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I'm on a mission to balance my chakras. If you don't know what a chakra is - here is a good article about them at Reality Sandwhich..
There is a great quiz here that will give you some insight into the state of your chakras. Here's a graph showing the results of mine.
I'm going to spend a seventh of the year working on each chakra. At the end of the year I will do the quiz again and see if I have managed to balance them. I will post here and describe what practices I have used and also what changes I have noticed within myself as a result of them.
If you have any doubt about the validity of this ancient system then check out these links that look at the scientific evidence for it..
PermalinkCategories: Philosophy Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary.
Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?" Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, trying to identify what he, as an individual, could do to improve humanity's condition, which large organizations, governments, and private enterprises inherently could not do.
In his honour each year a distinguished jury awards a $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems and the results are in!
Around the time of Spinoza, Newton and Leibniz the emerging world view was that of a clock work universe. The idea was that the initial conditions were set at the beginning of time and then everything proceeded from that point according to set rules that could be determined by science. Since, we are part of this clockwork universe Spinoza argued that all of our actions are determined by preceding causes. Free will was just an illusion and the only freedom was that of God's when he set the starting conditions.
It has now been proven mathematically that at a quantum level the behaviour of sub-atomic particles is acausal. That means that it is fundamentally impossible to predict their behaviour. Their behaviour is essentially new information. Stephen Hawkings has said that this new information can be regarded as initial conditions of the universe.
The Newtonian clockwork view point of the universe assumed that time was at a right angle to the starting conditions. This lead to the view that as time proceeded the influence of the initial conditions decreased and the influence of the laws of physics increased. This lead to physicists looking to explain the current state of the universe solely in terms of the laws of physics whilst disregarding the initial conditions as non-consequential. This bias has reached such a level that some physicists seek to make the initial conditions dependent upon the laws themselves. This is a contradiction in terms since initial conditions are by definition dependent upon nothing.
In the new quantum view of the world, where the initial conditions are present at all times in all places, time is not at a right-angle to the initial conditions but an angle. The influence of the initial-conditions is maintained and can never be discounted.
It is debatable as to whether our minds are influenced by the behaviour of sub-atomic particles but I believe that they are. Steven Hameroff and Roger Penrose offer a compelling theory as to the mechanism through which quantum fluctuations are amplified by the structure of neurons.
What this would essentially mean is that there are parts of ourselves and our behaviour that are not determined by preceding events and that is fundamentally free. That these parts are initial conditions of the universe and so we are always directly connected with the creative act of the universe. So therfore, in a sense, there is a big bang inside of us all.