How to Work with Chakras
It is best to work with only one level of one body of chakras at a time. The most effective procedure is to begin at the physical level of the physical body; proceed to the emotional of the physical, the mental, et cetera, continuing until you have finished all seven levels of the physical body. Having completed work on the physical body, move on to the emotional, mental, and so on through all the bodies.
Make an exception to this rule if a particular chakra or body is painful, very tight, or is trying to open on its own, in which case you may wish to begin with that location. Complete all of the chakras on that body; then start with the physical and work upwards.
It is best to work on only one body at a time because you may become too buzzed, spacey or confused doing too many bodies at once.

Cleansing and Opening Chakras

1. With your hand, find the location of the chakra or chakras on your body. Follow the directions, looking at the areas shown in the picture in the previous chapters. Generally, the energy of the chakras will feel different from that of the surrounding areas.
2. Massage the chakra lightly. This helps open it and release any blocks. If there is much pain, do not massage; instead, hold your hand over the chakra and send energy into it. The extra energy helps release the block. Further assist release by imagining the energy going from your hand into the chakra; energy follows imagination. After A few moments release the chakra. Do not press hard on the xiphoid process, as it can be damaged easily.
3. Either lie down or sit comfortably. Let go completely and let thoughts or feelings come to you. When energy is released from a chakra, information comes to your awareness; it may be a strong message, a memory of an incident, or an attitude. Let your mind ramble. The time necessary for these messages to come through varies from a few moments to as much as fifteen or thirty minutes. Do what feels comfortable to you, but do not stop the process too soon. If nothing comes and you feel comfortable with letting it go, fine; but if you feel restless, uncomfortable or irritable you probably should continue. Remember, the blocks may have existed for a long time and you may not wish to reblock or hold things back. When cleansing is completed, you will generally experience a release of energy and feel refreshed and energized.

Energy Flows
At the start, try to let the energy come straight out of your chakras, refraining from spinning the chakras in either direction. Simply let the energy come out in a direct manner until the area feels free and clear. If you wish, in later work, you may spin your chakras so that the energy going over the top of the chakra goes to the left side (clockwise from the outside). As long as the energy flows or spirals away from the body you will be at a refined emotional or spiritual level. But if the energy spirals back into the body it can cause negative or depressing feelings. Sometimes you may wish to spiral energy over the top of the chakra to the right side of the body (counterclockwise from the outside), putting you in touch with the mental or high mental vibrations for as long as the energy radiates away from the body (spiraling back into the body it will again cause depressive attitudes and negative perceptions).
Experiment with the flow of your chakras. In the beginning it will be difficult to be aware of direction, but with practice you win develop greater awareness and more control over your life.

Posture
People commonly sit or stand in a manner that blocks good chakra flow. You may, for instance, have trouble dealing with your I-AMness and feeling good about yourself, in which case you may round your shoulders or bend your body to close off level three of the soul level body, or tighten your elbows and knees to block off those feelings. Another possibility is that you may curve in your chest as a way of blocking off the various chakras on the breastbone and compromise your will to live (level five of the physical body). Watch your posture. If you feel that by the way you carry yourself you block chakras, work on those particular chakras to find out what thoughts or feelings they contain; you could gain much insight into your attitude toward yourself.

Awareness
Awareness of posture change, aches, pains, or tensions can an be little signs that something is going wrong with the energy pattern some place in the body. It is always the chakras of those areas that will be affected. We ourselves can close them off subconsciously through fear, turning away from things, or holding back. Doing so, we pull the energy into the body, causing heaviness, depression, or blocked muscles.
When we feel light and joyful, the energy flows out, radiating from our bodies and opening our chakras. During a particularly joyous, happy, up-time, energy in blocked areas tends to release; thus several days later you may find yourself depressed, down, and in need of dealing with the released energy. But if you go with it, work with it, and allow it to continue the cleansing, it should not be long until you are feeling very, very good again.

Recommendations
I recommend developing the fifth eye before working with the third eye, as anything the third eye can do the fifth eye can do better. The danger in working intensely with the third eye first is that it is so connected with ego it may foster spiritual pride. The fifth eye helps develop the bigger picture beyond the individual picture. I also recommend developing the "will to live" heart chakra first in order to enhance heart strength. Developing the compassionate heart chakra first may lead to becoming overly compassionate and drained; it is not good to give too much from a heart chakra until the power is built from within and one learns to channel energy through it.

Front Chakras versus Back Chakras
This book is primarily concemed with the spinal chakras opening in the front rather than in the back. Unless the front areas are cleaned and vitalized, energy from the spine will be blocked; as the front chakras open, the nadis, or connections from the front chakras to the spinal openings automatically open. In addition, working on the spinal openings may bring an excessive interest in phenomena harmful to a person's growth, interesting perhaps, but not of primary importance in growth.

Opening up Body Energy
Stand in the middle of the room. Get the feeling of letting your energy go out from your whole body to fill the entire room, even the comers. This is a method of releasing energy from and balancing the chakras (including those not listed in this book). Doing this strengthens your aura. You can hold back other people's energies and may then become aware from the outer edge of your aura how others feel or think, as opposed to having the energy come in and affect your body. In addition, as your aura is strengthened, your outgoing energies are tempered and modified by the general energy in your aura and will not affect others as heavily.

Sending and Receiving Energy
Chakras are energy transmitting and receiving stations. We transmit energy, turning it into messages or feelings for other people. But we are constantly receiving from others, sometimes subliminally or subconsciously and at other times in a very aware state. More often than not the energy of others is an intrusion on our own energy patterns and may leave us thinking we have moods, thoughts, or feelings to work out which are not actually our own; or the intruding energies may just slow us down. We may also think we have an illness, pain, or tension.

Exercise
Exercise is very important in helping to even out the energy moving through the body. Many problems work themselves out just through physical exercises. Yoga is a particularly good form of exercise to maintain better chakra condition. Free form dance is also helpful; as you dance you emphasize different movements of your body, releasing blocked energy. Rest is also very important, allowing your system to balance energies and make its own adjustments; often if you just leave your body alone for a while, let it rest, it does much to heal itself and release blocked areas.

Opening and Developing the Chakras of the Seven Bodies

The following is a series of meditative exercises to be used in opening and developing the chakras described in Chapter 7. It may be done alone or with other people.
If a particular chakra area hurts, don't massage it; just send energy into it, either mentally or from the ends of your fingers, breaking down the energy form creating the pain. The body sends a subtle communication. In touch with it, you will sense what to do and what not to do. But even when you listen, if your body resorts to pain and you don't deal with that area, the energy may cause disease or illness. If the energy is too congealed, too blocked, or too constipated, you can attract accidents that release it. Much exhaustion and pain may occur in the physical chakras. Your body has a strong sense of self-healing; given proper time and tools, it will come around. Astrological energies, diet, overwork or general inattentiveness to your body also influence your physical well being.
Bodies are living machines. As with any living machine, there are knobs to pull or buttons to push. The chakras are the buttons and knobs of the human machine. Our way of living and relating to life is affected very heavily by chakra flow. Through the release of energy these exercises produce, you will become aware how really important your chakras are in life, understanding in the process how you block yourself from life and consciousness, how you enhance the present, or how, just by chakra flow, you open yourself to new things. As you tune into the chakras, let your consciousness be with them and let the energy or consciousness of the chakra answer you.

1. Physical Body-Physical Level: Heels of feet.
Stand in an area where you have plenty of room to walk around. Feel energy in your heels. Begin breathing through your hands, through your feet and through the top of your head. Be very aware of the heels. Continue to walk around, feeling energy in your feet' Walk firmly with your heels, really asserting yourself. Feel the energy flow. Many people stop the energy at their ankles, which causes foot trouble. If you wish, sit or he down and enter a meditative state; let information come to you about your heels: your assertiveness, your willingness to make your mark in the world.

Physical Body-Physical Level: Heels of hands.
Many people do not really get their hands into handshakes. Their fingers tentatively reach out and the strength of their hand is not there. Do you shake hands with your fingers? Or do you get the whole hand in there, so that the heel of your hand touches the other person's hand? Be aware of that part of your hand and how much can you get it into action. Doing this exercise with others, take turns shaking hands. How does it feel to have full handshakes?

2. Physical Body-Emotional Level: Spleen.
Relax the spleen. Ask it if you are still holding any anger from your childhood if you find some, spread it all over your body, thus diffusing it (defusing, too), making it easier to learn from and manage. As the anger moves around your body, turn it into strength and understanding.
The spleen functions in part as a safety valve for overloaded emotions. Put your awareness in the spleen area and ask about any emotional. overload; finding some, work on a healthy understanding and release situations. When you cannot work them out yourself, find a therapist to help you.

3. Physical Body-Mental Level: Tops of the shoulders (in the "V" area between the top of the shoulder bones) and the part of the pelvic bone used for sitting.
This level concerns mental attitudes you have toward your body. Massage the tops of the shoulders; really let them relax. Ask the chakras if there is some exhaustion or pain from the past that you have blocked. Sometimes we can be tired from old pain. If you find it, release the energy through your system and acknowledge it. As you let it go, turn the tiredness or physical pain energy into strength. If you feel like lead and aren't moving well, it may be due to these chakras. You can let the energy flow out in a very positive, beautiful way and feel good about your physical body.

4. Physical Body-IntuitionallCompassionate Level: Slightly below the cheekbones and near the jawbone.
Massage these areas well; if you want to wake them more, send energy into the chakras. Tune into the chakras and ask what they have to say about your body. You may feel your entire body relax.

5. Physical Body-WilllSpirit Level: Between the breasts and the breastbone.
Ask what areas of life you really put your heart into; where do you have the will to live? Then ask where you lack the will to live or where you hold back.

6. Physical Body-Soul Level: Adrenal glands, on top of the kidneys in the back.
These may be called flight or fight chakras, giving you, as necessary, the energy to fight or to get away. They relate to selfpreservation and healing. It is possible to repress so much anger in them (literally depressing the energies) that your adrenalin can no longer flow; of course this can lead to depression. Talk to your adrenal glands; ask where you should fight a little harder and where you should let go. Then ask what illness ensues from repressing your energies there.

7. Physical Body-Divine Level: Root chakra on the tailbone.
This level can bring a sense of security. Ask the chakra what adds to your security and what gives you a sense of insecurity and needs to be taken away. This level can also cleanse and harmonize your lower level energies.End the exercise of the physical body chakras by stretching all over. You may also wish to listen to music or dance to music as a way of vitalizing the energy and helping it flow. Send love and appreciation to your body.

1. Emotional Body-Physical Level: Stomach.
This chakra relates to your ability to stomach things or digest what happens to you, not just on the physical level but with your emotions. Lightly massage your stomach; relax it. Be in touch with your stomach and ask what emotions you need to digest better.

2. Emotional Body-Emotional Level: The navel.
This is the main location of our emotions and feelings. As you tune into this chakra, ask for positive, beautiful feelings that you should express more. Then ask the chakra what negative or volcanic feelings are stored there.

3. Emotional Body-Mental Level: Lower back on the spine just above the root chakra.
This chakra relates to your attitude about your feelings. Are you overly serious? Do you have a sense of humor with them? Massage the chakra and ask where in life you take yourself too seriously; ask also what you need to take more seriously.

4. Emotional Body-Intuitional/Compassionate Level: The xiphoid process, on the end of the breastbone.
In its deeper sense this chakra relates to inner direction-the still, small voice within. In its more negative sense it may relate to guilt feelings and restrictions imposed by others. Lightly massage it. Ask if you have guilt feelings that have been implanted from others. Go deeper; ask what guilt feelings you have heard from your own still, small voice. Meditate and work on any you find. This area also relates to profoundness and a deep sense of who you are and how you are to develop; it is like the seed of the self. Ask this chakra how you can be truer to your self.

5. Emotional Body-Will/Spirit Level: Below the waist on the spine.
This chakra represents an emotional will bringing strength to your feelings. Not used well, it reverses and makes you overly emotional. Massage the area and ask in what areas you need to have more positive strength from your feelings and in what areas you get too emotional.

6. Emotional Body-Soul Level: Chakras on both sides of the compassionate heart chakra.
The chakra on the left relates to your feelings about loving. Do you feel good about it? Does loving make you happy or do you feel guilty for loving? The chakra on the right side is related to mental attitudes-"1 should be loving this person," or "I shouldn't be loving this person"-and feelings of having the right to love. If your compassionate heart chakra is flowing and open you know the ones on either side of it are clear.
These chakras put conditions on your love. Massage them both; let the energy flow. Ask the left one how it puts con itions on your loving; then ask the one on the right where it puts conditions on your loving. Get the feeling of their openness. Allow the compassionate heart chakra between them to relax (see next chakra).

7. Emotional Body-Divine Level: Center of upper chest.
Massage this area; let it open up. Think of the companion chakras as relaxed and open. Do you feel secure enough within yourself to let energy flow from here in unconditional love to other people? This doesn't mean you have to like or approve of the others' thoughts or actions, only that you can love unconditionally. Ask the chakra whom you do and do not love unconditionally.

1. Mental Body-Physical Level: Lower throat just above the horseshoe.
This chakra is very important because it concerns accepting what is and organizing ways to work with it. It can release much power. Accepting does not mean you have to like it or put up with it, rather that you acknowledge and accept that something is the way it is; you then gain the power to organize and do something with it.
Take deep, peaceful breaths. Open yourself in that chakra as much as possible. Ask what two areas in life you need to accept and work with more. Also ask for ideas on how to do this. Ask for two areas in which you are doing very well and can quit hassling yourself about.

2. Mental Body-Emotional Level: The temples.
This area concerns how you feel about what you see. You may tense up and cause distortion in your vision so you see only what you want to or what you think you can handle. Massage the temples. Let the energy flow and ask the consciousness of the temples what it has blocked because you don't want to see it. Ask what you can do to see things with more clarity and depth.

3. Mental Body-Mental Level: Third eye between the eyebrows.
This eye is connected with the ego and energizes a sense of the human self. Ask this eye in what area you let too much ego fog your vision; also ask where you are doing well.

4. Mental Body-Intuitional/Compassionate Level: The center of the transverse colon about midway between the navel and solar plexus chakra.
This chakra concerns understanding your thoughts. Do you think you have the right attitudes in life? This may be another "hassle" chakra; due to unintegrated thought forms or unassimilated ideas, it may lead to constipation. Send some energy to the chakra to open it up and ask to know three areas of life in which you need to be more compassionate toward your own thoughts and ideas.

5. Mental Body-Will/Spirit Level: Upper throat, straight back under the chin and under the base of the tongue.
This chakra concerns expression of thought and speaking up. Blocked, it may cause a lack of confidence in mental abilities, choking on words, a sore throat, loss of clarity or freedom in speech. Massage the chakra. What areas of life are difficult to discuss for you? What areas are open?

6. Mental Body-Soul Level: Fifth eye (center of forehead).
The soul level of the mental body activates the higher mind and allows you to see the bigger picture. Without sufficient openness in it you will not even comprehend that there are areas of knowledge beyond your knowing. When this chakra is closed, you may feel as if you know it all but be very unaware. Massage the fifth eye. Let energy flow out. Ask where you are doing well to expand your comprehension of the bigger picture and where you are holding back.

7. Mental Body/Divine Level: Seventh eye (about 314-1 inch above the normal hairline or about 1-1114 inch from the sixth eye.
Moving your finger lightly in this area, you may feel the chakra. Massage it and ask to see a white fight from the spiritual level. If fight comes in a muddy or dark color instead, you know that you either need to develop this chakra more or go through more cleansing. If you don't see the light at all you still might be aware of its coming into the system. Let the white light from the seventh eye (whether you see it or feel it) come down and go out the third eye to cleanse and uplift the ego; then feel those energies all over your body.

1. Intuitional/Compassionate Body-Physical Level: The liver, located on the right side of the body with some under the rib cage and some extending below.
This chakra concerns acting on what you believe is spiritually right for you. Lightly massage the area. If there is any pain there, do not massage but just let energy release. Then ask to know a time when you acted on what you spiritually believed was correct for you. How did it feel? Then ask to remember some times when you felt "lily-livered" and you did not follow through.

2. Intuitional/Compassionate Body-Emotional Level: Midpoint on the outside edges of the thighs and upper arms.
These chakras concern relating to other people. Relax your upper arms and massage the chakras. Relax your thighs and massage the chakras there. Visualize the different people with whom you have relationships. Thinking of each one, do these chakras want to open or close? Because we are called upon in the New Age to be deeper and closer friends with many people, it is important to be able to relax these chakras. Practice when you are with people in whose company you habitually tighten these chakras.

3. Intuitional/Compassionate Body-Mental Level: The bottom of the breastbone just above the xiphoid process.
This chakra has much to do with whether you flow with life, reject life or become excessively attached. Energy in this chakra that becomes twisted may produce a very cynical or sharp tongue and generally make you difficult to get along with; there may be humor, but it is often so sharp that others feel cut to shreds. Massage the chakra; let it flow. Ask where you are too attached and where you are too rejecting. Then ask to know where you are doing well.

4. Intuitional/Compassionate Body-IntuitionallCompassionate Level: Between the breasts, halfway between the horseshoe and the chakras.
When this chakra is too open you may find you are overly compassionate and you are draining yourself. It is also possible to close this chakra and become hard-hearted. Remember, this is the same chakra as the divine level of the emotional body; it is incredibly important. Through it we feel unconditional love and compassion; our .intuitions function at a high level, lifting our life to a much more spiritual level. Massage the chakra. Does it feel tight, or too open? Let the energy flow and ask the chakra in what situations you are too compassionate and in what you are too hard-hearted.

5. Intuitional/Compassionate Body-Will/Spirit Level: On either side of the nose.
These are the power chakras. I sometimes call them "Native American chakras" because they concern combining the power of heaven and the power of earth to bring courage and understanding into daily fife. Massage them. You may wish to ask if you have a strong Native American past life during which these chakras were very open and well used. Then ask in what situations in this life you need more openness in these chakras. When do you block them?

6. Intuitional/Compassionate Body-Soul Level: Pupils.
It is through these chakras that you can most truly see into anothers soul and others can see into yours. If you are alone, you may wish to look in a mirror; see how deeply you can look into yourself. If you are with others, look deeply into their eyes and let them look deeply into yours. Are you embarrassed or uncomfortable, as though you were being totally bared? Many people have difficulty in truly being open from this level. To make things easier, you may wish to do this exercise looking softly. Keeping energy in your back may give you strength to go more deeply.

7. Intuitional/Compassionate Body-Divine Level: Medulla oblongata, the lower back of the head at the base of the skull.
Opening this chakra stimulates divine understanding and its awareness to being one with God. The negative side of this chakra is that you could get caught almost exclusively in an awareness of mundane fife. Massage the chakra. Where in your life do you most sense a divine plan and truly feel a oneness with God? You may feel a peaceful bliss awareness. Then ask the chakra where you block destiny; this will sometimes elicit an "oh-oh" response.

1. Will/Spirit Body-Physical Level: Palms of hands and soles of feet.
Energy from here helps a person relate with the outside world. These are some of the strongest locations for healing energy. Massage the hands and feet. Let the energy flow out of each of the chakras. Where does it seem most blocked? Walk around for a few moments (barefoot is best), feeling the energy connecting with the floor or earth. Be aware how the rest of your body reacts; usually there is a sense of coming alive. You may then wish to sit down and open the energy more in your hands. Hold your hands out four to eight inches from your body, then move them over your body and feel energy from the palms of your hands relaxing and healing your body. You may notice more energy if you hold the right hand over the leftside of the body, then left hand over the right side of the body; this provides an extra polarity and may increase the energy.

2. Will/Spirit Body-Emotional Level: Backs of knees and insides of elbows.
Many people have emotional concerns-fear, a sense of inadequacy-about using the powerful will/ spirit body. Enter a meditative state and massage behind your knees and inside your elbows. What frightens you or makes you uneasy? Visualize yourself doing well in these situations, and the energy flowing out in a beautiful, healthy way.

3. Will/Spirit Body-Mental Level: Armpits and where legs connect on the front side of the body.
Massage these chakras. Be careful not to massage any swollen lymph glands too hard (most people are too ticklish under their arms to massage that deep). Let the energy flow. Feel the strength in your body, a sense of power and spirit as it flows through your entire body when these areas are opened up. You may wish to walk around for a few moments, feeling these chakras open and flowing. Then enter a meditative state and visualize yourself using these places of power to help you in your daily life.

4. Will/Spirit Body-Intuitional/Compassionate Level: About an inch below the crotch.
See the seventh level of this body, of which this chakra is a companion.

5. Will/Spirit Body-Will/Spirit Level: Power sex chakra, two chakras below navel.
This is the most intense of the sex chakras and concerns not only sexuality, but sexual energy as it is turned into power. Many people block this chakra off without realizing it. Enter a meditative state and massage. Be as honest with yourself as you can. Do you like to control others? Do you feel you do so? If so, is it in a healthy or unhealthy manner? Do you like controlling others with your sexual energies? When have you let others control you with theirs? After finishing the meditation, feel the peaceful, beautiful and strong energies coming from the chakra and develop an awareness of how they affect the rest of your life.

6. Will/Spirit Body-Soul Level: Behind crown chakra at top of head.
A depression at the top of the back of the head may indicate that your pineal gland is working very well. Sometimes this chakra is open like a small dish. It aids in communication with higher dimensions and obtaining bliss states. Massage the chakra; let energy flow. Using deep peaceful breaths, get the feeling of floating in your body, then ask to be open to the bliss state. This may take some practice. Upon finishing the meditation, bring the energy back into your body and let your entire body feel a state of bliss. Stretch very wen so that you connect your energies together (bliss may be nice but it is a difficult base to function from sometimes). Because of the power of this exercise, do not stay in it for more than a few minutes in the beginning

7. Will/Spirit Body-Divine Level: Four fingers' width above the crown chakra.
This chakra, smaller than the crown chakra, is where human and spiritual energies combine. From a very comfortable positionlying down is best-be aware of the area above your head and the area below the crotch (the level four chakra of this body). Let the energies spiral outwards from these chakras. Experiment with the direction of the spiraling. When the energies have flowed for a few moments, enter a peaceful meditative state. Ask to be connected to the cosmos energy. Do not stay in this exercise for more than a few minutes in the beginning as it can be quite powerful. When your meditation is complete, stretch well.

1. Soul Body-Physical Level: Four chakras; on the instep of each foot and on the thumb side of the wrists.
These chakras concern the action of your I-AMness. They help bring consciousness to your hands and feet so you can be more aware of your actions. Here you can walk with a firmer step, taking action from your soul level. (There is a prayer I like for this level to bring you strength, awareness and direction: ask that the soul come in and work through your personality in your body.) Massage these chakras; ask which situations seem to block them and your I-AMness. Which situations facilitate opening?

2. Soul BodylEmotional Level: Above the knees on the insides of the legs and just above the elbows on the insides of the arms.
These chakras relate to your feelings about your I-AMness or soul level. When they are blocked you tend to pull your arms closer to your body and your knees will generally be weak. Massage these areas. Let the energy flow through them and ask the strength of your soul energy to refine and cleanse your emotions. Ask what makes you close these chakras and what helps you open them.

3. Soul Body-Mental Level: On the front where the legs join the body just on the inside of the curve, and on the front edges of your armpits.
These I-AMness chakras allow you to open up to the more transcendent part of life and things that normally go beyond everyday living. It brings energy for exploring and perceiving new ways of being. Massage the chakras. Ask them where you could be more exploratory in life and where you have done well.

4. Soul Body-Intuitional/Compassionate Level: At the front of the gonads-the ovaries or testicles.
The energy from these chakras helps you feel and understand your polarity identity (maleness or femaleness). Its purpose is important, as so much of life is based on interaction between polarities. As we open up to our polarities, we function better. Be in appreciation of your polarity identity. Let the energy of the ovaries or testicles flow. You may feel some sexual feelings but that's all right. People need to be as relaxed and accepting of sexuality as they are of feelings, thoughts and spiritual energies. Many people are embarrassed about discussing polarity identity. Our inability to accept and work with polarity energy holds us back in many areas. Where do you hold back yours? Do you feel that you are not male or female enough? Where are you doing well with these energies?

5. Soul Body-Will/Spirit Level: Lower ribs.
These are companion chakras to the xiphoid process, relating to your place in the world and particularly concerning your willpower to take the breath of life, own the right to be, express through breathing and accomplish what you wish in life. Open your lungs. Give them space and really breathe. Massage these chakras and get the feeling that your whole chest comes up from them, that you do have the right to breathe. Then ask the consciousness of these chakras when you block them and when you open them.

6. Soul Body-Soul Level: On the side of the neck as it curves into the body.
These chakras relate strongly to self-respect and are very powerful. Closing them off may bring tension or lock in an attitude of pride. Fear of really allowing your I-AMness to come out can cause you to pull in your head turtle-style, an action which affects these chakras. Let the chakras be open and ask yourself where you need to relax to facilitate your ability to come from your I-AMness. Ask in which situations you tend to block this flow or open it.

7. Soul Body-Divine Level: Above the ears, on the sides of the head behind the temples.
These chakras relate to feeling yourself as a unit of God's consciousness connected with the universe. Blocked or non-functioning, they can leave you feeling isolated, alone and fearful of life. Some forms of mental illness affect these chakras. Massage them; let the energy flow. Let yourself be lifted up and feel yourself one with God, a unit of God's energy and consciousness. You are an individuated unit of consciousness, an individuated part of oneness. Be aware of the energy and spread it all over your body; then ask which situations help you feel this energy and which situations block it.

1. Divine Body-Physical Level: Twenty Locations; the ends of the fingers and toes.
The energy from these chakras can be used to heal and as little antennas to know when something is in front of you. Massage your toes and fingers to promote energy flow through the chakras. Take deep peaceful breaths and feel yourself becoming more connected with the energy around you. In what ways do these flowing chakras increase your awareness?

2. Divine Body-Emotional Level: In the center of the back of the head.
A person in a prayer state channels more energy out of this chakra than out of the crown chakra. Bowing to others-an energy of respect-also opens this chakra; so bow your head and let energies flow out the devotional chakra. Are you comfortable doing this? Some people find that this chakra is excessively open and that they may be devoted to others or to a cause out of balance with the rest of life. Or they may find that it is closed, in which case bowing the head might be uncomfortable and they may wish to find out where their minds are closed. Do you project your faults onto others? Are you plagued by feelings of paranoia? Massage the chakra. Let a peaceful flow of energy go from it and let yourself be devoted to your destiny, to oneness with others, the cosmos and to your divine source. After a few moments of this meditation let the energy permeate your entire body and return your head to an upright position.

3. Divine Body-Mental Level: just inside the pelvic bones above where the legs join the body, down on the corners of the belly area.
Expressing thankfulness is a necessary part of a healthy life. Closed divine body-mental level chakras may cause problems with your intestines. Massage these areas, let the chakras be open and let the energy flow. Ask where you need to be more thankful in life and where you need to open up more to abundance. You may wish to spend a few moments just being thankful for everything.

4. Divine Body-Intuitional/Compassionate Level: Solar plexus.
This chakra is one of the most important at the beginning of the Aquarian Age, a time when we have so much freedom of choice. Massage the solar plexus chakra. Breathe into it and ask to know what you are blocking. Then ask to know where in life you should take more control and action.

5. Divine Body-Will/Spirit Level: At the base of the throat where the bones form the shape of a horseshoe.
Sometimes people are asked to do more for others than they are comfortable doing. Or people may demonstrate an excessive need to serve. It is easy to feel martyred from this chakra. Lightly massage it. Let the energy flow out and, with your consciousness in that chakra, ask where in life you feel martyred or are excessive about service. Also ask where in life you hold back.

6. Divine Body-Soul Level: On either side of the navel.
These chakras are companions to the navel. They help unify the body's energies with both divine energies and other people. Massage the chakras; then massage the navel to achieve a balanced flow. Let energies flow out. Where in life are you involved in an excessive search for oneness with others and where do you block a oneness with others? As energy flows out of these chakras, meditate on your relationships with other people and cosmic levels.

7. Divine Body-Divine Level: On top of the head-crown chakra.
This is one of the best known chakras. It has great importance in our growth and connectedness with higher levels. Massage your crown chakra. Feel the top of your head. Is it tight? Open it up and let the energy flow out. As it flows, feel a oneness with others and with your divine source. Put yourself in a meditative attitude with this chakra and be aware of energy changes, insights or spiritual experiences. When this chakra is excessively open you may feel a great outpouring of energy; in this case it is best to bring the energy down around your body and all or some of it back, diffusing it throughout your entire body for strength. Excessive flow from the crown chakra may weaken a person. If yours is excessively open, ask yourself what circumstances in your life caused this condition. It may be a fear of being human, or it may come from times of excessive anger.

Sounds in Kundalini Movement

Sound is a very important part of life. It activates energy patterns, releases blocks and increases the life flow. It also plays an important part in the release of Kundalini and the opening of chakras. Continued vibrations at a particular frequency create movement in the energy they touch; as certain sounds can shatter a glass, certain vibrations will activate the flow of energy in areas related to the same frequency.

Mantras

The following are Sanskrit words or mantras (thought forms) which relate to the chakras. Repeat these particular sounds five to ten times while concentrating on the related chakra. Several minutes for each in the beginning is sufficient. Either sit in the lotus position or lie down. Take three complete breaths before beginning. (It is all right to spend a longer time on some chakras than on others.)

Root-Lam

Sexual-Vam

Navel-Ram

Heart-Yam

Throat-Ham

Fifth Eye-Om

Crown-Aum

As a variation for the crown chakra, open up to "all sounds," or the hum of the universe. If you wish to visualize the seed mantras, the Jain version of the Sanskrit is shown below.

This is an excellent exercise for cleansing and vitalizing chakras and moving Kundalini. It is strong enough to cause a person to become sleepy or lose interest in completing the exercise; for that reason I recommend that only two chakras, the navel and crown, be used the first time. Add other chakras as your attention can handle it. At times the energy itself may pick the chakras it wishes to work on; let this happen. When finished, diffuse the energy throughout the body; never leave it concentrated on one area.
Omit the root chakra until all others are activated; doing the root before the others are open poses great difficulties, as there would be too many blocks and the main force would go down-not helpful to evolutionary progress.
Bring the energy up from the lower spine and out the opening of the chakra with which you have chosen to start. If the area feels stiff or blocked, massage it. Visualize a red flame burning out all the dross and negativity in the chakra, cleansing it for purer energy flow. There may be a variety of sensations, remembrances or thoughts; let them come, but do not hang onto or pay much attention to them. Let the red flame bum them and purify the area. The emotional or mental energies in some of the chakras will seem almost overpowering, especially for any of a sexual, emotional or lower mental nature. Do not let them take over. Visualize the red flame cleansing them.
After the burning, you may feel the energy begin to rotate in a clockwise manner (if looking at the body from the outside). Let this happen; the chakra is beginning its circular motion. After it has rotated for a few moments, let it extend out, still rotating, as far as possible. Even if the rotating sensation is not there, let the energy expand anyway and extend until it reaches the blissful state. Imagine your breath going through that at chakra.
In the beginning, remain in this blissful state for no longer than five minutes. The energy is very high powered and your system is probably not used to it, no matter how good it feels. Remember, if you begin to feel tired, sleepy or bored, let the energy diffuse throughout the system and then quit for this time; do not do this exercise when you have trouble keeping interested or staying awake.
After finishing, let the energy disperse into the universe. Do not bring it back into the chakra; it is too powerful. Go on to the next chakra. It is best to start with the lower chakras and go up. At times it will seem natural to skip some that are normally done and go on to others. Eventually, do them all as described above. After doing the crown chakra, mix some of the energy with spiritual energy and let it shower over the body and come into the cells.
When all chakras have been cleansed and vitalized by the flame and the blissful state, do the root chakra. After that make sure to bring the energy back into the spine and up and out the crown chakra, mixing it with spiritual energy and letting it shower over the body and through the cells. No matter how many chakras you do, always end with the crown chakra; you need the balance of the energy force. If you do the lower chakras last, the energy may get stuck there. Too heavy a concentration of energy in this area may cause physical, mental and emotional problems.
You may notice after a while that the three main focal points for energr-the navel, heart and fifth eye chakras-continue to clean themselves. Some may find that their third eye (between the eyebrows), activates instead. When the spontaneous cleansing occurs, do not interfere; open up to the energies. If possible, also take time for the blissing, a blessing and recharging force.
You may end this exercise by diffusing the energies in the body or taking them to the crown chakra and combining them with the divine energies, letting the combination shower over your system.