Let us briefly describe physical and psychological features, typical of looseness and rigidity of chakra.
By looseness of a chakra or of a field we understand such state of the field, when it can easily be breached, i.e. with the relatively weak energetic influence at the respective level appears «a hole» or an energy outflow. Too loose fields prevent energy from staying in chakra. Field’s looseness is an unstable state: energy is present, but can’t be kept. The etheric field is dense outside and looser inside.
At the behaviour level looseness is a state when a person hasn’t yet worked out a certain «natural» law, but he hasn’t got the situation on it either. Physically muscles at the level of loose chakras are not de-veloped enough or hypertrophied in relaxation.
On the contrary a state when a person can hardly emanate the respective chakra’s energy is called rigidity. Rigidity is a hypertrophied excessive density of energy. Muscles in these zones are strained, stretching is harder. The most often rigidity appears, where chakras are blocked. Note that, if chakra is rigid, it doesn’t especially mean that it is weak. If a person has a rigid and weak chakra, he’s very «lucky». At least he’ll have no neuroses. If chakra is strong and rigid, a person constantly stays in the inherent contradiction, because the energy seeks to come out and finds no way out.
As other energy features, field’s looseness and rigidity find their reflection on the physical body and on person’s emotional state (astral plane).
Muladhara #
The looseness of Muladhara at the behaviour level will show as a tendency to possess more property, than one can afford. Muladhara’s rigidity is a state of constant squeezing of the pelvic floor. A person lives with a constantly locked mulabandha. It is quite frequent, because in European culture there is an excessive disgust for all processes that have to do with defecation, urination and so on. The psychotype of the person with rigid Muladhara is similar to the anally fixed type, customary in psychoanalysis.
A good example of an anally fixed type is Chekhov’s «man in a case». He dresses «for the case, if the weather gets colder». Every day is all the same: he goes to work, comes back home, on Sunday goes for a walk (from point A to a point B — all planned and fixed). This is the sign of rigid Muladhara, when a person is unable to digress from his customary schemes. Physically you may see Muladhara’s rigidity as a strained pelvic floor and limited mobility of pelvis and hips. Usually such a person can hardly stretch his legs apart.
Svadhishthana #
Loose Svadhishthana is easily diagnosed by an excessive mobility of the pelvis, which goes out of control. It is especially noticed when a person is standing. His pelvis always «falls out», often ahead. He moves his leg, and his pelvis falls out. It seems that his pelvis lives his own life. Sometimes you can notice that his underbelly (the zone between the navel and groin) is slightly falling out. At the behaviour level loose Svadhishthana leads to the fact that a person easily gets horny and can hardly get an orgasm — this is more typical for women. For men the sign of loose Svadhishthana is high excitability and quick ejaculation, caused by the incapacity to keep the energy. Easily getting drunk is also a sign of loose Svadhishthana.
Svadhishthana’s rigidity is the incapacity to let out your sexu-al energy. This means a person can’t admit that he has a desire, can’t show this desire, sexually express himself etc. Physically it is a strain in the underbelly. Due to this the lower back arches and the pelvis goes slightly back. Funny, but a lot of models that are seen as an ideal of sexuality have the same posture. Such a person walks «like a duck» — his pelvis back. For a woman with a rigid Svadhishthana it’s difficult to become excited, while a man is extremely shy.
Manipura #
A loose Manipura results in a behaviour called being bully. A person has a tendency to take more than he can bear. A person with a loose Manipura typically has a «soft belly». Note that men get looser Manipura after they get married. He has already reached something, has a family, a quite good financial state, he doesn’t feel like fighting anymore, he has some stability, there are people, on whom he can count… A person is «realized»: partly gave his Manipura to a company, partly — to his wife, partly — somewhere else. Everything seems alright, but any stressful situation breaks him down, because his Manipura is delegated. In this case appears the belly. Women can also have it, although men have it more marked.
A rigid Manipura is a state with the constantly strained abdomi-nal muscles. Normally this state doesn’t last long, because it easily ends with the stomach ulcer. A person constantly stays in the state of stron-gest not expressed inner aggression — «a boiling copper of rage». The most often this aggression is transformed into autoaggressiveness, caus-ing ulcer.
Anahata #
For men a loose Anahata is difficult to diagnose, because they have not much to see. For women it’s more obvious. Usually when her Anahata gets looser, her breasts grow flabby. Until a young girl or a woman is living with her own bright emotions, being a source of them herself, her breasts «stand high». As soon as emotions become weaker, a woman starts «following» the emotional sphere of others, her breasts grow and start hanging. Emotional looseness of Anahata is expressed in the fact that a person is easily influenced even by slightest emotions. The typical person with loose Anahata watches a soap opera and sobs, when a bad guy tortures an innocent pure heroine.
Rigid Anahata can be easily seen. In our culture it is quite often because of our upbringing. The easiest way to diagnose it, is by problems with breathing (incapacity to breathe with the chest). Psychologically Anahata’s rigidity is the incapacity to express your feelings. A person can have feelings, but he fails to express them, to let go. Often he doesn’t even know that he has these feelings. He feels not quite comfortably, but he can’t define his state more precisely and understand-ably. It’s a problem of our culture: «do I love or don’t I love, do I love or do I hate — I don’t know». If feelings are blocked, but the chakra is strong, they still try to come out somehow, «tearing a person apart», and his chakra gets breached.
Vishuddha #
A loose Vishuddha is seen by the fuzziness of speech and by many fillers in it. If a person speaks a lot, but it’s difficult to understand what he wants, his Vishuddha is strong, but loose. Talkativeness is a sign of loose Vishuddha. Especially, if a person gives information, he’d better kept for himself.
A rigid Vishuddha is diagnosed by a constant hypertrophied strain in the neck. Sometimes these muscles are so strained, that the person starts «playing» with them, because muscles can’t stay in tension for a long time and must be released. That’s why this tension is not realized at all. A person with rigid Vishuddha has something to say, but has no right to do it. Another alternative of rigidity is the rigid neck. In this case it is a sign of hyper responsibility, when a person can’t say «no». He takes upon himself too much, and it becomes a burden, pressing him to the ground, ultimately causing neck osteochondrosis.
Ajna #
A loose Ajna is an attribute of a person with the superficial world-view. As soon as he sees a new idea, he goes for it, especially, if it is well presented: «We drink «Herbalife»?» He’ll sincerely persuade you to drink «Herbalife». Then another idea — we should give ourselves an enema — let’s give enemas. He’s jumping from one idea to another without making a critical analysis of each concept to synthesize it in his worldview, instead he’s jumping from one to another — like on the waves. Those ideas can even be contradictory. Unfortunately you can-not diagnose loose Ajna by the expression of the forehead.
A rigid Ajna is seen in constant wrinkling of the forehead, in the conviction that you must always be thinking, or in the hypertrophied tension in the eyes. Ajna’s rigidity often doesn’t relate to it directly, but appears after blocking tears for a long time. A child is forbidden to cry, then he prohibits himself to express his emotions through the eyes. A constant tension appears in periocular muscles, emotional tension accu-mulates. At the behaviour level the Ajna’s rigidity is showed in the in-capacity to accept other points of view and to enlarge one’s worldview.
The sign of looseness for every chakra is that it can be easily breached. For example, a slightest emotional influence by Anahata — you walk and see a dead cat — tortures you, because you easily take this state on yourself. It’s a sign of loose Anahata.