Guest guest Report post Posted March 18, 2009 There are many highly effective ways to work with your chakras -- Easy to learn, easy to do, and inexpensive to learn about. Get Donna Eden's Energy Medicine book, around $18 at the bookstore... cheaper on Amazon.com if you are willing to buy a used book. Her book is reader friendly and has many drawings to illustrate the skills, none of which are complicated or difficult to understand or difficult to do. You can take her instruction courses which will run into some dollars, but even if you never do that, and even if you never order any other books, DVDs or information from her, that one book will give you a massive amount of understanding about the chakras, about meridian energy, auric fields, and your psychology/psyche & physiology, and ways to alleviate physical, emotional, and mental stress - pain - traumas, and so much more. Are you in fear or so highly agitated and can't think strait -- two different extremely easy drills will help you with that. One will turn off the flight or flight state and shut down all the stress chemicals the adrenals are pumping out. The other will help bring the blood back to the frontal cortex (your rational thinking part of the brain) and away from the gut instict reactive primal brain. Those are just two of hundreds of things you will learn just from that one book. She is very strong on how-to information thus enabling you to work with healing yourself (and on others as well.) at many levels. If you physical heart is in stress, she tells you which finger can be squeezed as it is an major accupuncure/accupressure point on the meridian line feeding the heart and heart chakra. For emotional pain in the heart/heart chakra ( " heart break " and " heart ache " from the betrayal by a spouse or lover, or death of a loved one, etc.) she gives exercises to help with that. You can also watch a lot of information, including how to trace the entire meridian system in just minutes, on you-tube. The meridians (energy flow lines) and chakras (energy nexus) are interconnected so working with the meridian energy will help your chakras. She also shows how to work on the chakras directly. On her website there is a phenomenal amount of free information given in short articles. She has a five minute daily routine of things to do to get your entire energy system, including chakras, in balance and working in peak condition so as facilitate health and vitality in your body. She also has a separate course on color but gives some information in the book above mentioned. Any one of the exercises in this routine is helpful, doing them all makes you feel really alvie and alert and energized. And after you get the routine down, it can be done a little quicker than five minutes. Donna Eden - 5 Min. Energy Routine About color, go here. This is one of many execellent articles by Dr. Klinghardt (he has some great insights and information on autism for those interested). This article deals with how light and color affect us and how it can be used for healing. The Neurophysiology of Light, The Five Pathways I am not one of those " born " psychics, healers, or intuitives you read about -- I did not have one of those " near death " experience where I came back with special skills, knowledge, or awareness ---- I am just an ordinary person who has learned to sensitize myself to subtle energy. Over time I have developed the ability to scan the body and feel the condition of each chakra and work with it to restore balance, or unblock stuck energy, or move out negative energy patterns. And because I have so many interests, I did not concentrate on this interest alone. Those that have given it more time and effort have become much more skilled than me. The point here is that all of us have these skills and sensitivity as an innate but undeveloped unrecognized potential and can develop them. My skills are primarily kinesthetic -- I feel the chakras by scanning the body with my hands about six inches out from the body. There are others who can actually see them; usually this entails getting into an alpha brain wave pattern and defocussing the eyes. We generally are used to using the five senses by which we are cognizant of much stimuli hitting us. Different critters (bats, butterflys, owls, snakes) all have sense receptors more finally tuned so they can see/access electro-magnetic stimuli -- with their physical receptors they see what we cannot (eg: infra red or ultra violet) hear what we cannot (think dog whistles) sense temperature changes too subtle for us to detect. Etc. Etc. But by developing our " susper sensible " abilities (which are not operative through our normal usage of our normal sense receptors) we too can perceive a wider range of energy than otherwise. Had I read Eden's book when I first began my journey into energy healing, I would have saved years of work to get where I am now. She just gives so much information and makes it so simple to learn body healing. Again, the point of saying this is to highlight that anybody can develop these sensitivities and aquire both the knowledge and skill to work with the energy body. Like riding a bycycle, you get more adept as you work with it. Some just learn to stay balanced on the bike, some learn to do wheelies and other skills. Same with energy work, the more you do it the more skilled you can become. And you don't need me or any other person with sensitivity to give testimony that chakras exist; we now have energy sensitive instruments that show they exist, show their location, measure their size and electrical potential. There are innumerable studies that have been done and many different instruments developed capable or recording the presence of chakras and other energy systems. About positive energy, negative energy: Perhaps nobody explains the effect of positive or negative thinking more thoroughly, more scientifically, and at a level any layman can understand, and is also such a dynamic speaker that he is a delight to listen to as does Bruce Lipton. You can watch on you-tube how your positive or negative thoughts can actually change your cell functions, fetal neurology and physiology, and the neuro-peptides or harmones floating around in your body. Check out his Biology of Perception 1 thru 7 YouTube - bruce lipton In my way of thinking, its really important to know about the importance of nutrient dense foods, the importance of vitamins and minerals and enzymes, about chemical pollutants in our every day surroundings (like out-gassing rugs or bisphenol A in baby bottles), about some of the lessor know pathogens, and etc. that either build or destroy health. But without understanding the energy systems, we don't have the complete picture. Doctors too often today specialize on just one area of knowledge and forget to look at the whole of us as mental, emotional, physical, psycho-spiritual organs with many levels of energetic functioning. Hope this helps -- g Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites