You will not see who you are - this \”you\” of you - while you keep on persisting in believing this mind that is busily informing the mindbody that you think you are. You are not this mind informed mindbody that you find yourself traveling around through. No amount of thinking is going to deliver you of the beauty of your self - the heart of existence. You are literally going to have to surrender, let go of and leave alone your ongoing and momentary attempts to try and be who you think you are to come to the clarity of who you already are - there is no getting around this one.

Who you are is this \”motion of seeing\” that is flowing through the eyes of this mindbody that you find yourself flowing through, right now. Who \”you\” are is already here, in this very moment. You can actually and truly be completely free from the bondage of this prison of your own making, if you are so wanting. Letting go of what was never true of \”you\” and consciously being this one that is this \”you\” of you is completely available to you, right here and right now.

If you do not want to be who you are then you need not do anything differently to what you are currently up to and doing in your daily and momentary living. However, who you are is already true of you and this \”you\” of you is the \”motion of aliveness\” that is flowing through the very eyes of this mindbody that you find yourself so intimately involved with.

You are to find this one that is seeing through your eyes - the seer - by consciously aligning your focus of attention to this very \”aliveness\” that is flowing through your eyes in this moment. Then you are to stop at and as this one that is \”you\”. This you can do because it is \”you\”.

Learning to move from this \”you\” of you is what frees you up to this \”you\”. Who you are is already here. You need not \”try\” to be who you are; you simply need to realize that \”you\” already are; you need to \”be\” this amness of you.

It is a simple \”flick of the switch\” of your attention; from you believing yourself to be who you think you are to the realization - energetically - that \”you\” already are; from the inattention of unconsciousness to conscious attention; this on a momentary basis.

Because who you are already is, you can actually \”stop and drop\” what you are not and \”see and be\” who you already are. Will who you think you are help you along with being who you are? No. Not at all. Au contraire. Who you think you are works flat out in distracting you from the \”seeing and being\” of who you already are. This running commentary of your mind is an adept at the art of distraction - it is what it does. It will have you looking at anything, anything at all, rather than have you \”seeing and being\” this \”you\” of you.

Of course, an ever growing of uncaused happiness is not the result of living this attempt to try and be something that is not you, either. Pain and suffering, falsehood upon falsehood, fear and desire, guilt and doubt is what is served up as the daily menu. All the while, \”you\” are already right here and flowing through the eyes of this mindbody that you find yourself flowing through, closer to you than the nose on your face. The heart of existence, the beauty of the divine one, is this \”you\” of you.

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Urban community is business and industrial society that always under pressure with never ending business target. Other hands, unhealthy life style often make endurance more lower, lower and lower physically and mentally. For solve this problem some effort has been done with medicine and psychiatry approach. But, the fact shows so many urban people still have problem although they were get treatment by medicine and psychiatry approach.

The huge problems need to solve it with proper approaching. That approach is meditation for urban people like businessman, politician, decision maker, and etc. Meditation is one of many solutions for urban people that very busy and always under pressure. Various people and various institutions have offered various meditations.

Dragon Meditation (DM)\r One meditation solution is dragon meditation. A Dragon meditation is meditation for transform universe energy to our body and soul energy and makes improvement our physic and mental quality. This meditation like tai-chi but not absolutely same. Dragon meditation does not need foot movement but only hand movement. It is very-very slow movement in a meditation activity but people who see the meditation will not any movement on this meditation.

DM has some step of hand. There are 8 steps of DM and every people can do that. Key factor for success in meditation like this are: patient, remember with step hands, always feel on palm hands, and pray to God. Benefit for all people who conduct it are more relax, health, fresh, healing self and other people, and have protection capability by body magnetic shield.

Meditation in Busy Time

Preliminary meditations before get in training on DM please try this:

1. Sitting Meditation. Sit on chair or floor. Close your eyes, arrange your breath and loose all your body. Feel your palm hand that you put on your knee. Keep like this for 15-30 minutes.
\r 2. Sleeping down meditation. Same with above but you should be go sleeping down. Keep like this for 15-30 minutes.
\r 3. Sun Meditation. Conduct it like number 1 but in the below of sun. Do this in 12-16 oclock in the day and not is night. Keep feel on your body and palm hands.
\r 4. Water Meditation. Sit down in the bottom of pool or bath up. Keep in water your body until neck. Arrange your breath and close your eyes. Feel your body and feel the water too.

Four kinds of meditation above is example of dragon meditation. For more detail for guidance please read my e-book titled: The Power of Dragon: Meditation for Enlightenment, Healing, Inner Power and Self Shield. But if you try four kinds above you can get relaxation and refreshing your body and soul. In busy time you still can do meditation when sit in the car, your office room and etc. Arrange your breath and feel your body. It is made your body relax for little time. More better if you spare time in your house or office to meditation 5-10 minutes.

DM is one solution for meditation for all people. More info see http://www.mydragontattoo.com. I hope some benefit can enjoy for all people in the world. Thank you.

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The existence or Cosmos is made up of the five elements that are - Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether. All these elements are different forms of the same Existential Energy.

The basic thirst of man is to find a connection with this Existential Energy.

Take the first element - the Earth element. Idol worship is nothing but trying to find a connection with the Existential Energy through the Earth element. Idols are made up of earth or clay. Through worshiping idols, we are actually trying to find a connection through the Earth element.

One point has to be clearly understood here, we are not worshiping the idols but we are worshiping through the idols.The Energy that everyone is worshiping is one and the same. This has to be very clearly understood.

Next is the water element. It is a spiritual practice to take bath in sacred rivers. This is actually a technique to try to realize the Existential Energy through the water element.

Then, we perform so many fire rituals at our homes and temples. This practice is to realize the Existential Energy through the fire element.

The next element is the air element. Chanting mantras is nothing but trying to connect to the Cosmic Energy through the air element.

Finally, we come to the element which is the subtlest form of the Existential Energy - the Ether element. Meditation is nothing but trying to connect to Existence through the ether element.

The earth element is the first plane of tuning ourselves to the Energy and ether is the final plane of tuning. We can start with the earth element - idol worship, but you have to ultimately graduate from it and start meditating to fine tune yourself with Existence.

Once you start doing this and experiencing the joys of meditation, you will find yourself expanding and exploding in 360 degrees. Once you have had a taste of meditation and when you go back to rituals, you will look at them from a different dimension and enjoy them even more! When this happens, growth has happened in you.

If you understand the underlying concept of the five elements, you will be able to enjoy Existence continuously instead of getting stuck in different forms of worship. So, understand this and start \r
resonating with Existence.

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Control your brainwaves and you control your state of mind. By raising or slowing our brainwaves, we can altar how we think, feel and act. Meditation is the process of slowing our waking beta brainwaves to the slower states of alpha and theta. By learning to control these states, we can improve our health and well-being.

Brainwaves are the electrical movements in the brain. The frequency of these brainwaves can be measured using an electroencephalograph (EEG). Electrodes placed on the scalp measure the frequency of these brainwaves. From highest to lowest frequency, these brainwaves are called beta, alpha, theta and delta.

Beta is the waking, thinking state. During beta, brainwaves range from 14 to 40 cycles per second. In beta, an individual thinks and listens, can solve analytical problems, make decisions, and intake and process information. This is our normal state of mind when working, going to school and shopping. During beta our minds are the most alert.

Alpha is a slower state more indicative of relaxing and reflecting. During alpha, brainwaves range from 9 to 14 cycles per second. In the alpha state, an individual is fully aware of his/her surroundings but in a much more relaxed state of mind than beta. Meditation is often practiced in the alpha state.

Theta is an even slower state perfect for daydreaming and intuitive thinking. During theta, brainwaves range from 5 to 8 cycles per second. It is the state between wakefulness and sleep. In this state of mind, memories, thoughts and facts that eluded a person in a wakeful state can be recalled. It is often in this state that answers to problems seem to appear. Deep meditation and prayer are practiced in the theta state.

Delta is the slowest of the four states where sleep occurs. During delta, brainwaves range from 1.5 to 4 cycles per second. At the slowest delta level, sleep is deep and dreamless.

During our waking and sleeping hours, the brain moves through all four of these stages. At any given level, there is a range in brainwaves that effect how deeply we have entered that state. By knowing how these states function, we can knowingly enter a particular state and control how our thoughts are processed.

Jose Silva wrote in his book The Silva Mind Control Method, When you are wide awake, doing and achieving in the workaday world, you are in Beta or outer consciousness. When you are daydreaming, or just going to sleep but not quite there yet, or just awakening but not yet awake, you are in Alpha. When you are asleep you are in Alpha, Theta, or Delta, not just Delta alone, as many believe. With Mind Control training you can enter the Alpha level at will and still remain fully alert.

Meditation allows our minds to move through these states leading us to a healthy lifestyle. When we control our brainwaves, we control how we think, feel, reason and react. Relaxation, creativity and self-awareness flow naturally. As we mediate, our physical health improves as we move closer and closer to a healthy lifestyle. Consciously controlling our brainwaves is a step towards healthy

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During my morning ramblings sometimes Im aware of my surroundings and sometimes - Im caught up in the monkey-like chattering of the mind.

This morning I was aware of;

the cedar and pine perfume that infuses the atmosphere here on the Island of British Columbia.

the depth of field that is available when we look into the distance and admire the majesty of the mountain peaks.

the feeling of being part of the whole rather than a struggling, individual entity.

And so on my return home, I went to my library, picked a book from my meagre travelling library, opened it at random and began my readings - my musings for the day.

To-days readings are taken from The Beauty of Friendship by Kahlil Gibran

The hearts affections are divided
\r like the branches of the cedar tree;
\r if the tree loses one strong branch,
\r it will suffer but it does not die.
\r It will pour all its vitality
\r into the next branch so that it will grow
\r and fill the empty place.

Beautiful in its simplicity and mighty in its message.

In Natural Health and Natural Living we constantly draw on images from nature for it is only through natural law that each of us will attain to our true potential.

In the above poem, Gibran points out, in sequence;

1. The law of unity.

2. The law of conservation of energy.

3. The law of healing.

The tree is a composite of all its parts and they all work together for the good of the whole.

When under stress, the organism rests, conserves its energy and with an extra-ordinary effort

Goes about repairing itself

Are we less than the tree? - I think not!

We have within us the seeds for greatness.

With humility I suggest that we spend more time listening to the sounds of nature as she unfolds her secrets for health and happiness.

Kevin and Katy Hinton are renowned Natural Health Educators & Advocators who have assisted a broad range of people to reinvigorate their lives through common-sense Natural Health practices.\r They are trusted advisors to many in the corporate world in Australia and North America who recognize the life-improving value of Natural Health habits.\r Their experience in the field reveals that adopting practical Natural Health habits usually helps drive success in other areas of life.
\r Acumen, Queensland Business, August, 2006

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No amount of philosophical depth or profundity or looking for deep and wonderful meanings to life is going to change your moment by moment obstruction of your heart.

You believing that you are getting more \”onto it;\” that you are \”just about there;\” that you have arrived at the big \”nothing\” or the great void; is not relieving you from being lost in your attempt in trying to be who you think you are from one moment to the next. Who you already are already is, right now. Not some \”now\” that will come along later. But now. This now, right now. The timeless now of eternity.

Unless you align and refocus your conscious attention to the finding of who you already are - right now - you will continue on misidentifying the \”you\” of you and carry on perpetuating and believing yourself to be who you think you are. The mind must be transcended from the prison of its current situation to where this mind is fluid and fluent in and as the greater mind that is informed by greater clarity of the divine one.

This transcendence comes about by you realizing and being the \”you\” that you already and truly are. Otherwise you will continue to be distracted by this restless, judging and chattering mind and be lost in its meanderings; keeping the mind from being transcended into its greater fluidity; never coming to realize the immediacy of the being of the \”you\” of you, in this very \”now,\” right now.

This restless mind - that informs this mindbody that you keep on trying to be and keep on believing yourself to be - will not bring you to the peace and stillness of the beingness of \”you\” - who you are; the heart incarnate. Unless you transcend this mind by realizing this \”you\” that already is and flowing through this mindbody that you find yourself so intimately involved with, you are going to remain imprisoned by your own creation - the attempt to be who you think you are which has you not seeing and being this \”you\” that already is.

This you can \”do\” - the \”doing\” being an act of no longer doing what you are currently trying to do - because this \”you\” of you already is. Who you are is this \”motion of seeing\” that is flowing through your eyes right now; it is the seer, the one that is looking and peering through.

Stop at and as this \”motion of aliveness\” that is flowing through your mindbody and you will come to being deeply at rest as \”you,\” immediately freeing up from the illusion of your belief in and your trying to be who you think you are. Immediately and completely.

Every moment that you forget that you are simply this one that is the seer, the heart of \”that\” which is peering out through the eyes of this mindbody that you cannot escape from, you immediately revert back to who you think you are and its distractions and restlessness. Yes, it is as simple as this. It always was. It always will be.

Unless you have a strong desire to come home to the heart you are not going to surrender, let go of and leave alone your attempt to try and be who you think you are. It is as simple as this, as well. This \”you\” of you is beyond remembering and forgetting, beyond being and \”not being.\”

However, you are going to have to find this \”you\” first; then you are going to have to stop at and as this one, your heart. Because you are who you are \”you\” can be who you are. While you believe yourself to be who you think you are you have not got a \”hope in hell\” of aligning yourself to your self - the heart of existence itself.

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I remember when I started trying to meditate. I would sit down, close my eyes, and try to be really calm (my definition of meditation at the time). That was hard: my head would burst with ideas, thoughts, solutions, problems I would become agitated, and stopped generally after ten long minutes, if not less. Its during my short meditations that I felt less meditative.

I knew there was something for me to explore that was beyond the physical world. I knew I would unleash my potential, by going within. And sitting meditation, as I knew it, was the #1 technique that would lead me there. Yet, I just couldnt do it I was inadequate.

No, I wasnt - and neither are you, if you are experiencing a similar situation. Its your definition of meditation that may be inadequate.

The idea behind meditation is not to sit on a chair, and close our eyes. Or to sit in lotus, and watch the leaves change colors. You can do all this if you feel a call to do so, but whatever technique you choose is just as relevant as the type of fork you eat your meals with. Forks, meditations, cars, are just tools that help us accomplish a specific task

Meditation, we could say, is an altered state of consciousness. We do not see things as we normally do; we feel connected to something bigger than our everyday selves; we feel wider than usual. In a few words, we are so immersed in ourselves that we can transcend our own limitations. Now, the question is: what do you need to feel that way (if so you wish)? For some people, its gardening; for others, its laying down comfortably and listening to music (it doesnt even need to be New Age). I personally know someone who meditates by playing card games on her computer. After a few minutes of calculating her moves and keeping score, she looses touch with the cards, and she takes off.

Why dont we value such activities as much as those that involve candles, cushions, and incense? They may be simple, or silly, but their impact often is important, profound. Even more, they are easy and effortless. No need to be disciplined we are naturally attracted to them.

In some ways, maybe thats why we dont always see their true magnitude. They are too accessible and natural. Mustnt we pay a high price or work hard to get anything of value? If its easy, its not worth much or so we were told.

For some people, meditating the conventional way (sitting down and all) does not contribute to expanding their horizon. It may look like they are meditating when they are doing it, but in reality they are thinking about their problems, analyzing this and thatthey are relaxing, yes, but meditating, no. They would probably have the deep experience they are looking for much more easily by being active, by doing things just like those mentioned before (repetitive tasks, especially, are very effective in that regard). Of course, before washing the dishes, or doing some gardening, we dont really think Im going to meditate. But when we become aware of the higher potential these activities hold for us, we can utilize them consciously with that clear intention in mind.

Still, the point of this article is that we do not even need a clear intention to meditate. In fact, when we want something too much, we often become our first obstacle in the process especially when it comes to meditation. You cannot work hard to attain something that is all about lightness, openness, and receptivity. You cannot push yourself to open up. You can only create favorable circumstances and those can be anything, as we have seen, since it is just a matter of which tool works best for you.

So if your mind is constantly active, or extremely creative, and your energy is so high you cannot sit down and close your eyes, do not categorize yourself as unspiritual or unmeditative. You may not be able to sit for hours in uncomfortable positions like Tibetan monks do, but you too can accomplish things that they would not even dream of doing. Sure, you would benefit greatly from slowing down your thoughts and relaxing; but developing strategies that suit you as you are now would probably serve you even better. What could be the best way to meditate for you?

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Third Chakra - Manipura - Solar Plexus Chakra ~ FIRE ~ EMERALD GREEN

Aromatherapy for healing the Third Chakra - Inhale a pure essential oil or blend that is sweet, earthy or citrus. Helichrysum, Vetiver, Petitgrain, Atlas Cedarwood are good choices.

Focus your awareness at the Manipura (Solar Plexus) Chakra located just above your navel. From Sanskrit Manipura can be translated as City of Jewels.

See a Whirling Ball of Fiery Emerald Green light pulsing with energy in this center. Its color represents ego and desire, or the Green Dragon.

This is your vital life force energy for empowerment and self esteem. Its nature is the strong emotional desire for power.

A balanced and healthy Manipura Chakra ensures a strong Digestive System. Its energy imbues you with a sense of empowerment and self esteem.

Emotional stagnation or blockage at your Solar Plexus Chakra emits an energy frequency that resonates with struggle and frustration in fulfilling ones desires. Emotional issues of ambition and inhibition devour your present moment awareness and you suffer from rampant feelings of fear, guilt and doubt.

Related physical imbalances, include: Ulcers and Gallstones

Recite this Mantra six times aloud as you continue to focus your awareness at the Manipura Chakra. Remember to inhale and exhale fully as you recite the mantra.

I Open, I Desire, I Focus, I Flower

Recite this same mantra silently six times within yourself as you continue to focus your awareness at the Manipura Chakra. Remember to inhale and exhale fully as you recite the mantra.

I Open, I Desire, I Focus, I Flower

Sound the Seed Syllable RA (Keynote E in the C Major scale) while continuing to focus your awareness at your Manipura Chakra for five minutes.

Clear and Balance (4 minutes duration) by allowing images to naturally surface and melt away as blockages are cleared and balance restored in your Manipura Chakra.

E TONE - RA ————————

Conclude (1 minute duration) your visualization and recitation of the Seed Syllable RA by seeing your Manipura Chakra as a clear and vibrant whirling ball of Brilliant EMERALD GREEN Colored light pulsing with energy at this center.

Remember to inhale fully and exhale as you visualize your Manipura Chakra being clear, vibrantly alive and healthy.

You have completed the third cycle for clearing, balancing and charging your Rainbow Bridge.

As you become adept at working with your chakras you may gradually increase the time you focus your attention on each energy center. Initially your focus should be for no more than five minutes duration.

A regular practice of these exercises will result in an increased amplitude for each of your Major Chakras and give you the necessary stamina to dispel life obstacles. Increased amplitude of your energy centers will greatly enhance your vital life force and positively impact your health and longevity.

Your regular practice of these guided visualization and affirmation exercises is a conscious investment you can choose to make in building your personal power which will enable you to direct your spirit.

Please join me for my next article in this series as I guide you to Clear, Balance & Charge Your Fourth Chakra - Your Anahata or Heart Chakra. Relax and enjoy the journey through your Rainbow Bridge.

PLEASE NOTE: There are many cheap, synthetic copies of aromatic oils, but these are not recommended for therapeutic use. For best results purchase the highest quality oils you can possibly find. Use certified organic essential oils, or oils that have been tested and are pesticide free.

Aromatherapy is a gentle and noninvasive complementary health care system used for balancing and synchronizing your body, mind, spirit and emotions to enhance your health. Properly administered essential oils are a natural, safe and effective way to enhance your health and well-being and can produce satisfying results where other methods have failed. Please consult with your physician regarding serious health concerns and do not attempt to self diagnose.

KG Stiles is a certified aromatherapy and energy medicine practitioner in Ashland, OR USA. PurePlant Essentials is her line of pure organic essential oils. Click to learn about & purchase CHAKRA OILS. Click to learn about & purchase CD HEALING YOUR RAINBOW BRIDGE - A GUIDED CHAKRA MEDITATION Click to learn about & purchase COMPLETE CHAKRA MEDITATION PROGRAM Contact: KG Stiles at Springhill Wellness Center, 2520 Springhill Drive Ashland, OR USA (541) 941-7315 Mahalo!

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Meditation is one of the top-10 alternative therapies used by the U. S. population. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine reports that 8% of Americans use meditation as a health tool. No longer just for Buddhist monks and New-Age types, meditation is now appealing to mainstream business professionals, medical doctors and even health care companies. This is a result of the growing evidence which supports that meditation can promote physical healing.

Meditation may be spiritual for some, but the practice is not necessarily religious in nature. There are many meditative approaches but regardless of the technique, medical research indicates that the practice of meditation tends to evoke a state of physiological relaxation: blood pressure drops, heart beats slower and breathing is quieter, other biochemical changes can also occur. Scientists do not understand why the changes happen but understanding the physical effects can explain the potential health benefits of meditation.

Twenty minutes of daily meditation can provide relief for ailments such as low back pain, headaches, depression and anxiety. Suffers of these chronic conditions should attempt to incorporate the meditation practice into their daily routine. If meditation can lower blood pressure, it could be a useful tool in helping patients with hypertension. If scientists uncover exactly how meditation works to relieve these symptoms, they may be able to apply that understanding to treat a variety of other disorders.

Research on meditation began back in the late 1960s. Herbert Benson, MD, began studying the physiological impact of Transcendental Meditation on individuals. In recent years, the scope of studies has focused on how the practice can reduce symptoms of chronic illnesses from cardiovascular disease to cancer. Critics indicate some of the research is been on small study populations and has not had adequate control groups for comparison. But some studies have shown promising results.

Meditation can relax the body. Promote more restful sleep and boost the bodys immune system. This will help fight illness and better manage the symptoms of chronic conditions. Meditation can relax the mind and help us better deal with the stress of our daily lives. The popular interest in meditation and its health benefits may help drive more research in the future.

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Second Chakra - Svadisthana - Sexual or Spleen Chakra ~ WATER ~ ROSE. In Sanskrit Svadisthana can be translated as Primordial Abode.

Aromatherapy for healing the Second Chakra - Inhale a pure essential oil or blend that is sweet, earthy and grounding. Ylang Ylang, Patchouli and Helichrysum oil are good choices.

Focus your awareness at the Svadisthana or Sexual Chakra, half way between your navel and your pubic bone.

See a Whirling Ball of Warm Rose Colored light pulsing with energy in this center. Rose is the color of relationship.

This is your vital life force energy for purification and health. Its nature is calm and soothing. It imbues you with robust energy, stamina and a feeling of aliveness.

A balanced and healthy Svadisthana Chakra ensures a strong immune system and an inherent sense of health and well-being.

Emotional stagnation or blockage at your Spleen/Sexual Chakra emits an energy frequency that resonates with feeling rejected and attracts toxic environmental conditions (both internal and external) that trigger states of anxiety, fear and worry. Issues of rejection and victimization, as well as the need for protection are often prevalent.

Related physical imbalances, include: toxic and infectious conditions, cancer and diabetes.

Recite this Mantra six times aloud as you continue to focus your awareness at your Svadisthana Chakra. Remember to inhale and exhale fully as you recite the mantra.

I Live, I Purify, I Accept, I Protect

Recite this same mantra silently six times within yourself as you continue to focus your awareness at your Svadisthana Chakra. Remember to inhale and exhale fully as you recite the mantra.

I Live, I Purify, I Accept, I Protect

You will sound the SEED SYLLABLE BA (Keynote D in the C Major scale) while continuing to focus your awareness at your Svadisthana Chakra for five minutes.

Clear and Balance (4 minutes duration) by allowing images to naturally surface and melt away as blockages are cleared and balance restored in your Svadisthana Chakra.

D TONE - BA ————————

Conclude (1 minute duration) your visualization and recitation of the Seed Syllable BA by seeing your Svadisthana Chakra as a clear and vibrant whirling ball of Bright ROSE PINK colored light pulsing with energy at this center.

Remember to inhale and exhale fully as you visualize your Svadisthana Chakra being clear, vibrantly alive and healthy.

You have completed the second cycle for clearing, balancing and charging your Rainbow Bridge.

As you become adept at working with your chakras you may gradually increase the time you focus your attention on each energy center. Initially your focus should be for no more than five minutes duration.

A regular practice of these exercises will result in increased amplitude for each of your Major Chakras and give you the necessary stamina to dispel life obstacles. Increased amplitude of your energy centers will greatly enhance your vital life force and positively impact your health and longevity.

Your regular practice of these guided visualization and affirmation exercises is a conscious investment you can choose to make in building your personal power which will enable you to direct your spirit.

Please join me for my next article in this series as I guide you to Clear, Balance & Charge Your Third Chakra - Your Manipupra or Solar Plexus Chakra. Relax and enjoy the journey through your Rainbow Bridge.

PLEASE NOTE: There are many cheap, synthetic copies of aromatic oils, but these are not recommended for therapeutic use. For best results purchase the highest quality oils you can possibly find. Use certified organic essential oils, or oils that have been tested and are pesticide free.

Aromatherapy is a gentle and noninvasive complementary health care system used for balancing and synchronizing your body, mind, spirit and emotions to enhance your health. Properly administered essential oils are a natural, safe and effective way to enhance your health and well-being and can produce satisfying results where other methods have failed. Please consult with your physician regarding serious health concerns and do not attempt to self diagnose.

KG Stiles is a certified aromatherapy and energy medicine practitioner in Ashland, OR USA. PurePlant Essentials is her line of pure organic essential oils.

Click to learn about & purchase http://kgstiles.com/chakraoils.htm CHAKRA OILS

Click to learn about & purchase http://kgstiles.com/chakracd.htm CD HEALING YOUR RAINBOW BRIDGE - A GUIDED CHAKRA MEDITATION

Click to learn about & purchase http://kgstiles.com/chakraprogram.htm COMPLETE CHAKRA MEDITATION PROGRAM

Contact: KG Stiles at Springhill Wellness Center, 2520 Springhill Drive Ashland, OR USA (541) 941-7315 Mahalo!

Chakra Meditation
Chakra meditation deals with energizing all the seven energy centers to align the flow of energy through the chakras. Chakra meditation is mainly used as grounding, balancing and energizing exercise.Chakra meditation begins with focusing on the first chakra and ends with energizing the seventh one. The first chakra is known as the root or the base chakra and is located at the base of the spine. It is related to the element earth and deals with he...

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Third Eye Meditation For Awakening Your Consciousness
There is a mysterious third eye located between your eyebrows and this can be awakened through third eye meditation, also known as "Trataka". Do you know there are seven chakras located at various points of your body? Among them, the sixth one, called "Aagya chakra", lies between your eyebrows.It is believed that the energy field, known as Kundalini, moves from the Muladhara chakra, the first chakra located at the spinal base, upwards through the...