What feelings block the chakras?

The cartoon show 'Avatar: the air bender' is a kids show that teaches about the subtle energy and the true potential that we all have. In one episode, the Avatar goes to a master to open his chakras. The master describes -
1st Earth Chakra is about SURVIVAL instinct and is blocked by FEAR (100)
2nd Water Chakra is about PLEASURE and is blocked by GUILT (30).
3rd Fire Chakra is your WILLPOWER and is blocked by SHAME / DISAPPOINTMENT (20).
4th Heart Chakra is about unconditional LOVE and is blocked by GRIEF / LOSS (75)
5th Sound Chakra is about TRUTH and is blocked by LIES that we tell ourselves. We have to accept who we are.
6th Light Chakra is about INSIGHT and is blocked by ILLUSION. Get rid of the illusion that you are separate. Don't see the duality but the connectedness.
7th Thought Chakra is blocked by earthly ATTACHMENTS. Learn to let go.

Energy level and corresponding emotions/ attitudes, according to David R. Hawkings.
20 Shame
30 Guilt
50 Apathy
75 Grief
100 Fear
125 Desire
150 Anger
175 Pride
200 Courage
250 Neutrality
310 Willingness
350 Acceptance
400 Reason
500 Love
540 Joy
600 Peace
700-1000 Enlightenment


http://howtoopenchakras.com  This website helps you diagnose which blocked chakras are responsible for the different problems you may be experiencing. Please visit this site for further help. The material below is copied as is on the site -

Please take a moment and reflect on some of the challenges you’ve experienced this past year,month,week, or even this very day.

• Are you experiencing problems with your physical health?
• Do you find yourself procrastinating all the time and never seem to accomplish your goals?
• Is money issues or your home a constant trigger of stress and anxiety for you?
• Do you physically hurt yourself?
• Have you ever attempted or contemplated suicide?

If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above, your troubles may be caused by a blocked or unbalanced root chakra.

• Do you find yourself emotionally unstable?
• Do you tend to hide or control your feelings?
• Are you lacking creativity and the ability to think outside the box?
• Is it difficult for you to be open to intimacy?
• Do you have sexual issues such as impotence?
• Is it difficult for you to live in the present moment?

If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above, you may have a blocked or unbalanced sacral chakra.

• Do you seem to have a lack of focus in life and an inability to concentrate?
• Are you constantly worried about what other people think?
• Do you seem to have a lack of self-esteem and confidence in yourself?
• Is your mind often clouded and you find it hard to make decisions?
• Do you find yourself taking on more responsibility than you can reasonably handle?
• Are you often obsessed with making sure everything you do is perfect?
• Is it difficult for you to be alone?

If you answered “yes” to any of the above questions, your trouble may be linked to your navel chakra.

• Do you have difficulty accepting yourself the way you are or lack self-love?
• Are you experiencing a lack of freedom in your life?
• Do you have difficulty making up your mind and find yourself indecisive?
• Are you always saying “yes” to other people’s demands and requests?
• Is it difficult for you to “put your foot down” and simply say “no” to people?
• Do you fear rejection or being abandoned by other people?
• Do you struggle with jealousy and find yourself envious of others?

If you answered “yes” to any of the above questions, you may need to open or balance your heart chakra.

• Do you have difficulty expressing yourself and your beliefs?
• Do you lack trust in others?
• Does your life lack organization?
• Do you constantly worry about financial security and constantly chase material things?
• Are you shy by nature and have trouble holding a conversation with other people?

If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above, this could be linked to a blocked or unbalanced throat chakra.

• Do you lack intuition or insight in life?
• Are you constantly hanging onto negative thoughts and find it difficult to overcome fear or anxiety?
• Do you find yourself living in a fantasy or dream world and not in reality?
• Do you struggle with depression or always feel lonely?
• Are you too hard on yourself and lack self-pride?

If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above, you may need to open or balance your third eye chakra.

• Does your life lack spirituality or a connection to God?
• Do you lack a sense of purpose in life?
• Do you lack faith in any religion or form of spirituality because you are too caught up with yourself or ego?

If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above, you may need to open or balance your crown chakra.

Hopefully you are now able to properly diagnose yourself, and identify which of your chakras are blocked or unbalanced. This is the first step in overcoming any challenges you may be experiencing.

All there is left to do now is learn how to open your chakras and properly balance them.

There are many different methods to do this including kundalini yoga,mantra chanting, and even meditation.

The website http://www.666blacksun.com/Open_Blocked_Chakras.html gives simple ways to open your chakras.

I do the chakra breathing. Know the chakra points and breath into each point at a time and feel the chakra expanding with each breath. You could visualise your breath as a poking stick touching the chakra point from the spine and going out from the front or vise-versa. The point is to activate energy in that area. 

At the beginning of your meditation, start with the base chakra and activate all chakras one by one with equal number of breaths on each point. Then focus on a specific chakra that you feel is blocked more than others. I followed Samuel Sagan's advice and focused on my 3rd eye 1st. Then I realised that Guru Nanak's advice was to open the HEART chakra, so I focused on that. For some time, I was focusing on the 3rd eye, heart and 7th chakra. Little did I know then, that the bottom chakras are equally important.


Opening the bottom two chakras without opening the 3rd eye can be very dangerous as they are related to survival and sex. Most people have these chakras open anyway. However, if you only focus on the top three chakras, without activating the bottom chakras, you can feel disoriented and not interested in the worldly affairs. This feeling can ruin your married life as you will have no interest in family matters etc. If your partner is not into meditation, he/she will not understand what you are going through. Sometimes, this feeling is called spiritual depression. It is not a desirable situation either. 


Do not forget to slightly close the chakras, at the end of your meditation; otherwise you will become extra sensitive to other people's energies and also become vulnerable to psychic attacks. I have made this mistake as well, so I know it well now.

Moolmantra to open all chakras

I am so pleased with my new technique that I used this morning. I started saying Ek onkar and focused on the Seventh Chakra / Dasam Dwar. Then I moved my attention to the
3rd eye and said Satnam,
Karta purakh on throat,
Nirbhau Nirvair on Heart,
Akal Murat on Solar Plexus front side,
Ajuni on Secral front side,
Saibhang on Base
Then moved up towards the spine side of the chakra
Gurprasad jap on secral,
Aad Sach on Solar plexus,
jugad sach on Heart,
Hai Bhi Sach on Pineal Gland,
Nanak Hosi Bhi Sach on the point on the head that is one hand back from the seventh chakra.

I did this continuously for 15 minutes and enjoyed every bit of it from the first moment and no thoughts came in my mind. There was no time for thoughts an the focus was changing continuously but I enjoyed while I felt the vibration of each chakra corresponding with the shabad / sound.

I will try this method again to calm all thoughts. More interestingly I payed attention to each word in the mantra and realised how each word i said actually was mentioning the properties of that chakra and how God is different from the one that comes in the cycle of life and death. For example, I said Ajuni on the Sacrel chakra, the chakra representative of the birth cycle, Aad Sach on Solar Plexus, the centre of personal power and authority, Nirbhao Nirvair on heart, the centre which allows love and fear to prevail.

Purifying oneself before kundalini activation is important

It is important to purify onself and activaye chakras before kundalini activation says Choa Koh Sui in her book "The ancient science and art of Pranic Healing." She says on p. 237, "ptherwise, serious pranic congestion will occur if too much kundalini energy goes to the relatively underactivated chakras which are still small in size, resulting in serious physical ailments or discomforts." I know from personal experience that the above statement is true.

If you read my blog in Bhai Amolak Singh, you will read that he disclosed that his Nabhkamal - Sacrel Chakra opened in 1980's. He also mentioned that he felt then that if he wanted enlightenment, he could have it. But he refused be free from the cycle of life and death. He claimed that he asked the universe to give him chance to serve Sikhs for another five lives before he becomes free of the birth cycle. This guy now suffers from Diabeties - failure of pancreas - the same area of the body where his kundalini energy went and opened a lotus flower and he smelt the kasturi smell. I must add here that this Sikh still has some sort of Charisma. I sat with him and talked for upto 2 am in the morning. He has something so pious about him that made me respect him and yet he also had obsessions about washing his utensils. and other ideas that I do not endorse.

I also tried to stop my kundalini from progressing, although for the opposite reason. I want enlightenment and Moksha but I thought my kundalini had gone to right hand side rather than through Sushmina, as I want. The energy had gone from the Solar Plexus to the head, as a lightning strike does. For a couple of day, I felt heaviness in my head. There is no other explanation for that uneasiness in my head, other than the fact that I had received too much energy when my chakra wasn't big enough to receive that much charge. To stop the kundalini, so it recedes back, to give myself more time to cleanse my body and open the chakras more, hoping it happens everytime I meditate; I slept curled up on one side rather that keeping my back straight. Then I came across a website that said that trying to stop the kundalini can result in serious disease or sometimes even death. Well, that stopped me from sleeping curled up but I still didn't meditate for a few days just in case kundalini would have proceded further on its already chosen path.

I have had deep meditation sessions since then but Kundalini has not been active again. Only way I know and believe in to cleanse myself is to meditate with love and devotion. I didn't know anything about opening chakras when my heart chakra opened up, so I guess, I don't need to try to open anything. Guru Nanak is with me and knows what step is required when. I know I did want my kundalini to awaken after I read that the nice stages after meditation are all temporary until kundalini reaches the seventh chakra, 10th gate, and then connects 7th and 1st chakra.

I undetstand that the above mentioned path of kundalini is like a Moebus Band of Mathematics where the object can be in both circles without leaving either of them. I believe moebus Band perfectly portrays how kundalini helps a person live in the physical and the spiritual world at the same time. I do want this permanent stage of eterenal bliss. I know the feeling, no worldly possession can give me the perfect pleasure I had when my Heart chakra opened. I think after an unfortunate incident because of a stupid man, my heart chakra has since closed again. Only God knows why I had to have that incident in my life at that time when I was at the height of my spirituality. This incident brought me back to dirt again. Its hard to open my heart again and believe that God prevades in all, when I felt the Satan so closely.

I think I have lost the plot now. I keep doing meditation or keep thinking about it. I should be spending that time fixing my tax papers. I wish God could help me do that.

Heart energy verses brain energy- hurdles in meditation

Fact: Heart generates electrical energy 40-60 times more powerful than your brain.

Hurdles in meditation - Negativity/Fears

How can I let go the negativitis?
If you are upset with a relative/friend/enemy, forgive them otherwise that feeling will stop you from going ahead with meditational experiences.

How can I overcome fears?
Believe in a higher energy looking after you. Trust in that creator to do justice.

Also be afraid that if you don't forgive others, the justice system within you will stop you from entering the higher realms of reality, for the matter must be resolved and the chain linking you with that person must be broken to let you proceed. So let go of the negativity now as possessive love and hate are both chains, in fact part of the same chain. Its the brain that justifies your love and hate for someone.

Meditation technique

Meditation is less to do with the knowledge of techniques and more to do with the commitment.

Meditate without thoughts in your brain interrupting you. At the same time feel the heart expand with each inhalation, feel the love for the creator. Every time a thought enter the mind, start chanting and concentrate on listening to the sound/word. Feel your breath going in and out.

Expand your body with the inhalation of breath as much as you can and try to contract the body to the extent of a dot point with each exhalation. There will be no room for thought, only feeling the breath. Soon the breath will become shallow. Let the process takeover. Let go, don't control anything.