Keeping Your Energy Body Healthy
10th July 2006
I have dealt with the energy body and the chakras in my earlier blog post titled “How Does the Energy Body Work?” (6th July 2006). Chakras are energy centers that whirl continuously and alternately in the clockwise and anti-clockwise directions. Their job is to absorb energies from the surroundings and expel the used up energies.
Yoga recognizes seven major chakras that control and supply energies to all the organs of the body. Each chakra is connected with a network of energy channels (nadis) that route the energies to the organs controlled by that particular chakra. According to ancient masters and yogis a disease first enters the energy body before manifesting in the physical body. Remember, they were great clairvoyants and could observe how disease entered into the physical body. Great healers that they were, the clairvoyant yogis and masters would remove the diseased energy from the energy body before it could manifest into the physical body.
Certain energy healing systems, such as pranic healing, are very effective in keeping the chakras and energy body clean. It is so obvious that a clean energy body and chakras will ensure a constant supply of healthy energies to the physical body.
[Above: Ashiya Sumiyoshi - All grace and elegance]
Diseased energies create blockages in the energy channels, which reduces the flow of energy and in certain cases cuts off the flow completely. The related physical organ is thus deprived of energies and, resultantly, first it starts to mal function then falls sick.
Thus, it is important to keep the energy body healthy. Physical exercise is one effective way to keep the chakras activated. Activated chakras will absorb sufficient amount of energies and expel the used-up energies completely. If you do not keep your physical body active, your chakras are likely to remain in a de-activated state, which will result in insufficient quantities of energy absorbed, and incomplete expulsion of the used-up energy from the energy channels. The used-up energies keep piling up and create blockages in the channels resulting in weak and sick organs.
So, keep your energy body healthy by doing a lot of physical exercise and meditation.
July 21st, 2006 at 6:55 pm
[...] Normal breathing does not provide enough oxygen and prana for the organs to function at optimum levels. As a result, the functional capacity of the lungs and other organs starts dipping with time. Pranayama ensures that the organs receive their quota of prana, which keeps them healthy and allows them to function properly. [...]