In the first part, we examined manifestations of imbalance in the human energy system. Today, we will share information on restoring energy balance and a practice for balancing the chakras.
Comprehensive Work on the “Chakra Theme”
There are two main approaches in the work to restore energy balance.
The first is related to comprehensive work on the “chakra theme.” You refer to any description of the chakra system and independently determine the theme you need to work on.
For a better understanding, look at the examples of imbalance in specific chakras that we discussed in the previous material.
For instance, if your sexuality is suppressed, your sacral chakra suffers from a lack of energy. Then you turn to the appropriate tools (meditations, activations, books that expand your consciousness on this topic, and so on).
You must understand that you are facing comprehensive work, which will include:
- expanding consciousness (working through awareness) on the chosen topic, revisiting limiting beliefs in this area, and the like;
- uncovering and healing corresponding traumas (for example, if there were traumas in your life related to sex or violence, you will have to bring them out and heal them).
At each stage of the work, you apply the tools intended for that purpose.
Thus, this is comprehensive work that includes a multifaceted approach to a specific “chakra theme.” You will not be able to simply meditate or do an exercise and get an instant result.
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One of the basic methods is yoga for chakras, or kundalini yoga. This is a specially designed system of exercises aimed at achieving certain states of the energy system.
Example of working with the first chakra
Let’s consider a comprehensive work option for the first chakra (root chakra / muladhara).
Many people have a blocked root chakra. This chakra is responsible for survival and safety. Finances also fall under this category.
If a person has a block on the first chakra, they:
- are afraid to take a step forward and take action;
- have many other fears;
- measure their sense of security by the numbers in their bank account;
- evaluate themselves and their personal worth through the prism of external achievements (career growth, positions, status);
- constantly compare themselves to others (another person is successful, while I am a failure).
This state of the root chakra requires:
- layer-by-layer processing of all limiting beliefs and programs of the consciousness of poverty and lack;
- healing all traumas from past experiences;
- shifting the focus of attention from the outside (external) inward.
Such work cannot be done in one day.
Example of working with the solar plexus chakra and throat chakra
Let’s consider a comprehensive approach to working with energy using the example of shame. From an energetic perspective, everything related to shame is gathered in the solar plexus.
Imagine that you set a goal to work through the topic of shame. You have your own story, personal traumas (when your individuality was suppressed).
You must review this story (experience) and heal the traumas. After that, you begin to saturate your solar plexus with energy. In parallel, you audit your beliefs on the topic of manipura (shame).
It is important to understand that in this example, you cannot work only with the solar plexus chakra, because the throat chakra is automatically included in the comprehensive processing – according to the paired principle.
With the throat chakra, you apply the same scheme:
- healing traumas, reviewing your history (on the topic of vishuddha);
- balancing the energy;
- auditing the corresponding beliefs.
Ultimately, by focusing on two chakras, you will, one way or another, be forced to engage in balancing the entire system (that is, the other chakras as well).
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General energy system boost. Balancing the chakras
The second main approach to restoring energy balance consists of a general energy boost.
Such work requires attention and caution. Remember that imbalance implies both an excess and a deficit of energy.
Suppose a person talks incessantly, inappropriately, and because of this, they constantly end up in some awkward situations, sometimes even life-threatening. If, out of ignorance, they start activating the throat chakra, they could cause themselves even greater harm.
Principle of balancing the entire energy system
Where there is a deficit, you fill it with energy. As a result, from where there is an excess, energy gradually begins to flow out. This process is called balancing.
Thus, chakra balancing involves filling those centers that suffer from a lack of energy.
Filling weak centers leads to a natural outflow of energy from places where there is an excess.
Why overall energy balancing is important
To make your work more effective, include exercises for overall energy balancing in your practice, that is, balance the entire system as a whole.
This principle can be formulated as follows: let your energy system work at only 30%, but the whole system. The main thing is to avoid states like “70% at the top and 30% at the bottom.”
In life, such an imbalance can manifest as a person rejecting everything material in favor of the spiritual. As a result, a person chooses to be without money, not have a family, and for the sake of ascension goals.
In fact, this is not a spiritual choice, as there is no balance. Balance implies a connection between matter/the physical plane and the spiritual (the connection of “earth and sky”).
Choose “let it be only 30%, but everywhere” – that is, evenly in all energy centers. Give preference not to pumping, activation, and similar things, but to balancing.
Chakra gymnastics
One of the tools for balancing energy is chakra gymnastics. This is a breathing system where you breathe through the chakras.
The gymnastics is based on two main principles:
- you exhale into the energy centers, as a result of which vibration intensifies in them;
- you exhale with greater emphasis into those centers that are weakened.
During the gymnastics, you breathe through your heart (that is, you inhale through your heart). The heart is the unifying center – the point of balance. It is through it that energy alignment occurs.
Gymnastics algorithm:
You take a deep breath in through your heart and exhale through another center you are working with. Listen to the sensations in your body (whether there are sensations or not, what they are like).
You can successfully apply the simple principle of this gymnastics (inhale through the heart – exhale through another center) in various life situations.
For example, in a situation where you are scared or nervous, take several breaths in through your heart and out through your solar plexus.
This way, you will pump energy into the center of your solar power (the solar plexus center).
Or you have an important conversation ahead, your boss has called you on the carpet. You are frightened, doubtful, do not know what awaits you, lack confidence in yourself or the outcome of the situation.
By performing a series of inhalations and exhalations (heart – solar plexus), you add strength, confidence, and calmness to your solar center.
You can also use the gymnastics for diagnostics.
For instance, you have done a series of inhalations and exhalations and realized that nothing in your body responds, you feel nothing. This means there is a block in that particular center.
In such a case, you continue breathing into that center until your body gives you at least some signal.
You can conduct a primary diagnosis as follows (this is also the gymnastics algorithm itself):
- inhale through your heart and exhale through the first chakra (root), listen to the sensations;
- inhale through your heart and exhale through the second chakra (sacral), listen to the sensations;
and so on.
Repeat the cycle as needed.
For effective balancing, consider the following: if the body responds immediately, continue moving (breathing) through the centers further; if you do not feel any sensations, continue breathing more and more often into the place where the block is located.
On average, breathing exercises take 5-10 minutes. It is good to perform the exercises daily.
Each chakra corresponds to a certain level of consciousness. The project has a course called “Seven Keys of Mindfulness.” It includes work with the seven chakras. This course started about eight years ago.
At that time, many course participants admitted that when starting to work with the chakras, they initially did not feel any sensations in the body.
Only towards the end of the intensive work on the course (which previously lasted three weeks) did they begin to have their first sensations in the body.
Now things are somewhat easier with sensitivity. Project participants attend group meditations. The quality of the current energies has changed overall. The ability to feel is increasing.
Now it is much easier to return the body to its original ability to sense. If your body is completely “blocked,” start the practice with chakra exercises. It is easy to begin with this topic.
Your body gradually regains the ability to respond, and you begin to feel.
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Breathing Sequence When Performing Chakra Exercises
There is no mandatory order for the sequence of “breathing through” the chakras. This is a space for your creativity.
The options for the breathing sequence during the exercises can be completely different.
For example, you can:
- breathe from the first chakra (root) to the last (crown);
- in reverse order;
- breathe through chakra pairs;
- drive the energy flow upward from the heart;
- drive the energy flow downward from the heart;
- drive the flow upward through the feet, then through the first to the last chakra;
- conversely, drive the flow from top to bottom and release it through the feet;
- breathe in a selective sequence (according to your own need).
Practice experience will show you which sequence is preferable for you today. With experience, you may find that already at the inhalation stage (through the heart), you begin to feel where exactly it is better (you want) to direct the flow.
Watch the recording of the broadcast “How to Balance Your Chakras,” where we discussed chakra balancing issues in detail.
Paired Scheme of Chakra Communication
The chakra system is structured on the principle of communicating vessels. The following pairs of chakras are connected:
- first – seventh;
- second – sixth;
- third – fifth.
Chakras forming pairs are interconnected. For this reason, if you breathe into the solar plexus, you feel a response in the throat.
And conversely, if you breathe into the throat, it most often responds in the solar plexus.
What Else Influences the “Activation” of Energy Centers
The “activation” of energy centers also depends on a person’s occupation, temperament, natural inclinations, and the like.
For example, if you are a natural leader, it is important for you to:
- have a developed willpower, be able to lead others (manipura);
- be able to speak convincingly – convey your thoughts to others (vishuddha);
- feel (anahata – allows building relationships / svadhisthana – responsible for the ability to feel in general).
Accordingly, a person who has chosen the path of a leader goes through lessons related to these centers:
- vishuddha (throat) – learns to speak, place accents correctly, be an orator;
- svadhisthana (sacral) – learns to feel people, read their states;
- anahata (heart) – learns to attune to others’ feelings, interact from the heart;
- manipura (solar plexus center) – learns to manifest a volitional impulse, express individuality, act, lead others.
See also Radiant Chakras
An animated film about the structure of the energy system.
Is 100% chakra opening possible?
People who have at least one chakra working at 100% are practically nonexistent.
You can scan the state of a person’s aura, chakra system, determine their energy portrait using special measuring devices.
A person is not even capable of imagining what a 100% opened chakra is.
You constantly strive for unconditional love and worry because you cannot remain in that state every minute. Understand, humanity is not yet ready to live constantly in these vibrations.
For this reason, the feeling of happiness comes and goes, the feeling of love surges and fades. You are not yet ready for this – neither vibrationally nor physically.
You strive for spiritual tools that you are not yet fully capable of using, because your soul’s memory urges you to do so.
Write in the comments whether you use chakra gymnastics or other practices for balancing chakras!
P.S. If you have already mastered chakra gymnastics and want to go further and deeply study how your energy system works, we invite you to the online course “7 Keys of Awareness 2.0”.