Chakra (चक्र) literally means "wheel" or "circle" in Sanskrit. The concept of chakras originates from Hinduism in Ancient India. These are focal points used in a variety of ancient meditation or yoga (योग) practices. These practices are collectively called Tantra (तन्त्र) [1]
Although the concept is frequently found in early traditions of Hinduism and are often mentioned in the Vedas, beliefs around chakras differ between various Indian religions. Buddhist texts consistently mention 5 chakras whereas Hindu texts and sources speak of 6 or 7 chakras.
Early Sanskrit texts speak of them both as meditative visualizations combining flowers and mantras and as physical entities in the body. Within kundalini yoga [2], various breath exercises, visualizations, mudras (मुद्रा) [3], kriyas (क्रिया) [4], and mantras (मन्त्र) [5] are focused on manipulating the flow of subtle energy through chakras.
Chakras are also present in Ayurvedic traditions [6].
The belief behind chakras is that human life simultaneously exists in two parallel dimensions, one is the physical body and the other is psychological, emotional, mind, non-physical (the subtle body).
The aforementioned subtle body is energy, while the physical body is mass. The psyche or mind plane corresponds to and interacts with the body plane, and the belief holds that the body and the mind mutually affect each other. The subtle body consists of energy channels connected by nodes of psychic energy called chakra.
The chakras -- in Hindu and Buddhist texts -- are said to be arranged in a column along the spinal cord, from its base to the top of the head, connected by vertical channels. Tantric traditions strive to awaken, master, and energize these chakras through yoga and often with the help of a teacher.
The esoteric traditions in Buddhism generally teach four chakras. In some early Buddhist sources, these chakras are termed as: manipura (navel), anahata (heart), vishuddha (throat), and ushnisha kamala (crown).
However, a system of five chakras is common among Classes of Tantra in Tibetian Buddhism. These five chakras are:
Basal (Element: Earth, Buddha: Amoghasiddhi, Bija mantra: LAM)
Abdominal (Element: Water, Buddha: Ratnasambhava, Bija mantra: VAM)
Heart (Element: Fire, Buddha: Akshobhya, Bija mantra: RAM)
Throat (Element: Wind, Buddha: Amitabha, Bija mantra: YAM)
Crown (Element: Space, Buddha: Vairochana, Bija mantra: KHAM)
The more common and most studied chakra system incorporates six major chakras along with a seventh center generally not regarded as a chakra.
The Chakras are traditionally considered meditation aids. The yogi starts from lower chakras and progresses to the highest chakra located in the crown of the head, in the journey of spiritual ascent.
In the Hindu Kundalini and Buddhist Candali traditions, the chakras are pierced by a dormant energy residing near or in the lowest chakra. In Hindu texts she is known as Kundalini, while in Buddhist texts she is called Candali or Tummo.
I have a feeling that I'm simply info dumping at this point so let me get the the main point:
Chakras are NOT a Wiccan concept
The concept of chakras has been around centuries longer than Wicca has been
Tl;dr: The concept of chakras is NOT a Wiccan one. It originates from religious Ancient Indian practices.
[1] Tantra: Esoteric traditions in Hinduism and Buddhism that developed in India mainly during the middle of the 1st millennium CE. The term tantra, in the Indian traditions, also means text, theory, system, method, instrument, technique or practice. A key feature of these traditions is the use of mantras.
[2] Kundalini Yoga: A type of yoga focused on channeling energy through the chakras.
[3] Mudra: A symbolic or ritual gesture or pose in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. Mudras have meaning in many forms of Indian dance and yoga. In hatha yoga, mudras are used in conjunction with pranayama (yogic breathing exercises), generally while in a seated posture, to stimulate different parts of the body involved with breathing and to affect the flow of prana and is associated with consciousness in the body. Mudras are also used in Tantric practices.
[4] Kriya: Practice within a yoga discipline meant to achieve a specific result. The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali defines three types of kriya, namely asceticism, study, and devotion. Such yoga is called kriya yoga. Kriya is a Sanskrit word that literally means "to do" or "to work".
[5] Mantra: A sacred utterance, a sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words in Sanskrit, Pali and other languages. They hold spiritual and religious significance. At its simplest, the word ॐ (Om) serves as a mantra, it is believed to be the first sound which was originated on earth. It creates a reverberation in the body which helps the body and mind to be calm. In more sophisticated forms, mantras are melodic phrases with spiritual interpretations such as a human longing for truth, reality, light, immortality, peace, love, knowledge, and action. Not all mantras have literal meanings but rather are simply uplifting.
[6] Ayurveda: An alternative medicine system with historical roots in Ancient India.
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sorta NSFW is #Lime
Weird fet shit/ extreme NSFW is #orange
reblog to spread awareness that we’re back on the citrus scale
Orange was originally like…a PG-13 warning. You would tag orange for fics that stopped at making out.
What you’re thinking of is “Grapefruit”.
The scale goes as such:
Orange (PG-13, basically making out like I said) - Lime (Non-explicit sexual actions, think an M rated fic instead of NC-17) - Lemon (explicit, graphic sex, the NC-17 fics) - Grapefruit (hardcore/weird stuff)
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