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Awaken Your
Inner Power!
A Guide to Meditation, Kundalini
Awakening and Hermetic Magick
or
How to Awaken Your Kundalini and
Harmonize Your Body, Mind & Spirit
for More Powerful Spells, Rituals and
Manifesting
Robert Morgen
Mystic Wolf Media
www.Inner-Power.net
www.Inner-Power.net
For my sister Karen, for all the years of wondering what was
wrong with me. ☺
For Andy for being so cool.
For Glenn Morris for making things make sense, even when it
hurt (a lot ☺).
Thanks to Scott Malone, Robert Weiland, Tom Lux and all the
others who've come along to lend a hand and offer support.
Table of Contents
move into meditation and energy work. This section will help you
develop and increase your energy levels, primarily by showing you how
to get out of your own way.
The meditation exercises will help you learn to see and feel
energy as well as move it around in your body and even in other people.
The goal with meditation is to help you reduce the internal and external
resistance to your energy by reducing stress and toxicity. The less
resistance you have the more energy you can use. Take your time with
the meditation exercises. Some of these took me years to learn on my
own and I’ve included links to some free Guided Meditation MP3’s of
some of these exercises that you can download and share with friends.
The Chakra chapter introduces some of the energy vortexes on
your body. Chakra, an ancient Sanskrit word for wheel, refers to an
interface for aspects of your energy, personality and emotions. When
working with the chakras we can take much more control over our lives
while healing deep mental and emotional trauma and even wounds from
past lives. I’ve included enough about chakras to get you started, but this
chapter isn’t meant to be a comprehensive training course. I’ve included
references to some good books for further study.
The Healing chapter will help you balance your energy and clear
more energy blocks. I’ve included instructions for Reiki and contrary to
popular belief you DO NOT need to be ‘attuned’ to Reiki in order to use
it. I’ve proven this repeatedly with my own students and in classes and
seminars. The attunements give you a jump start but if you use it
consistently your body will attune itself. The Reiki exercises here will
help you cleanse and balance your body and energy fields.
The latter part of the book includes more concepts and lessons
I’ve learned the hard way. We’re all a collection of thoughts, feelings
and emotions that may have piled up for years without any cleansing or
direction. Learning to take control of those thoughts, feelings and
especially emotions can give you much more control over your life.
Much of the bio-technology in this book is based in Eastern
sources because that’s what survived the religious purges of the Dark
Ages. I’ve tried to minimize the Eastern terminology as much as possible
but in some cases there are no Western words for the concepts.
While much of what I cover in this book could be called
‘spiritual’ in the sense of ‘dealing with the spirit’ I want to make a point
that this is a bio-technology. This means it’s a technology that’s available
to everyone with a biology, regardless of religion or spiritual path. The
concepts and exercises here can be used by anyone who wants to develop
a better mind/body/spirit connection and done properly will enhance any
spiritual path.
You’ll notice that I repeat some of the concepts throughout the
book because some of these concepts are extremely important and can’t
be stressed enough. I also repeat some concepts because the human mind
can’t store a new concept the first time it’s encountered. Frequently I’ll
mention a concept and say a few words about it and then get into it more
deeply later on.
As your energy awakens you’ll see that we tend to come back to
the same concepts repeatedly. Usually this happens in a spiral. You’ll
learn something and later you’ll come back to that subject at a higher
level and learn more about it. I’ve used that idea in the layout of this
book.
I stress safety in this manual and made it a point to provide
several exercises and principles that can make your journey significantly
safer. One side effect of intense meditation and energy work can be
extreme changes to your perceptions. These changes can affect all
aspects of your life. This type of training should definitely be considered
a ‘warrior path’ and it’s not at all what many people think of when you
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mention meditation. Like any warrior path this one requires discipline,
dedication and the courage to face your most dangerous opponent head
on. Those who think of meditation as a fluffy, New Age version of sitting
and staring at the wall are in for a shock.
When you embark on this path I assure you that you will be
afraid, confused, hurt, depressed and angry, but I also promise that if you
pay attention to the principles and do the exercises in this book you'll
have all the tools you need to handle those moments. I'm not a guru or an
expert or any type of 'Master', I'm just a guy who has screwed all of this
stuff up for long enough that I can now share some things that will help
and maybe give you some examples of what not to do.
No book can be everything to everyone, but I’m confident that if
you approach this one with an open mind and a willingness to go
somewhere new you'll find that this book can take you there… and you’ll
probably be someone new when you get there.
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Part 1: Preparation
Awakening your Inner Power is not something to be rushed into
lightly. This is a path from which there is no turning back. You are going
to see, feel and experience things that most people don't even believe in
and some of those things are going to be unpleasant (to say the least!).
The purpose of Part 1 is to give you the skills and abilities to
handle the challenges you'll meet on this path. In Part 1 you'll learn how
to cleanse and harmonize your body, mind and spirit, develop the
attitudes to handle anything that life throws at you and learn to reset your
basic programming to help you get the results you want from your life.
You will use the skills and exercises from Part 1 every day for
the rest of your life, so the more time you spend here now the easier the
more advanced exercises will be.
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is so far from most people's experience that it's almost impossible for
them to grasp without some major meditation and work.
realize (as in 'to make real for yourself') the fact that everyone and
everything that exists is simply a part of you then it becomes easier to
love and respect every being you meet and release the judgementalism
that prevents one-ness.
Gratitude
It's hard to be angry, afraid or stressed when living in gratitude.
Realizing that every experience you have is simply a step on the path of
wisdom can make it easier to deal with the hard times every human goes
through.
Joy
Joy is simply the combination of all the above concepts working
in harmony within you. You can call it Bliss if you prefer. I prefer either
word to 'enlightenment'. When you can truly experience a moment when
you can feel the benevolence of the Universe, and love and appreciate
every being around you simply because they exist while releasing all of
your fears and stress then you can have a moment of Bliss. It's hard to
NOT feel grateful in those moments.
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I’ve used what I’ve learned from studying the Eastern systems
primarily because those systems survived the religious persecution
suffered by Western energy workers over the last couple of thousand
years. I’ve tried as much as possible to replace the Eastern terminology,
but in some cases there is no good Western counterpart.
Take your time with the concepts and exercises that follow. I’ve
laid them out in a progression that would have helped me greatly in my
own studies in the hopes that it can trim some years or trials off your
journey.
we ask for things that are bad for us? Once you decide what you want,
decide that it’s good for you and that you should have it, all you have to
do is know that it’s on the way and allow it to come. The feeling of
doubt is also the feeling of NOT having what you want.
I’ll cover these keys in more detail later on in the book. For now
just keep them in mind.
attitude and having faith. Energy will go wherever you send it and the
more intentional you can be the better your results will be.
Think about where you send your energy. How much of your
energy goes either into the past or into the future? A lot of people spend
their time thinking about what they wish they had done differently in the
past or thinking about what they would like to do in the future.
How much of your energy is spent thinking about what you
don’t want? It’s important to know what you want and what you don’t,
hence the concept of contrast. Many of us however, fall into patterns of
focusing on what we don’t want when presented with contrast. Your
subconscious only sees what you focus on and tries to bring that into
reality; it doesn’t know the difference between ‘want’ and ‘don’t want’.
What you focus on is what you get.
Energy flows like water – Energy always takes the path of least
resistance. The energy pathways or meridians, in our body can become
blocked or stagnated. When that happens your energy is impeded in the
same way that a dam impedes a river, with the same type of results.
When your energy backs up behind a block what develops is a
pool of stagnant energy. Depending on where it blocks this can manifest
in mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health problems. Energy
blocks can have an extreme effect on your entire being, which is why I’m
giving you exercises on how to keep your energy moving and release
these blocks.
There are a lot of ways to release energy blocks. Exercise is one
of the best but it has to be something you love. If you love to dance and
hate the gym then an hour of dancing will do more for you than 2 hours
in the gym. Exercise, to be effective, has to be a part of your lifestyle,
which is why so many people buy gym memberships that never get used.
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Exercise you love can relieve stress, get your lymph moving and
increase the amount of energy you have available. Yoga and Qi Qong are
forms of exercise which help energize and cleanse your meridians
slowly. Acupuncture, Chiropractic and Reiki can do wonders for helping
to cleanse them more rapidly as part of an overall health plan.
Exercise can also do wonders to help your body eliminate
toxins, both organic and environmental. In the modern world it’s
impossible to avoid the toxins in our food and environment and a
healthy, active body will more efficiently eliminate them from your
system.
Energy doesn’t flow through tight muscles - Just as energy
can block up in your meridians, it can be blocked by tight muscles.
Stretching and flexibility are about more than being able to kick high.
When a muscle is tight it can’t move and you have to relax it
before you can do anything with it. The more loose and relaxed you can
be the faster and more easily you’ll be able to move.
There’s 2 ways to have more energy, make more or use less –
For now think of your energy levels as you would a bank account. If you
have $100 worth of energy budgeted throughout your day then the more
efficient you can be the more you’ll have left over at the end of the day.
If you start off by spending part of your energy thinking about
the past, and then blow some more thinking about what you don’t want,
and then spend another chunk daydreaming about the future or your
fantasy world then how much is left for the present?
Don’t misunderstand me and think that it’s never ok to
remember the past, think about the future or indulge your imagination.
My point is simply to do those things in a more mindful and purposeful
way. Invest rather than splurge.
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Recognizing Perfection
The universe, right now in this moment, is absolutely perfect. It
existed in perfection for billions of years before our earliest ancestor
crawled out of the primordial ooze.
It will exist, in perfection, for untold eons after our last
descendant fades into memory. I’m sure there are those who’d clean up
the Asteroid Belt or get rid of that red spot on Jupiter. I’m sure there are
a couple of galaxies hanging crookedly in the cosmic distance and folks
who would straighten them the way you’d adjust a picture on the wall.
Here’s a curve ball for you;
If the Universe is perfect then everything in it is also perfect. If
everything in the universe is perfect then YOU at this moment, are
absolutely perfect!
Everything about YOU, every pimple or blob of fat or unwanted
hair, is exactly as it’s meant to be in this exact moment! You are a living
example of the perfection of the Universe. All you have to do is accept
that as fact and it will be so.
to like, condone or agree with any events you experience, you just have
to accept them as they are at that moment and realize those events are
exactly perfect.
"Sure" you might respond. "So a Chinese soldier is beating and
raping a Tibetan Buddhist nun. What a wonderful perfection."
We’re here to learn lessons that develop us into who we’re
meant to be. I'm not condoning rape, brutality, Chinese soldiers or
Buddhist nuns when I say that every event is a lesson, as is your response
to that event.
You can grab the soldiers AK-47 and send him back to Start and
hope he wants to learn something else in his next life. You can wait until
he leaves and do what you can for the nun, try to find help or take photos
for your Pulitzer and ALL of those will be the right answer depending on
what you’re here to learn.
Maybe the soldier and the nun both volunteered to come back to
this life and live this moment just so you could be outraged, take up the
pen and enlighten the world on the struggles of the Tibetan people.
Maybe the nun volunteered to live this moment because it's a turning
point in the soldier's life and he's going to change and spend the rest of
his life helping people.
You can’t see the ultimate cause and effect of what’s happening.
All you can do is have faith, do the best you can in any situation and
realize that every moment is a perfect lesson in itself.
this plane of existence and learn the lessons of poverty, hunger and war.
You can't do anything about that, although you can step up and do your
best to eradicate those issues. If you are led in that direction then by all
means embrace your lessons and empower yourself in every way
possible. Maybe you feel called to be a relief worker or a soldier or a
tyrant or a martyr. Go for it.
Some of us are here to learn the lessons of peace, love, self
worth, loving one’s self and embracing the infinite abundance of the
universe. “Know thyself” as Socrates said, and you’ll be able to figure
out your purpose. In fact, knowing oneself is what the journey is about.
I believe each of us has the ability to create the world we live in and
change it as we see fit. I base that belief on my personal experience as
well as a growing volume of modern scientific evidence.
I believe we create our world for 2 simple reasons;
Reason #2, more than anything else, is why I subscribe to this belief.
If I’m creating my world then I have the ultimate responsibility for it and
I can change it and adapt it as I wish.
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Until you can accept 100% responsibility for everything that you do
then you are always, always, always going to be giving away your
power to anyone else who wants to take that responsibility away from
you!
Understanding 'Reality'
The good news is that it's easier than ever before to take more
control over the reality that you want to live. Learning how to integrate
some of the Natural Laws more fully and take more control over your
programming is a challenge that will affect every part of your life.
Creating your reality is also a never-ending process of trial, error and
experimentation. Some of the following concepts may help you flesh out
how you can change and adjust your reality.
always get what I ask for; my problem was that I was asking for
things that I didn't want simply by focusing on the negative.
3. Be willing to receive. This is where the higher levels of
awareness come in. You may be asking for things that you know
subconsciously are bad for you or at cross purposes. You can ask
for anything you want, but if it's something that goes against
your basic programming then you won't let yourself receive it.
4. Get into alignment with it. I went to a bookstore event in
Albuquerque in the late '90's where the speaker was Amber K.,
author of True Magick. I still remember how she pointed out that
you can cast all the spells you want, but if you don't get off your
butt and DO something then your spells won't work.
5. Have Faith. The best way to short circuit your manifesting is to
have doubts about whether it's working or not. It's always
working the moment you send your desire out to the Universe.
Generally the only questions are how willing are you to receive
what you asked for and how willing are you to simply let go and
let the Universe bring it to you. Esther Hicks has a great book
called The Art of Allowing that I highly recommend.
6. Live Your Desire Right Now! Don't ask for more money and then
think, I'll do so and so when I get the money. Start making plans
right now for how to spend it. Generally I don't ask for money
because money is just a representation of what I really want,
which might be a car or a pair of shoes or a new computer. Start
looking for ways to get what you want (see step 1) and see it as
happening in the present. If you focus on the future then what
you want will always be in the future.
7. Make your desire as real as possible. Engage as many of the
senses as possible in this exercise. If you want a new car then
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buy some of that horrid chemical that makes your old car smell
like a new car (that smell is actually the toxic off-gassing from
the plastics, by the way) and sit in your old car with your eyes
closed and feel, smell and see yourself in your new car. Go to
the dealership and sit in the real thing and take it for a ride. Do
whatever it takes to feel and experience your desire at as strong a
level as possible because that feeling is how we communicate
with the Universe.
8. Be Grateful. Be grateful for this moment right now and for
everything that exists for you in this moment. As you get further
into this book you'll see that everything that's possible to exist is
here right now. That means that you already have that car, job,
mate or hairdo right now on some plane of existence. Be grateful
just as you would if you had it on this plane and that gratitude
will bring you one step closer to being in alignment.
Another scientific fact is that you and the Universe are made of
exactly the same energy. The only differences are perceptual. You
perceive your Self to be separate from the Universe, so therefore you are.
As you begin working with your ego and taking more control over your
life you'll find there is a radical shift in perception in which the blocks
and separations between you and the Universe begin to disappear.
For a long time much of this process has been kept in the realms
of the esoteric and mystical. Teachers have doled out the information
piecemeal over a long period of time partly as a safety measure for their
students. We're fortunate that we live in a time when pretty much all of
this information is available. All you have to do is find a source you like
and start to use the information, with the caveat that the less you know
about what you’re getting into the more drastic the changes you’ll
experience may be.
There are other people, and you may be one of them, who are
trying to break out of that restrictive paradigm. I spent the best part of a
decade struggling with this after I realized there were other ways and
other paths I could take.
One of the advantages to connecting to the Universe and
creating your life is that you get feedback. You'll know fairly quickly
whether what you are doing is working and then you can continue
developing your Self in the ways that work best.
When you start giving yourself permission to delete and remove
old vows one of the first things that pops up is the thought 'If I do this is
God going to be angry with me? Am I going to get punished or
blackballed or struck by lightning?'
Sin
If we're going to talk about punishment we have to get into the
subject of sin, otherwise what are we getting punished for? It's a bit like
the Income Tax in the US. There is
no Law (let me repeat that!) there is
no Law that says you have to pay
You get what you
income tax. This is relatively easy to
focus on so if
prove and a slight bit of research on
you’re going to
your part will turn up a ton of
focus on a sin
information on the 16th Amendment
make sure it’s one
and the creation of the Federal
you enjoy!
Reserve. However, if you don't pay
your taxes the IRS will take
everything you own and put you in prison (welcome to the Land of the
Free).
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The concept of sin is a bit like that; except you create your own
prison and you judge and convict yourself.
You can find the word 'sin' used in various contexts going back
nearly 10,000 years. My early research on sin was experiential, but a bit
of academic research turns up the word in Hinduism where sin or pāpa is
used to describe actions that create negative karma.
Most forms of the word have to do with guilt. The word
translated from Greek versions of the Christian Bible to mean 'sin' means
'to miss the mark or target'.
If you sin you are without the grace of God, or you've missed
your goal of not sinning. Various religions have interesting lists of sins in
order to free their converts from having to think too much about this.
The Universe brings what you focus on and it doesn’t
understand words, so when you think of sin and you have a feeling either
good or bad, the result of that feeling is what you get. That’s why it’s
impossible to stamp out sin, abortion, guns, politicians or anything else
you focus on. You get what you focus on so if you’re going to focus on a
sin make sure it’s one you enjoy!
A key concept in many religions is salvation. You need the
priests/middle men in order to be saved and without them you’ll burn in
eternal damnation. This was a big controversy in the early days of
Christianity. Documents from Jesus’ time (as opposed to the modern
Bible which was created hundreds of years later) show that He taught
“The Kingdom of Heaven is within you” and you are responsible for
your own salvation.
The idea of salvation is also based on the presumption that you
were born into sin in the first place. Once you delete the programming
that tells you that you were born a sinner then you realize that the
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When you take responsibility for creating your world you may
think you have to give up the ability to go to the outside sources when
times get hard. When times get bad you realize YOU have created the
trials you’re going through. It would be so nice at that point to stop and
pray to some outside authority for help.
So many people stick with religion because it answers all the
questions and gives firm guidelines. In hard times you can wrap religion
around you like a warm blanket on a winter night and be comforted.
Everything in the Universe IS you. When we say it’s ALL you
we mean it exactly that way. The Universe is filled with unlimited energy
and you can allow that energy to flow into your physical self simply by
willing it to be so.
If you’re having a tough time remember that all the energy
you’ll ever need is available and you can just ask for it. Our physical
form gives us limits we have to overcome and can make us feel cut off
from the larger energy of the Universe. It may sound contradictory after
some of my rants on religion, but there is a form of higher energy you
can connect with. The route is inside you rather than ‘out there’.
If you make a conscious decision to have a deity, and I
personally like the old Celtic Gods and Goddesses myself, then do so in a
high state of awareness. There are a huge variety of deities, spirit guides,
spirit animals and other beings that you can call on for assistance. It's all
built in to the infrastructure on the Universe that I mentioned earlier.
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The Law of Attraction – The short version is that what you think about,
and more importantly, what you feel, is what you are going to get. You
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have the ability to attract anything that you want if you take conscious
control of the process and develop the ability to control what you are
thinking and feeling.
Unfortunately most people spend a lot of time thinking about
what they don't want and feeling things that they don't want to feel, and
then wondering why they keep getting more of that.
In the 2006 movie 'The Secret' Bob Proctor says it this way; "I
don't care if you're thinking 'get out of debt' or 'get into debt', if you're
thinking about debt that's what you're going to get".
I’ve been shocked by the way people hate this movie, although
I’ve only seen the version with Esther Hicks and I realize that some of
that hatred may be political. Some of the controversy also comes from
some of the people from the movie selling their programs giving you ‘the
missing parts’ of The Secret.
Remember that the Universe is you! You are creating this as you
go and you can open up to unlimited streams of wellbeing if you have a
few simple rules. Jack Canfield points out that the Universe is like a lock
and all you need is the right combination.
Here are the parts of The Law of Attraction. You can complicate
this as much as you want beyond this;
1. Know what you want – contrast exists to show you the
difference between what you want and what you don’t.
2. Ask for what you want, be specific but also leave room to
get more than you asked for – You can say “I want more
money” and the Universe will bring it to you; you’ll find a
penny on the sidewalk. If you want $10,000 then ask for it,
but leave yourself open to get more.
3. Believe you can have it! – This may be the most important
part of the combination. How often do we ask for things we
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Belief
Belief plays a huge part in manifestation. You cannot manifest
something that you don’t believe you should have; your subconscious
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won’t let it happen. For example, if you hate rich people, your
subconscious will never let you win the lottery or have a lot of money.
You simply cannot become that which you despise at a soul level.
You have to believe in what you ask for and believe that you can
have it and deserve it. There is a safety built into at this level also. Many
times we ask for the right thing at the wrong time and we know this
subconsciously, hence the non-manifesting.
God-Consciousness
Each of us has a spark of Divinity within. It's that spark that we
are trying to fan into a larger flame and eventually into a bonfire, or at
least a burning bush. There are a lot of names for that spark including
God, the Goddess, Holy Guardian Angel and the Great Spirit.
At the universal level it's all the same thing! It's that little bit of
Divine Energy that propels us through the myriad lifetimes that we spend
trying to learn why we came here when all the time the answers are right
there within us, just waiting for us to knock on the door and ask.
The route to your Divinity can only be internal. Looking
externally for your Divinity is like going to your next door neighbor and
asking if they’ve seen your liver lying around anywhere. There are a lot
of routes to your specific Divinity and all of them will teach you
something so take time and explore.
At a spiritual level this book is about helping people learn to
connect to that internal Divinity, the God-Force that we all have within
that we simply need to learn to listen to.
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What is Kundalini?
of others.
Invariably you are going to read one of those books and think,
"What's happening to me is different from what they experienced;
therefore I must be having something other than a kundalini awakening",
and you might be right.
On the other hand, it may be that your experience is simply
different from theirs! It's important to remember that the kundalini is a
uniquely personal experience and it's different for everyone. It's up to
you to decide what's happening to you and how to handle it, which is one
of the reasons I wrote this book. If you follow through with the exercises
and essays I've included you should be able to easily handle the various
experiences and energies you'll encounter on this path.
On the other hand, there are some very simple things you can do
to make the entire process much easier. The point here is that the
kundalini awakening process is really more of a journey than an event.
I've met a few people who have experienced a kundalini awakening and
all of them have spent a lot of time and effort working through the
process.
My primary thought about kundalini, based on my experience
and that of the awakened people I personally know, is that it's the
Universe's way of getting us back on track. It's a way of beginning a
process we can't ignore and can't get away from in order to help us stay
on the path we came here in this life to walk.
The kundalini energy wants to awaken and rise. This is a natural
part of human development just like puberty or menopause. Sometimes
the energy will spike and begin the process of awakening, but not fully
awaken. I firmly believe that every human experiences this at some point.
It's simply the spark that begins the process. What we do after that
decides whether the kundalini awakens or continues to lie dormant.
The ways that a human being can experience a kundalini event
are literally infinite. Any combination of events, words, feelings, smells,
sounds or experiences can trigger a kundalini event. What generally
happens then is that kundalini side effects begin to appear as a way to
guide us through the process. Our willingness to address and deal with
those side effects decides whether we awaken, go insane or just flounder.
to point out that many medical schools are working hard to include more
holistic practices and educate doctors on the more esoteric workings of
the body and mind. My point here is that there may be more going on
with your depression symptoms and that there are options to this
prevailing idea that we can fix everything with the right pill.
The National Institute of Mental Health points out that "In any
given 1-year period, 9.5 percent of the population, or about 20.9 million
American adults, suffer from a depressive illness"1. That is a huge and
extremely expensive burden on our already inadequate health care
system. I wouldn't say that all of those cases are related to a kundalini
event, nor would I deny its possibility. I can say that by using the
strategies, exercises and meditations that other kundalini teachers and I
advise, many of those people could find relief from symptoms as well as
relief from pills and the high cost of external health care. I don't think it's
any secret that much of the depression in this country can be avoided.
Depression is one of the common kundalini side effects. I don't
know of anyone who has experienced a kundalini event who hasn't had
some form of depression afterwards, although experiencing depression
doesn't have to be an integral part of the experience. If the depression
occurs then how that depression is handled becomes a major lesson in
Intention and Awareness for the kundalini student. The ability to self
govern and self regulate is extremely important, especially when you
purposefully set out on a path that is going to balance karma and force
you to deal with every positive and negative event from a position of
higher awareness.
One of the amazing advantages for the modern kundalini student
is that there are a huge variety of training tools, support groups and other
resources available.
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Kundalini History
burnings at the stake or the witch drownings as that's all in the past. Now
is the time to focus efforts on helping and empowering yourself and your
friends and family. If we all do that then empowering the world takes
care of itself.
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haven’t lost you by this point the come along and I’ll see if I can explain
it in a way that makes sense.
Often the events that happen to us are much less extreme. How
many times have you gotten stuck behind an annoyingly slow driver only
to discover the Highway Patrol speed trap up ahead?
Events are simply events. It’s the way we respond to them that
make them good or bad, positive or negative. Learning to look for the
good side effect or positive lesson in everything that happens is a major
step to developing a sense of tranquility.
The good side of this moment's events may not be immediately
obvious. Sometimes it's only years later that events make sense and we're
able to see them in perspective. Once again I have to mention the concept
of Faith. Living a period of tragedy is hard no matter who you are or how
well trained and experienced in these mystery schools. The ability to step
outside of your judgment of the situation is a very important skill and it
doesn't come easy for most people.
determines whether we can, at the end, judge our lives as having been
‘good’ or ‘bad’. In the meantime, smile and be happy. In this moment.
Keeping a Journal
In Path Notes of an American Ninja Master, Dr. Glenn Morris states
that you’re going to be making extreme changes to your life and
therefore should keep a journal. Two decades later, as I look back on all
that's happened and the places I’ve been, I realize that as usual, he’s
exactly right. I didn’t keep a journal however, so when I urge you to
begin keeping one right now it’s through my own bad example. Someday
when you try to write a book to explain how you got to be the way you
are (or at least the way you’ll be then), you’ll wish you had. You’ll see
many instances where I learned the hard way rather than just following
the advice of someone who’s already been where I’m trying to go.
Another reason to keep a journal is because our thoughts are
energy! When someone ticks us off we tend to walk around with that
energy for awhile before it finally clears. Depending upon the strength of
the emotions you've experienced, that energy will build up in your
muscles as well as your brain.
Journaling can be a good way to release stress. Just because you
journal something doesn't mean that you can't immediately shred it, by
the way.
Journaling can also open up your creative process and help
develop a flow of information. When I work with writers I advise them
to journal for exactly this reason. When we write we are opening up to a
flow of energy and often we'll have an idea that floats around in our
heads for awhile before we write it down. Once it's written down the
mind can release the thought and let new stuff flow in.
Write about what you want, what you love and what you'd like
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Karma
We hear a lot about Karma. This is good karma, you have bad
karma. People think karma is the result of your last life coming back to
bite you in this one. I only partially agree. I also think we make our own
karma as we go and have to deal with it during this life.
Karma is simply the result of our actions. If you frequently use
anger as a tool you have to expect to be put in positions where anger is
necessary. You create that circle and then perpetuate it. In part it goes
back to the Laws of Reciprocity and Attraction and in part it has to do
with our subconscious.
Awakening your Inner Power breaks the wheel of karma in that
it forces you to examine yourself in such detail that you’ll have to clean
up your messes, even those carried over from past lives. I don’t see Inner
Power as some karmic ‘get out of hell free’ card. Rather it’s like a huge
mirror that doesn’t lie to you and won’t let you lie to yourself.
As you cleanse and balance your chakras you’ll have the
opportunity to look at yourself and your life very closely. Make the time
to do this on your on and begin the process yourself rather than having it
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dumped on you all at once. It’s part of the self-awareness training that
you’ll be doing for the rest of your life.
As you develop the level of
self-awareness that allows you be in If you have an
constant control of your actions you’ll
awareness of
be able to move your karma in positive
directions. To use the earlier example karma what you
of anger, by showing more compassion
to angry people you’ll be given more really have is a
compassion on those occasions you slip
form of balance.
off the wagon and become angry
yourself. It's a tool to help
If you have an awareness of
you with your
karma what you really have is a form of
balance. It's a tool to help you with moment to
your moment to moment awareness of
moment
how you're treating yourself and others.
Karma gets a little deeper on a awareness of how
subconscious level and it builds up an
energy that you have to address and you're treating
balance out.
yourself and
Have Faith
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole
staircase. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Inner Power begins with the process of learning exactly who you are,
with all your warts, wonders and blemishes. Once you’ve done that and
become completely at ease with your self-acceptance you can promptly
just forget all of it and disappear into the ether. Literally.
Your self is like a blanket you cover up with or a jacket you put on.
Spend some time becoming comfortable with yourself and you’ll begin
to see that you can put it on and take it off at will. It’s just an external
way to identify which self is yours. Once you get beyond that and see
that you don’t really exist, then you can really start having fun with this
stuff.
Developing your self-awareness is a multi-faceted exercise that
encompasses all parts of your being. No matter how good you become at
it there will always be new layers to uncover and new things to learn.
At the elementary levels of this book we’ll look at your physical self,
your mental self and your spiritual self and see how you can integrate
them into your total being.
Building Energy
There are 2 ways to have more energy. You can make more, or
you can use less.
that will help you literally direct more energy into the creation of your
life.
1. Our bodies store memories, feelings and stresses within our muscles
and organs. Yoga helps release those in a relaxed, gradual manner,
rather than all at once through a chakra-ic cleansing.
2. When you breathe properly during the yoga positions (asanas) you’re
massaging your internal organs as well as stretching your muscles.
This provides an immediate health benefit as well as helping to
release stored toxins and feelings.
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3. Yoga lubricates and relaxes the spine, allows you to move more easily
and freely and adds a much better quality of life. A relaxed healthy
spine is also a better conduit for chi.
4. “Energy doesn’t flow through tight muscles” (you’ll hear that over and
over again). The relaxing effects of a good yoga practice help
prevent muscle tightness that can impede your energy flow.
Some forms of the martial arts such as Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Tai Jutsu and
Hoshinjutsu help build remarkable energy awareness and strength. They
also help you become more confident and comfortable in your
surroundings. In my Hoshin classes we used the martial arts as a test to
see how your energy work is progressing, rather than as a violent sport.
A regular physical fitness regimen will help your heart, lungs
and muscles work more efficiently. You'll feel better intellectually and
emotionally as well as physically. As your self-awareness and meditation
skills increase you’ll begin moving in a constant state of light meditation.
A regular fitness plan helps develop your moving meditation skills in
addition to making you more fit.
Part of life is dealing with stress, and if we repress it we build up
stress knots in our organs and muscles. Many of these knots will connect
to a specific energy or memory and when they’re released you may find
yourself having to deal with that problem or memory again. You can do
that gradually, like peeling away the layers of an onion. You can also do
it all at once when your Inner Power awakens, like smashing the onion
with a big sledgehammer. Fortunately we get to choose how to do it.
If you have to wear this meatsuit then you may as well feel good
while you're here. Energy flows more easily through a healthy and
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relaxed body. If you're tense and out of shape and feeling badly then
you're just adding more levels of resistance and making things harder on
yourself. If you have stress knots and tight muscles they are adding a
level of unnecessary PAIN into your spiritual practice because those
stress knots and tight muscles are going to block your energy.
In the 80's the saying "No Pain, No Gain" was popular around
the gym and it's funny how many other areas of our lives that mindset
tends to creep into. The gym saying is true within that context, but it
refers to a specific type of pain that is beneficial for the muscle growth
process. In most other areas of your life, however, pain is a sign that you
are doing something wrong and your body is going to take some action to
alleviate that pain.
Using Affirmations
One of the most powerful tools in the universe is one you can
begin using immediately! Affirmations are simple, you can do them
anywhere and they don’t cost anything.
When you use an affirmation you are literally making something
firm or real for yourself. The subconscious mind (the Id) can’t discern
between what’s real and what isn’t, so when you make a positive
affirmation like “I deserve LOVE” the subconscious is there in the
background going “Yeah, we do, so where the hell is it. Let’s make that
happen right now.”
The simple way to use affirmations is to identify some part of
your life where you feel a lack, and create the affirmation to convert that
lack to abundance.
I’m not going to bother giving you a list of affirmations as you
know yourself much better than I do. Instead I’m going to leave a blank
place here and as one of your first exercises you can identify 10 areas of
your life that you’d like to improve and create your own affirmation for
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Several times a day you should take a few moments and repeat these
affirmations to yourself until you’ve created your abundance in these
areas. Then come up with some new ones and start all over again.
Avoiding Negativity
"Is it possible to have knowledge and yet learn to be free from fear?"
Jiddu Krishnamurti
In 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' Robert Kiyosaki talks about using "fast
words and slow words". Slow words such as "I can't afford it" insure that
you are right and that you really can't afford it. Fast words such as "How
can I afford it?" open you up to the unlimited abundance of the Universe
and help you to find a way to manifest
what you want.
The Siddhis
“Those who dance are often thought insane by those who can’t hear
the music” - George Carlin
you’re going to see, feel and experience things most people don't. If you
talk about it people will think you’re seeing and hearing things that they
don’t and of course, that's true. The usual response is to give you mind
altering drugs and electro-shock therapy to make you ‘normal’ again.
Having said that, most of us tend to talk about it anyway.
Usually, by the time you know enough about it to really talk about it then
you have such a strange energy and probably dress weirdly enough that
most of the ‘normal’ people don’t really see you.
One of the amazing things about the internet is the ability to
form online communities, and this has been a major boon for meditation
practitioners. From 1992 until 2002 I never talked to another human
who’d experienced the things I was going through. Now, thanks to the
internet, it’s possible to get onto a discussion group and ask questions
and talk about experiences and just lurk and learn. I’ve listed several
good groups (including mine) in the Resource Section at the end of the
book.
Take some time and play with the siddhis, but don't be distracted
by them. A simple way I explain my view of these little magics is that
each of them has its own frequency and you'll be able to tune in to some
more easily than others.
You may be able to see energy and interact with it visually, in
which case I'd recommend some good books on Symbology and an
extremely open mind. A lot of things have meanings other than what
we've come to commonly accept and you definitely want to know what
you are playing with.
You may be able to feel energy and interact with it that way.
Spend a LOT of time just playing with it and seeing how different things
feel. Go for walks and get into a meditative state while walking and pay
attention to the different energies all around you. I like walking around
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the mall because there are so many colors and feelings and different
types of energy. The mall can be a bit overwhelming at first and if it is
then start in your backyard and just open up your awareness and see what
you feel.
You may be able to
occasionally tell what others are
thinking or feeling. You may be able to
The vast majority
channel wisdom from the Universe.
of the people in
You may develop abilities with
the world can't
divination, telepathy or any number of
concentrate well
other things most people won't believe.
enough to still
If this world is an illusion then
their own mind,
EVERYTHING is equally unreal. It
much less
just becomes a question of opening up
purposefully
to that particular frequency.
Remember what I said about
attack you with
distractions. The siddhis can be fun their energy.
toys, great tools or an ego trip that can
totally derail your development. Have fun with this and don't be afraid of
it. Stay positive and humble.
It’s also not something you really need to worry about as the average
person can’t muster enough concentrated energy to still their own mind,
so why worry that they might still your heart?
When I was visiting the San Francisco Bujinkan dojo with Glenn
Morris and Doug Beuckert I once saw Master Dale Seago, a high level
Ninjutsu practitioner; knock an attacker’s leg out from under him using a
secret sword technique. As the attacker ran in, Master Seago directed a
burst of chi into his opponent’s leg and the leg just stopped working!
What made this really interesting is that the attacker was about 10 feet
away and Master Seago never physically touched him. If developing
these sorts of abilities interests you then check out Paul Dong's book
"Empty Force" and Dr. Mantak Chia's "Tan Tien Chi Kung". I've
included both books in the Resource section at the back of this book.
There are also some very simple and safe ways to steal an
opponent’s energy and strength. Anyone who can use these techniques
will be able to do so against anyone who doesn’t have a high degree of
awareness, so guess what your best defense is. That’s right, awareness!
The other good thing is that by the time a person develops that much
energy they’ve usually found so many ways to use it more productively
that you really don’t have to worry about being attacked by them.
The best defense that I can think of, and yes this sounds hokey,
is to be completely open and at One. If you have to defend yourself, let
your Self blend into the rest of the universe. If you are nothing there is
nothing to defend. If you are actively creating your life you have the
ability to avoid this issue entirely. If you have the ability to connect to
and become the Universe you have an unlimited number of options.
Remember, if you are spending your life in a defensive posture
then you have some definite issues with fear that need to be worked
through. Keep reading.
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world tends to be very heavy. Whenever you meet they talk about how
bad things are going and how much pain/despair/trouble/heartache/etc.
they are experiencing. Do you ever want to just bitch-slap this otherwise
wonderful person and tell them to Cowboy Up? (I’m coming to the
conclusion that the Compassionate Bitch-Slap may be a useful tool for
some folks)
These folks have been taught that when they begin their litany of
problems other people will go “Oh you poor thing!” and send them some
energy. Throughout the years it’s become the norm for them to use their
problems to draw energy from the people around them and they probably
truly don’t realize that they are Energy Suckers.
Did you ever see someone who tends to be aggressive and
pushy, and usually slightly angry? These folks have learned to use
intimidation to draw energy. It’s a different tactic, but still gets the same
effect. How many other tactics do the people around you use to draw
energy?
Rather than being attacked by “Psychic Vampires”, we’re
constantly besieged by the legions of Energy Sucker Zombies that we
come in contact with every day. So how do you defend against them? By
tapping into an unlimited source of energy that we all have access to. By
the end of this section you should be able to use this energy easily.
against an attacker, the simple fact is by the time a person can use their
energy well enough to accomplish such a response (to a physical attack),
they’ve found far too many positive ways to use that energy.
awareness. With practice one can learn to identify negative stresses and
learn to channel that energy in positive ways. That’s why I say “nothing
bad should ever happen to you” once you learn to walk this path. Events
are simply events and it’s the external value that we place on those
events that causes us to see them as “good” or “bad”. Those external
values also create the stress that goes with the event.
3. Conserving your energy
Whenever someone gives you a sob story and you say “Oh you
poor thing!” you’ve just given away part of your energy. It’s important at
this point to look at the difference between ‘Compassion’ and ‘Enabling
behavior’ as these two often get confused.
Compassion is the art of being Empathetic (NOT Sympathetic!)
for the plight of another. It doesn’t mean you should do whatever it takes
to make that person feel better, but rather you should do whatever is in
that persons best interest, which may not make them feel better at all in
the short term.
Enabling behavior is what happens when someone whines a
little and you say “Oh you poor thing!”, which gives them positive
reinforcement to continue whining. Your energy is a tool and you should
make a point of using it on behalf of others (go back and see the Law of
Reciprocity), but you also have to be aware of those who’d just drain it in
order to continue on with their “Poor Me” attitudes.
The same goes for anger. Whenever you are angry you are
sending that person part of your daily allotment of energy. To say one
should never get angry is unrealistic, but to say that one should never let
anger take control is not.
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Sensing Intention
A mystical aspect of the martial arts is the ability to feel another
person’s intention. Sensing intention allows you to be in instant control
of a potentially violent encounter, and it's one of the ways we use the
martial arts to test our energy work and meditation skills in my classes.
I’m including it in this book because sensing intention is all
about awareness and being in the moment. It’s easy to learn and can
bring new depth to the non-violence of your life as it can make you safer
and more confident.
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should always be the absolute last resort) what's important here is that
because of your heightened awareness you weren't taken by surprise
when someone attacked you.
For an interesting illustration of using intention and feeling the
difference between the intent to strike and the actual strike read Chapter
6 of Dr. Glenn Morris' book Pathnotes of an American Ninja Master in
which he talks about his experience with the Bujinkan Sword Test.
can get whatever it is you want to attract. Most people have to take some
time and start small and work up to the big stuff in order to learn to have
faith in the process. Once you do that then you can sit in a cave and
manifest a million dollars, but not before.
6 months after the Inner Power rises. Don’t buy, sell or give away
anything and don’t dump all of your stuff and decide to follow a spiritual
path. That’s not bad advice, although I go a bit differently with it.
My advice (coming from someone who had a particularly hard
time in this period, but I also didn’t know anyone else who’d been
through it) is to embrace the insanity and roll with it. Give away all your
stuff, wear funny clothes and ride the shakti-coaster til the gods all get
together and throw you off it. Go where the energy takes you and talk to
whomever it leads you to. Don't be afraid of the process. Explain to your
loved ones that you are going to take some time and 'find yourself' and
then get on with it.
Fortunately today there are relatively easy ways to communicate
with others who may be experiencing something similar to you, so you
can take time out from lying under a Volkswagen talking to god and go
into the library and use the internet. It gives you a bit more freedom to
explore.
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Getting Started
Set aside a corner in one of your rooms. You can stock it with
whatever accoutrement you wish. Have cushions, candles, incense and a
small CD player for music or guided meditation CD’s. Use whatever
tools and accessories you want, as there’s no right or wrong at this point.
Once you’ve created your sacred space all you have to do is use
it. Set aside a few minutes each day and begin working through the
meditation exercises. Don’t worry about how long you meditate, just get
into the habit of doing it. The effects of meditation are cumulative, so 5
minutes a day everyday is better than 35 minutes once a week.
Eventually you won’t need any accessories and you can clear
your mind and meditate anywhere, at any time, but for now don’t worry
about that, just create a pleasant, sacred atmosphere and get started.
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On Expectation
When we begin meditation we often feel that we should be able
to do certain things within a certain time frame. We expect to be able to
clear our minds and access our deeper abilities. We expect to be able to
sit for an hour and meditate, or to see auras, or feel other people’s chi. If
it doesn’t happen quickly we become disappointed and confused. I can’t
tell you how important it is to break free of these expectations.
When we let go of expectations and learn to relax in the moment
and just BE, we are making progress of the most important kind. In the
West we tend to be goal oriented and need to see quick results, but
frequently the cumulative effects of meditation aren’t noticeable until
much later. Meditation is about this moment, about BEing totally in this
moment, rather than about who you’ll be when you’ve become a good
meditator.
The important thing with a regular practice is to just do it. The
effects are cumulative and one day you’ll look back and see that all those
short meditation sessions really added up.
Meditation Positions
There are several ways to meditate and depending on your goals
you may sit in various positions, stand in various positions or even move
and walk around.
Seated Meditation
Sit on a cushion, zafu or a pillow with your spine straight. Don’t
worry about specific positions such as the full lotus or half lotus, just
cross your legs comfortably and let your knees relax.
The purpose of sitting on the cushion is to keep your hips higher
than your knees, which helps take the pressure off the muscles that run
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up through your hips. Keep the spine erect, shoulders back, neck straight
and let your hands relax in your lap. Some methods require certain hand
positions or mudras, but for now just let your hands relax in a
comfortable position in your lap.
In this position your skeletal system should be supporting your body,
allowing your muscles to relax completely.
It’ll take awhile to get used to sitting this way, so just relax and grow
into it.
Touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Close your eyes
and look up towards your third eye (the chakra in your forehead right
between your eyes).
Sitting in a Chair
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be a human pretzel
to meditate. Grab a straight-backed chair and sit toward the front of it
with your genitals out over the front edge. Keep your feet comfortably
flat on the floor, your hips tucked and your spine straight. Let your hands
rest in your lap. Touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Close your
eyes and look up towards your third eye.
Seiza
Seiza is the kneeling position used in many of the Zen temples.
You can use this position if you wish, but most people find it extremely
uncomfortable for more than a few minutes.
Standing Stake
When we get into the Chakra exercises we’ll be doing some
standing meditations using the “Standing Stake” (also known as the
Mountain) pose from Chi Kung (Qi Qong).
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Stand with your feet shoulder width apart, your arms hanging
loosely at your sides. Flex your knees slightly. Tuck your hips under
slightly and feel your lower spine straighten. Relax your ankles, then
your calves, then your thighs, then your buttocks. Let that sense of
relaxation flow up your back and across your shoulders and up your neck
and out through the top of your head.
As usual, touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Close
your eyes and look up towards your third eye.
Moving
As you become more adept at meditation you’ll be able to do it
while moving. In fact, you’ll get to a point where you’re in a constant
state of light meditation once you learn to access the energy and open up
to it. You may already be practicing some of the more formalized forms
of moving meditation such as Chi Kung, Tai Chi or yoga.
Anything can be a form of moving meditation, including martial
arts, dancing or just playing. What makes it a meditation is your state of
mindfulness and your awareness of the moment.
Breathing
Breathe in through your nose and draw your breath down into
the area just below your navel, allowing your stomach to expand as you
breathe and filling your lungs entirely with each breath before exhaling
through your nose.
Take a moment and feel your breath. Pay attention to the air as it
flows in through your nostrils and down into your lungs. Don’t think
about anything or do anything other than just breathe.
1. Are you taking a relatively shallow breath and just filling the upper
lobes of your lungs?
2. Does your stomach move out as you breathe?
3. Do you feel the bones of your ribcage expanding and opening with
each breath?
For most people the answer to 1 is YES and the answers to 2 and
3 are NO so let's expand the exercise.
Draw your breath down to a point about 2 inches below your
navel (the body’s center of gravity). When you do you’ll feel your
stomach expand and push out in front of you. Most westerners keep their
stomach pulled in and their chest out, so if you do you’ll have to relax
your abdomen. Just take a moment and be aware of your breath as it
flows down into your center.
As you inhale and draw your breath down, let your ribcage
expand. You’ll feel your floating ribs at the bottom of your ribcage
spread and move, and you may get a few pops out of your spine also. Just
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take a few moments and breathe this way. Don’t think or let your mind
wander, just breathe.
If you’ve never meditated before then congratulations, you just
did! It’s exactly that simple.
There are many benefits to proper breathing. The extra oxygen
in your system means your heart doesn’t have to beat as fast, which
lowers your pulse and your blood pressure. Drawing the breath down
into your center also helps to massage your internal organs, providing
more oxygen to them as well as helping to release the accumulated stress
and toxins that build up there. The long term health benefits have been
proven for thousands of years.
Breathing is by far the most important meditation exercise,
although it sounds so simple. Paying attention to the breath is the
beginning of opening up your awareness, so take some time to practice
this, as it’s the foundation for everything that comes next. If you have to
dedicate your meditation time to breathwork for awhile then that’s good,
as we all proceed at our own pace.
I once read a translation of some of Jesus’ teachings from the
original Aramaic (the language he spoke, although he apparently wasn’t
literate) and it was very interesting to me that in Aramaic they used the
same word for wind, breath and spirit. Those with a Chi Kung
background might find it interesting to take another look at the New
Testament and insert the word breath every time you see the word spirit.
In addition to feeling your breath flow and your stomach and ribs
expand, I want you to feel the energy that flows into your body with each
breath. For me it feels like a very light feeling. It may feel different for
you so take some time and open up and feel the energy.
When you draw in the energy can you feel it pooling at your
center of gravity just below your belly button? As you breathe just let
that pool of energy expand throughout your body. Can you feel it flowing
down through your legs and up your back and down your arms? Take
some time and practice feeling that energy pool expand through your
whole body. Later we’ll expand it out even further, but for now just let it
flow.
This exercise should help you to feel rejuvenated and refreshed
as you’re drawing energy from an infinite pool. Do this exercise
whenever you’re depressed or down, and eventually as you progress
you’ll learn to do it all the time. It’s a habit you have to grow into.
Grounding
Grounding will always be an important skill, no matter how
advanced you become, so take the time to learn this now and to be able
to do it effortlessly.
Stand in the “Standing Stake” pose described above. Go through
the Breathing and Full Body Awareness exercises. Visualize roots
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growing from your feet down through the core of the earth, just like a
tree. In later meditations you can add some variety by seeing the roots
flow down to a large crystal at the earth’s core. Depending on the effect
you want you can vary the crystals and access different energies, but
that's obviously beyond the scope of the exercise at this point.
As you inhale feel the energy of the earth being drawn up
through your roots and up through your body and out through the top of
your head.
On your exhale, let that energy drop back down through your
body and feel all the accumulated stress of your life flow out with it and
back down through your roots and into the earth. Feel your muscles relax
as the stress flows out. For best effect do 9 repetitions of this exercise. A
repetition is 1 breath cycle, or inhale and exhale. If you wish you can do
more sets (groups of repetitions) as needed.
Grounding is a good way to release all your stresses, fears,
angers and feelings of inadequacy. Repeat this exercise for awhile, as
many times as necessary to clean yourself out.
There’s nothing wrong (and a lot of benefit) to stopping at this
point and just doing the exercises I’ve gone over up to this point until
they become completely effortless. Whenever you feel yourself
becoming stressed or angry learn to take a moment and ground yourself
and let those feelings just flow out.
Progressive Relaxation
Progressive Relaxation is easy to do and you can do it anywhere
and anytime.
Assume your meditation position of choice (I like the half-lotus
on a zafu) and go through all the exercises I’ve covered up to this point.
Just take a moment and feel the relaxed energy you should have after
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energy, which means your energy isn’t flowing through you, but rather
sticking in certain places in your body.
When your muscles are relaxed your energy flows unimpeded
and is continually renewed, leaving you feeling much lighter and more
refreshed.
Drawing Energy
During various exercises we’ll be drawing in energy through our
chakras, into our organs and even through the entire area of our skin.
Drawing energy into yourself is fairly easy to do and simply requires a
heightened sense of self-awareness to feel.
To begin drawing energy take a moment and focus on your
breathing. Feel your breath as it flows in through your nostrils and down
to your Dan Tien, the area two finger-widths below your belly button.
Feel the chi as it flows in with your breath down to your Dan Tien. Take
a few breaths and let the energy build up and spread through your body.
Now, as silly as it sounds, imagine a nose or an opening that
covers your heart chakra, just over your sternum. Remember what it feels
like when you draw the chi in through your nostrils? As you inhale let
the ‘nose’ over your heart chakra ‘inhale’ chi directly into your heart. It
may take awhile to really feel this, so don’t be worried if it doesn’t seem
to come easily. As you exhale let any stress or unhappiness in your heart
chakra flow down through your legs and deep into the earth.
Practice ‘inhaling’ energy this way. As you get comfortable
with it you’ll be able to draw chi into yourself in many different ways.
Below are some sample exercises that you can experiment with. You’ll
probably come up with some others on your own as the possibilities here
are literally endless.
Chakra Breathing– We’ll get deeper into this in the Chakra
Chapters, but you can draw energy into any of your chakras at any time
just like we did for the heart chakra.
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Energizing your organs– This can be a lot of fun and really help
strengthen your immune system and improve your overall health. It’s
also an exercise in using intention to send energy where you want it to
go.
Take a moment and relax as we did above. On your inhale draw
chi into your Liver. Don’t worry if you don’t know exactly where your
liver is, you don’t have to. Just intend for relaxing, healing energy to
flow into your liver as you inhale, and then draw it in. On your exhale let
the stresses and built up energies flow out of your liver and down into the
earth. Can you feel the lightness and relaxation? The next time you find
yourself becoming angry do this exercise.
You can run chi into any of your organs exactly the same way.
The infusion of energy will help cleanse your organs and release bound
stresses and memories. You may find yourself having some unexpected
emotional releases as that energy has to go somewhere once it’s released.
Relaxing Stress Knots out of your muscles– Whenever you feel a stress
knot building up in your muscles just draw energy directly into the knot
on the inhale and let the stress flow down into the earth on your exhale.
As an exercise in awareness you can take some time and just choose a
body part at random and draw energy into it.
Improve your eyesight and hearing– I’ve personally experienced some
radical healing in both my eyesight and hearing by drawing more chi into
my eyes and ears. At an age when my eyes should be getting worse I
have gotten to the point where I only wear my glasses when I’m working
on the computer or watching a movie.
Drawing energy from trees, rocks and plants– Sit with your back to a
tree or better yet face it and wrap your arms around it. Relax and spend a
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your spine and up over your head and down to the point where your
tongue touches the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth. Mix
the happy, laughing feeling with the saliva in your mouth, swallow it
down and feel it drop down through your body feeling your body
laughing it as it goes. Let it mix with the others.
Think about a time when you were in love, truly, completely,
100%, head over heels, swept off your feet in love. Take out the person
or people. Take that feeling down to your toes and on your inhales pull it
up across your feet, then up your ankles and up along your calves. Feel it
rise up across your knees, then over your thighs and across your hips.
Draw the feeling up your spine and up over your head and down to the
point where your tongue touches the roof of your mouth just behind your
front teeth. Mix the loving feeling with the saliva in your mouth, swallow
it down and feel it drop down through your body charging it with
complete, unconditional love. Let it mix with the others.
Think about the best orgasm you ever had. Take out the person
or people and just keep the feeling of the orgasm. Take that feeling down
to your toes and on your inhales pull that feeling up across your feet, then
up your ankles and up along your calves. Feel it rise up across your
knees, then over your thighs and across your hips. Draw the feeling up
your spine and up over your head and down to the point where your
tongue touches the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth. Mix
the feeling with the saliva in your mouth, swallow it down and feel it
drop down through your body charging it with the good feeling it as it
goes. Let it mix with the others.
Feel the combination of the energies now and feel the combined
energies swirling around down at your feet. Take the feelings down to
your toes and on your inhales pull that feeling up across your feet, then
up your ankles and up along your calves. Feel it rise up across your
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knees, then over your thighs and across your hips. Feel the happy,
relaxed, loving, competent, sexual energy as it flows up your spine and
up over your head and down to the point where your tongue touches the
roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth. Mix the combined
feelings with the saliva in your mouth, swallow it down and feel it drop
down through your body and then let it flow up again to the top of your
head, and then drop down to your feet.
Play with this awhile, run it as often as you can. This is how you
should feel all the time, relaxed, happy, loved and sexy. As you get better
at this you’ll be able to run it continuously.
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Taking more control of how you release these energies can have
a very positive effect on your relationships as well as the harmony of
your life.
Spontaneous Orgasms
Spontaneous orgasms are an energy release. It happens in many
cases when energy is blocked and unable to circulate through the
body, so you can think of it as a safety valve.
Many of the reported cases of spontaneous orgasm show that it
happens in times of stress. On the one hand it's better than bursting
into tears, but on the other hand it signifies that you need to be taking
some control over how your circulate your energy.
As usual The Secret Smile and the Microcosmic Orbit are the
tools to move that energy and help break up the blocks.
I don’t put these warnings here to discourage anyone, but simply to help
you be aware of some of the more common problems. Many Qi Qong
teachers insist that students be closely guided by a competent teacher and
I don’t disagree. On the other hand, it’s not always feasible to try to find
a competent teacher as many of us are constrained by time, finances or
geography.
Be careful, be aware and pay attention to your intentions. Don’t
be in a hurry and don’t let your expectations get your ass into something
that your mind can’t get you out of. There are a LOT of resources on the
web these days as well as discussion groups. Sort through all of this with
an open mind and remember that in some cases it’s like the blind men
trying to describe the elephant. We all have different pieces of the
puzzle, in other words.
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aren’t even aware we’ve been damaged. When you grow up with a pre-
existing condition then that condition becomes normal. Normal doesn’t
mean right or correct, by the way. It simply means that enough people
accept the same aberration as an everyday part of their lives. If 51% of
the people wore chickens as hats then the Chicken Hat would become
normal. What the hell, we can use the eggs.
day to the process then you’ll find that your abilities will increase
dramatically.
Basic Reiki
Reiki is an extremely useful tool for cleansing and balancing the
chakras. I’ve used it for years and found innumerable benefits to it. This
is a very simplified primer on basic Reiki. It’s not a certification course.
It's intended as a basic lesson to help you start channeling the energy.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese phrase which means “Universal Energy”. Its
history is enshrouded in myth, legend and parable, but the simple fact is,
it works. Reiki is simply the process of channeling Universal Energy
through oneself and into someone (or something) else. The vast range of
uses for Reiki range from healing oneself to opening and balancing the
Chakras and even charging objects and food with the energy.
Getting Started
Reiki is safe and simple to use. To get started sit or lie down in a
comfortable position. Put on the music of your choice and relax. Place
your hands over your face with your palms over your eyes. Touch your
tongue to the roof of your mouth with the tip of your tongue just behind
your front teeth.
As you inhale open up and feel the energy flow down through
the top of your head and down to your heart chakra, feel it flow out along
your arms and out through your hands and into your face. At the simplest
level that’s ALL you have to do. The energy will go wherever it’s needed
and do whatever is required of it. You don’t have to send it anywhere in
particular or try to control it.
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Getting Deeper
Reiki flows through you simply by your intent. You just have to
intend to open up to it and you’ll find it readily available. You may feel
many different things while giving yourself a Reiki treatment. Your
hands or the part of your body covered
by your hands may get hot, cold or
tingly. Some people feel it very easily
The energy will
and others take awhile to open up to it.
go wherever it’s
The simplest explanation I’ve found is
to think of what the emotion Love
needed and do
feels like, and then just relax and let it whatever is
flow. required of it.
Everyone should study Reiki. You don’t have to
I think that Reiki and money send it anywhere
management should be required in particular or try
courses in public school! Any energy to control it.
worker, massage therapist, healer,
martial artist or metaphysician can greatly benefit from Reiki, and there
are many FREE Reiki classes and sources of training available, as many
of us try to make it as easily accessible as possible to anyone who wants
it.
I hope this simple exercise helps some of you who’ve been
interested in Reiki, but just haven’t made the leap into studying it yet.
Detox
It's no secret that we live in a very toxic environment. In fact the
majority of items that we come into contact with during a given day will
have some sort of off-gassing, or toxins that you breathe, or that seep
through your skin or that you eat.
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Basic Maintenance
As we finish Part 1 I just want to close with the reminder that it's
so much easier to do some basic maintenance than it is to do major
repairs. This applies to your body, mind and spirit in the same way it
applies to your car and your furnace.
You'll probably use the exercises and concepts from Part 1 in
some way or another every day for the rest of your life. Even if you think
you're ready for Part 2 you should come back occasionally and review
these basics.
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to care for others at the expense of himself. The key here, once again, is
the word NEED. It’s all about the motivation that drives them.
Some of those so intent on self-sacrifice are driven by need. They
need to help others to make up for their own inadequacies, or to make up
for the bad things they feel they’ve done, or whatever other reasons drive
them. Yet if they truly accepted themselves then would they feel the need
to sacrifice themselves in order to help others? Wouldn’t they see helping
others as an extension of helping themselves, rather than as a way to
make themselves feel better about who they are?
A balanced person sees helping others as a normal, compassionate
thing to do, rather than as something to do to make up for their own lack
in some area. It’s the Law of Reciprocity again, by helping others we
help ourselves, by encouraging others to grow we also grow in the
process. By accepting ourselves exactly as we are, we can also accept
others exactly as they are, and that’s the beginning of unity.
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1st Chakra
Associated with the large intestine, feet and legs, the 1st Chakra
is your foundation. In this chakra you'll deal with security, stability,
money, housing, and other basic survival needs.
Imbalances in this chakra can result in angry, violent, fear-based
reactions. Often this is the hallmark of those who are insecure and unsure
of their place in the world. The trap for the unaware is the fact that so
much of our pop culture is targeted directly towards this chakra. This is
not a coincidence; insecure people make good consumers and are willing
to pay for solutions.
As with the other chakras, working with the 1st Chakra is an
incremental process. As you balance this chakra you'll find the other
chakras become more supported and easier to balance. This creates the
'Chakra Shuffle' in which you'll find your energy bouncing back and
forth between your chakras as the fine tuning process begins. Learn to be
aware of where your energy is, chakra-wise, and you'll be able to respond
to and eventually take control of the creation of your life.
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2nd Chakra
The Second or Water Chakra is the center for our feelings and
creativity.
Abstinence
In all seriousness, there are advantages to periods of abstinence
while working through the kundalini process. I was single for much of
the process because I had an instinctive realization that I was simply too
screwed up to get involved with anyone I really cared about. Once of my
first questions when I met Dr. Glenn Morris was "How do you handle all
of these changes and all of this energy while maintaining a good
relationship?" His instant answer of "Apparently not very well!" was
only half joking.
These days there is a lot more support and information available
and you really don't have to reinvent the wheel the way Glenn and I did.
Be sure to take advantage of the various forums and discussion groups.
Depending upon your energy practices there are times when
you'll want to recycle that sexual energy and use it for other things.
Those practices go beyond the scope of this book but spend some time
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digging through a list of Dr. Mantak Chia's books and you'll see a
number of extremely good references.
3rd Chakra
4th Chakra
The Heart or Wind Chakra is the melting pot for the divine
energy coming down from the crown and the earth energy coming up
from the root.
5th Chakra
Location Throat
Color Blue
Key Word Expression
Descriptors Etheric elements,
humanity
Source Of Truth
Seat of Wisdom, responsibility
Problems Inability to say ‘no’ or
‘yes’, any disorders
relating to the throat or
mouth
Contains The ability to define
ourselves in the world
Physical Communication Language, sounding,
Style singing, toning
Energy Type Etheric (emotional
energy charged with
spiritual awareness)
themselves; have a fear of speaking and show throat, mouth and thyroid
problems.
Those with too much energy can have a hard time listening and
have hearing problems and talk excessively.
Neck and shoulder stretches are good for this chakra and help to
release the energy blocks.
6th Chakra
Location Forehead
Color Purple
Key Word Vision
Descriptors Spiritualized humans,
saints, spirits, gurus
Source Of Insight
Seat of Visions, visioning
Problems Adolescent issues, eye
problems, glandular
problems, growth or
development issues,
problems planning for the
future
Contains Self image and means of
shaping/correcting ones
view of self and the world
Physical Communication Uses ability to see, draw or
Style project images to
communicate
Energy Type Cerebral (draws energy
from the brain and 7th
chakra)
Let your awareness go to your third eye. As you inhale feel the
energy flow in through your third eye and up through your crown and out
the top of your head. Watch the phosphenes behind your eyes as when
you do this they tend to turn purple.
Intuition, the ability to just 'know' something is an interesting
ability that can be developed as you work with this chakra. The 3rd Eye is
also a channel for projecting energy and as you continue with the
meditation exercises in this book you should be able to begin developing
that ability. I teach this in my martial arts classes and show how one can
project love and compassion and still use it to help you have a balanced
response to an attacker (a side advantage here is that if you are projecting
love then you are NOT responding through fear or anger). It's pretty easy
to learn and I give details later on.
When the 3rd Eye is balanced it's easier to move into a
meditative state and it's easier to ignore distractions. The increased
intuition can save your life, your marriage or both when used properly.
So far it hasn't been very good for Lottery numbers but I never buy a
ticket either, so I have to say that it really hasn't been properly tested.
As you get better at projecting your energy you'll find that it
does aid in manifesting. Just remember to manifest what you want, rather
than what you don't.
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7th Chakra
The Crown or 7th Chakra is the “psychic center” for higher knowing
and it receives the spiritual energies and guidance necessary to activate
our purpose.
In many old paintings of Christ you'll see the halo effect which
denotes a deeper connection to God and the spiritual realms. Once your
Crown Chakra opens you can feel the energy at the top of your head. It
feels a bit like wearing a very light hat. You may also go through a
period of intense itching, tingling or a crawling feeling around the top of
your head as the chakra is opening.
Too much energy in the crown can manifest as being overly
intellectual. I like to combine that with the energy of the 2nd Chakra and
be a 'Sexual Intellectual' (a fucking know-it-all).
Too little energy can manifest as apathy or indifference, spiritual
skepticism and materialism. It's not uncommon to give away all your
stuff when you hit this point as you begin to see that all 'things' are just
impermanent doodads and for awhile personal objects may feel like a lot
to drag around. As Jimmy Buffet says "It might come as quite a shock,
but you can't really own that rock."
I encourage people to go along with the give-away-all-your-stuff
mentality and ride it out. You don't need that crap anyway. Realize,
however, as you begin to see your true place and mission in this life you
may have to buy some of that stuff again. That's ok because if you've
balanced out your chakras you shouldn't have any problem manifesting
exactly what you need to get the job done.
It's important to understand your journey through the chakras is
going to be a continual process for the rest of your life. So what? It's like
breathing, just another thing that's happening in your system. How well
this works for you depends on your ability to surrender to the process and
go where you're supposed to go.
I tend to use the example of a pyramid when I teach about the
chakras. The broader and more solid your base the higher you can build
it. You may find that your energy jumps around seemingly at random
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Side Effects
Speaking of side effects, most of the side effects that will be
experienced during energy work are based around the chakras. Taking
the time to do the work and balance your chakras will help you avoid
some of these and give you the tools to manage others. Side effects are
simply symptoms of your energy work and they are neither good nor bad.
There may be some side effects that you can use in your life and in your
practice and there may be side effects that exist merely to help get you
onto the right path.
Understanding your chakra system will help you identify what
would appear to be random pain and recognize that a new stress knot or
energy block is forming in your system. The more you understand about
your chakras the better you'll be able to identify the things you are doing
right in your practice and the easier it'll be to keep everything balanced
and functioning.
Your physical body is the vehicle that lets your spirit interact
with the world around you. Chakras are the diagnostic tools that help you
maintain the energy balance in your meatsuit and keep it working
properly.
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Other Chakras
Warning!
It’s imperative that you’ve developed the ability to have a
positive outlook before you start working with the chakras. As you begin
the cleansing process you’re going to experience old, repressed emotions
and memories. If you haven’t learned to remain positive and release the
energy then you can possibly get yourself into a lot of trouble here. This
is where the support groups and internet discussion groups can really
help. You are NOT alone with this stuff, no matter how it feels
sometimes.
You may feel a variety of things with this exercise. You might
feel the spinning of the chakras, or just a light area at the chakra as the
energy flows in and out..
Continue this exercise up through the rest of the chakras. Don't be
distracted or even concerned with the images that come up relating to the
chakras. We'll deal with those later in another exercise. Right now just let
the energy flow and practice drawing it into your chakras and learn what
that feels like.
Variations
You can do this using Earth energy as I just described. You can
also use Universal energy and let it flow downward through your head
until it fills your entire body and spills down your arms.
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For the especially fun-loving you can combine this with the
Yin/Yang meditation shown later in the book and combine both energies
while visualizing the Yin/Yang symbol.
stronger the energy levels of your mate will also begin to increase, just
by the constant contact with you.
What you do to yourself can easily affect those you’re close to,
so don’t be surprised if your mate also begins to experience some clean
outs. This can frequently happen after or during sex as this is all sexual
energy and when you begin to crank it up then it can easily affect others.
Fortunately, I was aware of this fairly early on as I’ve had issues
with several girlfriends who’ve experienced emotional cleanouts while
having sex. If you’re not really well attuned to your own process it can
be really disheartening when the object of your affections bursts into
tears after making love.
As usual communication is the key. You’ll probably also begin
to gravitate more towards sexual partners who are involved in
metaphysics and energy work, or at least open to it. It can take a long
time for a non-energy worker to get used to your energy and intensity.
If you’re fortunate enough to be in a relationship with someone
who can handle your energy the practice of Tantra can open up some fun
new areas of study. “The Big Red Book” (Douglas & Slinger's Sexual
Secrets) can bring you and your partner hours of practice and
exploration.
This is another area where the discussion groups can be
extremely helpful.
Seeking Help
You may stumble across a repressed emotion or memory that
requires some professional help and counseling to cope with. If that
happens take your therapist a copy of this book in the hopes it’ll help
them understand the process that you’re involved with and why you’re
delving into these areas. If you can't afford to take them a copy then
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email me with their name and address and I will send your therapist a
free copy.
It’s important to remember that you are NOT alone with this
process. There are some good resources available today in the form of
support and discussion groups that can really help with your process.
Take advantage of them and don’t be afraid to get on and talk about
what’s going on with your practice. I can’t tell you how many times
someone has made some offhand comment that unlocked doors for me.
I spent a decade completely alone, just stumbling through this. I
see people today that effortlessly flow through things that took me years
to work out, simply because there are so many easily available resources
now.
There are dangers involved with energy work, just as there are
dangers involved in any other facet of life. Training and self awareness
are how to deal with those dangers. The best thing I can tell you here is
that love and compassion are the best armor that you can have. Does that
always work? Of course not, but neither does anything else.
When you start working with the chakras you are directing
energy and intention into some parts of your life you've possibly been
avoiding. It's very possible to have memories, childhood traumas and
even past life or subconscious traumas that are buried so deeply in your
system you may not even know they exist.
When you start cleansing your system you WILL have to face
and deal with these issues. This tends to be the #1 reason why some
people are scared off of energy work. During the cleansing and rewiring
process you are going to have emotions, thoughts, feelings and traumas
boil up out of your system and you are going to have to address them and
then let them go. In my experience this rarely happens when you aren't
open to it, such as when you are at work or out on a date. If you've taken
the time to work on your intention and awareness you should be able to
handle all of this with very little problem.
When I was going through this process I had memories come up
and realized that there were things in my childhood that I was angry
about that I didn't even consciously remember. With very little effort or
reflection I was able to release those old angers and hurts and just let
them go. I had other instances where I had to get a massage, acupuncture
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Part 1
Start in the meditation position of choice and go through the
Grounding and Secret Smile exercises. These are available on the CD Set
that I offer and the guided meditations make it much easier to get started.
After the Secret Smile choose one chakra to work on. Don't put a
lot of thought into which one to choose, just let your intuition be your
guide. Relax and feel the energy flowing into the chakra. Don't try to
draw more energy into the chakra or do anything special, just let your
awareness rest in your chakra and see what's there.
Pay attention to the colors and other visions behind your eyelids
but don't try to direct them. Simply be aware of what IS.
This should be very easy if you've been doing the exercises
covered so far. Here is where it gets a little tougher. As you've noticed,
the challenge has been to overcome the 'monkey mind' and learn to
ignore the distracting thoughts that arise whenever you try to clear your
mind. As we go into step 2 of this exercise we're going to allow thoughts
to come through so we can see them. The big challenge here is to be able
to see the thoughts and images, but NOT to be distracted by them and
start thinking about them. This may take a lot of work.
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Part 2
After you've had a few minutes to relax into Part 1 and calmed
and cleared your mind it'll be time to start working with the chakra.
Focus on the chakra with which you are working and begin to let more
energy flow into it as you inhale just as we did in the 'Drawing Energy
into Your Chakras' exercise. Don't put a lot of effort into this or beat
yourself up with it. Just open up and 'inhale' the energy into your chakra
as you inhale. As you exhale let all the stress, emotions and pent up
energy flow out of the chakra and down into the earth.
Give yourself permission to cleanse and balance your chakra and
to let go of old, negative energy. Say this to yourself as you begin the
exercise. This is important because it not only defines your intent, it also
removes some subconscious blocks to working with the chakra.
Here is the hard part. As you breathe energy in and stress out
pay attention to the thoughts that are passing through your mind. You'll
have occasional thoughts that are not related to the chakra you are
working on such as 'this is a dumb exercise' or 'my butt hurts from sitting
here'. Ignore those, especially the one about this being a dumb exercise
and try to pay attention to the thoughts that would seem to be related to
the chakra you are working with. In the beginning this can be a little bit
like juggling cats because you are combining several different exercises
into one very powerful and relatively advanced workout.
You may find and identify a variety of different energy blocks
by doing this. Depending on which chakra you are working with you
may have childhood issues or angers that arise. You may find karmic
debts that have to be repaid and apologies that have to be made. You may
have emotional outbursts of laughing or crying as energy releases and
flows out of your system.
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Safety Note
It IS possible to have old, forgotten or even subconscious mental
and emotional traumas arise when working with the chakras. Remember
that you started this exercise and if it gets to be too much to handle then
you can stop it and go back into the Secret Smile.
The Secret Smile is the way for you to regain control of your
system if you start feeling overwhelmed. This is a simple exercise, but
it's very powerful and effective and you can spend some time doing it
and regain control of your emotions and energy.
Cleansing and balancing the chakras is about healing, and
humans have the capacity to store an immense amount of pain within our
bodies. The more relaxed, happy, healthy and comfortable your body is
the easier it is to cleanse and maintain it.
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Basic Practice
Sitting in a chair or on a cushion, go through the grounding and
the Secret Smile. As you inhale clench the PC muscle in your perineum
(kegels) and let the energy flow up your spine to the top of your head.
Let it flow over the top of your head and drop down the front of your
body to your perineum on the exhale.
As you inhale contract your PC muscles and your sphincter and
feel the rush of energy up your spine. This part can take a bit of practice.
Begin by only doing a few contractions at a time and then building up the
number of contractions as you practice.
At the most basic level that’s all there is to it. As you begin to
play with this and experiment then you can try running the orbit between
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Intermediate Practice
The next stage is called the Macrocosmic Orbit and it includes
your arms and legs. You should be to the point where you can run the
basic orbit at any time, even while at work and during the day as you go
about your life. Going from the Microcosmic Orbit to the Macrocosmic
Orbit is simple because by now you’ve figured out the hard parts and just
need to expand your orbit.
Draw earth energy up the front of your legs as far as the first
chakra, then up your spine on the inhale while doing your sphincter
contractions. After you pull the energy over the top of your head let it
drop back down the front of your body to the perineum and down the
back of your legs into the earth. Seen from the side this looks like a
figure 8 with an open bottom.
As you draw up the front of your legs also pull energy up the
back of your arms to the midpoint of your back between your shoulder
blades. At this point it combines with the energy coming up your spine
and then rises up over your head. It can take some practice to coordinate
your breathing with drawing the energy up your arms and legs. It’s
perfectly fine if you practice these separately and just draw up your legs
for awhile before adding in your arms.
On the exhale let your energy drop down the front of your body.
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When it reaches your heart chakra let it split and let the energy run down
the front of your arms as well as the front of your body. Let it flow out
your fingers and down to the earth. Let the energy flowing down the
front of your body go through the perineum and then down the back of
your legs, into the earth.
It may take awhile to build your coordination so don’t get
discouraged. This is a good exercise for clearing stagnant energy out of
your arms and legs and energizing your entire body. Keep at it til you can
get out of the way of the process and just let it flow all the time. You’ll
reach a point where you can stop trying to do it and just let it happen.
Skin Breathing
Skin Breathing is an excellent full body awareness exercise that
also helps strengthen your bones, among other things. It’s out of the
“Marrow Washing and Tendon Changing” school of Chi Kung.
To begin, first take a moment to do the grounding exercise and
progressive relaxation exercises. Pay attention to your breathing. On the
inhale draw energy into your body as described in the ‘Drawing Energy’
section, except that instead of drawing chi into a specific organ or muscle
we’re going to draw it in through the entire surface area of our skin.
This is a relatively advanced exercise. If you have trouble
feeling the surface of your skin over your entire body all at once just take
a more manageable chunk such as your head or hands to start with.
As you inhale feel the chi flow in through your skin and deep
into your bones. On your exhale feel any stresses or problems flow down
through your arms and legs and deep into the earth. Practice this until
you can feel the energy flowing into every square inch of skin over your
entire body.
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MERIDIAN EXERCISES:
There are 12 major meridians for the circulation of Qi on each
side of the body in the “traditional meridian system.” These 12 meridians
are grouped into 6 Yin/Yang pairs in relation to basic life functions.
In addition to the 12 major meridians, in traditional Chinese
Medicine, there are 8 extra meridians which are special pathways for the
Qi travel. The Conception Vessel and the Governor Vessel are
exceptional among the extra meridians in that they also have independent
functions and points which are located on the center line in the front and
along the back of the body’s centerline (independent points are
acupuncture points which belong to one meridian. All the regular
meridians have independent points, but most of the extra meridians do
not. Meridians without independent points share points which belong to
other meridians). The most exceptional feature of these 2 meridians is
that they regulate the flow of energy in all of the regular meridians. The
Conception and Governor Vessels are said to respectively serve as
reservoirs of Qi for the Yin/Yang meridians.
The line of tension which forms down the center of your back is
the Governor vessel. The Governor vessel has at least 28 main
independent points and begins at the tip of the tailbone and goes up and
around the crown of the head to the end up at the midpoint of the upper
jaw. The tension along the Governor vessel is felt most strongly when
you inhale.
1. Lung/Large Intestine “A” (bend over, look to the heels, push hands
over head and up)
2. Stomach / Spleen “B” (Lean back from Seiza)
3. Heart / Small Intestine “C” (Pull forehead towards the floor and try
to touch Toes while holding them with the hands and opening the “Gau”
groin, feet and heels pressing together)
4. Bladder / Kidney “D” (Legs stretched out heels touching, bend
forward and reach)
5. Heart Constrictor (Governor) / Triple Heater Meridians “E” (Sit
in ¼ or ½ Lotus position and cross arms one over the other so hands are
cupping over opposite knees, bend over and touch forehead to center at
crease of arm)
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Important Points:
The real purpose of these Six Basic Meridian Exercises is not to
attain the flexibility of a gymnast or ballerina. The most important goal is
to find the best position in which you can feel the resistance or a tingling
sensation coming from the line of tension forming along the meridians.
The main objective here is to get a feeling for what it really is
like to relax by releasing Qi and allowing tension to dissipate. Start out
doing only two reps for each exercise and one or two complete breath
cycles while in each posture. Increase the reps and breath cycles over
time. Use slow and deliberate breath patterns. Always keep your
attention on your breathing and be sensitive to how your body is
responding to each exercise.
Just relax after completion. Relax for a while on your back with
your eyes closed in an “X” position (the kind of position we got into
when lying in the snow to make snow angels, also called the “Corpse”
position in Yoga. Keep the eyes closed and feel for any bodily
sensations. Become entirely detached from the external world. When you
do this, your mind will begin to tune in to any internal events of your
body. You may begin feeling various sensations like tingling or buzzing
in the ears, eyes or along the course of the meridians which can be
regarded as “Energy Flow.” These sensations, instead of issuing from
conscious awareness, have their origins in the inner workings of your
body.
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The Book of Do In
By Michio Kushi
Have your partner stand about 12-15 feet away. Walk slowly
towards them. Can you sense their aura as you walk up to them? Can
they feel you? As you get deeper into this you’ll be able to play with
intention and emotions also, but for now just concentrate on feeling the
aura.
Here's a game you can play with this;
Have your partner stand a few feet away and think angry
thoughts. Can you feel a difference in their energy? How about when
they think happy thoughts?
Some people have no trouble at all with this while others aren’t
as empathic and take awhile to learn to feel it. As usual this is all about
building up your own personal catalog and learning how things feel.
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Chakra Diagnosis
Have your partner stand upright but relaxed. Stand with both your
hands held above their head. Slowly bring your hands down until you can
feel the thickness or pressure of their crown chakra. This can vary on
everyone. How far above their head did you feel it?
Move your hands down to their 3rd eye with one hand in front of
their forehead and one hand behind
their head. Move your hands out and
slowly back towards them until you When you learn
can sense the energy of their chakra. about the chakras
Did you feel a difference between the what you sense
front and back? Did you sense the front can be extremely
and back at different distances, was useful for learning
one of them noticeably further out than about who you’re
the other? Did it feel like your hands dealing with and
were pushed out away from the give you insights
chakra? into their
Do this again at the Throat Chakra,
personalities and
then at the Heart Chakra, Solar Plexus,
their possible
and Dan Tien. Don’t touch them
actions/reactions
physically; just feel the energy of their
chakras.
For the Root Chakra let your hands go down to just above your
partners knees and feel the energy over that entire area.
This exercise can be a lot of fun, especially as you learn more about
the Chakra system and what it means when you can feel the energy. It’s
extremely easy to do and anyone with a basic level of awareness can do
it fairly quickly as it’s just feeling energy.
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Just as you can feel energy, a lot of people can also see it. Seeing the
aura doesn’t seem to be something everyone can do and those who do
seem to have wildly varying abilities. I’ve known healers who could look
at you and say things like “Oh you’re blocking some energy here” just
because of what they see in your aura while others can just barely see it.
Personally I’m more of an empath and while I can feel energy from
across the room I don’t see it that well. This is something that you can
play with and if you can do it then it’s just another cool tool in the
toolbox.
Seeing the aura is a matter of taking your eyes slightly out of focus.
If you’ve ever been able to see those holographic picture-in-a-picture
things you shouldn’t have any trouble seeing auras as you do exactly the
same thing with your eyes. The first time I was at a seminar and this
topic came up I had no luck whatsoever with seeing the auras of the
others in the seminar. That night I went over to the bookstore and
grabbed a bunch of the holograph picture books and sat there til I could
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relax my eyes and see them. The next day when I went back for the rest
of the seminar I didn’t have any trouble at all seeing the auras of the
other attendees.
Have your training partner stand in front of a light-colored wall in a
dimly lit room. Have your partner hold one finger in front of their face
about 6 inches out from their chin. Now focus your eyes on their finger,
not their face. Have them remove their finger but keep looking at the
same spot, you’ll have to relax your eyes a bit to do this. Using that
same relaxed vision, if you look at them you should be able to see what
looks like a little line that runs all around them a couple of inches out
from their body. The next layer out is even more faint and may have
colors associated with it. The different meanings of the colors vary
widely depending on who you’re talking to. My advice in this area is to
open up your awareness and see for yourself which colors seem to be
associated most often with which types of people and their behaviors.
Play with this a bit. Does their aura change when they think
happy thoughts? Sad thoughts? Angry thoughts?
Some people can see auras instantly and others have to work at
it. Don’t be too put out if it takes awhile.
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ocean’s currents toward it. As you get to the shore you can see the bright,
sandy beach and a forest of palm trees up the side of a huge volcanic
mountain. A trail leads from the beach up through the trees and up the
side of the mountain.
As you walk across the sand you can feel yourself drawing
energy from the ground up through your feet. You become stronger and
more confident as you begin to walk up the trail through the trees.
Off to the left you can see the abandoned ruins of an old temple
and a graveyard. There are also a couple of pools nearby. You go around
these and continue up the trail. The climb becomes steeper and harder as
you go and you feel yourself getting tired. You lean against the trees and
rocks and discover that you can draw energy in through your hands, and
this revitalizes you and gives you the strength to keep climbing.
Ahead of you the trail forks and you see that one fork leads
around to a large cave. There’s a guardian at the entrance of the cave
who wears a long cloak and a cowl that masks its identity. You get closer
to the cave and the guardian motions for you to enter. You can feel a
strong sense of acceptance and the guardian bows to you, making you
feel a bit like a king or a queen.
Inside the cave is a long, downward spiraling tunnel. The walls
glow with a slight phosphorescence that allows you to see as you
descend. The tunnel opens out into a large cavern with a faint glow of hot
lava far back towards the rear. On your left is a podium upon which rests
a large leather bound book. On the cover in gold letters is written “All
Knowledge Is Power! Seeking Truth, First Look Ye Here.”
Behind the podium is a room with a huge array of computers and
electronics. There are three very comfortable looking captain’s chairs in
the room and a young man and woman working there. They don’t see
you yet.
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This is your space and you can do anything you like with it.
Explore through the doors, interact with the people and animals. Open up
the book and see what’s in it. You’ll find the gear lockers fully stocked
with climbing gear, scuba gear, etc. As I’ve begun to trim down my
possessions and build up my connections to the universal energy I’ve
found I need less gear for my explorations so I’m turning that space into
a hydroponics greenhouse.
Get as real as you possibly can with this exercise. Try to smell
the fragrances and feel the wind on your skin. Get as wild and crazy as
you want to also. This is your space and anything goes.
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First Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let your senses
fall down to your first chakra. Visualize the first chakra as a red lotus
flower with 4 petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn slowly and
gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the four petalled lotus
and gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
chakras and out through the top of your head. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale.
Do this for about 20-30 minutes and then give yourself the Reiki
energy balance as described earlier. Don’t skip this step as it helps to
equalize all your chakras to your growing energy levels.
Second Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let your senses
fall down to your second chakra. Visualize the second chakra as an
orange lotus flower with six petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the six petalled lotus and
gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
chakras and out through the top of your head. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale.
Do this for about 20-30 minutes and then give yourself the Reiki
energy balance as described earlier. Don’t skip this step as it helps to
equalize all your chakras to your growing energy levels.
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Third Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let
your senses fall down to your third chakra. Visualize the third chakra as a
yellow lotus flower with ten petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the ten petalled lotus and
gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
chakras and out through the top of your head. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale. Do this for about 20-30 minutes
and then give yourself the Reiki energy balance as described earlier.
Don’t skip this step as it helps to equalize all your chakras to your
growing energy levels.
Fourth Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let
your senses go to your fourth chakra. Visualize the fourth chakra as a
green lotus flower with twelve petals. Allow the face of the flower to
turn slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the twelve petalled lotus
and gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
chakras and out through the top of your head. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale.
Do this for about 20-30 minutes and then give yourself the Reiki
energy balance as described earlier. Don’t skip this step as it helps to
equalize all your chakras to your growing energy levels.
Fifth Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let
your senses go to your fifth chakra. Visualize the fifth chakra as a blue
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lotus flower with sixteen petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the sixteen petalled lotus
and gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
chakras and out through the top of your head. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale. Do this for about 20-30 minutes
and then give yourself the Reiki energy balance as described earlier.
Don’t skip this step as it helps to equalize all your chakras to your
growing energy levels.
Sixth Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let
your senses go to your sixth chakra. Visualize the sixth chakra as an
indigo lotus flower with two petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the double petalled lotus
and up through your crown and out to the universe. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale. Do this for about 20-30 minutes
and then give yourself the Reiki energy balance as described earlier.
Don’t skip this step as it helps to equalize all your chakras to your
growing energy levels.
Seventh Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let your senses
go to your seventh chakra. Visualize the seventh chakra as a violet lotus
flower with a thousand petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn slowly
and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
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First Week
Practice drawing the energy up through the first two chakras.
Visualize the lotus flower growing up out of the mud, firmly rooted, its
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orange six petalled face rising towards the sun. See the energy flow up
through the orange lotus and change colors as it flows through the other
chakras and out the crown and into the universe. Be sure to balance your
chakras afterwards.
Second Week
Practice drawing the energy up through the first three chakras.
Visualize the lotus flower rowing up out of the mud, firmly rooted, with
a stem holding its yellow ten petalled face, rising towards the sun. See
the energy flow up through the yellow lotus and change colors as it flows
through the other chakras and out the crown and into the universe.
Third Week
Practice drawing the energy up through the first four chakras.
Visualize the lotus flower rowing up out of the mud, firmly rooted, with
a stem holding its green twelve petalled face, rising towards the sun. See
the energy flow up through the green lotus and change colors as it flows
through the other chakras and out the crown and into the universe.
women in the larger religions go back to men who are afraid of their
feminine energies and represents an imbalance in their basic dualities.
You should see your inner deities from any viewpoint you wish, in
other words. Feel free to ritualize, sanctify, idolize and worship them in
any way you see fit as it’s extremely important to have FAITH when
you’re on the kundalini road. It doesn’t matter what you choose to have
faith in, just as long as you’re able to relax and listen to the inner voices
and trust that they are taking you in the directions in which you’re
supposed to go.
You should identify with the happy, positive and beautiful aspects of
your inner deities and always strive to remember and honor them in
every moment of your life. Your inner deities are part of the same energy
that everyone else’s inner deities are made of, so by honoring yourself
you should also be honoring them and vice versa.
people. How many people do you know right now who are unhappy with
their lives? How many of them can point to someone else and say “They
ruined my life!”?
If God is external you have the ability to take NO
RESPONSIBILITY at all for your own life. Whenever something bad
happens it must be “God’s Will”. After all, you were trying your best and
living right, saying your prayers and eating your veggies and all that,
right? The source of your problem must be ‘out there’.
There is a lot of Power in externalizing God. When God is ‘out
there’ it only stands to reason that there must be certain people who are
better at communicating with Him or understanding Him. These middle
men always come with their own price, and hey, they’ve got mortgages
and kids in school also, so of course they should get paid for their time.
We now have huge industries built around the middle men. I don’t want
to seem like I’m denigrating the middle men. In fact, I consider religion
to be extremely important and I really don’t believe that our world would
function without it.
Going Within
Spirituality, or the study and search for one’s spiritual essence
(my definition), pretty much has to be a solitary pursuit in the beginning.
This doesn’t mean you can’t share beliefs, rituals, chalices or bodily
fluids in the name of a deity or spiritual path. It just means that at the
most basic level you are dealing with your spirit. The only way to do that
is to go within and start getting to know your Self. This can be an
extremely long, complicated and even dangerous journey. It’s pretty
much guaranteed to kill you, so you may as well get comfortable with
that.
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Perception = Reality
What exactly, is reality? Is anything real? How can different
people experience exactly the same event and have different reactions
such as pain and pleasure or fear and excitement? You can put two
people in the same seat on a roller coaster and one of them may love
every minute of it and the other might throw up from fear. Why is that?
Didn’t they both just experience the same event? Apparently not!
Our reality is simply our view of the world around us filtered
through our perceptions. Some of this is biological. Our body puts out
certain chemicals that cause certain reactions at a physiological level that
may be beyond our conscious control. That’s just a scientific fact.
However, modern science, as well as very ancient science, has repeatedly
proven we can change our programming for just about any physiological
reaction. It’s just a matter of training our Id and changing our
perceptions.
our Id and take charge of our programming. Some of these tools can be
very fast and some of them can take awhile and there are arguments and
benefits for both.
I like to point out that making small, incremental changes tends
to be easier because it disrupts your life a lot less. The changes tend to be
more sustainable since you are making a lifestyle change rather than just
changing an aspect of yourself. For instance, you can win the lottery and
instantly change an aspect of yourself, but statistics show the vast
majority of lottery winners are broke again within a very short time.
Statistics also show many self-made millionaires went through a process
of learning about money management and financial education that
allowed them to create an entirely new reality, but in a much more
incremental fashion.
What it all comes down to is that it’s ok to feel good about
taking things slow and making small changes, even though that tends to
not be The American Way.
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desire by smudging it with a bit of sage and some sweetgrass and then
offering it for service to whatever directions or deities appeal to you.
Hang it on the wall.
A Medicine Spear can be as simple as a stick that you consecrate
and use to symbolize a spear. Hang it with the shield.
When you’re in the void and something wants a taste you can
just summon these and they’ll appear in your hands. I don’t advise
carrying them with you as it strikes a very defensive posture.
Armor of Light
Another defensive tactic is to see yourself armored in strong
bright light. Once again this can be summoned, so you don’t have to go
around feeling like you’re on the defensive.
Just Eat It
If you don’t want to bother with either of those you can just
swallow the beast, literally. It’s only energy so just inhale it and get on
with your trip.
Love
Another tactic that works for me when I run into something that
would ordinarily be considered a nightmare; Love. Just relax and send it
all the unconditional love you can. Remember that some experiences or
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beings will show up to test you so keep the Universal Laws in mind and
treat them the way you'd want to be treated.
This moment, right now, is the only one that really exists. The
last moment has faded into some abstract, subjective past that only exists
in our individual memories, and the next moment is part of a future that
may never arrive. This breath, right now, is the only real breath, as the
last one is gone and the next one isn’t guaranteed. I once spent some time
face down in the ocean, paralyzed and unable to move. Each time a wave
hit me and turned my face up out of the water I took as big a breath as I
could get and then held it, wondering if I was ever going to get another.
Some of us need harsher lessons than others apparently. ☺
So the question becomes “What am I doing right now?” “Am I
living the way I want to live right now, and if not what can I do to make
that happen?”
Most of us have at least a vague idea of who we think we want
to be when we awaken to our true selves. Here’s your Wakeup Call then.
Start BE-ing that person right now! If you want to be like a Buddha then
BE like a Buddha. If you see enlightenment as being nicer to others and
treating them the way you want to be treated and loving them as you love
yourself then do it, right now.
Many of our issues with duality go back to our very basic nature,
not our good/bad, male/female or light/dark side, but even deeper to the
Id and Super-Ego. It’s extremely easy to see these as the basis for all of
the others with the battle being between the untrained, instinctive Id and
the overly intellectual Super-Ego and the need for balance.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that all of this started with some
old shaman sitting around the campfire trying to put it into terms that his
people could understand.
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“Look at it this way” he might have told them, “On this side you
have Order and Law and Creation, let’s call that side God. Over here you
have chaos and disorder and acting intuitively on your baser instincts,
let’s call that side the Devil…”
one another just as in any of the other dualities. I also believe it’s
possible to draw these energies from the world around us without the
need for an actual sexual partner; I’m just not very good at it.
“The Big Red Book” officially known as Sexual Secrets
(Douglas and Slinger) goes into a lot of detail on the various sexual
energies and it’s a lot of fun to read also. As with some of Mantak Chia’s
books on sexual techniques I can’t recommend it strongly enough. I think
the world would probably be a much better place if it was issued to
everyone and we were tested on it regularly.
It's important to find examples of the dark and light that can be
manifested positively and enjoyably as everything has to balance. It’s
unnatural for us to always be one or the other. Music, dance, theatre,
movies, martial arts and sexuality are some of the ways you can find
positive examples of both the dark and the light. In reality you can find
positive examples anywhere, those are just some that I personally enjoy.
This is where the self awareness part of Inner Power comes in.
You have to know yourself well enough to become comfortable with all
the aspects of your personality, and to find creative ways to balance your
proclivities. If you spend all day giving Reiki treatments and listening to
soothing new age music take some time in the evening and pop in a
suitably dark movie or some nice dark music on the stereo. If you choose
music as your balancing catalyst then turn off the lights, close your eyes
and do some moving meditation and ecstatic dancing. You might be
surprised at what you’re able to clean out of your system this way.
What’s important here is to learn to be comfortable with your
dualities, and then get beyond them. This can be a journey of self
discovery that can take you places you didn’t know you could go.
Yin/Yang Exercise
Here’s an exercise I’ve been playing with. I won’t say that I
invented it because when it comes to meditation there really is nothing
new. It’s all been done before. I can say however, I didn’t learn this from
any external source; it’s just something that came to me.
Pick the meditation position you prefer and take a moment to
ground yourself. You do this by letting your energetic roots grow down
into the earth and feel the earth energy flow up into you on the inhale, all
the way up over your head.
As you exhale release all your stress and tension and let it flow
back down into the earth to be recycled. Feel your muscles relax as this
stress bleeds out of your body and feel your connection to the earth
increase as you draw in each breath. Do this as long as necessary to
become relaxed and feel a good connection to the energy.
Now as you inhale, feel the dark earth energy flow up the back
side of your body, while simultaneously opening up and feeling the light
universal energy flow down through the crown of your head and down
the front of your body.
As you exhale see the 2 bands of energy swirl through you and
into a yin/yang symbol that encompasses you. Continue at this level til
you can do that with one breath comfortably.
The next step is to let loose of your perceptions and become the
yin/yang symbol. Feel yourself expand beyond your usual physical
boundaries with the light and dark energies swirling through you in
perfect balance. If the energy wants to continue spiraling let it.
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Ego Triggers
We all have ego triggers.
An ego trigger is any word, phrase, thought or feeling that
causes an unintentional, unthinking response within us. Some easy words
to use for examples are Abortion, Gun Control, Animal Rights, Human
Rights, the Environment, Child Abuse and Summer Camp. If none of
these words elicited a response in you then you are probably a rare
human indeed.
I used some politically oriented words, but you can address them
more specifically. How about hypocrite, chauvinist, moron, dipshit, idiot,
fat or slut?
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yourself for any actions, deeds or words you used in conjunction with the
ego trigger.
Allow any emotions that need to come forth as you release your
attachment to the word. You may laugh or cry, scream or shout, jump up
and down or dance or anything else you need to do to get the feelings out
of your system. If you feel you need professional help with counseling,
massage or healing then by all means get it. If you start feeling
overwhelmed remember to use the Secret Smile to pull yourself out of
the stresses.
Once you’ve begun to release the stresses from the ego trigger
you can begin to look at compassionate and loving ways to respond to
that trigger from now on. It’s almost impossible to get rid of every ego
trigger you may have, but you can definitely replace the negative effects
with something more positive.
One of the things that happen with Meditation is that all the
masks are stripped away. Suddenly you’re left with a completely blank
slate and it’s up to you to decide what should be there. It’s one of the
reasons why some people have such radical changes to their personality
after an awakening.
A lot of people also hide behind their masks and it can be
extremely frightening when those masks no longer hide them from
themselves. It’s one of the reasons I’m constantly prattling on about
intention and awareness and having a positive attitude.
The good news is that you don’t have to experience an
awakening to begin the process of dropping the masks. As you get deeper
into the self-awareness process you’ll begin to question some of the
things you do and the reasons you do them. As you expand your
awareness you’ll be able to have different views of your own actions as
well.
The simplest way to begin stripping these masks away is to look
at your responses to external/internal stimuli. Do you respond primarily
from the Super-ego (conscious) or the Id (subconscious) parts of your
ego? How’s that working out for you? Are there times when you’d like to
respond more consciously and other times when you feel like your
intellect gets in the way?
As you journey through your own self-awareness you’ll find
that you can begin changing your responses, and therefore changing your
masks.
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and
study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."
Epictetus
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find this easier to do. You are a living, breathing sacred space generator
and everyone who comes in contact with you enters your area of sacred
space and therefore should pass out the other side of it feeling better than
when they went in to it.
The challenge with this is to feel that way about everyone, no
matter how they’ve treated you, or how stupid, rude inept or downright
mean they act. We all have the ability to be total jerks. Just as we’ve
accidentally shown our bad sides to others, then others will show their
bad sides to us. It’s entirely possible the one bad moment you witness
from your adversary may be the only bad moment that person has ever
shown. Judging them as a perpetual jerk may be as utterly unfair as the
times when others judged you as a perpetual asshole.
When you bring the jerk into your bubble of sacred space your
goal is to make their day better. Get beyond your own ego and the
attitudes of “How dare they treat ME that way” and see if you can help
break them out of their bad mood. Look at it like a game. Have fun with
it.
Does this always work? Of course not. Sometimes the other
person is still going to be a jerk, and sometimes in the case of a
potentially violent situation this tactic may still not be enough to avoid
the confrontation. As I often point out in my martial arts classes “You
may still find it necessary to bend, fold and spindle an attacker, but at
least this method keeps you from doing it in anger or hatred”.
Another thing to remember about anger is that the usual
response to it is more anger. What’s the first thing you feel when
someone becomes angry with you? If you’re like most of us you also
begin to get angry. It develops into a circle and keeps growing until it
either spills over or sanity prevails.
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Remember with anger that it’s just like love. Someone can give
you all of it that they want to, but it’s up to you to accept it. Like the old
example the monks use; if someone offers you a cup of tea and you
refuse it then whose tea is it? It still belongs to them. If someone offers
you anger and you refuse it then whose anger is it?
The next time you feel yourself becoming angry try this:
Begin your belly breathing drawing your breath deep into your
hara. Let your muscles relax and let any tension flow out and down into
the earth. As you inhale feel the earth energy flow up into you until it
fills your entire body. On your exhales continue to let stress and tension
flow out.
Begin drawing chi in through your liver. Don’t worry if you
don’t know where your liver is, just
open up and intend for the energy
to flow into it and you’ll eventually Of course, you
be able to feel your liver as you do also have to
this. Experiment and play with this. remember to forgive
If your concentration is good if yourself.
nothing else it may take your mind
off whatever you’re angry about.
Remember that the Law of Reciprocity applies here also so if
you send out anger then you’ll receive anger in return.
Forgiveness
Since none of us are perfect it’s important to remember about
forgiveness. When someone ticks you off the first thing to remember
once you cool down is to forgive them for whatever they did to make you
angry. This is extremely important because until you do this you’re still
carrying the seeds of that anger around with you. Take a moment to
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Righteous Anger
Looking at the world today makes you think there are times
when we should be angry. Human Rights abuses, starvation, injustice,
etc. When you start getting mad about those things where do you stop? It
might sound perfectly reasonable if you say “I’m only going to be
righteously angry about the worst injustices and then stamp them out”. If
you’re amazingly effective (more so than anyone has ever been) you’ll
single handedly make the world a better place. However, you’ll reach a
point where you’ve cleaned up the entire planet and you begin to vent
your righteous anger on some guy who spits on the sidewalk because
that’s the worst thing that’s left.
Of course no matter how angry you get you can never stamp out
injustice or abuse. Those things are part of our basic nature and you can’t
be angry about our basic nature, you can only accept it. Once you accept
it you can get beyond it.
Even righteous anger is subject to the Law of Reciprocity. You
may feel justified at being angry at the person who screwed up, but we
all screw up occasionally. Personally I’d prefer to give compassion rather
than anger (and I eventually hope to get good at it). When you react out
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Spiritual Integration
rid of everything you own and live free of the attachments and wander
the Earth as a spiritual being in human form that’s also a choice.
When I talk about poverty I mean the impoverished mindset,
rather than the lack of stuff or money. It’s this impoverished mindset that
makes people poor and keeps them there.
Another good point is that often people may have some hold-
over from a past life, such as a vow of poverty they still live up to. That’s
where your self-awareness comes in and allows you to get past it and
begin living the life of abundance.
When I was a kid growing up in the foothills of North Carolina
we hardly ever had money. We usually raised a garden and kept animals
for the freezer. In the summer mom would can the vegetables from the
garden so we’d have something for the winter. While my parents would
worry about money, they always made sure my sister and I had shoes and
decent clothes to wear to school. It never occurred to us that we didn’t
live in a time of abundance. Even when times were hard we had
everything we needed. The times when we felt a lack of money were
times when we wanted some external luxury. Of course growing up the
way I did also ‘programmed’ some attitudes into me. The section that
comes next is a posting I made on the Inner Power Discussion Group
about that and the process I was going through at the time.
which, as far as I can tell, doesn't really end til you shuffle off this mortal
coil. Then you get to come back and start over.
The last couple of years or so have been a really interesting
period, partly through the guidance
and help from both Dr. Glenn Morris
and Susan Carlson, and it's Money is a fact of
interesting how much progress I've life in our modern
made and how far I still have to go. world. It's a tool
I've recently come to an too many of us are
interesting new period in my life, taught to ignore or
thanks mostly to my other half, misuse.
Anya. Living with her (and my step-
son Jake) has opened up new areas and forced me to deal with things I
was always able to avoid before. When you're a modern day gypsy
bouncing around in an old RV it's really easy to have a casual attitude
about living in our society, but settling down really brings on the new
challenges. Most of what I'm learning now is probably old hat to those of
you who've led stable, settled down lives, but it's a hell of an adventure
for me, even at my age.
The primary things I'm dealing with lately are financial. I've
always been able to make money, but in the last few months I've come to
realize that I've always had bad attitudes about it, and I see the same
attitudes reflected over and over from the people around me. It was a big
shock for me to realize how much my attitudes were limiting me. It was
shocking because most of what I do is about rising above limitations and
creating my own realities, and then realizing how badly I was doing in
this other area.
Susan Carlson mentioned to me several times last year that I
could learn a lot from Stuart Wilde's books, and I finally got around to
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reading The Trick to Money is Having Some. I have to admit she was
exactly right!
I followed that up with Rich Dad, Poor Dad and what I learned
there was just as shocking, so in the hopes that some of you learn easier
than I do I'll pass on some new revelations (apparently only new to me,
but what the hell).
I grew up in the foothills of North Carolina as a poor country
boy and most of the time money was a tool we just didn't have. Our
"reality" was that we had to struggle just to have enough to survive.
While the concept of abundance was nothing new to us, we saw our
abundance in what we could grow and make rather than what we could
buy, and while those skills are definitely valuable, it's a very limiting
attitude to have.
So within my 'reality' money wasn't really a tool that was very
prominent in my toolbox, even though it was consistently one of the
factors that prevented me from doing the things I needed to do.
Many of my attitudes came from the fact that I'm just not
interested in money for its own sake. I'm pretty unimpressed by the
people I've met who's primary characteristic seems to be that they have
lots of money.
It’s also easy to develop bad attitudes when we see the evils
done in the name of money, so for a long time my reality remained that I
was working to have 'enough to survive'.
Another interesting factor is that many of us in western society
are taught to believe we don’t deserve a lot of money. We're taught to
want it, but not to believe we deserve it, which only seems like a paradox
til you think about how our consumer culture is driven by desire and
want, rather than need.
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Some of the best and most helpful resources I've found for
balancing wealth and spirituality have come from the Teachings of
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Money as Energy
I know what you're thinking right now. I don't have to be
psychic. I've been around thousands of spiritual people for a very long
time. I've also been around an equal number of business people and I
know what the attitudes are.
You're thinking "Money is not important and I don't care about
money". You've been TAUGHT to think that way!
Money is ENERGY! It's a representation of the common
agreement of value in this culture and when you cut yourself off from it
you disempower yourself.
This is NOT accidental! When the spiritual leaders were
convinced to disempower themselves the flock the spiritual leaders were
supposed to be protecting was left completely defenseless.
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The moment you cut yourself off from abundance and energy
from the Universe you cut yourself off from your SOURCE.
Money is a tool. We're not talking about greed here, we're
talking about having the tools you need to get your message out, to help
the people you need to help and get the job done. It seems that many
people who focus on their spirituality also believe that in order to be
spiritual one must live in abject poverty.
I disagree.
The Paradox;
We must be materially successful (to a certain point at least) in
order to accomplish our goals. But in many people's opinion successful
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people (rich, wealthy, affluent, etc.) tend to have bad morals and be
spiritually unhealthy.
This paradox creates a certain push-pull effect on our financial
lives. For many people money still tends to be the deciding factor in
almost every part of their lives. How often do we forego training and
charitable opportunities because we feel we "can't afford" to spend the
money? How often would we like to do more to help with the various
social issues that concern us, but feel we are already at the limit of what
we can afford to give? How many good things are NOT being
accomplished because good people can't muster the resources to bring
them to fruition?
Money as a Tool
Today more and more spiritually oriented people are beginning
to view money as a tool that can help them to be more effective in their
life's work. To these people having a lot of money is not about a big
house or a fancy car or any of the ego bound trappings of wealth. Rather
it's about being able to promote their classes and create better materials
and tools for their students and being able to empower more people.
The reality of our modern world is that money is important.
Very few of us are willing to give away everything we own and live a
life of poverty and asceticism as an example to others. While I'm
certainly not knocking that path and those called to it, there are other
paths and other groups of people we have to make contact with.
The ability to use money effectively and manifest abundance is a skill set
all its own. I've included some of my favorite books on the subject in the
Resource Guide at the back of the book.
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Some of this is borne out through the study of the chakras and
their ability to hold onto memories and contracts from past lives. There’s
a mounting pile of evidence from hypnotic past life regressions that’s
hard to ignore without some deeply ingrained programming that lets you
argue against it. I find the usual “It’s not true because God said so in the
Bible” argument to be
exceptionally weak to the
voices. It’s as good a reason as any for why humans can feel so out of
place and looking for something ‘more’ from their lives.
I’ve occasionally talked to some of the Buddhists who seem to
echo that theory almost exactly. I find that interesting since I’m not
devoted to any of the isms.
In Occult Tibet J.H. Brennan points out that “According to
Tibetan doctrines there are six possible “realms” into which you could be
born, each one the result of your particular karmic trace. These are, in
reverse order of comfort, the Hell Realm, the Hungry Ghost Realm, the
Animal Realm, the Human Realm, the Demi-God Realm, and the God
Realm”.
As he points out, it’s hard to tell whether the ancient Tibetans
were referring to other planes of existence, or whether all the realms co-
exist here on Earth. It’s fun to debate it in either direction.
good job and raise a family the way we’re taught we should. For over a
decade after I experienced the awakening I literally felt driven to go
places and learn a strange group of skills. It was only after I met other
people who’d also had awakenings and began learning from them that I
was able to open up my awareness and see the bigger picture.
As I look back on it now I can see I was always doing exactly
what I was supposed to be doing and all of a sudden I’ve arrived at a
point where I have enough grey hair to be taken seriously, enough
experience to back it up and a unique skill-set to bring it all together and
make it work. Once I figured out that I should just have a little faith and
go where I’m supposed to go and do what I’m supposed to do, all the
stress and angst about my ‘place in society’ just went away and I was
able to really make some progress internally.
As usual, awareness is the key to learning about our true selves.
I stumbled around in the dark for a long time, driven by something that I
was unaware of, but fortunate in the fact that I went where I was led
nonetheless. My awareness was one of negativities though, as I couldn’t
see the possibilities, only the im-possibilities. For instance, I knew I
couldn’t settle down and raise a family, but couldn’t understand why. I
knew I wanted to go to college and learn, but couldn’t see the point to
pursuing the usual career paths.
Once I began to expand my awareness (starting with the breath,
like usual) I was able to see a larger picture and have it make sense. It’s a
little like standing too close to a painting. It’s out of focus and just a
jumble of colors, but as you move back slightly and expand your
awareness the colors transform into shapes. Expand your awareness and
little more and the shapes come together as a painting. Expand it a little
more and the painting is hanging on a wall, and the wall is in a museum,
and so on. You can do this as a meditation and keep ‘moving back’ and
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“One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover -
our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him as
you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of man; and
his compassion is equal for the red man and the white. This earth is
precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its
Creator. The whites too shall pass; perhaps sooner than all the other
tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night
suffocate in your own wastes.”
From the Letter of Chief Seathl (Seattle) to the President of the
United States, Franklin Pierce, 1854
Us and Them
Once you open up your awareness you may begin to develop an
“Us” and “Them” complex. It’s important to remember that they are also
a part of the natural order and they’re even vital to our success.
Every human has the ability to awaken their Inner Power and
become their true selves. It’s funny that those who do are so few and far
between. Even though everyone could do it, most people simply aren’t
meant to at this time. That’s one reason I don’t spend a lot of time trying
to convince the skeptical about Inner Power. I know it’s real because I’ve
experienced it firsthand. It doesn’t bother me at all if others don’t believe
me. I’d rather put my time into empowering those who are looking for it.
The ‘normal’ people are just being normal and you have to love
them because of that, rather than in spite of it. So many of the issues that
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Our culture isn’t helping us with this either. If you don’t put
some thought and intention into your life it’s very easy to be entrapped in
some of the political bickering that goes on. How often have you heard a
liberal say “All conservatives are stupid and unrealistic” or vice versa.
Remember what I said earlier about ego triggers? Glenn Morris used to
talk about the ego and say “You control it or IT controls you”.
Take some time and work through this. Whenever you see
someone who causes a judgmental thought just remember that person is a
catalyst for you. They are a reminder that you are divine and within your
divinity there must be infinite variation and diversity. Everyone we meet
is a guru or a teacher.
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When you awaken your Inner Power and start to get balanced
out you're going to discover you have unlimited energy as well as the
ability to tap into the unlimited creativity of the Universe.
It's important to remember that you literally have all the time in
the world to get things done. After my first book came out it seems like
the floodgates of the Universe opened up and I was deluged with ideas
and concepts. It wasn't unusual to awaken at 3 am and work until
midnight during these periods. My
wife calls them 'the 3 o'clock
downloads' and I'd wake up with a
You can ask for
concept and so much energy that I
literally couldn't stay in bed. Some anything you want,
of these concepts were so big and
so ask for a plan!
mind blowing that I know they
didn't come from this human brain I'm carrying around; I'm just not that
smart. Therefore I knew it must have been something from the Universe
that I was supposed to be working on.
If you haven't experienced this or something like it then you
probably will. It can be an exciting and rewarding time as well as a strain
on your physicality, family life and career.
Remember that time is not linear the way most people think of it
and remember that just because you're given an amazing idea doesn't
mean you're supposed to jump on that idea right now. These were lessons
I learned the hard way so pay attention.
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A. The 100th Monkey - This is the idea that when a certain
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reached and everyone else will be able to do it as well. There is a
significant amount of evidence for this.
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Anything can be a distraction if you let it. I’ve seen people distracted in
some fairly interesting ways by their very quest to awaken their energy.
TIME – If there is ever a distraction that seems to affect humans
on a universal level it’s this abstract concept of Time. How much of the
stress that you feel on any given day is caused by your scheduling or lack
thereof? Too much control of your schedule can be as stressful as too
little.
ANGER – There are times when Anger is probably the
appropriate emotion, if for no other reason than to get your attention.
How often do you get angry (or frustrated, or annoyed or whatever you
want to call it) at someone and walk around for hours with that anger still
seething? You are sending that person part of your energy as long as you
are angry with them. As long as you hold on to the anger then your body
will have higher levels of tension or stress. Remember energy doesn’t
flow through tight muscles.
ENVY – Have you ever looked at another person or their
possessions and thought “Why do they have a __________ (Insert object
here) like that and I don’t? What did they do, or what did I NOT do that
let them get to have that thing?”
It really doesn’t matter what that thing is. You could put any
word there; body, girlfriend, boyfriend, car house, snorkel, Albuquerque,
zombie and it would still signify your feelings of inadequacy or loss.
This is a big energy block for most people and it’s also one of the tools
that gets used against us the most by advertising, politicians and the
media.
feel your energy shift around with each word or phrase. Some people can
become extremely angry or agitated simply by mentioning various
words. That strong reaction is an energy block. It’s part of an ‘Us or
Them’ mindset that once again becomes a tool for anyone who wants to
use it.
all the wrongs I’ve committed or the people I’ve hurt.” Don’t forget that
last part. Self Forgiveness is a very big deal. You may have the urge to
contact people and apologize after doing this meditation. Go with it. I
went through this process a few times and was shocked that I had felt bad
for years over some things the people I thought I hurt didn’t even
remember!
It can take awhile for some of the concepts I’ve written about
here to feel like they are working so don’t be discouraged if you don’t
experience much instant gratification. If you’re looking for McPeace
(with a side order of Enlightenment) you’re in the wrong place.
Remember you have a built in safety mechanism to assure that what you
ask for is really what you want, so be consistent and you’ll find yourself
well on the way to achieving your own Inner Peace.
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Taking Care of #1
There are a couple of reasons why it's vitally important that we
break out of this martyr attitude and learn to 'Take Care of #1'.
1. Your thoughts and words create your reality
This is a very simple fact. Energy follows thought. If your
paradigm is one of self sacrifice then the message that you are sending
out to the Universe is simply going to be repeated back to you.
If you continually sacrifice yourself through feelings of
unworthiness or martyrdom then you are going to get exactly what you
ask for.
2. You're no good to anyone else if you don't take care of
yourself
Again, a very simple fact. How many times have you sacrificed
your health, your money, your life or your family for a bigger goal? I've
done it. Sometimes I still catch myself doing it.
If you can't maintain a simple balance in your life that allows
you to be healthy and happy while achieving your goals then you cannot
become successful at a high level. Your physiology simply won't support
it!
Suze Orman gives a great example in her Women and Money
video when she talks about how the oxygen masks will drop down during
an aircraft emergency. The instinctive reaction of any woman sitting next
to her child is to take care of the child first and then to take care of
herself. However, in this particular example, if you don't take care of
yourself first and then you pass out from lack of oxygen then you not
only aren't taking care of yourself, but you can't take care of your child!
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Giving is an Art
Giving is an art and just like any other art it requires persistence,
discipline and a real desire to help your fellow beings. Learning to give
also requires allowing others to give as well. Which means that
sometimes you must also be dedicated to receiving.
I had to put some real work into learning to receive and I had a
lot of deeply programmed self worth issues as well as some past life
programming that I had to clean out before I could really allow myself to
receive.
simply will not be able to accept the energy that needs to flow through
you. If the energy can't flow through you then it can't flow out to others.
Take some time to work through these concepts. Some of them
sound counter-intuitive because they run contrary to the programming
that we've been indoctrinated with.
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This is a pretty big deal for a lot of New Agers and Pagans in
particular. It means that not only is it OK for you to be on the outside
looking in, but you actually have a responsibility to get out there on the
edge and set the example!
It's actually not that hard to see the benefit to this way of
thinking when the average person in the US eats toxic food, doesn't get
enough exercise and spends an average of 4 hours per day in front of the
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TV. You don't really have to be Gandhi to get out of that mold pretty
quickly and start doing things differently.
As usual it's all about making the incremental changes that allow
you to have real growth. You
can't change everything at
Law of Reversal once, but you can start
cutting back on the things
You can apply the same technique to people. When you think of
someone you know well pay attention to how their energy feels. Can you
feel a difference in the energy between the people you know?
Play with this and practice it. I try to pay attention to the energy
I feel from my family as they are around the house and see if I can tell
who is in which room (of course it’s usually easier to tell where the 12
year old is just by the noise).
The benefits of this exercise go beyond just building up our
awareness. When you’re having a hard time with something in your life
it can be a greatly calming influence to sit and feel the energy of a
favorite place or person. I’ve had some feedback that also leads me to
believe that at least part of the time, there is a real energy connection
there, rather than just a memory.
if it’s done enough then eventually the energy residue will change.
This is also your defense against someone sending an ‘energy
attack’. This subject comes up a lot, inspired by the media and popular
fiction. While there are people out there who can use such techniques as
Dim Mak (the art of projecting energy into certain points on the body, a
bastardization of a healing technique) those techniques require a lot of
training and practice as well as the ability to focus a certain amount of
energy. Usually by the time a person can move enough energy to be
dangerous to anyone besides themselves they’ve found better and more
fun ways to use it. The average person can’t conjure up enough
concentrated energy to still their own mind, so I’m not at all worried
about them attacking me with their vague and unfocussed energy. If
someone tries to project harmful energy into someone else then they're
also hurting themselves simply because they also feel the energy that
they’re sending out. “What goes around comes around” is more than just
a cute saying.
Sending Energy
Sending energy is another interesting thing that you can do. It
can be fun to demonstrate this as it really blows people minds. Most
people see it as magic, but I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who pointed
out that any sufficiently advanced technology is seen as magic to less
advanced people.
Sending Energy
To send energy just reverse the process if drawing it. All you
have to do is, for lack of a better word, exhale energy out through your
hands (or any other body part) and into any object or person. It takes
most people quite awhile to get good at this; partly because there’s no
way that I know of to easily teach it. I can tell you how it feels when I
send energy out, but I can’t tell you how it should feel to you. It’ll take
awhile for you to find that combination of intention and energy.
Another reason that many people have a hard time learning this
is because most people send out tiny amounts of energy and it’s hard to
get good feedback.
The safest and simplest way to send energy is just to use LOVE.
I’m not talking about the emotion, but the energy and feeling that
accompany that emotion. You can send love energy to anyone, regardless
of how you feel about them personally. If you’re healing someone, for
example, then what the patient really needs is more energy, rather than a
specific type of energy.
I realize that some of that sounds conflicting, but as you get
deeper into it you’ll hopefully understand the line I’m walking trying to
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One of the characteristics that sets those on the Pagan path apart
from the more mainstream religions is the tendency to come together and
use the natural energies that surround us in a more directed and
purposeful way. There are many examples in our history, as well as
many modern examples, of those who
seek to use religion as a means of
control and power. One of the simple What follows is a
ways these power seekers create the simplified
strife necessary to implement those breakdown of
controls is by pointing out that certain rituals, spells and
groups have different methods of shamanism and
worship and then vilifying those how they’re used
methods. and how they can
The witch trials and witch
be influenced by
hunts are a period that most history
some well directed
books tend to gloss over, especially
energy work.
since many of the atrocities were
committed by of some of the popular modern religions. Sometimes it’s
important to remember that it’s the winners who write the history books,
hence their version of events is the one passed on.
The religious persecution of the Dark Ages (and which still
occasionally happens) all but wiped out many of the Nature based
spiritual paths. It’s easy to see why those forms of spirituality were seen
as dangerous to the religions that wanted people to be subject to their
rule, rather than finding their spirituality through Nature.
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the first part of manifesting your desires. Once the spell is cast and the
energy sent to accomplish your goals you still have to live in a way that
allows your goals to be met. For instance, you can cast all the “Get Rich
Quick” spells you want, but if you proceed to then lie on the couch and
watch reality TV you’ll never see it come to fruition. Spellwork is an
adjunct to achieving your desires rather than a complete one-shot method
as portrayed by the media.
This is also one of the internal safeties built into the system.
Some people like to portray witches in a malignant fashion. The simple
fact is that a competent witch must actually live the Craft, rather than
simply casting a 'fire and forget' spell and then moving on. Hence the
casting of a harmful spell puts the caster into a position of continually
reinforcing that energy, which would in turn be harmful to the caster. A
competent practitioner of Magick (the ‘K’ denotes the difference
between the Magick of the spell caster and the magic that’s usually seen
on TV by sleight of hand artists) must continually reinforce their
Spellwork by making their life an example of what they wish to manifest.
“Maybe you have a problem in your head because, like they say in
the medical science, a virus is going around. So you take an aspirin.
But aspirin doesn’t purify the air. It removes your headache, but it
doesn’t clear the virus away.
“So we borrow that medicine from the deer. So he brings that
medicine. Then it clears our head. It not only clears the headache, it
also clears the virus causing the headache so it doesn’t go around in
my family. Then it doesn’t come to us. It goes away. So that’s just
one medicine. That’s just an example of what we call deer medicine.”
Black Elk - The Sacred Ways of the Lakota
Wallace Black Elk and William S. Lyon
the Otherworld to contact the spirit and forcing it out of the body. The
Shaman might also suck the bad energy out of the patient's body and into
another object. This object would be the symbol of the bad energy on this
plane of existence, but would also symbolize the energy in the
Otherworld.
There’s obviously much more to Shamanism as it’s also a
complete healing art as well as a spiritual path. Shamanism and its
methods vary widely depending on the culture that you’re looking at and
for many thousands of years the Shaman was seen as a teacher and healer
for the community.
There are some extremely good resources for those interested in
pursuing Shamanism as an adjunct to their energy work, or as a spiritual
path. Michael Harner, author of The Way of the Shaman, runs some very
interesting workshops in California. His website for The Foundation for
Shamanic Studies is at www.shamanism.org
about how to handle and manipulate the illusions. As Morpheus tells Neo
in The Matrix, “Your mind makes it real”. Energy follows thought.
Spending some time learning to focus your thoughts and
intentions will benefit every part of your life. Living in an advanced state
of awareness is its own reward.
Visualization exercises such as Damo’s Cave are excellent for
helping you develop the ability to focus on what you want and how to
achieve it. I personally try to take a few moments every morning before I
get out of bed and visualize how I want my day to go. I find that if I can
visualize then I can begin to believe it. If I can believe it then I can make
it happen.
In the meantime, have fun with your life; it’s the best one you
have at the moment.
252 Awaken Your Inner Power!
Books
Inner power
John Selby
Occult Tibet
J.M. Brennan
Tan Tien Chi Kung: Foundational Exercises for Empty Force and
Perineum Power
Mantak Chia
Celtic Myth & Magick: Harness the Power of the Gods and
Goddesses
Edain McCoy
The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where
You Want to Be
Jack Canfield
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-
That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Websites
Amazon - www.alturl.com/gtgbt
BN.com - www.alturl.com/uzajb