Chakras

I understand the concept of chakras, but the individual chakras confuse me a tad, anyone care to explain in a bit simpler terms for me?

I'm really interested and have been researching it, and I gather the main ideas, however, some of the awkward wordings in the explanations are throwing me for a loop.

thanks <3

 

The eight individual chakras you mean? Or are you referring to the over-all chakra of a person?

 

The 8 individual chakras

 

The eight chakras are the energy centers located in the specific areas of our body. What chakra books are you reading, by the way?

 

thanks for the thread apples + oranges....

I have been reading some on the net as well. I was trying to do crystal layouts without knowing nothing about chakras either. Now when I meditate I open and close them, resulting in my feeling much more centred.

There is a huge chakra thread in the sarced spiral

 

thanks! ill check it out

 

Consider the chakra charts and mantras for them at www.vi1.org http://www.vi1.org/mantras/chakra/chakra.shtml Also the book by Harish Johari called "Chakras" is definitive, as well as a few books by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, and "Serpent Power" by Arthur Avalon.

 

here is that thread

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=166453