Monday, July 12th, 2010
Previous posts on this topic can be found at:
Chakra Overview, and Seven Chakras
Hand Chakras
We work with our hands, we often explore the world with our hands– working with clay, feeling different textures, holding hands, typing, washing and cleansing with our hands. The hand puts something in motion.* Through surgery, chiropractic, massage, and the laying on of hands (to name a few), Hands Heal.
Today, we begin our awareness of Chakra Energy by working with the energy of our Hand Chakras. They are located in the middle of the palms. When we are aware of our hand chakras, we can develop the power to heal.*
Kalashatra Govinda (*author of A Handbook of Chakra Healing: Spiritual Practice for Health, Harmony and Peace) tells us that “The hand chakras relate to the heart chakra. Every technique that stimulates the heart chakra strengthens the flow of energy in the hand chakras. Hand chakra exercises also have a positive effect on the heart chakra.”
Exercise:
Put your hands flat together, palm to palm. Don’t push, just rest them together. Concentrate on the contact of your palms– notice how it feels. If you’ve worked with chakras and energy healing before, you may already feel the pulsing of energy–and warmth– where your palm chakras are touching.
Gently rub your hands together in circles. Don’t apply pressure, just feel the palms and hands circling against each other. Focus on that contact and let your breathing slow.
Gently pull your palms apart, to about six inches. Do you still feel that contact between the hands? They aren’t touching, but the energy in the two chakras has been linked. Slowly bring your palms closer to each other, fingers pointed out and up from the body. As you do this, you may feel more heat and more ENERGY concentrated between your palms. This is chakra energy.
Experiment. How far apart can you slowly pull your hands, focusing on the palms, and keep the feeling of contact between them? Experience where the boarders lie.
Awareness:
What I want you to take from this exercise is that our hands have energy. They move energy, focus it, interact with it. The Hand Chakras are strong, but they are not as strong as the seven primary Chakra points in your body. Those seven points hold and radiate even more energy than what you just felt.
We’ve learned, subconsciously, to limit or channel our personal energy in certain ways. To stop feeling it. Sometimes we haven’t learned to manage or limit it, and we walk through life with our personal energy leaking out of us because we have no understanding of how to contain it. Personal space is about energy boundaries. When we let someone into our personal space, they are often directly connecting and interacting with our energy– Chakra to Chakra.
Realizing this made me want to be a lot more careful about whose energy I mixed mine with, and who I give it away to. It also gave me insights about how tired I often used to be– I was giving my energy away without realizing it, and taking on unhealthy energy from other people in return.
When we do chakra work, it is important to find a safe, quiet, serene space. We need a set time and space in which to focus exclusively on ourselves– without interruption, without interference. We need an area that helps us contain the energy we are working with, and that lets us feel safe enough to let go of unhealthy and artificial boundaries we’ve already set on our energy.
I often create a visual representation of my safe space by lighting a candle, and imagining that the boundary of light (usually about five feet in diameter, if the candle is on a safe surface at floor level) is the boundary of my energy space. This can be done physically with a length of red or black yarn, or a color of your choice (you’ll probably need nine to thirteen feet of yarn to mark out a comfortable circle). Something that helps you define your safe space, and that you can set up the same way every time we do this work. It will become a trigger to your psyche that you are going to do energy work, and will eventually make it easier for you to find that calm, centered physical/emotional focus you need to do this kind of work. Chakra Healing.
When you are done working with your Chakra Energy for the day, pull your focus back to reality by looking at something in the space outside your circle, and remembering where you got it. Open your ears, nose, and other senses to the world outside your circle. What do you hear from the street outside, what do you smell, what is the temperature in the room?
The simple, boring, REALITY of these details will help you get back to daily life until the next time you sit down and make space in your life for personal healing.
You can also use the Hand Chakra sensing technique to focus in on your seven primary chakras. Get to the point (sometimes this takes several days of regular practice) where you REALLY FEEL the energy in your palms, and then use your hands to cup the chakra point you’re working on in your body. You don’t want to physically touch your body or palms together with this exercise.
Instead, you want to notice the way your body energy (say Solar Plexus Chakra, above your navel) also produces heat and energy that can connect with the chakra energy in your palms. This is a great way of activating that chakra as you prepare to focus on healing, and improving the flow of energy throughout your body. You may feel a strong pull, or twisting sensation in the part of your body that is cupped by your activated hand chakras. What does this feel like for you?
Remember to refocus your energy on simple daily things before you pick up your string or blow out your candle, and move back into the stream of daily life.
Next week, First Chakra! Remember to send me an email with Chakra Healing in the subject if you want to receive additional insights, ideas, and personal feedback as we work our way through the seven primary chakras.
Be Well.
Tags: Seven Chakras in Seven Months | Posted in Get Involved/How-To, Register Now!, Workshops | 1 Comment »
