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Chakra Awareness Meditation

Lying down comfortably, stretch your legs and toes and move your hips a little to adjust them, and relax and let them flop into the earth.
Arms by your side, , open the inside of your elbows to the sky, stretch your arms all the way to the fingertips, rotate a little your shoulders, and let go, relax.

Bring your chin a little towards your chest, rotate your neck a little to find just that right comfort zone, and relax back onto the floor adjust your back and chest until comfortable, and relax.

Tensing your eyes tight, and relax. Tensing your teeth and tongue, and relax. Tightening your ears and jaw, and relax.
Completely relax into the ground.

Inhale slowly for a count of 4, 3, 2, 1 and hold a little, and exhale for a count of 4, 3, 2, 1.
Breathe in Saaaaaaaaat, hold, exhale Naaaaaaam, in Saaaaaaat; __; out Naaaaaam.
Continue breathing deeply with Sat on the inhale, hold a little, and Nam on the exhale, allowing your belly to rise to draw in the breath and fall to exhale it.

Chakra 1 - Muladhara

Bring your focussed conscious attention to the root chakra, and inhale Saaaat very slowly and hold

When I am grounded, I am more capable of doing the big emotional work of acceptance. Acceptance is the opposite of judgement.

Exhale Naaaam and let go

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned

[allow space for 2/3 breaths]

Chakra 2 - Swadhisthana

Now bring your attention a little higher your spine, to the reproductive area, the second chakrum, and inhale Saaaat very slowly and hold

To experience true creativity, we must always be willing to let go of the results, whether it’s a novel or our children

Exhale Naaaam and let go

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong

[allow space for 2/3 breaths]

Chakra 3 - Manipura

Again raise your focussed conscious attention to the next chakra in the Solar plexus region, inhale Saaaat very slowly and hold

Your grit is not based your muscles. Your grit is based on how deeply you breathe. The length and depth of your breath and your sustenance are proportionate

Exhale Naaaam and let go

The most basic commitment any human can make is the commitment of being fully alive

[allow space for 2/3 breaths]

Chakra 4 - Anahata

Now raise your focussed conscious attention to the heart area, the fourth chakra. Inhale Saaaat very slowly and hold

Falling into prayer is exactly the same as falling in love. It is an infinite fall from which you never come out. These two experiences are the highest of all

Exhale Naaaam and let go

Self-rejection can bring a lot of pain. Learn to love yourself

[allow space for 2/3 breaths]

Chakra 5 - Vishuddha

Again move your focussed conscious attention, towards the throat area, the fifth chakra. Inhale Saaaat very slowly and hold

When you speak, it should be as if infinity is speaking

Exhale Naaaam and let go

Words are not small things. Words are the real power. The whole universe is a magnetic field. If we create positive words, we feel love. If we create negative words, we feel hatred

[allow space for 2/3 breaths]

Chakra 6 - Ajna

Now move your focussed conscious attention to between your eyebrows, towards the sixth chakra, and inhale Saaaat very slowly and hold

Go inside and listen to your inner voice. Every question has an answer. Your soul is full of wisdom and knows the way

Exhale Naaaam and let go

If you open yourself to your intuition in small ways, the really big messages will find a way through

[allow space for 2/3 breaths]

Chakra 7 - Sahasrara

Now move your focussed conscious attention to the very top and tip of your head, to the seventh chakra connected to boundlessness. Inhale Saaaat very slowly and hold

[intone] Wahe Guru

Exhale Naaaam and let go

Our struggles are our growth opportunities

[allow space for 2/3 breaths]

[Closing sequence]

See the golden thread flowing and connecting from your base root chakra right through and beyond the crown chakra, harmonising and healing

[allow space for 2/3 breaths]

Dissipate your consciousness and become conscious again that you are within your physical body, lying on the ground.

Become conscious of your breathing, the slow movements of your belly as it rises, and as it falls.

Become conscious of your arms on the ground; of your legs and feet. Move your fingers a little; move your toes.

Bring your hands to a prayer position above your heart and rub them together ever so gently. Continue as you bend your knees, bringing the soles of your feet together towards your torso and rub the soles of your feet together, as you continue to rub your palms together.

Bring your feet down, let go of your hands, half open your eyes, keeping your attention towards your third eye area.
Roll to the right, and when you’re ready, sit up.

We’ll finish with three Om

AUM / AUM / AUM

Namaste