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Chakra Balancing: Body Mind & Soul

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The first CD is basically "chillout" music. While listening to it, you may likely 1)hug yourself, because you're worth your own love, especially after having scored such a good CD, and 2)doze off at some point. Yeah, it's like that!

The second CD is a guided meditation led by Dr. Chopra that is easy to follow. Dr. Chopra gives a very good, very solid sense of orientation relative to chakra meditation. This was my very first introduction to chakras, their significance, and how to tend to them. The music is unobtrusive and serene.I have learned that there's more to chakras than what's on that CD, but to start out from scratch without having an actual TRUSTED person to teach you, I think using this CD is a great way to go.

This is a great 2-CD set from Deepak Chopra. I met this man in Washington, DC, in the 1990s while attending a live satellite broadcast. He was excellent and he carried a peace within him, sort of like humble royalty. It was a joy to be in his presence. I also recently met a lovely lady in Waterton, Alberta, Canada who knows him from India.

This set is vibrational toning music to balance your chakras. The 1st CD is instrumental and the 2nd is a guided meditation through each of the chakras, from base to crown. Both CDs are really good and leave you feeling relaxed and refreshed. You can meditate with either, or you could easily use the first CD in a healing modality, such as Reiki or acupuncture. If you go to sleep on the CDs, I personally believe that's OK, because I believe your subconscious just takes over and takes in the programming. (If you've ever used good subliminal programming CDs, they do the same thing--continue to program you through your subconscious while you're asleep--at least, that has certainly been my experience. I often use some of my sleep time for positive learning experiences.)

1st CD is Chakra Balancing: Sahaswara--10 tracks of meditation music. It is very relaxing and very pretty. This CD runs about 1 hour.

2nd CD is Chakra Meditation with Deepak Chopra and music by Adam Planck. It is very vibrational music and is combined with the soft relaxing meditations (in Deepak's voice) for each of the 7 Chakras. There are 9 tracks in all in CD 2, an opening trae 7 chakras beginning with the base/root charka through the crown chakra, and ending with the bringing together of the 7 chakras in summary.
An example is the 1st Chakra "Muladhara" in Sanskrit. It's color is red and its sound is "Lam," pronounced "Lum". The location of the chakra is explained. This charka deals with basic survival, security and trust. The systems affected by this charka are skeletal, lymph, and elimination. It also involves the sense of smell. Stones related to the charka are: hematite, garnet, jasper, and ruby. So, the thought process is, if you have a problem trusting people, your root charka is out of balance. (By the way, ladies, here's as good an excuse as any to buy some jewelry : - ) (Uh oh. I guess all the husbands just got upset with me.)

Anyway, Deepak takes you on a meditation through each charka while playing the vibrational music. He explains the color and has you visualize it and breath it in while he explains what the charka is related to (as I explained above). When you finish meditating on that charka, he gently moves you to the next by ringing Tibetan bells. He moves directly up the Kundalini energy path to the crown charka.

There is also a booklet which again repeats what is in the meditation for each charka and provides a drawing showing each color and the location of each charka.

If you're reading this review, you probably already believe in the value of cleansing and reconnecting your chakras. If you don't believe and you somehow found this review anyway, this is still very relaxing stuff, especially the 1st CD. So, if you just want to chill, this will do it. If you have trouble getting to sleep, this CD set will probably also help you with that and do you some additional good in the process. I use it to balance about once every other week, sometimes more. I am actually balancing right now while I'm writing this review. Ha. It's called metaphysical multitasking : - ) (I meditate every night with something, but I have a collection of several, so I rotate them around.)

Namaste'

This CD was a breath of fresh air. I couldn't have asked for a better way to be introduced to meditation. The music was absolutely gorgeous and respectfully non invasive to the meditation. After experiencing this music, I felt clearer, focused and more powerful.

I first heard this in a meditation class I was taking and I had to get it! The music is wonderful and the guided meditation is extremely relaxing and refreshing to your mind and body.

I have been looking when in myself and epsecially at my chakras in that of doing a lot of self healing and this CD set is great.
CD1 has some beautiful soft music and it does relax one after a hard day at work.
CD2 the chakra meditation is just as good in that one starts to work with the chakra centers and one will notice the difference in ones self ater using doing the meditation a few times.

A good buy.

This immediately made me relax. I think everyone could use this!The meditation is so easy to do. It guides you step by step. The music is lovely.

During the prelude on the guided meditation a voice calls this a "Subtle, yet powerful treatment." When I bought a guided meditation CD, I was not expecting a treatment, but that's really what this CD is, because even when my mind wanders while I am listening to it on the bus to work I still feel lighter and more connected after it's over. Something about the music behind the meditation has a real physiological effect on me.

I haven't listened to the massage music half of the CD very much, but it is very relaxing and not annoying at all. That's about the best anyone can say about most massage music that I've heard. It would also be great to do some freestyle meditation to.

I have one other Deepak meditation album which I gave four stars - this one, however, deserves the full 5!

Everything the other reviewers wrote, about feeling more focused, centered, balanced- is exactly how I felt after just one listening to the guided meditation. I tried it during the day and felt invigorated afterwards - and I tried it before bed and slept very restfully afterwards. I am relatively new to meditation and frankly not all that disciplined - I sometimes struggle to keep my mind from wandering - but I find this album really reins me in.

Highly recommended!

I love Deepak Chopras voice for stuff like this whereas when I listen to audio books by him he tends to send me to sleep.

There are a billion meditation music cd's out there and better ones too. However, this is worth buying just for the guided chakra meditation. He walks you through the meditation explaining the name and purpose of each of the 7 major chakras without it ever feeling intruisive. There is plenty of time between his talking to allow yourself to concentrate on the chakra involved and go inside.

Of course you can do it on your own when you get used to what you are supposed to be doing but I still stick my Ipod on from time to time.

The "all music" CD is far too up-tempo and distracting for meditation: far too much going on - very distracting. It's a one-star CD, maybe 2 if I'm feeling generous.

On the other CD, Chopra's discussion of the Chakras and the 5 or 7 minutes of wafting sound that follows each discussion is absolutely great. Unfortunately before they launch into the next Chakra, they have some music similar to the "all music" CD, which is EXTREMELY jarring, and interrupts of the calmness that had been established. I think this is by design, to pull you out of your reverie to take in Chopra's next message... but for me, I'd rather they didn't. Nonetheless I could see 4 stars on this one.

Combining the two and considering the price, the best I can do is three stars, and that's being generous.

However, I would recommend it to you IF you are into the whole Chakra thing, and if you wanted something to spend an hour with during a long lunch break: the distracting music wouldn't let you doze off completely, and Chopra's voice is very soothing and just seems trustworthy for some reason; in that sense I could see some people enjoying it much more than I did.