As promised, here is the technique I wrote about in the previous post.
How To Channel the Light
This energy technique works best with a partner. Decide who is going to send, and who will receive. The “Receiver” sits comfortably on a chair with eyes closed. Hands on knees, or folded together Buddha style or clasped fingers. It matters little. Feet should be square on the floor. Do not cross the ankles. The “Sender” or “Channel” may elect to sit or stand. At various times the “Channel” will find it more convenient to stand to channel to different spots.
Both should send an intention out to the “Universe.” A prayer, a wish, whatever you may call it. The bottom-line intention is that you want the energy’s positive influence in your life whether you are giving or receiving. From this point on the Receiver needs no further instruction.
For the Channel:
Hold out your hand toward the Receiver, palm directed at the point of “contact.” (This is not a locked physical point. It is a reference point for convenience.) Distance should be about 6 – 12 inches away from the Receiver. Spend 30 -60 seconds on any point. At times, you may elect to spend a longer amount of time. But remember that 30 -60 seconds of divine energy is no less powerful than 5 minutes. Let your intuition guide you.
Imagine light flowing from your palm as water might flow from a shower, bathing the Receiver in Divine Light. Imagine it happening. Imagine the Light in whatever way or color you wish. Gold, Yellow, White, Rainbow. It doesn’t matter. The Divine Source of the energy knows your intention and will direct it if you simply allow.
Basically, you will be channeling to the 7 major charka points in the body. First, the front, then the rear.
• Start with the forehead, just above the eyebrows. The “third eye.”
• Move to the Crown of the head
• Move to the Throat
• Move to the Heart, at the center of the chest
• Move to the Solar Plexus, just below the ribs and sternum
• Move to the “Hara,” where the navel is. (Don’t worry about the specific location.)
• Move to the Root. The Base of the Spine. Holding your hand in front rather than “under” the actual base of the spine is fine. Again, intention is what counts here.
With the exception of the Crown (tho not necessarily), all of these points may be channeled to while sitting down.
Now, the Channel moves to the rear of the Receiver and channels each point from the rear:
• The Crown
• The “Third Eye” point (as it would protrude from the rear of the head.)
• The Throat.
• The Heart
• The Solar Plexus
• The Hara
• The Root
The Channel then returns to the front. The finishing point is usually another 30 – 60 seconds to the forehead point. Then close with a silent prayer / meditation.
When ready, switch roles. Repeat as often as necessary (or as desired).
Some notes on the technique
It does not matter which point you start with. There is no wrong way to do this. In the early days of my instruction I was taught to start with the third eye, the forehead, because it is the portal of awakening. But if you elect to start with the Crown first and move down, then that is fine. It will not change anything. If you forget to do a charka spot, don’t worry. It will not change anything. The important element here is intention, not locality. The specific charka points are meant to be focal points, something to focus on, just as a lit candle will help some to meditate more easily.
Relax with this. I really mean this. Relax with this as you would with anything. It is nice to have respect for Divine energy and all, and during the actual process stillness is maintained for best results. But just before, and afterward, it need not stand on solemn ceremony where participants are afraid to speak or show any emotion. And by all means, afterward, talk about it, about what you felt, either during the session or after. What did you experience, as both receiver and channel? Compare notes. Like any education, this is how we learn.
And practice. Because practice makes perfect, as in anything. Learn the technique, then develop the art of intention. Which brings me to one final point.
Be more aware of your intention than your technique.
There may be times when you will want to work on a specific area of the body or may not have time to do a whole session with someone. “Spot” channels are fine.
What if you want to channel some negative energy out of your space? Remember that intention is the key. Go ahead and be conscious of channeling the light. Most of the time it is helpful to visualize it coming from your hands, but if imagining it coming from your heart works better, that’s fine. You need not hold up your hand if it would be awkward to do so. The “Universe” totally understands.
Please comment and let me know how this works for you.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The Day My Ex Called to Thank Me...
Jan. 2, 2010
I picked up a phone message today from a familiar voice. A girl friend from my past. Not for the first time. Actually, we have communicated several times since we broke up back in 1985. What did she want? Just to say hi, I supposed, happy new year, something like that. It’s her way. What can I say? I’m a Virgo. She’s a Libra. She is far more natural with that kind of thing than I am.
But there was a specific reason, one which I would not have guessed in a million years. She wanted to thank me…for teaching her a healing technique way back then, a technique in which one channels light energy through the hand to another person, or an animal, or…let us say, a negative situation.
She encountered such a situation, she said, in which a whiskey-drinking friend of hers came to visit and, as whiskey tends to do, created some belligerent, loud-mouthed bad energy. Her three frightened cats departed. So, not knowing what to do in the presence of a drunken threat, she began to channel the light through her hands and the bad energy departed. The man left. Her cats came back and swarmed around her for protection. She was relieved.
She thanked me in her message. I was somewhat dumbfounded. I called her back and said, “You’re welcome. But I’m surprised. First of all, I had no idea you were doing this technique. Second, I don’t recall teaching it to you...”
She said she has been doing this technique for the last 20 years. Or, roughly, since before we broke up. And that I had indeed taught it to her.
Well…I must have, or she would not have known how to do it, right? So where was my brain back then?
Ahem…Never mind. That’s another story.
There is probably a whole post I could write about this alone, breaking up, and frames of mind, and how maybe it’s not so hard to do after all, and so on. But breaking up IS hard to do, no matter where or when, no matter who…
No. I will resist the temptation...
There is a brief story I wanted to tell her but did not get the chance. And so I will tell you. The technique she spoke of I first learned in 1973 in Colorado Springs. You might be thinking it was Reiki. It was not, although it was similar. This was before Reiki became as popular as it is now among energy workers. It was a style of healing called “Johrei” – a Japanese word meaning “Light”. You hold your hand out to someone and you literally channel light to them, dispelling their dark energy, called “clouds.” As you gained proficiency in the technique you could actually feel, even see, these clouds. The people receiving could often feel the heat of the light on them, wherever the light from the hand was directed. I often felt it myself.
I had a counselor friend at the time, in 1974. I had told her of the technique and demonstrated it on her to positive effect. She called me one day, saying a male friend of hers came to visit her and would I come over and do the technique on him? He was drunk and depressed and talked about killing himself in a somewhat left-handed way. I replied that I would be glad to do so and hurried over to her apartment. Her friend, I thought, did not fit the impression created in my mind when she had described him. I had pictured someone dark, ugly, perhaps corpulent. False conclusions.
First of all, he was very handsome, and second, in very good shape. Why should that make a difference? I didn’t know at the time, but my sense told me that his “problem” was not physical, but meta-physical. I was right.
He said he didn’t know how to find his way in life. Every path was a false path. The truth was, he didn’t know how to find his way through his inner life. His outer physical life was fine. He had a life; money; a car; mobility. He could pretty much do what he wanted.
He had an extraordinary mind and as we talked I learned to what depth he questioned everything in life, and had ever since he was a child. Questions of religion, existence, war and peace, reincarnation (which he did not believe in, and which I did at the time). And he did not believe in “energy” as one primordial force. There was love energy between a mother and her baby, and there was atomic bomb energy…but they were different; they were not the same. How could they be? How could there be unity in this world with opposing vagaries of energy like love and war? How could a person even begin to imagine them as one energy?
What is your intention, I asked. You may pick up a knife and carve a roast turkey to feed a table of people…or you can kill somebody with it. What do you want to do? Which is the right choice?
You’re a dreamer, he said. You don’t see the reality. You are lost in that dreamy world of yours. Life is harder than that.
I was surprised. How can you be so sure, I said, that your reality is more accurate? Look at the pain it has caused you. Is that your final criteria for judging the truth of your reality? You want to end your life. My life is not perfect, but I desire to keep living. I see more good and hope in the world than that. And yet you say it is I who do not see the reality. I’m afraid, my friend, that it is you who are lost in your dreamy world. And I do not wish to share those same dreams, for they are nightmares.
He was, as I said, drunk. He certainly believed in alcohol and his right to end his life if he so chose. Nevertheless, he agreed to try out the energy technique with me, on the suggestion of our mutual friend. I instructed him to sit up comfortably straight and to close his eyes. I then held out my hand and “channeled” the energy to him, starting about 12 inches from his third eye (forehead). I recall feeling a strong tingling sensation in my hand, and so kept my hand there. After about 4 or 5 minutes he weaved, opened his eyes, and ran to the bathroom and became violently sick.
He hurled for about 20 minutes.
After, he came out feeling understandably woozy, went to bed on her couch and slept deeply all through the night. The next morning he woke up predictably hung-over. Yet when I saw him he looked strangely refreshed. He still maintained his conviction that the spiritual “energy” I spoke of did not exist, but that something in our relationship the previous evening had changed his mind about killing himself. It was more than the alcohol or any energy. It was a kind of camaraderie.
I asked him, what about our mutual counselor friend? Hadn’t she had a hand in changing his mind? After all, she had instigated the whole encounter. He said of course, that she was a wonderful friend and knew she cared for him sincerely, but that they’d had conversations like this before.
Well, what was it then? He replied that he had enjoyed meeting me and hearing about energy, and concluded that it must have been the meeting of a “like” mind.
I wasn’t sure how to take that.
I never saw him again. I can only hope that something in him had awakened and stayed awake in spite of the alcohol and…his way of looking at the world.
I saw his suffering as my own, as the suffering of all. A problem of perception. Seeing the world accurately, but not correctly. Something changed in him. Why? Camaraderie. Because we had related, as he said. Because my counselor friend had intervened. Because I desired to help by channeling this “Light” to him whether he believed it or not. And it worked. In some strange way it all worked. It was all energy, after all. Working as one, as all water is water, no matter where it comes from.
It is the nature of energy, like water, to find the most expedient, open way to flow. To seek its own level. That is what it does. That is why it is real. That is why it “works.” And that is why it is always unpredictable.
A most easily misunderstood truth.
M
(Next: Learn This Technique!)
I picked up a phone message today from a familiar voice. A girl friend from my past. Not for the first time. Actually, we have communicated several times since we broke up back in 1985. What did she want? Just to say hi, I supposed, happy new year, something like that. It’s her way. What can I say? I’m a Virgo. She’s a Libra. She is far more natural with that kind of thing than I am.
But there was a specific reason, one which I would not have guessed in a million years. She wanted to thank me…for teaching her a healing technique way back then, a technique in which one channels light energy through the hand to another person, or an animal, or…let us say, a negative situation.
She encountered such a situation, she said, in which a whiskey-drinking friend of hers came to visit and, as whiskey tends to do, created some belligerent, loud-mouthed bad energy. Her three frightened cats departed. So, not knowing what to do in the presence of a drunken threat, she began to channel the light through her hands and the bad energy departed. The man left. Her cats came back and swarmed around her for protection. She was relieved.
She thanked me in her message. I was somewhat dumbfounded. I called her back and said, “You’re welcome. But I’m surprised. First of all, I had no idea you were doing this technique. Second, I don’t recall teaching it to you...”
She said she has been doing this technique for the last 20 years. Or, roughly, since before we broke up. And that I had indeed taught it to her.
Well…I must have, or she would not have known how to do it, right? So where was my brain back then?
Ahem…Never mind. That’s another story.
There is probably a whole post I could write about this alone, breaking up, and frames of mind, and how maybe it’s not so hard to do after all, and so on. But breaking up IS hard to do, no matter where or when, no matter who…
No. I will resist the temptation...
There is a brief story I wanted to tell her but did not get the chance. And so I will tell you. The technique she spoke of I first learned in 1973 in Colorado Springs. You might be thinking it was Reiki. It was not, although it was similar. This was before Reiki became as popular as it is now among energy workers. It was a style of healing called “Johrei” – a Japanese word meaning “Light”. You hold your hand out to someone and you literally channel light to them, dispelling their dark energy, called “clouds.” As you gained proficiency in the technique you could actually feel, even see, these clouds. The people receiving could often feel the heat of the light on them, wherever the light from the hand was directed. I often felt it myself.
I had a counselor friend at the time, in 1974. I had told her of the technique and demonstrated it on her to positive effect. She called me one day, saying a male friend of hers came to visit her and would I come over and do the technique on him? He was drunk and depressed and talked about killing himself in a somewhat left-handed way. I replied that I would be glad to do so and hurried over to her apartment. Her friend, I thought, did not fit the impression created in my mind when she had described him. I had pictured someone dark, ugly, perhaps corpulent. False conclusions.
First of all, he was very handsome, and second, in very good shape. Why should that make a difference? I didn’t know at the time, but my sense told me that his “problem” was not physical, but meta-physical. I was right.
He said he didn’t know how to find his way in life. Every path was a false path. The truth was, he didn’t know how to find his way through his inner life. His outer physical life was fine. He had a life; money; a car; mobility. He could pretty much do what he wanted.
He had an extraordinary mind and as we talked I learned to what depth he questioned everything in life, and had ever since he was a child. Questions of religion, existence, war and peace, reincarnation (which he did not believe in, and which I did at the time). And he did not believe in “energy” as one primordial force. There was love energy between a mother and her baby, and there was atomic bomb energy…but they were different; they were not the same. How could they be? How could there be unity in this world with opposing vagaries of energy like love and war? How could a person even begin to imagine them as one energy?
What is your intention, I asked. You may pick up a knife and carve a roast turkey to feed a table of people…or you can kill somebody with it. What do you want to do? Which is the right choice?
You’re a dreamer, he said. You don’t see the reality. You are lost in that dreamy world of yours. Life is harder than that.
I was surprised. How can you be so sure, I said, that your reality is more accurate? Look at the pain it has caused you. Is that your final criteria for judging the truth of your reality? You want to end your life. My life is not perfect, but I desire to keep living. I see more good and hope in the world than that. And yet you say it is I who do not see the reality. I’m afraid, my friend, that it is you who are lost in your dreamy world. And I do not wish to share those same dreams, for they are nightmares.
He was, as I said, drunk. He certainly believed in alcohol and his right to end his life if he so chose. Nevertheless, he agreed to try out the energy technique with me, on the suggestion of our mutual friend. I instructed him to sit up comfortably straight and to close his eyes. I then held out my hand and “channeled” the energy to him, starting about 12 inches from his third eye (forehead). I recall feeling a strong tingling sensation in my hand, and so kept my hand there. After about 4 or 5 minutes he weaved, opened his eyes, and ran to the bathroom and became violently sick.
He hurled for about 20 minutes.
After, he came out feeling understandably woozy, went to bed on her couch and slept deeply all through the night. The next morning he woke up predictably hung-over. Yet when I saw him he looked strangely refreshed. He still maintained his conviction that the spiritual “energy” I spoke of did not exist, but that something in our relationship the previous evening had changed his mind about killing himself. It was more than the alcohol or any energy. It was a kind of camaraderie.
I asked him, what about our mutual counselor friend? Hadn’t she had a hand in changing his mind? After all, she had instigated the whole encounter. He said of course, that she was a wonderful friend and knew she cared for him sincerely, but that they’d had conversations like this before.
Well, what was it then? He replied that he had enjoyed meeting me and hearing about energy, and concluded that it must have been the meeting of a “like” mind.
I wasn’t sure how to take that.
I never saw him again. I can only hope that something in him had awakened and stayed awake in spite of the alcohol and…his way of looking at the world.
I saw his suffering as my own, as the suffering of all. A problem of perception. Seeing the world accurately, but not correctly. Something changed in him. Why? Camaraderie. Because we had related, as he said. Because my counselor friend had intervened. Because I desired to help by channeling this “Light” to him whether he believed it or not. And it worked. In some strange way it all worked. It was all energy, after all. Working as one, as all water is water, no matter where it comes from.
It is the nature of energy, like water, to find the most expedient, open way to flow. To seek its own level. That is what it does. That is why it is real. That is why it “works.” And that is why it is always unpredictable.
A most easily misunderstood truth.
M
(Next: Learn This Technique!)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
While we're on the subject...
I have heard many opinions from those who feel that the government has overstepped its bounds with regard to the national health care bills now being considered.
(Also with regard to practically every area of life. Thank God. People are waking up!)
I’m printing a link to a web page by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and editor of NaturalNews.com. It is an editorial, like my last one (below), against the passage of the health care bill in whatever shape it assumes by the time it reaches President Obama’s desk. ‘Tis no matter what it looks like by then. The bottom line is that the government is going to tell you how to manage your health care and how much you must pay per year to allow the government to tell you what to do in this regard…and that you have no choice in the matter. Not only is this wrong, it is unconstitutional.
Read Mike’s insightful article here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027870_health_reform_insurance.html
While we're on the subject of health, in my next posting I want to write about a healing technique that is so universal anyone can do it, and all it requires is your willingness to believe and maybe a little bit of imagination. It is not new, although some new-age gurus would have you believe so. And it does not cost any money to learn and practice it. But there is a price...the sacrifice of your previously unconscious life.
Don't worry. You can afford it.
M
(Also with regard to practically every area of life. Thank God. People are waking up!)
I’m printing a link to a web page by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and editor of NaturalNews.com. It is an editorial, like my last one (below), against the passage of the health care bill in whatever shape it assumes by the time it reaches President Obama’s desk. ‘Tis no matter what it looks like by then. The bottom line is that the government is going to tell you how to manage your health care and how much you must pay per year to allow the government to tell you what to do in this regard…and that you have no choice in the matter. Not only is this wrong, it is unconstitutional.
Read Mike’s insightful article here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027870_health_reform_insurance.html
While we're on the subject of health, in my next posting I want to write about a healing technique that is so universal anyone can do it, and all it requires is your willingness to believe and maybe a little bit of imagination. It is not new, although some new-age gurus would have you believe so. And it does not cost any money to learn and practice it. But there is a price...the sacrifice of your previously unconscious life.
Don't worry. You can afford it.
M
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