The Essential Guide to Chakras Quotes

“The Siva Svarodaya, an ancient Sanskrit text, advises that you inhale deeply as you walk toward friends and those who love and want to help you, thus opening your chakras. It then suggests that you exhale deeply as you walk toward people whom you would rather avoid, thus protecting yourself by choosing your chakras.”
― Swami Saradananda, The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit

“Forgiving is quiet different from forgetting or ignoring a wrong. It is the ability to observe and process your experience without getting caught up in reacting to it. With regular practice this process can free you from much emotional suffering. On a physical level, letting go of negativity can improve your breathing patterns and your ciculation. It can help to free you from many stress-related problems, including high blood pressure.”
― Swami Saradananda, The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit

“Begin to develop the attitude that karmic blockages are merely "tests" on your road to self-discovery. It might also be helpful for you to envision them as lessions to be learned. When you do this, you turn each obstacle into an opportunity for self-discovery.”
― Swami Saradananda, The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit

“Perform random acts of kindness, these are selfless acts that you can carry out. Although there may be no reason for you to make another person smile, or be happier, the action helps to remove your karmic blockages. Your action can be as simple as smiling at someone, saying hello, or offering to help with something. An act of kindess isn't necessarily a grand gesture or a huge donation.”
― Swami Saradananda, The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit

“Being content in the present, while striving to improve your future life, involves a deep acceptance and understanding of the law of karma. It enables you to release the blockages that consume vast amounts of your energy with thoughts that you shouldn't have done something, or you should have done it in a different way. Learn from your mistakes and move on, without letting regrets devour you. Start noticing how your present efforts enable you to change your future.”
― Swami Saradananda, The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit

“The rudra granthi, in your ajna chakra, is connected with your attachment to your intellectual powers and to self-image. In order for this knot to open, you need to overcome the dictates of your ego.”
― Swami Saradananda, The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit

“The vishnu granthi, in the anahata chakra, represents attachment to action, ambition and passion. For this to open, you need to practise forgiveness. It is especially important that you are able to forgive yourself.”
― Swami Saradananda, The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit

“The brahma granthi, in the muladhara chakra, represents your attachment to stability, inertia and your misidentifcication with your physical body. In order for this knot to open, you must give up the expectation that there is any lasting happiness to be found in any physical or psychological experience.”
― Swami Saradananda, The Essential Guide to Chakras: Discover the Healing Power of Chakras for Mind, Body and Spirit