In Hinduism and its spiritual systems of yoga and in some related eastern cultures, as well as in some segments of the New Age movement -- and to some degree the distinctly different New Thought movement -- a chakra is thought to be an energy node in the human body. The word comes from the Sanskrit cakra चक्र meaning "wheel, circle", and sometimes also referring to the "wheel of life". The pronunciation of this word can be approximated in English by chuhkruh, with ch as in chart and both instances of a as in yoga (the commonly found pronunciatio ...

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Chakra, Chakra - Introduction, Chakra - The Seven Basic Chakras, Chakra - Origins and Development, Chakra - Chakras and the endocrine system, Chakra - Various models, Chakra - The Tantric Chakras, Chakra - Hesychastic centres of prayer, Chakra - Scientific basis, Chakra - References in Fiction, Chakra - Reference Material and Books

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Chakra, Chakra - Introduction, Chakra - The Seven Basic Chakras, Chakra - Origins and Development, Chakra - Chakras and the endocrine system, Chakra - Various models, Chakra - The Tantric Chakras, Chakra - Hesychastic centres of prayer, Chakra - Scientific basis, Chakra - References in Fiction, Chakra - Reference Material and Books

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Parallels have often been drawn, by supporters of the existence of chakras, 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, which secretes hormones to control the rest of the endocrine system, and also connects to the central nervous system via the hypothalamus. The thalamus is thought ...

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Chakra, Chakra - Introduction, Chakra - The Seven Basic Chakras, Chakra - Origins and Development, Chakra - Chakras and the endocrine system, Chakra - Various models, Chakra - The Tantric Chakras, Chakra - Hesychastic centres of prayer, Chakra - Scientific basis, Chakra - References in Fiction, Chakra - Reference Material and Books

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In Hinduism and its spiritual systems of yoga and in some related eastern cultures, as well as in some segments of the New Age movement -- and to some degree the distinctly different New Thought movement -- a chakra is thought to be an energy node in the human body. The word comes from the Sanskrit cakra चक्र meaning "wheel, circle", and sometimes also referring to the "wheel of life". The pronunciation of this word can be approximated ...

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Chakra - Introduction Chakra - The Seven Basic Chakras Chakra - Origins and Development Chakra - Chakras and the endocrine system Chakra - Various models
Chakra - The Tantric Chakras Chakra - Hesychastic centres of prayer
Chakra - Scientific basis Chakra - References in Fiction Chakra - Reference Material and Books

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Kundalini Yoga

Thus far our soul psychotherapy has drawn from universal spiritual principles of gratitude, forgiveness, poignant impermanence, and the like, while remaining largely within the precincts of conventional developmental theory. In this chapter I broaden our scope more toward the body by delving into the farther reaches of human development as is becoming known in the West under the heading of kundalini yoga.

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Kundalini Developmentalism

The different stages in kundalini and spiritual awakening.

Excerpt from Words From the Soul: Time, East/West Spirituality and Psychotherapeutic Narrative (pgs. 162-165) by (pgs. 162-165) by Stuart Sovatsky

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Some characteristic Symptoms of Awakened Kundalini

Some characteristic symptoms of the awakened kundalini are here given below from Mahayoga Vij�na, a treatise on the subject in Hindi by Shri Yog�nandji Mah�r�ja, the author�s revered guru. They are illustrative and by no means exhaustive:-

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The Subtle Bodies: The Yogic Anatomy of Human Potentialities

Through exceedingly detailed meditations over thousands of hours, the yogis determined that the human body is far more than a configuration of fleshy organs, bones, and fluids. Composed of five gradients or koshas, literally, "sheaths," with each one more interior and more subtle than the previous one, we are the actual "bridge" from the physical to the spiritual. Each sheath exerts a guiding intelligence over the next more dense sheath in the following order: the individual soul and causal body (jiva and anandamaya kosha), the reflective-intellectual body (vijnanamaya kosha), mental-emotional body (manomaya kosha), vital energy body (pranamaya kosha),and the physical body (annamaya kosha). Through this anatomy of increasingly interior bodies, yoga maps the emotionality and sentient capacities of the intimus itself and thus the way toward deepening our intimacy with one another and the world.

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Kundalini Awakening

Kundalini awakening or pranic awakening and its cross-tradition similars-the spontaneous spinal rockings known in Judaism as davening and in Sufisim as zikr; the "taken-over" gyrations of gospel "holy ghost" shaking and dancing and charismatic/pentacostal "mani-festations"; the Dionysian "revel"; Quakerism�s and Shakerism's autonomic quaking and shaking; Tai Chi guided by chi itself; the shamanic trance-dance; Buddhism�s and Raja-Yoga�s effortless "straight back" (uju-kaya) meditation; the yogically derived ecstatic belly-dance and Flamenco; and even the full-bodied, spontaneous Reichian "reflex"-literally embody the spiritual path.

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The long-developing, prepubescence ramping toward the kundalini spinal puberty is known as pranotthana ("intensified, uplifted life energy," perhaps emergent within cellular mitochondria). This is clearly the same force of quivering uprightness active in Quakerism, Shakerism, Judaic davening (torso-rocking prayer), charismatic Holy Ghost phenomena, the swaying zikr and whirling dervish of Islam, the quiverings of the Orthodox hesychast, the Goddess-worshipping circle dance, the Dionysian revel of the Greek mystery schools, the flowing movements of tai chi, the ecstatic shamanic dance, the yogically derived Andalusian flamenco, the Middle-Eastern belly dance, and the orgonic quivering-streamings of bioenergetics

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Chakras: A chakra is a spinning vortex of energy created within ourselves by the interpenetration of consciousness and the physical body. Through this combination, chakras become centers of activity for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life energies. Uniting the chakras is what we experience as the "self."

The word chakra comes from the Sanskrit word for "wheel" or "disk" and originated within the philosophy of the ancient yoga systems of India.

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Chakras:

Several psychic centers of power associated with different parts of the human body in Tantric systems of anatomy.

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chakra

a wheel or disc. See Sudarshana chakra.

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chakra

(literally, wheel): There are 7 energy centers called "Chakras" and they parallel the spine. Each chakra has certain qualities and associations. Refers to one of seven centers of consciousness suspended on the sushumna nerve through which the Kundalini rises.

The seven main chakras are located at the root base region (Muladhara), genital region (Svadhisthana), belly region (Manipura), heart region (Ana Hata), throat region (Vishudda), forehead region (Ajna), and the top of head (Sahasrara). There are also many other chakras located elsewhere throughout the body.

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CHAKRAS

the seven vital energy centers of the body. The chakras extend from the base of spine to the crown of head. Located in the rectal area, near the genitals, behind the navel, at the heart, at the neck, between the eyebrows, and on the crown of the head. Each chakra corresponds to certain colors, emotions, organs, nerve networks, and energies.

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ajna chakra: (Sanskrit) "Command wheel." The third-eye center. See: chakra.

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Chakra, or Chakra (Sanskrit). A spell. The disk of Vishnu, which served as a weapon; the wheel of the Zodiac, also the wheel of time, etc. With Vishnu, it was a symbol of divine authority. One of the sixty-five figures of the Sripada, or the mystic foot-print of Buddha which contains that number of symbolical figures. The Tchakra is used in mesmeric phenomena and other abnormal practices.

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ROOT CHAKRA - lowest energy center; sexual center. (NAD)

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CHAKRA COLORS –

1. Seven energy vortexes on the human body associate with a color.

• Crown - white.
• Forehead (3rd eye) - purple.
• Throat - blue.
• Chest - pink/green.
• Navel - yellow.
• Abdomen - orange.
• Groin - red.

Smaller vortexes are in the hands and feet.

2. “wheel”, spiritual energy center (Sanskrit)

1. Muladhara - base of spine
2. Svadhisthana - lower abdomen.
3. Manipura - navel
4. Anahata - heart
5. Visuddii - throat
6. Ajna - third eye
7. Sahasrara - crown of head (NAD)

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CHAKRAS: Seven major energy vortexes found in the human body. Each is usually associated with a color. They are: crown- white; third-eye- purple; throat- blue; chest- pink or green; navel- yellow; abdomen- orange; groin-red. Smaller vortexes are located in the hands and feet as well.

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