Blog — chakras

Where Science and Spirit Meet I have always loved rainbows.  The movie, Pollyanna, staring Haley Mills, featured a scene of a bedridden woman whose bedroom was filled with rainbows thanks to the crystals taken off her chandelier and strung across the windows.  Each day at the same time, the whole room was filled with rainbows, and the bedridden woman eventually found her way back to a happier, healthier place.  It turned out she was so emotionally upset that she'd become unable to function, but being bathed in the pure light from prisms gave her a clarity about living her life...

Light waves and Chakras Some years ago, I herniated a disc in my lower back.  I was given a prescription medication for pain, but the side effects were so severe I could not take it.  I ended up trying acupuncture, which made me feel  uncommunicative and very withdrawn (not my normal state).  While I didn't find the acupuncture especially helpful for my back- sorry, but I'm being honest here, my acupuncturist added something to my treatment that was most extraordinary.  In fact, it affected so greatly that I still remember it many years later in vivid detail. Bathed in Color...

A Pathway to Understanding Emotions Chakras are all about our emotions.  Consider how often things are said in the heat of anger or the passion of love.  How often do we find ourselves feeling all mixed up, or at a crossroads in our lives where we are in conflict as to the best resolution?   Making Order From Chaos Chakras give us a way to organize our emotions.  The first chakra is located at the base of the spine.  Known as the root chakra, this energy travels down the legs and into the Earth.  The issues in the root chakra are...

    Tune into your chakras Start off this year with a simple intention - pay attention to your feelings.  You can do this by checking in with yourself at different times during the course of a day.  Let me be more specific - How about starting right now?  Take 15 - 30 seconds to do a once over from your feet to your head, checking to see where your energy is concentrating.  Be sensitive to areas of your body that feel heavy, tense, nervous or sore for no particular reason.  Jot down where these feelings occur.  Try this three times today....

   Why Meditate? Meditation is relaxing to the point where you stop the chatter inside your head.  You know, that constant voice that streams through your brain reminding you to  pick up something for dinner, call your mother/sister/daughter/brother, son, husband, father, grandmother, friends, etc. or to check the air in your tires the next time you get gas, and on and on it goes.  To stop this endless chatter takes some effort and practice.  I don't know why we are so afraid of silence, but that seems to be the case 99.9% of the time.  Meditating is simply quieting that...