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good evening

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in the chakra connection i'll be

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discussing results from an online survey

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of chakra experiences that is currently

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in progress

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as well as the possibility that chakras

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may represent a bridge or connection

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between the physical and cycle spiritual

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realms

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the illustration on this slide may be

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familiar to some of you chakras have

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been the topic of many hundreds of books

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with a particular focus on these core

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chakras

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the root or base chakra sacral chakra

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solar plexus chakra heart chakra throat

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third eye or brow and then the crown

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and just for some background just for

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those of you who have not been following

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this new age

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the healing

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stuff

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um i'll just go cover briefly the subtle

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anatomy of the human body as as

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currently discussed and how it's used by

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healers

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um by people healing themselves and

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healing others right now

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there's typically three components an

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aura or biofield

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composed of subtle bodies or subtle

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layers differing density and frequency

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for example the etheric body

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emotional body mental body astral body

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causal body

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some of you may be familiar with the

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astral body

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related to outer body experiences

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there's also a part of the subtle

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anatomy are the energy meridians on in

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acupuncture

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also called nadis or channels on eastern

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traditions

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they are used to balance so-called the

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energies of the body

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then finally there's the chakras

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considered to be energy centers

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controlling the flow of prana or life

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force life energy between the physical

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body and subtle bodies

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clairvoyants have viewed them as

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spinning vortices trumpet shaped in this

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lower diagram just illustrating that

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they tend typically extend in front of

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them and behind the body

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as a sort of a cone-shaped

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and this is the rainbow colors that are

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common in western

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chakra system so this is just sort of an

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overview

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and the big question of course is where

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do these come from where did chakras

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come from well they originated in india

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about a thousand years ago part of both

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hindu and buddhist tantra yoga

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traditions and these are actually some

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illustrations here in the slide an early

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diagram of chakras in a hindu text and

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you can actually count them up the

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center of one two three four five six

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chakras little stars with associated uh

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central channels and then the far right

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is from a hindu text a hindu tonka

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tapestry illustrating uh five chakras

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with associated central channels

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so they're actually it's an ancient um

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traditions um and they were basically um

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assumed presumably clairvoyantly you

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know visualized and and

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experienced over time

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so tantra yoga makes use of this

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esoteric physiology or mystical

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physiology with various components

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including the subtle bodies the chakras

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also known as wheels the nadis or

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channels and energies like kundalini and

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so so how is it used how is it used in

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tantra yoga well practitioners meditate

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on the chakras to awaken them

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and chakras are

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are basically um end up being a map of

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discreet states of consciousness

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um and uh so so what does this mean what

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does this mean oh for example for

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example if you were to awaken your solar

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plexus chakra you may suddenly be able

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to um converse with spirits have an

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awareness of the spirit world be able to

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move within the spirit world and see

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spirits in different places and locales

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another example is the throat chakra if

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you and basically awaken the throat

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chakra you may be become suddenly aware

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of the void the great void the great

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stillness that mystics have talked about

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another example is the brow chakra you

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may be able to see past present and

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future uh all as one one entity and be

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able to see people's karmas so so

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basically a lot of these chakras when

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you awaken them they're actually

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awakening paranormal abilities but most

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important importantly they're expanding

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what's available to the full potential

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of the human being their inner inner

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potential what worlds they can interact

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with and just it's they become it's a

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larger world basically on the path to

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in comparison now we'll look at the

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western chakra system

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first introduced to the west by the

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theosophical society in 1880

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and and noted in the reference in the

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bottom by leland about his book rainbow

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body history of the western chakra

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system um it really came and flowered

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into being during the human potential

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movement in the 1960s which was centered

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two diagrams on the right are sort of

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western chakra depictions uh the early

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one by lead beater in 1927 illustrating

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seven chakras um associated with the

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central channels um he he showed his

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heart tracker off to the side a little

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bit and then he actually showed a

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a spleen chakra

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and actually didn't have a sacral chakra

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so he actually had a sort of a different

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different system than what's currently

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known and on the right is barbara

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brennan a modern healer showing the

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traditional now the rainbow colors of

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the seven chord chakras

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surrounded by an aura the bio field with

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the different layers and so that's sort

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of basically the the classic western

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chakra system there on the right

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and so how are they used well they're

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used as um is a psychological map for

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self-development and healing each chakra

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is associated with a particular bodily

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so practitioners identify which chakra

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chakras need balancing and then they use

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mind-body therapies and corrective

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actions in the outer world to open and

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balance the chakras so this is very

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interesting so so basically this is sort

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of more of an outer approach to the

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chakras so we westerners having more

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outers so we want a full potential in

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our lives and and outer expand our lives

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even more fully basically and get the

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most out of life and so the by balancing

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the chakras by dealing with particular

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issues at the different

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locales basically we can be more fully

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ourselves and so for one example for

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example um if someone has addictions uh

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you would probably look at the root

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chakra

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and it basically help them to earth

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themselves and and open up their balance

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that chakra the root chakra and also the

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root chakra is um involved with survival

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issues basically are they feeling

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threatened at a survival level so so

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basically so that's why they meant by a

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psychological map and so it's they do

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energy healing techniques on the chakras

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but they're mainly for opening and

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balancing they're not awakening chakras

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and so and they're also basically using

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them as sort of you know what is my

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issues what are my beliefs tied to this

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chakra and you know what how do i expand

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my potential on the outer world so it's

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very interesting how that had a very

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different the same you know similar

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and so that it brings up the variability

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among the chakra systems not just within

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the eastern within the western people

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variability in the number of chakras you

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know how many are there five to 142 or

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more uh and for example uh minor chakras

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are accepted in some schools associated

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with the joints like the elbow joint and

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the knee joint have a minor chakra

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can be dozens above and below the body

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basically students in

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schools have have

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viewed the chakras slightly differently

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there's also different colors have been

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reported for each chakra with rainbow

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colors widely used here

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and just how can the how can this be

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explained well the chakras extend across

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multiple subtle bodies bridging the

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physical etheric body with the astral

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body astral body with causal body and so

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these chakras if you're having a

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different perspective of them at

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different levels of the body they may

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appear different and so this is actually

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what are my illustrations here

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is the heart chakra may look wonder one

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colors um but at the astral level you'll

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have the archetypal associations and so

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people actually see this see people this

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is the traditional hindu version of a

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heart chakra people have actually seen

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some of these you know the the star and

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the particular deities associated with

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the heart chakra and the seed syllable

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and and so so this is sort of more of a

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a different level of information

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regarding the heart chakra so that's so

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that's one source of variability the

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other is within the individuals each of

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us our chakras are all a little

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different depending on our health or

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illness karma from past lives our

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spiritual development um and and so we

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might have a different view of them uh

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so that's just another this

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invariability is inherent in in the fact

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so here's the big one here's the big one

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is there any scientific evidence for

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chakras

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and to me the best evidence and it's

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very preliminary was by hiroshi

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motoyama the parapsychologist he did a

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series of preliminary experiments i have

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the reference at the bottom in his book

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theories of the chakras

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he was testing emissions from particular

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chakras for example he placed copper

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electrodes in front of both the anahata

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the heart and the monte puro solar

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one or the other one or the other so

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the heart chakra and to indicate when

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she sensed psy energy being emitted from

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that chakra by pushing a button

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and so on the right is have the

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recordings at the top before

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she sensed it before she sends energy

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emitting you can see the top is that the

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heart chakra is arbitrary because she

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meditates on it regularly it was already

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showing oscillations and in the amount

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very quiet it's not one that she had

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basically awakened was not one she was

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working with as a meditator and so at

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the bottom uh basically she indicated

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with a you know pushing a button

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indicated when she felt a difference a

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mission from her heart chakra at the top

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and there was um increase in high

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frequency high potential energy

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difference in the waves at the top and

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also there was a light pulse if you look

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at the bottom of the photocell there

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this is done in a dark room there was a

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light pulse from the the chakra or

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supposedly from the chakra while she was

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emitting energy from her heart chakra so

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his conclusion from his preliminary

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experiments is that psi energy

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working in the chakras can create

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detectable energy in the physical

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dimension which is very exciting and it

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really should be replicated and it is

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from the 1981 here so it's been a long

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time so it's time for us to

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look at this again but anyway but my

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study here now is is i'm looking at the

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qualitative study of chakra experiences

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because i was very interested in

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wondering if people are actually

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experiencing what this this perfect

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rainbow body you know rainbow you know

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colors i mean what's what are people

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actually experiencing with the chakras

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and so i created a online survey of the

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chakra experiences survey

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and i

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um to compare user experiences with

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published accounts of the chakras

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i was looking at for targeted

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participants where meditators yoga

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students with personal chakra

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experiences and healers with chakra

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experiences during healing sessions

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um i posted on social media sites

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classified sections of new thought

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publications

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i really tried to get the word out i had

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a lot of nibbles a lot of people would

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go onto my website but not actually take

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the survey so that so

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but anyway i'm jumping ahead here the

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survey was divided into seven parts one

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for each chord chakra with questions on

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images colors sounds and physical

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sensations experienced by their

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participant so it's preliminary it's

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still ongoing uh recruitment's been

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difficult i have 34 really good

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respondents you know for all the

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different chakras so far so i'll share

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that with you now

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so the preliminary results um

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uh really three three categories

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vibrations and pressure sensations

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circular sensations colors light imagery

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so this is what the the participants in

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the survey what they've actually

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experienced for example buzzing in heat

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in the root chakra vibration and buzzing

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feeling at my root chakra tingling

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sensations in the crown chakra and brown

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chakra and tingling sensations are very

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common even in healers

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working with clients too

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sensation of energy movement in the

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chakra areas and through areas of the

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body warmth and tingling is sort of a

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signal that energy is moving through

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area of the body

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one participant noted a throbbing

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sensation in each chakra um very very

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strong

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like a headband

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and then here's another thing that was

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interesting that they came up with a

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sense of tightening at the chakra area

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or releasing the chakra if they're doing

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a meditation so a spontaneous root lock

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the root chakra or tightening in the

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throat

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that was interesting and then the warmth

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in the heart chakra this is a common

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sensation of doing

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meditations on the heart chakra is

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but what interested me was of course the

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circular sensations

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because remember the chakras are sort of

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visualized as sort of a

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sort of a is a cone or a trumpet a

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circular sort of object and they're

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often described as basically rotating

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spinning

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so participants some of them did note

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that feeling a spiral of energy pulsing

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spiraling energy coming out of my

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forehead the brow chakra swirling wave

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sensation

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era

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had an extreme spiral of energy around

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my belly button before kundalini shot up

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so those were just sort of interesting

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they sort of confirmed the circular

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and finally colors light and imagery

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associated with chakras

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red wavy shapes and meditation root

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chakras often associated with red

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and then one participant said i saw a

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web of blue white light shaped like a

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trumpet mouth from my sacral chakra i

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was static so they basically saw the

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classic shape of the the chakra as a

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trumpet

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but interesting is blue white light

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brow chakra one participant saw deep

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violet indigo which is the normal color

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for brow but also gold green white and

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sharp

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shifting shape-shifting sparkles

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another participant said with the brow

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chakra i see light language quite often

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signs and symbols of unknown meaning

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i feel light entering from above into

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the crown chakra

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and this is a common thing for for

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working with as a healer to see light

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entering into the crown chakra of

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clients

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uh kundalini blue flames out the top of

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my head very dramatic so so some good

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so conclusions so far

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are consistent with the popular

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literature on chakras and kundalini um

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low response rate suggests a need for a

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different approach possibly pairing a

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chakra meditation with immediate

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feedback via an app

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maybe just a single chakra like a heart

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chakra meditation and then asking for

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any input

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or or probably the classic is in-depth

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interviews of experienced yoga

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meditators i know this has been done for

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kundalini

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but my focus was mainly on chakras at

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this point but i might have to expand it

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and finally finally the physical

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sensations of the chakras really

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suggests that there's some nerves or

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nervous sectors that are being activated

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and

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people have been very

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curious about the association of these

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core chakras with nerve plexuses

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for a long time they've noted that there

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there's nerve a lot of nerves at the

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site of these chakras core chakras

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um so

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so this would uh suggest an actual

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physical energy that could be measured

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and so it would be very good to

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replicate moriyama's or hypothesis that

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energy is emitted by awakened chakras

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and then finally i just wanted to throw

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out some thoughts on the future of the

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body and people often talk about human

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evolution they talk about

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expanding consciousness and in the mind

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but it's the body that's also changing

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also and that's emphasized in in michael

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murphy's book future of the body and

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also modiyama actually also emphasizes

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that there's changes in the body and we

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see this we see this with

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long-term meditators they have changes

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in the eeg and then their heart rate um

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they're basically a physiology and so

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there is definite changes in the body

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but there's also changes in the subtle

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bodies so murphy notes that new

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substances effervescences and energies

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seem to arise in the human body as a

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result as transformative practices so

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new new radiations

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and subtle bodies these states can be

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developed so they eventually alter the

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physical body very interesting the

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feedback between the two

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it's part of our anatomy the subtle

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anatomy is that

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it is the heart of our anatomy chakras

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and kundalini may reflect actual

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development of physical structures that

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support extraordinary abilities so part

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of the psychic abilities and moriyama

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talks about this quite a bit

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of basically of paranormal abilities are

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often sometimes an awakened chakra so

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very interesting correlation there so

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moriyama also goes further he says

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chakra awakening is a process which must

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be undergone

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if the soul is to evolve and

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enlightenment is to be reached so it's

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just fascinating so we're basically

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we're

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embodied spiritual beings and the

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chakras are basically help if we develop

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them and develop this body this other

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body it helps develop our physical body

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and expands our experiences our