The human body has some sensitive areas known as the centers or the charkas that are responsible for emotions, intuition. They are located in seven important parts of our body. Chakra meditation can focus on one or more chakras. It helps us to get more awareness and consciousness in life.

Most of us believe that chakras reflect the life force energy. However, there are chances for charkas to be out of balance. Chakra meditation facilitates rebalancing the energy fields.

To start chakra meditation, you can seek out any position you find comfortable. Then relax yourself by taking deep breath and allow your eyes to close slowly.

There are two types of approaches in Chakra meditation. You can either imagine your energy being balanced in the chakra spots in your body, or you can see the colors linked with such spots.

Hint: many people feel the color approach is easier to practice.

Various Types of Chakra in The Human Body

• Root Chakra:

It is worth to start with your root chakra. The color of this chakra is red. It is located at the base of spine. The chakra has close links with your overall health. You can start chakra meditation by imagining a red ball growing in size and strength when you breathe in and out.

• Naval Chakra:

This chakra is located at the lower abdomen. It is associated with physical feelings like love and sexuality. The color of this chakra is orange. You can imagine an orange ball growing in strength. If the ball starts to spin, allow it to do.

• Solar Plexus Chakra:

It is located below the chest. This is the chakra responsible for concentration. Your sense of power and self-control congregate in this area. The chakra meditation in solar plexus can increase your internal energies. The color of the chakra is yellow.

• Heart Chakra:

It is located at the center of the chest. The feelings like forgiveness, compassion and harmony exudes from this point. Green is the color of this chakra. You can allow the green ball to grow if you want to foster the feelings of divine love.

• Throat Chakra:

It is found in the throat and it has direct link with your communication. This chakra is sky blue in color. If you start chakra meditation focusing blue color ball, you can notice a great improvement in honesty, wisdom and kindness.

• Brow Chakra:

Brow chakra is the region of third eye. The forehead above your eye is the focal point of this chakra. The color of this chakra is indigo. You can increase the realization of your own soul, divinity and peace of mind by focusing the indigo ball in your inner mind.

• Crown Chakra:

Crown chakra, as the name suggests is located at the top of your head. It has direct connection with mind and spirit. It is violet in color. If you focus your concentration on the violet ball spinning, your spirit, divine wisdom and inspiration can improve. You can open up the crown chakra to feel oneness with the universe.

Every time you focus on the color chakra, it is important to slow down the speed while coming out of it. However, the brightness of the colors needs to be the same. After focusing all the color chakras, allows your body to come to this conscious world gradually.

By: Warren Marion

Chakra meditation helps to strengthen weak chakras and will benefit your health, wisdom and happiness.

If you need to recharge your body, mind and soul then using chakra meditation is an excellent way to revitalize you from the inside out.

How to perform a chakra meditation

The first few times you practice a chakra meditation, make sure that you have an expert to guide you. Ideally face to face, but at least with a guided CD. You need to make sure that your chakras are left more in balance at the end of the meditation than they were when you started!

Start your meditation by sitting down, cross legged in a quiet, dimly lit room
Make sure that your spine is straight but not stiff
Close your eyes then take a deep breath and start to relax

Now go through each chakra in turn, starting with the root chakra:
Imagine that you are drawing energy up from the earth, through the root chakra and that this is building up in the base of your spine.

Then the navel chakra: feel the concentration of energy building up around your navel and visualize a flow of warm lava out of this chakra center.

Moving on to the solar plexus chakra, let your stomach muscles relax deeply and sense the movement of the energy through your diaphragm.

Next is the heart chakra. Imagine your heart getting stronger with every breath. See and feel a bright light radiating out from this area.

Progressing on to the throat chakra, breath in with force. Then gradually relax your tongue, shoulders and neck.

For the brow chakra, keeping your eyes closed, focus on your "third eye" (the point between your eyebrows). Endeavor to see this area even though your eyes are close and observe what you are seeing.

Finally, it's the crown chakra. Visualize a beautiful lotus with a thousand petals blossoming from the tip of your head. As you visualize, see the color change from a deep violet through to a brilliant white light.

Done correctly, the chakra meditation can bring you into union with your God. It is a very powerful form of meditation and helps you to stabilize your body, bringing an inner peace and harmony to you.

By: Trevor Dumbleton