The Chakras - Explained Western Style: Part 1 The Root Chakra

well today we're going to go off into India and we're going to start to explore this good morning we're gonna start to explore the chakras I thought it was important that we started to explore them because I've been playing with the chakras for four years now with specific meditation that I've learned through the gurus and I've been playing with him to open up the energies and so I thought it'd be really good if we took some time to understand that and so we're gonna start today with the root chakra so what are the chakras the chakras are energy centers within our bodies that help to regulate all the processes the organ functions to the immune system and all of our emotions all energy is managed through the chakras we have seven of them they're positioned throughout our bodies the bit goes from the base of our spine all the way to the top of our head we'll get into that as we go each chakra has its own vibrational frequency as its own color and governs specific functions that make up who we are since we're all energy the ability of your energy centers to function optimally helps us physically psychologically emotionally and spiritually it's about bringing ourselves into balance it's real important to understand that when energy is imbalanced things are flowing when energy is not imbalanced when it's blocked that's when stuff starts to happen within us so the seven chakras and you'll notice they're under they each have different colors and today we'll be starting at the root which is at the base then the third chakra is right above it in the sacral area then you have the solar plexus the heart the throat the third eye and the crown and there's an energy that flows and the way I have always been taught the energy flows down the front starts up at the crown flows down comes goes around the root chakra and comes all the way back up and out and there's an energy flow that is constantly flowing and when it's not inhibit there's harmony within our body harmony within our emotions harmony within our psychology it's that when there's a blockage that things start happening to us whether it's an emotional breakdown whether it's a physical breakdown whatever it is and it's you know these ancient wisdoms for me are beginning to make more and more sense because they're simplistic we've tried to make things so complex when if we just understood like the basics of life is there's a natural order in the day is there not the Sun rises it moves up and the Sun sets our bodies are tuned into that energy whether we realize it or not and they function best where we're in the same cycle of the natural phenomena of the Sun and the moon it's amazing and when you go against that cycle we cause ourselves a lot of interesting experiences so to speak so let's go into a little bit of background the chakra is sand script for wheel okay and chakras are there normally pictured as spinning wheels of light okay and they spin clockwise or counter clockwise and it depends but the root chakra is more like this it's horizontal the other chakras are vertical until you get to the crown chakra and then that's horizontal as well okay does that make sense so the top and the bottom chakras are horizontal the in-between chakras are vertical the first writings about the chakras happened about 1500 BC they first came to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century so it's really relatively new in the 20th century probably you know what Parma Hans a Yogananda was probably huge in bringing in the guru that the Beatles were with was huge when all of a sudden these pop stars in that started hanging out in India all of a sudden the eastern way started coming here so chakras are really new here and if you go to yoga studios and that you'll hear I'm talking about it and um we've really bastardized the system I don't know how else to say that we've made yoga Cal aesthetic or physical fitness and that's not what yoga is at all Yoga is a path to the divine it's a path to stillness it's a path to oneness yoga there are many different forms of yoga one is the asana or the movement but the movement is to be in a state of oneness but that's not taught it's about holding a pose as opposed to becoming the pose and letting go of everything else so the methods to heal the chakras will get this out of the way chakra meditation and mantras affirmations balancing through massage balancing through music balancing through yoga essential oils and professional energy healers now I tend to use the top one I do chakra meditation and chakra mantras because that's the most ancient and that's what I was taught by the Guru's so I do that and that has worked for me I have gone to energy healers and I'm gonna say this really clearly I don't know if you believe in energy healers but they're I been to energy healers and if you don't have the right one they'll screw up your energy and it's not fun so you have to be really particular about who you ever let mess with your energy you have to really claim and you gotta take time it's more than just an interview it's seeing that person understanding where they are getting references and stuff like that just because someone puts out a signal says I'm a Reiki healer which is an energy healer you don't just go to them you've got to be very cautious with yourself and you've got to say wait this is my energy this is my infinite flow I'm not gonna let anyone mess with that I say that because I've had the bad experience I'm trying to eliminate you from having that same experience the root chakra it's the first chakra and it's located at the very base of the spine it's the root of our being it establishes our deepest connections to our physical body our environment and the earth so many times we have lost connection with the planet we don't go outside and just with our bare feet be on the ground be on the grass feel the energy of the mother touch a tree touch plants play with animals that's what we're we're part of that that's our environment it's natural for us instead what do we do we go into air conditioned buildings with air with lighting fixtures and we pull out our cell phone and we get lost in a world of digitality that's a new word I made today doesn't it I wanted to point out to you that I know I make up new words all the time and you got that one here first anyway but connecting to the earth is really really really important and what's fascinating is I observe that the earth and the methods of the earth if you talk with like ancient healers healers in the jungles of Peru who are masters at plants they can go into the jungle they'll know what someone's got an illness with and they'll find exactly the right plant to treat it no side effects if you go to a Chinese doctor who's been passed down information for thousands of years they will treat you with something from the earth there's never anything artificial with that doesn't that make sense that if we're connected to the earth that everything we need to heal comes from it and more importantly it comes from it when we can align our energy up and we're going to be going through that whole idea of lining up our energy over the next seven weeks it is our survival center the root chakra is where we have our fight-or-flight come from it's our response there it's our animal nature this is where all that animal nature that instinct it's centered in there and that's not bad that's good as long as we understand that we're the master of that nature and we don't let it become the master of us when we get into rage that's the animal nature taking over from us when we're on that highway and we're flipping people off left and right that's the root chakra gone astray the energy of our root chakra chakra allows us to harness courage resourcefulness and the will to live through trying times there's something in it that gives us that courage in that strength it's we're born with this DNA and I'll get to that in a moment I think it's important the root chakra connects us with spiritual energy of our ancestors their challenges and triumphs you ever wonder why did I come forth why do I have these tendencies in me why do I have these beliefs I never thought of that well because it's in the DNA that our parents passed on to us it's in the DNA that was passed on from their parents to them we are literally right now we are the evolution of 13.8 billion years 13.8 billion years of development from what we understand the world began all of that DNA all of that experiences has brought us to this point and is demonstrating in us right now and so we want to say my god I just got to get rid of this and we don't understand why does stuff keep coming up because there's so much more in us that we're not even aware of since the chakra carries our ancestral memories everyone experiences challenges and blockages with the root chakra it was fascinating why was i drawn to do um past life regression but I was there was a period going back about seven years ago where I went and I did about seven past life regressions where I women actually went through about thirteen different lives going all the way back and all this stuff came up for me and it was interesting how there was a common thread of this type of stuff here's what the common thread was I've always been a spiritual teacher I've always been a rebel and until this lifetime I was always put to death if that's in my subconscious mind do you think there might be an underlying fear going on I had to realize that I had to deal with that idea I don't know if it's real but if it came out of my subconscious mind it's got to be somewhat real to me right because whatever we perceive becomes our reality I then did a regression where I went to the life between lives so I was literally walked back where I was killed in my last life and then I went into the life between when I came into this life and it was so fascinating the hypnotist kept saying what's it like do you see colors do you hear sounds and I just said there's nothing there's absolutely nothing she says how can you describe it and I finally said to her the only thing that I can subscribe that I could pursue um describe it as is picture a hundred bodies on top of each other and all of a sudden the bodies disappear and those hundred energies merge into one energy and there's a hundred points of consciousness that communicate with each other without words without speaking without anything and you're in the state of complete utter peace and you know don't know where you begin or where you end that's the best I could describe it as I believe that's what happens when we die I don't know that to be true I said but that's what I believe because I had that experience and it felt natural it felt easy it felt right so the question is ancestral memories are with us war famine natural disasters and any events that threaten our basic survival are all recorded within the energies of the sacral chakra so if in a past life you were in a war of this current life if you were in a or you wanna in some type of violent thing or you felt your life being threatened that energy is stored in that base root chakra and that's where you'll generally have problems these memories are imprinted in our subbable subtle body and are passed down from generation to generation creating unconscious generational patterns we often go why do the Italians have this pattern why do the Polish have this pattern why do the ty have this pattern why do the afro-american have these patterns that's been passed down for thousands of years and it's built into the DNA that's why it's there we've only become civilized enough what we're trying to break those boundaries of being segregated I'll use the word segregated in to Italians over here polish over here because when I was brought up there was the Polish ghetto there was the Italian ghetto my parents came from each one where the hell did they go to live they went to the all-white ghetto and that's where we got a different upbringing so I don't know my Polish heritage I don't know my Italian heritage I only know a blended heritage so I don't have that ethnic tie because it wasn't instilled in me but I know a lot of you might have that tie nothing wrong with it just be aware that that's there because that is influencing how we see things the root chakra it is our responsibility to bring to light that which is in the unconscious that's real important your knee hears so many people talking about I'm doing breath work because it's bringing out what's inside of me I'm doing ayahuasca it's bringing out what's inside of me I'm doing hypnosis it's bringing out what's inside of me okay that's great it's bringing out what's inside of you now when it's out what are you gonna do with it I was having a fabulous conversation with a gentleman that I'm bringing looks like he'll be coming here October 20th guy by the name of Ron Chapman and he speaks all over the country and I'm gonna bring him and he's going to talk about when you've got this exposed when you've got this out of your unconscious how do you refill it how do you build your subconscious mind so that you don't have to relive that over and over again we spent about an hour and a half yesterday talking about that and he's right in alignment with what we teach at agape so I feel very comfortable with this all seven chakras are important and interconnected usually when we balance one chakra it affects the others it's important to balance the root chakra first always you've got to balance the base if you don't balance the base you don't have any balance at all it's the same thing in Maslow's hierarchy if your basic needs are met aren't met there's no way you can be sitting in this community thinking about spiritual evolvement because you're worried about shelter food and water and safety so the basics have to be handled before you can move up in levels of awareness up and levels of consciousness we cannot grow and change unless we feel safe and secure you've heard that me say that week in and week out if you're in a relationship that's not safe you're gonna struggle forever because you can't grow because you feel unsafe it's only when you're safe in the relationship that you can grow that's the most important thing I'm going to say that over and over again and if you're in a relationship that's not safe sit down with your partner and try to find out what is it that we have to do so that we both feel safe I think that's critical relationships that are not safe are not relationships at all so the key characteristics of the root chakra its associated with these behaviors security and safety survival basic needs food shelter sleep self-preservation physical identity and grounding those are the basic things that it affects Oh support and foundation for living our lives what happens when the root chakra is out of balanced there's excessive negativity or cynicism are you a negative person are you focusing on what's wrong as opposed to what's right are you critical if you are you got a root problem eating disorders root chakra again greed root chakra anger root chakra excessive feeling of insecurity living in survival mode constantly think about that if you are living in survival mode constantly think of the stress that's going on in your life you never you can't sit down and relax you're in survival mode you're constantly and the Tigers about to eat me the Tigers about to eat me not a good feeling you know normally the human when the tiger could eat us we would run for 1530 seconds or whatever and either we got away or we were eaten and then once we got away cuz I would like to be the fastest of my group therefore I know the slowest one got eaten it's like when gene and I went to the woods I said she said what about bear I said I don't worry about bear I said all I worry about is running faster than you you didn't like that I thought that was pretty damn cute well that's a man joke again anyway and then worry and depression worry and depression also come from the root chakra being out of alignment healing tips connect to the earth take care of your immediate needs this is really important to start to understand that do you have needs that are immediate don't put those needs off handle them now get them off your thing so you're not worried about them get your base down get your house in order get your food in order get your safety in order then you can move forward based decision on trust and not fear this is huge so many times we we make decisions based on fear instead of trusting there's a power in us that knows what's best for us and that we can follow that power and will always be led to the next step in the next step physical activity if you're feeling funky go do something move Tony Robbins says this really clearly if you're in a funky state of mind shift your body posture get up go run go jog go do something so I started this program Claudia I'm going off point just so you know called athlean-x it's an intense program to build an athletic body and lifestyle so I've gone through the first week I'm barely alive I'm Thursday they wanted me to run I don't run I quit running when I was in 54 years of age because it's time to take in my body so I went into the I went on the elliptical and the program was you're on the elliptical and you go in a normal pace so I'm going at about a ten-minute mile pace okay just going at it five minutes all of a sudden I got a crank up for 20 seconds as fast as I can then drop back 40 seconds back to the other pace then I had to do that ten times and then finish with five I wanted someone to carry me home but what I understood was this and I got this as I listen to the video of him talking about it if I don't tax my body at a higher level how am I going to get it to perform at a higher level the degree that we tax our mind our body our spirituality is where we're going to function and if you never take a step up you're never going to function at the higher level so it's about getting into a zone where we're not comfortable where we're having to push we're having to stretch if you're on an elliptical bike and you're going like this and that's your exercise every day all every week what's going to change in your life nothing because there's been no change in what you're doing what you're doing has generated who you are and if you keep doing exactly what you do you're gonna have that exact same experience you can take this analogy into relationships if your relationship is not moving smoothly right now if you keep doing exactly what you're doing the relationship isn't going to change go from an outer focus to an inner focus realize that this outer world is a reflection of the inner world and where the change needs to happen is within you in your mind and how you view things and what you believe remember I think I said this last week and it wasn't it's my favorite quote that I've ever come up with and is that without commitment there is no belief do you really let that sink in that if you believe something and you're not committed to it it's a fantasy it's a fairy tale it's not a belief when you believe something you commit to it meaning there is no turning back and you're gonna get it done a deeper sense isn't it great that our motto here's how to how to teach how to better self love through conscious living and in every one of the chakras to heal it you develop a deeper sense of self-love that will heal every chakra that will get the energy going that self-love things self acceptance understanding growing becoming more it's everything but we tend to run from the simplistic and want complex don't need it okay so here is my master chart you're gonna see this at the end of every week this is how I believe you can heal the third chakra and this is the wisdom that I've taken from three different gurus and I haven't implemented into my life you're gonna sit quietly in a comfortable position you're gonna put your focus and bring your focus to the base of your spine so you're gonna bring your awareness to the base of the spine you're gonna surround it in red light red is the color of the root chakra so you're going to visualize a white wheel and it's gonna go clockwise or counter clockwise to notice it's counterclockwise for females it's clockwise for males why it just is and it's what brings us together it's that balancing so you do that you picture that the energy for me I can see that energy going like this remember that chakras horizontal isn't it so I see that red energy I see it moving and while I see that then I go into the mantra the mantra Islam oh my mhmm shreem sri Matri namaha lama this won't take you long to memorize and when you see the other mantras i'm going to give you there'll be a very slight variation so you're going to be able to get all seven of them and you'll be able to do a put together a whole meditation when we're done on this but what I'm going to ask you this week if you haven't written this down take your phone off and take a picture of it and you're gonna want to try this or when Charles when we publish the video go to the video on YouTube and the this slide will be up there here's the interesting thing last week I got a I got a comment from a woman in Florida and I got a comment from a woman in California who've been watching our YouTube videos one for nine months one for a year and a half and they say my god it's transformational what we teach they say you don't realize that we're we can't wait for that video to show up every week because it wouldn't it's what changing our lives but the key thing is the people who will write me are the people who are doing what I'm asking them to do in the Sunday service because if you just come and listen you're gonna have a great time you're gonna hear great music gonna be with great people good energy a lot of yapping a lot of sociality but your lives don't change until you do the work I'm gonna say this and I'll say it every time I talk I didn't believe this when I started this I thought this was hooey but then I made a commitment that when I was Challen when I had three different gurus tell me the same thing I got I got it in Kriya yoga there's an aspect of Kriya yoga that Parma Hansa Yogananda taught and it was about centering and seeing the movement of energy around the chakras in Vipassana that I studied there was a movement of energy around the chakras and you just watched the flow when I talked with Karuna Maya guru ji preeminent andhe ji and Sadhguru all of them talked about the chakras again so when all these wise people talking about this I said I need to commit to it so I've spent over three and a half years doing a specific meditation called Sri Vidya that I learned from a guru and it's about clearing my chakras and I found that it's made me a different person the energy the ank's that I would have that I would display I don't have anymore am i perfect no but I don't have that anger coming up I don't have those blockages coming up I'm very rare occasion and you're never going to get to be perfect to get that you're never going to be perfect where everything's working great it's not that way can we get into that can we just put that aside because too many people are looking for a quick fix I remember when croon Amaya guru ji krune Amaya came to Dallas or when I met when I was with him in India and he took me to the sacred temple where he had a vision of divine mother and he gave me my my mantra he said in order for this mantra to work for you you have to do it a hundred thousand times in three months that was two hours a day did I live up to that commitment why I gave my word and I wanted to see if it worked and the funny thing is it did I can't explain how it works I just know it does and because I know it does I'm willing to teach it because you will never get me up on that you'll never hear me on the platform talking about something I've not tested for myself I'm not going to talk about it I'm not gonna talk about theory we don't we can go to college and have theory I want positive practical pragmatic things that allow us to change our lives that's why you're here because that's all we teach at agape this week once a day five minutes your life will begin to change next week we'll add on I look forward to speaking to you next week about that let's pray I want to thank you for joining us today I'm so grateful that you took your time to watch or listen to this message if you found this message beneficial I would ask that you go to our website agape Co Cellcom once there click on the donate button and experience the joy of conscious and purposeful giving or if you would like text your gift by simply dialing nine seven two five three two six nine seven six it is through your gifts that we are able to bring this message to you in the world I would ask that if 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Length: 30min 18sec (1818 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 01 2019