Homework For Day 4: Focus on chakras, breathing & use of color to heal the chakras.

 

1. Sit in a comfortable position with eyes closed. Take 3 deep and slow inhales through the nose and exhales through the mouth, feeling your shoulders drop and your body relax.

2. Bring your awareness to your root chakra, at the base of the spine between your hips do the samavriti breathing 4 to 5 times. And then bring up a deep and warm red color from the center of the earth. Feel and sense the color swirling in this area with your full awareness. Bring up the emotions of being rooted into the earth, safe in your body. Feel the color and the emotions viscerally, keeping your attention there until you feel complete.

3. Keeping the red in your root chakra,  now bring your awareness to your sacral chakra, 3 inches below the navel. Do the samavriti breathing 4 to 5 times and allow to raise the color through the center of your body, allowing it to flow into a bright orange as you arrive at your sacral chakra, just below your navel. Feel it filling up this entire area within your body. As you sense the orange filling this center, feel into pleasure, emotional balance, and trust in your gut. Feel the color and the emotions viscerally, keeping your attention there until you feel complete.

4. Raise your awareness up to your solar plexus, 3 inches above the navel , the area below the breast bone. Do the samavriti breathing 4 to 5 times, as you do so allow the orange to flow into a vibrant yellow, bursting with powerful sun rays. Feel the strength of yellow in this center as you bring up the emotions of worthiness, personal willpower, strength. Feel the color and the emotions viscerally, keeping your attention there until you feel complete.

5. Now raise your awareness to your heart chakra,  between the chest area. Do the samavriti breathing  4 to 5 times, and as you do so feel the yellow light moving up the central channel and flowing into beautiful emerald green, filling your heart and space around your heart. Feel the vibrancy of this lush green as you bring in the elevated emotions of love, compassion, gratitude, and wholeness. Feel the color and the emotions viscerally, keeping your attention there until you feel complete.

6. Now focus your attention on the throat chakra which is the center in the throat. Do the samavriti breathing  4 to 5 times and allow the emerald green to flow into blue as it rises up into your throat chakra, landing and filling completely the whole of your throat. As you sense this calming blue coating your throat, embody the feeling of expressing yourself fully in all ways, communicating confidently. Feel the color and the emotions viscerally, keeping your attention there until you feel complete. 

7. Now bring your awareness to the Third Eye Chakra which is between the eyebrows.  Do the samavriti breathing as you visualize the blue flowing up to the third eye space allow it to change into a deep indigo color, filling your head from the brow to the back. Keep your awareness there as you feel connected to your intuition, a deep knowing and understanding, and clarity of all things. Feel the color and the emotions viscerally, keeping your attention there until you feel complete.

8. Now bring your awareness towards the Crown chakra which is at the top of the head,  focus over there and do the samavriti breathing to activate the chakra & allow the indigo to rise to the crown chakra at the top of your head as it flows into a beautiful violet. Feel this color expand and fill the area of your crown as you bring in a sense of total oneness with all the chakras. 

9. Feel into your body and sense that every color of the rainbow is within you, ascending from bottom to top and then from the top back down to the bottom;  grounded into the earth, the entire universe glowing brightly within you. 

10. When you’re ready, bring your awareness back to the physical space

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