Primarily having their origins rooted in the Hindu belief system, the philosophy of chakras has seen movements in many modern religions and even yoga.
These energy centers are traditionally seen as either flowers or fans, radiating spiritual energy. More modern views see these energy centers as spheres or balls of energy.
Although there are several variations of the number of chakras located within the human spiritual body according to traditional texts, there are now seven primary energy centers that have been recognized as the most commonly accepted number of energy centers. These centers are:
* CROWN CHAKRA
Rests on the top of your head and is purple or violet. This chakra controls your connection with the Higher Self (or spirit). Many view this as your link to Divinity.
* THIRD EYE CHAKRA
This is the commonly recognized chakara. It is located in the center of the brow just an inch or so above the bridge of the nose and is viewed as an indigo or rich dark blue color. The Third Eye chakra is primarily associated with inner sight, or the mind's eye. A healthy Third Eye chakra is essential for clairvoyance.
* THROAT CHAKRA
Typically the Throat Chakra is located at the base of the jaw in the throat region of the body. This chakra controls communication and also imagination. It is seen as a light blue.
* HEART CHAKRA
The Heart Chakra is located in the center of the chest, just to the right of the heart, in alignment with your spine. It is seen as a bright green color and rules abundance, peace, prosperity and happiness.
* SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA
This chakra is easy to find because its center is at your solar plexus, the hard and round piece of bone at the base of your breastbone. It should be a bright yellow and it represents personal power, intuition and can also represent intellectual awareness.
* SACRAL CHAKRA
The Sacral Chakra is located approximately two inches below your belly button in alignment with your spine. When you fall in love, this is where you feel the butterflies. When you suffer personal loss, this is where you feel that pit in your stomach. This energy center is viewed as a bright orange and rules your center of emotional happiness.
* BASE CHAKRA
The Base Chakra rules things more in line with the physical including strength, courage, leadership, and material matters. This chakra is viewed as a bright red and is located at the base of your spine. It is easier for me to think of it at the bottom of my tailbone.
To tell you more about how I use these energy centers in my meditation, let me add some general information regarding their placement and their movement. It is important to see all of these chakras in perfect alignment of each other within the body. You should be able to draw an imaginary straight line through the center of each connecting them together.
Secondly, I see each of these energy centers as balls of energy about the size of a grapefruit. Although I have not read anything about their movement, I see them generally rotating counter-clockwise within me during my meditation.
The way to charge these chakras is simple. Visualize a beam of energy coming from up above you (Heaven, the Universal Consciousness, [insert your belief system here])and this beam of energy will pass through your Crown chakra, entering your body and passing through each of your chakras until it hits the Base Chakra.
Once this energy hits your Base Chakra, you should visualize the chakra being cleansed and turning a bright shiny red. Now I want you to think of a balloon filling with water. The more water you put into the balloon, the heavier it gets. I want you to visualize your Base Chakra remaining the same size, but becoming heavier with this energy from the beam of light, growing denser and stronger.
Once you have fully charged and cleared your Base Chakra, continue to visualize the beam of light from the Universe coming down through your Crown Chakra and down to your Base Chakra. Now visualize the excess energy that is no longer needed to charge the Base Chakra rising back up to your Sacral Chakra.
Now repeat the charging exercise with your Sacral Chakra that you did with your Base Chakra. Once it is heavy, clear and has a healthy orange color, move on to your Solar Plexus Chakra and so on and so forth.
Once you have reached your crown chakra and you have it fully cleared and charged, it is now time to center and ground your energy.
As we walk through the world in daily life, we leave little energy signatures of ourselves behind with the people we interact with and what we do. Visualize all the pieces of energy that you have left all over the place coming back to you from all directions.
As soon as these energy pieces meet your body, visualize the beam of light thrusting them all the way down through your body and then entering the ground beneath your butt (if you're sitting) or your feet if you are standing and creating deep roots going down into the Earth all the way to the center of the Earth's core.
Visualize all the negativity within your body being flushed out with it to the Earth's core and then burning up in the molten lava.
Now visualize the excess energy coming through your Crown Chakra filling up your body with white light and then creating a shield around your body that will protect you from negativity.
You can then visualize negativity as red beams that bounce off this shield and are deflected. Good things, positive energy should be visualized as blue and should pass easily through this shield to your body.
Now allow that shield to close off that connection of spiritual energy that is entering into your Crown Chakra and then visualizing that beam of spiritual energy receding from you now that you are completely charged, centered, grounded and protected. You are now ready to meditate, contemplate and commune with Spirit so that you can grown and learn.
This is my meditation I start each day with and I hope it serves you well and I hope it explains what a chakra is and how important they can be on your spiritual journey.
Source: thelema-and-faith.blogspot.com