Chakra Meditation Techniques for Abundance and Prosperity
Chakra meditation techniques are one of the best ways to start your healing, expand your capacity to receive more in life, and tap into your ability to manifest abundance. Many people think having the right intention may help manifest the desired results. Well, having a purpose is only the starting point. Clarity, courage, and confidence are required ingredients in manifesting abundance.
Manifesting abundance means to align with your ability to create and receive, which aligns to your lower three Chakras. Desire and emptiness, mixed with vibrational energy and time, generate the power to manifest abundance. If you desire more, your capacity to receive needs to be more. You cannot bring a teacup, ask to receive a gallon of milk in it, and then complain that you did not get what you wanted. Hope this makes sense!
Expanding your capacity to receive more starts with gratitude, humility, meditation, spiritual practices, service to society and sharing knowledge, and cultivating the 6-fold virtues of abundance, also known as Satt-Sampatti. "Satt" is a Sanskrit adjective that means "seated". "Sampatti" means wealth, assets, property, or abundance.
These virtues ultimately strengthen your character. They are mental training grounds that allow you to develop self-discipline and control. My 21-day Abundance Challenge guides you in tapping into these six virtues of abundance.
The Six Virtues of Abundance are:
- Shama, or the ability to have composure, be calm, and level-headed.
- Dama, or the ability to have self-control over your senses and reactions to the external environment.
- Uparati or quietism, ceasing or renouncing anything that doesn't fit your dharma (duty) or your focused-responsibility.
- Titiksha means endurance or persevering through suffering, pain, or challenging situations.
- Shraddha means trusting and having faith in your growth journey.
- Samadhana means determination, total concentration, and single-focus of the mind.
Meditation for chakras opens up your blocked chakras and increases your ability to manifest money, prosperity, and abundance in life. Your inner guide's voice is like a whisper that cannot be heard unless everyday life's cacophony is stilled.
For example, the powerful and functional wisdom of the Third-eye Chakra is psychic and spot-on intuition guiding you through your challenges and giving you creative insights. But how would you trust this guidance without having the virtue of faith? I have been walking my awakened journey, manifesting abundance, healing with miraculous transformations for years. In this blog, I passionately share the benefits of mediation, how does chakra meditation work and chakra meditation techniques.
What is meditation?
Meditation is, indeed, a means of transforming our minds. Specifically, to meditate means to reflect, contemplate, or engage in thought, think deeply, or focus one's mind for some time. Various meditation practices, therefore, encourage and help develop concentration, clarity, and emotional positivity in our lives. Consequently, the depth and breadth of meditation practices allow for inner calmness to see the true nature of things in our awareness and environment.
Moreover, you can do meditation with music, mantras, mudras, in silence, or with items that help create the environment to enhance our senses and aid relaxation. It can be done not only for religious activities but also for spiritual growth, esoteric purposes, and stress management. In fact, scientific studies have proven that regular meditation practice brings significant mental and physical health benefits to its practitioner.
I can remember practicing various forms of meditation since my childhood. It definitely started for religious purposes. By the time I was in my teenage years, my focus had shifted to managing stress and discovering a pathway to spiritual growth. And sometimes, we need to go back to basics and learn how to develop an abundance mindset.
I remember suffering from heart palpitations, severe anxiety attacks, fainting, and episodes of losing consciousness. I was never diagnosed with stress or anxiety, or other health concerns because growing up in India, we never sought emotional or mental well-being.
I have had my own fair share of adversities, childhood and adult trauma, as it transpired within each decade cycle of my life. According to Vedic and Chinese Metaphysics, we go through 7 gateways of yin-and-yang energies or Shiv and Shakti - or easily understandable as pull and push energies.
Vibrational Energy and Time
These are the two significant components of manifestation. According to your SoulCode and birth chart reading, your focus could be either internal or external based on your individual decade cycles. Meditation has been my anchor to finding answers within the chaos. It all starts with calming your mind to then finding your way to manifesting abundance and creating results.
A traumatic experience during my third pregnancy changed the course of how my baby would be delivered. After a complicated c-section delivery, I was advised a 6-week bed-rest to recover and heal my body. I cannot even begin to put words to the amount of stress my household had during that time.
Meditation and Reiki healing played a big part in my abilities to manifest physical and emotional healing, strength, endurance, and eventually abundance in my life much faster. Within a week, I was able to move up and down the stairs to be the caregiver to my elderly parents and three kids, with one of them being an infant at that time. Cultivating determination with trust and faith in the healing process, I drove for my postpartum doctor visits after 2 weeks. And after 11 years, I can gratefully say my household and many clients are without prescription drugs and on a holistic path for mind-body wellness. Some clients have experienced miraculous transformations on their healing journey with me where western doctors gave a different prognosis.
What types of meditations are there?
Based on outcomes to be achieved, meditation can be broadly divided into two categories, calming or insight (Vipassana) meditation.
Calming meditations are types done to calm the stressed or agitated mind. Increase self-awareness, dig deeper into issues, problems, seek solutions, achieve relaxation, and eventually gain manifestation skills.
Vipassana is a Sanskrit word that means insight. Vipassana meditations help you gain insights into the true nature of reality. Insight meditation techniques can help you transform your mind by achieving wisdom and compassion. Maybe by gaining insights into the concepts of forgiveness, releasing guilt, shame, or even overcoming rejection, ultimately helping us achieve liberation and inner peace. The possibilities are endless. However, the probability of achieving your goals and manifesting abundance on your own without self-discipline, determination, spiritual guidance, and time is bleak.
I highly recommend starting with some of the meditation techniques listed below or take my 21-day abundance challenge with mudras, mantras and meditation. In this 21 day program, I have formulated and put together the curriculum that uses a blend of calming and insight meditation techniques. I have also included mudras and mantras meditations to open up your blocked chakras for faster and soulful alignment to create abundance in your life.
Mind and Body Medicine
Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), including yoga and meditation practices. These alternative medicine practices are commonly known as mind and body medicine. This leads to a deeper understanding of how our body functions and how the energy flows through it, awakening the interest in energy medicine. People today have developed a greater awareness of a more subtle energy system called the Chakra system. This is like discovering a part of the anatomy that we didn’t know existed and using it to enhance our mind-body wellness.
Various meditation techniques come from different esoteric practices, traditions, cultures, spiritual disciplines, and religions. There is no such thing as the best or most effective type of meditation practice. It depends on your preference and choice, and you wouldn't know what you prefer until you try different styles.
As an advanced practitioner, you then mix and create your own meditation practice by imbuing it with your own vibrational energy and rituals. One style does not fit all. Similarly, one meditation technique will not work for everyone. Below are 10 common types of meditation techniques:
Guided:
In this meditation, a spiritual guide, teacher, or meditation expert guides you through the process of mediation. This technique works best when you trust your guide wholeheartedly and surrender to the guidance offered. Guided meditation is excellent for beginners and intermediate practitioners. The teacher provides additional support in the step-by-step integration of meditation into your life from a holistic viewpoint.
Unguided:
As the name implies, you can do this meditation without someone's guidance and in silence for an extended time to become aware of your thoughts and body's sensations. Usually, unguided meditation will include a blend of other meditation techniques to go deeper in your practice to achieve your goals.
Focused:
Focused meditation uses breath work to focus your attention and anchoring your mind from wandering. When thoughts surface and your mind diverts, focusing on breathing helps you maintain awareness. Observe your physical sensations, thought patterns of behaviors, and choices to dig deeper for solutions.
Movement:
This form of meditation is quite relaxing, especially when stressed or you have too much to process in your head. Taking nature walks, or walking barefoot in your backyard or seashore. Movement meditation helps action-oriented people who are doers. When they get stuck or have too much to process in their headspace or cannot take action, this form helps untangle their thoughts and relax. I sometimes find my subconscious mind taking over to do movement-meditation when doing dishes or going on my nature walks.
Mantra Meditation:
Mantras are chanting sounds or hymns that help stimulate, activate and enhance the vibrational frequency of the 7 chakras. You can chant the mantras aloud to cleanse and purify the energy centers inside your body and your environment. There are 7 beej mantras you can learn about. However, mantra meditation also includes specific chanting of more sophisticated mantras that unblock and balance your chakras. You can experience mantra meditation in the free 3-day meditation mini-course.
Mudra Meditation:
Mudras mean hand gestures, attitudes, or symbols usually expressed in classical dance forms of India. Mudra is a Sanskrit word that means a sign, seal, or imprint. Mudra meditation requires you to use your hands to activate energy centers in your body and the seven chakras by forming explicit gestures. Mudras are a potent tool to achieve calmness, insight, and healing. When mixed with the mantras and other forms, it can speed up abundance manifestation.
Visualization:
This form of meditation requires you to visualize and hold a mental image of what you want to accomplish. Visualization is not an easy form of meditation. When your second or third eye chakras are blocked, you cannot be creative, visualize and hold the image for extended periods. It is like having a mind or mental movie played in your head, with full color, sound, lighting, action, and all the details. The other aspect of this is that your body and senses have to align with your visualization. I have found visualization meditation to be one of the most challenging forms of meditation techniques. With practice, you can master any form and use in abundance manifestation.
Body Scanning Meditation:
Body scanning meditation is designed to bring faster awareness and reducing stress. Our minds and bodies are often not in sync, and we are not integrated and fully present. Physically we may be doing one thing while our mind is somewhere else.
Body scanning syncs your body and mind by performing a mental scan, from the head to your toes. Try it now! Close your eyes, lying down comfortably or in a seated position. Take a few deep breaths, and imagine a photocopier light slowly moving over your body. Now bring your attention slowly with the moving light to any discomfort, sensations, tensions, or aches that exist in your body. Acknowledge the pain. Stay with it; tense up your muscles in that area. Also, clench your fists, tighten your jaw, hold your breath for three to five seconds, and release the stuck energy by letting go of your breath and relaxing your body. You will experience a shift in your energy levels within minutes of doing body scan meditation.
Noting:
Whatever form of meditation you try, whether guided or unguided, calming or insight meditation, this technique requires you to simply notice what is bothering or distracting you. What is the extent of that distraction or stress? What is the depth of that emotion or thought that is causing the distress? Are you using your breath or a tool like a mala or prayer beads or crystals to ground your awareness? The objective is to "note" the thought or feeling to restore understanding, create a safe space to practice letting go. You also learn more about your thought patterns, tendencies, belief systems that may or may not serve you during this season of your life.
Noting:
Whatever form of meditation you try, whether guided or unguided, calming or insight meditation, this technique requires you to simply notice what is bothering or distracting you. What is the extent of that distraction or stress? What is the depth of that emotion or thought that is causing the distress? Are you using your breath or a tool like a mala or prayer beads or crystals to ground your awareness? The objective is to "note" the thought or feeling to restore understanding, create a safe space to practice letting go. You also learn more about your thought patterns, tendencies, belief systems that may or may not serve you during this season of your life.
Reflection:
Reflection meditation is one of my favorite techniques. It invites you to either ask yourself the pressing questions, or you do this with a partner or a guide or as a part of a program that asks you reflection questions! The secret to reflection meditation is asking the questions in a second-person form. This helps your intellectual mind from rationalizing your answers. awareness of the feelings, emotions that arise during the reflection meditation are crucial to creating healing and abundance in your life. Do not confuse the reflection meditation technique with journaling. Reflection techniques may not be a part of someone's journaling process, but journalling is definitely part of reflection meditation.
So which of these fits with chakra meditation techniques?
How does chakra meditation work?
Chakra meditation is a form geared towards activating, unblocking, or balancing a chakra. The most effective chakra meditation techniques incorporate more than two or more different techniques as listed above. Meditation with chakras in the 21-day abundance challenge activate your 7 chakras for manifesting abundance. These chakra meditations include guided meditation, reflection technique incorporated with mudras, and mantra meditation aligned for each of the seven chakras.
When one of my clients, Bruce, went through the chakra meditations inside the abundance challenge program, he had to learn visualization meditation. Based on his destiny charts, visualization methodology was best suited for him to manifest his abundance. The visualization process, in the beginning, was not easy for Bruce. But with practice and time, he was able to hold the mental image and then play the movie and hold it. He also enjoyed the process of layering it with mudras and mantras.
However, Bruce struggled with the reflection meditation parts of the daily challenge and didn't want to write it. Most often, inside our challenging aspects lie the areas of our growth for us to discover. The struggles of a blocked second chakra caused him a delayed response to the reflection meditation and thus not completing the process of creating abundance as visualized.
In our private coaching sessions, Bruce learned how to complete the process of activating and integrating his second and sixth chakras for manifestation. He eventually used insight meditation with mantras, mudras, and visualization techniques and manifested his abundance beyond his beliefs.
Chakra meditation techniques
You may be wondering what the exact chakra meditation techniques are? Here is an outline of two different techniques for chakra meditations you can try:
Mantra Meditation Technique
The mantra meditation uses seed sounds and can focus on all 7 chakras at once.
- Take some deep breaths as you sit in the lotus pose
- Open up the blog post on chakras and their mantras, so you can see the seed sound for each.
- Start at the Root Chakra, recite the seed sound three times as you focus on that chakra. For example, with the root chakra, focus on the base of your spine and repeat "Lam, Lam, Lam". Next is the sacral chakra. Focus on the navel, while repeating "Vam, Vam, Vam".
- Repeat for each chakra, ending with the crown chakra.
- You may choose to repeat the full cycle of 7 seed sounds for five minutes.
Chakra Guided Meditation
The guided meditation is great for focusing on one chakra you feel you need to unblock.
- Take some deep breaths as you sit in the lotus pose
- Ensure your spine is lengthened and straight
- Turn on a chakra guided meditation video or audio, close your eyes and listen and be guided by the audio. Note: I don't recommended doing a guided meditation that focuses on all the chakras at the same time.
It's important to create a daily meditation practice, but to also look to use the right meditation for the right chakra. Start your practice with the 3-Day Abundance Challenge.
