QUOTE:re Chakras = "horizontal slices through a human’s psychic body"

Hi Morton,
With my limited knowledge but keen interest in the Chakras, could you clarify whether we should have the arms/hands beside the body or outstretched.
With arms and hands beside the body, they are in line with all the Chakras from the Throat to the Root Chakras, but with with the arms outstretched they're in line with the Heart and Throat Chakras only.
I see the the arms and hands as being affected in both positions because the hands are definitely part of our Survival instincts (Root Chakra) by way of defending ourselves when threatened, or attacking an enemy, yet they are also forms of communication as well (Throat Chakra) and are used to signify love and compassion (Heart Chakra).

Could you advise in this matter please...I am confused about the where the arms/hands stand in the "horizontal slices" . Do you have a diagram to post in this topic section for interested people to have a better idea of the situation?
Many thanks,
Gillian

Hi!

Your questions are excellent and quite perceptive, but are related mostly to making connections between your conscious individuality and your psychic, sensory and motor centers. My post and my illustration were in reference to how the 'self' unfolds in time, and how this unfoldment might relate to those same centers or Cakras. In short, I was relating the Cakras to horizontal slices in 'time' - called the natal horoscope. These same 'slices in time' are also called Mandalas.

For answers to your particular questions I would recommend you contact that Center that Arian posted, and even take their Cakra test. And then you might consider studying their suggestions for tuning these very same centers.

For example, if you sit cross-legged and touch the Apollo (Sun) finger on each hand to its thumb, and then place your left hand on your knee and your right hand on your heart center, you actually establish a current or energy flow between your ability to move about (your
knee) and your ability to love (your heart). That realization alone should answer your question for you about the arms and the legs.

The arms, for example are either for hugging, or for warding off aggression.

Similarly, you can test various minerals, crystals and metals, holding them gently against your throat center, your forehead and then your heart. Try amethyst, Tiger's-eye, Turquoise and others of your choice. Then try Gold, Silver and Copper. You will find some materials to be healing; some irritating and some will send you to far off places. Similarly, pictures and personal objects can connect you to the past and future, and (eventually) you might learn to read a person's joy or sorrow.

The Cakra test at the site Arian noted for us is well worth taking in terms of expanding your own self-knowledge. For example, my own negative scores resulted from my willingness to be brutally honest - despite screams of protest from my ego. I like to think of myself as a nice person, but I know how stressed I can get during first meetings, or in certain social situations.

So, as I answered the cakra questions I pretended I was someone else, meeting myself for the first time. How would THEY answer those questions about me?

And I feel sure that Abishek used his own method to insure some negative scores, thus assuring the rest of us that this too was o.k.

Finally, our lovely Australian Rieke instructor, would surely answer the Cakra test in accordance with her own personal goals, knowing full well that her methods will really help any who feel the need to contact her. That alone would insure her positive scores.

See how simple Life is?

Mort (shantana)

Hi again,
I took your advice, went to the site Arien posted and did the test.... Oh dear - Where did I go wrong with Root to Navel Chakras?
Root Sacral Navel Heart Throat Third Eye Crown

Root: under-active (0%)
Sacral: over-active (69%)
Navel: under-active (-6%)
Heart: open (38%)
Throat: open (63%)
Third Eye: open (31%)
Crown: open (19%)
Percentages go from -100% to +100%


But I take all your points to heart and will see more in the recommended site, believe me, and am following the information presented under topic "Chakras" in the Forum also. So again, many thanks, I will follow all the Chakra postings.

Gillian

Good for you!

And I feel sure you will discover that you have begun a new phase in your own evolution. You have opened (perhaps) a new door to your own future.

And as the DOORS once said -- 'and you can't turn back!'



shantana (mort)

How true it is, but it was many years in the making for numerous personal reasons.....and now you're not posting any more! How sad, but I'm sure you'll pass by now and again because people never really leave somewhere they've been made to feel welcome.
Gillian.