Activate your chakras

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Concentration Exercise

Kindly imagine inside your heart (note: this refers to the spiritual heart, or the heart or anahata chakra located about in the middle of one’s chest) a flame. Right now perhaps the flame is tiny and flickering; it is not a powerful flame. But one day it will definitely become most powerful and most illumining. So every day before you pray and meditate, try to imagine inside your heart a flame, a burning flame. And please try to imagine that that flame is illumining your mind. You cannot concentrate according to your satisfaction because the mind is not focused. The mind is constantly thinking of many things. It has become a victim of many uncomely thoughts. The mind does not have proper illumination, so imagine a beautiful flame inside your heart, illumining you. Bring that illumining flame inside your mind. Then you will gradually see a streak of light inside your mind. When your mind starts becoming illumined, it is very, very easy to concentrate for a long time, and also toconcentrate more deeply.

During a lecture in 1999, Sri Chinmoy answers a question related to concentrating on some of the centres (or chakras), mainly the spiritual heart, the “third eye” and the “crown” (or sahasrara) centers.

“We need a place which we can call a safe foundation. If we can abide in the heart most of the time, then if we can raise our consciousness… there is no problem at all…”

– Sri Chinmoy, (unofficial transcript) from the interview

Exercises to Still the Mind

Exercise 1: To make your mind vacant, you should not allow any thought to enter into your mind and take shape. Suppose a thought, a vibration, or something else is coming. Immediately, shoot an arrow and pierce it into pieces. An idea comes, somebody’s name comes, or some thought comes. Immediately, just throw it out. It must not come and enter into your mind. Before it touches your mind you have to cut it into pieces.