What the Chakras mean

What does chakra mean?

You probably think all of it is fake crap but there's an explanation for it & here's the tea.

To understand what chakras in our body are, all you have to ask is what keeps us alive.

Obviously it's the air we breathe because without it, we'll drop dead.

In Hinduism we call this pran vayu, which means life force.

Now this pran vayu enters through our nose & lungs but it's not like it stays there ... it's distributed everywhere through our body's internal railway system to warm it up - in some places there's more heat & in some places less heat.

Just like there are different diversions & machines in place to carry trains throughout a network, Hindus believe that our bodies also have certain invisible but very crucial points in our body that help in distributing this prana vayu (life force).

These centres are nothing but the chakras - deriving from the words Chalana & Karoti which translates into a thing that enables movement. Here they're enabling energy to move throughout.

When we do yoga, we're recharging on these chakras, which is why it's said that when they're correctly activated, we feel better & more fresh.

We have 100s of mini chakras & 7 main ones, including Moolaadhara (Root), Swadhishthana (Sacral), Manipuraka (Naval), Anahata (Heart i.e. Solar Plexus), Vishuddhi (Throat), Aadnya (Third Eye), Sahasraara (Crown).

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