Counting Chakras
In the Sanskrit Traditions they would provide 'seed sounds' for each chakra. You could memorize them and it would help energize the chakras by reciting the seed sounds.
When I became Catholic I started innovating little prayers for each chakra.
Still I never quite fell out of the habit of numbering the chakras, and then one day found out that simply by counting up the numbers, it would do the same thing as the prayers or the Seed Sounds. It is horribly sacrilegious to suppose that anything so plain and dry can be as effective as something with so many esoteric frills, but the Truth is sometimes surprising that way.
Try it. However many Chakras you think there are, sit in meditation and just count up from 1 to whatever terminal number you would like and feel the energy follow.
I do twelve, which counts three Chakras up over the head (Moon, Sun and Cosmic Chakras).
Also, there are 24 Vertebrae. So to take the Energy up the spine, count up from one to 24 and you will feel the energy go up the spine to that swivel point in the head.
in my case, thinking of particular area activates all chakras present there
thinking about my body ...
saves time
Quote from: daem0nin my case, thinking of particular area activates all chakras present there
thinking about my body ...
saves time
Somehow it seem that counting makes it easier... maybe in an elementary way, the way a child thinks it is easier to trace along with his finger as he reads. But, yes, I can use my pure attention to open the chakras, but, as you say, it requires 'thinking' or focusing. To me, 'thinking' is like flexing and flexing is like work. Counting seems to get the job done with less work... Or the work simply seems easier because I have found a way to vary it.
But I do agree with you that it amounts to nothing more than another way of 'skinning the cat'. I was tossing it out there just in case it could be the one technique that could be the final straw for somebody catching on to something. For instance, when I was learning how to fly airplanes more than a half a century ago, I was good enough to pass through the system but it was still hectic for me to land the things. Then during night flight training, with the landing light on throwing a long beam of light out from the front of the plane, I was provided a geometric picture of exactly what I was doing and suddenly had a satori experience which crytalized all of my flying abilities and from then on could quite easily pounce airplanes down right on the Runway Numbers everytime. So you never know what conceptual parallel might help some Newbee finally 'get it'.