What you guys reach with chakras? really, not being ironic...do you feel different, is your life different due to chakkra stimulation?
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If you consider all of life a metaphor, which it is, consider any metaphor can fit the slot.
Really, any and everything you experience never leaves the realm of 'synapses in your brain'. Really, it's always just synapses firing off stimuli of metaphors in -reality-. Which when I say metaphor and that all of life is a metaphor, I mean that literally and to an extreme sense. Every light impulse your eyes take in is just a metaphor for -it-. Every vibration your ears perceive are just a metaphor for -it-. Every action or process you carry out is just a metaphor for -it-. What -it- is, it's the great euphemism for life. It's the firing of your synapses to produce ecstatic, fun, joy.
Now under the guise that everything is a metaphor consider for a moment. That even your job to attain wealth, relaxation, warmth, nourishment, in itself is a metaphor. That your significant other is yet another metaphor. Your loved one is not /literally/ love, it is literally firing the synapses of your brain, your loved one is just a very powerful metaphor for those firing of synapses. One that can fire them so damn well, so efficiently and of the same manner each time many people just call their significant other /love/, but in the most broken down sense, the loved one is still a metaphor for love. Everything is a metaphor for the great euphemism of life.
Metaphor, all reality is a metaphor and it is metaphor that controls everything you perceive.
So under this guise. What are chakra points? They are yet another metaphor, a great euphemism for life. But one I choose to use and incorporate into myself over all the other metaphors because. Within the metaphor of chakra points you have everything you need right there. Ground, support, base chakra, up to pure love, green chakra, up to mystical insight and wisdom, brow chakra. Plus all the other ones inbetween, then also, your connection to 'higher' on the top of your head.
Now some people go around making physiological charts of endogenous glands of the body, or doing some other justification. For me, the justification is merely that, the metaphor works. Which may sound absurd, "how can focusing on colors and energies in your body just work?". Well I would ask, considering that when you get right down to the basics, it's all just synapses firing in your brain, how is someone going to a job, someone skydiving etc. Any less of a metaphor for the great euphemism of life than chakras?
It's all just synapses firing. The difference being is, I've wired the synapses in my brain in a certain way through meta-programming (metaphor programming, read about Tim Leary and Anton Wilson) to create all feelings I want off metaphors my imagination creates. I do not need the metaphor of a loved one to feel love for all. I do not need the metaphor of the earth flying up at me at the speed of gravity to feel intensity. I don't need the metaphor of some God standing in front of me to get mystical insights. Since I'm so attuned to the metaphor of chakra points, since my brain is so wired to function off them, that I can just focus on them and get any feeling I want.
Of course though, don't misunderstand, that doesn't mean I don't wanna get up and go do awesome stuff. Quite the opposite really. I just know I don't always have to be doing this "some""thing" to get at having a sense of fulfillment.
If you wanna kick up the crazy a notch. You could start throwing in Quantum Theory and say by, observing quantum particles in yourself to be chakra points, then you will pull the chakra points into concressence. You can observe yourself in ways and develop that way. I personally believe any underlying 'energy' system of the body resides at the quantum level of our being. And going by currently evidenced Quantum Theory, observing quantum particles, makes those particles concrescent, existing. So observing chakra points in your quantum layer, your 'energy' layer/system. You may actually be, literally, manifesting energy controls in yourself. Which don't forget, we are quantum particles.
With all that in mind, I completely agree with volcomstone. Symbolism is a crutch it would be best to develop your own chakra model. Which is what I was sort of doing with this thread, I was wanting to hunt down as many different models of chakras as I can possibly find and see what similarities and differences they contain. Typically that helps me get to the core of myself. You know, sort of like, if you do this as well, I went around and studied every religion until I found my own personal one I've developed for myself.
Furthermore, with all that in mind, if you guys want a tip from my experience. When developing chakra points, just do meditations on merely observing them. Nothing more. Close your eyes, perceive your body with your minds eye, see the chakra system laid over you. Move your arms and body around in yogic ways, feeling there relation to chakras. Run your hands up and down your body, feeling more heat emanating from your chakra points. Maybe try to hear a resonating vibration. Pull in ALL your senses in observing the chakras in you. I don't know how you could smell or taste them, but if you figure out a way do it. Remember senses are all just manifestations of the same core sense 'feeling'. That in the base all perception intermingles into different and comes out in different senses, that our mind at its core is pure synaethsia. So observing the chakras with ALL senses will only help.
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