38. Imagination corrupts your Chakras
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Listen: Your mind and body come in contact with each other at seven points in your body. These are what are known as the seven energy centers or chakras. Yoga tradition describes these points as chit-jada-granthi – the points where matter and consciousness meet each other. Please understand, the imagination you carry can corrupt these energy centers and disturb their functioning. This is a very important truth.
Each energy center gets corrupted when your imagination is added to it:
- If your imagination touches your muladhara chakra, your root center, it is called fantasy. You are caught in fantasies about others and yourself.
- If your imagination touches your swadhishtana chakra or being center, it is called fear. You experience fear of others and fear of yourself.
- If your imagination touches the manipuraka chakra, the navel center, it is called worry. You start worrying about others and worrying about yourself.
- If your imagination touches your anahata chakra, your heart center, it is called attention-need. You suffer from continuous attention-need from others and from yourself.
- If your imagination touches your vishuddhi chakra or throat center, it is called constant comparison. You start comparing with others and comparing with yourself.
- If your imagination touches your ajna chakra, your brow center, it is called ego. You start suffering from ego with others and with yourself.
- If your imagination touches your sahasrara chakra or crown center, it is called discontentment. You suffer from discontentment with others and discontentment with yourself.
Similarly, sometimes you start suffering by comparing with yourself: 'Yesterday I was able to do yoga for two hours without feeling tired. Today I don't know what has happened to me!'
You may ask, 'How can I express my ego with myself?' Many times, you judge yourself, regret your own words and actions, or you are angry with yourself for something, and you think, 'I should have treated myself like that. I should have spoken in that way. I should have expressed myself like this. But I did not do it. What to do?' When you are carrying too many judgments about life, about others and yourself, it means that imagination is corrupting your brow center.
Many times, you put up with abusive relationships just because of your attention-need. Because you cannot respect yourself unless other people give a certificate to you, you start asking things from everybody. Either you are demanding, or nagging, or begging others for their attention. Because of your constant self-doubt, you cannot understand, experience, enjoy aloneness. You do not understand that you can be a source of love; you need not be a beggar for love and attention.
The imagination you carry
can corrupt your energy centers
and disturb their functioning
When your imagination moves through the different energy centers and corrupts them, you will see the results in the form of different kinds of suffering in your life, due to the inability to handle the realities of life.
Sometime, you suffer with attention-need not only from others, but even from yourself! You need to continuously pep yourself up using positive words.
Just by working on dropping imagination, I can be free of so many negative emotions!