@Stolide
It doesn’t matter if you believe or not, if chakras do exists, you don’t have to believe in order to develop them by energy manipulation, if they don’t exists, then simple other elements of the energy system are responsible for psychic development.

But, how can you say you don’t believe in the existence of chakras if you’re dealing with energy work? Don’t tell me you’re a member of this PsiPog-era people who manipulate psionic energies, yet they don’t believe in any energy system inside our body ;).

You can not close or open chakras, only stimulate them, because they’re energy centers (this means, those are damn dense part of the energetic body), they’re not the lotus flower, they can not bloom :). This is just the ancient Hindu beliefs that were included in modern New Age beliefs because people have problems accepting more modern theories like these of Robert Bruce. I guess the biggest problem we’re dealing with today is the simple fact people became too dependant on new age theories, terminology and imaginery (some people literally think that chakras looks like flowers, and they open/close).

I’m thinking of chakras as a… datacenters :). Energetic body is like world wide web. You have multiple smaller chakras (energy exchange ports) – those are internauts, you got medium chakras (local internet providers), and then you have big chakras (like Google datacenters), and finally you have energy channels (meridians – in web metaphor those are cables) connecting all of this. The bigger the traffic in the “web” is, the more stimulated Google servers become, and this forces the tech crew to add new drives and CPU’s, making the datacenters bigger and stronger, capable of serving even more traffic. Based on this, 7 main chakras are the datacenters responsible for serving the entire energy moving through our energetic body – but beside acting as a datacenter for psionic energies, I agree that there aren’t any direct proofs for relevance between personality traits, emotions and chakras. All we can do is to rely upon things said by psychics capable of seeing aura, but words aren’t enough.

My theory for this is that energetic body is connected to nervous system. If the person gets emotional regarding something, electric impulses might be send so specific area of the body (I have no idea why), and the closest chakra is reacting with (perhaps) stronger energy transfer, making it glow for those who can see the aura. Same thing apply to seeing illness in aura, electric impulses are being send in specific areas of body, and smaller chakras, meridians and energy exchange ports closest to this are are showing this as “glow” :).

Back to closing/opening – so called “opening” process is nothing more or less than energy stimulation of chakras, but closing is impossible – if thinking about chakras is stimulating them, then thinking about closing them will stimulate them further ;).

Chakra is the official name ;). There’s no problem with the name itself, only with understanding, and I can not be responsible for people who are too lazy to learn what chakra really is so they stick with new age crappy explanations lol