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Hey firebirdflys. <3 It sounds like the paradigm that you were exposed to in regard to chakras just wasn't working out for you, it wasn't real to you. The whole chakra spinning meditation thing never work for me, either. I will address these things in a couple of other posts, one being a review about a book you may find really helpful and interesting.
By the way, I don't know if we were thinking this at the same time, but regarding your comment about the head being lopped off in that graphic...I had typed the following above the graphic at around the same time you posted that comment:
"Note: There are important chakras in and around the head. Yet unfortunately, there's
no head / head chakras represented in the following graphic."
It's on there now. lol! Unless you saw my comment and that prompted you to write your comment, otherwise we were thinking the same thing at around the same time. haha
To wrap up the story from my last post...
Stumbledupon a Book
Another experience that drew me to understand chakras was a weird experience I had with a book. I was in what used to be Tower Books and a book about chakras was "dancing" on the bookshelf every time I walked by it. I walked by the book 3 times on my way to other sections of the store, and each time I passed it, it seemed to be dancing or shaking in my clairvoyance (see why it's hard for me to talk about this kind of stuff? haha).
Finally, when I was on my way to the register with my other purchases, I picked it up and looked at it and was like, "What? What do you want?" as though the book were going to answer me. Well, I ended up buying it. However, every time I'd go to read it, I got frustrated because it never made any sense to me. It sat around
unread for years. "Why'd I buy that stupid book?" I would grumble every time I saw it sitting around. I think the only reason I kept it was because I was intrigued by the back story of my finding it, how it had been dancing on the shelf when I first saw it. Yet, it remained unread for almost 10 years.
Chakras as Shorthand for Readings
Finally, this experience led me to understand chakras more than the others, I would say. One thing led to another in my life, a series of weird occurrences, and I started doing psychic readings for a practice website which doesn't exist anymore. It's too bad because I thought it had a great concept to it --people could just do readings for each other, all free, anonymous, no stress. It was great practice. Anyway, when the readings started backing up, I needed a way to speed them up, some kind of "shorthand" enabling me to read people quicker. I then remembered that chakra reading thing I had learned to do years before. But, by this point I had forgotten how. Then, I remembered I had that book about chakras.
As I thumbed through it not only did it make sense, but it added a lot of depth to my understanding of chakras. Chakras are not about colors, spinning, appearing like lotus flowers, and all this other stuff. Like I said, when New Age movement people get hold of information from other cultures, they pull tidbits of it totally out of context, package it into books and seminars, then make gobbs of money on the nonsense they've created. This does more damage than good to the confused consumers who buy it and are sincerely trying to grow spiritually with it.
Anyway, this book is very grounded. It's not an easy read, but what I like is that it presents a whole different paradigm of chakras, and what I learned from it ended up becoming a big part of my reading work, informing and deepening my understanding of what I was seeing. The book is called
Awakening Intuition. I'm sure I have mentioned it before on here in past posts. I will do a little book review about it in the future. If anything, I would liken chakras to crystal balls, holographic, vibrant, alive with energy, revealing to us our past, present and future...if we know what to look for.
You know, one lesson learned from
all this: sometimes in life you get pieces of a puzzle, here and there, but the overall picture remains a mystery. For years it could remain this way. Some things you can't rush. Things will happen...when they happen.
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I would guess imbalances there would be depression or other mental issues and spiritual weaknesses.
Re: Ear Chakras
