69 of 70 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lovely!, Aug 4 2006
By Linda Vargas - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chakra Balancing Body Mind An (Audio CD)
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.
62 of 63 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Music and Vibrational Balancing, July 25 2007
By Kathy W - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chakra Balancing Body Mind An (Audio CD)
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'
47 of 51 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Chakra Balancing: Body Mind & Soul, Mar 29 2005
By Katy "Katy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chakra Balancing Body Mind An (Audio CD)
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.