Keyword: Growth Description:
This meditation activates all seven of the major chakras. Chakras are vortices, often called "wheels of light" that emerge from the Hara line and project outward into the aura. Chakras are centers of higher frequency that accumulate late and transmit vital life energy. Your chakras are involved in all aspects of your health, growth, development, and spiritual awareness. Each chakra governs a specific aspect of evolving consciousness and is associated with a specific color, sound, spiritual challenge, gift, and set of emotions. Working with the chakra system is an intricate, lifelong process. cess. Although this is a basic meditation, it can take you into a very deep practice.

 Benefits:
Improves emotional clarity. Enhances spiritual awareness, expansion, and personal development.
Promotes the specific benefits of each chakra. (See Chapter 7.)
Deepens awareness of self-limiting attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
Helps to discover inner resources.

Use to:
Expand your awareness as part of daily spiritual practice.
Promote balance in all aspects of bodymind.
Change yourself when confronted by self-sabotaging behavior.
Balance extremes of emotion during times of stress.
Remove obstacles on your path.

Flow Pattern:
1. Sit or lie down. Keep your spine as straight as possible or imagine sitting with a straight spine.
2. Relax. Calm the mind and open the Spiral Pillar of Light and/or Earth and Sky meditations for grounding and to charge your system.
3. Imagine the seven vortices of energy that are rooted in the Hara line and blossom in the aura. Try to feel all of them as vibration affecting the body area with which they connect.
4. Begin with the Base chakra and inhale energy into one after another, using your attention to notice how each feels. Here are the locations: First or Base chakra is in the pelvic bowl facing down to the Earth; second or Sacral chakra is above the pubic bone and below the belly button, facing front and back; third or Solar Plexus chakra is below the ribcage above the belly button, facing front and back; fourth or Heart chakra is on your breastbone in the center of your chest, facing front and back; fifth or Throat chakra is in your throat, facing front and back; sixth or Third Eye chakra is between your eyebrows, facing front and back; seventh or Crown chakra is at the top of the head facing up.
5. Experience the content of each chakra individually: What color is it? What are the quality and shade of color'? Is it clear, cloudy, vibrant, dull? How much energy does it emit? Is it full or empty? Is it perfectly or ill-shaped? Round or oval? Is the chakra spinning? If so, clockwise or counterclockwise? What is the emotion of the chakra? How does it feel? Is it tight, expansive, energized, depleted? Is it hot, cold, or neutral? Do you enjoy the sensation here'? There is no need to change anything, simply be in the moment with what you feel.
6. As you sit with each chakra, you may or may not notice that the chakra is asking for something, perhaps a color, light, more vibrancy, or space.
7. Inhale and imagine your breath providing the chakra with whatever it needs. Notice what thoughts, emotions, feelings get in the way of receiving and also notice what assists you in being able to receive.
8. Does this area have an image, perhaps an animal or light being? Is there a message for you?
9. After exploring each individual chakra, step back and visualize the entire path. Does one chakra draw your attention more than another? Is there flow between each? Is any chakra energetically isolated? What do you feel, sense, experience, and imagine as you look at your chakra system? Do you identify with the emotion or spiritual challenge of any particular chakra?
10. Breathe through the entire chakra system, letting go of anything you no longer need while strengthening that which you want to keep.
11. Just sit and enjoy the sensation of your chakras vibrating with each other. 12. Take the time to write down your experience.

Synthia Andrews. The Path of Energy: Awaken Your Personal Power and Expand Your Consciousness (Kindle Locations 350-366). Kindle Edition.