What’s New on DeanRamsden.com

I continue to offer private Skype sessions for personal or professional healing work. The four options from which you can choose are:

• The Intensive – the Six Session Series (my discounted rate)
• The Personal – Single Healing Sessions: for when you need them
• The Supportive – one or several sessions to address a specific issue that has appeared in your life
• The Tutorial – in-depth personalized tutorials focussed upon your professional training as a healer or a therapist

Go here for my rates and other info you may need, or send me an email.

Coming soon: the 2012 Astral Energetics home study class. I will also be teaching my Japan student and public classes in April.

I am offering a July (or early August) 2012 week-long training intensive in advanced chakra cord work (taught only in English) here in North Borneo, for the adventurous amongst you. Details to follow later this month, or contact me directly.

My long-dormant Newsletter will be reinstated this month. I’ve been consumed with my private practice, teaching practice, and website development, for the past year, and the newsletter had fallen by the wayside. But now I am committed to sending out them out monthly.

On a personal note, I am having a creative time preparing some of my material for an eBook publication later this year. Between Skype healing sessions, teaching work, writing/photography work, and website development projects, I’m living a happy and fulfilled life, and I do wish the same for you.

Finally, I want to express my appreciation to my favorite WordPress theme author, Jason Bobich, for all his impressive work. My current website design is an upgrade from a previous Jason Bobich theme, and now comes with all the bells and whistles you could possibly want from a professional website. My new WordPress site is termed “responsive”, meaning that you can view it on your iPad, your iPhone, your Android (or other smart phone), and the site  should be easy to read. With the addition of a faster web server put in place during January DeanRamsden.com is now prepared to dance with the Dragon! I hope you come back often to enjoy all the additional articles, mp3 audio, and video that will be posted here over the coming months.

Thanks so much for visiting this site, and please don’t hesitate to post a comment or send a private email with suggestions or comments for this site.

– Dean Ramsden

Dean: “I have an approximate skeleton of work that I follow in the Six Session Series. As we go through the sessions we work on the knowledge that the chakra consciousness centers are inter-related, and that by clearing and tweaking each chakra we create a synergistic effect that enhances personal growth and healing.”

Client: “When I worked with another energy healer his work was completely different to you. He wasn’t working with cords; he was just finding out why the chakra was blocked, including emotionally”.

Dean: “Yes, that is the traditional way that other energy healers work. As an analogy, it is as though a healer sees your chakras as radio transmitters, which they then try to repair or energize.

But if we look at how the chakra system is connected internally (as the building blocks of our inner identity) as well as how the chakras are connected up to people on the outer world (through the medium of chakra cords) the type of healing work we can do shifts considerably. So, to extend my analogy, instead of seeing each chakras as a radio transmitter we also take into account the incoming signals, as well as the outgoing signals to those individuals who are significant in your life. That’s Relational Energy Healing, and this is why chakra cord work is important for system change, and also why Astral clearing has to be included during the work … because we are exploring both the transmission and reception of signals by the chakras, rather than only looking at the functioning of the chakra by itself.”

Client: “I am noticing that I am reacting to people slightly differently than is usual for me. Suddenly I’m getting unexpected offers from people, either to help me out or to accompany me on my hospital visits. It’s … amazing, really.

Dean: “Well, here’s the thing – part of what Relational Energy Healing does is that it works towards increasing options, to opening us up to roads that normally we would not travel down. Again, we are dealing with the transmission and reception of human consciousness, through chakra cord connections. And we know from our previous work together that one of the issues you, personally, are breaking open is how historically you have not accepted support from others, or have not felt support extended towards you. What in these previously sessions we have affectionately characterized as your Scottish stubbornness (which also has many positive qualities!) can lead to insulation or isolation from other people. And during this time of healing and potential change in your life you do need access to all and any support available from others. So, when you tell me, as you just did, that suddenly you are getting offers of support from others, and – even more importantly – you are taking them up on it, that’s a significant change for me as your healer because it shows that your consciousness system is now opening to new possibilities and original forms of other people working with you in this place of change.”

Client: “Yes … I am slowly and increasingly becoming aware of this.”

Dean: “The last thing I do want to say about this is (and this does not apply to everyone) is that often when the chakra system begins to open up to other possibilities there is the initial experience that is new, exciting, and wonderful. But it is possible to max out on, let’s say, too much change. There can be a reaction to the changes that could propel you back to your old habit or ways of being with others. Like a turtle pulling their head back into their shell, some people find themselves retreating from contact that is, historically, different behavior. So, please keep an eye out for any “pullback” that may happen.”

Client: “Yes… and if it happens, I should go against that pull?”

Dean: “My suggestion is not to see any pullback as necessarily a bad thing, but simply to bring your awareness to the point where you are going back to your old habit. And, additionally, personal work can be done by you to keep the new connections you have formed still open. The process, even though you are pulling back, is to still keep the door to others open; it’s part of the integration process.”

Client: “Yes … good…. so, today’s session is the throat chakra?”

Dean: “Yes: this is the Fifth Session of your Six Session Series, and so we will illuminate the functioning of your Throat Chakra, and the cords that flow into and out of it.

The Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) functioning consists not only of speaking but of listening…. and allowing ourselves to be changed by what we hear, or affected/influenced by what we hear. Listening deeply also helps me discern if I am being told the truth – or accurate information – by another person. Of course, sometimes the other is not aware that they are imparting wrong information, but the Throat chakra can still discern the difference.”

Client: “Yes, it’s not a judgement on them …”

Dean: “Right! People may tell us things that they truly do believe are the way things are, and in our best interests, but when this impacts your system you will know something is not right about it. And one of the reasons this is of importance to you now, personally, is that as treatment options are offered to you – both allopathic and alternative treatments – you will need to assess what is being offered to you.

So, the idealized goal of these Six Session Series sessions is to work with your auric energy system, to clear and tune it up, so that you can both perceive what are the best options for you (attentive listening) and communicate with others so they can help you (speaking out). I am not a medical professional and I avidly stay away from diagnosis or any recommendation of medical treatment. Instead, my work is to help your own consciousness system to function optimally, in both the listening and the speaking modalities. This is the arena of the Fifth Chakra.

The last thing to know about this session devoted to the Fifth chakra is related to the higher functioning potential of this center of consciousness.  Specifically: we have to be able to ask the right questions, and then be willing to hear an uncomfortable – or challenging – answer.  So, this applies to your practical situation in regard to your medical treatments; what are the right questions to ask, and can you then take in helpful or vital information in response to your question? The higher function of the fifth chakra is not to abdicate self-responsibility to any outer authority, but to speak up, to be pro-active, to become an active participant in the healing process.

So, what is it that you need to ask your doctor, your surgeon, your alternative healers, and how can you then make sense of all their input? This is the co-creative functioning of the healthy fifth chakra: communication and listening skills that interact successfully with others outside of our experience, so we can make better choices for ourselves, or assist in the exploration of outer (or inner) truth. And while truth may be seen as multiple shades of gray rather than black-and-white, there are some things that are more true than others. The throat chakra, when it is healthy and supported via dialogue and the critical thinking process, leads us through many of life’s challenges. It is not only there to help us speak out; it is also there to help us take in what we need…”

Related Post: Here is an edited transcript of a Skype Tutorial Session for Energy Healers

1. The physical body is experienced through reflection: light from an outer source (the sun or other photon-emitter) is bounced off the material world, and our brains then construct a model of solid reality in a way reminiscent of bats and their sonar. But rather than using sonic reflection, humans use photonic reflection, and then their brains fill in the details in order to create “reality”.

2. The body of light can experienced whenever we come into the awareness of who we are as consciousness rather than as mechanical beings. The light body has an anatomy of nadis (energy channels) and chakras (specialized centers of consciousness), and operates through etheric reality: an underlying and fundamental interconnection all sentient beings have with the living world around them. Etheric light is not reflected (photonic) light; it is a structured reality unrestricted by physical distance. While  my physical eyes cannot see beyond the horizon my etheric “eyes” are limited only by my consciousness and my focus. If I can create a fix (including an emotional connection) on another person via my etheric energy system I can then interact with that person in some way. The body of light can be more accurately labeled as the etheric light body.

3. The astral body uses neither reflected nor etheric light to function. Astral realities are self-generated forms: they are lit from within. If you remember an astral or a lucid dream, you may recall how what you see is fully lit from any angle, and in every situation. Many lucid dreams are experiences of our traversing the Astral worlds during sleep, when we are no longer fixated on the physical or etheric (relational) worlds. Astral dreams give us a glimpse into worlds where sentient life of many varieties co-exist and interact. The Shaman learns to navigate these realms for the good of the people, forming allies with some spirit beings, and defending us from the predatory ones.

These three bodies – the body of physical matter, the body of light, and the astral body – make up a full human experience. Science, of course, tells us that only the physical body is real. But thousands of years of spiritual development and Shamanic experience demonstrate otherwise. How to know which is right? Only by personally exploring the three bodies for ourselves. We should not accept any self-appointed authority when it comes to discovering our true spiritual nature. We can set out on the quest to re-claim our body of light, and to expand upon our Astral body. These three bodies together make up our full birthright. These three bodies functioning in harmony empower our lives. These three bodies, when awakened, hold our destiny.

It’s very common when healers implement invasive cord removal that, as the client start to change (or shift, or clear their energy system) the originator of the invasive cord attempt to make contact with the client. Prior to invasive cord work the client should be prepared to face their relationship with honesty and courage, as invasive cord work confronts personal issues at a visceral level. As noted in part one of this article, invasive cords symptoms may include some form of energy loss (fatigue, or emotional depression), obsessional thoughts (of the other person, or fears of a life without them), or an actual sensation of pain in the associated chakra.

As we explore the different levels of these invasive cords I want to stress that just because an individual sends out such a cord it does not make them a bad, or evil, person. Invasive cords are a common but often inappropriate use of the relational energy field system. The person sending the cord is attempting to use manipulation or seduction to get what they want: by extending chakra cords rather than entering into a dialogue or a mutual negotiation with another person.

Invasive cords are usually found entering the second chakra (Swadhisthana), the fourth chakra (Anahata), or the Sixth chakra (Agnya). This are the “intake” chakras: their function is to allow deep contact with the outer world, for various levels of intimacy and sharing. However, the very nature of intake chakras leaves them vulnerable for exploitation and “hijacking” efforts by the unconscious motivations – and energy systems – of others.  Invasive cords will also be found in the other chakras, but rather than feeding off our needs and desires these other cords misdirect an authentic perception rather than supporting a recognizable truth. For instance, a third chakra invasive cord may turbo-charge our childhood conditioning that our own needs in a relationship are secondary to the other persons needs. Co-dependent behavior can be enhanced by such a third chakra invasive cord, in effect misappropriating the victim’s life force for themselves.

These distinctions – invasive cord draining of energy in input chakras (chakra 2,4,6) and misappropriation of relational needs in the other chakras (chakra 1,3, 5) helps the Relational Energy healer to orientate the energy work so as to plug any symbolic Achilles heel of the client’s chakra system. After the invasive cord removal the chakra that has been affected can be supported to repair and grow into fullness. These two events – invasive cord removal followed by chakra-specific healing- often lead to rapid change in the clients life. By regaining the life force formally drained from them (or, in many cases, given away freely) clients often experience a surge of personal growth advancing their personal evolution. When you are no longer invaded by the relational cords draining or influencing you, then you can anchor back into your own life. You get your life back. You begin to change.

Part one of this article can be found here: The Invasive Chakra Cord.

]]> http://www.blog.deanramsden.com/invasive-chakra-cords-part-two/feed/ 2 http://www.blog.deanramsden.com/freedom-from-paradigm/ http://www.blog.deanramsden.com/freedom-from-paradigm/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:45:31 +0000 Dean Ramsden http://www.blog.deanramsden.com/?p=3797 There is a split in the world of human personal development, between the projection of propaganda (what an external “authority” tells you is “real”) and the inner knowing of an individual reality that bridges the physical, the emotional/rational, and the mystery of spirit. Many of us unthinkingly accept this first worldview: we turn to the strong assertions of others and allow them to create the map upon which we plot our life journey. We move within the constraints of this so-called “real” world, and draw comfort from knowing we are in the majority.

And then there are others, those who know in their heart that life holds more than what is commonly held as reality. They are drawn to a spiritual or religious way of living that replaces a material agenda with an alternate one. Instead of dreaming of becoming a billionaire, or of becoming famous, they long to become their spiritual ideal self. This ideal is a personal vision which you long to attain. Perhaps it can be said that this is only an exchange of one set of desires for another, replacing a material goal for a spiritual one. Both these options look toward outer authority as holding the answer. And this is a problem, because any authority to whom we unconsciously hand over our inner autonomy may have important answers … but that same authority may have other agendas running than just whatever we project upon them. We may also be giving an outside authority the power to shape our lives in return for holding an important role in our paradigm. But by aligning with any authority we run the risk of ending the searching process.

Like many, I propose that the process of searching for meaning in our lives should never end. The ending of the search for meaning (because we believe our paradigm is the right one) is the biggest problem our species faces. The moment we stop searching for a higher knowing – as well as to integrate what we already know  – we give up on our spiritual evolution. It is not finding the answer that defines the human spirit; it is the eternal search for knowledge beyond us that creates us as fully human and fully spiritual. In that search for humanness we, of course, will constantly erect fortresses of knowing, bastions of commonly-held “wisdom”, and defend them from any attacking hordes of others with a different set of knowings. That is also part of being human. But our battles of one paradigm against the other is an illusory struggle, and contains the seeds of our eventual defeat. In the battle of the paradigms there is only one possible outcome: submission to the dominant paradigm, and the repression of the alternative ones. The mind then erects a left-right struggle, an internal mind set that often chooses disparagement over dialogue. It is easier to hate or to mock the other polarity (or cultural paradigm) than to relate to it, and to be changed by it. It is easier to see others as different, as dangerous, as an enemy, than to see them as a brother, or a sister. It is easier for me to hold on to being right than to accept what is right within the other.

And yet despite these difficulties there is a way out of the dilemma inherent in the polarities of left and right, of good and bad, of right and wrong. It is to first energetically relate to the other, and then to allow that meeting with them to change you. You, of course, may change or influence the other in return. And from this place of deep meeting, where contact with the other (and what they represent) moves to the foreground of your awareness, out of this comes personal transformation. Meaning increases in your life, and your goals or desires for living can manifest themselves directly. You become the author of your own life, rather than following along the script written by another. How to do this? By energetically  allowing yourself to be influenced by others, and to process what is then activated within your life energies. In computer terms you choose to be an open-source system rather than locked into a proprietary one. You opt for evolutionary expansion rather than the continual defense of what you assume is true, or real. You open yourself to seeking personal growth rather than willfully reinforcing what you already know.

In seeking to understand the view of the other rather than forcing your agenda upon them you blend the material and the spiritual paradigms together into one powerful exploration of your life. You strive towards becoming free from the paradigm, rather than its slave.

When a client books a session with me soon after a parent has died I am often aware of two main issues they are dealing with:

1. Emotional release (expressive) work

2. The energetic DNA transfer (family karma) that may pass between the chakra cords of offspring and parent

Emotional work is best taken to a trained counselor, as often the client has spent years supporting and sacrificing for an elder parent, perhaps having accompanied them through illness, or have suffered emotional estrangement of some kind. Psychotherapy can be an invaluable tool in coming to terms with past events, as well as exploring new options for the future.

It is the energetic DNA transfer (or “download”) across the mother or the father chakra cords after the loss of a parent where I can be helpful for a client. This is a process that happens to many clients, as the heritage information from their newly-deceased mother or father seeks to download into them, as lineage holder. This is the energy consciousness of the family system seeking passage of family patterns into the future. It is where the family patterns will replicate or sustain themselves, generation after generation. These patterns degrade over three to four generations, and the impact of an ancestor’s struggles upon our current life has been noted in various classical sources.

“The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children” – Euripides (c.485-406 B.C.)

“For the sins of your fathers you, though guiltless, must suffer” – Horace (Odes, 3)

“The Lord is long-suffering, and of great mercy,forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generations”. The Bible (Numbers, 14)

The mechanism for the energetic DNA (or family karma) appears two-fold in nature. Firstly, the patterns are “downloaded” into your auric energy system, at birth so that you get to participate in your family system. Of course, this is usually unconscious on our part, as we assume the personal issues with which we wrestle are exclusively our issues. Shakespeare tells us that “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts” (As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7). The roles in which we often find ourselves are often just like theatre. And we unconsciously participate in a family heritage (or ancestral) drama.

The second part of receiving the family karma occurs right after the parental death, and may extend three to six months afterwards. During that time the lineage holders are “downloaded” with karmic patterns through the chakra cord system, so as to allow the “family line” to continue forward in time. But not every offspring member directly takes on all the family patterns. There are many variables.

Energy healing work can potentially make the process of taking on (or of not taking on) family karma much more conscious. For many of us, the “sins of the fathers (and the mothers) may need ending right here, with us. We can interrupt the unconscious assumption of family karmic burdens, and come to make new choices. By becoming aware of what is being passed on to us we can pick a new direction.

Using chakra heritage cord work we may find the tools for the transformation of ancestral “iniquity” (absence of spiritual values) and then work towards a fresh start. We can move into the future freed up from much of the compulsion to repeat the past. Or, at the very least, to come to recognize old family karma quickly, and then to nip it in the bud. We can move from being a player on the stage of life, and graduate to authorship … and write the true story of our life, rather than repeat the life of those long gone before us.

Related Post: Working With Heritage Chakra Cords.

Meditators experience the thinking process as analogous to watching clouds drifting across the inner landscape. All spiritual paths point us towards necessity of the breaking of the illusion of the thinking process as being an objective reality. It is the watcher of our thoughts – the observer self – that truly deserves our focus. This is because while thoughts emerge to try and make sense of the outer and inner worlds, thoughts default to a black-white splitting of reality into polar opposites (duality). Manipura chakra is designed to do this for the young mind: to simplistically break down the world into meaningful experiences, and to then orientate itself around those experiences. Manipura digests meaning.

After our emotional connections to things in the outer world (see second chakra) comes the meaning we layer into the outer world using the third chakra, We come to believe in conclusions our minds have formed as though these snapshots of truth are reality. But the truth revealed by spiritual awareness is that our thinking mind is always flavored by emotional attachment (second chakra) and by our physical drives (first chakra). In a nutshell, our so-called rational minds are not objective and logical about anything. The mind is programable, and easily fooled by conclusions or perceptions that are false. Just ask the hypnotist, the psychotherapist, or the politician, about how easily the mind is fooled.

Where the second chakra forms relational cords to people that anchor in feeling states or provide relational attachment, the third chakra cords link us to our constructed concepts and opinions about others. An opinion is when you ally yourself to one side of any idea in opposition to the other side.  We all build the “house” of the self using these building blocks of opinion. The mind of the personal egoic self is an accumulation of opinions … with some truth scattered around. This means that the mind itself can become a hindrance to personal development because, as Mark Twain famously said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so”. Hundreds of years before Twain the third Chinese patriarch of Zen would immortalize this vital wisdom in the Hsin Hsin Ming:

“If you wish to know the truth

then hold to no opinions for or against anything.

To set up what you like against what you dislike

is the disease of the mind ….

Indeed, it is due to our grasping and rejecting

that we do not know the true nature of things….”

Unless we come to appreciate the reality of how the mind works we may simply move through life from opinion to opinion, from one false choice to another false choice. Until the observing self is recognized and honored we may end up lost in fantasies spun by the mind. Any form of personal development or spiritual growth has to arrive at this point: the willingness to confront what we think is the problem, and then to move from opinion into reality. Only by a personal growth shift from mind-dominated choices into a true choice, where we shift from our illusions into creative options, can we evolve efficiently.

When I work with the cords of the third chakra my task is to make the opinions and inherent choices built into Manipura’s opinions become more clear to my client. This is done not by psychotherapy but by cleaning the cords, clearing them of lower astral material, and by strengthening self-cord development. Internal shifts may then follow when the client allows more material to become conscious to him, or her. As long as we think we know what the problem is we will tend to reinforce the mental groove worn into the consciousness system by that opinion. The opinion of the mind has power by virtue of both habit and by our lack of perception of other options. Growth comes when we break free from those habits.

If we live with a closed mind we only see what we are allowed to see. We are the prisoners of our own thoughts. But if we clean the third chakra cords, and begin to open the mind towards new possibilities, then tremendous shifts in consciousness can manifest in our lives. This is the same process as in good psychotherapy, or in authentic spiritual seeking. It is what happens when a seeker begins to dissolves the chains of their emotional and mental slavery, and starts down the road towards freedom. This freedom is from both emotional addiction or slavery (second chakra dysfunction) and conditioned opinion (third chakra dysfunction), and is the door leading to higher chakra functioning.  We all have to do the personal development work with our body, emotions, and mental conditioning before we can become truly free.

The sanskrit name for the third chakra is Manipura, which means “City of Gems”. Our ideas about reality and ourselves become gems to us, precious enough to protect. We defend our mental conditioning at all costs, often equating our very identity with whatever we hold to be true. The traditional spiritual paths always stress the importance of dissolving this conditioning: to replace habitual thinking with personal presence, an awareness that is able to track the natural reflex of the mental process. We learn to “keep an open mind”, as opposed to seek the false comfort offered to us by the opinion of others, or our own thinking process. The training of an inner witness forms a major part of many spiritual traditions.

Physiologically, the central location of the ten-petaled third chakra (different writers place it either in the navel region or the solar plexus area) connects it with the pancreas, the stomach, and other digestive organs. The third chakra is symbolically reflected in what we “take in”, “digest”, and how we further refine that nourishment. The pancreas balances sugar, the liver purifies the blood, all of which reflect Manipura’s function of creating building blocks out of available material. The red-gold color assigned to Manipura by Sanskrit sources best symbolically describe this alchemical chakra: it refines the gold of potential presence out of the rock of raw thoughts. Getting to the point of having an opinion about something is only a half-way step. The next step is to question your opinion, and to then drop back into the presence of your observer self. Manipura’s higher function is to refine our thinking process towards the creation of inner presence. It is also preparing us for the next stage of our spiritual evolution: the opening of the compassionate heart.

This energy center of human consciousness that emerges from the spine like a flower, and terminates in a six-petaled structure above the pubic bone. Its function is to provide an emotional connection to other people, as well as to the self. It accomplishes this by linking emotional reaction with relational attachment. The second chakra energizes relationships with desire (“I want it”) or with aversion (“Get away from me”).

The second chakra draws energy up from the Earth prana accumulated by the first chakra (see Muladharachakra here) as well as being stimulated through food and other sensual delights. Visual appeal, tactile pleasure, pleasant sounds such as music, delicious tastes … all the human senses help to create aliveness in the second chakra that may then shared with others, or turns towards nourishing the self within.

In addition to its functioning as a sensory center that forms initial attachments to others and then shares pleasure with them, the second chakra can also form attachment to unhealthy relationships, or can become addictive. The same mechanism designed to connect us to healthy people can also attach us to unhealthy and toxic individuals. The childlike and pre-verbal IQ of the second chakra may be unable to discern the difference between all these options for relationship until later in life.

If the second chakra develops well we are able to form healthy relationships with others that provide companionship, and with whom we can share pleasure. This is one of the reasons the second chakra is usually characterized as the sexual chakra: the center for longing and desire. But healers who work with the chakra system also acknowledge Swadhisthana’s place in building a healthy immune system, especially the necessary response to danger. Second chakra healing work usually includes additional support for the gastrointestinal immune system (GALT) – especially Peyer’s Patches – and the adrenals. These are the specific lymphatic and endocrine glands linked to the second chakra.

The vital energy created in the second chakra flows through all parts of the human body, to provide the fire that burns within us, to both create and maintain life. Unless we learn how to form attachments to others both in infancy and in later life, we will not develop into fully functional people. The second chakra keeps you emotionally healthy, and your energy field charged with prana. It also tells you what you don’t like, or warns you of potential danger. If something doesn’t “feel” right, or doesn’t “smell” good, it probably isn’t right. We refer to this as our “gut instinct”, the common experience of intuitively knowing something hidden about people, or sensing something about a situation that may cause us problems. This chakra also accesses the Enteric Nervous System, a primitive webbing of nerve cells intertwined throughout our gastrointestinal tract.

In Relational Energy Healing we work with an important part of the functioning of the second chakra: how it forms non-visible cords of attachment – chakra cords – to significant people in our lives. This is how we get our basic human needs met (infant survival), seek emotional nurturance (companionship, sexuality) and how we sustain long-term relationships. Healing in these areas can be enhanced by work on two important second chakra connections: the chakra cord to the mother, and the chakra cord to the father. It is these two earliest connections (or substitute connections to other caregivers if the birth parents are absent) that most heavily influence our adult emotional life. Here is the matrix within which we will grow our emotional reality. These influences are often the unconscious and yet deciding factors in many of our life choices. The experiences with our parents, and the download of DNA/heritage patterns from their family line, flows into our second chakra from the moment of birth. Many of the emotional challenges that we deal with stem from the non-conscious impact of family patterns downloaded into our emotional system. An important part of personal development is to see the difference between our own feelings and longings as separate from the issues in our family.

Of course, resolving family karma is always grist for the mill for personal development, and also is a part of our spiritual journey. Often when we clean the chakra cords, and clarify the emotional patterns laid down by our DNA/heritage, we can come to release the past more quickly, and make relational choices that are much more in alignment with our authentic self. We can come to live our lives for ourselves, and not live just as an extension of an ancestor’s karmic pattern.

At a practical level this means strengthening and clearing the second chakra as an energetic organ (so that if functions well), to heal trauma if present, and to support any lack of development in second chakra development. Then we can move into cleaning the chakra head of lower astral influences that may be feeding off any unresolved past emotion. One example is sentimentality - which is any lingering feeling state disproportionate to a real situation – as well as any other emotion pattern that keeps a person locked into the past. These emotional habits can be energetic food for the lower astral world. We all deserve to have our second chakras be in-the-moment, to be clean of history, and able to fully serve us in the moment.

The addition of chakra cord cleaning and repair work in Relational Energy Healing is built upon other work done on the healthy functioning – or healing – of the second chakra. By directly addressing the cord connections to significant others we inventory those relationships so as to make vital in-the-moment decisions about are lives. Are you in a lingering relationship that no longer serves you, and saps your life energy? Are you with an addictive person who you can’t let go, or with someone who won’t let you go? These are two examples of where cord work can help you move forward. The cords of connection can be reset when they are living in the past, and not rooted in the present. This process is supported and enhanced by good psychotherapy.

We grow as human beings through relationships, and through the ending of relationships. Chakra cord connections into (or from) the second chakra provide the basic attachment functionality of our personality. They transmit the consciousness in how we make – or end – relationships. They energize our desires, and support our immune systems response to danger. The second chakra cords are the way we grow into our humanity, but they may unconsciously hold the consciousness of how we unknowingly restrict our potential. The pleasure and pain of human relationships rests on this, the “root” consciousness system flowing out of (and into) the second chakra. If you want to grow a healthy plant you have to nourish the roots. Human beings are energetically rooted into other people, and into family karmic patterns. Our strengths and problem-solving skills flow from our emotional functioning. We all know that if we don’t heal the past we will revisit it, again and again. Let’s get to the place in our unsatisfying relationships where enough is enough … let’s heal them, or move on from any restrictive, self-abusive habits of our past. Let’s embrace our full emotional potential now, and not die an unfulfilled life.

Related post: The Third Chakra.

July 25, 1953

In early 1998, only a few months after her cerebral stroke, my mother had handed me a small collection of degraded black and white photographs, along with color ones mostly taken with poor-resolution cameras. There were no identifying dates on the back of each photos, and they begin the year she met my father, James Henry Ramsden, in her home town of Morecambe, Lancashire, in 1952.

This was her private treasure trove of memories. “No one else is interested in these”, she told me, as she placed an ancient manila envelope and plastic-sheeted photo album into my hands. She then paused, and looked meaningfully at me. “You will know what to do with them.”, she said. Then we both fell silent. In retrospect she must have secretly known was about to die. She was handing over to me something very precious; the memories of her life.

Norma Turner, Morecambe Bay, UK

Three months later my mother suffered a fatal second stroke at 65 years of age, and I quickly flew back to England for her funeral service. Anyone who has suddenly lost their mother may identify with the feeling state that enshrouded me … a kind of numbness and shock unlike any other. It is the sense of suddenly becoming an orphan in the world. You can’t imagine it until it happens to you, and you know you will never quite be the same again afterwards.

As her coffin was about to roll into the sliding wall of Blackpool’s Park Crematorium on that cold Lancashire day in March 1998 I suddenly saw my mother for the last time, but not as I remembered her. The ghostly form that rose from the coffin – and who cheerily waved at me as she ascended towards the ceiling- was a girl of about eighteen years old. It was the girl in the old photographs in the manila envelope. It was Norma Winifred Turner, and in her spirit body she was a young woman. And she was leaving the world smiling, and dressed in white.

Date Night,1952

So here, on the winter solstice of 2010 in Borneo, I find myself scanning fading photographs long into the night, and staring with amazement at the detail each digital image reveals. Here are the faces and bodies of my heritage. Given time Photoshop will clean up the smudges and the torn edges, but I’m astounded at the palpable energetic release that occurs as each old photograph is processed: moving from paper image to digital file. Clearly there is an energetic possession infused into each paper keepsake. I can feel it emotionally, as the pile of scanned photographs next to my computer grows larger. I now know with certainty that these, my mother’s memories, have finished their journey. Norma Winifred Turner – and the world she lived in – has long since gone. It will soon be time to cremate these photographs, and to complete the release of their emotional attachment to the past.

Owning these photographs over the last twelve years has helped me come to terms with the loss of my mother. By January 1, 2011, I will send a copy of all the digital files to my brother Wayne in England, and then I am done. The cycle of my mother’s life will be completed with the dissolution of her keepsakes. And I, her eldest son, can finally move on.

Upper chakra energy work consists of:

1. Guiding the natural energetic flow of prana up the client’s Sushumna nadi (the energetic aspect of the spinal cord) with the intention to widen it, allowing for more bandwidth to become available for Earth Qi to energize the client’s system.

2. The previous clearing work on Talu chakra (during the first two sessions of the Six Session Series) is then taken to the next level by drawing refined prana (i.e., prana now transmuted through the client’s consciousness system from journeying up the chakra system) around, and into, the depolarized and astrally-cleared brainstem.

3. The flow of refined prana is then directed up and towards the back of the head, to nourish Bindu chakra, and access to the Higher Astral.

4. This increasingly highly-energized prana is then directed horizontally through the structures of the energetic brain, inclusive of the pineal and pituitary glands, the amygdala, and related structures.

5. The final destination for this protocol is Agnya chakra: the third eye, and pre-frontal lobe development. The pranic flow terminates here, feeding Agnya chakra with information gleaned from its journey throughout the entire energy body. Agnya chakra can now provide the specific insights needed for further personal growth.

The practical result of all this work is to support or stimulate the client towards increasingly higher levels of consciousness. In effect, it speeds up your personal process. All of us are wired for upper chakra functioning, but most don’t have it activated or integrated into their functioning senses. This work is designed to help you gain access to greater insight, and increased perception.

The final part of any Six Session chakra work is to encourage the Guru chakra to enhance its connections with the lower and more personality-focused (or individuated) chakras. The Guru chakra, located just above the top of the head, contains the distillation and advanced witnessing capability that reduces all life experiences into distilled soul learning. It digests and leaves behind personality-driven memories, and deposits only spiritual awareness and compassion into the higher consciousness of the soul.

This is what we take with us into our next incarnation: distilled life experience, drawn through the Guru chakra. What is not fully processed or completed in our lives may remain lodged in the auric field until such a time as it can be solved in another incarnation. Undigested life lessons are the subject of Past Life healing, and are dealt with separately outside of the Six Session Series format. Past Life healings move towards completing the life lessons of a previous life, thereby freeing up vital reserves of “auric processing power” for our current incarnation.

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