{"id":4007,"date":"2018-12-27T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acupuncturecenterinc.com\/?p=4007"},"modified":"2018-12-27T15:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T23:23:47","slug":"what-are-chakra-energy-centers-and-why-are-they-important-to-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/what-are-chakra-energy-centers-and-why-are-they-important-to-your-health\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Chakra Energy Centers, and Why Are They Important to Your Health?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What are Chakras<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/bc3d531d-16b2-4ca1-b230-ddc2b9ecec32-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Chakras are swirling vortexes of psycho-neuro-endocrine (PNE) bio-electric energy located along our anterior and posterior midline.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easier to just call these energy centers chakras!\u00a0 The chakras are part of Ayurveda Medicine, from India.\u00a0 Traditional Chinese Medical and Ayurvedic Medical systems have much overlap, and work together in harmony.\u00a0 The chakras correlate to major acupuncture points along the midline of the body.\u00a0 Both systems help stimulate, move or clear blockages of negative energy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The chakra energy centers are responsible for carrying or releasing stored memories, emotional or physical trauma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">There are 7 main chakras and 21 minor chakras (if we include the eyes and scapula there are 25).\u00a0 The chakras are the root, sacral, solar, heart, throat, brow, and crown.\u00a0 The minor chakras are bilateral consisting of the feet, hands, elbows, knees, groin-gonads, clavicles, intercostals, ears-jaw, shoulders, navel, and one spleen chakra found only on the left side below the rib cage.\u00a0 Some sources consider the eyes and scapula to be minor chakras as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Chakras Regulate Hormones, Glands, Thoughts and Feelings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Each of the main 7 chakras are associated with one of the nine endocrine glands, a group of nerves called a plexus, and a band of connective tissue called fascia. From these, Neuropeptides are released in response to our thoughts and feelings.\u00a0 Thoughts and emotions of anger, joy, worry, grief, or fear have their own identifiable frequencies.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how your body knows which neuropeptide to release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Whether pain or disease stems from an emotional or spiritual disharmony or not, both physical or emotional trauma as well as behavioral or mental habits are stored in our musculature, and connective tissue called fascia, creating tension, blocking circulation, which can lead to pain or disease.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s a direct connection from acute assault to the body or it develops over time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Some people define this as stress, which is a physical, chemical or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension.\u00a0 Stress can come from external physical trauma, overloading, repetitive strain, poor posture, contracted and inflexible muscles, lack of physical exertion, inflammation from poor diet, nutritional deficiencies, infections from bacteria, viruses, yeast, or fungi.\u00a0 There is also the mental aspect of overthinking, worry, anger, sadness, fear, negative outlook, and emotional imbalances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Restore Balance and Harmony to Your Chakras<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Our chakras can become congested, over-stimulated or uncoordinated.\u00a0 Restoring balance to your chakras helps with stress, emotional-wellbeing, pain and disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We use forms of vibrational medicine to harmonize and decongest the chakra-meridian systems.\u00a0 Chakra-Meridian balancing has beneficial effects on the autonomic nervous system and internal Organs (as understood by Chinese Medicine).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">There are two types of vibrational energy medicine we use.\u00a0 There is <a href=\"https:\/\/acupuncturecenterinc.com\/energylightacupuncture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy-Light Acupuncture<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/acupuncturecenterinc.com\/aromatune\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AromaTune Acupuncture<\/a>.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3897\" src=\"https:\/\/acupuncturecenterinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/armatherapy-acupuncture-massage_500-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acupuncturecenterinc.com\/bookappointment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Book Your Appointment Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Chakras Chakras are swirling vortexes of psycho-neuro-endocrine (PNE) bio-electric energy located along our anterior and posterior midline.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easier to just call these energy centers chakras!\u00a0 The chakras are part of Ayurveda Medicine, from India.\u00a0 Traditional Chinese Medical and Ayurvedic Medical systems have much overlap, and work together in harmony.\u00a0 The chakras correlate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chinese-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staging-wmplo.xyz\/acu-tom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}