by Janeen J. Detrick
Many people have heard of the emotional freedom technique that is currently being popularized as “E.F. T.” It’s sometimes referred to as “the tapping cure.” While this is a great way to release negative energy (anger, stress, bad feelings), there is no one modality of energy medicine that works for everyone! The purpose of this blog is to describe another method for clearing blocked energy which manifests itself as negative feelings, called “Chakra Balancing.”
In order to understand any discussion of energy medicine, it is first important for the reader to recognize that this study is based on the understanding that there is energy flowing all around, in, and through the body. Everything has energy! In fact, everything IS energy!
Chakras are areas of concentrated energy in your body. The energy concentrates in these regions because of the way the nerves converge in these areas, as well as because of he way the blood flows through these areas, and then on to the various organs. Most modalities of energy medicine refer to seven chakras, and some modalities refer to eight chakras. The modality called “Reiki” commonly references eight chakra regions of the body, and the difference is that Reiki divides the heart chakra into two separate chakras; The lower heart chakra being the region wherein a person receives love, and the upper heart chakra being the region wherein a person gives, or shows, love to others. For the purpose of this article, we will consider the role of all eight of the chakras.
When there is a concentration of energy trapped in any particular region, it can create symptoms indicating excess in that region, or it can create symptoms indicating deficiency in that region. Either set of symptoms, excess or deficiency, is an indication that the chakras are not balanced. When the chakras are not balanced, a person feels “stuck”, or “trapped” or “driven” or “overwhelmed”, or “manic”, or “depressed”, or any number of other uncomfortable feelings!
The study of energy medicine has ascertained that when a person has “trapped” energy, or “blocked” energy in any chakra over a long period of time, the person will eventually manifest illness in that region. For example, a person who has blocked energy in their sixth chakra (which area surrounds the head, the brain), they can manifest symptoms of dyslexia, inability to make a decision, poor memory, poor balance, etc. If the blockage is allowed to linger over a number of years, the person can in fact manifest very serious conditions, such as cancer of the brain, deafness, or mental disorders.
Having laid this foundation of understanding, I’ll follow up every Friday with a blog post for you that will build upon this foundation. I’ll be describing for you where the eight different chakras are located in the body. Then, I’ll blog about the “demons” of the chakras, which are various negative feelings, that cause the energy to concentrate in that certain region of the body. Understanding this can bring a lot of emotional relief, and make your life so much better! I’ll “Talk” to you next Friday!
-Janeen
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