Light Journeys: A User's Guide to Chakra Meditation
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You have a dynamic system in your body of more than 2,000 chakras (energy centers) that change constantly and affect your physical, emotional, and mental well-being. You need not be at the mercy of this powerful system. In Light Journeys, Dr. Green focuses on the seven major chakra centers located along the spinal column and shows you how to interact consciously with your chakras. In so doing, you will develop the skills to dramatically improve your sense of harmony, balance, focus and concentration as well as your health, well-being and creative expression. Specific Meditations address aligning your chakras, reclaiming your personal power, opening your heart, exploring the interrelationship between the chakra centers, increasing and balancing yourself energetically, gaining insight, understanding and problem solving. This is a hands-on,practical and most useful approach to a powerful and subtle energy system.
Lucinda Green
Lucinda Green, Ph.D. was born to meditate. She is the founder and director of Rocky Mountain Insight, a Buddhist Vipassana meditation Center. Dr. Green first began meditating in 1967, and while living in India in the early 1970’s, pursued studies of philosophy, yoga and meditation as part of her undergraduate collegiate education. She began Vipassana meditation in 1976 and in the late 1970’s met her root teacher Ruth Denison. This meeting proved to be an auspicious event which led Lucinda into a life long study and practice of the Dharma, teachings of the Buddha, These teachings were avidly pursued through studies at Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, CA. and with numerous Buddhist teachers including Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hanh, Christopher Titmus, Rina Sircar, and U Silananda.. Upon receiving her Ph.D. in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology in the mid-eighties, Dr. Green rewarded herself by traveling once again to Asia where she donned monastic robes and lived as a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka under the tutelage of Venerable Ayya Khema, whom she considers her second teacher. Upon return, Dr. Green received Dharma transmission from her mentor Ruth Denison, becoming a lineage holder in the Burmese tradition of Buddhism. It is her profound joy to share the Dharma. Additional Resources Dr. Green has produced numerous recordings of guided meditations for living a balanced life, breathing techniques for stress reduction, and Dharma talks for spiritual growth.
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Light Journeys - Lucinda Green
Light Journeys
A User’s Guide to Chakra Meditation
LUCINDA T. GREEN, PH.D.
Published by Treelight Productions, Inc. at Smashwords
Copyright © 2012 Lucinda T. Green, Ph.D.
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Publisher
Treelight Productions, Inc.
PO Box 6386
Colorado Springs, CO 80934-6386
Book Editing and Cover Design
Kenneth Guentert, The Publishing Pro, LLC, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Cover Illustration of Chakras
Claudelle Girard
Illustration of Location of Chakras
Susan Turner
Table of Contents
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Preface
SECTION I—TELL ME ABOUT THE CHAKRAS: THE BASICS
1. Introduction to the Chakras
2. The Chakra System as a Map
3. Basic Functions of the Chakras
4. Purposes and Uses of Chakra Meditation
5. Working with Color and the Chakras
6. Relationship of Health to Chakra Imbalances
SECTION II—MEDITATIONS
7. Guidelines
8. Calm and Focus
Meditation: Exploring the Chakras and Grounding Cord
Meditation: Making Discoveries
Tips: Handy Devices
9. Balance and Harmony
Meditation: String of Lights
Tips: Applying the String of Lights
Meditation: Aligning the Chakras
Tips: Aligning the Chakras
10. Energy
Tips: Promoting Right Use of Energy
Tips: Interrelationships between Specific Chakras
Exercise: Clearing the Throat Chakra
11. Insight and Understanding
Meditation: Heart Chakra (done in pairs)
Tips: Giving and Receiving
Meditation: Transforming Limiting Beliefs
Tips: Transforming Limiting Beliefs
Meditation: Connecting with Your Purpose
12. Problem-Solving
Meditation: Working In-Depth with Personal Power
Meditation: Problem-Solving from the Sixth Chakra
Meditation: Problem-Solving from the Seventh Chakra
13. Chakras in their Healthiest States: Visualizations
14. Reminders
PART III—JOURNAL WORKSHEETS
1. Working with Color
2. Guidelines for Meditation
3. Grounding Cord
4. Exploring the Chakras
5. Making Discoveries
6. Applying the String of Lights
7. Aligning the Chakras
8. Exploring Relationships between Specific Chakras
9. Clearing the Throat Chakra
10 Heart Chakra Meditation
11. Transforming Limiting Beliefs
12. Transformed Chakra Messages
13. Working In-Depth with Personal Power
14. Problem Solving from the Sixth Chakra
15. Problem Solving from the Seventh Chakra
16. Visualization: First Chakra
17. Visualization: Second Chakra
18. Visualization: Third Chakra
19. Visualization: Fourth Chakra
20. Visualization: Fifth Chakra
21. Visualization: Sixth Chakra
22. Visualization: Seventh Chakra
Bibliography
CDs and MP3s Available
About the Author
Preface
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IN 1970 I LIVED IN BANGALORE, Southern India, where, under the auspices of Callison College, a cluster college of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, I studied history, culture, religion, art, Vedanta philosophy, Karnatic flute, and Indian cooking. It was in the land of Bharat, Mother India, that I first became acquainted with the chakras. I conducted a study of the system through the tutelage of Ramachandra Rao, an Indian professor of philosophy and religion.
Our primary text was The Serpent Power by Sir John Woodroffe. I poured over the tome, learning the deities and animals associated with each chakra, the number of petals on each flower, and the seed syllable sound associated with each center. It was all very esoteric. While I questioned the depth of my understanding, I loved the endeavor of immersing myself in the mystery of it all.
I had my first direct conscious experiences with the chakras four years later during continued studies in Berkeley, California. At that time, I came to understand certain childhood and young adult phenomena as specific awakenings of certain chakras.
Since that time, I have continued in-depth research and studies of the chakras and meditation practices working with the chakras.
When I was first introduced to chakras so long ago in Bangalore, little did I know how deeply the understanding and meditation practices would affect me throughout my life.
The intent of Light Journeys is to provide skillful guidance that allows you to engage fully and directly with this ancient system so as to benefit your life. The user’s guide provides the information necessary for you to knowledgeably interact with the system and make it come alive for you.
When I moved from amassing knowledge and information about the chakras, a necessary and invaluable step, to direct engagement through meditation, the chakras became a living transformative experience in my life.
There is learning the map, then there is applying the map. The focus of the user’s guide is skillful application. Please refer to the bibliography for other wonderful books.
The meditations are the heart of the book. They are divided into categories according to purposes served. We begin with overall guidelines, followed by Calm and Focus, Balance and Harmony, Energy, Insight and Understanding, and Problem Solving. Exercises given in the book are of my own creation, except for the grounding cord and heart chakra done in pairs, or otherwise noted.
Chakra meditation brings the benefits of calm, concentration, focus, balance, harmony, relaxation, and release of tension. Actively working with the chakras—which is to say, working with the content of what you discover in the meditation—will bear the fruit of insight, transformation, and freedom.
May Light Journeys serve as a gem that supports your meditation practice and your awakening.
Lucinda Green
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Section I
TELL ME ABOUT THE CHAKRAS
The Basics
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Back to Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1
Introduction to the Chakras
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THE WORD CHAKRA MEANS WHEEL
and is literally a wheel of energy that spins out and creates matter. We have more than 2,000 chakras located in our bodies. This book explores the sevenfold chakra centers located along the vertical axis of the spine. Other major chakras include one in each of the hands, feet, elbows, and knees. The chakras are referred to as the psychic glandular system, the organs of subtle anatomy. Each chakra relates to a particular gland located in the body.
Chakras are three-dimensional vortices, constantly expanding and contracting, similar to the pupil of the eye, which expands and contracts as needed to regulate the amount of light entering the eye. When a chakra becomes greatly contracted, it can be referred to as closed.
The opening of a chakra can be compared to a nozzle attachment on a hose, which regulates the intake and output of water or, in this case, energy. One regulates the movement of water through a hose by increasing or decreasing 1) the size of the hose and/or 2) the amount of water let in or out of the hose. In much the