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way you can treat many people without depleting

your own strength or ruining your nerves.

2.Increase your radiant energy so far out that as you

near your patient, he/she will actually be “swim-

ming” in your blue light. Your patient must be firmly

convinced that he/she is inhaling your radiant en-

ergy with each breath and that he/she is strength-

ening. He/she must believe that the healing power

will remain within him/her, and that they will be

getting better and better. If your patient cannot con-

centrate, or if he/she is a young child, imagine your-

self that the energy is being absorbed into their

blood, healing continually.

3.Press the vital power directly into your patient’s

body or into the sick organ or area through his/her

pores. Will the vital force to renew itself constantly

from the Universe until complete recovery. This

method is only practiced with patients whose ner-

vous systems possess some strength. It is the most

popular method of healing.

4.An alternate healing method is to make direct con-

tact with the person’s mind, and then treat by the

above means. This can be done while the patient is

sleeping, especially if you become skilled in

dreamwalking. Still other methods involve healing

with the Elements or with electrical or magnetic

fields.

5.Increase the power and focus of your healing field

by creating a Magick Circle around and over your

patient (see 4.IV.5: “Casting the Circle”). Visualize

a mirrored surface on the inside of the domed circle,

reflecting your blue light back into the center. This

will contain your working, and reinforce the outer

edge of your aura so that your energies will not

dissipate and become depleted.

6.Have some nice soothing music to play in the back-

ground while you are working with a patient. Check

out the “New Age” section of your music store,

and ask the clerk what they would recommend.

There are many, many tapes and CDs made just for

this purpose.

Lesson 3: Chakra Healing

(by Anodea Judith)

The chakra system is an ancient means for ex-

panding consciousness and balancing your energy sys-

tem. It originates from the yoga philosophies of India,

most specifically during the Tantric period of yoga,

during the middle of the first millennium. Tantra liter-

ally means “loom,” and Tantric philosophies were a

weaving of many different beliefs, but most specifi-

cally they featured a weaving of mind and body, male

and female, and honored all levels of experience.

The word chakra is Sanskrit for “wheel” and de-

scribes a swirling vortex of energy that emanates from

the core of the energy body. There are seven major

chakras that are based

on the central nerve

bundles branching out

from the spinal column,

so this is a magickal sys-

tem that maps directly

onto the body. That

means we feel our

chakras within our body

and can gain access to

them by paying atten-

tion to the body.

Chakras are organi-

zational centers for the

reception, assimilation,

and expression of life

force energy. You can

think of them as cham-

bers in the temple of the

body. Like the various

rooms in your home,

each chamber is designed to handle

a different type of energy, such as

Earth, Water, Fire, Air, sound, light, or thought. These

chambers generate the patterns of our lives through

core programming that we receive as we are growing

up about how to behave and create life around us.

Because of this, chakras are often out of balance and

can generate negative patterns that we would rather

not have! By aligning and balancing the chakras, we

can become more conscious about the patterns we

create. By understanding the chakras, we can use them

as a magickal system for aligning our inner energies

with the sacred architecture of the world around us.

The chakras have many associations based on their

different locations within the body. They rule over

mental and emotional states, as well as physical states.

They have a seven-element system with a wide asso-

ciation of deities, colors, sounds, and symbols. The

table of correspondences in 3.VI.5 shows you their

various associations. You can use these correspon-

dences to better understand the meaning and function

of each chakra, or to access the chakra’s energy in

your magickal practice. Below is a brief description of

each center to give you an overview of the system.

Chakra One is associated with the

Element Earth and the indrawing force

of gravity. It forms the foundation of

the entire chakra system and repre-

sents survival instincts. Use this

chakra to develop your grounding and create stability

and prosperity in your life. Its name, Muladhara, means

“root support.” Allowing structure in your life will give

you support for other things you want to do. If you

resist structure, you are resisting the grounding and

solidity that the first chakra can provide.

Mary Ann

Zapalac

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