How to evaluate your Chakras?

[Silent Whisper]

Greetings,

I've read all five volumes of the Law of One, as well as the Wanderer's Handbook and Living the Law of One and I'm trying to put into practice what I've learned.

I can grasp most of the concepts but I struggle with the Chakras. How do you tell if you have a blockage in a specific Chakra? I'm assuming it's not a physical sensation, or is it?

I've read the theoretical part, regarding what each Chakra represents, but I'm struggling with the practical part of determining which Chakras are blocked or distorted.

Do you have any tricks or techniques that you use? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for reading!

[Minyatur]

I tend to not rationalize this area of work. I detect blockages through physical feelings and unveil their meaning through contemplating the feeling until thoughts emerge.

They block the flow of energy within yourself so it makes sense to me to detect them through feeling.

[AnthroHeart]

The heart chakra is my favorite. When it's fully open I feel unconditional love with a physical feeling for everything. It's amazing. But it's only happened once.

[Jade]

The method I used was this: I studied the chakras, esp. LoO and Q'uo channelings, and some Eastern philosophies, regarding the process of unblocking them and understanding what emotions and events in my life correspond to which chakras. I also studied which gemstones interact with which chakras. Eventually, it did become something I can definitely "feel" physically in meditation, I can manually move through them, starting at the red ray, and feel where the blockages are, and work through them. It's a gradual process and you will do it differently than anyone else, likely. Intent is the main thing, followed by awareness of utilizing catalyst and learning to "seat" it in the chakra that it is emerging from.

Do you meditate? This would be step one. Step two would be to take the desire to understand your chakras more into your meditation sessions. Your path of learning should follow from there.

[1109]

Distortions in chakras will manifest in your feelings, thoughts and actions. Meditate and analyze. I recommend everything in the Ra Material that concerns the balancing exercises. I can also recommend the books by author Anodea Judith. I'm currently reading her book Eastern body Western mind and the information in that book fits well with LOO.

[AnthroHeart]

I don't use my breath to meditate like others do. Does this mean I'm wrong? Meditation can be a tool, but it takes so much effort for so little gain. Even enlightenment. It's not the end all be all. Chop wood, carry water before and after enlightenment.

[Silent Whisper]

I'm new at this and still feeling my way around. Over the past few weeks, I've been working on including meditation in my daily routine. I've been doing something similar for years, but I just called it "unwinding after work" as I wasn't trying to achieve anything and was just enjoying silence, so to speak. I'd usually be on the couch with the TV off and maybe a cat on my lap and would close my eyes for a few minutes, relax, and appreciate life.

Lately, I've felt there's more to do and have been opening my mind to new things and part of those include the shift to 4th density and the need to raise our consciousness, strive for "higher vibrations", etc. This is mainly why I inquire about Chakras as I think part of the answer lies there.

Basically, I'm trying to figure out if there's something I could do or should do to help increase the light, or is just being nice to everybody good enough?

I wouldn't call it meditation per se, but every day after work or before bed, I review the day in my mind. At first, I didn't really do anything about it except use the time to ponder what I would do if the same thing happened again.

Now, after accepting that a metaphysical world exists outside this physical world, and coming to the realization that my thoughts are not necessarily private and that other entities can feel and maybe read them, I'm striving to be better and show it through my actions. I know that can't hurt, but is that really helping bring more light? ok, maybe i'm over thinking things again...

BTW thank you so much for your insightful responses!

[Minyatur]

I think to bring more light is to bring more love.

You can become a vessel of love and light through learning to love yourself and what you are more and more, just as loving others and what they are more and more, just as loving the world that surrounds you and what it is more and more. Through the constant energy transfers of which we take part, you'll turn into higher vibration the energy that passes through you.

I think the key to STO polarization is acceptance, because in acceptance there's a desire to understand and in full understanding there is only love to find.

[Minyatur]

About chakras, a notion I found helpful which was said on this forum is to think of them as vortexes. That way you start to think of it as expanding the vortexes and moving energy between them which helps to become aware of your field.

I was extremely cut off from this and took me quite a while to get results, now it'd be strange to go back to having all of them closed up as they were.

[Stranger]

You are asking terrific questions, Silent Whisper! Let me do my best to answer them, as someone who's been working on this for a decade and a half.

Your initial question is about chakras. The state of your chakras represents, broadly speaking, the extent to which you are emotionally in harmony with yourself and everything that comprises your world. So while there are exercises for clearing chakras, I find the most effective approach to be this: work towards increasing that harmony, and your chakras will follow.

Being nice to others is certainly a part of it, but even more important is your inner emotional state. Your soul is here to learn to maintain inner peace regardless of circumstances. Everything that happens is ultimately practice (in Ra's terminology, catalyst) for you to learn that. So, being nice to others while seething inside is certainly better than lashing out at others -- and can indeed be very difficult; but it is better still to learn to find and maintain inner peace regardless of what one encounters, and recover quickly when one loses it.

Meditation, fasting, chanting mantras, prayer, etc. - any activity that temporarily stops mental chatter and focuses one's mind on the spiritual - builds up a reserve of inner peace. Maintaining it throughout the course of daily life and its catalyst requires remaining mindful and regulating one's emotional state moment to moment -"living meditation". Think of it as a fuel gage in your car: Full after meditation, Empty by the end of a tough day at work, for example. As we learn to handle life more gracefully, with acceptance and faith, our inner peace reserve remains full, and grows - and with it, our joy grows.

There are many things about spirituality that are wonderful but more peripheral - crystals, out of body experiences, Reiki, etc. But the process I've described I truly believe to be the key. Do this, and everything else follows more or less automatically. Maybe that is why it's the central teaching of all religions, including Ra's messages to mankind. Good luck and many blessings on your journey!

[Minyatur]

Oh yeah, contemplation does wonders. To just let yourself impregnate glory is how I see it. Also is to build up a reserve of inner peace.

[anagogy]

From my perspective, there is a far more organic way to balance your energy centers than trying to metaphysically manipulate each one and it is simply analyzing your emotional state.

Every experiences that you have is run through the gauntlet of your energy center gateway system, from red upwards until it hits a blockage.  So your first response to a experience will be how it may continue to sustain survival, then how it relates to the personal, the social, in terms of empathy, in terms of free communication, in terms of how it relates to the universal, and then in terms of the sacred divine.  If you don't have blockages for the lower energy centers then the considerations of those vibrational levels will generally occur below the threshold of conscious awareness and you will not be greatly aware of them.

Anyway, the point is, each of these blockages will manifest on the emotional continuum.  Having said that, the emotional continuum is relative to you, and you only.  For example, one person's emotional state will not necessarily represent the same blockage or unblockage as that of others, because we are all at different places of development.  Someone who is vibrating in depression will find a state like anger to actually be more positive than someone who was vibrating in frustration because to the person in depression, anger is actually less blocked energetically.  To a person vibrating in frustration, boredom would be slightly more positive.  So you see, what feels negative or positive is completely relative to where you dwell energetically on a day to day vibrational continuum of beingness.

The next thing to understand is that these blockages occur as a result of your conscious and unconscious thoughts.  Your emotions are your direct awareness of the blockage or free flow of energy caused by what you place your attention on consciously and subconsciously.  Subconscious thoughts are just conscious thoughts that you got so used to thinking that you think them without even being aware of it anymore.  So some soul searching is generally in order to see the limitations in your perception.  The reflection of others input is helpful as well in this regard as others often point out the gaps in our perspective.

Also, don't get too hung up on the "locations" of chakras.  The nature of all consciousness is that it is ultimately pure subjective energy which is formless.  As the energy steps down (or outwards if you prefer) from the core of self, it becomes more "objective" or "projected outwards".  So for example, your dreams are your projection of subjective energy into "objective symbols".  So what we call the "objective" is really a quasi subjective illusion.  In reality, there is no "objective world".  What we call "objective realities" are "consensus realities".  But a consensus reality is just a subjective reality with multiple perspectives averaging themselves out (which stem from an even greater purely subjective state).  Anyway, my point is, that location is an illusion.  The locations of "chakras" are symbolic in nature -- the result of pure or raw subjective energy translating itself down to its best objective symbolic manifestation.

If that sounds too confusing, simply realize that physical reality is just a very tangible dream, and as a dream, all tangible qualities in that dream are expressions of deeper underlying reality that, of itself, does not have form.  It is like if I asked you to paint a picture of "love", what images would you use to "reflect" that?  So all physical forms, all tangible forms, are simply virtualizations of processes in consciousness, that you are simply translating in a tangible way.

So with this discussion what is the best way to "balance your chakras"?  Well from my perspective it is honestly working through your own experiences, emotionally, in clear and focused way.  Focus on those things that make your heart sing with joy.  Be optimistic.  Assume the best, rather than the worst.  Don't put too much pressure on yourself.  Leisure time is not wasted time.  Get enough sleep.  Eat foods that make you feel great.  Listen to music that raises you up emotionally.  Learn that your mind is a tool that may used positively or negatively, and using that tool 24/7 will burn you out.  Sometimes balancing is best brought about by simply being aware of the present moment.  Don't analyze, just be.  I can't count the number of times I unblocked myself by simply focusing on the NOW.  Look for the bliss in things that you previously thought were only painful.  I've made headaches/toothaches go away by learning to love the pain, and finding the bliss in it.  You can heal yourself by changing your perspective in this way.  

[And on the subject of diet, you can learn to "feel out" what foods are the most nutritious for your particular vibrational makeup.  You don't have to rely on the topsy turvy shifting tides of nutritional sentiment to understand what will make your body thrive.]

If you have physical actions to take care of during the day, try to spend some time getting yourself into a good mood, before you do them.  They will be a hundred times more effective because all actions are simply after effects, or manifestations, of your core vibrational state.  You are always acting from inspiration, the question is: what vibrational level is that inspiration coming from?  Is it coming from a vibrational place of frustration, or a vibrational place of peace?  I repeat, your actions which you think are a wholly conscious act, are simply after-effects.  So use your mind to get into desirable emotional state, and then do whatever you need to do.

"Healing occurs when a mind/body/spirit complex realizes, deep within itself, the Law of One; that is, that there is no disharmony, no imperfection; that all is complete and whole and perfect. Thus, the intelligent infinity within this mind/body/spirit complex re-forms the illusion of body, mind, or spirit to a form congruent with the Law of One."

 

[Silent Whisper]

I just wanted to thank you all for responding and giving me some food for thought. It is very helpful.

Cheers!

[Plenum]

How do you tell if you have a blockage in a specific Chakra?

The best way is to observe consciousness.  This is a feedback mechanism that everyone has access to.  Depending on experience and training, one may then be able to pinpoint the nature of the blockage/non-acceptance to a specific area in the body.

I'm assuming it's not a physical sensation, or is it?

It can be, depending on the severity of the blockage.  

I've read the theoretical part, regarding what each Chakra represents, but I'm struggling with the practical part of determining which Chakras are blocked or distorted.

I think the best way to view the energy centres is that they are an interface between consciousness and expressed matter.  That is, it is how the mind 'manifests' the body, and it's concurrent conditions.  Emotions and Feelings are things guaranteed to 'move' the energy centres one way or another; in the same way they throw ripples in one's linear thinking.  Once feelings and emotions are triggered by 'experience', then one's thought process shifts into a different gear.  There is more 'potential' available once feelings and emotions are discerned.  

Do you have any tricks or techniques that you use? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

My feeling is that putting the energy centres on a psychological footing, rather than a physical/energetic one yields the greatest amount of self-empowerment.  Not everyone is able to'feel' their energy centres, as physical sensation, but everyone can observe the motions of their mind.  It wasn't until I came across Ra's explanation of the energy centres that I was able to find a place for the 'chakras' in my life.  Because all the other explanations I had come across didn't provide this holistic, mental/emotional/spiritual linkage and set it in a developmental framework.  They were just abstract funnels of light.

if you haven't yet read it, Carla wrote a great introductory text called: Living the Law of One 101, which will give this psychological foundation for the energy centres.

The PDF of it is freely available online; or purchasable in physical book form from the L/L Research Store.  

[AnthroHeart]

Obsession over something indicates a blockage in which chakra?

[Plenum]

well, there's all kinds of obsessions, but if we're talking about obsessive-compulsive type disorders, in the more clinical sense, then to me that indicates an orange-ray issue.  The reason is that orange-ray deals with self-acceptance, and if something about oneself cannot be integrated, then 'looping patterns' form around the issue, which stop the mind from actually getting closer to the problem.  It's like everytime the mind starts getting closer to thinking about the 'real issue', it gets caught up in the protective encircling psychological pattern.  This can play out as washing one's hands- to stop thinking possible 'danger' (disease, illness, unseen threats).  The Aviator (movie about Howard Hughes shows this connection very clearly).

Or any other types of repeating behaviour - whether it's a physical action, or the mind just rolling around in looped patterns/scenarios, without ever resolving, or leading to an actual experienced outcome.  That's because the pattern is defensive in nature, and not about trying to resolve something.  It's meant to keep the mind from actually getting to the real issue, which is too 'hard' to accept or acknowledge.  So it becomes a personal acceptance issue.  The actual thing that can't be 'accepted' can actually be quite benign, and non-harmful - to an outsider.  But to the person - it has some threatening component, that threatens their currently constructed worldview, and so it has to be filed away, and not seen or approached with the conscious mind.  It, however, will throw up constant reminders that it exists.  Hence the triggering of the defensive patterns depending on the severity of the 'blockage'.

[AnthroHeart]

I find comfort in my obsession (anthros) that I don't want to let it go. Although I don't obsess every day. I don't think it's compulsive.

[Verum Occultum]

From my perspective...

Anagogy! I really admire your wisdom. I learned many things from your writing. Well said.

[Verum Occultum]

well, there's all kinds of...

Well said!

[BlatzAdict]

umm what took me out of the logical aspect was not treating the mind, body or spirit complexes as separate but as one thing through which the soul interfaces to participate in this reality.

You should be able to feel tingles in each associated location of the body corresponding with each chakra. at first i could not feel it unless it was out of my third eye.

you are taking the same exact path a lot of us went through figuring it out as we go, with the visualization and emotional themes. at some point you stop needing to go through a check list and it's more just a feeling, a centeredness not necessarily in extreme joy or extreme pain, more like this emptiness that you see as an extension of you.

then it becomes needing to will light into situations, like i have to tell myself to have fun if i'm going to play a video game otherwise i just see the illusory nature of it, and then i dont want to do anything at all. so i have to make the conscious decision i'm doing this to allow myself further deeper uncomfortable lessons to face more parts of myself that i have neglected that need healing.

then you get to this point where you've gone through every theme constantly and it becomes this sort of... your entire personality changes and starts to become more like your higher 6th density self.

[Indigo Blue Dragonfly]

Silent Whisperer:

You are being given a lot of great information from everyone! Very valuable. I am not a chakra expert. However, I agree with all who have mentioned checking in with your feelings to determine where you may have blockages.

The meditation is important. Yes, you can skip it but you will gain if you go on through and do it. This will build you on many levels.

The book - Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith is sitting right here on my desk. You might like it too.

I have experienced clearings from great energy healers and I have seen others have this happen also. However, it seems like it is temporary - the problem will return if not also healed and cleared by the entity itself.

Challenging feelings are not always an indication of a chakra blockage. Sometimes, it could be that you forgot your hormone cream! LOL

[BlatzAdict]

"Healing occurs when a mind/body/spirit complex realizes, deep within itself, the Law of One; that is, that there is no disharmony, no imperfection; that all is complete and whole and perfect. Thus, the intelligent infinity within this mind/body/spirit complex re-forms the illusion of body, mind, or spirit to a form congruent with the Law of One."

 

anagogy brother, i found your post to be so good, i had to steal it, and share it on my group.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/copitsot...145261500/

Hope you don't mind, but it's like i went back in time to when i was actively trying to teach the Law of One through a class and you took a speech right out of my mouth from that time. with a highly congruent process articulated.

anyway. it's more fun seeing others blossom to the same truths. Kudos to you!

[The_Tired_Philosopher]

I have personally found this image greatly helpful in 'feeling' for my energy flow in each chakra in a physical sense.



Take into account plenum and anagogy's advice as they are spot on too!

The body is a creature of the mind, the mind likes feedback.

(And sorry for the image size...It was either teeny blurry text or this, I'll resize it once on my laptop if someone else doesn't get to it first.
Edit: resized))