Chakra Quotes

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That’s because pizza is a precious natural resource. It can heal tiredness, bad mood, falling morale, and a fading will to live. Pizza realigns the heart chakras.
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Sally Thorne (99 Percent Mine)
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When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure, so vast and so devastating that you have no option but to merge with it. You have no option but to feel the rhythm of the universe in the rhythm of your heart.
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Amit Ray (Meditation: Insights and Inspirations)
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Aligning the 114 chakras with the divine universal healing energy is the key to activate the healing power within.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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An editor asked me what led me to write erotica. I replied, "A dirty mind, excess words, and an overactive sacral chakra.
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Fierce Dolan
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The 114 chakras, the 84 yoga poses and the 84 ragas of Indian classical music all work together to bring melody in life.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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When you unlock the mysteries of the 114 chakras, you will truly realize that you are not the body and not even the mind. You are the eternal spirit.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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When somebody on the outside fits with your inner image, you fall in love -- that is the meaning of love.
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Osho
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The 114 chakras are the quantum energy vortexes connected with the Akashic Records.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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Besides shooting out a big blank from your buttock, you can feel as if your root chakra leaked sweet hot mucus.
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Hiroyuki Nishigaki (How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way?)
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Kundalini awakening is much easier, blissful and effortless using Ray 114 chakra system than the 7 chakra system.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.
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Amit Ray (Enlightenment Step by Step)
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Enlightenment is blossoming the thousand petaled lotus flower on the top of the head.
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Amit Ray (Enlightenment Step by Step)
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The Presence of the demon keeps the chakra from doing its job, but that challenge also forces us to bring more awareness to that job, so eventually we can do it better.
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Anodea Judith (Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self)
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Sudarshan chakra chalavnaar kalchakra ne fervi sakato nathi!
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Jay Vasavada (JSK : Jay Shree Krishna)
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Urja chakra is the chakra of strength and vitality. It removes the fatigue from overwork, blood deficiency, illness, emotional upset and insomnia. Shilajit is the key herb for this chakra.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Through systematic meditation one can awaken the third eye and touch the cosmic awareness. Sushumna nadi is the subtle pathway in the spinal cord which passes through the main psychic centers. The awakening of these centers means a gradual expansion of awareness, until it reaches the cosmic awareness. Each center has its own beauty and gracefulness. Through generations of ignorance and unconsciousness, this channel of awareness becomes obscured and hidden. Meditation is to become aware about this internal life energy. Meditation is the procedure to rearrange, harmonize, activate, and integrate the individual life energy with the cosmic life energy.
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Amit Ray (Meditation: Insights and Inspirations)
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Give yourself permission to let it hurt but also allow yourself the permission to let it heal.
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Nikki Rowe
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The Ray 114 chakras healing meditation helps a patient to gain a new perspective, reconnect with the inner world, and forge a new blissful and respectful divine identity.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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Animals can always read your vibration, and if you are intent on empowering your life, they will often gift you by making special melodies of sound to balance your chakras and tune up your body.
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Barbara Marciniak (Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos)
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And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.
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Amit Ray (Enlightenment Step by Step)
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Vinayak chakra and the atharvha chakra are the two vital chakras for longevity and immunity. They strengthen the B cells of the immune system.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Chakras are the sunshine and the medicine of your soul, full with the fragrance of love and light.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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The 114 Chakras are not just the junction points but the divine hidden dimensions of higher consciousness. Body and mind are just the manifestation of those energy centers.
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Amit Ray (The Science of 114 Chakras in Human Body)
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The five components of character building and leadership – decisiveness, inner strength, self-directedness, cooperativeness and self-transcendence come from the Vajra Nadi.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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The key function of the Sanjivani chakra is to restore the life energy in the body cells. It enhances the power of the T Cells and the Natural killer cells in the body.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Ojas chakra is a micro-environment of spiritual energy and leadership. The network consists of mahapadma chakras, two padma chakras and the subtle connection of the third eye.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
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Sanjivani chakra and the ayush chakra are the two key chakras for enhancing immunity and longevity. They strengthen the T cells of the immune system.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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When all the 114 chakras are activated you will stop complaining and focus more on creating solutions for the world.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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Sanjivani chakra, Ayush chakra and the Urja chakra are the three key chakras for enhancing immunity, vitality and longevity. They strengthen the T cells and B cells of the immune system.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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Planting a tree is the easiest way to align yourself with the cosmic rhythm.
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Amit Ray (Yoga The Science of Well-Being)
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When the crown chakra opens, the 1000 petals of the perfect bliss arises. You will find no mud but nutrients.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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Your hardest time can be your greatest opportunity. Mobilize and harmonize your life-energy and balance the 114 chakras in your body.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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Ajna chakra, Kurma Chakra, Padma Chakars, MahaPadma chakra and the Shiva-Shakti Chakras are associated with Lord Shiva along with the Vishuddhi Chakra and the Muladhara chakra.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you and your plans. They are not your enemy. They are your secret ally, but only if you treat them as friendly forces of nature.
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Anodea Judith (Creating on Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras)
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When we develop the heart chakra, we begin to influence the surroundings with our spiritual presence. When we develop the communication chakra, we begin to influence the country with our spiritual presence. When we develop the seventh chakra, we begin to influence the world with our spiritual presence without doing anything.
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Swami Dhyan Giten (Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being)
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SOPHISTICATED about consciousness and energy? If you’re seeking Enlightenment now, protect yourself by developing a more sophisticated kind of discernment about that.
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Rose Rosetree
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NirVana chakra is the chakra of neuroplasticity. It allows the brain to continuously change and adapt, and build new neural connections as needed, and abandoning the pathways that drags people down.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Chakras are not the nerve centers of the body but subtler than that. Chakras are mostly behave like quantum quasi particles - they control the collective behavior of the body, mind and soul at various levels.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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For your mind, emotions and physical body to be working together in total harmony, the chakras need to be spinning at the correct frequency.
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Stephen Richards (Chakra Clearing: Restore your grip on life with only your mind)
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The whole of the human body is a energy vibration of certain frequencies, the 114 chakras meditation to transcend the memories of the 84 lakh yonis or 8.4 million past lives.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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The 114 chakras in the human body are like cosmic flowers, blooming in the celestial garden called the body.Β 
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Knowledge shouldn't cost, the Jamange & Chakra aren't for sale, a communication (message) given out via clairvoyance shouldn't be held to ransom for a finders fee
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The Conductor (The Jamange Line)
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The person with strong Indu chakra develop an extraordinary power of attraction, leadership, and decisiveness.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Grace, light, peace and love arises when the 114 chakras in the body are in balance.
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Amit Ray (The Science of 114 Chakras in Human Body)
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All your dreams can come true if you align your 114 chakras to the cosmic manifestation centers.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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Each chakra is within the body, yet they are bodiless. They are the vibrant spirits and connected with countless realms.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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The primary role of the Atharva chakra is to block the cytokine storm or immunity turmoils in the body. It stops the overproduction of immune cells. This chakra is activated by the herbs like Peperomia pellucida and inhibits excess ACE activities.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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What accounts for the appeal of energy talk? Perhaps trying to prove how much you know about the spiritual nature of life. Ironically, a person who’s really in Enlightenment has absolutely nothing to prove.
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Rose Rosetree (Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening: Your Complete Program for Spiritual Awakening and More, In Just 20 Minutes a Day)
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When the first chakra is disconnected from the feminine Earth, we can feel orphaned and motherless.Β The masculine principle predominates, and we look for security from material things.Β  Individuality prevails over relationship, and selfish drives triumph over family, social and global responsibility.Β The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine.Β  We disown our passion, our creativity, and our sexuality.Β Eventually the Earth itself becomes a baneful place.Β I remember being told by a medicine woman in the Amazon, "Do you know why they are really cutting down the rain forest?Β Because it is wet and dark and tangled and feminine.
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Alberto Villoldo
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They're auras, Davey. I see them, too. The longer you stare at them, the wider the energy field expands until more colors begin to show themselves.
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Christina Westover (The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac (The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac, #1))
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There are twenty one mystical dimensions of consciousness. Enlightenment is abiding in the highest three dimensions of consciousness.
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Amit Ray (Enlightenment Step by Step)
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The best way to stop overthinking is conscious micro action meditation ( laghu jnana kriya).
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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The 21 leadership chakras in the human body are like tuning forks; they influence others. Leadership is creating resonance and melody in them.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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The 114 chakras are the hundred fourteen energy switches to overcome difficulties and free the joy within.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Vapini nadi and the Sanjivani chakra are the two key energy systems in the body that boost immunity, healing and longevity. Regulates T-Cells, B-Cells and telomerase activities.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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We can heal others or manifest things by changing the subconscious thought patterns and collapsing the quantum wave functions through conscious attention.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Chakras don't die at the death of body and mind, because they are subtler than the body and the mind. They have a direct link with the immortal soul.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Every day you face two important decisions: what effect you want your speech and actions to have on the world around you, and what impressions and vibrations you want to be receptive to.
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Kalashatra Govinda (A Handbook of Chakra Healing: Spiritual Practice for Health, Harmony, and Inner Peace)
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The purpose of science is not down-scaling everything to physical level and measure, but to penetrate deeper into the realm beyond the sensory perceptions and bring more in-depth knowledge and wisdom to the world.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went to Africa. You can go to Africa. You may have trouble arranging the time or the money, but everybody has trouble arranging something. I believe you can travel anywhere if you want to badly enough. And I believe the same is true of inner travel. You don't have to take my word about chakras or healing energy or auras. You can find about them for yourself if you want to. Don't take my word for it. Be as skeptical as you like. Find out for yourself.
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Michael Crichton (Travels)
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The History of the chakras and the yoga systems are much older than the Vedas, Upanishads and the Puranas. Vedas are mostly the products of Aryan Invasion but the chakras were invented much before that in the oral the traditions of India.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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The 114 chakras exchange information within the body and with the higher realms. They are like quantum information processing centers.Β When they are blocked, difficulties arise. When they are open and balanced, the joy of awakening arises.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.
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Anodea Judith (Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self)
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This very body is indeed Kashi - the land of Lord Shiva - the illumined divine field of cosmic energy and pure consciousness.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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If you fall out of the boat put your feet up, lie back and relax. Your life jacket knows which way is up. Let the river hold you. You won't drown." -Zambezi River Guide.
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Brenda Davies (7 Healing Chakras: Unlocking Your Body's Energy Centers)
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Meditation is not required to be one with self. All that is required is that you be about oneself, maintain oneself, and be true to oneself and your chakras will be aligned and your 3rd eye will no longer be blind.
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Kenneth G. Ortiz
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The flowers inside your body are more beautiful than the flowers outside - full with fragrance and love. They are the sunshine and the medicine of your soul. Oh, the lost one come back to the source. You will be happier than ever before.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Instead, will is the realization that we can regard each challenge as an opportunity to awaken to our highest potential. This does not deny what has come before, but incorporates it, using it as a springboard for the future. While we can’t always control what happens to us, we can control what we do about it.
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Anodea Judith (Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System (Llewellyn's New Age Series))
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We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.
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Anodea Judith (Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self)
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In the 18th century, a revolution in thought, known as the Enlightenment, dragged us away from the superstition and brutality of the Middle Ages toward a modern age of science, reason and democracy. It changed everything. If it wasn't for the Enlightenment, you wouldn't be reading this right now. You'd be standing in a smock throwing turnips at a witch. Yes, the Enlightenment was one of the most significant developments since the wheel. Which is why we're trying to bollocks it all up. Welcome to a dangerous new era - the Unlightenment - in which centuries of rational thought are overturned by idiots. Superstitious idiots. They're everywhere - reading horoscopes, buying homeopathic remedies, consulting psychics, babbling about "chakras" and "healing energies", praying to imaginary gods, and rejecting science in favour of soft-headed bunkum. But instead of slapping these people round the face till they behave like adults, we encourage them. We've got to respect their beliefs, apparently.
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Charlie Brooker
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If the heart chakra is overdeveloped and the solar plexus chakra is underdeveloped, there is a tendency that other people will take advantage of you, abuse and misuse you. If the solar plexus is overactivated, there is a tendency to be too selfish and may be even ruthless. To become psychologically healthy, the solar plexus chakra and heart chakra must be balancedly developed. This is balancing loving-kindness with self-interest.
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Choa Kok Sui (Pranic Psychotherapy)
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Concentration is the act of building focus and meditation is the art of retaining it without losing awareness.
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Om Swami (Kundalini β€” An Untold Story: A Himalayan Mystic's Insight into the Power of Kundalini and Chakra Sadhana)
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72000 nadis are the areas where modern medical science can learn a lot from the ancient science of yoga and Ayurveda.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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Vajra sankalpa - firm conviction comes from the Vajra nadi. This nadi is the path of manifestation, through divine determination.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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Indian Nadi System of Medicine is not much part of traditional Ayurveda, Unani, or yoga but part of a few ancient oral and family medicine traditions of India.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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My friend Bob, who is both a student of Yoga and a neuroscientist, told me that he was always agitated by this idea of the chakras, that he wanted to actually see them in a dissected human body in order to believe they existed. But after a particularly transcendent meditative experience, he came away with a new understanding of it. He said,'Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
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Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity,one soul after another, until every soul understood true meaning of love.
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Christina Westover (The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac (The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac, #1))
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When the highest Chakra opens, you will find yourself sitting on the lotus of nothingness. The entire world will seem like mud upon which the lotus blooms. The mud is neither bad nor good. If you think it’s bad, you are still attached to it; you are still swimming into it. True detachment is the only way to slowly move upward from one Chakra to another.
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Shunya
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If it is true that you are what you eat, it may just as accurately be said that you are what you listen to. STEVEN HALPERN
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Anodea Judith (Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self)
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There are three types of Kundalini awakenings: 1 hood serpent power; 7 hoods serpent power, and the 1000 hoods serpent power.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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If you are able to terminate the thought in your head though, the desire or emotion will disappear like it never existed. This
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Om Swami (Kundalini β€” An Untold Story: A Himalayan Mystic's Insight into the Power of Kundalini and Chakra Sadhana)
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Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives even without constant attention.
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Anodea Judith (Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self (Revised))
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When you honestly face the fact that the time you will have in this body and this lifetime is limited, you begin to ask yourself important questions about how you will use that time. What legacy, what gift do you wish to leave behind for others? How would you like to be remembered after you have left this life?
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Ilchi Lee (Healing Chakra: Light to Awaken My Soul (Book with CD & Booklet))
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For the person who is grounded in the timeless truth of the universe, there is no life and no death. He or she can experience eternal joy without being limited by the definitions of good and evil. The essence of Oneness always exists within us.
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Ilchi Lee (Healing Chakras: Awaken Your Body's Energy System for Complete Health, Happiness, and Peace)
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It was a familiar sneer: the exact one that filled my own heart every time someone tried to tell me earnestly about how I would really clear my chakras if only I would wear this set of beads or that magnetic copper bracelet. They’d always get wound up when I told them that putting on a thing churned out of a machine from ore that had been strip-mined by underpaid laborers wasn’t likely to improve my mana balance any.
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Naomi Novik (The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2))
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There are three types of Kundalini energies: one-hood serpent power, seven-hood serpent power, and thousand-hood serpent power.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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The science of prayer is reprogramming your subconscious mind and the art of prayer is connecting with the higher Self.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Chakra awakening is the ultimate bliss and ecstasy of life. It is merging with the eternity and the ultimate rhythm of the universe. It is the easiest and the direct path to the Supreme Divinity. The more you know about its divinities, the smoother will be your awakening. The more you treat them mechanically with exercises and hard kriyas, the more you will be heartening yourself and the society.
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Amit Ray (Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions)
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Indian System of Medicine is not just traditional Ayurveda, unani, or yoga but also a vast field of ancient oral and family medicine traditions. Especially nadi based gut-brain axis modulation medicines are most effective for terminal illness.
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Amit Ray (72000 Nadis and 114 Chakras in Human Body for Healing and Meditation)
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Open up your chakra Because once that’s happened there’s no going back Once you start to see what is really happening Who the enemy you should be attackin’ is So READ, READ, READ! Stuck on the block, READ, READ! Sittin’ in the box, READ, READ! Don’t let them say what you can achieve Cos' when people are enslaved One of the first things they do is stop them reading Cos’ it is well understood that intelligent people will take their freedom Cos’ if we knew our power we would understand that we can’t be held down If we knew our power, we would not elevate not one of these clowns If we knew our power, we wouldn’t get arrogant when we get two pennies If we knew our power, we would see what everybody sees, that we’re rich already!
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Akala
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In our yearning to be perfect, we have mistaken perfection for wholeness. We think we cannot love ourselves until we and others meet some external standard. Depression, anxietyβ€”in fact, most neuroses and compulsionsβ€”are ultimately a defense against loving ourselves without condition. We are afraid to look at the damp, dark, ugly yet exquisite roots of being that stretch deep into our survival chakra. We are fearful of finding that the spirit is not there, that our Home is empty, even as our outer home is empty. Yet it is in that place of survival, where the dark mother has been abandoned, that spirit longs to be embodied so that the whole body may become light. Ego wants to be the god of our own idealized projection; spirit wants to be incarnated in our humanity where it can grow in wisdom through experience.
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Marion Woodman (Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness)
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Our culture, so proud of its mind-over-matter philosophy, cuts us off from our bodily experience and from the earth itself. In this severance, our sexuality is negated, our senses assaulted, our environment abused, and our power manipulated. Our ground is our form, and without it we lose our individuality.
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Anodea Judith (Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self)
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..giving power to negative thoughts or fears was bringing ideas to life in physical world,idea in mind became emotion in heart,emotion turned into words spoken,written,painted,strummed across guitar strings,or vibrantly held note by Tibetan singing bowl, thoughts affected physical world.
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Christina Westover (The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac (The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac, #1))
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Grounding is not dull and lifeless, but dynamic and vibrant. Generally it is our tension that makes us lethargic, and tension results from alienation between various parts of ourselves. As these parts are simplified and integrated, we experience increased vitality.
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Anodea Judith (Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System (Llewellyn's New Age Series))
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The mind & body are not separate entities. The gross form of the mind is the body & the subtle form of the body is the mind. The practice of asana integrates & harmonizes the two. Both the body & the mind harbor tensions or knots. Every mental knot has a corresponding physical, muscular knot & vice versa. The aim of asana is to release these knots. Asana release mental tensions by dealing with them on the physical level, acting somato-psychically, through the body to the mind.
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Satyananda Saraswati (Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha)
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How would you behave if you knew you were a God or Goddess? How would you treat yourself, how would you treat others? What kind of consciousness would you hold about your smallest actions if you knew their effects influenced the rest of creation? If your awakenings could bring joy to the multitudes? What kind of mindfulness would that inspire?
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Anodea Judith (Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self)
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Many spiritual disciplines, especially those oriented toward ascendance, advise us to give up the self, to surrender all to a master, guru, or a particular concept of God. While it is important to give up attachments to the lower egos, what is really called for is to become one with the divine. There is no we without an I. To become one with the divine is not to abandon the Self (as archetype of wholeness) but to realize that divine consciousness of who that Self really is.
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Anodea Judith (Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self)
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A modern fad which has gained widespread acceptance amongst the semi-educated who wish to appear secular is the practice of meditation. They proclaim with an air of smug superiority, β€˜Main mandir-vandir nahin jaata, meditate karta hoon (I don’t go to temples or other such places, I meditate).’ The exercise involves sitting lotus-pose (padma asana), regulating one’s breathing and making your mind go blank to prevent it from β€˜jumping about like monkeys’ from one (thought) branch to another. This intense concentration awakens the kundalini serpent coiled at the base of the spine. It travels upwards through chakras (circles) till it reaches its destination in the cranium. Then the kundalini is fully jaagrit (roused) and the person is assured to have reached his goal. What does meditation achieve? The usual answer is β€˜peace of mind’. If you probe further, β€˜and what does peace of mind achieve?’, you will get no answer because there is none. Peace of mind is a sterile concept which achieves nothing. The exercise may be justified as therapy for those with disturbed minds or those suffering from hypertension, but there is no evidence to prove that it enhances creativity. On the contrary it can be established by statistical data that all the great works of art, literature, science and music were works of highly agitated minds, at times minds on the verge of collapse. Allama Iqbal’s short prayer is pertinent: Khuda tujhey kisee toofaan say aashna kar dey Keh terey beher kee maujon mein iztiraab naheen (May God bring a storm in your life, There is no agitation in the waves of your life’s ocean.)
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Khushwant Singh (The End Of India)
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Sant Mat (the path and teachings as taught and practiced by saints) delineates the path of union of soul with the Divine. The teachings of the saints explain the re-uniting as follows: The individual soul has descended from the higher worlds [the Realm of the Divine] to this city of illusion, bodily existence. It has descended from the Soundless state to the essence of Sound, from that Sound to Light, and finally from the realm of Light to the realm of Darkness. The qualities (dharmas, natural tendencies) of the sense organs draw us downward and away from our true nature. The nature of the soul (atman) draws us upwards and inwards and establishes us in our own true nature. Returning to our origins involves turning inward: withdrawal of consciousness from the senses and the sense objects in order to go upward from the darkness to the realms of Light and Sound. [We experience this phenomenon of withdrawal as we pass from waking consciousness to deep sleep.] Another way to express this is to go inward from the external sense organs to the depth of the inner self. (Both of these expressions are the metaphors that signify the same movement). The natural tendencies of the soul (atman) are to move from outward to inward. The current of consciousness which is dispersed in the nine gates of the body and the senses, must be collected at the tenth gate. The tenth gate is the gathering point of consciousness. Therein lies the path for our return. The tenth gate is also known as the sixth chakra, the third eye, bindu, the center located between the two eyebrows. This is the gateway through which we leave the gates of the sense organs and enter in the divine realms and finally become established in the soul. We travel back from the Realm of Darkness to the Realm of Light, from the Light to the Divine Sound, and from the Realm of Sound to the Soundless State. This is called turning back to the Source. This is what dharma or religion really intends to teach us. This is the essence of dharma.
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Sevi Maharaj