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Central Channel
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Sahaja Online:
Central ChannelDocument H20 | Handout
Sahaja is a unique and simple
meditation technique harnessing the
power of your own vinner energy,
improving practically every aspect of
your life- mind, body and soul.
The One-Stop Meditation Resource
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Central Channel
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Sahaja Online:
Central ChannelDocument H20 | Handout
Introduction
Essential Qualities:
Character Strengths
Personality Trait Strengths
Benefits
Symptoms Checklist
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Central Channel
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Energy System Guide
Central Channel
(Spiritual Evolution, Integration)
Location: Extends from the sacrum bone at the base of
the spine up the spine towards the Sahasrara (the 7th,
uppermost chakra).
Essential Qualities:
• The channel of equilibrium and spiritual evolution
• Integration, oneness with the collective
consciousness, union with the divine
• Regulation of autonomous (involuntary) functions
(e.g., cardiovascular activity, respiration,
digestion, etc..)
Spirituality is the predominant quality associated with
the central channel (sushumna nadi), also known as
the Middle Path. The central channel is the channel of
spiritual evolution and integration with the collective
consciousness. It also helps regulate our autonomic
nervous system
Nourishing and balancing the central channel
improves these personality and character strengths…
Character Strengths
• Spirituality, including both the private, intimate
relationship between an individual and the divine,
as well as the range of character strengths that
may result from that relationship
• Self-respect
Personality Trait Strengths
• Conscientiousness and moral responsibility
• Self-transcendence, self-actualization, self-
realization, self-forgetfulness (enlightened second
nature, spiritual acceptance, strong desire to
spiritually evolve, altruistic acts, helping others
acquire pure knowledge and self-awareness)
• Appreciation of beauty and excellence (awe,
wonder, elevation), including renewed
appreciation for life’s daily gifts; deep appreciation
for the richness, uniqueness, goodness and
interconnectedness of all the elements
Benefits
The central channel, which extends from the sacrum
bone at the base of the spine (where the Kundalini
energy resides) straight up the spine towards the
7th, uppermost chakra, Sahasrara, is the channel
of equilibrium and evolution. The Kundalini energy
rises up through the central channel when we achieve
Self-Realization. The central channel is the channel
of spiritual ascent, the power which sustains our
evolution and guides us, consciously or unconsciously,
towards the higher awareness of the Sahasrara.
The central channel is crucial to maintaining daily,
ongoing energy balance. As the conduit for the
autonomic nervous system, the central channel
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influences involuntary functions which don’t require
conscious control, including the parasympathetic
(“rest and digest”) responses of the autonomic nervous
system. Autonomic functions are spontaneous,
automatic happenings. For example, thanks to the
autonomic nervous system, we don’t have to tell our
hearts to beat, our lungs to breathe, our digestive
systems to metabolize what we eat, or our circulatory
system to manufacture more white or red blood cells.
Regardless of what our attention is currently focused
on, these events simply happen, seamlessly integrated
into daily life.
As our attention moves to the central channel through
techniques of Sahaja meditation, our self-awareness
evolves and our attention gradually stops swinging
like a pendulum from the past to the future, from the
left channel to the right channel, from sadness to
happiness, from lethargy to overactivity. Our attention
is then able to remain centered. We exist in the present
moment, experiencing true inner peace and joy.
Symptoms Checklist
As there can be no “imbalance” in the central channel,
there are no associated symptoms.