{"id":110475,"date":"2024-02-09T23:02:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T23:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/?post_type=docs&p=110475"},"modified":"2024-11-23T13:27:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T13:27:44","password":"","slug":"humans-shakral-system","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/ufy-books\/yoga-book\/humans-shakral-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Human\u2019s \u0421hakral System"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The main element of human energy structure is chakral system. Chakras (Sanskrit: Chakra<\/em> \u2014 wheel or disc) are mentioned in the most part of Yoga and Tantra origins, such as \u00abGheranda Samhita\u00bb, \u00abHatha Yoga Pradipika\u00bb, \u00abShiva Samhita\u00bb, \u00abShat Chakra nirupane\u00bb, \u00abYoga Tattva Upanishad\u00bb, \u00abAmritabindu Upanishad\u00bb and many other<\/a>.<\/div>\r\n
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Chakras are also mentioned in Tibetan origins such as in the famous Atlas of Tibetan medicine<\/a>, in Chinese treatises of Neidan (Sanskrit: neidan<\/em> \u2014 inner elixir). Some elements of chakral system are mentioned in Japanese martial arts (hara, ten-sho), in outlooks of Mesoamerican shamans. These notions are also met in less developed systems (naturally, in simplified version).<\/div>\r\n
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<\/a>The Western world\u00b9<\/a> learned about chakras thanks to the proceedings of Arthur Avalon, a European who got into the restricted Indian Tantric School and afterwards has published notions he received. He was the first to publish classical Indian drawings of chakras, which have been redrawn for last 100 years by other authors with all imaginable errors and distortions. He also gave mantras for chakras and their petals, correlated petals with human qualities. Based on his chakral scheme a countless number of schools and interpretations were born, as well as various techniques of work with chakras. Although being an adept of an esoteric school, Avalon made some hay of understanding chakral system<\/a>, affirming that one can open chakras by \u00abraising Kundalini\u00bb, while an common person has all chakras closed.<\/div>\r\n
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The next step in understanding the chakral system in modern occult tradition was made by Rudolph Steiner, the founder of anthroposophist society. He noticed that chakras don\u2019t open while raising Kundalini, on the contrary: people open their chakras, acquiring some qualities and skills<\/strong>, which creates prerequisites for raising Kundalini. Thanks to Steiner\u2019s observation the concept of chakral system in modern esotericism has broadened. In Steiner\u2019s works he affirms that all people have chakras, but their level of development can differ. Moreover the chakra\u2019s characteristics define our actions, capacities and personality.<\/div>\r\n
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At the same time psychology also approached the problem of chakral system.<\/div>\r\n
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Wilhelm Reich further acknowledged as a founder of the body psychotherapy has found out that psychological problems lead to muscle blocks, localising as seven<\/strong> \u00abmuscle armours\u00bb, each of them reflecting a certain well-defined group of problems. (I suppose, that even those readers who don\u2019t know about works of Reich have already guessed that position and characteristics of these \u00abarmours\u00bb amazingly reminded Steiner\u2019s chakral system). This theory was significantly developed by progenies and followers of Reich (A. Lowen, Feldenkreiz), while body-psychotherapy has taken a fare place among other therapeutic systems. The Western world was finding its first clues.<\/div>\r\n
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A certain input in understanding the chakral system and its role in studying human body was done by mediums in the period of great interest to the extrasensory capacities in the late 1970s. Mostly independently from the mentioned origins based on their personal experience, mediums noticed that human body has energy centres and a man\u2019s health depends on their state. These centres are located practically in the same place as Avalon\u2019s lotuses.<\/div>\r\n
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However no wonder all the systems independently were coming to the same conclusions. Chakras exist in reality and any studying of a human being ultimately leads to similar notions. The connection between emotional states and certain parts of body is also reflected in such metaphors as \u00abto have a clear head\u00bb, \u00aba thick-headed person\u00bb, \u00ablump in one\u2019s throat\u00bb, \u00aba heart withered\u00bb, \u00abto be a pain in the neck\u00bb, \u00aba great weight off one\u2019s mind\u00bb, \u00aba sinking sensation in the pit of one\u2019s stomach\u00bb, \u00abants in one\u2019s pants\u00bb, \u00aba pain in the ass\u00bb. \u00a0<\/div>\r\n
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Physiological aspects of chakras<\/h3>\r\n
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Let\u2019s briefly describe the localisation and symbols of chakras according to the Indian tradition. \u00a0<\/div>\r\n
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Sahasrara<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n
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is located between eyebrows and relates to the pineal gland. Anatomically relates to the brain, eyes, frontal and maxillary sinuses, nose, and upper teeth.\r\n
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is located slightly over the navel and relates to the following organs: stomach, gastrointestinal tract (except the upper gullet), intestines, first of all with the small intestine (colon is more related to the Muladhara), upper kidneys and adrenals (adrenalin is a hormone of Manipura), liver, spleen, vertebra in the Manipura region, pancreas. \u00a0<\/div>\r\n
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is located in genitals, about 4 fingers down the navel. Related to the genitals (male and female), bladder, inferior kidneys, renal pelvises, ureters, uriniferous tubule (for women), lower back (except the sacrum, related to Muladhara), hips. \u00a0<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Chakras exist on the astral, etheric and physical planes. Correlating their localisation with endocrine glands and with the knots of autonomic nervous system (ANS) we can easily see the perfect analogy. This connection is absolute most of all, if you take into account additional chakras (4 for each primary chakra), mentioned in the Atlas of Tibetan Medicine<\/a>. Physically every chakra is presented by a gland or an ANS node.<\/div>\r\n
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Nevertheless people are not just physics. That is why the chakral system is not limited by the particularities of our physical body. Chakra\u2019s characteristics are directly related to the human energy and psyche. As a matter of fact chakras are \u00aba bridge\u00bb, connecting our physical, etheric and astral bodies.<\/div>\r\n
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Chakra is a complicated notion with many parameters. They are often described from just one point of view. For example, saying it\u2019s strong or weak. Actually to describe chakra you need at least ten differ- ent parameters. Some of them are given below.<\/div>\r\n
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Chakra\u2019s strength is a volume of energy, initially present in a chakra<\/strong>, while its weakness is the absence of this energy. The energy in chakra determines our desires, and the more energy we have, the stronger our desires are. This fact explains the esoteric principle; if you listen to your real desires, you follow your dharma<\/strong>.<\/div>\r\n
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From all above said it is easy to understand that a person with a strong chakra is highly motivated by needs related to this chakra; so we can make a psychological portrait of people with different strong chakras. For instance a person with strong Muladhara works for prosperity, routinely organizes his private space and is never tired of it. He likes it because it corresponds his needs and desires. Wherever he goes, he\u2019ll always put everything around in order \u2014 for better for worse. A person with a strong Muladhara doesn\u2019t like discomfort.<\/div>\r\n
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For a person with a strong Svadhishthana<\/strong> pleasures are one of the dominating motives. He looks for pleasure in everything, and, if he doesn\u2019t find it, he creates it. A motive of sensual pleasure, including sexual, is dominating for him.<\/div>\r\n
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A person with a strong Manipura<\/strong> is motivated by needs in dominating, governing, social recognition and respect. Such people live for their career.<\/div>\r\n
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A person with a strong Anahata<\/strong> lives with his feelings. For example, he or she can sacrifice something for love (or hatred which is just another feeling).<\/div>\r\n
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A person with a strong Vishuddha<\/strong> is motivated by perception of the World and his need to express himself. He or she is curious, inquisitive and often aesthetic. Vishuddha is also responsible for verbal intellect, i.e. the capacity to express one\u2019s thoughts in words.<\/div>\r\n
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A person with a strong Ajna<\/strong> is motivated by existential needs, i.e. a need to form his worldview, to see his place in the world, to under- stand the sense of life.<\/div>\r\n
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First of all we should speak not about chakra\u2019s openness, but about its maturity or immaturity. A mature chakra means a person has a lot of experience on it.<\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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The mature Ajna<\/strong> depending on it\u2019s development can allot a person observation skills, logical thinking, erudition, analytical thinking and deep wisdom.<\/div>\r\n
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If a person has a mature Vishuddha<\/strong>, he can verbally express his thoughts and feelings \u2014 in words or by other meanings.<\/div>\r\n
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Having a mature Anahata<\/strong> one knows how to operate with the energy of feelings. He can show his feelings and accepts those of others. He can be outstanding in emotional, sensitive sphere. Usually people with mature Anahata are very artistic.<\/div>\r\n
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A person with the mature Manipura<\/strong> is a person with the powerful social intelligence, meaning he\u2019s bellicose, independent, knows how to achieve his goals by socially accepted means, even to the prejudice of others.<\/div>\r\n
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A person with the mature Svadhishthana<\/strong> knows how to live with pleasure. He can get pleasure from life and give it to others. His pleasures are well defined, he\u2019s an expert in sophisticated delights and states.<\/div>\r\n
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A person with the mature Muladhara<\/strong> easily structures all around. Such people build many things, do repairs and put everything around them in order.<\/div>\r\n
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Let\u2019s take for example, Svadhishthana<\/strong>. One can have a strong Svadhishthana with a lot of energy in it, but all the scope of his sensual delights is to eat, to drink and to sleep… In this case we say that chakra is strong, but immature.<\/div>\r\n
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The same with strong, but immature Manipura<\/strong>. It makes a person have tendency to dominate, but it\u2019s expressed in primitive forms: to beat someone, to humiliate, to scare. A person with such Manipura doesn\u2019t understand that there are subtler ways to dominate, more sophisticated forms of managing people, and, consequently, cannot use these means.<\/div>\r\n
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A person with a strong, but immature Anahata<\/strong> is overwhelmed with feelings, but he doesn\u2019t know what they are, he cannot neither ex- press nor define his state.<\/div>\r\n
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A strong, but immature Vishuddha<\/strong> give rise to \u00abinventors\u00bb of perpetual motion machines, amateur art activists and so on.<\/div>\r\n
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Thus every centre isn\u2019t just a drawing or a lotus on our backbone opening when Kundalini passes by. It is a well-defined set of psychic functions, expressing in everyday life like skills, abilities, capacities and qualities. Hence it is obvious that a person with mature chakras is more complete, than the one who has some unopened chakras.<\/div>\r\n
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The most usual, clear and natural combination is a weak and immature chakra<\/strong>. Such person hardly expresses himself on this chakra. Quite positive is a situation when a chakra is strong, but immature. Then he has a lot of energy and can afford himself to make mistakes and make some new experience. If he makes it his aim, he can develop his chakra. At that time he\u2019ll have less energy in it, because by the cut and try method he\u2019ll stumble many times and pay with his energy for new experience.<\/div>\r\n
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The more mature is chakra, the less energy you have to apply to achieve your goals related to this chakra.<\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Let\u2019s take the example of Vishuddha<\/strong>. Everyone needs a certain number of words to explain his thought to other people. The less this chakra is developed, the more words you need. One can explain for hours, another needs just a few words and bright images. Not only comprehensiveness, but also capacious ness of the speech is growing with Vishuddha\u2019s development. For example, Patanjali\u2019s \u00abSutra Yoga\u00bb is just four pages that can be interpreted and reinterpreted, because it is laconic. Information is so to say compact. Short phrases contain many meanings and nuances.<\/div>\r\n
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If a mature person \u00abemanates\u00bb his energy of Svadhishthana<\/strong>, people around fall into a \u00abhigh\u00bb state. If one uses energy of Manipura<\/strong>, others start feeling anxiety and fear. You can hardly approach such a person without a trepidation, and even a thought of attacking him scares you (for real). The more mature is chakra, the less energy a person needs having more ways to achieve his goals.<\/div>\r\n
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The openness of chakra is the ability to emanate energy directly, escaping any action.<\/strong> So a person with the open Vishuddha doesn\u2019t need words to explain. You come to ask him a question and suddenly you realise that you already know the answer. The ability to transmit your state and to express your feelings without speaking is a sign of an open Anahata and so on.<\/div>\r\n
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The openness of chakra is the attribute of yogin state. We call yogin a person who has opened all 7 chakras and is capable to emanate energy from each of them with no action.<\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Of course all the described states are siddhas<\/em> \u2014 extra capacities, beyond \u00abnormal\u00bb or better to say usual human\u2019s abilities. The capacity to manage outer etheric or astral field of any chakra is a siddha.<\/strong> Opening any chakra we get a certain set of siddhas, while, if you don\u2019t have certain siddhas, it means your respective chakra is closed.<\/div>\r\n
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It\u2019s important to understand that not only those, who do occult practices can have siddhas. Common people often have some of these siddhas and very powerful ones, but they ignore their energy side. Realisation in society directly depends on siddhas he has. For example, can a person become a chief, if he doesn\u2019t make employees tremble by his only look? Does a doctor always understand why he makes such a diagnosis? Why one musician deeply affects listeners to tears, while another plays the same music just doing an accurate technique? The answer to these questions lies in the ability to work with energy.<\/div>\r\n
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History \u00a0 The main element of human energy structure is chakral system. Chakras (Sanskrit: Chakra \u2014 wheel or disc) are mentioned in the most part of Yoga and Tantra origins, such as \u00abGheranda Samhita\u00bb, \u00abHatha Yoga Pradipika\u00bb, \u00abShiva Samhita\u00bb, \u00abShat Chakra nirupane\u00bb, \u00abYoga Tattva Upanishad\u00bb, \u00abAmritabindu Upanishad\u00bb and many other. \u00a0 Chakras are also mentioned… Continue reading Human\u2019s \u0421hakral System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[778],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[814],"class_list":["post-110475","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-human-energy-structure-en","knowledge_base-yoga-book","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":2530,"total_views":"67","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Kamertab","author_nicename":"kamertab","author_url":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/author\/kamertab\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Human energy structure","term_url":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/ufy-books\/yoga-book\/human-energy-structure-en\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[{"term_name":"Yoga: physiology, psychosomatics, bioenergetics","term_url":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/ufy-books\/yoga-book\/","term_slug":"yoga-book"}],"knowledge_base_slug":["yoga-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/110475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/110475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=110475"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=110475"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=110475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}