Just like swimming in salt water, if we don’t wash off the residue, sooner or later it’s going to make us mighty uncomfortable.”

Lynn Grabhorn, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting.

Thought energy VS emotional energy
This quote speaks to the quality of our energy and how it impacts us in our daily lives, but I think the concept of “consciously overriding” can lead us astray as to what is truly needed.

Using thought control to shift energy or circumstances is fairly ineffective. Thought presents us with an idea of what is needed and can help frame how we plan to get there. Then we need to move into an emotional experience that will have an effect on our energetic signature.

Conscious awareness
So, conscious awareness at the level of thought is a first step. Then we must choose to do what is needed at an emotional/energetic level to truly get a shift of energy within ourselves and then in our lives. Effective change of frequencies is actually accomplished from another level of consciousness than a mere cognitive one.

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We are continually in touch with our world and others through our energy field

For example:

Have you ever sensed someone’s presence without having seen or heard them?

Have you either been drained or filled with energy after spending time with someone?

Have you ever felt someone staring at you even though your back was turned?

Have you ever felt a person come close and felt they were invading your space?

Then you have experienced the workings of your energy field!

Human Energy System
Ancient texts have described humans as being composed of several layers of energy superimposed on one another. Only recently has technology been able to confirm this knowledge. We now have a model of human anatomy and physiology that embraces energetic concepts, one that provides a more comprehensive way to understand ourselves as well as a means to create positive change in our lives.

Chakras are Organs of the Subtle Energy System
There are many aspects to the human energy system; however, we will confine our discussion to the chakra system. There are chakras all over the body but principally they are located in the midline of the body, palms of the hands, soles of the feet, and in each joint. The chakras that we will be focusing on are the seven major ones in the midline of the body. Chakras are the organs of the subtle energy system but they are not concrete like our other organs. Chakras are best understood as vortexes of electromagnetic energy. These pools of energy move around the nerve plexus that are in the same spaces as the endocrine glands. (Refer to the diagram in the energy assessment section.)

The seven major chakras each contribute a layer of energy to what is commonly known as the human aura. Each of the chakras is responsible for a particular physical, psychological, and spiritual aspect of our functioning. They also seem to operate as encoding or storage devices for our life experiences.

Effects of Energy Disruptions
When any one energy center is disrupted or damaged, that aspect of the field’s frequency is affected resulting in a disturbance of energy. These disturbances can be transmitted to other layers of the field, causing them to malfunction as well. Disruptions cause the equivalent of leaks, improper flow, and obstruction of energy in what should be a free flowing system. The result is that the energy field weakens and fatigue sets in. Over time, this weakening can cause mental, emotional, spiritual, or physical dysfunction. These distortions in the field prevent us from radiating our potential fully and completely. They prevent an experience of ourselves as whole and healthy, and compromise our capacity to relate positively to others.

Environmental and genetic influences play a part in the inherent strength or weakness of the energy field, but our minds have an enormous capacity to influence our system as well. In fact the mind can even override innate weaknesses.

How We Shape Our Energy
We unconsciously pattern and shape our energy continually. Our habitual thoughts, emotions and beliefs strongly determine the shape and pattern of our energy. This affects our nervous system and ultimately our biochemistry, which in turn creates changes in our physical state. A feedback loop is then created between our physical, and our mental, and emotional states. This feedback loop influences and unbalances our energy further. If we understand the characteristics, unconscious patterning, and reactivity of our energy system, we can consciously intervene in this cycle to create positive dynamics within our minds and bodies.

Change and Management of Energy
Fortunately learning to be in touch with and manage your personal energy brings about powerful change from the inside out. As a result, you are able to release what has hindered you and consciously create more of what you DO want in your life . Attention to your personal energy –inner and outer– allows you to acquire the ability to ride the waves of life gracefully, with resiliency, “stress hardiness,” and a balanced spiritual strength that leads to a healthier way of being on every level.

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Obviously most of us do not function in this realm! In fact it seems that our current evolutionary task is to bring more of the spiritual into our human experience even as we move toward greater enlightenment in the future.

We can take heart that great beings have demonstrated that enlightenment is possible for everyone. In an enlightened state there is no localization of consciousness; only awareness which is present everywhere.’ It is from this place that there is greater concern for the whole of humanity and its well being as opposed to individualized concerns and ambitions.

Enlightened Moments
Many people have had fleeting moments of this experience through expanded states of consciousness arrived at in meditation, near death experiences or through a peak experience that brings them beyond the normal functioning of the mind.

Meditation is perhaps the simplest and most effective means of developing the ability to transcend the ego since most of us are not willing to purposely engage in a near death experience and peak experiences can be hard to come by!

As we engage in a routine meditation practice we are able to tame the conscious mind, and become more open to the higher frequencies of universal consciousness. Meditation intrinsically helps to develop an enhanced perspective that allows us to become aware of the lower mind (ego) and its various machinations that keep us stuck or locked in struggle and repetitive behaviors that imprison us.

Meditation improves health while moving toward greater enlightenment
With practice meditation takes your awareness beyond time, ego, thought, sensation, emotion and memory. As you move in the direction of Source frequencies, you move away from the tyranny of the lower mind. After a while you begin to recognize a transcendent experience as a sense of fullness, of steadiness or of an appreciation for the infinite.

Mediation practice helps enhance any other work you may be doing ten fold. It helps cleanse and strengthen the nervous system, as well as increases perception, insight and concentration. Although it may seem counter intuitive, taking time to meditate regularly actually expands time, effectiveness and opportunities in other areas of your life.

Consciously discerning the voice of the ego
Of course we can also use our cognition to learn the common voices that lead us away from higher level function as well. Here are a few examples of the differences between the lower and higher mind to help you to begin to notice what state you may be operating out of at any given moment:

Although it is unlikely that we will operate in an enlightened state on a daily basis, we CAN develop skills of enlightenment and higher awareness. Becoming more heart-focused in everything we do is one of the most effective things we can do toward this end. Our individual Self will benefit as will everyone we touch. To become more heart-focused, provide more undivided attention every day to those around you. Observe with open eyes and listen with open ears. Leave judgment aside and just take note of all that is around you. When you find yourself heading towards a familiar “trap” (anything that doesn’t feel good!), stop, take note and bring yourself back to a neutral and nonjudgmental state. Bring yourself to a state of observation, a state where nothing is right or wrong, a state where everything simply IS.

When our thoughts, words and deeds are heart-based, judgment is replaced by understanding and compassion. Rather than feeling that others are right or wrong, we begin to understand how or why they might be in a particular situation or having a particular experience. We begin to understand how we could be in their very shoes if the circumstances were different.

When our actions are heart-based we are operating outside the mind and outside the ego. We live and act out of a deep inner sense of love. This is more a state of being than a feeling of sentimentality, romance or attachment. It is a space we uncover, discover and learn to live from independent of externals. Developing this way of being can help move us on toward enlightenment one human step at a time.

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As Ms. Molnar’s story unfolds it is clear that her family experience was one that supported her creative development in spite of the difficult circumstances in the broader environment. The love, acceptance and support of her family, as well as their own deep connection to their own creativity, bathed her in a web of energy that encouraged the unfolding of her gifts.

Each of us is innately creative
Others may not have been so fortunate as to have the kind of openness, care and nurture of their creative spirit as Haya Molnar. However that does not mean that creativity is lost to them. Each of us has an innate creative capacity. We may not think of our particular abilities as being creative if they do not follow the traditional expressions of art forms. Nevertheless we do possess this capacity. For many the flow of that energy may have been shut off or constricted due to family messages, neglect or simple lack of awareness.

The good news is that we can all recover, reconnect and enliven the creative flow within us. Working directly with our energy system provides us with the means to do just that. First, we must understand that energy system and have the methods to be able to heal any damage, strengthen our connection with our inner flow and learn how to effectively direct that flow of energy.

Disruptions of energy lead to breakdown in life function and experience
This brief excerpt from our recording Chakras and Feng Shui: Balancing Inner and Outer Energy helps to explain how disruptions in our energy field result in a breakdown in our life function and experience.

The seven major chakras each contribute a layer of energy to what is commonly known as the human aura. Each of the chakras is responsible for a particular physical, psychological, and spiritual aspect of our functioning. They also seem to operate as encoding or storage devices for our life history.

When any one energy center is disrupted or damaged, that aspect of the field’s frequency is affected resulting in a disturbance of energy. These disturbances can be transmitted to other layers of the field, causing them to malfunction as well. Disruptions cause the equivalent of leaks, improper flow, and obstruction of energy in what should be a free flowing system. The result is that the energy field weakens and fatigue sets in. Over time, this weakening can cause mental, emotional, spiritual, or physical dysfunction. These distortions in the field prevent us from radiating our potential fully and completely. They prevent an experience of ourselves as whole and healthy, and compromise our capacity to relate positively to others.

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• A sense of overwhelm
• A feeling of being lost, lack of focus or direction
• Keep coming up against the same old problems and challenges
• Feel stuck or trapped in patterns and feel unable to change them
• Experience mental, emotional or physical signs of stress
• Feel disconnected from your life or relationships
• Find that your old approaches to issues are not working
• Inability to consistently find joy in your daily life

Your Personal energy system holds the keys to these challenges.

Our personal energy system provides a roadmap for developing consciousness and accessing inner wisdom, healing, and truth. If we use it, we connect with deeper aspects of ourselves that offer inner peace, freedom of expression, and health. Learning how to navigate our personal energy systems deliver us into ease, harmony, and inner strength. Along the way we come to deeply realize the difference between effort and struggle, eliminate the root of our problems, and discover new positive solutions to challenges.

Personal energy system facilitates effective change
Managing our personal energy system brings about change from the inside out. We acquire the ability to ride the waves of life gracefully, with resiliency, “stress hardiness,” and a balanced spiritual strength that leads to a healthier way of being on every level.

Benefits of managing personal energy system
In addition, learning to consciously manage energy offers:

• A solid foundation for living more skillfully
• Simple, effective ways to recharge our vitality
• Deeper means to perceive information and relate more authentically
• A direct route to clarity, compassion, presence and healthy boundaries

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You wander from room to room
hunting for the diamond necklace
that is already around your neck
                                ~ Jellaludin Rumi

The world is meant to be free in
You are not beyond love
Give up all else other than the place
of true belonging
Anyone or anything that does not
 bring you alive is too small for you
                                ~ David Whyte

These two verses are among my favorites and capture what befriending ourselves through our chakra system can help us realize.

Rumi’s words describe the external search for all that is valuable when it is so close that we miss seeing the reality of our power and worth.

David Whyte speaks to the emotions of our deepest desires. He shines the light for us on the root of human searching and longing and the vain goals we wrestle with while we truly seek love, freedom and belonging. In the last line of his verse, Whyte points to the truth of our innate worth and value. He speaks not only about our sacred entitlement, but also about how we can know what is good or right for us. What expands our energy in a wholesome way is right and good for us. What contracts our energy or makes us feel small, unworthy, numbed, or stifled is not good for us.

The words and concepts pointed to in these verses are wonderful, but we need a way to bring them to the reality of our lives. A map helps to guide any journey. The chakra system offers a map that brings clarity to both who we truly are and where we stand presently on our life path. Without a map we are too close to things to see their reality, as Rumi’s words remind us. A map brings clarity and definition, and provides a well thought out path toward our aspirations.

A map is a great beginning but we also need effective means to travel the territory laid out by the map. All beautiful thoughts, goals, dreams and desires simply hang in the air until we have the means to bring them to life. Techniques that use energy and consciousness provide the most effective means of bringing concepts from the realm of thought into the reality of experience.  

This book, combined with the recordings described throughout, has been set up to give you a map, a means and support on your journey from concept to reality.

You may choose to use the information and techniques in these pages from beginning to end, or settle into a specific section that calls to you at this time. Obviously your commitment, attention, and intention will affect your outcome with the information and techniques. As you use even some of the methods available to you here, you will notice a shifting of stress; your perceptions of life; people, places, and events; and most importantly, yourself.

The greater your involvement with developing a conscious connection to and management of your energy the more benefit you will see in your personal growth, relationship to core power,  capacity to flow more easily with change, connection to inner peace, and freedom of expression of your uniqueness and creativity.

May the information and methods contained in this book and the accompanying recordings bring you ease, peace, and a deep wellspring of strength and support as you travel on your path.

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I have often heard “It’s just stress” as if it is some nebulous thing with no real ramifications. Decades of research have proven that stress is in fact a major factor in practically all disease and even accidents so it is. Stress has very definite effects on mind, body and spirit. Fortunately there is a lot we can do to practice healthy self care and lessen the effects of stress on our health and our lives.

Self Care and Stress Management Begin with Self Awareness
I have found that to effectively manage stress we must have a clear picture of how it is affecting us as well as having well thought out methods to respond to our particular reactions.

Key questions to ask are “What are my typical reactions to stress? Are my responses physical, mental or emotional or some combination? What beliefs are being triggered within me?” We are all different and have our own patterns of responding to life events. The same situation can trigger different reactions in different people due to each individual’s unique nature, personal history and perception (worldview). This question also serves the purpose of popping us back into ourselves where the power truly lies to create change.

Next we can take a step back and look at our habitual responses and see where we need to develop better self care approaches for dealing with life’s stressful events and times that match our specific needs.

Self Care and Stress Management: Discovery of the Roots of “Mismanagement”|
Our capacity and ability for healthy self care is built on a foundation of many things….one of the most important and unconscious facets is our early childhood experience. Bringing light to  the “messages” (overt or covert) we received can help give us greater power to take charge of ourselves and lives and create less stress and greater heath and well being.

In looking at how you care for yourself you might ask:
How was I cared for as a young child?
How were my needs treated?
Was I invalidated, told (overtly or covertly) that my needs were unimportant?
Am I selfish to care for me?
Is it alright to receive—care, attention, support, nurture?

To further define the areas where we need to develop better self care and eliminate or reduce stress the chakra system provides us with a map that aids us in examining our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs.

Root Chakra: safety and security, your foundation for creating physical vitality
Sacral Chakra: creating healthy boundaries
Solar Plexus Chakra: power center, transform negatives into positives, release anger, resentment
Heart Chakra: release grief, co-dependency, open heart and embrace unconditional love
Throat Chakra: develop mental strength, comfortable with inner silence, reclaim authentic voice
Brow Chakra: develop ways to still mind, improve concentration, open to greater vision
Crown Chakra: open to your spiritual essence, access and feel joy more consistently

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Core Belief Affirmations for Each of the Chakras
Root # 1.
I fully inhabit my body, it as a source of wisdom regarding my needs.
I am present in the world, I am real.
It is safe for me to be here, I feel supported and my needs are met.
Sacral # 2.
I easily enjoy and embrace the pleasures in life.
My feelings are a source of information that assist me.
Movement, sexuality and creative passion flow through me effortlessly.
Solar Plexus #3.
My relationship with myself contains honor and integrity.
I have the will and desire to move through my blocks and fears.
Heart # 4.
Loving myself and loving others is balanced within me.
Love is the energy of the universe -there is an infinite supply.
I have forgiven myself and others where needed.
Throat # 5.
I express myself clearly and openly.
Creativity flows through me.
My voice serves me well.
Brow # 6.
I can envision and manifest my goals and dreams.
I am open to wisdom from many sources.
Crown# 7.
I am guided by higher wisdom. Divinity resides within me.

Maps of Awareness
The human energy system comprising, among other things, the seven chakras, is a wonderful map that can help us discover the barriers to our internal freedom. However, we do not live in a vacuum. Our outer world is often a mirror of what is occurring within our psyches. The Feng Shui Bagua, therefore, offers us a tool for further exploration and expanding our self knowledge.

As we look at both of these maps of awareness – the chakras and the bagua, we can also identify the strengths and abilities that are present within us already. Understanding the foundations of Feng Shui and the Chakra System can afford many vehicles for cultivating these strengths and abilities.
The energy system, both its outer and the inner manifestation, provides us with more than a means to achieve our goals in the world; it also takes us beyond the common mind and helps us expand into a higher consciousness that brings much more depth, purpose, meaning and joy to all of life. A light heart and a joyous spirit make for a happy ride!

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