We have a paradigm in which mind is separated from body.
We have paradigm of separation, people are divided within themselves.
They are living in their heads and they are trying to have mental concepts to
fix up what the body is ailing. They are going to doctors to fix the body
but they don't look at the spirit and what's going on.
I'm Anodea Judith, author of 'Wheels of Life' and a number of bestselling books
on chakras. I've been a spiritual teacher and a therapist for over 40 years.
And I've traveled the world seeing people and their problems.
People get lost in the spiritual smorgasbord.
They're dedicated to their growth
but there're so many paths and so many ways, and they don't know quite how to put
it all together. They don't have a systematic map for their personal growth.
And that map is the Chakra System. It's been my life's work ever since.
So a chakra is an energy center. It's like an organ in the energetic body.
Just like we have a heart that's an organ in the physical body,
we have these organs in the energetic body and they organize energy.
They organize the life force through four functions, through the receiving.
We receive love, we receive information. Through the assimilation of that,
can we absorb that? Can we store it? Can we remember it? And can we express it?
So, we take in, we assimilate, we store, and we express. And each chakra needs
to be able to do all four of those functions on each and every level.
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Most people think of the chakras as this ladder that they climb up to higher
consciousness and that indeed is what it is. That's one of the pathways
but I discovered there is an equally powerful current. It comes
down through the chakras. It starts in highest consciousness
with an idea. And then we visualize that idea. We imagine it. We speak about it.
We give it words. We fashion our sound bites and we find the right relationships
to bring that vision into being. We empower ourselves to get done what we
have to do. We move things into place and the thought plans gets denser and denser,
until in the first chakra, they manifest on a physical plane. That's the current
of manifestation. The densifying, if you will, of thought, step by step,
in a practical pattern. Wow, that's beautiful.
I never thought about it that way.
Seven chakras, to me, describe the architecture of the soul.
And just like a bodyworker, a yoga teacher might study the physiology,
as a psychologist, I've studied the soul. And I found that it has this architecture
that is basically the same for everyone and yet has an individual expression
for each person. This Chakra Healing Quest is a 35-day journey into the deepest core
of yourself. We will work with all seven chakras. And we'll spend three days
on each chakra with one on the mind, and our psyche, and how we got programmed
by childhood experiences; one on the body with yoga and bioenergetic
exercises to condition your body; and one on spirit, how we can address the
larger universal experience and address what's happening in the world.
It's a way of connecting heaven and earth, mind and body, spirit and matter,
back into an indivisible whole, something that will bring you powerful,
dynamic, permanent change.