Meditation: Chakra Balancing with Ian Russell feat. Fiona Rea
Chakra Balancing Meditation
MP3 download.
Duration: 27:24 min
Narrated by Ian Russell.
Music by Fiona Rea.
Why Chakra-Based Meditation Helps
Chakra-based meditation is effective because, as Candace Pert documents in Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind, each chakra corresponds to an actual neuronal plexus - a cluster of nerve cells densely populated with receptors for neuropeptides, the informational molecules (like endorphins) that carry emotional signals between cells throughout the body, not just the brain.
Since these seven plexuses are physiologically interconnected, chronic stress or unexpressed emotion can constrict blood vessels and disrupt receptor activity at one node, degrading neuropeptide signalling across the entire network.
Meditation has the potential to counteract this: it lowers stress hormones, improves blood flow and nutrient delivery to these plexuses, and re-establishes unobstructed neuropeptide flow between them - meaning the benefit isn’t metaphysical but measurably physiological, a restoration of normal cellular communication across the mind-body system Pert calls the “body mind.”
Source: Candace Pert, PhD, Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind (Study Guide), Sounds True, 2000.