CHAKRA MEDITATION

 

All healing work must begin and end with psychic protection, and it must be very deliberate.

If you want an example of do as I say not as I do, I neglected to close down my chakras during a long day of writing this post. I’d been imagining hopping in and out of the outer chakras to check what I’d written, hadn’t really considered it like meditation (which of course it was, just in another form) and had simply gone and made the tea.

My sleep was disturbed for three days.

I call it downloading… where my brain hops in and out of books I’ve read, conversations I’ve had and scans to work out where I need to take a piece of work next.

In and out of Akashic records, ugh… not pleasant and a stupid, stupid mistake.

Incidentally, if this does happen to you, use valerian and hop the next night to shut off your mind.

It’s like being given an anesthetic. You will have a black hole where your dreams were the night before, but at least you’ll have slept. These essential oils are fabulous, but many don't like the aroma. If this is you, the pharmacist will usually be able to sell it to you in tablet form for a couple of pounds.

But, if you want to stay calm and well, heed the warning, always open and close down properly.

Now, hopefully, also you will have grasped the futility of balancing just one chakra, because it is highly unlikely one problem exists in isolation.

Other chakras overact to compensate for underdeveloped ones etc.

So, the most effective chakra meditation you can do is a simple run up and down the colors. I do seven, but if you get clever, or course you can integrate the outer chakras too, as you develop.

 

• Sit or lie thoughtfully.
• The most effective position is to be cross legged on the floor, but you could also sit in a high-backed chair or lie on the bed.
• It’s important you find a way to have a straight spine and that your root chakra has contact with something solid to ground you. Ideally you will be sat on the floor or a cushion or will have contact with the floor through your back if you are lying down.
• Start by bringing your attention to breath, so create a slow deliberate rhythmic cycle.
• I teach my patients two different ways, so they can choose which works best for them.
• Either, breathe in a “square”: …in for 2, hold for 2, out for 2, hold for 2.
• Or breathe in for 4, out for 8 (I find this one easier than holding my breath with empty lungs!.)
• It will take about 8 rounds for your lungs to pick up the rhythm and start to be automatic.
• Ideally, you’d continue with that pattern throughout your chakra work, but it’s difficult to focus on more than one thing at once, so if you find you need to change to simple deep breathing when you do your “lights” that’s fine too.
• Now, slowly, one by one, see the lights appearing.
• A red light at the base…
• Watch it. Observe it. Focus on it. Try to make it brighter, larger, rounder and more vibrant.
• Know they misbehave, especially if you haven’t meditated before. They move, and change color.
• Don’t get frustrated. Accept it, and gently relocate it and change it back to red.
• When you feel happy that the root has been vitalized, move up to orange.
• Keep the red root chakra shining and allow the orange to sit above it.
• Try and keep both colors correct.
• If they play monkey mind, go back to the base, make it red, then do orange. That’s much easier than trying to change both at the same time.
• Next, we’re adding the solar plexus, so we are going, red, orange, yellow…
• Carry on up carefully, until you have seven beautiful colors with white above your head.
• When you’re happy it’s steady, see the white light pouring out, surrounding you, and then proceed to clean off the aura (see above), and close yourself down.
• A full chakra balancing usually takes around twenty minutes but a quick five minutes work, if you’re rushed, will be better than not doing it at all.

 

 

LAYING OUT A CRYSTAL GRID

If you manage to attain a good number of crystals, then a crystal grid will make you feel like you’ve never felt before and snaps chakras into place very quickly.

The sensation is very strange and other worldly, but it is a highly effective method.

It’s easier to grid someone else than it is to do it yourself, because it can feel like you’re trying to bury yourself in the sand on the beach, but with thought, it can be done.

 

• Quartz crystal rods with pointed ends are your best friends here. You’ll need four small ones (like the ones you use as pendulums) for each chakra and then eight larger wands.
• Place the eight large ones around the body, on the floor.
• Place three down each side and one each at the head and feet. They should be like arrows pointing inwards towards the body.
• Next starting at the root chakra, place your chakra crystal into its corresponding place on the body, then place the four quartz rods round it, pointing inwards to the chakra.
• Work up the body, placing the sacral, with its four rods, then the solar plexus etc.
• Ideally, you’d do a chakra meditation like this, but you may find the crystals seem to completely wipe your mind.
• It’s fine and completely normal. It’s doing its job. Just lie quietly and enjoy feeling as if you are floating in space.