Chakra Energy Healing

12/23/21, 11:44 PM Chakra Energy Healing
Chakra and Energy Body Healing:

Modalities for Conscious Practice
on Yourself and Others
Introduction: Energy Healing is a Spiritual
Discipline
The following will not be a summary of the voluminous extant
literature available about chakras and energy healing, nor will it
be a parroting of such. The "external or objectified knowledge"
approach to chakras and energy is more than limited, but rather it
is dysfunctional, because it is simply an abstraction, i.e., the
symbolic representation should not be confused with the Reality.
In other words the functional knowledge to be applied effectively
"inside" has to be "self" knowledge -- it has to come from a
subjective experience or Gnosis. The words, diagrams, sounds,
and pictures that anyone can memorize are at best approximate
manmade representations, not the real thing, We nonetheless can
(and do) "feel" and move our energy without the necessity of
manmade graphs, objectification, or the artificial conditions of
language and words. At best diagrams are maps that can point in
the direction, help focus our energy, and or make suggestions, but
we must avoid imposing a template upon organic reality that will
limit our actual experience. True knowledge comes from within.
First there was one -- the Source of All -- The Creator Seed.
In stillness it rested. Then there was two. From the two the
many formed.
True understanding of this process in continuity -- with integrity -

- defeats the disease of ego and arrogance. Without this direct
experience we are stabbing in the dark. Hence ancient healing
sciences were wholistic -- they took into consideration the origin
of life and creation in order to understand self, the life energy, the
nature of existence and in order to heal disease.
Physics tells us that nothing can move without voltage - a vector

or energetic force AND direction (intelligence). This polar energy
is often "represented", symbolized, or characterized by yin and
yang, shakti and shiva, ida and pingala, left and right, earth and
sky, front and back, nature and spirit, being and consciousness,
right brain/left brain, subjectivity/objectivity, respectively. This
"relationship" and its myriad energetic circuits upholds life and
potentiates creativity when it is in harmony and synchrony, but
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when it is corrupted, fragmented, blocked, obfuscated, and

distorted disease patterns arise and impact negatively upon the
energy body organization, mental organization, and the physical
organism as well. This study of the movement of the energy and
how the energy vibrates in gross and subtle forms, how it flows,
pulsates, and resonates in the human body, how it is harmonized
and organized intelligently on one hand; and on the the other how
it is corrupted and creates disease, inhibition, fragmentation, and
dysfunction is the subject of indigenous wholistic sciences of
healing which mostly have become forgotten in the West, but
which have survived in the East in forms of yoga, tantra, Taoism,
chi gong, acupuncture, and so forth.
When this energy direction (intelligence) is out of harmony with

Source and Manifestation, spirit and nature, head and root, crown
and earth, then it is also corruptive to the physical body. Creative
energy is inhibited and misdirected into destructive and
pathological behavior while specific tensions, conflicts, and stress
(called dis-ease) can be discerned and articulated. The life
supporting intelligent energy is innate in all of creation (shakti).
Very importantly that means it is inside of all of us (dormant,
suppressed, and dissociated as it may be). So as we study energy
healing if it is to be honest and effective, we must also be willing
to take on the authentic spiritual journey to know our "self' and
look inside. In other words if one is not ready to look inside, then
no true knowledge or functionality in this realm can be achieved.
Thus the direction of healing for most of us is to invite this innate

intelligent energy to take its rightful place in our life, but in order
for this self healing to occur usually the conditioned "mind" or
left brain reinforced belief systems has to move out of the way to
allow for this. Thus the direction of healing (in time and space) is
for most of us an indigenous movement from the inside out and
earth chakra upward versus one imposed by logic (top down) or
from outside authorities (outside to inside). The basic impediment
that must be over come is our incessant imposition of the veil of
ignorance upon the profound and sacred organic interaction of
creator/creation. This veil of sorrow is reinforced by core beliefs,
habits, past imprints, past trauma, negative conditioning, false
assumptions, bias, prejudice, fear, and all the rest of what are
called in classic yogic terminology: kleshas, samskara, vasana,
vrtti, or avidya. Regardless of the language or terminology in
which to peer into the nature of disease, we will see the same
underlying common currents.
The beginner can thus be easily seduced by the plethora of

various terminology, charts, external authoritative systems, and
techniques that deal with the subject, and they often make the
mistake to attempt to memorize, conform to, and parrot them. But
my warning is that healing lies in the opposite direction, i.e.,
connecting up with one's own intelligent energy body. I hope the
following will give some encouragement to this "exploration of
the "real thing".
Energetic Exploration into the Territory:

Being Open and Vulnerable
Instead of attempting to memorize the locations, colors,
functions, or other aspects of what is called the chakra system it is
necessary to first experience them as they exist in our own energy
body by realizing the innate relationship between energy and
matter, between body and mind, between emotions and physical
dynamics, between our energy patterns and physiological
processes.
Given the basic principle is that nothing can move without

voltage, vector, or polarity, it is essential for us to establish a
working feeling/sensitivity for this dynamic in our daily life. This
causal force manifested as energy (shakti) and its manifold
patterns determines what the shape of the our future health (or
disease will become). On a gross level the well known
movements inside the body can be discerned as arterial pulse,
organ motion, craniosacral pulse, cell mitosis, lymphatic flow,
peristalsis, nerve firings, but science have already differentiated
thousands more already. Indeed these micro-movements are
myriad and when working as a community (an inner ecology) in
order to support the organism, health is the natural result.
The mind and body are always moving inside and this movement
forms the basis of the future state of health or disease. What we
think and feel influences this energy and the body just as much as
what we do to our body systems influences the nervous system
and mind. As we become more aware of this dynamic energetic
relationship, the better we will be able to deepen our ability to
positively influence it and direct its development. The problem
has been that most of us have not been trained to look within -- to
be sensitive to how we feel and to what we can access inside, but
rather our training has been to ignore (as in in ignorance) the
reality inside (intuition, instinct, inner wisdom, psychology, and
feelings), while overly giving credence external gross and lower
vibrating forms of "matter" as being the only thing that is real
That is the mistake core belief of gross materialism -- and thus the
modern age has to overcome the many negative influences and
habits built up around that false assumption, bias, and prejudice.
Conversely successful energy healing work will depend upon

our ability to be aware and sensitive to the inner dynamic
operations of this energy. It is the very reclaiming of a
primary schism, a dissociation from our body, a numbing out
of the dynamic interdependence between our inner and outer
ecological energy vortex. This awareness/sensitivity can be
reclaimed through many modalities. The most classic are classic
Chinese medicine (Qi Gong, Tai Chi, acupuncture), yoga,
pranayama, swara yoga, meditation, laya yoga, visualization,
tantra yoga, and so forth. Energetic dance, movement therapy, art
therapy, continuum, somatics, body psychotherapy, and other
energetic forms of body work (such as polarity massage,
craniosacral, visceral massage, Jin Shin Do, Huna, Reiki, various
schools of shamanism, and similar also work with the energy
directly and are a way to so become attuned and aware.
First there was the One -- The Source Seed. Then there was
Two -- then the many in diverse song and dancing ways
became.
Work from Your Energy Body

When I go into my own "back body", energy body, rainbow body,
and/or chakra system not only do I understand myself better as I
really am, but then I am much better able to understand what is
going on with other people energy wise. This non-verbally based
and non-left brain dependent "ability" is enhanced through daily
meditation, pranayama, visualization, bandha, mudra, and asana
practice. It comes from an inner sensitivity and awareness, instead
of developing it further consciously (I am certified in craniosacral
1 and 2, Reiki 1 & 2, and have studied anatomy, physiology,
Huna, acupuncture, shamanism, polarity, pranic healing, Jin Shin
Do, pranayama, chi gong, tai chi, visualization, dance, somatics,
music, body psychotherapy, yoga, and other related energy
system modalities. Although all these approaches have served to
awaken within me a heightened sensitivity and openness to the
possibilities, they can also have their own built-in
limitations/bias. In this context then it is preferred to let the
underlying intelligence which awaits us underneath the energy,
then stream unimpeded through the nervous system, organs, cells,
and limbs organically and spontaneously without
limiting/inhibiting it through prejudicial viewpoints or limited
assumptions. For this to occur we must learn how to surrender to
it -- to know it and trust it.-- this involves awakening and
reclaiming our innate wisdom, instinct intuition and inner
direction which in turn gives us a feeling of self confidence,
wellness, and empowerment which obviates any need for external

validation of self worth, meaning, acceptance, or self esteem.
So the first rule is to drop in to the body (the house of living spirit
and the energy body) -- to make contact by staying grounded --
bringing spirit in. It is to establish this natural flow between
crown and root -- spirit and nature and let that awesome
evolutionary energy of creator/creation animate and instruct us.
The flow is up from the earth to the sky and down from the sky to
the earth through the living channel/embodiment first drawing a
locus of connection between the earth chakra at the perineum or
feet with the crown chakra and then moving into it as a felt line of
energy. In other words we first have to work on ourselves and
maintain this connection in order to work effectively. Some
schools call this phase "grounding" or being grounded. You can
call it finding your center, core energy, being centered, or
activating and abiding in "flow".
In this way we receive an energy treatment/healing at the same

time as we give it -- as a communion and meditation, and thus we
do not fall into the trap of identifying as the creator of the process
(see chapter III on the Yoga Sutras for why) but rather just a
participant/vehicle in a greater transpersonal process. Nor is
helpful to identify with any such self limiting dualistic conception
of being a giver while the client is the receiver, but simply as an
open channel or vehicle for the life sustaining evolutionary and
creative healing dynamics while acting as an ambassador of
eternal love -- of the innate harmonious and balancing
relationship of shiva/shakti, yang/yin (tai chi), father sky/mother
earth, etc. Thus the healing session is an opportunity for both to
listen, learn, be open, and experience the healing evolution energy
together.
Although taking a class in energy healing, yoga, shamanic

healing, body/mind healing, chi gong, pranic healing or similar
courses from time to time can stimulate our own innate creative
process, open us up to broader horizons, increase our sensitivity,
and empower us, that kind of activity also has the seductive
potential to distract our attention from the innate healing power
and intelligence if not placed inside of a transpersonal
indigenous/endogenous perspective.
Although there exist "healers" who claim good results through

very precise and "tight" structural approaches, my approach has
been that everyone will benefit more when the session is viewed
with an open mind -- as an exploration -- as an opportunity for
being more deeply present -- as a mysterious adventure, spiritual
communion, a shamanistic journey, and/or a meditation traveling

far beyond the manmade human world of conventional knowing
and thinking. Both doing and listening at the same time balances
the ida and pingala, the efferent and afferent, the central and
autonomic nervous systems, left and right, front and back, up and
down, down and up -- all and none of these flat plane linear
modes but when balance and harmony is reached a profound non-
dual synchronicity is realized that defies left brain logic as well as
any concept of linear time. Since the knowledge does not come
from the outside, but from within, any teacher/healer who
emphasizes that truth is an authentic teacher/guide.
What I want to emphasize is that everyone has this ability (it is

innate to us) and we should not hesitate nor be afraid to touch and
play, but rather open ourselves up to the vast healing potential
that we all have (mostly laying dormant). As a healer or in a
healing session (all life should be approached as such) we have
the opportunity to charge our body/mind as a vehicle of love
energy.
There exist numerous further techniques to invite the energy

connections to be made and increase its intelligent presence
besides keeping the basic non-dual energy flowing in the central
channel (sushumna) through visualization and energetic
alignment. Here we can use the breath and prana to increase the
charge (from the infinite Source), let it flow through us and at no
personal expense to ourselves, become increasingly accustomed
to spontaneous flow, streaming of energy, while allowing it to arc
over without holding the breath. Here we have invited the healing
energy in - evoked it by taking the initiative to create an
environment (external framework) of which to more deeply
connect and commune. During the treatment we continuously stay
intimately connected and commune ever more deeply with this
dynamic and intelligent process utilizing witness consciousness,
not as "hard" work, but rather as a joyful opportunity that you are
giving to yourself as well -- a creative, rewarding, fulfilling,
effulgent, and joyful labor of love.
Energy Body Anatomy

The idea that Angela Farmer calls the back body (bringing our
awareness back toward the spine in witness consciousness) is the
same awareness of what is called the light body, energy body,
rainbow body, etc. in other systems. The activation of the energy
body occurs as a powerful redirection/remediation of energy and
consciousness which is "ordinarily" misdirected into a dualistic
world of appearances where there exists an "apparent" (false)
misidentification between externally observed objects (by the five

senses) as being separate and distinct from our concept or
experience of "self". Although the flow of energy (prana) in the
light body is always present in ordinary dualistic consciousness
the flow is greatly obstructed, blocked, and diminished being
overridden by the an unbalanced and out of synch flow of energy
in the polar (left and right) psychic nerves (the ida and pingala
respectively). However when harmony and balance is attained
there occurs a synchrony not only in the left and right
hemispheres corresponding to the right and left sides of the body
or the pingala and ida nadis (psychic nerves) respectively. This is
not a conceptual or intellectual realization but we return once
again to an energetic dynamic where we feel and experience our
center, core energy, as a feeling of synergistic harmony, well
being, and wholeness having linked mind and body without
conflict, consciousness and being, spirit and nature, sky energy
and earth energy within our own existence as a vital and
evolutionary part of creation being linked therein all the way back
to the beginningless creator as well as into the future. When we
get this evolutionary energy "balanced" correctly, the energy
literally raises us up off our feet -- it supports and embraces us in
a direct way (as such it is called the kundalini). Here there exist
many dimensions and all dimensionless space -- ecological
circuits within ecological circuits, vortexes within vortexes --
holographic realms where the inner and outer (microcosm and
macrocosm) are no longer seen as separate, disparate, nor dual --
but linked together in a profound circle.
Ultimately therefore this linking is mystical/mysterious in the

sense of not being capable of reached with left brain logic (the
conceptual and academic/analytical process). Rather its
realization actually depends upon letting go of these self imposed
limitations conceptual dualistic beliefs. In this sense then the
amplification of the right brain modality can be the functional
doorway (for those who are left brain over dominant and
imbalanced). Yet once we become balanced in this way, the
synergistic symmetry created in sushumna (the central column in
yoga where non-dual energy flows) flow is neither right nor left,
top or bottom, front or back, but rather profoundly central (non-
straight plane).
Thus some sort of body/mind right brain amplification practice is

most valuable to any practitioner in order to first to be able to
access this state within ourselves (only then can we share it)
whether we move in asana, daily life, sit in meditation, perform
sacred dance, healing song, music, or other similar right brain
amplification practices. As long as this brings balance (we are
assuming that the right brain has previously become abandoned,

repressed, or dissociated) this method becomes a doorway into a
realm of balance -- centering ourselves in awareness of the energy
body, subtle body, light body, rainbow body or vajra body no
matter how slight our awareness may be at first.
As our self awareness deepens the energy flow deepens at the

same time as this state of deep interconnectedness becomes
established and with this synchrony an overall amplification (of
the functionality of both the right and left brain hemispheres) is
catalyzed so that awareness becomes even more easy (moving
from extremely subtle to prevalent). Here the healing
ability/wisdom occurs spontaneously arising by itself from inside
out independent of the accumulation of external facts, knowledge,
adherence to belief systems, doctrine, vrttis, pramanas,
hierarchical status, certifications, licensure, degrees, or other
entirely artificial systems and approaches.
Classical hatha yoga is rich in techniques which bring our

attention inside, focusing on the psychic anatomy and energy
body practices/techniques that are precisely designed to purify,
activate and balance our left and right (ida and pingala) and front
and back energy flows and then gently guide/direct this energy to
flow in the central column (sushumna). Laya, tantric, swara, and
kundalini yoga also deal with the integration and manipulation of
the energies (sometimes all the practices are combined).
Thus an authentic indigenous approach to yoga provides a sensate

and accessible framework or context where we can thus analyze,
center, activate, and heal ourselves and everyone else (clients,
students, friends, acquaintances, etc.) in kinesthetic and energetic
terms relating to energy patterns, energetic qualities, energy
obstructions, and in terms of energy balance as to where the
energy may be imbalanced, blocked, dammed up (congested),
stagnant, static, weak (depleted), distorted, (or any other
qualitative characteristic such as color, shape, density,
temperature, hue, coarseness, strident, and similar) and then
devise methods to re-establish synchronistic balance and energy
flow. Again this ability is made possible first by ourselves
entering into this operative dimension of awareness and
experience. For it to reach its fullest potential we must also learn
to honor it and keep it active and flowing during everyday life
circumstances.
Diagnosis and Treatment
Specific methods of healing are unlimited as they are subtle and

intricate. The dear reader should know that the following is only a
coarse and rough outline of energy diagnosis and healing
techniques. Left and right, front and back, top and bottom are
easy ways to structure the diagnostic healing "search", and it can
be done through visual examination, palpation, making passes
with the hands to feel the qualities and densities of the energy,
and/or analysis of the air flow through the nostrils. The front,
bottom, and left sides of the body (along with the right brain
crossing over at the third eye) is associated with the ida or
chandra nadis while the back, top, and right side of the body
(along with the left brain again crossing over at the third eye) is
associated with the pingala or surya nadis.
For example if someone is overly contracted or collapsed forward

being bent over to the front we may surmise that the surya nadi
(pingala) is over active or the chandra nadis or ida is depleted or
under active, because the pingala nadis (male energy not only is
associated with the right side of the body and left brain (male) but
also the back energy (rising up the back), while the ida is
associated with the left side of the body, the right brain (crossing
over at the third eye) and the energy running up the front of the
body (female). In this as a simple experiment we might suggest
the emphasis of backbends as a simple remedial measure. Most
"illnesses" can be analyzed by simply analyzing the energy
patterns, blockages, stagnations, depletion, flow, or their lack of
flow and then treated to reestablish homeostasis.
Often a collapsed body which appears overly passive, yin, soft,

yielding, hyper-parasympathetic tone, heightened afferent
nervous function, ida dominant, over active afferent nerves, or
right brain dominant function associated with the female will
appear to be the opposite of a body which is stiff, rigid, armored,
overly contracted, hard, yang, or other wise associated with
hyper-sympathetic tone, over active efferent nerves, pingala, or
male associated functions. These are two extreme energetic ways
of viewing the possibilities, but we will suggest that even what
appears as a collapse is often do to an energy dam, a contraction
and folding inward as protection around an old pain, trauma,
unresolved conflict inhibition, weakness, feeling of vulnerability,
fear, grief, etc. with the obvious exception of situations that are
drug induced or the result of over stretched ligaments.
The many possible situations will speak to us very clearly and our
own activated energy body will go directly to the balanced
(correct) mode of intervention. In other situations the causal
obstruction may mirror a similar obstruction that is imbedded or
brings up a resonant blockage in our own mental/emotional

(manomaya kosha) , energy (pranamaya kosha), or belief system
(jnanamaya kosha) bodies so that we may either be forced to do
healing on ourselves or otherwise be stumped.
Similarly we may find often the energetic problem is a symptom

reflecting past conditioning, a stubbornly held core belief system,
armoring and contraction around a past trauma, an imbedded fear,
guilt, past negative karma or habits -- animosity, anger, grudges,
greed, compensatory desires, complexes glued together in anger,
and many other similar energetic propensities that have
components other than the "simply" the physical. All these
wholistic relationships and more can be accessed and positively
influenced through "energy work", but the therapist must embrace
the wholistic framework wherein there is no isolation/separation
between the body/mind, belief systems, life styles, thoughts, and
emotions from that of the physical symptoms. Here the therapist
must be firmly grounded, centered, and balanced in their own
core/heart energy and thus able to accept the patients pain, fear,
and other such elements of disease without themselves being
disturbed or negatively influenced -- in order for the therapist to
be fully present and effective and creatively and joyfully work
responsibly.
Classically; the chakras can exist in :
1. a state of deficiency (depletion) which is often cool or blue

2. distortion, congestion, and stress (where the flow is blocked above or below it) which is
sometimes mistaken as being diagnosed as "over active". This can also appear often as being
represented as being hot or red
3. or in a state of healthy and synchronized interactive flow
In other words disease may manifest in energy terms as an

imbalance, a depletion, or a congestion while "treatment" is
always aimed at re-balancing and removing stasis to the "natural
and healthy" flow of energy which includes purifying/opening the
congested channels and/or centers. Here we can cool the hot and
over active (overly rajasic) and heat the overly cold and sluggish
(tamasic) if we chose to use the Ayurvedic breakdown of the three
gunas which are composed of rajas (hot and stimulating), satva
(balanced and pure), and tamas (slow and cool). There of course
exist equal richness in the Chinese energetic system (yin/yang,
cool/hot, wet/dry, etc.). Such approaches include techniques of
energizing/stimulating on one hand or soothing/calming/cooling
on the other while re-establishing balance and harmony -- re-
activating the innate dormant evolutionary/creative circuitry.
Most schools emphasize first purification of the area, then

removal of congestion (sweeping) and lastly then energizing or
balancing the area. Indeed this will avoid some untoward effects
if one were start first energizing without clearing the obstructions
to the flow, but in some cases where the energy is already
critically depleted and the patient is very weak and cold,
energization at first may be best.
The overall description of our approach can be simplified

even further by stating that the process can be reduced to the
idea of purification of the channels and pathways because
purification will at the same time remove obstruction of flow
in the area where it is blocked (thus facilitating removal of
congestion) and at the same time the energy is now able to
flow to energize the areas that may have been depleted (due to
the blockage/obstruction). A careful reading will show that
purification not only relieves congestion and restores
depletion, but also restores balance and homeostasis simply
because the energy is now flowing unobstructed being self
regulated by the natural intelligence inherent in the healthy
organism. This is not unlike some shamanistic techniques
which use a form of drawing out of an evil spirit or exorcism
in order to effect the overall "cure".
1) It is essential first to take on the responsibility of

understanding and healing ourselves and then we are able to heal
others, i.e., to surrender to the innate and indigenous healing
powers and intelligence within). Many times this can happen
simultaneously, but it must always include taking care of your
own energy system and never approaching pranic healing as a
sacrifice, barter, or transfer of your personal energy (but rather it
is always more valuable to stay in tune always with the
transpersonal universal life energy acting from this central
intelligent core as much as possible). One must realize that this is
the same evolutionary energy that is inside of all of life and
creation (it is not an exclusive or personal endogenous ability, but
rather transpersonal as a result of millions of years of co-
creative/co-evolutionary interdependent dynamic inter-
relationships).
2) It helps to ask for help from some "outside" force that you have
a balancing affinity with such as a specific helper from the angel,
deva, plant or animal spirit world, archetypal world of gods and
goddesses, the universe (such as the sun or stars,
nature/creation/creator in general, or at the very least your highest
self). Be sure to thank these helpers (usually silently) at the end
and ascribe any "miracles" to them (rather than the lower self or
ego). This will save us trouble falling back into duality and
increase our abilities to align with infinite power and wisdom in
the long run. We are all in this together even though our present
culture or peers will not acknowledge that "fact".
There exist many techniques in psychic healing that are similar

while many practitioners are interdisciplinary and eclectic
incorporating more than one of these techniques. Given the two
basic techniques above, the following specific techniques may or
not be suitable for everyone.
3) Next we can concentrate our awareness on our own back body

(light body) grounding the tailbone deep into the earth and at the
same time extending the line of energy through the crown to the
highest point (brahmabindu at the brahmarandhra) connecting up
with the formless Seed/Source above and the Abundant Mother
below. Intend that love be embodied and healing be done now.
Wash out the hands and cleanse your own system. Activate
internal flow especially through (in and out) from the feet and
hands. Focusing upon your own light body, sensitize and charge
your hands. Get in touch with the feet, chakras, belly, and breath
in relationship with the back body. Go deep inside for this
conscious connection. In this regard even the slightest amount of
bodhicitta helps tremendously in transforming any possible
negative conditions.
4) Scan the person's aura asking questions with your hand not
mouth) such as is this hot or cold, thick or thin, red or blue,
clockwise or counterclockwise, congested and full versus
depleted and desirous of energy, and so forth maintaining an inner
dialogue of asking questions and allowing for answers. One
method is to use the finger tips of one hand to receive prana and
the center of the opposite palm to send it, but both can be used.
The fingers can also be allowed to perform delicate actions and in
Huna each finger is assigned a corresponding element quality.
The hand can also sense vortexes and synchronize and re-tune the
existing vortexes. Approach these subtle possibilities with loving
attention and let the intelligence of the client guide you. As
mentioned cleansing alone is often sufficient to allow for healing
to occur because it opens flow from congested areas so that it can
energize depleted areas and reestablish balance, but if you are
good at concentration, very specific operations may be attempted
with the finger tips as long as you have a good diagnosis and a
clear idea of what you are doing. For many this diagnosis stage
can seem like an artificial imposition, an unnecessary limitation,
get in the way, or slow things down so that they combine this step
(four) with step five (below) as one process/movement.
5) After the energy diagnosis we can purify and open the systems
that felt clogged and obstructed, energize the areas from the
source of prana (use the sun if need be), and soothe, calm, and
sweep out and clear any areas that still feel congested. Perform
any specific operations or visualizations that you desire after
entering more deeply. There exist an unlimited amount of
possibilities here. For instance in some systems the hands are
placed on two chakras of choice simultaneously. For example one
hand may be placed over or on the sacrum (at the muladhara
chakra) and the other hand over or on the back of the occiput (talu
chakra) as in craniosacral and polarity therapy). In a similar
approach the hands are placed over a chosen center/chakra (one
hand in front of that center and the other hand in the back of the
same center) simultaneously. For example in many Reiki moves
and craniosacral therapies. In some forms of Jin Shin Do, fingers
touch two or more acupuncture points simultaneously
transferring, balancing, and harmonizing psychic energy flows. In
another system the hands never really touch the physical body,
etc. The point here is that after the awareness of the energy
vibrations and pulses are attuned to through opening the nadis
(energy channels/pathways) within ourselves then we are able to
consciously direct the energy through intention. Cit means
conscious awareness and prana means energy. Here we work with
the cit-prana by becoming aware of the connection within of the
energy as well as the energy of consciousness itself. Even without
knowing the exact pathways consciously, just the subtle
awareness and the intention are sufficient to allow the energy to
move because the prana as the life force has an innate
intelligence. After awhile we can apply the cit-prana at will,
focusing on any area, both in ourselves and others. As our own
eyes open, we open to the possibilities in the world and in others.
Many more detailed variations are possible and if so called to,

many include working with the elements (water, air, fire, earth,
and akasha (ether), the elementals (intelligent dynamic
relationships and guardians formed around various natural
phenomena), plants, totems, nature spirits, subtle form bodies,
spirits, and the Great Spirit. Connecting up energy centers,
balancing and harmonizing the previously restricted body/mind
energy flows, opening up blockages, calming and cooling irritated
or over loaded areas, stimulating previously strangulated and
dormant centers, reprogramming negative emotional and mental
habits, and similar approaches requires sensitivity -- a requisite
degree of waking up -- of being open.
Humans have not perfected "healing" as a perfect science, but one

can become more efficacious by matching the most efficacious
modality to the right person. This then depends on the previous

sections being developed by learning how to be present with "the
other" and to listen openly and completely without judgment
(listen and look from one's inner sense of knowing or innate
intelligence), to have the courage and compassion to be with that
person's pain and suffering. This requires the "healer" to be
centered, aligned, stabilized, and grounded in their own core
energy being -- it requires the self confidence, courage,
inspiration, consciousness, compassion, and self empowerment
that such integrated groundedness affords. This comes with
openness, receptivity, loving intent, and practice. Healing, loving
intent, and spirit leads.
6) Ending the session, make sure you exit slowly and intend that
all things be placed where they belong. End up with stabilizing
and grounding techniques while compacting the client's energy
body (containing their energy within an aura of love and healing)
while slowly withdrawing your "touch" and energy with a healing
prayer for the benefit off all beings. Here we can seal the energy
body, but always with the clear conscious intent to allow the
good, healing, natural, and loving energies to be able to enter and
the noxious elements to leave (being recycled back by mother
nature). For example carbon dioxide, human waste, pus, etc are
food for the plants, bacteria, worms, etc. In turn animal and plant
"waste" provide the basis for human food, energy,and air.
For example in Huna specifically, we are taught how to leave a

drain for any noxious contamination to complete its removal over
time, and/or how to empower temporary elemental allies to
provide healing assistance for specific time periods when those
elements can form a synergistic relationship. Man is ally to nature
in his evolved modality. As such man is here to act as allies in
healing and evolution with all of nature, just as nature is here to
assist man. This natural healing relationship in the modern world
has been mostly forgotten, but nonetheless this tragedy of
dismemberment can be invoked -- a host of allies are available
should our heart allow.
It is a good idea to generate the bodhicitta (the aspiration for the

complete enlightenment and end of confusion and suffering) at
the crown chakra after withdrawing and let the client clearly
know that you are finished with the session (verbally or
symbolically), checking in with them that they are OK, and that
they may take their time getting up. Finishing may vary
considerably. One commonly effective method is to leave with the
right hand on the client's third eye and the other hand on their
heart or navel center checking in with them as to consciousness
awareness (at the third eye) and joining that awareness to their
heart or energy center (at the navel or heart) with a full body
smile. Words are not always helpful or necessary. Check to
ground yourself with mother earth and connect with father sky
and again intend that this evolutionary and creative intelligent
transpersonal loving energy that has created all of us become
active and dominant in providing direction in our lives. Place
confidence in this eternal omnipresent love, affirm, and surrender
into it with infinite humility, gratitude, and joy in completion.
During a session there is a wealth of power and innate

intelligence to draw from if only we are able to be present. Some
healing approaches may include entering into verbal dialogue
with the client while working; asking them what they want to
accomplish; ask how they feel here or there, ask them to ascribe
representative symbols to the feelings of disease or pain; have
them recount a past experience that appears to be energetically
related and provoke the catharsis of any associated emotions,
feelings, and thoughts; ask them to participate in the process by
breathing in a golden light into specific areas, and or moving
energy in a specific region. A valuable skill is to always work in
the present, knowing absolutely that it is the healer's ability to
stay present that brings forth the insight and healing energy, that
allows the healer to be effective, and as such the healing is always
mutual and transpersonal. In this way the transpersonal healing
infinite Source of the healing energy is invoked and amplified.
Healer: Heal Thyself

A basic rule that "healers" often need to be reminded of is that
there is an infinite amount of energy in the universe and that a
yogic healer should NOT be transferring personal prana from self
to the client, but rather is simply acting as an inter-mediator or
transpersonal facilitator allowing the conscious source of the
healers own life intelligence to communicate directly with the
other person's conscious intelligent life energy and then after
establishing contact allow the Source to facilitate change. In this
way on a physical level we are asking the client's dna and
intelligent energy patterns to communicate to the healer (agency)
what the nature of the difficulty is and then have the healer
communicate with Infinite Mind facilitating the necessary transfer
of information and implementation through the physical structure
of the hands.
If you are doing healing on others an important principle to

implement is to not only ask permission, but inquire and evoke
from the client the enthusiastic desire or intent to make a healing
change in their own body/mind (whatever it takes) in order for

healing to take place. Because without this receptive positive state
as an energetic precursor, the effort may well be a waste of time.
If the client has the attitude of "I don't want to change, just you
(the doctor) fix me so that I can go on with my life the same
way", then the chances of an enduring success may be greatly
diminished. When the client has a unified will toward becoming
well, being healed, and coming into physical, emotional, and
psychic health, then the process has less friction and becomes a
process of mutual cooperative and education.
Change may be accompanied by both/or physical and mental

catharsis (by catharsis one surrenders the obfuscations and
noxious energy). Catharsis can be slow and sweet. Grieving and
crying is often cathartic, however the expression of stored anger
can sometimes re-traumatize, so when anger is touched upon it is
titrated and allowed to come out while the facilitator holds the
loving space -- stabilizes themselves in the healing process.
If the client has a need to talk (and it appears to be cathartic) then

the facilitator may allow or even encourage it. If talk however
seems to be resistive or escapist convince the client to go back
into their breath and/or give them a remedial visualization to do in
order to help refocus the energy. If a catharsis occurs due to a
painful past trauma or otherwise pain, fear, anger arise only a
skilled facilitator strongly stabilized in their own core should
continue to evoke this unless re-traumatization or over
stimulation occur. Thus it is safest to pay attention to the client's
energy, facial expressions, and breathing as gross signs of a deep
unresolved disturbance perhaps triggering an over-stimulation
reaction and if such a reaction is arising be able to know how to
contain it, soothe the energy, balance it, and access a peaceful
restorative mode when called for. These hyper-sensitive regions
then can be returned to in future sessions and slowly titrated
(brought into context without having the individual become
overwhelmed by it).
Personal Experience
Thirty five years ago I began a conscious study of herbs, diet, and
energy healing with yoga, polarity therapy and acupuncture. Later
studies in shamanism, Huna, Reiki, craniosacral, holographic
healing, pranic healing, Jin shin do, and related energy work were
added thanks to many teachers, mainly Dr. Mishra (Sri
Brahmananda) and Nicki Scully as inspirations. What I learned is
that the intent was all important, that I needed to act not from the
head, but rather much more deeply -- from the energy body -- the
core energy. Here we take a moment to attune inside to the innate

wisdom inherent in the body and to the entire cosmos -- to the
Source. Here the two energy bodies (that of the client and the
facilitator) should be allowed to communicate directly from that
deeper wholistic context of reality. I learned that harder and more
was not better. I learned that the healing energy and intelligence
was transpersonal, limitless (limited only by our ignorance), and
ever present, and to move from that deep grounded space in an
energetically balanced and kinesthetic way where efferent and
afferent, pingala and ida, yang/yin, shiva/shakti, inner and outer,
spirit and nature --- all the koshas and bodies were intermingled,
of one taste, and always working synergistically,
synchronistically, and in concert.
Further practice in yoga and meditation has led me to a greater

appreciation of the energy body which has increased over time,
while the recent advances in the West of Body Psychotherapy,
somatics, and movement therapeutics have helped validate and
enrich my practice.
The Chakra System

Chakra is a s Sanskrit word which means circle of energy, wheel
of energy, spinning vortex of energy, or energetic center. As
mentioned there are many chakra systems, and the reader is again
reminded that the various systems as written and described in
colors, sounds, diagrams, and words, are merely symbolic
representations i.e., they should not be confused with the actual
inner reality which must be experienced as an active operational
intelligent energy dynamic pattern which correspond to
emotional, psychological, belief system, and spiritual interactive
dynamics as well as physical vectors (versus a representational
abstraction, objectification, or separate fact apart from our
subjective direct experience).
One way to view the hyman chakra system is from the ultimate
point of view (the crown center or sahasrara chakra). An infant
has the fontanels (brahmarandhra) wide open at the crown (at the
lambda and bregma points) crown points, but he/she has no
ability to walk, to sense the earth, or to know embodied existence
yet. Despite their DNA and inherent operating system they are
brand new to manifest creation and must get to know the earth
body )the muladhara chakra). Life then becomes a process of
learning the connections between infinite and absolute unborn
spirit and the force of creative evolution a sit manifests in the
universe of form and content. If this holy quest is kept intact
throughout life, then the budding infant recognizing the creative
principle in all of creation learns to activate the evolutionary tools

of the body (chakra circuits) and lives a creative and fulfilled life
in harmony with the spiritual and universal matrices. Where these
energetic matrices intersect within the human body, are the
chakras. they are the result/product or interstices (if you like) of
the physical body, the energy body, the mental and emotional
bodies, the wisdom body, our karma, and unconditioned divine
creative spirit. At death the human body expires by
reabsorbing/withdrawing the prana at each chakra and rejoining
infinite Source at the crown. But a wholistic life consists in
developing the chakras -- learning about them, activating them,
integrating them, and acting from this deep place of integration
(samadhi). The chakra system can be reduced then to crown
(sahasrara) and earth (muladhara) while all other chakras must
align and stabilize around those two poles -- they are all fed from
the integration and harmonization of these two poles, while it is
the negative/afflictive emotions (called kleshas connected to our
karma) which distort, weaken, discolor, toxify, and stress the
chakra vortices. One way to see this is to see the chakras as the
energetic result and interaction of the five koshas (see below).
With that introduction in mind, the reader is again reminded

that the chakra system is not to be viewed outside of the
sacred/spiritual realm of creator/creation, shiva/shakti,
yang/yin, or father sky/mother earth, in All Our Relations.
Any such objectification/abstraction will only further alienate
us and produce counterproductive results -- it will impose a
limited dysfunctional filter, veil, and discoloration. So we are
reminded that in the sacred Now, as in the beginning, exists
the Everlasting -- Beginningless Source Seed and in this Great
Integrity --
NOW and FOREVER -- in completion and
wholeness - in continuity both the source stillness and the flow
exist as One. From this undistorted Wholeness and Integrity
every "thing" -all phenomena -- is seen as the river's
movement -- all things are on fire.
So if the infant were to maintain that continuity of

consciousness from the eternal Source into life in all our
relations, then no discolorations would occur -- the chakras
would develop naturally in one's stages of development and
remain open, activated, integrated and conscious. That is the
healthy ideal, but in most situations negative conditioning
(karma) and ignorance (with the kleshas) takes over and
blocks, dissipates, or distorts this natural evolutionary flow.
This happens when our programmed beliefs and false
identities come into conflict with nature/creation as it is
(Universal Reality) -- the cosmos as it is versus the cosmos as
our distorted constructed mindsets would prefer it to be. Even

though underneath our conditioned projections, distortions,
prejudice, delusion, illusion, and manmade belief systems
universal creativity always exists as Real, the infant is
programmed to see an altered state of "things" -- a contrived
and transgenerational ignorance and prejudice sets in.
In prime momentum then, two were created, but they as a

whole are part of a greater whole. Hence the source of
polarity, voltage, and duality --the source of DNA, were
formed. This two became the apparent distinction of heaven
and earth, yang and yin, father/mother, spirit/nature,
siva/shakti, creator/creation, consciousness/being, crown
chakra/earth chakra, kether/malkuth, ein soph and shekinah,
pingala/ida, and the like while in Integrity they are contained
in the whole as one dynamic relationship -- in the Reality of
Eternal Beginningless Now. They are linked by the central
column, Yggdrasil, the tree in the center of the earth, the axis
mundi, Mt. Meru, the sushumna (where the kundalini flows),
the healing staff (caduceus), Ouroboros, Tiamet, Nidhogg (the
Midgard serpent), etc. In yoga it is this sushumna (central
column) which unites heaven and earth --which is the channel
of this loving, healing, and evolutionary intercourse and
dialogue. The authentic sushumna is rainbow hued, non-flat
planed. and multi-dimensional -- it is the channel where the
activated kundalini goddess (creative/evolutionary energy)
flows. In "normal (nut unnatural life) this natural flow of
kundalini has become blocked and/or distracted/dissipated.
Where such distortions. blocks, or discolorations occur, there
become negative energy vortexes and hence physical disease is
created.
Hence in this context the two most important poles in the

human body are the crown and earth chakras (top and
bottom) which are linked by the sushumna (central nadi).
These are the two polar opposites which have further
representations left/right and front/back, afferent/efferent,
parasympathetic/sympathetic, autonomic/central nervous
systems, etc . In truth we must learn to operate outside of the
narrow limitations of dualistic consciousness, outside of the
illusion of three dimensional (space/time), rather from the
non-lineal fourth dimension (called turiya in yoga which is
also called samadhi). this is the open ground of nondual
reality where crown and earth chakras are united in true bliss
and wholesomeness.
As we discern the two prime chakras we also observe the two

polar strands of dna. For the healing chakra work to be
successful we must keep in mind the intracellular dna
intertwined as it were in a spiral snakelike dance as it is in all
of life (symbolized by ida and pingala) and feel it in every cell,
but yet go ever deeper. As we reclaim our innate birth rights
(recover from our estrangement from living spirit) our
consciousness becomes aware of the more subtle and hence
the energy behind all of so called matter". Here as "self"
awareness and consciousness developed through awareness of
"the two" forces, the more refined and differentiated his
awareness becomes -- the more his eyes become opened to
what is in Reality. It is with these opened activated eyes that
man heals.
The two polar forces and chakras, become the unity of the
three (the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva and hence the
three granthis of yoga were delineated (see below) as portals
into all dimensions of being. Further evolution provided
further delineation and articulations and elaborations, but
beyond all elaborations always is -- is the "is-ness". Then the
five, the seven the nine and the twelve, and the infinite
became intertwined. As such those who have returned to pure
subtle awareness even beyond the most subtle have taught
methods for fragmented people to become whole again and
integrate (yoga). WE IN OUR DAILY LIFE AND HEALING
WORK ARE NO SEPARATE FROM THIS PROCESS OF
CO-EVOLUTION. IN FACT WHEN WE EXTRACT OUR
SELVES FROM THIS PROCESS WE WITHER, DRY UP,
STARVE, AND EVENTUALLY DIE. WE A AN INETGRAL
PART OF THIS INTEGRATIVE PROCESS.
A major problem in mankind's fall, was that man became bogged

down into unbalanced centrifugation into the periphery forgetting
his core and essential nature. He lost his center and his soul in
exchange for the ersatz comfort of material substance. But there is
no lasting happiness, comfort, or security that way. It in fact is the
result of delusion. That is called corruption (or sin) but it is
simply the forgetfulness of the great Integrity.
The common modern man has become lost in his artifacts -- his
contrived and artificial symbolic illusions/delusions brought
about by limited conceptual belief systems and habituated and
institutionalized false identifications. Another problem was that
man tried to reestablish his lost center through doctrine which
also became a left brain dominant limitation and bondage and
through his attempt to conquer fear through dominance over
nature which corresponds to his left brain/intellectual dominant

stance over the right brain (feeling/receptive) sensitivities. These
two conspire together as a misplaced momentum -- a pathologic
energetic vector which at best is neurotic -- which creates the glue
in modern man to limit and enslave him unless he finds the
courage/inspiration to liberate himself. Hence although we will
discuss chakra healing here, ultimately any "healing cure"
has to be seen essentially as a process of spiritual awakening.
Working with the energy of the chakras then as a practice,

includes not only working with the dna, cells, tissues, glands,
nerves, muscles, glands, organs, bones, skin, blood, and
interactive energetic systems, but also the interconnected
emotional, psychological, core belief system, and spiritual
evolutionary processes of the individual's inner and outer ecology.
All of these relationships can be accessed through chakra and
kosha work -- as the dance of Shiva.
Classically medieval hatha yoga ended with a seven

psychophysical chakra system. Kashmir tantra often has nine or
more chakras. Earlier Indian tantra often gives only five although
later seven or nine are common. The most common systems that
we see use seven major chakras while others offer a myriad
number of minor chakras and marmas (energy points at the
interstices of the koshas). We will use the classic seven as
examples in these pages, however I would like to make it clear
that in my own experience, I believe that seven is an anachronism
in the twenty-first century. What I would like to suggest for
further consideration elsewhere that what is now attempting to
evolve and become actualized/activated in human existence are
twelve chakras and alongside that twelve energetic
dimensions/permutations of DNA. (See a brief explanation in
the addendum)
Specifics in Relationship to Healing at the

First Three Chakras
The earth chakra being that particular center associated when
spirit touches nature, consciousness touches form, or heaven
mingles with earth is the point of differentiation itself -- the point
of immanence and rich diversity-- it is the fertile earth while spirit
is the undifferentiated seed. The earth chakra is the doorway to
abundance -- every "thing" -- all of existence and creation in its
rich diversity and yet it is in constant transformation (change)
being temporal and evolving. At the other pole, the crown center
is the nothingness or formless realm which contains the seed
(potential) of everything. Hence in the sense of simple polar
balancing the crown and the root chakra (and all in-between)
work can be undertaken simultaneously. In other words all the
work can be accomplished between these two poles while and the
flow between them is not to be taken lightly but rather attended
to.
It is not a coincidence that modern society with its widespread air

pollution, water pollution, food pollution, mind pollution,
destruction of ecosystems, destruction of other species, war,
murder, and contrived disease have created a god who is in
heaven -- a god who one goes to when one dies, an unearthly god,
and thus a spiritually alienated belief system and life where
sacred spirit is denied in creation/nature and the cosmos. At the
bottom of this unhealthy abomination is our alienation from our
naturalness, wildness, our animal part and our incessant desire for
control. We no longer trust our feelings, our instinct, our intuition,
and have lost touch with our inner wisdom and natural alliance
with the plants, trees, animals, rocks, wind, and cosmos -- all
living things. A big part of this war and conflict thus is rooted in
the war or disconnectedness from our cognitive sense and our
somatic sense, from the mind and body -- from the innate unity of
consciousness and beingness (Cit with Sat), of spirit and all of
nature, of creator and creation -- in short our sense of place and
well beingness -- a basic sense of security. As a neurotic
compensation we try to create external law and order systems --
security states, control and predictability over wilderness and
cosmos, but such is the disease not the solution. The healing
rather is to come to terms with the muladhara -- the earth center --
with the physical body, with spiritual embodiment, and the body
of all life. We know the earth via the body -- the earth and the
body are from one source. This secure knowledge of who we are
in a body (but not of the body) is earth chakra knowledge. WIth
this knowledge we feel at home here with mother earth which the
body has co-evolved with for millions of years in which the earth
has co-evolved with the cosmos since beginningless time.
Without this knowledge -- this interconnectedness we contrive
artificial protection and security systems. We become afraid and
contrive false identifications for protection in terms of racial
alliances, tribal wars, chauvinism, xenophobia, nationalistic wars,
genocide, etc. but all that is not because of the lowest chakra -- it
is not the fault of the earth chakra, but rather it is the fault of its
cognitive denial -- of an arrogant ego who holds it nose up to it
and won't look down in love and beauty. The alienation from life
and the earth chakra is the leading number one cause of
disenfranchisement from healing (illness and disease) on the
planet. Here too many people confuse the symptoms with the
cause. The problem is not the earth or nature, but rather our own
cognitive confusion and arrogant belief systems (ego). The body
is not the ego, it is god's creation --- it is a sacred portal for those
who engage upon the sacred science.
One can go and praise the earth chakra without end (it is needed
because it so maligned) but knowledge about it is one thing, but
direct experience of it's activation tells all. All that is necessary
here is for us to embrace life and run our energy consciously
through this chakra connecting up with the great courage, the
great confidence, the great stabilization, healing sense of security,
and timeless connection with all life and creation that an open
earth chakra provides.
All the lower three chakras are maligned in a society which is fear
ridden, over objectified, estranged from nature and the natural,
estranged from our somatic feelings and experience, and our
hence cognitive based. All of the lower three chakras have a
specific energetic that require attention, recognition,
acknowledgement, and respect if we wish to reclaim our lives and
health. It requires openness and flow for us to be balanced and
healthy. These three more strongly correspond with the physical
body than the upper three (the heart being at the feeling center at
the center point). On a physical level the earth chakra provides
knowledge of nature, healing, herbs, nature, instinct, smell, etc.
The characteristics of the healthy and open earth chakra can thus
be read as fulfillment, richness, and abundance when energy is
flowing between it -- the earth below, and the crown above. When
the energy is blocked or deficient most likely we can investigate
the possibilities of abundance problems (scarcity consciousness),
insecurity problems, self doubt, issues of lack of self acceptance,
safety issues, fear of death, fear of living (which includes fear of
death), protection issues, lack of trust, feelings of alienation,
cynicism, despair, nihilism, and in severe cases paranoia and
catatonia.
Where it can't go down we feel disconnected, lonely, estranged,

and mistrustful and when it can't flow upward we fear change,
inhibit our evolutionary organic nature, creativity and integration.
Lack of downward flow is associated with constipation and
holding and can manifest in the foot, leg, knee, hemorrhoids,
sciatica, hip, thigh, SI joint pain and similar problems while lack
of upward flow may manifest in lack of vigor (sexual, metabolic,
passionate, creative, or mental), vertigo, lethargy, collapse, etc.
Too much downward flow may manifest as diarrhea, profuse
menstruation, wobbly legs, and illnesses brought about by
excessive tamas. The way we walk and move the tailbone and
sacrum (or its lack) is related to the earth chakra. Excessive
stimulation of the earth chakra (rare) without an outlet (having a
blockage) to the second, third, and fourth chakras can manifest in
over hyperactivity at any of the chakras.
The earth chakra (muladhara) is the most important chakra in

hatha yoga, It is where the kundalini lies dormant and it is where
the prana and apana are to be balanced for the energy (kundalini)
to flow in the central column (sushumna) . This should not be
interpreted as just some mystical gibberish, but yet the words
certainly are symbolic of a very powerful energetic. Again once
flow is reached in the sushumna it is neither left nor right, nor up
nor down -- flow is in both directions simultaneously. Again the
muladhara and sahasrara chakras are the two most important
energetic centers while the sushumna is the most important
psychic nerve (that connects them) directly. Physically this area is
associated with the perineum, tailbone, glands of Luska, and
pelvic diaphragm.
This short introduction to chakra healing will never do justice to

the earth chakra or kundalini, but the beginning practitioner
should know that it to be greatly respected and can be gone to (in
conjunction with the crown by placing the right hand on the skull
and left on the tailbone region to balance energy or move energy
through the entire system. This area is often congested so
elongating smoothing and softening passes with the hands up and
down over this area can often be of value. The muladhara is the
integrative physical center of the body and its support center.
Similarly the second chakra (water chakra) called the

swadhistana chakra can suffer from deficiency or blocked
energy flow through it (functional flow). The water chakra is the
energy vortex that reflects the health of our procreative function
on the physical level (something that this society generally
associates with sin and danger), but on an emotional/energetic,
and mental level it represents how we interact with all our
relations -- how we engage and have a two way intercourse
(communication and flow) with other beings and things. If it is
blocked or toxic then these functions become imbalanced. For
example some people who have blocked second chakra energetics
(water chakra) compensate by neurotic talking, over eating, or
excessive sublimation/discharge elsewhere. Often because the
energy may be blocked at the water chakra then discharging this
energy there in excessive sex or in urination problems sometimes
result although the actual energetics of all these functions are the
result of manifold interactions.
When it is deficient in energy there is deficiency in the sexual,

generative, procreative, and creative urges. This is a motive force
chakra where innate evolutionary energies are expressed and
generative and regenerative energies are stored and expressed. In
illness where these flows are damned up or restricted. Here
resides our connection with fluid flow, the sea, change, shape
shifting, seminal and creative ideas, imagination, creative
inspiration, instinct, and spontaneity.
When sexual disturbances exist many people mistakenly suggest

that there is too much energy flowing in the chakra, but what
really is happening is that the energy is congested, dammed
up/blocked, stepped on, abused, inhibited from flowing either
below or above, and hence it "appears" to want to come "out" and
be discharged (or there is fear and shame associated in its
expression). Because of inhibitory influences of unnatural belief
systems, social mores, self censure, guilt, alien religions, and
other artificial and non-body positive external influences a
conflict between natural and spontaneous creative/procreative
expression becomes reinforced establishing a body/mind
discordance, tension, conflict, and war which is an energetic
source of much mental disturbances, social crime, violence, and
physical dis-ease.
In the healthy body/mind the energy at the water chakra should be

constantly streaming here without fear of attracting sexual
negative notice from others (or guilt). If the center is dead,
intuitive and instinctual senses are diminished. Women and men
who have "sex appeal" often have vital first three chakras, but
also in order to avoid sexual attention or condemnation many
women and men turn off this center in order to avoid the attention
of others often in fear or shame. This is a particularly common
and strong, yet not widely recognized dynamic.
In most cases where there is a tendency toward paranoia and

alienation accompanied by tightness in the pelvis and sacrum, the
energy is blocked going downward from the swadhistana, while
in cases of lack of metabolic process, will power, or ability to
manage one's own affairs the energy is blocked going upward
(into the manipura chakra). If the energy is blocked in both
directions at the same time, there almost always exists a
deficiency where a one way blockage can create a distorted shunt
manifesting in what may appear as an over stimulation.
Since sex is a powerful issue in modern life, many clients (those

who are numbed out or constricted in the swadhistana area will be
embarrassed to allow energy to flow here and will resist energetic
streaming. If such occurs the therapist may try streaming the

energy between the muladhara (pelvic diaphragm floor)
THROUGH the swadhistana to the manipura (at the lumbar
region and above so that the energy does not get stuck in the
sexual region. Once the client realizes that the energy can be
energized but not locked into that area (obsessed) but made to
flow through it without congestion then further cooperation in
release of this area will be more easily accomplished. This
liberated energy can be used for healing in the swadhistana,
muladhara, or brought to the manipura chakra above for further
balance and catalyzation of flow . This area thus must be honored
with sensitivity and gentleness while the therapist must be
capable of thoroughly moving through any personal sexual
feelings that may become stimulated.
Strongly associated with not only the gonads, prostate/ovaries,

bladder, sacrum, and lower back. This center resonates in a
simple harmonic order with the pituitary (ajna chakra or third
eye) just as the muladhara has a special resonance with the
sahasrara. Although this is the water chakra (usually white in
color), the kidneys and adrenals being higher up are usually
associated with the next center, the manipura chakra which is
characterized by the fire element.
The Fire Chakra (Manipura Chakra)
Here too manipura which is the integrative energy center of the

body has a special primary resonance, this time with the throat
chakra (vishuddi). This is the center for individual strength,
vitality, self empowerment, ability to get things done, will power,
concentration, action (fire), metabolism, and the like. If the linear
pathway is blocked/congested (up or down) then excess fire or
depleted dysfunction may similarly occur. It is too often ignored
because on a physical level it may represent our gastric fire or
ability to digest food and hence is relegated to the gastrointestinal
tract which is normally a subject (especially the lower end) that is
considered "low" and distasteful. As a result our energy is often
ignored and people suffer from lack of energy diseases,
gastrointestinal illnesses, costiveness, greed, lack of ability to
digest new ideas, allergies, and the like.
In this sense the swadhistana chakra is the center of energetic well

being, personal physical strength, and self confidence, it being the
place where the fuel is burned to drive the physical engines of the
neuro-physiological organism. Here in the manipura chakra the
added fire, heat, or energy required to cook the broth, heat the
cauldron, distill the elixir, and/or bubble over into the air (heart)
chakra (called the anahata chakra in Sanskrit).
The first three chakras concern the physical body the most and
their interaction is closely related in many psychophysical
processes. Likewise the interaction of the manipura (fire chakra)
with the anahata (air chakra) is also closely related as more air
increases the fire and heat on one hand (as in various pranayamas
such as ujjayi or bhastrika breathing; while on the other hand
more fire allows the steam to rise and fill the heart chakra.
There are many other body/mind chakra related harmonic

resonances and dynamics that exist between the "standard" chakra
designations as well as simple adjacent interactions. Rarely will
distorted/diseased, congested, or depleted dynamics can occur in
any of the chakras (seemingly as independent manifestations.
Corresponding compensations can occur in may system
sympathetically and can be modulated simultaneously. Organs
can be felt by energetically feeling beneath the skin while they
can be adjusted and vectored energetically without physical
pressure. Don't be afraid to continue to explore new techniques
and specific details of sensing, energizing, drawing out,
balancing, purifying, etc. when you feel that calling.
Briefly the root chakra is the physical center -- fulcrum, and

support of the physical body-- the root of beingness. The water
chakra is the integrative creative, sensate, instinctual
communication center. The fire chakra (navel) is the
energetic/regenerative dynamo. The heart center (anahata chakra)
is the integrative emotional and feeling center (this society
teaches us to overcome, transcend, or ignore our feelings), the
throat chakra (vishuddha) is the integrative cognitive
communication center for the will and intellect (it integrates the
head with the body in activity). The third eye (ajna chakra) is
intuitive center of awareness and consciousness, while the crown
chakra is the eternal spiritual center which partially lies outside of
the body linking us with the ineffable, unbegun, never-ending,
unformed, non-differentiated, formless, and timeless.
The upper chakras relate more to the more subtle forces of

emotions, mental states, psychology, and belief systems while the
lower centers are more primitive, vital, natural, and physical
(furthermost removed from cognitive dominance). All of these
relationships must be experienced as an interdependent ecology --
as a whole -- while memorization will be counterproductive. This
is pointed out to suggest the possibilities -- to invite distinction,
subtle differentiation, and perhaps diagnosis and treatment.
Adhi and Vyadhi -- The Five Kosha System

Besides the chakra system of healing, ancient yoga also offers the
five koshas (sheaths) energetic model which consists of the
interdependent dynamics between the most gross and coarse
physical body (which is the manifestation of the others) called the
annamaya kosha and four others. The second sheath which
encloses the physical and permeates it the pranamaya (energy)
sheath. The next body is the mental/emotional sheath called the
manomaya kosha. The fourth sheath is the vijnanamaya kosha
(the belief system or wisdom body) while the fifth sheath is the
anandamaya kosha which is literally called the bliss body, the
realm of unconditioned eternal spirit which knows no pain or
limit.
This ancient five kosha system provides an effective relationship

of workable pathways between body/mind, emotional, energetic,
psycho-neuro-physiological, and belief system inter-relationships
and of the processes of disease and of healing.
Here adhis (mental/emotional disturbances in the manomaya

kosha or astral sheath) cause corresponding disturbances at the
physical level (annamaya kosha) called vyadhi. This is modulated
through the intermediary of the pranamaya kosha (or energy
body) causing disturbances in the prana. The good news is that
we can directly work with the body and/or pranamaya kosha to
effect healing in the manomaya kosha and vice versa work on the
manomaya kosha to effect positive healing changes in the
pranamaya and annamaya koshas. It is believed that a lasting cure
is only possible when the causal disturbance is completely
remedied.
Here adhis are considered causal and primary which in turn cause
physical ailments (vyadhi). Thus when the adhis are destroyed the
vyadhis are no longer generated or manifest. In addition there
exist two kinds of adhis. One is ordinary or samaya (caused by
the mind or emotions) and the other one is called, sara, which is
intrinsic to a more causal spiritual malaise that can be
successfully treated only through processes that affect the life
style, belief system, self identification process, or in general our
energetic relationship that we cling to as "s(S)elf" in relationship
to "r(R)reality" i.e., through modalities which reach into the
vijnanamaya and anandamaya koshas. In either case, physical
disease is caused by disturbances/corruption and/or obstruction of
the nadis (psychic nerves) and energy patterns which have
become disrupted, distorted, and patterned into corruptive
patterns causing degeneration, dissipation, dis-ease, pain,
suffering, stasis, and death. Therapy is aimed at removing the

source of the disturbances, opening up these blocked pathways,
and rechanneling and repatterning the energy flow.
Hence when using the principles of the five koshas in energy

healing work, we can integrate asking questions of the client in
regards to ascertaining any relationship between the physical area
and any emotional feelings thus associated with it such as fear,
anger, grief, abandonment, mistrust, overwhelm, etc. Often early
childhood trauma, inhibition, or situations of dissociation due to
over stimulation can not be accessed verbally, but rather only
kinesthetically and energetically. Once the memory and trauma
that is being contracted around) comes into conscious awareness
through touch, both emotional and physical peace can be made
accomplished. Dialogue should be invited but not forced (unless
you are very experienced and know where you are going). It is
often good to invite the client to participate in other ways with the
process such as breathing golden or rainbow light into the area,
visualize a scent like an essential oil (that may be specially
attuned energetically as a remediator of that particular disease
process), to visualize a color, a past event, or even a contrived
theater stage for example if an injury/trauma is associated with
unresolved issues with other people. .There are many such
possibilities that may be effective depending on the situation.
Both Practical and Spontaneous

The methods are just possibilities, but it is our own activated
energy body and awareness which must be allowed to
intelligently guide the healing process as it knows how to
facilitate "flow" at a deeper nonverbal and trans conceptual depth
far better than any preconceived set of techniques. Children
constantly are in motion moving the energy intuitively all the
time. They move with their whole body directing subtle energy
throughout their system (keeping pathways open) with their
hands, feet, and inwardly directed intelligent movements. As such
they are a source of wisdom and healing.
Our task also is to help the energy to move, to remove the energy
dams, the stasis and stagnation, to irrigate the inner rivers and
channels, to melt down the hard contractedness, to open up
clogged areas and pathways, to remove irritation and overwhelm,
and to allow the energy to flow. This way we purify, activate,
connect, and integrate establishing synchronistic harmony
between heaven and earth, spirit and nature, mind and body, left
and right, front and back, above and below, and so forth.
There are many ways of moving the energy. In chakra work for
instance we can work above and below a hard, tight, obstructed,
dammed up, cold, or hot spot/area to move the energy through --
placing hands above or below, to the left and right, in front and in
back, and in the fourth dimension/all directions bringing in
energy from the Source to soften, relax, energize, open up,
stimulate or cool, gold or blue, etc.
Another practical way is simply to sense any stasis, tightening,

hardness, blockage, stress, contraction, tension, fear, pain,
confusion, and so forth in tissue group or organ and then to
soften, lengthen, and extend the physical allowing it to pulsate,
flow, move, and energetically realign.
Another way as in Jin Shin Do we first sense the energy flows in

the body and observe any distortions in the field, voltages,
imbalances, tilts, torsion, in relationship to the acupuncture
meridians and their unique access points which connect their
characteristic energetic relationship. With the establishing of
balance in mind we chose two usually distant but "key" points --
directing or sending energy to one (with the sending hand or
finger(s)) to the distant point where the receiving or sensing hand
or finger(s) is placed. Sometimes this is accompanied with actual
physical pressure on the points (like in acupressure) and at other
times it is merely energetic.
In Reiki all the major and minor chakras and organs (most of the
body) are covered sequentially (usually from the head down)
simply by placing our hands on the client and going to Infinite
Source for intervention. Here "more complex" is not necessarily
better . However with polarity, craniosacral, visceral
manipulation, pranic healing, Jin Shin Do, and Huna we often
work more with specific intention and intervention techniques
often moved to simultaneously work on two chakras at once to
effect balance and flow. Human touch itself (between two people)
can have beneficial results in and by itself and there exist much
scientific validation to confirm that. Similarly some groups work
more effectively as a team of two or more people on one client at
a time. Similarly this work can also be done on oneself as well as
from the dream body or from a distance.
Saucha, Asteya, and Santosha (Purification,

Integrity, and Pacification)
Another similar body/mind approach to energetic healing can be
gleaned from yoga's life style guides of yams/niyams and in
particular saucha (purity) and asteya (truthfulness and integrity).

Patanjali said in Pada II. 40 and 41
saucha svanga-jugupsa parair asamsargah 41. sattvasuddhi-

saumanasyaikagryendriya-jayatma-darsana-yo gyatvani ca
Through the practice of physical purity, attachments to toxins and

corruptive forces disappear naturally. Also through internal and
external purity (saucha) both of the body, psychic environment,
and of removing the occlusions of consciousness, there is
achieved balance, cheerfulness, one- pointedness, harmony of the
senses, and yogic vision. Here one is no longer attracted by
corruptive influences because one has established (and is happily
rooted within) an inner energetic freedom. Purity (saucha) is one
of the niyams. It can be interpreted many ways.
Some yogis take it to mean keeping the inside of the body clean
(annamaya kosha) and healthy, the nadis open (pranamaya kosha)
and energy unobstructed, while the body is affected by being less
burdened, open, and light. Another inner application of saucha is
keeping the mental thoughts (manomaya kosha) free from
kleshas, samskaras, and vrttis. Yet another application of saucha
may be applied to our belief systems whether or not they may be
tainted, and thus be a source of taint, impurity, and affliction to
our consciousness (until purified). In this sense transformation
and rebirth is an action of purification.
Yet another manifestation of saucha is in our motivations and

actions. But since actions follow thought and consciousness (or
lack thereof) it seems that the purification of consciousness is
more causal to this process. So on a physical level, not poisoning
the body or burdening it with afflictions that it can not digest,
assimilate, or eliminate easily will unburden not only the
digestive system, but the elimination and immune systems thus
creating more available energy for the process of evolutionary
circuitry and higher consciousness to unfold. In one sense poor
food habits (and inability to digest, assimilate, and eliminate
food) is an energy drain and sedation of the kundalini, taking
energy away from the "other" super-psychic activities or spiritual
projects unless we were already very open in this direction and
were not negatively affected by dietary choices. The key however
is the development of our innate wisdom, instinct, or intuition to
know which of the food options are best for our own unique
constellation of body/mind at the moment achieving synergistic
balance, well being, and synchronicity. This is where the rest of
the yoga practice acts synergistically with diet -- and in turn, diet
with the overall integrity which is the yogic process. Here also is
where the hatha yoga kriyas or sat karmas (external cleansing

activities) can also help as well as reduce irritation, thus creating
more peacefulness (santosha) and being adjunctive to the allied
processes of aparigraha, tapas, pranayama, pratyhara.
concentration, meditation, and isvara pranidhana. On a mental
level, meditation is the best practice of saucha. As we study the
yam/niyams we will see the mutually synergistic inter-
relationships between ahimsa, satya, asteya, brahmacharya,
aparigraha, saucha, santosha, tapas, swadhyaya, and isvara
pranidhana disclosing the underlying all inclusive integrative
wholistic principle.
42. santosad anuttamah sukha-labhah
By establishing a connection with the energetics of fulfillment

while being at peace with one self in the present moment
(santosha), then communion with a boundless joy (sukha)
manifests. Santosha becomes a new non-conflicting and non-
stressed way of wellness and thriving which becomes natural and
when it is disrupted, absent, or made discontinuous we naturally
awake to apply a balancing and centering remedy .
To sum up, in energy and chakra work, intent is causal, so work

only when you are able to focus on, merge, and stay in tune with
the Source and Central Axis of Love (the axis mundi or tree at the
center of life) which forms the core of the healing power -- a state
of being that we can intimately "know and feel" increasingly not
with the mind but in the heart of hearts (Hridyam) which is inside
the deepest core of the sushumna nadi (don't take my word on this
last one but rather check it out by increasing your meditation
practice). Here the healing energy comes from the infinite
timeless Source as we act merely as a finely tuned earthly
vehicle/channel (resonating between spirit and nature crown and
root). Any negative situation can be transformed through
sufficient and sincere cultivation and generation of the bodhicitta
-- the sincere intention to liberate of all beings from suffering
without exception.
The above are only some "possibilities" -- what is needed is an

open mind and heart and ALL the rest follows (flows) from that. .
Addendum One: The Twelve Chakra Systems

1) The muladhara/earth chakra (as above) from the lower sacrum,
tailbone, cauda equina, posterior perineum etc. The earth chakra
governs the giving back the transmuted solids back to the earth. It
also is the portal from which we are able to freely give to and
receive from the earth (nature gives to us as nurture as we give to

her) -- governing our stance and relationship to nature,
creation, diversity, and embodied life itself. It is the place of
establishing wholistic contact with all of creation, all of history,
all or healing allies, the herbs, and embodied life itself. It is the
most severely ignored and most singularly important chakra other
than the crown. It is the seat of the kundalini (our evolutionary
dormant potential) located posterior and lateral to the swadisthana
chakra.
Concisely speaking, the activated muladhara chakra connects us

actively with the forces of nature and creation, wherein nurture,
safety, a feeling if interconnectedness, stability, and groundedness
exist. A disconnect or blockage at the muladhara chakra results in
feelings of fear of wilderness, natural function, spontaneity,
natural feelings, estrangement, and general feelings of insecurity,
alienation, abandonment and fear. In the case of blockage at the
muladhara, then all sorts of compensatory pathologies may result
in an attempt to compensate for the loss sense of connectedness,
natural identity, and meaning in life such as in acts of insecurity,
transference, loss of self esteem (often disguised as a superiority
complex or pride) racism (racial superiority complex),
chauvinism, nationalism, religionisms, xenophobia, nihilism,
cynicism, sexism, and in other cases extreme depression,
withdrawal, and catatonia.
2) The swadisthana/water chakra (as above) from the anterior

perineum, uro-genital diaphragm, pubis effecting the organs of
intercourse (vagina/penis) as well as how well and freely we
qualitatively communicate and inter-relate with the diverse
forms of creation-- all our relations. Swadisthana governs the
final process of giving back the transmuted water back to the
water systems of earth and sky through the urethra, bladder, and
urethral tubing. Its location is anterior and medial to the
muladhara chakra between the pubic bone and sacrum.
Concisely speaking the activation of the swadhistana chakra

provides a sense of active participation in nature's scheme, in
natural flow, in creative engagement with others (such as animals,
plants, the stars, nature spirits, and other people), the ability to
adapt and create (respond creativity), flexibility in general,
openness, and fluidity and the ability to actively engage the world
and other people passionately.
When this chakra is blocked, the inquiry, natural curiosity,

wonder, openness, and friendliness is diminished; while rigidity,
stubbornness, self absorption, general inhibition and withdrawal

are prevalent.
3) The lower tan tien (Chinese name) located between the two
anterior superior iliac spines (below the navel and above the
pubis. This governs the generational/procreative/co-creational
functions either projecting them outward and downward through
the lower two chakras or providing for the generation and self
empowerment of the sacred fetus. This involves the
ovaries/prostate.
Here when activated the higher procreative/creative processes are

activated (the generation of immortal fetus). Thus the activated
tan tien is the result of the harmonization of the lower two
chakras with the manipura chakra (see above). When it is not
activated everyday life is far less vital and and rewarding.
4) The classical manipura (also called nabhi) chakra. The fire

chakra (described above) at the navel which is involved in
assimilation of food and information as well as the energetic
regulator of physical embodiment. It is associated with the
umbilical cord, the small intestine, nourishment, digestive fire
and metabolism. It serves to burn up toxins, impurities, and
torpidity in the body and mind and thus eliminates chronic
burdens on the immune system. This heat (which is fueled by
pure tapas) acts as a detoxifier of karmic, mental, and emotional
impurities.
When activated and integrated with the lower tan tien this chakra
creates the necessary heat, energy, and power to fire necessary
body/mind activities, thus it is the energy generator of the
organism. It can be visualized as a city filled with shining jewels
(manipura) such as the most radiant, pure, and perfect rubies,
emeralds, and diamonds.
5) The pancreas, liver spleen, stomach chakra located just

underneath the sternum which is involved in breaking down of
physical food, digestion, filtering, regulation, as well as
intellectual discernment. Here the adrenals, kidneys, the vagus
nerve, as well as the neuro-endocrine system are also involved.
This center is commonly portrayed as part and parcel of the
manipura chakra, perhaps for good reason because such processes
that occur here should never be separated from it. To think of
these processes being governed lower than the navel center can
often be more functional and healing as the intelligent center for
these processes exist there.
One may say then that the vital intelligent brain of this chakra is
dependent upon the harmonization of the muladhara, swadhistana,
and manipura in the lower tan tien.
6) The classical anahata or heart chakra (air). It is our feeling

center -- This is more than the culmination of the five senses as
feeling, but more so, accessing this center allows us to access
the very essence of the process of our sentience -- thus it is the
chakra of direct experience and beingness. Modern science
tells us that the heart center radiates stronger and more
refined electromagnetic fields than the brain as well as
producing a storehouse of neuro-endocrine substances. (See
also the Institute of Heartmath Research Papers and
Neurobiology and Yoga: From the gods of the Amygdala to
the God of the Heart by Antonio T. de Nicolas.
The activation of the anahata center allows us to connect to our

feelings and thus assumes the courage to be open and vulnerable -
- the heat must be open and we can not be afraid to experience
pain, grief, anger, or other negative emotions (kleshas) either self
generated or coming from others when empowered.
Blockages here can adversely effect the heart and lungs (our
circulatory system). In this culture, it is the separation of our
awareness (ignorance) from our feelings which is rampid
producing most diseases of dissociation. When the heart feelings
are denied or ignored, then disturbances of the heart or blocked
energy there cause problems with the physical lungs or heart.
7) The thymus center located above the heart chakra and below
the vishudda (throat chakra). This is our natural self regulating
protective system which in modern times can be very strained or
even overwhelmed. When unhealthy this represents the taking in
of too many manmade pollutants as well as the presence of fear
and toxic thought.
8) The classic throat or vishudda chakra (ether or akasha) that

regulates cognitive communication powered by the will and
intellect wherein our abilities of willful interaction in the
world are reflected. If the throat chakra however is not
dominated by cognitive function (the head) but is in balance
with the heart and feelings, this then can lead toward
manifestation of wholism through the expression of the divine
creative urge when this chakra is activated. It is the chakra
where head and heart are integrated, where feeling and
thought are harmonized -- mind and body. This is located in
the lower throat near the thyroid. Problems in expression. the

shoulders, arms, and hands are reflected here.
9) The back brain center at the upper part of the neck and throat
including the jaw region, the occiput, atlas/atlas, back brain, brain
stem (medulla oblongata), and the like. This is the top connection
point between the autonomic and central nervous system that
is involved with self regulation, balance, and harmony. It is a
key point in craniosacral therapy. One might say that its "center"
is behind the occipital condyles. it is the deep brain center
associated with the cerebellum and primitive brain. Any illness
can arise when this area is not irrigated with prana or there exists
dissociation from the cognitive functions of the frontal lobes and
the more vital centers of the back brain.
10) The Talu chakra behind the third eye governing the midbrain,
basal ganglion, hypo-thalamus, and amygdala. It is home to our
emotional circuitry which governs wellness.
11) The classical third eye (ajna chakra) governing awareness,

concentration, and individual consciousness associated with
the pituitary, pineal, and the two anterior lobes of cerebral cortex.
This is where delusion is made or broken. When not activated
there is no conscious insight, just ordinary discursive thought.
Self awareness is fogged over and gnosis is obscured.
When activated one is is self realized (delusion has fallen) but the
connection to divine intelligence may or may not be won yet
(depending on the connection being open or not at the sahasrara)
12) The classical sahasrara or crown chakra associated with our

formless non-dual imperishable nature -- pure spirit and
consciousness -- existing beyond physical embodiment so it is
most closely associated with the energetic vortex above the
brahmarandhra (hole of Brahma or the aperture at the top of the
head) but which also encompasses the head (often "seen" or
observed as an aura). When activated it is a large chakra
described as the thousand petaled lotus and s such it is Brahma's
pillow. It is associated with the great continuum, where we came
from, where we go at death, and ultimately where and who we are
right now.
The activation here depends on the opening of the brahmarandhra

(the gate of Brahma) at the crown (bregma and lambda points). It
is the opening to Divine consciousness that is beyond the physical
body. It can be likened to our network connection to the Main
Central Computer -- the web of all life and its core.
Similarly the "S" shaped seven cervical vertebrae can also be seen
as an analogue of the spine while each vertebra space is given a
corresponding sound and and element. As such each cervical
vertebra it can be related to the seven chakra system. See this
discussion at the Chakra Purification Meditation at Rainbowbody
The above is by no means an exhaustive discussion of the chakra

theories, but further such discussion may be counterproductive.
Briefly then, it is the Hridayam, which is also often called the
heart chakra,, but which must be discerned from that of the anahat
chakra. The Hridayam is the Heart of Hearts -- the holographic
center of the Universe -- of all of creation. It is that unified central
place of eternal stillness from which the entire creation revolves
and as such it is of course associated with the sushumna which
allows access to the sahasrara. This is our true and authentic
home. Om
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12/23/21, 11:44 PM Chakra Energy Healing

Chakra and Energy Body Healing:

True understanding of this process in continuity -- with integrity -

Physics tells us that nothing can move without voltage - a vector

when it is corrupted, fragmented, blocked, obfuscated, and

When this energy direction (intelligence) is out of harmony with

Thus the direction of healing for most of us is to invite this innate

The beginner can thus be easily seduced by the plethora of

Energetic Exploration into the Territory:

Given the basic principle is that nothing can move without

Conversely successful energy healing work will depend upon

Work from Your Energy Body

wellness, and empowerment which obviates any need for external

In this way we receive an energy treatment/healing at the same

Although taking a class in energy healing, yoga, shamanic

Although there exist "healers" who claim good results through

communion, a shamanistic journey, and/or a meditation traveling

What I want to emphasize is that everyone has this ability (it is

There exist numerous further techniques to invite the energy

Energy Body Anatomy

misidentification between externally observed objects (by the five

Ultimately therefore this linking is mystical/mysterious in the

Thus some sort of body/mind right brain amplification practice is

assuming that the right brain has previously become abandoned,

As our self awareness deepens the energy flow deepens at the

Classical hatha yoga is rich in techniques which bring our

Thus an authentic indigenous approach to yoga provides a sensate

Diagnosis and Treatment

Specific methods of healing are unlimited as they are subtle and

For example if someone is overly contracted or collapsed forward

Often a collapsed body which appears overly passive, yin, soft,

brings up a resonant blockage in our own mental/emotional

Similarly we may find often the energetic problem is a symptom

Classically; the chakras can exist in :

1. a state of deficiency (depletion) which is often cool or blue

In other words disease may manifest in energy terms as an

Most schools emphasize first purification of the area, then

The overall description of our approach can be simplified

1) It is essential first to take on the responsibility of

There exist many techniques in psychic healing that are similar

3) Next we can concentrate our awareness on our own back body

Many more detailed variations are possible and if so called to,

Humans have not perfected "healing" as a perfect science, but one

modality to the right person. This then depends on the previous

For example in Huna specifically, we are taught how to leave a

It is a good idea to generate the bodhicitta (the aspiration for the

During a session there is a wealth of power and innate

Healer: Heal Thyself

If you are doing healing on others an important principle to

change in their own body/mind (whatever it takes) in order for

Change may be accompanied by both/or physical and mental

If the client has a need to talk (and it appears to be cathartic) then

core energy. Here we take a moment to attune inside to the innate

Further practice in yoga and meditation has led me to a greater

The Chakra System