Hi Friends,

I’m Raaj Chakraborty and today I am excited to share with you 3 Easy Chakra Healing Techniques to Vitalize Your Chakras, but first… and to give you some helpful context, allow me to tell you my story.

Life had guided me to several spheres still I am fumbling to get my identity. I decided that I did not want to settle for this solution until I found out one.. There had to be other ways to “heal” my depression. So I went looking… And I was not prepared for what I was about to find.

It was 2013 and back then, energy healing was such a foreign concept in our part of the world!

But somehow, something led me to it. In spite of it being so foreign, strange and unheard of, I was open to it. Not just because my family, friends and associates but because I was drawn to it.

Since then, I haven’t looked back. Ravenous for more information, I started studying a variety of modalities from Reiki and Rapid Eye Therapy, EFT and Energy Medicine. In 2016 I realized that I have not only healed my depression, but had now gathered so much knowledge to share with the world! It was then that I decided to my valuable piece of revelation to the world.

Understanding Your Energy System

In the field of holistic health, energy medicine and energy psychology are growing rapidly. But in order to heal with energy effectively, we must first understand the nature of our energy system and how to support yourself in maintaining vital life-force energy, otherwise known as “chi” in Chinese.

What do I mean by that? Everyone has an invisible energy system that flows energy on pathways or meridians. These same meridians have multiple pressure points that have been a means of working with the energy to keep it flowing. Acupressure, acupuncture, and reflexology are the more common modalities we have in the Western world.

When your energy is leaking, weak, or frozen you feel depleted, heavy and even stuck! When you are energy-depleted and challenged, it is more difficult to manage your emotions, think positive thoughts, stay healthy and attract harmony to your life.

I assisted a woman who was bedridden due to a severe case of chronic fatigue. I spent eight weeks working with her body’s energy system to restore it to good health, and teaching her how to take care of her own energy health. Today, she is out of bed and fully active! Her parents call it a miracle!

I, on the other hand, think otherwise.

Because anyone can attain amazing holistic health.

For those of you who doubt that, let me share something with you: Our energy responds very quickly when we know what to do to correct it. After all, it’s just energy.

Everyone has an invisible energy system called chakras. The word chakra means energy disc, vortex, or wheel. There are seven energy stations positioned from the base of your spine to the top of your head. These wheels of energy compose the 7 primary chakra energy’s that each play a big role in every aspect of your life and well-being.

In energy health, if you are losing or leaking energy at the base chakra located at the bottom of your spine, you may feel depression, anxiety and exhaustion. If any of your chakras are frozen or weak, different areas of your life will be more challenging depending on which chakra is weak.

3 Easy Ways to Vitalize Your Chakras for Better Energy Health

Right now, I’m going to share with you three very simple things you can do to vitalize and energize your chakras to achieve the level of holistic energy health you’ve always wanted.

1. Patch your base chakra energy leaks

When there is a leak, you have to patch it. Many people are energy-depleted because they are not able to hold enough life force energy or “chi”. In this energy condition, you are flushing energy down and away from you, much like a toilet flushes water down. In order to maintain good energy health, you want energy spiraling up into your base chakra. Here’s one way you can do it in 4 easy steps:

·         Close your eyes and imagine you can see the energy leaking out of your tailbone.

·         Imagine a patch large enough to cover the leak.

·         Place the patch over the leak.

·         Imagine you can go beneath the energy and reverse the flow to spiral it up into your body through your tailbone.

2. Open up your crown chakra

Why is this important? Life force energy is also fed to us through ourcrown chakra. The crown chakra is located on the top of your head. We maintain a higher life force energy when our crown chakra is open and active.

When the crown chakra is closed or weak, we feel a lack of vitality and direction in our lives. As a result we look to others rather than our own spiritual compass for guidance.

Here’s a simple, but very effective way to open up your crown chakra to receive energy in abundance:

·         Place the finger tips of each of your hands on the top of you forehead where your hairline starts. Your fingertips should be touching.

·         Now pull your fingertips away from each other as though you were opening up your crown.

·         Move your fingers 2 inches above the starting point and repeat the same movement.

·         Do this over the entire crown of your head until you reach the nape of your neck. Take 3 deep breaths to anchor in this opening.

3. Activate your third chakra

Disruption of the flow of your life force energy occurs when a chakra is frozen or weak. It is common for individuals to have a frozen or weak third chakra. The third chakra represents your will, power, confidence and sense of self. This results in a lack of confidence and will to move forward enthusiastically with towards your goals. The third chakra energy wheel is located 2 inches above the navel in the solar plexus area. These simple steps will help you activate your third chakra effectively:

·         Rub your palms together swiftly creating static electricity.

·         Place the palm of your right hand on your solar plexus, rotating your palm in a clockwise direction while repeating: “I am powerful, I am the will of creating what I want.”

·         Repeat these steps 2 or 3 more times.

·         Your chakra energy is one of your most powerful and important energy systems.

I highly recommend you study this system in more detail to change the results of your life. Whether you are a veteran student of energy medicine or brand new to this information, the chakras energy system is one of the most important to understand how to work with.

If you’ve got any questions for me that you’d like answered, just leave a comment on this post.

Cheers

 Raaj Chakraborty.

Election 2014, jist.

How Unreal Can These Elections Get?

Every day they parody the news. They are the authors of a new satirical political novel, but even they wonder if they can better the real nuttiness of our politicians.

It was 8 a.m. last Friday on April 25^th. Sitting in our ramshackle office in New Delhi we were deeply troubled.

We hadn't yet figured out what would be the first article on The Unreal Times that morning. We had been running the news satire website for 36 months, and had recently published our satirical novel Unreal Elections. But every morning brought its sweaty, particular imposter syndrome. Could we really write the best unreal news of the day?

Then, Gtalk went 'ping'! A chat window opened up and with it, a sliver of hope. It was one of our regular columnists, Ashwin Kumar.

Ashwin: Yo
Karthik: Yo
Ashwin: What's our first piece today?
Karthik: Nothing yet…
Ashwin: He he. Check this: "Congress asks Election Commission to hide lotus ponds in Madhya Pradesh from voters."

We leaned back in our seats, relieved. Ashwin had once again delivered a top quality satire theme.

Krishna: Hehe. Sexy theme! Let's do this.
Ashwin: Um, actually, it's a real news report. Here's the link.
Krishna: ...

A lot of people ask us how we differentiate ourselves from rival satire portals. We tell them that our competition isn’t another satire portal, but real life itself. Consider these real news headlines:

“9-month-old Pakistani boy accused of attempted murder, produced in court.”

Or “Mamata’s government mulls replacing red beacon with green ones.”

The first headline would have been a great dig at the chaos in Pakistan’s public life if only it hadn’t been true. And Didi’s distrust and dislike of the communists is legendary. The second headline could have easily been slotted as an unreal article. We responded enthusiastically, with “Mamata Banerjee demands ban on Mars after she’s told that it is called the red planet.” And when we saw "Congress asks Election Commission to hide lotus ponds in Madhya Pradesh from voters," we bravely raised the bar with “Rahul Gandhi petitions EC to change his great grandmom’s name from Kamala Nehru to Panja Nehru.” 

But really, how does an honest satire portal compete with such brilliant satire masquerading as real news?

Unreal Elections, by C.S. Krishna & Karthik Laxman. Penguin IndiaMany readers believe that we make a living cracking jokes about Rahul Gandhi. What they don’t realize is the pressure we come under to one-up Rahul’s own humor quotient whenever he makes a statement. How does one beat his “Jupiter’s escape velocity” remark? Or his interview with Arnab Goswami? Nevertheless, we carry on gamely, striving hard to realize a degree of unreality in our articles that is just above what actually happens these days, but not too fantastic for our readers either.

Our new book Unreal Elections is a satirical, fictitious take on the backroom machinations and intrigue in political parties and media houses leading up to the General Elections: Reeling under severe anti-incumbency and damaging allegations against Robert Vadra, the beleaguered Congress stares at electoral doom. Sonia Gandhi, however, is undeterred. Perhaps she has an ace up her sleeve. With her man Friday, Ahmed Patel, she prepares the reluctant Rahul Gandhi to take over as number two. A thousand kilometers away, Narendra Modi ponders over the various obstacles in his path to the throne of Delhi – an estranged mentor, a hostile media and his own controversial past. With his right hand man, Amit Shah, he then begins to draw the contours of a strategy to capture power at the Center. Unbeknownst to these two warring teams, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat embarks upon a mission to disrupt the best laid plans of the two principal parties. Then there’s the small matter of a masked vigilante…

The key to success in this genre is to calibrate the degree of unreality so that the narration always has the ring of plausibility to it. The balance between exaggerated truth and letting the imagination run wild must be such that the reader ponders to what extent the events depicted in the work mirror reality. That’s when you know, as a writer of political satire, that you have hit the sweet spot. Over the last couple of months, we have kept a very close eye on the broad political trends to figure out the satirical angles they lend themselves to.

For instance, it’s been fun to watch the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party and the subsequent ups and downs in their fortunes. Their relationship with the media has been exciting to watch. First, they were ignored by the media (particularly after Kejriwal’s expose on Ambani). Then they became the darlings of news channels (immediately after the Delhi election results). Now they have this strange love-hate relationship with the media. The way they captured the imagination of the middle class and then lost it in a few weeks reminds us of how quickly things can change in politics.

And how grateful we have been for the manna from heaven that Arvind Kejriwal’s shenanigans have been. His relinquishing power in Delhi, jettisoning his original anti-corruption agenda to take on Narendra Modi and his indignant, self-righteousness have filled our mornings with joy, enabling us to produce articles such as:

1. Arvind Kejriwal’s leaked Gmail inbox in which, among other things, he spams Narendra Modi for an appointment only to get an automated ‘out of office reply’.

2. Mukesh Ambani filing for bankruptcy after all the people Kejriwal has accused of being his agents gang up and demand payments from the Reliance tycoon.

3. Arvind Kejriwal renaming himself Shahzada Kejriwal to attract Narendra Modi’s attention.

4. And in a nod to Arvind Kejriwal’s holier-than-thou attitude, we had the piece about how the Ganga was purified after Arvind Kejriwal took a dip in it while campaigning in Varanasi.

Another thing that is amazing about this election is how it has turned from a vote on UPA’s performance to a referendum on Modi. To have the media constantly debate whether or not there is a Modi wave has been an endless source of amusement for us. Leading to our articles speculating whether the Election Commission ought to have an additional button ‘Is there a Modi wave?’ and reporting that after questioning the existence of Modi wave, Kapil Sibal has questioned the existence of Modi.

We also had rich, juicy material from the contrast between the stories of infighting in the BJP and the Modi wave. We wrote a spate of articles such as “Sushma Swaraj expresses a desire to continue as a Leader of the Opposition even if BJP comes to power”. We pretended that Rajnath Singh had been diagnosed with Type II diabetes after “incessant ladoo exchanges with new BJP recruits”. When the BJP was delaying the release of its manifesto, we announced it was going to release a compilation of “Ab ki baar Modi sarkaar” memes as its manifesto. As good an explanation as any.

We get a high when an article goes viral, and readers respond with comments such as, “You guys made my day”, “This lifted my mood”, “This is why I start my day with The Unreal Times”, or “what is unreal about this?” We also savor those days when our articles are read and retweeted by the famous, who will hopefully be the subject of one of our stories in the future. It all gets a little involved sometimes. The Economist had a cover story announcing that it did not endorse Modi as a prime ministerial candidate. It became a huge talking point and all the news channels gave the article airtime. But who actually reads The Economist in India? Our columnist Ashwin Kumar wrote a piece headlined “Indian who changed his mind after reading The Economist’s denunciation of Narendra Modi traced”. Suddenly all the mainstream media sites were sharing Ashwin’s piece. A journalist from The Economist shared it. Obviously, someone just needed to call the news cycle’s bluff.

Obviously, it is our life’s mission for people to believe our stories are true. One of our articles “[American] Journalist mistakenly interviews Bollywood actor Imran Khan instead of Pakistani cricket legend” was mistaken by some Pakistanis for real news and went viral in Pakistan in September 2011. The article played up stereotypes such as American ignorance of other countries. It was published when Pakistan-America ties were particularly frayed – there had been several terrorist attacks and the Americans were accusing the Pakistanis of not doing enough in the war. What rankled even more for Pakistani was that an ignorant American journalist had mistaken the Bollywood actor Imran Khan, an Indian to boot, for their cricket legend. In many ways, the article provided a cathartic release for several Pakistanis to vent their frustration over perceived American hegemony and insensitivity to Pakistani sensibilities.

Another article, published in December 2011, that saw this phenomenon was “Stunning revelation: West Indies’ cricket captain, Darren Sammy, is a Tam brahm!!!” In the article, we wrote that Darren Sammy was not of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity but a bona fide Tamil Brahmin who had emigrated to St Lucia to pursue a career in cricket rather than study for IIT-JEE. The article went viral within the Tamil Brahmin community, with many expressing pride that the West Indian skipper was one of their own, and what’s more, had not forsaken his culture in a foreign land.

People mistaking our satire for reportage is amazing, but what gives us the greatest high, the craziest high, is when something utterly ridiculous and improbable that we came up with comes true.

Hours before Rahul Gandhi’s famous interview with Arnab Goswami went on air, we had published a photo-story imagining how the interview would pan out. In our unreal interview, Arnab fires questions at Rahul Gandhi, and Rahul fires back answers with aplomb. The indomitable Arnab eventually runs out of questions and is left speechless. Rahul Gandhi then walks out of the Times Now studio and reaches under his neck to pull off his mask, only to reveal that he is Jairam Ramesh masquerading as Rahul for the interview.

By the time the real interview happened, our unreal interview had already gone viral. So later, when people learnt that Jairam Ramesh had indeed been in the same interview room along with Priyanka Gandhi, and had been prompting Rahul Gandhi from behind, our readers tweeted in jest that ‘there’s nothing Unreal about The Unreal Times anymore’.

On a much graver note, we once did a piece headlined “Parliament adjourned indefinitely after MP farts incessantly.” So when a few weeks later, when we saw a Times of India report with the headline “Rajya Sabha adjourned twice over ‘foul’ smell”, we had ourselves a sinister laugh. It’s not for nothing that Pritish Nandy once tweeted, “The Unreal Times must be India’s best newspaper.”

Over the years we have had low, low days when there wasn’t stimulus in the real world for us to spoof. This election season, though, every day has been an event and the low days have been few and far between.

With elections upon us, tempers and emotions have been running high. Objectivity has taken a backseat and people are more partisan. We have been accused in the last two months of being sympathetic to the BJP whenever we have done pieces mocking AAP or the Congress. And when we did some pieces on BJP we’ve been labeled AAPtards (AAP sympathizers) or eNREGA workers (online Congress sympathizers). We are very hopeful that after the elections people will become less partisan and more accommodating.

In the last few weeks, as the rhetoric has heated up and in-depth discussion on issues has been sidelined, the shallowness of public discourse both in the media and in the polity is striking. Television news discussions now have a ring of inevitability: a leader somewhere makes an outrageous statement and that becomes the topic of discussion of the day, invariably degenerating into a raucous tu-tu main-main.

On the other hand, we are kicked that people are so kicked about the elections this time around. We love the incredible awareness levels and the palpable excitement. It’s addictive to get on Twitter everyday and watch the day’s scuffles between various party partisans, attempting to trend their slogans and hashtags, and propagate their point of view. Even Arnab hasn’t been able to resist and attempts to trend a hashtag every other day!