These traditions were handed down orally for thousands of years before being
codified by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras, several centuries before Christ. The
ancient healing science of Ayurveda is on a collection of scriptures known as
vedas (a Sanskrit word meaning knowledge or wisdom). Ayurveda literally
means "life knowledge." It remained the predominant form of care in India
until the British colonial government tried to suppress it during the
nineteenth century. Over the last half-century, however, a modernized form of
has gained considerable popularity in India.
More recently, traditional has been popularized in the West by such highprofile advocates as Deepak Chopra. Balancing the chakras is believed to
promote general and well-being by ensuring the free flowing of life push (too
known as prana or qi) throughout the physical structure. It is believed that
blockages in the current of this vital get-up-and-go will eventually result in
This is likewise sometimes done using a pendulum. Just as the various forms
of yoga attempt to mediate between the forcible and Negro spiritual realms,
so the chakras believed to manoeuver as Energy Department transformers.
They often shown as circles, spaced at intervals along the vertebral column,
or sometimes as funnels of Energy. Specific chants or sounds with the
different chakras used in some yogic meditation practices as tools for healing
and apparitional evolution. Each of the VII chakras is said to wealthy person
physiological and metaphysical functions that relate to both the nature of the
blockages and to the active problems they produce.