THE POWER OF THE CHAKRAS: A Workbook for Higher Consciousness

THE POWER OF THE CHAKRAS:

A Workbook for Higher Consciousness

was many years in the making. Way back in the last millenium

we did a series of classes and each class focused on the energy

of each individual chakra. After the series was completed,

the chapters were titled:

THE TEMPLE OF THE SOUL - root chakra (reproductive glands)

CONFRONTING FEAR - second chakra (adrenal glands)

RECLAIMING YOUR SOVEREIGNTY - third chakra (suprarenal glands)

DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS: HEALING THE WOUND - fourth chakra (thymus gland)

PARADISE AND BEYOND - fifth chakra (thyroid gland)

BEYOND JUDGMENT: PIERCING THE VEIL.- sixth chakra (pineal gland)

TRANSCENDING TIME AND SPACE - seventh chakra (pituitary gland)

COMING FULL CIRCLE - eighth chakra (the entire glandular system)

Long before it was a book, it was the transcripts of those classes

 in a booklet stapled together and what I noticed was that those

who had the booklet referred to it again and again. Clearly, there

was something in that material that was helping people progress

along their spiritual path.

The thing is, what I didn't expect was that having expanded upon

those long-ago classes and forming the book into an interactive

workbook, I would find myself being compelled to further refine

my energy field. This shows up, most recently, when the drumbeat

of social media and the news plays on my nervous system.

Most of the media we consume is designed to prompt

addiction. We've all heard the terms 'to get eyeballs' or 'getting

butts in seats'. We are the 'eyeballs' and 'butts' that every media

source is trying to compel. To do this, research has

become more and more sophisticated and, thus, has provided

the means for news producers and social media companies to

recognize that if you can hook an individual using the energy

of the lower chakras (sexual titillation, fear and the desire to be in

control) you have the ability to hook them again

and again using the data provided, mostly unwittingly by the

individual, which then sets the algorithm (a fancy word for rules

that a computer uses to identify what YOU are likely to get

addicted to).

Because I have been meditating for close to fifty years, I know

the difference between being calm and centered versus being

activated or jangled. In Solano's words, allowing oneself to be

imbalanced and off center is being 'called out by the

Soul to one's curriculum. My curriculum is (among other things)

to awaken. I find that the moment that I notice calm is ebbing

and I am beginning to worry or fear, if I will pull back from the

stimulus that is activating me, I have the opportunity to

CHOOSE AGAIN. It is then that I notice

that I can choose to be calm, balanced, loving and confident

that the Universe is ALWAYS working on my behalf, in short,

accessing a deep sense of well-being, OR, I can choose to be

pushed around and manipulated by the ILLUSION that the world

is most certainly falling apart.

In the context of the chakras, what I was thinking about that

prompted this post, is that even if I am activated in the lower

chakras, as long as I bring awareness to the present moment, I

can place my attention on whichever chakra is activated and I

can USE the energy of that activation and CHANNEL that energy

upward.

The ancient sages identified subtle energy channels that run

throughout the body which, in this regard, are far more important

to focus upon than are the glands, hormones and nerves. If you feel

your adrenal glands overstimulated, rather than acting out of

habit and becoming irritated or angry (fight) or going into

motion - eating, cleaning, working, or literally running - (flight),

you can move into that energy in the second chakra, breathing into it,

and beginning to build a bridge in your mind's eye between the

second chakra and the third chakra. Imagine the energy in that

chakra beginning to spiral up out of the adrenal glands and into

the solar plexus. But don't stop there, let the energy from there

flow up into your heart, encouraging it to open. And from there

to the throat. You will likely begin to feel a fullness or a gentle,

pleasant throbbing there. And spiraling further up into your brain,

feeding the pineal gland and energizing the pituitary gland. And,

finally you will feel an opening in the crown of your head reconnecting

you with the SOURCE of all that is.

This simple process can be done anytime, anywhere and,

in fact, should be (for your health and well-being). It is your best

means of balancing your chakra system but, moreover, keeping

your body and your brain healthy. The subtle energy channels

which run throughout your body, delivering energy that you have

refined up into your brain helps with the process of overwriting

old programs in the central nervous system and that, ultimately,

contributes to keeping your brain in top form - bright, sharp, clear

and continually making new neurons.

I wouldn't recommend it if I isn't something that I do on a daily

basis and receive great benefit from.

Peace and Blessings!

LD