Abstract
The chakra system originated in India more than four thousand years ago. In the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, A chakra is a center of activity that receives, assimilates, and expresses life force energy. The word chakra literally translates as wheel or disk and refers to a spinning sphere of bioenergetic activity emanating from the major nerve ganglia branching forward from the spinal column. If the chakras are not balanced, or if the energies are blocked, the basic life force will be slowed down.
The major chakras are located along the spinal column of the body - starting at your perineum and going up to the top of your head at your crown. Each chakra is traditionally represented by a different color of the rainbow - starting with red at the bottom up to violet on the crown. Each chakra location represents different emotions and feelings. Chakras & the Endocrine System Supporters of the notion of chakras explain the lack of confirmation of their existence in Western medical science by noting that current technology is not capable of measuring life energy or chakras.
Parallels have often been drawn between the positions and functions of the chakras, and of the various organs of the endocrine system. The highest crown chakra is said to be the chakra of consciousness, the master chakra that controls all the others. Its role would be very similar to that of the pituitary gland, The Ajna Chakra, or third eye, is linked to the pineal gland. Ajna is the chakra of time and awareness and of light. The pineal gland is a light sensitive gland that produces the hormone melatonin, which regulates the instincts of going to sleep and awakening. The throat chakra, Vishuddha, is said to be related to communication and growth, growth being a form of expression. This chakra is paralleled to the thyroid, gland The heart chakra, Anahata, is related to love, It is related to the thymus, located in the chest. The solar plexus chakra, and Manipura, The sacral chakra, Swadhisthanna, The base chakra, Muludhara, is related to survival, excretion, and also to basic human potentiality. It is said the kundalini lies coiled here, ready to uncoil and bring man to his highest spiritual potential in the crown chakra. This centre is located in the region between the genitals and the anus. Although no endocrine organ is placed here, it is said to relate to the inner adrenal glands, the adrenal medulla. The Muladhara Chakra First, and the most basic, is muladhar - that’s why it is called muladhar: muladhar means the most fundamental, the basic. Mul means the basic, of the roots. The muladhar chakra is the centre concerned with sex. The Svadisthana Chakra The second chakra is svadisthan - that is the hara, the death centre The Manipura Chakra The third centre, manipura, is the centre of all your sentiments, emotions. The Anahata Chakra Then comes the fourth centre, the heart centre, called anahata. The word is beautiful, anahata means unstruck sound. The Visuddha Chakra The fifth centre is called visuddhi. Visuddhi means purity. It is located in the throat The Ajna Chakra And the sixth chakra is ajna - ajna means order. The Sahasrara Chakra The seventh is sahasrar. - sahasrar means one-thousand-petalled lotus. When your energy moves to the seventh, sahasrar, you become a lotus in full bloom.. |
