Chakras

The human being has seven major chakras. Each chakra is a kind of energy of the body, linking the energies of the body with the universal energies of the universe. It is sort of like a highway intersection where the energy highways of the universe and the personal meet.

The Crown chakra is located at the top of the head. This is where the Self can receive the highest form of Universal Energy. This is considered the most spiritual of the chakras. The color associated with this is violet or purple.

The Third Eye chakra is located between the eyebrows, and its color is indigo. It is associated with the psychic senses and is perhaps the best-known of all the chakras.

The Throat chakra is the next one down, and is obviously concerned with speech. Its color is blue.

The Heart chakra is next going down. It's color is green or pink and is linked to love and compassion.

The Solar Plexus chakra is just above the navel. its color is yellow and is concerned with will and self-control.

The Sacral chakra lies near the reproductive organs and is associated with sexuality. Its color is orange.

The Base or Root chakra is located at the base of the spine. Its color is red or black, and is concerned with self-preservation and the baser emotions.

As you can see the chakras go from the spiritual to the physical, from high principles to baser principles, from the high energy end of the spectrum to the low energy end of the spectrum. A chakra can become blocked and a person's overall energy (spiritual and physical) can be thrown out of kilter due to a physical/mental/emotional problem in the area of that chakra. For example, a person who speaks hatefully of others may end up having problems with her/his throat. The spiritual and the physical are easily shown to be very closely tied.

The kundalini is associated with the Base chakra. This is a spiritual energy that is said to be in the form of a coiled snake. It "sleeps", but can be awakened on purpose by a person's metaphysical/spiritual development. The awakening can result in various psychic manifestations, and in a form of almost indescribable ecstasy.

CHAKRA BALANCING

The spiritual level and the physical level are both closely intertwined in our world. When something goes wrong with one level, it will show up in the other. By checking your chakras, you can find out if you have a blockage or some other abnormality in one of them. The causes, of course, are various.

Do you speak poorly of others? Discriminate verbally against others? Then your Throat chakra could well end up getting blocked. Do you have a hard time feeling compassion and love? Check your Heart chakra. Do you feel somehow "not really in this earth"? Check your Base and your Crown chakras.

Here's one way to have someone check your chakras. Have a friend who is following a similar spiritual path to yours bring his or her pendulum with them when they come to work on you at your home. The pendulum we assume, has already been properly programmed. You should lie down on something comfortable while your friend uses the pendulum to check each of your chakras. If the pendulum has been programmed to rotate smoothly if all is well, then it will do so if there are no problems. If the pendulum refuses to move (but moves on other chakras), or moves in some strange fashion, then it is highly likely that you have a problem with that chakra.

Persons experienced with auric cleansing (see Appendix A) might feel the imbalance without the use of a pendulum.

In either case, we have arrived where something is wrong with one or more of your chakras. Here are two ways to balance them:

TECHNIQUE 1

With you still lying down, your friend gets a bowl of water. He or she places his/her right hand in the bowl. Using his or her left hand, he/she continues to hold the pendulum above the problematic chakra. The person should image mentally any negative energy, blockages, etc, going up through the pendulum, through their body (without doing any harm, of course), and down into the water. The person should keep doing this until the pendulum rotates normally.

You should change the water after each chakra is balanced. Visualize the negativity leaving your home, and being transformed by Mother Earth.

TECHNIQUE 2

If you can determine yourself which chakra(s) may be malfunctioning, then use this method: Sit quietly in a relaxed position. Calm your thoughts. Start at your base chakra, and mentally examine it. If there is anything wrong there, see that negative energy going out of your chakra in a stream, to be neutralized by the earth. Then mentally pull down the color red from above, into your Crown chakra, down through your body and into your Base chakra. See that color gently mixing in with what is still there, and see a peaceful flow result. Once that chakra feels balanced, move on to each chakra in turn. Get rid of any negativity, and bring down any additional amount of that chakra's color that you need.

When this is done, mentally visualize the energy rising gently from your Base chakra on up through the others, out your Crown chakra, and falling around you like a beautiful, colored fountain. Re-absorb that energy into your base chakra, and keep this going until you feel your whole body balanced and at peace.