Active/Dynamic Meditation

Some traditional sources describe five or seven chakras, others eight.

Attempts are made to try and reconcile the systems with each other, and notably there are some successes, even between such diverged traditions as Shakta Tantra, Sufism and Kabbalism, where chakras, lataif and Sephiroth can seemingly represent the same archetypal spiritual concepts.

Some enlightenment on the kundalini
Ancient Hindus knew about the Kundalini for a long time, but there are no records, as the teachings were mainly oral. According to the yogic tradition, Kundalini is curled up in the back part of the root chakra in three and one-half turns around the sacrum. The energy that was unleashed in creation, called the Kundalini, lies coiled and sleeping at the core of the spine.

The chakras are described as being aligned in an ascending column from the base of the spine to the top of the head. The chakras are thought to vitalise the physical body and to be associated with interactions of a physical, emotional and mental nature. Swadhisthana or the sacral chakra is located in the groin, and is related to emotion, sexuality and creativity.

Meditation in Chakras!
Different spiritual traditions, and different teachers within those traditions, prescribe or suggest different physical postures for meditate. "Meditation is that special form of concentration in which the attention has been liberated from restlessness and is focused on God. An increase in patience, compassion, and other virtues and morals or the understanding of them

This chakra is said to correspond to the testicles or the ovaries, that carry out the masses of sex hormones involved in the reproductive cycle, which can cause dramatic mood swings. Cerebrofrontal centre: Positioned between the eyebrows (compare with Ajna). In Eastern thought, the chakras are thought to be levels of consciousness, and states of the soul, and 'proving' the existence of chakras is asking to 'prove' the existence of a soul.

These chakras are visualised as lotuses with a different number of petals in every chakra.