Is your Hairstyle Making you Sick?

Indian tradition requires women to wear their hair long, and tied up. While other castes were allowed to partially tie their hair, Brahmin women, (the priests and academicians) were mandated to keep it completely tied. Everything changes with time though. There are many things that are characteristic of kali yuga. An obsession with hair **(reference below) – judging a person’s beauty by their external appearance, especially hair – is one of them. If only this was limited to merely being a fashion statement, though. Problem is, it affects you far more than you realize.

How Cutting Hair Affects You

Among indigenous cultures all over the world, people didn’t cut their hair. Cutting hair was a sign of slavery, meant to decrease their power and capacity to think. The crown of our head contains about a thousand nerve endings, exchanging electric charge with the universe through the hair. Left to itself, hair grows to its natural length and stops. Allowing hair to attain its full, mature length, increases production of phosphorous, calcium, and vitamin D, which enter the lymphatic and eventually spinal fluid through the two ducts on the top of the brain. This ionic change creates more efficient memory and leads to greater physical energy, improved stamina, and patience.

Sixth Sense & Clarity of Thought

Hair is an extension of the nervous system. It can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved ‘feelers’ or ‘antennae’ that transmit vast amounts of energy and important information to the brain stem, the limbic system, and the frontal lobes – the part of the brain utilized during meditation and imagination. When hair is cut, it takes approximately three years for the tips to be able to transmit information again. It is interesting to note that a study performed during the Vietnam war found that swift American Indians with a strong sixth sense, lost many of their abilities after cropping their hair short from the usual waist-length when hired by the army.

Grounding

Long hair reaches towards the earth, bringing a grounding to the energies in the crown chakra. In an age where grounding is already so weak, this is a great help. Shorter hair takes one away from one’s roots – one often finds that women who wear their hair short are fairly rebellious by nature, with a strong desire to break away from the norm – a desire to disconnect with their societal roots. Chopping their hair off helps because it helps them do just that. One of the disadvantages here is a poorer intuition and grounding, but there’s more, since women with short hair are far more likely to leave their hair open all the time.

The Dangers of Leaving Hair Open

I’ve heard that many grandmothers advise young girls never to step out with their hair open. When I mentioned this to a gifted psychic, she told me “Oh Ashwita, just ask a woman to leave her hair open and go out for a stroll at night. She’ll be back with at least a couple of spirits clinging to her. More if she wears perfume. ” Now, ‘spirits’ can be a tricky subject for many. If it is something that makes you uncomfortable, just think of it as picking up dirty, negative energy. Even from the physical perspective, one has to only leave the hair open for a short while to observe how much dirt and grime it can pick up. Think of the energy then.

The tendency to pick up negative energy increases by leaps and bounds at night, especially out in the open. Even during sleep, women who leave their hair open are extremely prone to picking up negative energies as this is when the system is at its most vulnerable. All this negative energy being picked up by the hair leads to an increase in feelings such as depression, worry, increased sexual thoughts leading to promiscuity. One of the first areas of a woman’s body to get affected is the uterus – and we find irregular periods one of the most common problems today. In multiple cases, I’ve found women living in a house full of intense negative energies (or a spirit) to start having irregular periods the moment they move in, and the periods regularizing the moment a proper cleansing is performed. Sounds crazy, right?

The second place it affects a woman is the thyroid gland – another extremely common problem today. Hair affects the pineal and pitutary glands – both of which control the rest of the glands in the body. Messing with the energy of these two glands obviously leaves the whole system unstable.

Tying up the Hair

There are many creative ways of tying up your hair

There is a reason why sages knot their hair at the top – it creates a gentle pressure on the crown chakra and activates it, increasing access to cosmic consciousness. The best hairstyle for a woman is to tie her hair in a bun at the back of the head, just where it starts to curve inwards (below the occipital lobe). This activates the Bindu Chakra, the center for vitality, creativity and rejuvenation. This spot when energized, also heals depression, nervousness, feelings of anxiety and an oppressive feeling within the heart. A slight pressure on the Bindu Chakra gives rise to a spontaneous feeling of happiness.

The Effect on Men

All the men I have seen till today who had fully grown hair, had great energy. However, with hair that is ‘long’ – maybe shoulder length for example, I have found most men to have far worse energies than women with the same length of hair. I assume this could be because of a lack of proper care and regular washing, because energetically men are less susceptible to negative energies than women. Having said that, I have so far met only two men who had shoulder-length hair and still had clean energy. In my experience, men are better off with really short hair, unless they grow it to its complete length.

What about Bald People?

When people naturally bald, there’s nothing to think about because that is nature at work. Often these people are highly intelligent, and I think of it as an overactive crown ‘burning’ the roots of the hair away. I’ve seen many people shave their heads off for various reasons and most often this destroys their energy field completely. The only case where shaving one’s head is beneficial, is when one has a strong sadhana – spiritual practice – and wants to remove all connection with one’s roots so that a part of the identity is destroyed. When such a tonsure is done, it is great for the energies, and one can easily witness this glow on a monk’s face.

Anyone with a mild psychic ability can look deeply into her eyes and see the difference in her energy.

Please do share with us if you’ve had any such experiences too.

Further Reading:

The Spiritual Nature of Hair
Hair Down – Spiritual Effect of Women Leaving their Hair Loose

Ashwita Goel

Author of ‘Healing Through Reiki’, Ashwita learned Reiki in 1997, and started teaching it in 2006. She now incorporates other forms of energy healing, as well as hypnotherapy and past life therapy in her work. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, crafts, reading and painting.

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