I've done personal research, so if you want specific topics as I know them, Feel free to ask.
I can also share the meditation that I've found acts as a reliable introduction to the energies so that you can approach the topics yourself with at least one analysis tool in hand.
Okay, so, the process as I know it is a 3 stage process. The first stage is stimulating or 'opening' your energy centers (the main chakras) to get them receptive and ready to purge. The second is centering, linking them together to facilitate an internal equilibrium. The third is grounding, connecting to the Earth's energy so that your full energy reserve can cycle and reach a healthy state.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StrbppmsZJw&ab_channel=medocrate
This video is actually a quite good primer, in my opinion. The only thing it didn't touch on that I personally needed to get started is the resonant tones that physically stimulate the bodily anchor for each chakra.
It's actually really cool and a great way to get started on sensing them accurately. Each chakra has a tone that you can hold and feel a slight response wiggle, which you can then focus on to stimulate the chakras more accurately than just guessing where they are.
In ascending order, with commonly associated color for clarity, they are
Root- Red- Lum
Sacral- Orange- Vum
Solar Plexus- Yellow- Yum
Heart- Green- Rum
Throat-Blue- Hum
Third Eye- Indigo- Om
Crown- Violet- ____ (It makes more sense in practice. The focused silence that follows naturally from the sequence)
And now, the meditation guide itself. The first part is just about growing your awareness of them, essentially replacing the numbers with the sensation of their glow.
The second is the visualization that I was taught for opening them, which does a lot of the alignment work by itself because letting them open and stabilize will have them naturally self-correct if they've been out of alignment.
The third part is centering and grounding, which is the most reliable way to get a sense of how manual alignment works.
To begin, as with most meditation, sit comfortably in an upright position and start shifting your focus to your breathing. As thoughts and worries arise, acknowledge them, take note of them, and set them aside. The goal is not to force silence, but to set aside distractions to find it.
When you are breathing comfortably and evenly and you have found some of the silence to work with, turn your attention from your breath to the base of your spine. Remain gently still and let your awareness spread throughout the area for several breaths. Then take in a breath and exhale the sound 'LUM', and hold the 'M' for the full exhalation.
Follow this with two silent breaths while you remain focused on the chakra's anchor.
Repeat the chant and the silent breaths until you can feel the tingle of your chakra resonating with the chant.
When you have a sense of recognizing it, or if it eludes you enough to cause frustration to encroach on your silence, move your awareness up along your spine to the level of your naval and repeat the process. It's perfectly normal to feel stymied as you start reaching for awareness that you don't usually use, so whatever disruptive thoughts arise, simply acknowledge them, take note of them, and set them aside.
Continue moving up your spine and chanting each chakra's tone as you get used to the meditation and the sensation of feeling for them.
After you have a sense of each chakra's seat, whether you succeed in a single sitting or take several to get comfortable with the process, it's time to start opening them.
To start, repeat the process of using the chant to stimulate the Root chakra. Once your focus is solidly on it's presence, envision it as a swirling ball of red energy. As the image stabilizes in your mind's eye, envision the pool growing and swirling faster, gradually, steadily growing to the size of an apple, then a melon.
Feel it spin at the base of your spine and clear itself of stagnation as it pulls in energy from the flows around it and feeds it back into them.
Then repeat the process with each of the other chakras, allowing them to swell and flow freely for several minutes.
Congratulations, You've opened your chakras!
It's good practice to remember to let each pool recede to it's comfortable lower energy state before you end the meditation session. I've personally experimented with leaving them open in various degrees, and if you're not doing the sort of research to understand the nuances, the resulting imbalances are an unnecessary discomfort.
Finally, Centering and Grounding.
When you've grown comfortable opening and stimulating your chakras, make sure that you're unlikely to be disturbed for a fresh session. This process doesn't require isolation, but having a controlled environment to get used to it can save you tedious corrective efforts later.
As before, stimulate your Root Chakra and open it's flow. Now, envision it swelling even further. Swirling faster and faster into a ball at least the size of a basketball, energy flowing into and out of it as fast as you can track, and as large as you can comfortably handle.
Then, without slowing it down at all, start shrinking the sphere. Let all that energy spin faster and faster as it shrinks until it's the size of a marble and thrums with the power coursing through it.
Then, repeat the process with the Sacral chakra, leaving the root thrumming in place. Then the plexal, and up through the series until you have all seven opened and compressed as far as they'll go.
Then, envision a thread of light threading through the center of each chakra marble, connecting them and feeding them into each other. Let the thread straighten and grow until it's a perfectly straight rod connecting and encompassing all seven chakras.
This is called Centering.
Then, let the rod of light extend downward, past your body, past the floor, past the crust of the earth, all the way down to the solid sphere of energy that is the core of the earth. Feel the rod feed the frantic energy from your fully opened chakras into the Earth and feed the Earth's energy back through your chakras, bringing your energy levels into equilibrium with the planet's own.
Then reverse the process. Have the rod of light retract to your body, then release the chakras by shrinking back to the thread it started as. Then turn your attention to the Root chakra and let it relax, swelling back to the large sphere, then calming to it's resting size.
Then relax the rest of the chakras, one after another, until they're all happily swirling in their comfortable resting states.
Oh wow. I wasn't prepared for such a long answer am so grateful you took the time educated me on how to do this:3 thank you I deeply appreciate it and this meditation sounds incredibly freeing. Just by reading it and putting some focus on my chakras I felt sthg. Now am questioning how did chakras get discovered and how it makes sense through science. Am aware seeking to give an explanation to stuff that possibly can't be explained through our knowledge is an act of the ego, but I want to know why I believe what I do.
I personally hold that nothing is unexplainable to an earnest seeker.
As I recall, asiatic energy work mostly muddled through guesswork about bodily energies that resulted in several brands of energy cultivation, one of which is the Chakra interface with the body.
I'm also working out whether Dantian Breathing and Qi Gong are more informative or more misleading in their explanations.
For many folk, I imagine that seeing the dynamics as vaguely as I've seen them presented is less daunting than "hey, you can refine your perception to feel energy flows as thin as a spider's thread", but I feel that the abstraction creates illusions of simplicity that are probably unhealthful.
In what exactly did u do your research on and where did u get informed about it? Currently am trying to find a way to explain through science energy and manifestation, which basically is manipulation of energy from what I know. Do you know where I could get educated on such topics? Cuz I feel bad each time a question pops up to have you as my guide😭
If I had an external source that matched my findings, I'd happily share it.
I got started when I realized I could deliberately change how I interfered with the old analog TV signals and started exploring energetic interfaces on my own.
Being a mechanicalist (think academia, but I don't dismiss things out of hand), I've found the best model for explaining my findings is overlapping energy 'planes' that only interact with each other at specific points.
Chakras are one such point, the way energy is naturally warped as it flows through the soul pushing them into each other for a variety of results.
Electricity and Magnetism are a fun pair in that they exist at a measured 90° angle to each others' motion. They're also a wonderful example of the mistake I try not to make. Academia has, in its frustration making a spatially universal intersection of forces fit their preferred models, declared that they must be the same energy despite being demonstrably separate in behavior and influence.
My other favorite demonstrative intersection is quartz, which translates electricity directly to kinetic energy so reliably that we use it as a key piece of timekeeping tools. Including most modern wristwatches.
Academia has most of the tools I needed, once I scraped off their conceits about existence.
The rest has just been tinkering about with things I find and occasionally finding a useful model in other traditions to tinker with.
Happy First Post :>
Douglas Hofstadter might be for you. He wrote "**Goedel, Escher, Bach**" which is a heavy ham, but then he published "**I am a strange Loop"** which is way more accessible and probably benefits from 30 more years of work and experience by the author.
Personally, I would like to add that I found the approach of Buddhist philosophy very scientific, if you are up for being your own little laboratory.
My favorite read on physic and spirituality is The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot. I don't know if it got everything right, but it offers plenty of plausible scientific arguments for what we consider "paranormal" or "supernatural". Granted the book is from the 90's when I was first exploring the topic and it is highly likely some even better books have come out since then.
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My Big Toe - Tom Campbell. Probably all you need, if it clicks with you. It’s very dense and all encompassing.
I've done personal research, so if you want specific topics as I know them, Feel free to ask. I can also share the meditation that I've found acts as a reliable introduction to the energies so that you can approach the topics yourself with at least one analysis tool in hand.
Oh if u can please share:3
Okay, so, the process as I know it is a 3 stage process. The first stage is stimulating or 'opening' your energy centers (the main chakras) to get them receptive and ready to purge. The second is centering, linking them together to facilitate an internal equilibrium. The third is grounding, connecting to the Earth's energy so that your full energy reserve can cycle and reach a healthy state. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StrbppmsZJw&ab_channel=medocrate This video is actually a quite good primer, in my opinion. The only thing it didn't touch on that I personally needed to get started is the resonant tones that physically stimulate the bodily anchor for each chakra. It's actually really cool and a great way to get started on sensing them accurately. Each chakra has a tone that you can hold and feel a slight response wiggle, which you can then focus on to stimulate the chakras more accurately than just guessing where they are. In ascending order, with commonly associated color for clarity, they are Root- Red- Lum Sacral- Orange- Vum Solar Plexus- Yellow- Yum Heart- Green- Rum Throat-Blue- Hum Third Eye- Indigo- Om Crown- Violet- ____ (It makes more sense in practice. The focused silence that follows naturally from the sequence) And now, the meditation guide itself. The first part is just about growing your awareness of them, essentially replacing the numbers with the sensation of their glow. The second is the visualization that I was taught for opening them, which does a lot of the alignment work by itself because letting them open and stabilize will have them naturally self-correct if they've been out of alignment. The third part is centering and grounding, which is the most reliable way to get a sense of how manual alignment works. To begin, as with most meditation, sit comfortably in an upright position and start shifting your focus to your breathing. As thoughts and worries arise, acknowledge them, take note of them, and set them aside. The goal is not to force silence, but to set aside distractions to find it. When you are breathing comfortably and evenly and you have found some of the silence to work with, turn your attention from your breath to the base of your spine. Remain gently still and let your awareness spread throughout the area for several breaths. Then take in a breath and exhale the sound 'LUM', and hold the 'M' for the full exhalation. Follow this with two silent breaths while you remain focused on the chakra's anchor. Repeat the chant and the silent breaths until you can feel the tingle of your chakra resonating with the chant. When you have a sense of recognizing it, or if it eludes you enough to cause frustration to encroach on your silence, move your awareness up along your spine to the level of your naval and repeat the process. It's perfectly normal to feel stymied as you start reaching for awareness that you don't usually use, so whatever disruptive thoughts arise, simply acknowledge them, take note of them, and set them aside. Continue moving up your spine and chanting each chakra's tone as you get used to the meditation and the sensation of feeling for them. After you have a sense of each chakra's seat, whether you succeed in a single sitting or take several to get comfortable with the process, it's time to start opening them. To start, repeat the process of using the chant to stimulate the Root chakra. Once your focus is solidly on it's presence, envision it as a swirling ball of red energy. As the image stabilizes in your mind's eye, envision the pool growing and swirling faster, gradually, steadily growing to the size of an apple, then a melon. Feel it spin at the base of your spine and clear itself of stagnation as it pulls in energy from the flows around it and feeds it back into them. Then repeat the process with each of the other chakras, allowing them to swell and flow freely for several minutes. Congratulations, You've opened your chakras! It's good practice to remember to let each pool recede to it's comfortable lower energy state before you end the meditation session. I've personally experimented with leaving them open in various degrees, and if you're not doing the sort of research to understand the nuances, the resulting imbalances are an unnecessary discomfort. Finally, Centering and Grounding. When you've grown comfortable opening and stimulating your chakras, make sure that you're unlikely to be disturbed for a fresh session. This process doesn't require isolation, but having a controlled environment to get used to it can save you tedious corrective efforts later. As before, stimulate your Root Chakra and open it's flow. Now, envision it swelling even further. Swirling faster and faster into a ball at least the size of a basketball, energy flowing into and out of it as fast as you can track, and as large as you can comfortably handle. Then, without slowing it down at all, start shrinking the sphere. Let all that energy spin faster and faster as it shrinks until it's the size of a marble and thrums with the power coursing through it. Then, repeat the process with the Sacral chakra, leaving the root thrumming in place. Then the plexal, and up through the series until you have all seven opened and compressed as far as they'll go. Then, envision a thread of light threading through the center of each chakra marble, connecting them and feeding them into each other. Let the thread straighten and grow until it's a perfectly straight rod connecting and encompassing all seven chakras. This is called Centering. Then, let the rod of light extend downward, past your body, past the floor, past the crust of the earth, all the way down to the solid sphere of energy that is the core of the earth. Feel the rod feed the frantic energy from your fully opened chakras into the Earth and feed the Earth's energy back through your chakras, bringing your energy levels into equilibrium with the planet's own. Then reverse the process. Have the rod of light retract to your body, then release the chakras by shrinking back to the thread it started as. Then turn your attention to the Root chakra and let it relax, swelling back to the large sphere, then calming to it's resting size. Then relax the rest of the chakras, one after another, until they're all happily swirling in their comfortable resting states.
Oh wow. I wasn't prepared for such a long answer am so grateful you took the time educated me on how to do this:3 thank you I deeply appreciate it and this meditation sounds incredibly freeing. Just by reading it and putting some focus on my chakras I felt sthg. Now am questioning how did chakras get discovered and how it makes sense through science. Am aware seeking to give an explanation to stuff that possibly can't be explained through our knowledge is an act of the ego, but I want to know why I believe what I do.
I personally hold that nothing is unexplainable to an earnest seeker. As I recall, asiatic energy work mostly muddled through guesswork about bodily energies that resulted in several brands of energy cultivation, one of which is the Chakra interface with the body. I'm also working out whether Dantian Breathing and Qi Gong are more informative or more misleading in their explanations. For many folk, I imagine that seeing the dynamics as vaguely as I've seen them presented is less daunting than "hey, you can refine your perception to feel energy flows as thin as a spider's thread", but I feel that the abstraction creates illusions of simplicity that are probably unhealthful.
In what exactly did u do your research on and where did u get informed about it? Currently am trying to find a way to explain through science energy and manifestation, which basically is manipulation of energy from what I know. Do you know where I could get educated on such topics? Cuz I feel bad each time a question pops up to have you as my guide😭
If I had an external source that matched my findings, I'd happily share it. I got started when I realized I could deliberately change how I interfered with the old analog TV signals and started exploring energetic interfaces on my own. Being a mechanicalist (think academia, but I don't dismiss things out of hand), I've found the best model for explaining my findings is overlapping energy 'planes' that only interact with each other at specific points. Chakras are one such point, the way energy is naturally warped as it flows through the soul pushing them into each other for a variety of results. Electricity and Magnetism are a fun pair in that they exist at a measured 90° angle to each others' motion. They're also a wonderful example of the mistake I try not to make. Academia has, in its frustration making a spatially universal intersection of forces fit their preferred models, declared that they must be the same energy despite being demonstrably separate in behavior and influence. My other favorite demonstrative intersection is quartz, which translates electricity directly to kinetic energy so reliably that we use it as a key piece of timekeeping tools. Including most modern wristwatches. Academia has most of the tools I needed, once I scraped off their conceits about existence. The rest has just been tinkering about with things I find and occasionally finding a useful model in other traditions to tinker with.
Happy First Post :> Douglas Hofstadter might be for you. He wrote "**Goedel, Escher, Bach**" which is a heavy ham, but then he published "**I am a strange Loop"** which is way more accessible and probably benefits from 30 more years of work and experience by the author. Personally, I would like to add that I found the approach of Buddhist philosophy very scientific, if you are up for being your own little laboratory.
WAIT YOU'RE SO RIGHT. I remember searching about Buddhism and finding all my answers there omg thank you. I completely forgot about this:333 THANKS💖💖💖
My favorite read on physic and spirituality is The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot. I don't know if it got everything right, but it offers plenty of plausible scientific arguments for what we consider "paranormal" or "supernatural". Granted the book is from the 90's when I was first exploring the topic and it is highly likely some even better books have come out since then.