Understanding Chakras

Hi Folks -

Hows Life !?

Hi to Namrata, my friend from a workshop!

I am so very happy you felt good after reading the blog !

Thats what it is for !

To realise that we are all powerful spiritual beings leading a wonderful human life to learn self-chosen lessons and move to the next level !

Thanks !

Deepti has sent two questions based on the last post - 'Ignorance and Ignoring'.

1. How do we identify if we are progressing correctly and not just believing that we are?

2. How do we identify if we are the ones being rigid and not others with whom we have to learn our lessons?

Good questions !

1. When we begin to learn our lessons, our negative patterns begin to change.

Supposing one of our chosen lesson was keeping calm in face of aggression.

In that case, what would be the habit-pattern we have come with and which we wish to dissolve?

Aggression which hasn't got us anywhere and merely heaped a lot of negative karma that we now have to clear.

So now, we choose, for eg. an overworked mother, an indifferent father and no siblings or much older/younger ones who we dont really bond with.

To get attention, we become difficult.

Dont study, play truant and falling back on the old pattern, become an aggressive bully.

We will have any number of justifications to behave this way and may even think that our lesson to learn was actually to be so !

There is one litmus test.

When you step back and think about your behaviour, in the end-result, was anyone hurt by it?

Did you feel good and have peace of mind by that behaviour?

More importantly, have those 'always-happens-to-me' negative things stopped happening to you?

When a negative pattern breaks for good, positive things start to happen.

You may move out and find a great group of friends.

Or you may not have enough time on hands for those 'poor-me's.

The possibilities are endless.

2. If the negative things have stopped repeating in our life, we have learnt our own lesson.

We now can and should move on.

If the other person insists on being rigid, we have to learn to let them learn at their own pace.

It is also true that, when we change and start to give out calmer, positive vibrations, the world starts to react that way too.

In this case, your parents and siblings may 'discover' you and be proud of you

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Awareness is the key to these changes.

Now for today's topic.

CHAKRAS are invisible Centres of Energy in our body.

We ALL have them, whether we believe in them or not.

Just like after this life, there is going to be an after-life, whether we believe in it or not !

Both are generally invisible to the naked eye but there is a huge amount of information about both because they are so important to each one of us !

It is also true that life goes on merrily for millions who haven't the faintest idea about either !

Amazing, isn't it?~

There are 7 major CHAKRAS, and you know something - they all relate to the Soul's 7 Stages !

The First is The ROOT CHAKRA, at the base of the spine.

All the issues about survival and safety and grounding are stored here.

The Soul's 1st stage is all about sheer survival.

The Second is The SACRAL CHAKRA, beneath the navel.

This is about the sexuality and reproductive abilities.

The Soul's 2nd stage is about conforming, following, being safe in numbers.

The Third is The SOLAR PLEXUS.

This is the repository of our aggressive emotions, about fear and self-esteem and power.

In the 3rd stage, the Soul wants power, name and fame.

The Fourth is The HEART CHAKRA.

This is all about emotional power, love and compassion.

The Soul's 4th stage is all about starting the inward journeyand the question - 'Who am I'?

The Fifth is The THROAT CHAKRA, all about Creativity and Communication.

The Soul, in the 5th stage, has now seen the oneness in the whole universe and become more spiritual.

The Sixth is the THIRD EYE CHAKRA, all about the Mind's power, psychic energies, consciousness, intuition and so on.

The 6th stage of the Soul is the Transcendental one, when it can influence society towards a non-violent, positive path.

The Seventh is the CROWN CHAKRA, based in the crown of our head and connects with the higher realms of Consciousness, Knowledge and Spirituality.

In the 7th stage, the Soul IS the Divine and can raise the consciousness of the entire planet.

So how does knowing about The Chakras help us ?

Its another way of reaching our destination, of realising our full potential.

These Chakras have to be open and balanced for us to be mentally, physically and spiritually healthy.

So how do we know where we stand ?

Type chakras and google search ! T

here are 3-4 sites giving free online, instant tests and they're all good.

Take them.

Find out for yourself what you are!

ENJOY !

Ignorance and Ignoring

Hi folks !


There have been two comments, one from someone who wanted to fake the whole thing about Past Life Regression and the other from one who did not go back!


The first one truly zapped me!

Cookie had actually, secretly determined to lie and create her own scenario!

And she could not, because she entered a past life and got caught up in what she was seeing because the situations were so relevant to her present!


Awesome! We had a good laugh over this !


Ranjana quickly understood the fundas and STARTED WORKING ON HERSELF like a busy beaver!

I've told about this whole metaphysical thing to so many !

She's one of the very few to ACTUALLY put it in practice and be in the light RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!

One doesn't have to live fearing death and just hope for the best.

Be sure here and now!


Which brings us to today's topic-


Ignorance and Ignoring.



Ignorance is the opposite of Awareness, and many times, it is out of lethargy or fear or stubborn refusal to accept differing views and realities.

While leading our lives, somewhere along the way, we start to put on coloured glasses and insist that the whole world is of that hue - violent, not to be trusted, selfish and so on.

When one is unaware of the bigger picture, this kind of indifference is overwhelming, limiting and in a strange way, quite comforting.

It takes the onus away from our doing anything to improve our situation. Shackles become security.

Ignoring comes after Ignorance is gone and you can neither bring it back nor accept the changed scenario.

This proves to be inexcusable.

Hanging on to old thought-processes, habit- patterns and beliefs even when they have done us no good keeps us in a state where we do not progress at all but insist that we have.


This has to be rectified.

There is immense pleasure in developing a curious mind, finding things and the laws behind everything.


There is a whole world within us waiting to be explored.


We had spoken about Pre-Birth Choices and Agreements in the last post.


What do you think will happen if we do not live this life according to our own choices and agreements?

The other people who had kindly consented to be a party to this combined lesson, will learn theirs and move to the next dimension.

And we will have to make our choices with more difficult lessons all over again. In many more lifetimes.

To take a few egs., supposing I've come with anger or impatience or fear.

I will face situations which will help me overcome these debilitating traits IF I actually start to do so.

Universal laws come together in full force to help, but if I give in to my inherited habit of screaming, sharp, hurtful words or remaining comfortably fearful, the souls who are at the receiving end will learn their lessons of patience, unconditional love and strength etc. and move on.


We had chosen these parents, lovers,spouses and children because they were the most suited for us, but now they will not be available even here in this lifetime becuse of our own rigidity.


Lessons are meant to be learnt by BOTH the parties.

There is no victim unless that soul has chosen to remain so and this would come about if there is careless or wilfull ignoring of one's own realities.


Its important to remove ignorance and equally or more important to not to ignore the patterns in our life.


Remember Energy Stealing ?


When we stop it, when we learn to go deep within and access the peace and serenity that's deep inside, we stop being stolen from too.


So relax!

Meditate!

Dont be too hard on yourself.

Thank the Universe for all the love and peace and tranquility coming your way.

Expect it!

Then thank again!

So long -

Pre-birth choice and agreement

Hi folks _

So how are you faring in your chosen lives and situations ?!

To think that we actually sat down and chose the life we are leading now !

Along with the financial difficulties and vanishing jobs and difficult spouses/partners !

Unbelievable, isn't it ?!

But only we could do it to us !

There simply isn't anyone else !

And the reason was not a temporary loss of sanity!

We die, and after a period of rest take an overview of the life we have just finished.

What we had wanted to do, the things done correctly and the mistakes made.

Having left our body, we are a spirit and have the memory of every previous lifetime too, of all thats happened, the lessons learnt/unlearnt and those yet to learn.

We now think deeply, confer with our spiritual guides and come to a conclusion that in the next life, I shall learn to be say - thrifty.

Because I see that in the last few lifetimes, I have been a spendthrift.

A taker.

Self-centred, indifferent to the difficulties my parents , friends or lovers faced in providing for my desires.

So this is the main lesson I choose to imbibe.

I also see that if I decide to learn one lesson per lifetime, mess it up, fare a bit better in next life, mess again horribly and so on, I will stay in this quick-sand for eons.

So I choose a couple more subsidiary subjects.

Like being more patient.

Loving.

Caring.

Having made such choice for ourselves, we now need a set-up which would be conducive to learning these lessons.

Everyone is learning at the same time, so we go and seek a soul from our group of 150-200 with whom we first began this roller-coaster ride and who now wants to be strong-willed as a first choice and ask if it would be our mother.

These are souls we have been with in many earlier lifetimes in different contexts, so we know each other very well!

Then, the parents take birth, marry and have us and we start our journey.

In the meantime, our children have made their pact with us too!

Sometimes, we dont want any, and there are lessons in that too, or a lifetime chosen for other work.

Coming back to the financially tough times, we may have got carried away and lost control over our sense and sensibility.

Or chosen a lesson of facing up to tough times.

Of gaining self-confidence.

Learning to live on less and find out that happiness does not depend on the size of the wallet.

Whatever happens to us in our life, happens because we chose it as a challenge with the confidence that we will overcome it and grow and evolve from that experience.

We NEVER choose impossible targets for us, just tough ones.

So once in a while, take an overview of your life.

Are you at peace with yourself?

Caring and compassionate without making a song and dance about it?

Time passes.

Both good and bad.

When we learn to mentally step back and watch life's difficulties pass us by, they do not overwhelm us.

It always comes down to being aware.

What we are aware of, we control.

What we are not, controls us.

Awareness of the fact that our difficult times have been chosen by us, removes all the finger-pointing, the helplessness and the impotent anger that comes with it.

Many people when they die, are in a great hurry to come back to earth without the learning that continues after it.

The period of rest, meeting with the guides, the review of the life just finished.

They tend to make the same mistakes again.

Planning, patience and honesty are important both here and in the after-world !

Are there any lessons you have learnt in tough times?

Think.

Thank the Universe for it.

Another thought-

Have you undergone Past Life Regression under me or anyone else, anywhere, any time?

How was your experience?

Did you go back? Did you see clearly or not-very-clearly? Or not at all?

Did you undergo age-regression?

Were your questions answered satisfactorily?

Are you integrating what you saw and learnt in this lifetime?

How has it changed your life or thinking?

Do you think it is useful?

Please do send in your honest replies for everybody's benefit!

You may choose to hold back your name, if you wish.

So long for now-