The Importance Of Chakras
Working out your chakras is a lot like working out your muscles. If you are going to exercise properly than you need to know a few things about the muscles that you want to work out. First, you need to have some sort of idea what the function and purpose of each muscle is. Understanding this will give you an idea of how to exercise the muscle. You aren’t going to work your arms by doing squats, and your core isn’t going to be worked too well from bicep curls. After all, it isn’t enough to just workout- you need to work out according to the goals you want to accomplish and the muscles you want to improve. The same holds true when energizing and strengthening your chakras. You need to know which chakras to work out, and how to target it specifically.
Manipura lies at the front of your stomach around your navel, though some people place it in the solar plexus. Regardless of its exact position, it relates to digestion and the core power of your body. In fact, saying that Manipura is primarily concerned with power would be a bit of an understatement. Physically speaking, all of your body’s power originates from what fitness gurus have come to call your “core.” Your core is the girdle of muscles that surrounds your abdominal region, above your waist and below your chest. This area of your body is involved in just about every single movement and action that your body takes, and nearly all muscular and physical power in your body starts in this physical area.
Digestion is also ruled by Manipura, and digestion is all about assimilating the energy and power from the foods that you consume and transmitting them throughout the rest of your body. While the macro and micronutrients that you absorb from your digestion spread throughout your body to do their work, once again they all originate right within your core.
But perhaps more than anything else, Ajna relates to your ability to hold the proper perspective on things. When you are blowing small problems or details way out of proportion, or when you are unable to see the importance of something when it’s obvious to other elevated people, than you are likely to have a problem with your 6th chakra. Remember that “seeing” isn’t simply a matter of looking at what’s in front of you. Seeing always has much to do with filtering what’s presented with you through your personal perspective and biases.
Energizing and strengthening Manipura often involves exercising and strengthening your core muscles. Working on exercises like crunches, rollouts and heavy lifts like squats and deadlifts all greatly strengthen your core muscles. Not only will these exercises temporarily bring energy into your third chakra, but by increasing their strength and capability you will be empowering your Manipura in a more long term manner. It’s also crucially important that you watch what you eat if you are having third chakra problems, or if you simply want to further strengthen it. Most of your digestion health is related to what you eat, and continuously poisoning your stomach with junk foods and the like will quickly erode your sense of physical and spiritual personal power.
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