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The subtle body consists of nadi (energy channels) connected by nodes of psychic energy called chakra. [3] The belief grew into extensive elaboration, with some suggesting 88,000 chakras throughout the subtle body. The number of major chakras varied between various traditions, but they typically ranged between four and seven.
Hod is the tendency to control and break down energy into different forms, the two forms being contending and balancing forces. This is like the forces of anabolism and catabolism in the human body. Hod and Netzach are associated with the left and right legs and feet of the body. [8]
The heart wheel in this model is circular, white and has eight petals (or channels) reaching downwards. These channels divide into three wheels (mind, speech and body) and go to 24 places in the body. They again divide into three and then into 1,000, producing 72,000 channels (known as Nadi) throughout the body. [15]
The subtle body in Indian mysticism, from a yoga manuscript in Braj Bhasa language, 1899. A row of chakras is depicted from the base of the spine up to the crown of the head. A subtle body is a "quasi material" [1] aspect of the human body, being neither solely physical nor solely spiritual, according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical ...
According to this tradition, the human body is composed of 96 constituent principles or tattvas. Siddhas fundamental principles never differentiated people from the universe . According to them, " Nature is people and people is nature and therefore both are essentially one.
Any disorder in human body indicates imbalance of one or more of these elements. Yoga Tattva Mudra Vijnana relates these five elements to five fingers of human being. Different Mudra were developed to balance these [ 7 ] in human body which form the Hasta Mudra in yogic tradition and are used in Naturopathy .
The reason involves the ancient Indian belief that "the human body is divided into seven vortices of energy, called chakras, beginning at the base of the spine and ending at the top of the head. The sixth chakra , also known as the third eye , is centered in the forehead directly between the eyebrows and is believed to be the channel through ...
In some versions of the subtle body, there are actually several chakras, which are all closely related, at the top of the head. Rising from Ajna , [ 6 ] we have the Manas chakra on the forehead, [ 7 ] which is closely associated with Ajna.