Meditation for Ministers: Align Your Chakras for Wedding Season (and Beyond)

Cleanse those chakras for clear communication, focus, and calm on the wedding day! 

 

 

In ancient faiths, chakras are the energetic centers of the body – seven points of spiritual power that run from from the top of the head to the base of the spine. 

 

Each chakra is located in a specific place within the body, and corresponds to a specific color and spiritual principle or quality.

 

When all of these seven sacred chakras are ‘open,’ energy moves easily throughout the body, creating a sense of harmony, happiness, and good health. 

 

Unfortunately, chakras can easily become ‘blocked’ as a result of acute or chronic stress, poor health habits, physical injury, or emotional pain. 

 

When one or more chakras is ‘blocked’ in this way, energy cannot flow freely and becomes ‘stuck’ in points around the affected chakra, creating imbalances within the body and spirit.

 

 

For busy marriage ministers and wedding officiants, imbalances caused by blocked chakras can show up in all sorts of unfortunate ways: 

 

 

• feeling tired and run down
• feeling unfocused and anxious
• speaking too quickly or too loudly during a ceremony
• sore throat
• discomfort while standing and lower back pain
• nausea 
• irritability and impatience with couples, guests, and other vendors
• feeling jaded toward love and romance
• and more

With a hectic wedding season ahead, many ministers may benefit from chakra meditation, which is thought to cleanse and ‘unblock’ the body’s energy centers. 

 

 

There are several types of chakra meditation to try. We describe three of our favorite techniques below. 

 

 

 

 

Three simple Chakra meditation techniques:  

 

 

1. Focus on a single chakra 

 

If you can easily identify which chakras are affected, then meditating on a single chakra may be most helpful. To do this, focus on this center of the body and the spiritual qualities and color it represents, while breathing deeply and calmly. As you meditate, you will feel this chakra slowly become unblocked as energy begins to flow through it. 

 

 

2. Chakra color meditation 

 

When using color meditation, slowly visualize each chakra’s color, one at a time. Focus your breath on each color in turn, moving from the crown to the root chakra, and then back up from the root to the crown. You may feel your attention or focus ‘stick’ to certain colors – breathe into these slowly. Continue this process slowly until there is a sense of calm and flow within the body. 

 

 

3. Energy flow meditation

 

During this meditation, visualize energy moving slowly along the path of the seven chakras, from each point along the body to the next. Pay attention to any areas where this energy feels stuck, or areas in the body that feel uncomfortable, or too hot or too cold, and breathe into the closest chakra before continuing the visualization. Continue until you can sense the energy moving freely and easily – this may take several sessions of meditation to accomplish.

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Where does the belief in chakras come from?

 

Chakras were first described in The Veda texts, a series of religious texts written in Vedic Sanskrit from ancient India. Chakras (or cakra) are an integral part of spiritual practice in Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism, as well as many modern eclectic spiritual traditions. 

 

 

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