are comprehensive in their way, and are excellent to understand the spiritual nature of that system, and to describe to us an existence that is not merely physical. However, a lot is left unsaid, personal experiences are not a part of those texts, and not in any language that the western psyche understands as practical material. A lot of books have been written since then, but one has to agree that almost all of them were written with a particular purpose in mind, and describe only a fraction still, of the entire field of knowledge that is available to the willing and able student.

I am always more than willing to hear and research other points of view on the energy body and how it works. For that matter, while most individuals will probably never actually put into practice any of the bits and peices i've put up on these forums, you ought not ever take anything you read to be the gospel in any case - you should always go out and see if your experience correlates. Everyone on the earth believed it to be flat at one point, if you'll recall, and they harbored no doubts that if you sailed far enough you'd fall off the edge. Those same people knew without a doubt that the sun spun around that flat earth, which was the center of creation. Even the Indian people believed it in their day, despite the countless illumined sages that litter their history like so many leaves in the autumn.

Only when we all get digging, experimenting, and recording can we find the common threads between out experiences and weed out the mistakes to find what's really true. Even in comparing texts, that thread can be rather thin. The more cooperation there is, the greater scope one has to review, and the more likely to find the truth of the matter.

peace