Chakra Meditation @TGR Happyness Circle
This Sunday morning was special. It started with Mother Nature giving me an
experience to cherish for a life time. At dawn, as usual, I looked out at the
Eastern horizon to see the sunrise, and was greeted with a blanket of mist that
covered the ground from East to West. From the 20th floor, it looked
like I was sitting on the clouds and viewing the earth waking up lazily on a
Sunday morning.
The construction site half a kilometer away was shrouded in
mist and the lights were struggling to fulfill their purpose. Though the sun
was steadily rising, the mist was determined to shut out the sunlight from our
sight. It was palpable this fight between the sun and the mist. Waves of mist
were heading East to beat the Sun and protect the Earth from this light. This
battle had an unexpected side effect. The sky was lit with so many different
colours, mauve, pink, blue, violet, yellow, orange, red, purple, indigo that it
looked like a kaleidoscope that had gone crazy.
I left home at 6:20 am to drive the 25 kms for the TGR
Happyness Circle meet at Nandanam and was stunned to see that visibility was less
than 10 feet. The mist was winning the fight and the sun was struggling to push
in a few rays of light through this thick blanket of darkness. I was grateful
for the sparse to non-existent traffic, so I could safely navigate towards my
destination.
Luckily as I passed Sholinganallur, the Sun was winning the
battle and visibility had increased to 30 feet or more and I could make better
time in reaching my destination. By the time I reached the city, the mist had
given up and retreated into hiding and the day looked as normal as ever. I
wondered whether the city denizens were even aware that this epic fight had
taken place between two worthy opponents.
This week’s session was Chakra Meditation. I was eager not
to be late and thankfully I wasn’t. I reached in time to meet all those who
were there and helped them set up the place for the session. My help was in the
form of giving final touches to the arrangement of pebbles to symbolize the
human form, the seated variety.
The session started as usual at 7:15 am with Murali lighting
7 candles and placing them in this form.
The sight of these candles in this form sent electric
currents through my spine. And I was looking forward to what was going to
happen next.
The sessions started with the usual preparatory rituals of
saying the universal prayer, So Hum breathing and meditation, sitting in
silence and the unique introduction story by one of the participants.
Then Happyness Coach Murali introduced the topic of the day
and got into the meat of the session.
This was what I learnt there.
We are not just a physical body. We also have an energy body
that drives our physical body. Behind this is a subtle system that controls and
drives our energy and our body. These are chakras and nadis. Nadis are highways
of energy that travel in a helical form from toe to head. Chakras are located
wherever nadis crisscross each other. These Chakras act as inter-dimensional
portals that allow us to have access to the necessary energy to live our life
experiences in an abundant state. The
free flow of energy through our chakras ensure smooth flow of vital energy,
providing health and vitality to our physical body
The seven most powerful chakras are:
- Mooladhara Chakra (Base / Root)
- Swadishtana Chakra (Sacral / Sexual)
- Manipura Chakra (Solar Plexus)
- Anahata Chakra (Heart)
- Vishudhi Chakra (Throat)
- Ajna Chakra (Brow)
- Sahasrara Chakra (Crown)
I also discovered that each chakra has its own colour and
its own unique sound. Murali explained about each of these chakras and its
associated colours, sounds and what it does for us. The low lighting and the
candles laid on each of the chakras created a fabulous environment and the room
was filled with expectation and an ethereal feel that we were going to
experience something wonderful.
Murali started off the meditation with us visualizing the chakra
and its associated colours and followed it up with one more round with the associated
sound added to it
Mooladhara
Chakra
Location: Coccyx, base of the spine, at the perineum
Colour: Red
Sound: Lam (Lum)
Swadishtana Chakra
Location: Sacral plexus, genital area
Colour: Orange
Sound: Vam (Vum)
Manipura
Chakra
Location: Solar plexus, navel center
Colour: Yellow
Sound: Ram (Rum)
Anahata Chakra
Location: Solar plexus, navel center
Colour: Yellow
Sound: Ram (Rum)
Anahata Chakra
Location: Cardiac plexus, heart center
Colour: Green
Sound: Yam (Yum)
Vishudhi Chakra
Colour: Green
Sound: Yam (Yum)
Vishudhi Chakra
Location: Thoracic plexus, throat center
Colour: Blue
Sound: Ham (Hum)
Ajna Chakra
Sound: Om (Ohmm)
Sahasrara Chakra
Sahasrara Chakra
Location: Crown of the head
Colour: Violet
Sound: Aum (Ahh-oo-mm)
I could feel the tingle of the chakra and the energy
coursing through them. It was the most powerful TGR session that I have
attended till date and I was glad that I had not missed it.
At the end of the session, we were all totally in a trance
and did not feel like leaving. We had so many questions and Murali and others
answered each one patiently and there was so much of knowledge sharing that we
overstayed in that hall by almost 45 mins putting the hall organizers in a
tizzy because they had to get it ready for the next program
