Do a Chakra work out part 2
written by Dr.Laxmi Iyer

Continuing with the chakras, in the last article, you may have noticed that at places, the word charka has popped up. It must be obvious to you that's a spelling error which has not been corrected. These inexcusable things happen even on the web!

I have been told by those in charge of hosting the site that once the text is up on the site, errors cannot be corrected. So, one learns to live with such things. Anyways to continue from where we left off last time...

The 7 major chakras are:
Muladhara, Svadhisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishudha, Ajna and Sahasrara

If you cannot get the spellings or pronounciations right, don't let that get in the way.

Just focus on the colour, location and the significance of each chakra's role in the physical body and your psychic body. By the way for those of you who are beginning to think that there are higher and lower chakras and some are more important than the others, forget that stuff.

All chakras are important including the base chakra or Muladhara. This is especially so, because let's face it we live in a 3 dimensional world where our physical existence appears to feel so distinctly real.

More important, what you need to remember is that since each chakra has a distinctive role to play in your spiritual evolution and the maintenance of a well functioning body and mind, please feed each one of them with spiritual energy.

One of the best ways to recharge your chakras is through by visualization. Mental imagery is powerful. Far more powerful than you can imagine.

Now, if you can use the chakra energiser for yourself and your pets everyday at least twice a day during the sunrise and the sunset hour, that would be fantastic.

During that period, before you place the chakra energiser on your body corresponding to the chakras, sit in a comfortable posture and concentrate on each colour and the corresponding region of the body where the chakra is present.

To say this very briefly, the Muladhara chakra has a key role to play in helping you to procreate and survive. The colour of this chakra is red.

Coming to the second chakra - the color associated with the Svadisthana chakra is orange and this chakra plays a vital role in ensure that you maintain good physical health and well being.

In the third chakra - the Manipura chakra whose colour is yellow is considered by many to be a powerful spiritual centre - a major zone that energizes both the physical and psychical body and also provides support to the other chakras in your body.

Now, moving to the fourth chakra - the Anahata chakra or the heart centre, the colour associated with this chakra is green and wisdom, unconditional love and acceptance are associated with this chakra.

From this region on, all the chakras have a primary role as psychic reservoirs of cosmic energy that empower one to evolve on the spiritual or psychic plane of consciousness.

The colour associated with the throat Chakra or Vishuddha chakra is creative expression, especially with reference to speech.

The chakra located at the third eye is denoted by the colour violet. The development of a powerful Ajna chakra is associated with well developed powers of intuition, telepathy and mystical experiences.

Streghthening the last chakra - Sahasrara or crown chakra symbolized by a thousand petalled lotus is believed to signify one's complete evolution of cosmic consciousness.

It is important to remember that it is not possible to accelerate one's spiritual progress overnight. It is a process that happens over time. Just like any other skill, it can be learnt but one needs to be patient and determined.

Listening to music, meditation, painting are all activities that help one's chakras to get activated and charged.

However, a necessary ingredient in one's spiritual evolution is a strict adherence to the Ashtanga yoga or 8 fold path of yoga as described by Patanjali in his yoga sutras.

The strict observance of yamas and niyamas can greatly accelerate one's spiritual evolution.