Chapter 4: How to Begin Healing Your Chakras
Each chakra can be under-active or overactive. An overactive root chakra can make a person feel nervous, ungrounded, fearful, or insecure. Moreover, it makes him resistant to change, and greedy or materialistic. On the other hand, an under-active root chakra can cause codependence, fear of abandonment, feeling of lack of security, and inability to get into a person’s body.
An overactive sacral chakra can cause a person to become overemotional, attracted to drama, very quick to invest and attach in others, and moody. It can also make an individual lack personal boundary. On the other hand, a person with an under-active sacral chakra experiences an abusive relationship, and a lack of self-worth
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He needs to be kind and gentle to himself. When he takes a bath, he has to ensure that he uses candles and bath oil. Furthermore, he heals his sacral chakra when he celebrates even his minor milestones. He needs to watch romantic movies even when he is alone. Moreover, he must visualize a pouring of orange into his sacral chakra. Ylang ylang and sandalwood are great essential oils for healing this chakra. For crystals, the individual can use carnelian and moonstone to balance the sacral chakra.
The Solar Plexus Chakra
To heal the solar plexus chakra, the person must eat yellow foods and drink chamomile tea. As much as possible, he needs to get outside and visualize that yellow pouring into is solar plexus chakra. He must be aware if he belittles himself. Furthermore, he needs to surround himself with people who appreciate and love him. For essential oils, he can use lemon and chamomile. If he is into crystals, he can use citrine, amber, and Tiger’s eye.
The Heart
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The individual must be able to be firm with his “No”, and be honest and open with people surrounding him. Moreover, he needs to speak with love to authority figures and visualize blue enveloping his throat chakra. Essential oils that help heal the throat chakra include neroli, sage, and lavender while aquamarine and turquoise are the best crystals for this chakra.
The Third Eye Chakra
A person with an imbalanced third chakra can heal it by listening intently to conversations to try to find out any hidden messages. He needs to feel the energetic vibration of people surrounding him. If his intuition is right, he must praise himself. Lastly, he needs to visualize indigo pouring into his third eye chakra. Effective essential oils to heal the third eye chakra include rosemary, basil, patchouli, vetiver, and jasmine. For people who use crystals, sodalite and lapis lazuli are the best crystals for this chakra.
The Crown
Many traditional Native medicines and healing practices were discouraged with the advent of Western medicine, but now there is a movement to return to traditional ways (Zubek, 1994, p. 1924). Modern Western medicine treats the symptoms to cure a diseased state when the body is out of homeostasis. Native American healing traditions do this as well with herbs and plants suited to the purpose. These Native healing traditions also include sacred rituals, chants, and purification rites to help bring the spirit and mind of the afflicted back into balance. In effect, treating the whole person, not only the disease. A blending of these two healing practices could bring about better prognoses for today's patients. The purpose of this paper is to show the views of practicing physicians and their patients in regards to Native American healing traditions. It also discusses a hot spring in Alaska, where participants go to experience holistic healing in the mineral springs and the success they have experienced using this form of healing process.
What is aromatherapy? In an article titled “Phytotherapy Research” by Amr Edris, he describes aromatherapy as, “The use of essential oils and their volatile constituents are widely to prevent and treat human disease.” Aromatherapy is said to be an alternate form of medicine that uses essential oils, which are made up of volatile plant materials. With these essential oils it is said that they help to alter a person’s mood, health, mind, and cognitive function. It is also said that aromatherapy could substitute as treatment or prevention for certain diseases. There are many different types of oils used for aromatherapy in different ways for different outcomes. Such methods include the topical application, aerial diffusion, and direct inhalation. Topical application is any direct contact with the oil, used such as placing the oil in a bath or directly on to the skin. Aerial diffusion is where the oil is placed on the carpet around you or even on to a pillow or bed. Direct inhalation is a method where the oil is placed on the hands and rubbed together then while cupping your hands under your face to inhale the oils, this has a very powerful effect when used. Some uses of aromatherapy are for used as anti-depressants, relive stress, help with relaxation, insomnia, acne, itching and many more. To cure anxiety lavender, chamomile, rose, vanilla, and cardamom oils are all used for this. Lemon, jasmine, rosemary, sandalwood, and peppermint oils are all used to help with depression. When dealing with fatigue it is said that basil, cedarwood, clove, and eucalyptus all help. Headaches can be cured with lemon grass, thyme, ginger, and cinnamon oils. Caraway, chamomile, lavender, and rosemary oils are all used to help with menstrual cramps. The...
With this in mind whatever method is chosen, modern medicine or alternative, spiritual healing is a crucial part of the whole process of healing.
Mathews, Holly F. "Introduction: A Regional Approach and Multidisciplinary Persepctive." Herbal and Magical Medicine: Traditional Healing Today. Ed. James Kirkland, Holly F. Mathews, C. W. Sullivan, III, and Karen Baldwin. Durham: Duke UP, 1992. 1-13. Print.
There is some mention of the chakras as psychic centers of consciousness in the Yoga Upanishads (circa 600A.D.) and later in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (circa 200 B.C.). Patanjali's tradition was largely dualistic, however, stating that nature and spirit were separate, and that the goal of yoga was to rise above nature.
For many centuries, humanity has been on an eternal quest for cures and treatments for many chronic conditions. At the present time, conventional medicine is mostly performed by doctors and other health care professionals, with the extensive use of pharmaceutical drugs, surgery or radiation treatments for disease treatment. Conversely, even though not as popular, complementary and alternative medicine and treatment options are slowly gaining popularity and becoming an addition to traditional medicine.
In this new age there are many alternative medicines that help in the healing process. The new age healing practices shifts religious traditions as a sign of divine healing which is more the western’s use of scientific medicine to metaphysical movement. Some of the alternatives to healing include, ’’chiropractic, twelve-steps programs, therapeutic touch, crystal healing, and sundry holistic therapies.’’ Because of the slow decrease of physical healing from the church, the use of New Age Metaphysics has increased. New Age Metaphysics, New Age Energy Medicines, and Holistic Heath have given us alternatives in healing and medicine.
...se many of their attachments to nature are dormant, and pose and obstacle to the individual to break past their shell. Nevertheless, the potential is always there, the real question is, can the person bring themselves to discard their inhibitions? In the sinister the difficulty is greater. However, in those who are righteous, walking into the unknown becomes an adventure, a righteous person will also be more readily able to accept their spiritually while attempting to capture the beauty of their surroundings. Like the never ending circles of the universe, there is never a limit to the amount of people who can accomplish this, because every person is capable of reason.
Holistic Medicine, commonly referred to as “Alternative Medicine”, is a vast and rapidly growing new scientific field. It is derived mainly from ancient, traditional methods of healing that have often been practiced in the East for centuries. These include a variety of techniques from herbal healing to acupuncture to homeopathy to energy channeling. Due to the large number of methods that are covered by the term, there are various definitions of Holistic Medicine. However, all literature seems to agree that Alternative Medicine, is exactly what the name suggests: an ‘alternative’ approach to healing and medicine. It is a more personal move toward health care, which attempts to connect the mind, body and spirit.
Chamomile, eucalyptus, frankincense, Scots pine and rose otto can help. Put 6 drops of your chosen oil (except eucalyptus) in the bath and/or a burner, or on a tissue and inhale as required. Make up a massage oil using up to 10 drops essential oil in 25ml base oil and massage into the chest and back, 2-3 times a day. Bibliography CGP GCSE Double Science Biology. The revision guide.
According to reflexologists, stress, fatigue, illness, toxins, and inactivity are harmful influences on the body that can be healed through reflexology treatment. Reflexologists believe that the body can be divided into ten zones, five on each half of the body. In each zone, impulses and reflexes travel until they reach nerve endings in the feet and the hands. These zones are believed to be meridians along which energy flows. Placing pressure on the nerve endings in the hands and the feet will effect the organs found in that particular zone (http://www.reflexology.org/aor/refinfo/healart.htm). As well as longitudinal zones throughout the body, there are also cross-reflex points. These cross-reflex points are corresponding points on the opposite side of the body which can be useful in administering reflexology treatment when pressure i...
The treatments followed by Haitians should follow the opposite of imbalance in order to regain the normal state. Compress, baths, herbal teas are often used to restore ailing health.
One type of "alternative healing" is called Apitherapy, and is what I will be discussing in this paper. Apitherapy is defined as "the healing use of the products of the honeybee hive" (1). Much of apitherapy is based on the properties of bee venom, though there are other byproducts which have claimed to be benificial. The major reason this therapy has come to light is because bee venom is composed of 30 different components, many of which are peptides that should provide an anti-inflammatory affect, as well as other agents which stimulate the body's immune system. Pure bee venom (Apitox) has been tested and found to be safe in humans and animals by the International Pain Institute (2).
Eastern medicine is not a substitute for conventional healthcare but, by a composition of Western medicines scientific knowledge and the holistic approach of Eastern medicine, we could actually maximize our healing potential.
Through the practice of yoga, I have begun to learn many things about myself that I did not know before. These new findings are due to the implementation of the practice of yama and niyama into my everyday life. Yama means restraint or behavior to avoid. While, niyama means observance or conduct to cultivate. Yama principles focuses on a person’s interactions with the world while niyama is more of a self observation and how to deal with ourselves. I find that these ten commandments of yoga have caused me to examine myself and the world around me in a way that isn’t negative but of understanding. I think that as humans we tend to fear the unknown but the unknown is only unknown until we actively engage in finding the truth. Thus, we can go on in life being afraid of the things that we don’t know about ourselves and the world around us or we can enthusiastically search for the truth.