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The chakra system provides a
theoretical base for fine-tuning our yoga practice
to suit our unique personality and circumstances.
Traditionally, Indians saw the body as containing
seven main chakras, arranged vertically from the
base of the spine to the top of the head. Chakra is
the Sanskrit word for wheel, and these "wheels" were
thought of as spinning vortexes of energy.
Each chakra is associated with
particular functions within the body and with
specific life issues and the way we handle them,
both inside ourselves and in our interactions with
the world. As centers of force, chakras can be
thought of as sites where we receive, absorb, and
distribute life energies. Through external
situations and internal habits, such as long-held
physical tension and limiting self-concepts, a
chakra can become either deficient or excessive; and
therefore imbalanced.
These imbalances may develop
temporarily with situational challenges, or they may
be chronic. A chronic imbalance can come from
childhood experiences, past pain or stress, and
internalized cultural values. For instance, a child
whose family moves every year to a different state
may not learn what it's like to feel rooted in a
location, and she can grow up with a deficient first
chakra.
A deficient chakra neither
receives appropriate energy nor easily manifests
that chakra's energy in the world. There's a sense
of being physically and emotionally closed down in
the area of a deficient chakra. Think of the slumped
shoulders of someone who is depressed and lonely,
their heart chakra receding into their chest. The
deficient chakra needs to open.
When a chakra is excessive, it is
too overloaded to operate in a healthy way and
becomes a dominating force in a person's life and
make you out of balance. Someone with an excessive
fifth (throat) chakra, for example, might talk too
much and be unable to listen well. If the chakra
were deficient, she might experience restraint and
difficulty when communicating.
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