Chapter 13: Seven Chakra System

Chakra or literally a spinning wheel, in the most basic sense is a rotating motion of a mass which constitutes energy in itself.

Chakras in the human body are the energy centres which regulates the flow of energy. They are like cogs of a machine which are necessary but often ignored in the bigger picture of the machine.

Chakra System is the complex network of energy channels connecting this 'energy wheels' with one another which are present throughout the body, much like creating an energy circulation system.

In our body there are 7 major chakras, 21 minor chakras and other micro chakras encompassing every inch of ourselves, and building up our very own chakra system.

We can feel most clearly the seven (7)  main chakras which run alongside the spine. They start at the perineum (the space between the genitals and anus), and then run up in a straight line to the top of the head. The top most chakra is in fact just at the boundary between the outside world and our body connecting us to the outside.

Each chakra is said to vibrate at a different frequency and is associated with a particular color. They are also each associated with certain organs and their functions.

Basically the chakra system like any other system in our human body can only exist because of the support of other systems. Without the circulatory system, there would be no organ system and vice versa. Similarly the chakra system is one of the most essential systems within our body but at a higher level, as it involves both energy and matter for its operation.

Now the seven most basic but the most important chakra of the human body are the prime cogs of this system.

Major Chakra nodes and their associated colors include-

Root Chakra - Red

Sacral Chakra or Lower Dantian - Orange

Plexus chakra - Yellow

Heart Chakra or Middle Dantian - Green

Throat Chakra - Blue

Medulla Chakra or Upper Dantian - Indigo

Crown Chakra or Gateway - Violet

As Kiel still couldn't open his first chakra-Root Chakra no matter how he tried on his first try, he began to consolidate the information he had about chakra, the chakra system and other related stuff, so that he could get a better understanding of his future development in this area.

As he moved onto have his dinner, he was still thinking about his training.

Seeing the little kid absent minded, Agatha began to worry about him. She had seen him like this for many days already. First she thought that he was imitating them to play around. But as the days passed on he would spend more of his time alone, than behave like someone of his age.

Kiel came and sat down on his small chair beside his sisters, without thinking much.

"Kiel what are you doing!!"

Surprised, he looked towards his mother with a confused expression.

"Ma..ma??"

"You have been blacking out all day now. Is something wrong??"

"Ya little brother, you don't play with us anymore. Mou ...You now even act like a meanie when we want to play with you"

"That's right Fawn. Kiel… you meanie"both the sisters playfully squabbled.

Realizing that his son has indeed becoming isolated, Derek also added, "What's wrong Kiel?? Don't always act like a little kid sticking to your mother's tits all day long. Play around more now. When you will become three, I'll take you out to my workshop to learn and hammer. Then you'll not even get time to play around"

Hearing all the concerning words which he had never heard in his previous life, Kiel felt a little touched. But hearing about his attachment to his mother's breasts, his face became a deep red in embarrassment.

"I undhter...standh" saying so Kiel gave a beautiful smile to get away from anymore questions. But his cheeks were totally red.

"Hehe… little brother why are you so red??" Amber teasingly said.

"Mou… big sista you bully" Kiel pouted.

"Hehe"

Seeing them playing, Derek continued with his meal. But Agatha could not be fooled so easily.

"Kiel… anything more?"

And all of them again started looking at him.

Seeing that he still could not fool his mother, Kiel sighed. He still could not tell his family about Chakra as it was not something from this world and he still didn't know anything about this world.

He had often read novels where a protagonist showed his talents or unique knowledge early on, only to earn him or her a whole lot of trouble. It was not that he didn't trust his family. It was just in his nature to be extra careful.

Thinking what to do change the topic, Kiel got an idea.

"Maa...ma I was thilling (thinking)… I wanth tooh studhy readingh. Amberh (Amber) sista (sister) shohwed me piture (picture)  book. It was preety but I sawh many litthle small letters I couldn't understandth, and I felth so sad."

Hearing him Derek said,"You are still a kid. You can't even speak properly mow. Grow up a little more. Then I will teach you"

Agatha nodded.

Showing a sad look to his parents Kiel then showed a determination in his eyes.

"Maa...maa, pa...pa!!!"

Seeing their kid's sad look and determined eyes, they could only comply.

"FINE!! I'll teach you. Now eat up."

"Yehh. Moma youh har (are) the bbesthh"

Seeing him act like this, both of them smiled towards each other.

Satisfied that his plan worked, Kiel started filling up his stomach.

After eating, Kiel gave his mom a big warm hug and went into his room quietly to continue his meditation.

He sat down cross legged, closed his eyes, and started to clear his mind of all his emotions. Slowly taking shallow breaths, he focused his mind to build up a warm current and direct it in his brain instead of his body.

This helped him maintain a calm and relaxed mind and even focus his thoughts better. Seeing how it made him feel tranquil, he named it 'Tranquil Force'.

Although this feeling was very subtle and unlike the intense current he experienced during Circulation, he could feel that he could control it subtly by focusing his mind on it while it was moving. But as he tried to focus it on his lower body, the current would dissipate into his body.

'Hmm… I can control the warmth a bit like this because it is very near to my concentration area. But as the distance increases, my control decreases. That's why it dissipates. But what I can do to spread the warmth to my lower spine?'

As he was thinking  while practicing Tranquil Force, Kiel felt his thoughts clearly. His mind was very active now. But he still couldn't think of anything proper.

Although he had a lot of ideas, none fitted his situation now. Unknown to him, he slowly felt a little lightheaded. His mind started becoming dizzy. Having overworked his mind, Kiel felt very exhausted, so he called it a day and went to bed to rest.

***

A month passed by like this.

Every morning he would wake up and practice Vitalization and Circulation. But still he couldn't direct his lifeforce, as he started calling the warmth he felt; to his spine base area. He could only move it around his abdominal area now, that also just 1 sq. mm with much difficulty.

Seeing his progress he felt like it would take him years to just reach his tailbone region, let alone advancing more. His progress was way too slow, but without any other methods he could only do this, while waiting to get any better ideas.

After finishing his morning practice, Kiel would have his breakfast and sit on his mother's lap to practice reading letters.

"Momma whath ij this"

"This is @#$.. It is a basic stability rune character. There are 108 baic stable rune characters. After you memorize them all, we will move on how to form words."  

(Author's Note: you all don't need to know it. Learning a new world's language would create problems in your daily life. So no.)

"Maa..mma if I memorize this right can I hug you to sleep?"

Agatha was making the little kid to stay with his sisters to make him not too overly attached to her.

"No. You have to practice to not be clinging to me always."

"Maa..mma"

Seeing her son's puppy eyes and remembering how he was changing to cold boy, she could only reluctantly agree.

"Fine. But memorize the first ten stable letters today. Only then…"

"Yeeh. Mo...mma. I lubh (love) you" not waiting for his mom to continue,Kiel started celebrating.

"Fine… fine. Mamma loves you too."

After his study sessions, he would go play with his sisters in his room. Why not go outside??  

Well he didn't like going outside as there was a blue sun hanging in the sky at day which he didn't like at all. The sunrise and sunsets were violet and indigo here. Even at night, there would be five large indigo moons in the sky. It felt like living in an alien planet and it seriously creeped him out. So he preferred the house until he got accustomed to it.

Sometimes he would wonder how big is this planet to have five such large moons.

"Big Sista Fawn youh har (are) looking cute toohdayh!"

"Little brother, what about me? I changed my hairstyle today"

"Big sista Amber youh… har (are) looking sec-c"

"Mou… little brother you are bullying me again."

"Mamma Kiel is bullying us again."

"Kiel…. what are you doing there??"

"Nothing mamma. Sistas I ...gottha … pee. See ya laterh"

As he ran away before his mom caught him, Kiel could hear giggles at his back.

Going back to his room, Kiel was feeling refreshed. He started his meditation as usual. As he was channeling his lifeforce today, he suddenly had a new idea. What if he combined both Tranquil Force and his breathing exercises to focus better. Could he extend his energy control more this way??

Instead of Kiel's regular process of generating life force using Vitalization, building it up using Circulation, and then directing it towards his tailbone i.e. doing everything step by step; he would  generate life force and then circulate it at the same. This would stop him from wasting energy and time building up his lifeforce. It would then be much easier to focus on diverting his lifeforce to the tailbone region.

As his life force would be in circulation, it would just need a little effort to direct it to his lower body. This way he could easily access his Root Chakra. But theorizing was one thing and practically applying it was another. Kiel had already learnt it the hard way.

But thinking about it in this way, he still felt incomparably excited. He couldn't even wait anymore. So he started his chakra opening.

Kiel first did some stretching with his tiny body to kick start his blood flow. Then he sat down again cross legged, this time as relaxed as possible.

Clearing up his mind he started generating life force from his body and circulating it. The warmth started to move around his abdomen in a circular manner. This made him even more excited.

But as he started focusing to move his lifeforce to the tailbone slightly, the whole circulation stopped immediately and he could not move it all. It was a failure.

Not losing hope by the failure, he started generating and circulating again.

This time he focused on circulation and diverted a little focus on moving it, but nothing happened this time. So he started focusing on both equally, but this time the circulation of lifeforce stopped entirely. He tried again and again but to no avail.

It became even more difficult to do the two things simultaneously and he couldn't move even a little of his life force.

'Sigh! it is even more difficult now. But what is wrong?? Logically… the two processes should have complemented each other…

No I can't give up like this. Let's do the theory again. Vitalizing and generation of lifeforce is alright. Circulation is all good too. But the problem is focusing to control it simultaneously while circulating it.

I can't divide my attention to both enough. When I was doing everything step by step, the problem would be moving my lifeforce. But now the problem is diverting the lifeforce to a particular region. It seems I'm still missing something. It should not be like this'

Sighing he wanted to stop, but as he felt his still excited heartbeat, he had another idea. Amused by himself, he started again.

This time after generating enough lifeforce, he directed it to the 'Aorta' leading to his lower body from his heart. This was relatively easy as his heart was near his concentration zone. The arteries branching out carried his lifeforce with high pressure to his lower body.

(Author's note: if you don't know them, sigh then just google them)

Meanwhile he just focused on generating more energy and sending it to his heart. He also kept on sensing his lifeforce to check its current location in his body.

Although he couldn't sense the circulating blood deep in his body now, he could still vaguely sense the familiar warmth. So he just kept tabs on it.

Keeping his fingers crossed, he waited for the blood to reach its right place, just to notice his heartbeat increasing and blood becoming more energetic. Thinking he would inspect this later on, he continued...

Just as the energy filled blood reached his lower body, he quickly stopped generating more and focused on the remaining lifeforce, to channel it to his tailbone area.

And it worked. He felt his lifeforce expanding to his lower body rapidly and then slow down to his spine tail. But he still didn't get any feeling about his Root Chakra as he thought. But he was not dejected.

"Yatah… I didth ith!!!" Jumping up and shouting in his baby voice, he grew incomparably excited. Then thinking that his mom might catch him to scold more, he quieted down. But he still looked excited.

'Now I can move my lifeforce in my body anywhere I like. Oh... Kiel you are such a genius. You can do anything. Hehe … no I am greater than a genius. I should be the prodigy among prodigies…

Alright, now that circulating lifeforce is a success, next should be why I can't reach the Root Chakra. The answer to this question should be relatively easy- I don't know it's proper location, well considering it even exists… No Kiel you have to think creative here. Don't be a j**k after coming here… Alright if I can activate my Root Chakra, I will go to mom and stick to her breasts for a day. Yup that should be enough to motivate me.'

Thinking excitedly, he sat down in a relaxing pose, closed his eyes and started again. This time executing the whole process was fairly easy. When his lifeforce reached the tailbone region, he started searching thoroughly. He even thinned his energy into his capillaries for an even thorough search of his base chakra.

He combed every region and mapped them in his mind to not search the same spots again. Once twice thrice ... he continued without any pause. He was feeling a little dizzy too. But his excitement kept him up and he persisted.

At his sixty eighth try, when his lifeforce explored a spot just below the tailbone but about 1 cm in front of it, his lifeforce got sucked up somewhere and disappeared. A vague red light came into view before his closed  eyes and started to glow dimly.

The spot below his tailbone started shining a red glow. It's originally dull red started to change into a little maroon color.

As the glow continued Kiel felt all his energy being drained out of his body. Simultaneously he also felt a heavy pressure bore down on him and felt himself sticking more and more to the ground.

Kiel wanted to stay awake during the process and see what's happening. He struggled but could do nothing to stop the process which continued on its own. He started feeling an even more heavy pressure bearing down on him as time went by.

He wanted to stay awake more but felt all his energy drained out. Eventually he felt very weak and couldn't keep up anymore.

Feeling a deep pang of senselessness, his vision began to blur and he fell down on the floor losing consciousness.