The Gift of Knowing Yourself Through Your Chakras

What are CHAKRAS? A chakra is a Sanskrit word that means “wheel” or “circle”.  Aligned with the spinal column, these centers regulate the flow of physical and psychological vitality throughout the body.  Knowing how the chakras function and how they help you to live greatly enhances your health and well being, as well as your spiritual awareness.  

The seers of India were the first to document this system of energy centers. Every thought and experience you’ve ever had gets filtered through these energy databases and is recorded in your cells.  To work with chakras is to heal yourself of old constricting patterns lodged in the body or the mind or a habitual behavior. 

These vortexes of energy are centers for reception, assimilation and transmission of life energies.  The sum total of the chakras forms a vertical column in our body called the sushumna.  This column is a central integrating channel for connecting the chakras and their various dimensions.  They exist in the subtle body and correspond to nerve ganglia and glands in the endocrine system.  They generate the shape and behavior of the physical body.  What we generate determines what we receive…so it behooves us to work on our chakras to clear out dated, dysfunctional or negative programming.  

Traditionally we study the 7 major chakras aligned with the spinal cord. They each have a corresponding color, organs and glands that they influence, as well as, physical and emotional issues that make them all unique.  Each chakra stores, manages and transmits a different kind of energy, related to different physical and psychological functions.  One is not more important than the other, rather it’s more related to our physical survival or our spiritual development. They are complex in nature encompassing a huge amount of  information and data. The chakras also radiate energy directly into our environment and thus change the atmosphere in our vicinity.  Through the chakras, we can send out healing vibrations as well as conscious or subconscious messages that influence people, situations and even matter, both in a positive and in a negative way.

None of the chakras functions alone, they intermesh and work together.  An imbalance in one chakra will affect the other chakras or may even be caused by them.  Overall, we want our base chakra to be strong and solid support for our spiritual growth.  We want clarity, ease and consistency to fall back on.  We want support from our ground, enjoyment in our sexuality and sensuality, and potency when we focus our power.  We want a healthy body, full of feeling and vitality.  In the upper chakras, we want freedom and flexibility, creativity and expansion, new ideas, new information and expansive time to reflect upon them. We want the inspiration that makes the survival routines of the lower chakras worth living.  We want to be ever expanding our horizons, our knowledge and our perceptions.  In the heart chakra we want a sense of balance and peace—balancing our upper and lower chakras, balance between inner and outer, giving and receiving, mind and body.  We want that balance to allow an integration of polarities.  When all the chakras are working together, we communicate our visions, ground our power, there is pleasure in our work and relationships, and there is continued learning on each level.  In order to experience wholeness and the creativity, knowledge, strength, love and bliss that this entails, the chakras have to be open and work together harmoniously.  This is the case with very few people.  As a rule, the individual chakras are activated at different degrees.  Knowledge of the chakras can be of immeasurable help in getting to know yourself, can guide you in the realization of your inherent potential and enable you to live a life full of abundance and joy.

How do we keep the chakras open, balanced, harmonized and aligned?

**Visualizing the colors with the intention of cleansing, opening and balancing each center

**Laying on of hands to clear.  (Reiki, SRT, or other energy modality)

**Exposing the chakras to energy vibrations that are close to the ones in which a harmoniously functioning chakra free of blockages naturally vibrates. (colors, sounds, essential oils, music, gemstones, nature)

**Daily meditations and affirmations.  When you are perfectly serene and relaxed within yourself, exterior tension will not be able to resonate within, nor will it be able to take  hold of you or influence you negatively.

**Yoga and stretches.

**Grounding and being in the present moment.

**Call upon Archangel Metatron to help open, balance and align.

In these shifting and changing time we live in today, I feel it’s vitally important to love, support and nurture yourself.  With a knowledge of this energy system, this vital part of yourself, you can enhance your vitality and know yourself on a deeper level that ever before.  

Join a group of like-minded women for an Introduction to the Chakras on December 1, 2011 at 2:30 pm Vista Marina #57, San Carlos, Mexico.  Email  HYPERLINK "mailto:angelhelp4u@msn.com" angelhelp4u@msn.com to register.  I hope to see you there. 

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The Gift of a full moon

As the time of a full moon approaches I’m always filled with extra energy.  I wish that I understood and knew more about astrology, but I don’t.  I leave that to the experts.  So, I can’t contribute wonderful insights about the upcoming full moon on Tuesday, October 11th.  However, I realize and am aware that the cycles of the moon do indeed affect me and the world around me.  As the light each night increases, I feel drawn outside to sit and soak up moonbeams and even to dance in the moonlight.  Sometimes I fling my arms open wide and talk to Grandmother Moon and thank her for the wonderful feminine energies and light that she shines in the darkness.  I encourage you to do the same.  

As I feel myself connect with the moon light I am also reminded of one of my favorite Archangels, Haniel.  Haniel uses the flowing, changing energies of Grandmother Moon as she guides me and suggests an herbal remedy or asks me to place a certain crystal on a client or myself. 

Being very psychic herself she encourages me to be aware of my sensitivities and harness them for further information and divine guidance. During the full moon she's very active and wants us to be open, full, ripe but at the same time quiet, relaxed, cool and calm. She inspires me to take risks that draw out my best qualities and lead me to the people, books or classes that assist me in being the most that I can be. For example, I never felt that I needed a webpage, but I’ve just recently updated my first webpage that was created in 2006! And now I also have a blog.  Who would have thought? I know there's a reason for it. I trust that it's to help spread more light into the world, and to provide another venue for me to be of service to the planet. I want to thank my amigos Samantha and Steve Smersh for helping me in those endeavors. I couldn't have done it without them! 

Haniel also assists me in taking care of myself. One of the most difficult lessons for me is to receive. "I receive. I receive. I receive. I receive so that I may give. I open my arms to receive Heaven's gifts!” This is an affirmation that I use daily and I encourage you to do the same. Affirmations help me to stay grounded, in the present moment, and aware. They help me to manifest my dreams in this dimension. 

Dr. Doreen Virtue chose the original piece of artwork by Jonathon Earl Bowser for Haniel in her Archangel Oracle Cards. After working with Haniel more and more, I also chose this lovely depiction to share with you here. Check her story out at www.JonathonArt.com. She's located in Gallery 1 as Celestial Apparition. 

Haniel assures me that she's available for you too. She loves working with crystals, herbs, moon energy, feminine issues, and healing in general. Feel free to invoke her at any time. I experience her as soft, flowing, beautiful, peaceful energy just as you see her here. You may also be aware of her as the cool, light blue color of moon beams. As we struggle to balance the masculine and feminine energies within ourselves so does the world struggle now to allow more compassion, understanding, forgiveness, joy, unconditional love and peace to spread across the planet with a renewal of the Divine Feminine.

The Divine Feminine is universal, eternally creating and changing, unknowable and vast, a force beyond our limited comprehension.  But she is just as much within your hearts and your bodies; she is the force of sexual attraction and of motherly affection, of righteous fury and steely intelligence.  Let's be whole, healthy and complete..... Accept all of your qualities.  Understanding these qualities is a wonderful opportunity for you to accept yourself as you are; not as society or the media tells you to be. Stand, dance, sit in the light of the full moon and reclaim your Divine Feminine.