Chakra Discoveries

I have begun a regiment of cleansing my chakras daily each morning before beginning my day's journey. After having done so for six days in a row I have made some wonderful discoveries that I feel joyfully called to share with you. I must say that I am brimming with gratitude and excitement to have made such new discoveries after years of having been an avid devotee to the practice of chakra cleansing.

I understand now that I can owe this deep new level of understanding this practice to the fact that I do it with unfailing regularity now. Nurturing the practice of cleansing one's chakras and energy system is very similar to nurturing the practice of yoga. If you do it as often and regularly as possible, you find that you will go deeper and deeper into the practice. You continually reap higher and more powerful benefits as you go farther and farther with each Asana. With every practice session you devote yourself to, you become stronger and higher as a whole, creating more lasting and permanent mental, bodily and spiritual results. Chakra cleansing is just like yoga because it re-invents your being; in this case from the starting perspective of the energy body. Just as yoga re-invents the physical body from "bones to skin", deeply detoxifying and strengthening all of the body's systems, so too does chakra/energy cleansing re-invent the energy system, or aura. You are literally transmuting the substance of your being in working light through yourself. You are shape-shifting. You are transcending your own vehicle; attuning it to become an ever higher and lighter instrument.

In today's chakra cleansing I learned a few valuable lessons. The first one was literally a "ground-breaking" realization for me. I have always felt challenged in this lifetime in the practice of grounding myself. I'm not sure that I ever really understood the concept fully, or in fact, wanted to ground myself. I was not conscious of the power and potential in grounding, and so did not understand that there was a good point and reason to ground. Like many Light Workers and Indigos, I sort of liked being in outer space. Its where I felt comfortable, floating in the ethers. Today, however, I was shown at the sacral chakra level that grounding the energy that is streamed through *each* chakra is absolutely key to seeing your dreams and visions manifested on earth. You must ground the energy that whirs and reels through all chakras. The technique I used was to cleanse the chakra-instrument itself, make sure the energy was flowing through it fully and rapidly, then take that stream and visualize pressing it with my hand into a stone or tree or rock. The effect was amazing. I felt this rippling sensation of pleasure and openness. I was still clearly connected to the ethers, but in much better command of my presence. In order to manifest ANYTHING we desire, we must be grounded.

Another lessons I learned followed on the theme of manifestation. I recently noticed that the Crown Chakra is the physical location of all our hopes, dreams and prayers. These dreams are connected into the other chakras by the passions that inspire or "oxidate" the dreams. The passions ripple through each chakra and manifest in the expression of each chakra's major functioning. In cleansing and attuning the crown chakra, it is key to nurture and cleanse your dreams. In order to have a fully functioning high Crown Chakra, we must deeply support our highest dreams. I once heard that to abort your hopes and dreams can be more traumatic than a physical abortion, and having seen the beautiful, delicate state of my own beloved dreams within my crown chakra, I now know this to be true. I saw my own dreams as bands of metallic sunny-purple light, extending from my crown in rays. It is powerful to bolster them with love, care and faith. This makes for SUCH an incredible feeding of the soul for it makes us feel our deepest purpose and highest self worth in relation to the All-Mind. I highly recommend trying this, trust me, you're going to love the way you feel.

Another lesson I learned was that there is an extremely powerful tool in cleansing the chakras that will totally revolutionize your energy system forever: It is to purify and heal all of your human relationships at each chakra level. This too is part of grounding. Much of our earth-based experiences are made up of relationships; our shared experience and consciousness with others. If we can ground our energy in relation to others, we've really built a resilient, sustainable foundation for maintaining energetic clarity. Our chakras are inherently connected to those we relate with. We are married at an energetic level to some extent to each person in our lives. It is important to share pure, loving and unconditionally compassionate energetic cords to everyone, no matter how great or small their impact may seem to you. If for example, you can cleanse and heighten the vibration of your solar plexus, the seat of power, not only in your own auric field, but also in the way your power extends and connects to each individual in your life, then you've solidified and strengthened that powerful peace not only more deeply within your own life, but in the life of the other person too. You've created the opportunity to stay powerful in the face of all human interactions, no matter how challenging these interactions may have seemed before. We are never alone in experiencing the effects of our thoughts and our energy work. It is our divine gift to be able to transmute the world into a higher paradise for all by way of going within to uplift and serve ourselves.

For an introductory guide to chakras and how to cleanse them, I suggest Doreen Virtue's "Chakra Cleansing" book and cd with guided meditation. That was one of the first places I started on my quest with this practice.

I hope to learn and post more on this topic as I continue! Namaste, Joy and Love to you all.

Reiki Journey

Last night I accompanied my mother to a Reiki 1 refresher class (we are both already certified in Reiki 1). I called on Quan Yin and Archangel Raphael to connect closely with for these lessons in healing. At the beginning of the class, each of us were given a short reiki energy cleansing to set ourselves up for the coming work.

During each person's cleansing, I held space for their healing and called on their angels to surround them with light. When it came time for my mother's cleansing, I saw a thick beam of light pour down from the ceiling straight into her chest. "Thank you, Archangel Raphael for being with my Mom," I thought to myself. "I'm sensing a big Angelic presence!" Said one of the Reiki masters. I smiled. I watched as energy shifted so visibly and clearly around my Mom. When it came time for my turn, as soon as the reiki master touched my shoulder she said "I feel Archangel Michael so strongly!" "Yes," I replied, "He is my closest spiritual companions. Everyone that does energy work on me can feel him all over." The Reiki energy shot up and down my spine. I felt myself grow taller as the energy took over my posture. I closed my eyes. Dizzy magnetic rings whirled around me, intersecting one another to create huge pulling sensations. It was as if I a tunnel of swirling, spiraling rings had formed around me. If I didn't hold on to my feet, I am sure that my body would have begun swaying in circles. My cleansing ended. I sat down. I closed my eyes. I saw my own spine made of abundant shooting rainbow light, absolutely magnificent and luminous with vibrant swimming colors.

Next we went into a guided meditation. The meditation was more like a shamanic journey than anything else. As it began I felt my energy lift SO strongly as to give the sensation that I was floating toward the ceiling. My energy began to spin and spin with such strength that I could have sworn the chair was swirling around, though it must have been still.

I was walking barefoot on a sandy mountain path. I breathed the fresh sunny air in deeply and luxuriously. Oh! What refreshment after all this indoor wintry nonsense I've been living in! I came to a trickling stream and sat in its center, water rushing over me. I took off my backpack and placed it on a rock. I could feel Quan Yin's presence moving through the water. My energy radically shifted: layers of heaviness and toxins lifted up and away from me. I grew lighter and lighter.

From the backpack I pulled out several decks of cards that I was keeping in different pockets. I shuffled them and pulled out cards at random. Inscribed on each card was a thought or experience I held that did not serve my highest health. I was invited to release these. I placed them in a pile to the side. I continued doing this with each card, acknowledging the burden I was being invited to release and placing all of its energy to the side.

I came to a card that was labeled "past life". As I peered into it, I felt as if I had gotten sucked into a movie. I saw myself in a past incarnation as a goddess-like figure in the spirit world. I lived in the rain forest. Hundreds of giant, powerful wild cats swarmed all over me. I was their goddess. I was a powerful being made of high golden light. Connected to my head was a sort of crown made of bands of blindingly bright golden panels. They extended out from my third eye like solid fire. "Courage. Take this home with you." "Ariel?" I called out. "Yes." Archangel Ariel was so close, absolutely dripping with powerful courage. "You need this."

Back in the stream I picked up all the cards I had placed to the side and set them on fire with a branch of sage and a splinter of palo santo. I watched the smoke curl up to the smiling sky. The embers faded becoming soft, pale-white ashes. I released them from my hands into the water.

The journey shifted. I was being introduced to a master who would help me to learn in healing. He stepped out from a white mist... Jeshua! I was a little surprised to see him. I haven't often worked with Jeshua, except in writing. Recently he's been more and more closely part of my spiritual learning. What a wonderful gift. He smiled in such a familiar way, as if I were seeing an old friend. He took my hand and led me up a steep rise in the mountain path. We came to a beautiful golden door carved in Earth. He opened it. Seven golden stairs led upwards. Upon taking the first step, my energy immediately shifted, stripping away layers of denser energies to reveal higher and purer ones. With each step, I was blinded with new fiery light, melting some of me away and adding new light and buoyancy in its place.

At the top of the stairs we arrived on a temple roof top. In the center was a great holy fire encircled by several high spiritual beings. Among them I recognized Quan Yin and Thoth. We joined them. An outer ring of hovering Angels surrounded. I gazed up. Another circle of beings hovered higher still-- giant star people--great super nova intergalactic beings. And higher still, the largest beings I have set eyes upon. I peered at them utterly transfixed and bewildered. "What in the world are you?" I thought. They where so expansive and still and high that my small mental uttering seemed to evaporate at their feet. I gazed below us. A ring of faeries had gathered, collected from plants and places all about the earth in the purpose of healing. The rings riveted with beautiful golden light, linking and shooting their energy upwards and downwards. What a magnificent spectacle! I felt so alive and aware.

Jeshua was opening an ornate box that held a gift for me. Inside was a gorgeous golden key. I picked it up, brushing my fingers over it adoringly. He gestured towards a beautiful brass locker all carved with vines, and unlocked it.

Out of it flew money, away on the breeze. The money felt so dull, frail and meaningless to me in that moment. Jeshua placed his hands on my shoulder, speaking clear and gently into my heart that it was time for me to leave my job. I had been getting messages about this for the past week quite strongly, and had been working diligently at releasing the fearful feelings that came with the thought of leaving my current means of making money. "I never worried about money when I was in a human body," he told me. He showed me images of his life, wandering through wilderness from town to town with no money at all. He said that it is part of the excitement of my mission on earth to learn to take blind walks of faith into the wilderness, trusting that there is always enough support to see me through. "There is no guarantee," he explained, that loads of money would drop from the sky. But he assured me of this: that there are two paths forking in front of me. He showed me that on the path to the left I am led higher and higher into swirling light. "You're going to like this path a lot. Its what you've been praying for us to help you manifest." This was the path whose next step involved leaving my job. The other path in which I stayed at my current job wasn't necessarily bad, but it was not the path in line with my highest goals.

He then took the key and inserted it in my chest. Upon making contact with the key, my body lit up in grids of geometric light shapes. My eyelids closed and became transparent. Giant orbs of light glowed from behind them, electric with geometric patterns. How high, oh, how high I felt!! Jeshua cupped my hands in his. "Place your hands in the fire." "Yes. I will!" I was so eager to show my faith in him. The fire felt gentle and extremely pleasurable. The feelings of pleasure radiated from my fingers and up my arms like tidal waves of serotonin bubbling and crashing over with good news. He gently pulled my hands out of the fire and showed me that they still glowed. They were fully charged and ready to heal. Thank you, Jeshua! How I love you. Thank you for being my guide and teacher.

The rest of the class went beautifully. I gave and received such deep and focused healing. I emerged from it transformed, worlds lighter, and infused with the power to take on the next assignment on my path.