The Chakras is the name popularly given to the energy centres of the human body. The word is an unusual one and comes from an ancient language – Sanskrit – which is, I suppose an Eastern equivalent of how we in the West would use Latin.
The accepted translation is that it means spinning discs, or wheels. This was how the ancient mystics viewed the energy around the body; where more than one energy converged at certain points it naturally created a swirling motion. we see this all the time in nature, where two bodies of water meet or two cloud systems meet, mini cyclones are formed.
It has become accepted to talk about there being mainly seven chakras- there are more but to simplify things, it is best to stick with the basic seven. These span the length of the spine and reach out through the various layers of the aura. They take in energy and let it out as required.
Personally I see them more as funnels or take the spinning disc image and pull it up and out( a bit like a pot on the potters wheel) so that they become a 3D spiralling funnel. They are connected through a myriad of tiny lifelines and cover the body – inside and out- building a web or matrix effect.
The energy I talk of is not just life force energy, which I see as mainly travelling up and down the spinal column and then out through the matrix but the chakras also act as filters and sometimes sponges, to the other energies around us. By that I refer to the environmental energies, the mobile phone transmissions etc but also the energy of thoughts and words- our own and other peoples.
Just because we can’t see the energy behind such things, doesn’t mean we don’t feel it – even if we are not always conscious of it. Think about listening to certain types of music, different tunes inspire you to move or act in different ways, your ears hear the music but how you feel is interpreted elsewhere- through the intricate network of energy channels.
