How to Use Chakra Meditation to Awaken Your Energy

Increase Your Mental Faculties While Improving Your Health

Many people have discovered the benefits of meditation in general. It helps to lower the blood pressure, and can relieve stress and hypertension. Additionally, meditation can help you prepare your mind for the day, leaving you better able to think alertly and absorb new information. But there is more than one way to meditate. Different meditation techniques can help different people achieve different results. And one of these techniques is chakra meditation.

Chakra meditation makes use of the energy that flows around us, through us, and between us and the rest of the universe. Humans, animals, plants, and space itself pulses with energy. And within our own bodies, there are reserves of energy that can be awakened and then tapped to help you become more aware of your body and its capabilities. Chakra meditation focuses on each of the body's seven main energy focal points (there are 12 chakras altogether). In this type of meditation, you awaken each energy point one at a time, feeling the energy as it moves up through your body. Meditation on the charkas can help you relax, enhance your physical senses, and get ready to greet the day, creating the energy you need to be more productive. It can also help you prepare yourself for astral projection. Even if you do not believe in such projections, meditation is a great way to enjoy "alone time," and reduce the stress in your life.

There are two ways to meditate on the chakras as foci. The first is a simple meditation that can be done so long as you know the names (no particular mantra is needed). The seven chakras are as follows in order from the bottom of the body to the top: Muladhara (base of the spine), Svadhisthana (between the two pelvis bones), Manioura (at the solar plexus), Anahata (level with the heart), Vishudda (the throat), Ajna (at the third eye), and the Sahasrara (crown of the head). Each chakra is located along the spine. Focus briefly on each chakra and think its name in your head. Then do it in reverse order, starting at the top if you wish. As a completion, say three OM mantras.