Whose Chakra Is It Anyway?
In a session with a client a couple of days ago, I described the chakras of her business, and how they related to some problems she was experiencing.
If you’re wondering how chakras and business ended up in the same sentence, bear with me—All Will Be Revealed, I promise!
Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means “wheel”. Essentially, chakras are energy vortexes (like bio-computers) that process information from the world around us, as well as from our inner worlds–including our history and biology. They extend from our physical bodies into the subtle-energetic space around us, and link us to our larger, multidimensional selves.
They are the interface between subtle energy and physical matter.
Yet, they’re no more exotic than the mysteries of how blood flows through our veins, or how our marvelous bodies digest food and transform air into fuel for our cells–or any of the other astonishing capacities we have that are more familiar to us only because science has focused its attention and resources on understanding them.
Whether chakras are metaphors or vibrational realities matters little to the empiricist in me. What interests me is effectiveness—if working with them extends my creative capacities, I’ll happily play with them.
So I approach the chakra system as one way of mapping, organizing and working with information to transform and create my life–and my business–in precise, efficient ways. There are sophisticated systems from other spiritual traditions that offer similar technologies of transformation, but this is the one I’m most familiar with. And, after three decades of working with it, I continue to be enchanted by its beauty, flexibility and power.
It’s an efficient, elegant mapping system through which we can explore our reality, and change it.
The implications of this for business are as practical as they are profound.
For one thing, developing skill and precision in working with chakras helps you, as a creative entrepreneur, handle day-to-day situations in your business with an ease that can seem miraculous. (Although the real miracle is that we have these enormous, untapped capacities which we so seldom use.)
An example: You have a big presentation coming up first thing tomorrow. You’ve researched and prepared for it; rehearsed your presentation until its cadences feel natural, easy; and you’ve laid out the clothes you’ll wear in the morning. You’ve gone to bed early so you’ll be rested and ready.
Now, it’s 2 am and your mind is racing. Should you really have used “Oscar the Grouch meets Shrek at the 42nd Street Starbucks” as your central metaphor? What if that funny rattling sound your car made when you were heading home today turns out to be something monumental and the steering wheel falls off just as you’re about to drive to your meeting? Or the car’s okay but you’re halfway there before you realize you forgot your laptop at home and have to go back for it and then you get caught in traffic and then you get pulled over for speeding and then . . . What If?
Sound familiar?
If you knew something about chakras, you would probably realize that the disaster scenarios running through your head while the clock ticks over to 2:30 a.m. are driven by adrenalin pounding through your body. And that by closing down your first chakra (the energy center in charge of keeping you safe from dinosaurs and roving marauders) to a manageable ten percent of its capacity, you can slow down the production of adrenalin in your body almost instantly.
If you were reasonably skilled in working with chakras, you would then clear the debris of the day from the cord that connects your third chakra (which controls your power and energy distribution) to your subtle body; release any energy that isn’t yours; and disconnect from all the other folks who are going to be at tomorrow’s meeting. Many of whom are lying awake, worrying about their presentations too. You’d do this because you’d know that all that worry ends up in your own subtle energy field, unless you consciously disconnect from it.
Because you’re working with subtle energy, which moves much faster than physical energy, you can do all of this work in less than three minutes, without ever leaving your warm bed. Add some simple belly-breathing, fill your chakras with support and safety, and et voila! Before you know it, you’ll be asleep.
In the morning, you’ll be rested and ready for your presentation.
This is just one very simple example of how working with chakras can help you in your business.
But there’s another reason why chakras matter to the health of your business.
Your business has its own presence, its own soul, and its own life. As it grows, it develops a subtle body of its own. Complete (ta-dah!) with chakras.
By exploring the chakras of your business, you can get a clear map of its terrain. You can see the hills and valleys–which areas of your business are strong and can bear heavy loads, which ones are fragile and need care and nourishment.
You can see where your business is leaking energy—this can take the form of money flowing out as fast as it comes in. Or maybe too many clients who aren’t right for you. Which makes you cranky, tired and overwhelmed–not the best way to make decisions.
The good news is, you can change these trends by working with the chakras of your business.
When you remove stagnation and restore subtle-energy flow in a chakra, your business will respond with concrete, positive changes. More of your right clients “miraculously” show up, while those who aren’t right for you leave. Income begins to flow in a steady stream. Miscommunication and missed connections become a thing of the past.
It seems miraculous. Yet these changes are simply a result of using capacities you already have. You may not have developed them yet, but they are there, and they are yours.
Learning to work skillfully with chakras makes you more effective in your business.
If this interests you and you want to know more, take a look at this page. We’ll be talking about chakras and business in a program I’m teaching in January.
How about you? I’d love to hear how you use your extended capacities–your intuition, creativity, genius and multidimensional skills–to help you create and grow your business.
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Thanks Hiro for talking about Chakras and businesses.
If you’re not – you should plan to write a book on it.
You have such in depth understanding on Chakras that you’ll be able to help a lot of people understand its power and best practices for working with it too.
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Thank you, Ankesh. A book, huh? Now you’ve got my chakras spinning! :-)
Hiro Boga´s last post … Whose Chakra Is It Anyway?
I second this! Perhaps not just Chakras and business, but how they can influence/affect business, art, parenting & family. The possibilities… they make my head spin, in a good way!
I THIRD this fab idea! getting your newsletter is ALWAYS a treat for the eye and the mind (FYI, the “this page” link is not active in the newsletter, in case it’s supposed to be), and this time your writing got my feeble little shallow chakras spinning ~ ha! So I agree with Anke that a book (or anything that imparts your teaching on this relationship) would be most welcome…
It seems that your work most strikes a chord in me when I want to hire you to advise on the topic but am too reluctant to learn what I should from you ~ ! Such a petty conundrum, not wanting to graduate to the next level of understanding because I’m so comfy/entrenched/(stalled?) in my current one, oy vey! Too much potential for distraction there, must get back to work, but I do look forward to maturing to the point of overcoming my reluctance to improvement… SOME day!
Keep up the great work with your Newsletters, Hiro, for everyone of us who get to comment, there are dozens who can’t/don’t, but you’re touching them as well… (and again, MUST remark on the stunningly perfect-for-your-brand design of your site… magnificent!)
Your pal ~
~ @TheGirlPie
Cool- everyone hear the rumor that Hiro is writing a book on business chakras? I hear it’s due out in 2010. :)
Seriously- I love that you took this on in such detail.
Mark, you rumor-monger you! :-)
Hiro Boga´s last post … Whose Chakra Is It Anyway?
Hiro,
Sign me up! I’d love to read it. This post feels like it just scrapes the surface. Caroline Myss’ book Anatomy of the Spirit changed me after reading it. I’d love to go deeper into your wisdom too!
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This is fascinating! When I started learning reiki, I didn’t really believe there were such things as chakras. But then things started happening that made sense to me if I looked at where they were happening and what chakra was there and what it represented. So I am slowly learning more .. it is interesting to think of them in terms of a business now!
I can’t wait to read your book. :)
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This post makes me realize there is so much to learn about chakras. It’s incredibly fascinating!
I’m getting so excited to take your class in January!
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Hiro, thank you for sharing this wisdom so freely. I have always given my business a life and spirit helpers of it’s own. but I never once thought to look at the health and vibration of my business through the lens of the chakras. Miraculous! In only half-hour of mere musing, I’m already seeing shifts that can be made. Excited to work with this!
A book? Brilliant! I’m going to tweet that right now :)
big love, Mahala
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Folks, you do realize that this book is a rumor Mark Silver started? It doesn’t have chakras of its own–not yet, anyway! :-)
Hiro Boga´s last post … Whose Chakra Is It Anyway?
Ummm. I think you might be wrong about that, Hiro, sweetie. I think the book already has it’s own chakras. & spinning very nicely, too.
I’m with Mark. I’d like a review copy :)
Mahala´s last post … The Dalai Lama on Waking Up:Getting Out of Bed on the Way to Enlightenment
Aww…thank you for your loving encouragement, Mahala. You and Mark see over the horizon. :-)
First canoodling, and now this. I’m gobsmacked.
Like others have said, looking at the chakras of our business is (at least for me) revolutionary. I am already helped by this remarkable perspective.
Hiro, do you think it’s possible for our business to have, for example, a strong root chakra if we do not? Or, conversely, could our business have a faint throat chakra if we have a clear one? I’m curious if our chakras and our business’s chakras mirror each other, or are independent of each other?
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Erika, thanks for your thoughtful questions. The short answer is, yes, maybe.
As is true in any relationship, the relationship you have with your business exerts a gravitational pull on both your chakra systems. If you’re unconscious of this, or don’t know how to separate your energy from that of your business, your respective chakra systems will reflect this merging, and will closely mirror each other.
However, you can consciously work to maintain your sovereignty, and that of your business. When you do this successfully, your relationship is a co-creative, collaborative one. Your chakras will have their own independent presences.
So, for example, if you’re sick with the flu, it might muddy up your fifth chakra, but won’t necessarily affect your business’s fifth chakra.
Hiro Boga´s last post … Whose Chakra Is It Anyway?
POW! That was the thunderous sound of Clarity racing through my consciousness. If you do this in a comment section, what in the world could be in store in your January program? (rhetorical) You give a mighty nice preview, Hiro. Thank you so much.
Erika Harris´s last post … You had me at “thumbscoop.”
Oh Hiro, this is So. Very. Interesting. I’m fascinated already and look forward to soaking up your wisdom like a sponge. I’m ready to pre-order the book on Amazon!!
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Thank you, dear Julie! This mythical book is taking on a life of its own. :-)
Hiro Boga´s last post … Whose Chakra Is It Anyway?
Hiro you have really piqued my interest with this article. I can’t wait to read more!
Thanks
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This is brilliant, Hiro! Your focus has just stimulated me into new territory in looking at my business: taking nurses “from burnout to living your dream”. Wow! Thanks so much! I can’t wait for your book! :))))
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Hello, Hiro, glad to find you at last.
Hiro- here’s me making an official request for a review copy of the Business Chakra book for the blog/newsletter. It’s okay if its a PDF of the pre-press edition. I’ll hold my review until the launch date. (Who says Sufis aren’t sneaky?)
Mark, thank you for coaxing this book into the world with reports of sightings and invitations to submit review copies! :-) The book and I are both grateful for your support.
Hiro- thanks for sharing this fabulous article. It’s a wonderful contribution to the body of work that is building the bridge between “business” and the subtle energy bodies.
Coincidentally (or not), the same night I saw your post, I had just learned about a book called “The Enlightened Leader – An Introduction to the Chakras of Leadership” by Peter Ten Hoopen and Fons Tromenaars. I just ordered it on Amazon – might be worth flipping through as you research your new book ;-)
Loved this one, dear Hiro. I really enjoyed every word of it! Thank you for writing such beauty!
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