Michael Hetherington - Chakra Balancing Made Simple and Easy

The word chakra means vortex or energy center or wheel. There are seven in the yogic system, and three main ones in the Oriental system. There are also minor chakras that exist in the palms, feet, and behind the knees, to name just a few. The seven chakras are closely associated with the endocrine glands, better known in biomedical anatomy.

Personally, I understand chakras to be like portals where subtle energies and information from higher planes of existence, like the quantum field, are funnelled through to us. The chakras then distribute this information and energy through the meridians that run through the body like a complex river and irrigation system. These subtle energies influence matter and denser forms of reality, and this is where our experience of our dense physical bodies comes in.

Another way of describing it is that the nervous system, the brain and the endocrine glands act as receivers of this information, and, when triggered, secrete hormones into the body which instruct and dictate cellular activity. If the chakras and meridians are not functioning well, the nervous system, brain, and endocrine glands receive misinformation, and therefore secrete the incorrect mix of hormones so the cells start acting strangely. The body gets confused, physiology on all levels starts breaking down, the organs start suffering, and our psychological function becomes impaired.

The chakras also interact and draw in energy from our environments and from other beings. They draw in this energy for a variety of reasonsto experience, to learn, to assimilate, to entrain (synchronize), to nourish and to heal.

Our chakras spin both in clockwise and counterclockwise directions. The chakras are a complex system of energy transformation; a similar complexity to that of fractal geometry. One description is that the chakras are made up of discs, and the outer disc spins in a clockwise direction, the next disc spins in a counterclockwise direction, and so forth. Also, from my experience, mens chakras tend to have a greater clockwise than counterclockwise spin, and women have a greater counterclockwise than clockwise spin. The clockwise direction may symbolize yang and counterclockwise may symbolize yin. Please note that both yin and yang are present in all things.