Charging chakra?

[Razputin]

So I read that term for the first time, on here. I just called it charging your energy before

maybe some of you are like me and think that charging yourself up is s key thing to do before doing anything spiritual or maybe even physical (I like to fight. I'd love to try it out before a fight or friendly boxing match) it gets you focused and raises your energy...energy you can displace in things like projecting


so how do you charge your chakras?

[Timandra]

Personally I don't charge my chakras, but I found this link, perhaps you can use it.

http://www.spiritual.com.au/articles/healing/chakra-meditation-recharge.htm

[djed]

Hi Raz, When we work on chakras it is mostly unblocking or opening the chakra.
Although Rob Bruce has a technique of raising energy by sweeping, with the mind, from the feet to the crown and 'storing' energy in  the sub-naval chakra.
I think there is a difference between physical energy and the 'subtle energies' of the chakras.
It is the 'chi' in Taichi, and the cry a blackbelt judo or karate master will use in a throw, kick or punch.
You would still have to do your physical exercises to cleanse out the toxics from the muscles, but you might change the face of boxing Raz! 
cheers, djed

[Summerlander]

Chakras? I may partially subscribe to Hinduism (in a metaphorical sense, I won't go into this now) and Tibetan Buddhism but...I draw the line at Chakras. I don't do any work with them whatsoever. I induce my OOBEs from SP/VS...that's it. How can you guys talk about something that you don't even know exists for sure?

[Timandra]

How can you guys talk about something that you don't even know exists for sure?

A lot of people around the world do that. 

[Summerlander]

A lot of people around the world do that. 

You're right actually. Perhaps I should rephrase my post. How can you talk about something as though you are certain of its existence when there is absolutely no proof. It's a bloody concept. Nothing more.

[Dazino]

You're right actually. Perhaps I should rephrase my post. How can you talk about something as though you are certain of its existence when there is absolutely no proof. It's a bloody concept. Nothing more.

Because you can work with them, feel them, and experience them?

[CFTraveler]

Some people (including me, who didn't believe in them prior to this) have seen them in trance.  So I changed my mind about them.  What they're really for (besides the advertised stuff) I have no idea.  But I've seen them.

[Summerlander]

Because you can work with them, feel them, and experience them?

Erm...this is no proof. Not everything you feel and experience is real. The experience is very much subjective and what you feel could be illusory. The same goes to Chi energy. I could hypnotise you into such a suggestive state of mind as to make you believe that you are feeling your Chakras. Hell, I could even make you believe you are naked when you are clothed.

Some people (including me, who didn't believe in them prior to this) have seen them in trance.  So I changed my mind about them.  What they're really for (besides the advertised stuff) I have no idea.  But I've seen them.

Oh yeah...I almost missed this. You've seen them you've felt them big deal...this is not proof. Hallucinations, active imagination and the feeling of being energised could be due to the release of neurotransmitters/hormones in the body like endorphins, serotonin, norepinephrine, or gamma-Aminobutyric acid. All very much PHYSICAL and REAL!

[Xanth]

I'm a firm "believer" in energy centers... definitely.

I'm also a firm believer that doing anything with them won't increase your chances of successfully projecting.

Successfully projecting has more to do with simply disassociating your consciousness from this physical reality... not anything to do with "energy".  It's all about focus.

[Summerlander]

I believe in the spinal cord sending signals from the brain to the body and vice versa. I have not seen nor felt any evidence of Chakras. I also believe that our true nature is an empty awareness, intrinsically free of concepts. I also SUSPECT that the metaphysical realm is an extention of this reality which dwells beyond ultrasonic frequencies i.e. the realm of thoughts. As for Chakras, I'm sorry, I can't stomach them.

[Lexy]

The chakras are on the spine. Each major energy center with the most nerve endings  is the "chakra"....this is just an Indian word to describe the area. Everyone has these areas...so everyone has chakras. Anyway, just breathe in energy while you focus on each chakra..some people like to imagine white light or the color that is associated with each chakra like the colors in the rainbow. Red=first, orange=second, yellow=third, green=fourth, blue=fifth, indigo=sixth, purple or white=seventh.

[CFTraveler]

Oh yeah...I almost missed this. You've seen them you've felt them big deal...this is not proof. Hallucinations, active imagination and the feeling of being energised could be due to the release of neurotransmitters/hormones in the body like endorphins, serotonin, norepinephrine, or gamma-Aminobutyric acid. All very much PHYSICAL and REAL!

I'm talking about seeing them in someone else.  Before I was into this stuff (knew about it, but wasn't 'into it'-yet).  My hubby and I were meditating in the dark, I opened my eyes, and there they were, in their 'regular' places.  They lasted a little less than a second, and then my regular eyesight kicked in, and they went away.  I was very surprised, and wondered if that's why they were depicted the way they were.
However, there was no color, just a faint glow.

[steveo233]

I can see chakras with my own eyes, spinning and pulsating. I am a concrete believer in chakras. I can see them especially well when meditating and practicing telekinesis

[Dazino]

Erm...this is no proof. Not everything you feel and experience is real. The experience is very much subjective and what you feel could be illusory. The same goes to Chi energy. I could hypnotise you into such a suggestive state of mind as to make you believe that you are feeling your Chakras. Hell, I could even make you believe you are naked when you are clothed.

Oh yeah...I almost missed this. You've seen them you've felt them big deal...this is not proof. Hallucinations, active imagination and the feeling of being energised could be due to the release of neurotransmitters/hormones in the body like endorphins, serotonin, norepinephrine, or gamma-Aminobutyric acid. All very much PHYSICAL and REAL!

I think your kind of an butt, but I don't dislike you. ^ ^

Well, if that is the case, if I can experience it, feel it, see it, everything else, what makes it different from objective things? I can feel and experience them.....whats your reasoning here, ya madman? 

Hallucinations? From hundreds of people who have practiced with this? I think your a closed-minded, open-minded person, summer.

[dotster]

Chakras? I may partially subscribe to Hinduism (in a metaphorical sense, I won't go into this now) and Tibetan Buddhism but...I draw the line at Chakras. I don't do any work with them whatsoever. I induce my OOBEs from SP/VS...that's it. How can you guys talk about something that you don't even know exists for sure?

You do realize that every question that you are asking about chakras could be asked about OOBE's correct? How can you prove that you in fact have had an OOBE? As you are someone who has had an OOBE, I'm sure that you can understand how difficult it would be to prove one, but you have experienced it and you know what it feels like and really that's all that's important is that you know what YOU believe. In fact since the concept of an "energy body" is incorporated throughout many religions, I think it would be safe to say that the idea of chakras and energy is more widely accepted around the world than OOBEs. I'm not confirming or denying the existence of anything, just merely stating that if someone else has seen/felt/heard/tasted/touched(<--- experienced) something that you never have, who are you to say that it wasn't real (if you can even describe real)? And at that, why does it matter? Why can't we just share ideas and theories without negativity? Keep in mind that reality at it's most core element is just a matter of perspective. We all have very different experiences on Earth and we all take different things away from those experiences. You shouldn't be asking yourself "why?", you should be asking yourself "what if?"

[Summerlander]

I've had an OOBE yes. An out-of-body EXPERIENCE. Note that the term is not absolute. It is the EXPERIENCE of getting "out of your body" which could still be in your brain considering the myriad neurons and synaptic connections it contains.

I know I have the experience. Sure. But I don't claim to know for sure that what I experience is really my spirit leaving the body and not an illusion concocted by brain. I've had my fair share of "validations" too, sure. These altered states of consciousness have seemingly provided evidence of telepathy, precognition, retro-cognition, genuine contact with the deceased, accurate autoscopy etc. etc.

But I also have to take into account the nature of coincidences and curious aspects of the subconscious mind such as cryptomnesia (look it up if you are not familiar with this). We know more than we think we know and there are other more mundane explanations one must consider instead of jumping to fanciful conclusions.

@ Dazino:

Yes, mate! I could be an butt. And just open to all sorts of possibilities. But closed to chakras at the moment.

@ everyone:

Seeing Chakras is not proof. It's the same with seeing auras. Funny things can be seen from induced eye burn or partial scotoma (an alteration in the field of vision which may undermine visual acuity). Seeing is not believing. Oh no it's not. You guys know how vision works, right?

[CFTraveler]

@ everyone:

Seeing Chakras is not proof. It's the same with seeing auras. Funny things can be seen from induced eye burn or partial scotoma (an alteration in the field of vision which may undermine visual acuity). Seeing is not believing. Oh no it's not. You guys know how vision works, right?

Yes, and as someone who actually gets migraines with scotoma, I know this is not what I saw- I mean, I saw the ones from crown all the way down to the navel area, in line, just as depicted.  The only reason I don't 'believe' in them in the religious sense is that I know that I could have been in trance and influenced by illustrations I have seen before.  But by golly, they looked really convincing, and glowy, and not like flowers or with colors and any of that other stuff.
So instead of thinking they are creations of someone's imagination, I know think they're something.  What?  I don't know.  But they're something.

[Summerlander]

What method did you use to see them. By the way, I respect that statement. Very honest of you.

[djed]

Quoted by Summerlander .

Erm...this is no proof. Not everything you feel and experience is real. The experience is very much subjective and what you feel could be illusory.

Subjective objective.
Astral projection is subjective,
but because we recognise other peoples' accounts as very similar to our own, it gains an objectivity.
In the same way I recognise others' description of chakras, (or energy centers as called by non-hindu practices), they gain objectivity.
Probably these nerve/energy centers are recognised by medical science, but would need citation for that theory.
Cheers, djed

[Summerlander]

but because we recognise other peoples' accounts as very similar to our own, it gains an objectivity.

The reason why we have similar experiences could still be due to that fact that we all have a brain...thus, because you have a human brain like me, we share similar experiences. Why overlook this hypothesis?

[CFTraveler]

What method did you use to see them. By the way, I respect that statement. Very honest of you.

Well, it was late at night, and our young'un was sleeping, so instead of having sex we got up, sat in the back room in a crosslegged position across from each other (front to front) and began to do energy work (a guided meditation that I led, since it's my thing, lol), and when some time passed, I opened my eyes, and *bam*, there they were, all glowy-green-beige, for a split second.  Then they went out like when you turn off an infrared light and see it go out slowly (for those of you that have red lights in your bathroom) and then my vision was normal and he looked normal.  He didn't see anything, I suspect he dozed off.

Since it was in my pre-training days it was basically breathing and centering exercises, which is what I used to do before I learned NEW.

[Summerlander]

Could it have been a hypnagogic hallucination? The imagery, could it have been manifested from expectation on an unconscious level? You must have read about Chakkras prior to that experience surely. Can you walk me through exactly what you did in minute detail? Please do it.

[Tee1234]

Chakras? I may partially subscribe to Hinduism (in a metaphorical sense, I won't go into this now) and Tibetan Buddhism but...I draw the line at Chakras. I don't do any work with them whatsoever. I induce my OOBEs from SP/VS...that's it. How can you guys talk about something that you don't even know exists for sure?

What do u mean? Are you sayn you dont believe in a practice or that you dont believe in chakras all together?

[Summerlander]

What do u mean? Are you sayn you dont believe in a practice or that you dont believe in chakras all together?

I don't believe in Chakkras altogether. Also, the gods in Hinduism are symbolic to me. They simply represent forces of nature. Nothing else. Anyway, can anyone tell exactly what you do in order to experience these so-called Chakras? I don't doubt that you guys experience anything. I'm just not convinced that what you guys experience is Chakras.