| p>The heart is the energy center where all | | | | Again you imagine that this yellow ball is floating inside |
| manifestation begins. This is why we say I wish with | | | | the body not held by anything. Breathe into it three |
| all my heart that... | | | | times. |
| It is possible to begin manifestation directly from the | | | | Follow the energy from the third chakra into your |
| heart, to not deal with energies, if and only if one | | | | heart center. The color of of the ball is luminous |
| has already done the discipline of meditation or deep | | | | green. Stay there. Breathe into it and through it. You |
| contemplation as in the case of saints. For everyone | | | | can expand the green ball as much as you like. Feel it. |
| else who are just beginning, the following exercise is | | | | Feel your heart center opening. Breathing in love, |
| recommended to remove blockages in the body's | | | | breathing out love. How does it feel? |
| energy conduit. | | | | Relax and get centered. |
| Before one begins, I must caution that this exercise | | | | Now imagine that the energy is now going from your |
| has little to do with the Vehicle of direct energy, | | | | heart center into your throat area and that in that |
| Tantra. For that both the Hinayana and the Mahayana | | | | throat area is a blue ball just floating. The fifth chakra |
| vehicles must have been mastered. I am afraid there | | | | has the color blue like the deep blue ocean. Breathe |
| are no shortcuts. [For further reading, use Chogyam | | | | into it three times. Follow the energy from the throat |
| Trungpa's books, Meditation in Action, Cutting | | | | into the sixth chakra, which is your third eye. Again |
| Through Spiritual Materialism and Shambhala, the | | | | breathe into it and imagine that it opens little by little |
| Sacred Path of the Warrior] | | | | as you breathe into it. Like a baby's eyes the first |
| We will simply call this exercise as clearing the path. | | | | time he wakes up in the morning. |
| This exercise may propel you to activate kundalini | | | | Now imagine the energy flowing up from your sixth |
| and unless both the body and the mind are | | | | chakra into the crown of your head. Above the |
| sufficiently purified, you may not be able to handle | | | | physical skull, a violet ball that symbolizes the |
| the surge of energy through your body. The most | | | | awakened mind. Breathe into this ball three times. |
| important part is to pay attention to the reaction of | | | | Pause. |
| your body and then document it after the exercise. | | | | Splitting the energy beam. |
| You may do this exercise standing up or sitting in half | | | | Imagine a beam of light coming from space. You see |
| lotus or full lotus position. | | | | no beginning or end to this. The beam of light is like a |
| Imagine yourself at the center of an hour-glass. Now | | | | laser beam of pure white light focused on the crown |
| imagine that your heart is at the center of that hour | | | | chakra. As it enters the crown chakra follow the flow |
| glass. This hour glass is unusual because the top is | | | | of this light through all the centers as you breathe |
| one half circle and the bottom is the other half circle. | | | | through all the centers, stopping at the root chakra. |
| The top looks like a wine glass with with very short | | | | When your attention is at the root chakra, imagine |
| stem and is connected to the other half with that | | | | that the cord connecting you to the center of the |
| stem. That stem is where your heart is. | | | | earth is now connected to this energy flow which |
| Now envision a flexible tube or cord that runs from | | | | started from the crown of your head. There is now |
| the base of our spine to the center of the earth and | | | | free exchange and continuous flow of energy up and |
| you are now connected to the core of the earth. | | | | down. A dance. Your body has become a conduit of |
| The base of your spine is the first Chakra. It is the | | | | energy. |
| color of the finest ruby. Red, not blood red but dark | | | | The last step is continuing the flow of energy from |
| red and brilliant. This ruby red ball is floating right | | | | both ends, from both the root chakra connected to |
| inside your spine and you can see it as pure as the | | | | the center of the earth and from the crown chakra. |
| finest ruby. No imperfections. Breathe through your | | | | This time the energy going into the crown chakra is |
| first chakra and feel the energy coming from the | | | | used to create a spiral that envelopes your body and |
| center of the earth to your first chakra. | | | | then the energy spiral which begun in the crown |
| Follow the energy going from the first chakra to the | | | | chakra now ends at the root chakra, merging with |
| second chakra which is 3 inches above the base of | | | | the energy from the cord and now simply going up |
| your spine. There is an orange ball there brilliant and | | | | the other centers. |
| pure, like an orange except that is luminous. Breathe | | | | Write the feeling after you do this meditation and |
| three times into the brilliant orange ball. | | | | keep a journal for all the times you meditate using |
| Follow the energy to the area of the solar plexus, | | | | this method. |
| three inches below the navel. Breathe into it. This is | | | | © 2009 by Melinda M. |
| the third chakra and its color is yellow, like the sun. | | | | |