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thanks for all the advice but it raises another question. I experience a lot of the side effects mentioned every day of my life. Does this then mean that i am functioning at maximum. I only ask because i am not trying to push the limits at the moment.
Within the seven chakras and the various lesser energy centers, which all have functions relevant to and reliant upon the seven major ones, there are receptors for every kind of energy available to the human experience. Everythign that happens in the gross physical plane, has it's parallel energy in the astral. What the physical body experiences, the astral body experiences. Depending on how your energy system - affected by your health, your spiritual awarenes, your personal power, your mood (and alternately affecting those things in return) - is functioning, you'll handle all of those energies in different ways, and the consequences of that interaction become manifest as your actions.
So, I'm of the opinion that any sort of imbalance can be adressed through the seven chakras. The Cause would be anything outside yourself which might have come in, been handled inefficiently or too efficiently by the chakra responsible for dealing with that frequency of energy (remember, everything is energy, this is everything outside of your own perspective). Maybe you break up with a lover, and because your heart or root chakra is low in energy, you experience withdrawal because of your inability to be secure or to have closure after the energy they brought into your life. On the other hand, if they are overactive, you may become angry or become distrustful of relationships all together.
Physical ailments, as well, I believe, correspond to chakra imbalances. I would includ imbalances due to invasion by entities as well, based only on my instinct, though - the chakras regulate all of the functions of the body and the various dimensions of consciousness within the ego. If your chakras are balanced and empowered, I believe you can be well defended against any infection, and it is my instinct that infection can be dealt with by sapping the biological entity responsible of it's vital energy, being that it is so within the scope of your influence. However, that is not a theory I have, rather thankfully, been able to test on my own health since I thought about it.
In other words, the fact that you experience such things every day does, in my opinion, mean that you have imbalanced chakras. Remember that consciouly tapping energy for a purpose is one thing, but you're bombarded by energy that will enter your context and be assimilated by the chakra that corresponds to it's overall vibration. For instance the energy of having to pay rent (youhave to aquire one concept[energy] called money, and then direct that energy[structure] to a cause in order to sustain a situation[network of interconnected energetic structures manifest in your life]) It's like an equation, and in order to deal with this issue, your instinct towards it will rely on your Root chakra, where your sense of security emnates from, which will respond to this energy of having to pay rent according to how balanced it is. Remember that your previous experiences, energies which you have assimilated, have all played a part in conditioning your energy system to have a sort of 'baseline' vibration where it will generally hover, if not directly affected by some energy positively or negatively, until you do groundlevel work to raise it (changes to the structure of your consciousness and/or astral body and/or physical body for, generally, the better).
If you are experiencing anything outside of your calm, balanced, peaceful self, then something is imbalanced. But, remember that imbalance is how you know that you're growing, as well, and we're always growing, so there's always a natural imbalance. It is our own intention and control that balances our energy system, it does not happen on it's own. Your own consciousness is the 'order' aspect of your existence, the structure that is the root of your being (relative to your three bodies) and therefore balance and harmony must come from the conscious willing for it to be so.
if anything is out of order, then, find some sort of sensory method to determine which chakra it is. My technique offer is to simply focus your attention entirely on each chakra individually and identify it as a sphere of white light. Holding the intention to observe the balance of that chakra, allow the light to gradually shift into the spectrum between red and blue, red representing fire, positive, and blue representing water, negative, as well as all colors in between. If the chakra shows very blue, aquire fire energy with each breath until it is more purple. (there's a thread elsewhere on the board dealing with aquiring elemental energies, posted by kinjo, I believe, that I found to be as effective as my own regular technique so I'll save words). The contrary of course goes for a chakra that appears to be too read.
of course, any two points of reference with a gradient between them will suffice, it doesn't have to be visual, but in any case it's going to be incarnation of positive/negative fire/water light/dark.
Note, however, that balancing an individual chakra is not the same as harmonizing all of the chakras, although seven individually balances chakras, I beleive, will naturally, gradually harmonize if you maintain their individual balance.
Excercises of this nature, towards the ends of attaining constant balance and harmony within and amongst the chakras, will virtually eliminate dis-ease from your three bodies. On the other hand, allowing yourself to experience and fight off disease is a different path to harmony - the first path of maintaining balance by controlling the state of your own energy is how you learn to defend yourself from dis-ease, and so defended, the path of confrontation teaches you to wield the energies in your life as weapons to battle your way through the energies that will inevitatbly assail your life. As always, balance is best, so it is best to learn both methods.
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So, in conclusion, yes one or more chakras can be in overdrive even if you don't consciously pull in energy. To much intellectual energy (frantically dedicated a textbook to memory the day before a final exam, for instance) will throw the third eye into overdrive and you can experience a headache with the pressure that gathers there according to the sudden intake of energy. Breath, clear your mind, balance the third eye, and let the weight of the information[energy] thusly consumed, be digested by your energy system and become a part of your consciousness. The headache goes away (IMG:
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okay i'm done...
peace
peace
This post has been edited by Vagrant Dreamer: Sep 11 2006, 12:34 AM