Introduction

Chakras are vortices through which energy flows both in and out the body. When developed, they rotate like a turning wheel. Most literature on chakras discusses seven main chakras, but we actually have hundreds, located all over the body. Each acupressure and acupuncture point is an energy vortex and therefore a chakra. The energy which powers these vortices comes from a number of sources, one being our own Kundalini or evolutionary energy, another being the spiritual force within us. These energies come from inside the body and flow out the chakras.
The chakras also receive. We may receive energy from other people, whether gently and imperceptibly or very aware of pulling it from them. When our energy is pulled by others, we may feel very sapped or "snagged" in a particular chakra. Being sent energy, we may feel bombarded. Spiritual energy, prana, and other energies an around us (we live in an ocean of energy), may also flow in through the chakra centers.
People less developed in their evolutionary growth tend to bring in much more energy than they give out. In weakness or illness, people may pull in energy from more vitalized or developed people. Those who feel weak, depleted or have a low self-image may be very strongly affected by others' energies, actually drawing on others, in which case they are called sappers. This name is unfair in some instances because the act of pulling energy from others may.
make the difference in healing and getting enough strength to go ahead; it is a wonderful thing to be able to give energy to those who need it. Giving is part of our practice of visiting ill or depressed friends. We "give" energy from our chakras to theirs to help them.
Giving strengthens us; when energy is pulled or sucked from us, we can be weakened. There are people who habitually suck energy from others rather than develop their own; these may truly be called sappers. There is more information on this in Chapter 11.
People who are not very developed spiritually may be open to negative forces. Negative energy will come into their chakras, causing them to feel even worse than they do or to act in even more negative ways. A depressed person tends to put energies coming through the chakras on a depressed level, which only compounds problems.
Evolved people have more energy flowing out of their chakras than in. Their chakras look like flowers in bloom. As they become more highly developed, the Kundalini energy radiating from their chakras blends with divine energy, continues to radiate out, then curves back to come in through the hands and feet (sometimes through other areas of the body), bringing a mixture of these energies into them.
Our growth and development are increasing during the Aquarian age; we go through many different moods and ways of being, relating to different chakras in the process. The chakras fisted in this book help you gain a greater understanding of the different energy frequencies which control or affect our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual states. During cleansing, you will find that fears or problems from this life and other lives may be locked or blocked at particular levels. You may also find joys or wonderful times which did not assimilate and were not released into the body cells, similarly blocked in the energy pattern. Sometimes fear of the future will be evident.
I suggest to beginning students of Kundalini that they let the energy flow directly out in front of their bodies rather than spin. Many times all of the petals are not fully developed and spinning only distorts the energy.

Kundalini Movement and Chakra Cleansing

There are many chakras in the body, but eight main ones will be used for this exercise, those in the areas of glands having extra importance in spiritual and evolutionary growth.
In the beginning, use the following chakras: Navel Solar Plexus Heart (upper chest) Throat (lower neck) Fifth Eye (center of the forehead) Crown Chakra (top of the head)
Do this exercise lying down or in the lotus position; take care that your back, neck and head are straight. It is much easier and generally safer to lie down. Place your attention on your lower back, above the tailbone area; DO NOT go as far down as the tailbone, as this may release extra Kundalini. Bring the energy from the lower back to the spine, then channel it out the front of the body through the navel chakra. Be aware of the energy flowing out. Do not force it just let it happen. Be aware of the "feel" of the energy, the quality of the vibrations. You may experience strong feelings; if so, let them come. After a few minutes, bring the energy back to the spine, up and out the chakra in the solar plexus (just below the breast bone). Be aware of any change in the vibrational quality of the energies.
Continue bringing the energy back to the spine, up and out the next chakra. Always be aware of changes of vibrations, thoughts, feelings and whether an area seems blocked or overloaded; be aware, but do not get caught up in them. Just observe. If desired, make notes of your observations.
After sending the energy out the crown chakra, let the Kundalini energy (this is what is being directed) mix with the divine energy above your head (this divine energy is in the surrounding air at all times). Let this mixture shower over and penetrate into your body (see Chapter 15, Methods for Kundalini Release). Bathe your body inside and out with these beautiful energies from both polarities-heaven and earth-helping speed growth and development.
After you've done this exercise several times and become comfortable with it, add the sex chakra. When comfortable with that, add the root chakra (on the tailbone). Note: We do not use the base chakra in this exercise because it may release too much energy. When you start with the higher chakras, you clear a path so that if great amounts of energy are released in the sexual or root areas there is someplace for it to go; otherwise, the energy may become stuck and cause personality and health problems.
If there is pain or a problem near a chakra, omit that chakra from the exercise until the problem clears; the extra energy may make the situation worse.

Chakra Flows

An undeveloped person usually has numerous blocks around the edges of, or actually in, the chakras, slowing the energy or causing incorrect flow. After sufficient development and chakra cleansing I have students direct the energy in a circular motion such that it looks clockwise from the outside of the body, counterclockwise from inside the body. This movement puts the main force of the flow on the left, emphasizing the emotional and spiritual levels, establishing a more solid base to work from, and enhancing understanding of energies. At later stages I ask the students to reverse this flow;
this emphasizes the right side or mental level and develops psychic abilities, power, and force. The danger in developing the right side first is that students would not have the understanding and wisdom to use the energy well and may not only find themselves in a little more trouble but find many things happening to them they do not understand and do not know how to work with or control.
In some people the general chakra flow is tipped upward; this generally indicates the Pollyanna type, who thinks everything is-wonderful and sees only the good things in life. While it is nice to see the positive and the good, you must be aware of the negative side of people lest you get tripped up by them. The opposite situation is the person whose chakra flow is always headed toward the ground; such a person can be cynical, or in good times have great benevolence, though of a kind in which there is a feeling of condescension. When chakra flow tips more toward the right, a person will be judgmental and overly mental. When chakra flow tips to the left, a person may be overly emotional, trying to understand things to the point of not functioning well.
Some people have high amounts of poorly assimilated energy in the body such that the energy may flow in and out of the chakras with great force. When energy goes out in great force a person can be left manic or in states of unmaintainable ecstasy. The person does not have a good energy connection in the body. Energy drops and tends to go deep, creating a depressed state. The energy is literally pressed into the body. If you have these highs and lows, try not to let your highs be extremely high or your lows extremely low; work for balance. Try to feel the energy all over your body. Take the energy of the ecstasy or the depression, spread it all over the body and assimilate it into yourself until you feel more balanced.
In a more developed person, the chakras will gently flow in the direction which the person's destiny pattern requires. When needed, they will flow in the opposite direction. A chakra is much like a twirling bowl; in more developed people there will be smaller vortices flowing within this bowl, like petals just inside the rim. In the compassionate and loving heart chakra, for example, there are twelve petals. In the solar plexus chakra there are ten petals. There are twelve in the smaller crown chakra and 960 in the outer crown chakra.
When a chakra and its petals flow correctly, a certain frequency is set up opening a person to psychic abilities or higher spiritual levels. A more highly developed person works at a higher octave of energy frequency. With a chakra cleansed and twirling correctly, a person has access through that frequency to higher octaves and may operate on higher dimensions. As psychic or spiritual abilities are developed, awareness and understanding of cosmic energy and other gifts abound.
Bear in mind that the beginner should not yet work for the higher octaves; until the areas are cleansed and properly aligned, distortions of energy, information and behavior may result, leaving a person feeling as if he or she had gone backwards in growth.
Don't get hung up on which symbol or color you are "supposed" to see in each chakra. As the chakras are cleansed and developed you will see many symbols, including the crescent moon, squares, stars, triangles, diamond shapes, and circles. Colors will change as you are working on various energies frequencies. Forcing yourself to work too early with the petals and the colors prescribed for each chakra (see chart # 1) can cause irritations and illness. As a person reaches to higher octaves (levels), the chakra colors will be brilliant or radiant. In an undeveloped state, the colors are very dull or dark areas may show.
Undeveloped people who have unbalanced chakra energy flow may relate to the world primarily through one or two chakras. Say one is a sexual chakra; it will not matter what you talk about, the person will soon turn it to a discussion of sex or use sexual terms. An overly emotional person will always get into feelings, no matter the subject. The overly mental may be unaware of the emotional and sometimes unaware of the body as well. We need, as much as possible, to work for balanced chakra flow.
The chakras are located in an etheric level just outside the body. As you develop this area you will find other chakras more distant from the body. On the outside edge of the emotional or astral aura, for example, there will be another chakra; outside the mental aura another, and so on through the seven bodies. These chakras eventually need to be developed, but their development is based on the development of the ones just outside of the physical body.
A radio has one basic energy coming into it-electricity. Changing the frequency of that energy makes it possible to receive different stations. It is similar with us; we have our basic Kundalini energy and spiritual energy and our chakras can change these energies to different frequencies. Some relate to emotions, some to sexual feelings or pure love, mental, psychic, healing abilities and various other functions. Learning to control and develop these areas is part of the training of mastering energies.