Balance Your Chakras

Balancing Your Chakras

Traditional medicines from all over the world devote attention to the energy fields of the human body. Chinese acupuncture combined with Indian chakra healing provides a dual path to physical and spiritual health. In Indian medicine the chakras are places in the body that are crucial to the free flow of energies. The word chakra is a Sanskrit term that means wheel of light. These two alternative therapies can

The seven principal chakras, or energy centers, are the material incarnation of the spiritual. They are located on the midline of the body, in line with the spine from the cranium to the groin area. There are many more chakras, but these seven " the root, spleen, solar plexus, heart, throat, third eye, and crown chakras " are the most important. The chakras correspond more or less to the organs in Chinese medical terminology. The fourth chakra, for example, correlates with the liver and spleen in Chinese medicine. The different chakras are foci for different types of power and consciousness, such as personal power (third chakra), sexual potency (second chakra) and creative energy (fifth chakra).

The chakras are not only concerned with the flow of energy in the body but also with mediating positive and negative energy from the surrounding environment, that affects physical, emotional and spiritual health. Chakra imbalances are caused by stress, illness, poor nutrition and social and spiritual problems, amongst other things. Similarly to traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture is concerned both with energy locations and the flow of energy, or qi, along channels or meridians. Yin and yang are the positive and negative forces of qi. Both acupuncture and the chakra circulatory system aim to restore balance, to release energy blockages and boost qi.

In chakra healing today the correspondences and common goals of Chinese acupuncture and Indian chakra healing come together. Inserting acupuncture needles at the key chakra points renews the life energies and unblocks the pathways in the body.

Aromatherapy and the use of aromatic oils add another dimension to the healing process. The different fragrant oils affect the persons energy field and can be used in many ways. The oils can be infused into the air or rubbed on feet and hands. Different oils are chosen to correspond to the chakra in need of attention or by colour matching to influence the energy flow.

The three therapies combine seamlessly and for many offer the answer to their physical and emotional needs. Like other alternative ways of healing, chakra acupuncture with aromatherapy is a drug-free health path that takes into account that we are not just biological organisms but also spiritual beings.