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THE MAJOR CHAKRAS
The major chakras are situated at:
- Base chakra (base of spine, between anus and genitals)
- Spleen chakra (slightly below the belly button)
- Solar Plexus chakra (1 hand-span above the belly button)
- Heart chakra (centre of the chest) [Master chakra]
- Throat chakra (base of throat, above where it joins the chest)
- Brow chakra (exact centre of forehead)
- Crown chakra (whole top of head above the hairline) [Master chakra]
They are best imagined as roughly the size of the palm of your hand, except
for the crown chakra which is much larger.
[SphynxCat's Note: If you are using House
Kheperu's system, the chakra numbering is reversed - they go top-down
instead of the more typical bottom-up.]
WHAT ARE CHAKRAS?
Chakras are non-physical organs that transform raw subtle energy into more
subtle, and useable, forms of energy, of a different type. The chakras do
not, themselves, contain energy. Raw energy is drawn up from the planet, by
the minor chakras in the legs and feet, and fed into the main chakra system.
Subtle energy is, in essence, pure thought energy that permeates and binds
the universe together. This living energy field can be tapped, more deeply,
by the application of focussed, creative will. It can be drawn into the human
body and transformed, by the chakra system, into a more subtle and useable
form of energy.
The chakras are attached to the spinal cord and nervous system via certain
glands and nerve ganglia. The full chakra system is extremely complex. There
are 7 major and over 300 minor chakras in the human body. There are also several
non-physical chakras situated outside of the body. Detailed maps of the chakra
system and their connecting meridians and pathways, have been used for thousands
of years in Eastern mysticism and medicine, i.e., acupuncture. The chakra
system is used with every psychic ability, no exceptions. Whatever the psychic
ability, the method of development or the terminology used to describe it,
it is all done the same way, through chakra stimulation. It is impossible
to manifest any psychic ability without first stimulating the chakras.
Many people will deny this, above, and claim they have never done any chakra,
energy work, but still have psychic abilities. There are many ways to develop
yourself, agreed, but they all, directly or indirectly, stimulate the chakra
system. And let's not forget natural ability. Many people are born with naturally
active chakras and hence, natural psychic ability.
Mediums are people who exhibit psychic abilities when aided by a nonphysical
spirit entity. This entity stimulates the chakras of the medium directly,
by melding with the medium and causing psychic abilities, clairvoyance, channelling,
healing, production of ectoplasm etc to manifest through the medium. This
is why they are called Mediums or channels, i.e., they have the ability to
become a passive vehicle for a spirit entity to affect, or communicate with,
the physical world.
You do not need a spirit entity to develop and use, a psychic ability. If
you learn to control your own chakras and energy, you can do these things
on your own, with no spirit entity involved, and without the inherent risk
involved with that method.
ENERGY RAISING
Sit, or lie down, do the relaxation exercise and clear you mind with breath
awareness. Focus your awareness in your feet. Use your HANDS to pull energy
up from your feet, through your legs, to the base chakra. Imagine you are
gripping energy and pulling it up through you. Just like you did when you
used these HANDS with breath awareness and colour breathing, pulling air and
energy into your lungs.
Note: Try and imagine your HANDS are inside your legs and just inside the
front of your torso as you do this.
Use breath awareness as an aide to energy raising. Draw energy up through
you, with the inhale, and hold it in place on the exhale. Do this over and
over again, pulling energy to the Base chakra, for at least a few minutes.
You may or may not feel anything while you do this. Even if you don't, you
are still drawing some energy with this exercise. The amount of energy drawn
up through you will increase as the chakras develop with time and use.
From the feet, up the legs to the base centre, is a natural path for the
energy that flows through you. This energy will stimulate your chakras and
they will transform this, basic energy, into energy of a different type. This
transformed energy will then flow into your subtle bodies, energising them.
With practise, you will actually FEEL this energy tingling and surging through
you.
CHAKRA STIMULATION
Opening a chakra: Your imaginary HANDS are used for this. Imagine you are
tearing open a bread roll at the site of a chakra when you are asked to do
this. You don't have to visualise anything, just FEEL like you are doing this,
as if you were doing it in real life without looking at what you are doing.
Chakras are non-physical centres, so you need a non physical method to stimulate
them. This is achieved by focusing your awareness in the area of a chakra
and using your mind to manipulate it. You need a localised, mental opening
effect in a chakra to stimulate it; this tearing open action, with your imaginary
HANDS, provides it. By moving your point of awareness to the site of a chakra
and causing a mental opening effect with your HANDS, you are directly stimulating
the chakra.
Note: Do the energy raising exercise,
as above, before stimulating the chakras. Use breath awareness to aide your
HANDS in pulling energy into each chakra, i.e., draw energy UP on the inhale
and HOLD it on the exhale, with all the chakra stimulation exercises below.
[1] Base chakra: Raise energy up to
your Base chakra. Use your HANDS to open it. Pull energy INTO the Base chakra.
Repeat this first step, thoroughly, seven times.
[2] Spleen chakra: Draw energy from
the feet, through the Base chakra and on up to the Spleen chakra. Open the
Spleen chakra. Repeat this three times, starting at feet.
[3] Solar Plexus chakra: Draw energy
from the feet, through the Base and Spleen chakras and on up to the Solar
Plexus chakra. Open the Solar Plexus chakra. Repeat this three times, starting
at feet.
[4] Heart chakra: Draw energy up from
the feet, through the Base, Spleen and Solar Plexus chakras and on up to
the Heart chakra. Open the Heart chakra. Repeat this three times, starting
at feet.
[5] Throat chakra: Draw energy up from
the feet, through the Base, Spleen, Solar Plexus and heart chakras to the
Throat chakra. Open the Throat chakra. Repeat this three times, starting
at feet.
[6] Brow chakra: Draw energy up from
the feet, through the Base, Spleen, Solar Plexus, Heart and Throat chakras
to the Brow chakra. Open the Brow chakra. Repeat this three times, starting
at feet.
[7] Crown chakra: Draw energy up to
the Crown chakra as in the previous step. Open the Crown chakra. This chakra
is much larger than the others ( whole top of head, above hairline). Imagine
you have a much larger, flatter bread roll inside the top of your head and
are tearing it open with your HANDS, or like you are tearing your scalp
open. Repeat this entire process twice, starting with the feet.
Note: Try your best not to tense any
muscles during these exercises. You may, however, feel a slight internal contracting,
a feeling that is NOT muscular while you are stimulating your chakras. These
are the glands and nerve ganglia, linked to the chakras, contracting in response
to the stimulation. This internal contracting is normal.
The Base, or Root chakra, is THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE TO ACTIVATE. This chakra
is the doorway for the subtle energy. Unless this is opened sufficiently,
the energy cannot flow into the other chakras. I suggest you concentrate most
of your time and energy into stimulating your Base chakra, at least in the
early stages of chakra development.
Note: When I first started raising energy and developing my chakras, many
years ago, I didn't feel ANY sensation for several months. Many people, though,
have reported to me strong energy and chakra sensation the first time they
used them. Some people have more natural chakra activity than others. Lack
of any sensation, though, will not stop you from stimulating and developing
them, even if, as was my case, you feel nothing at first. I did not have ANY
natural chakra activity or ANY natural psychic ability when I first started
energy work.
STOP AND CHECK
Check your muscles for any tensing during the energy raising and chakra stimulation
exercises, and re-relax as needed. Your muscles will automatically try and
respond to the mental action of pulling energy up through you. Remember, this
is ALL mental, your body must stay calm and relaxed throughout.
CHAKRA SENSATIONS
The sensations you will feel in your chakras can vary, according to the degree
of activity occurring in them, i.e., your physical make up, natural ability,
concentration and relaxation skills affect this. It can vary from a gentle
warmth, a localised pressure, or bubbling (like stomach wind), a localised
dizziness, a tingling, a gentle pulsing, to a heavier throbbing, or a combination
of some or all of the above. The heavier the thrumming, the more active the
chakra. If you place your hand on a chakra, when it is active, you will actually
feel the flesh pulsing.
Some of the chakras, when active, can cause other odd, localised sensations:
Base chakra: You may feel a very slight
burning or tingling, or a cramping, like you have been riding a bicycle
for too long, to begin with. Once it is working properly, you will feel
a gentle pulsing or throbbing between your legs, at the site of the chakra.
Solar Plexus Chakra: This can sometimes
cause a shortness of breath feeling, which can cause you to hyper-ventilate.
This will pass, with time and use, as the chakra stabilises.
Heart Chakra: The heart chakra merits
special mention due to the strong, and sometimes frightening, sensation
it can cause. When strongly activated it can feel like your heart is racing
at an impossible rate. It is a powerful sensation. Try and ignore this when
it happens, it won't hurt you. It is not your heart racing but the chakra
working. I know this is easier said than done, ignoring it, but with practise
and familiarity you can. This racing is more apparent in the early stages
of development. I think this is caused by a lack of energy flowing from
the lower centres. In a way it is like a pump racing, when it does not have
enough fluid to pump.
The heart chakra, when fully operational, feels like: Place one hand on
your chest, with your finger tips resting in the middle of it over your
heart. Tap your fingers on your chest, in time with your heart. Increase
this rate until you are tapping as fast and hard as your fingers can move.
Note: Your actual heart rate does NOT
speed up with this racing sensation. If you hook yourself up to a heart
monitor, you will see that your heat beat hardly changes at all.
Throat Chakra: The throbbing in it
can cause a very mild choking feeling, because of the sensitive area it
is in. This feels something like having an emotional lump in the base of
your throat.
Crown Chakra: When fully active it
feels like a thousand soft, warm fingers gently massaging the inside of
the top of your head, above the hairline, and extending down in the centre
of the forehead, to include the brow chakra, which is part of it. This sensation
is the reason the Buddhists call it "The Thousand Petalled Lotus".
Note: You may feel a stronger sensation
in some chakras and little or none in others. Concentrate on the lowest
ones with the least sensation. This will help balance the energy flow in
the chakra system.
If you are unbalanced, during projection the inactive chakras can cause
failure, i.e., you may get your body partly loose but find you are stuck
to your body at the site of the inactive chakra. If this happens, concentrate
on stimulating the inactive chakra prior to projection.
If you are unbalanced, during projection the inactive chakras can cause failure,
i.e., you may get your body partly loose but find you are stuck to your body
at the site of the inactive chakra. If this happens, concentrate on stimulating
the inactive chakra prior to projection.
PSYCHIC ABILITIES
After beginning chakra work, you may find psychic abilities start to grow
in you. This is a natural offshoot of stimulating the chakras. In my next
series, on more advanced energy work, I will show how to develop and use some
of these abilities and how to raise the Kundalini.
PRACTICE
Some relaxation, breath awareness, concentration and mental hands exercises
should, ideally, be carried out daily. They can be done anywhere and anytime
you have a few minutes to spare.
HOW LONG DOES IT ALL TAKE?
Many people have asked me "How long does it take to learn projection?"
My answer is: Because everybody has different levels of natural ability and
skill, it will take as long as it takes. I have had letters from people, who
have been trying various other methods for several years, but with no results;
get out the very first time they tried this technique. Other people, with
NO relaxation or concentration skills at all, are looking at several months
training before they will get out.
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