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One of seven centres of spiritual power in the human body
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chakra
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In some Indian religions , a chakra ( Sanskrit cakra , "wheel") is thought to be an energy point or node in the subtle body . Chakras are believed to be part of the subtle body, not the physical body, and as such, are the meeting points of the subtle (non-physical) ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1888 in yoga sense, from Sanskrit cakra "circle, wheel," from PIE root *kwel- (1) "wheel" (see cycle (n.)).
Usage examples of chakra.
This includes contacting the subtle patterns or energies of our physical covering -the pranas, chakras and physical tattwas - or enlarging consciousness of our human mind structure.
In Eastern thought, you release the lower chakras first, then the upper chakras, moving people away from their bodies and their sexuality toward a sense of oneness with the universe.
Picture your chakras opening as flowers and at the center of each is a slow motion explosion of sweet light.
In different parts of the body we have psychic centres, or chakras, which give off and receive psychic impulses, impressions and vibrations.
One is the order of the Buddhist icons, continuing as far as possible in the spirit of the Indian visionary inspiration, reduced, however, to the level of chakra four.
The sixth chakra of Pinda, lying between and behind the two physical eyes, though it has no specific anatomical location.
Picture your gut chakra opening in a slow-motion explosion of sausage-casing small intestine.
And so Freud and Adler and their followers can be said to have interpreted the phenomenology of the spirit in terms exclusively of chakras two and three -- which is enough to explain their inability to make anything more interesting either of the mythological symbols of mankind or of the goals of human aspiration.
The nature of thought on this level is that of mechanistic science, positivistic reasoning, and the aims of its life are as envisioned at chakras 1, 2, and 3.
For it is only at the level of the fourth chakra that specifically human, as distinct from sublimated animal, aims and drives become envisioned and awakened.
Hence, even in the Buddhist arts of the Far East there is evident generally a displacement of interest from the prospect of the sixth chakra to the level of chakra four.
Some western schools talk of a seventh, 'crown' chakra, but this is really a confusion, for it relates to the Sahasra, which is not a part of Pinda, the physical universe, at all.
Maybe he was one of those New Age people, with his talk of energy and chakras and stuff that she didn't understand.
And after the introductions and the guided meditation, the seven doors of the palace, the white healing ball of light, after we open our chakras, when it comes time to hug, I'll grab the little bitch.
He told Brytanni that he couldn't possibly have his aura fluffed until he'd gotten his chakras aligned, and doing both in close succession was almost as big a no-no as going swimming less than half an hour after eating.