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Introduction: The Energy Body HAVE YOU EVER HAD the experience of feeling a sudden sense of joy? You're walking along and you notice the beauty of the rose bush against the green of the young tree leaves and the blue of the sky. Or you're working away at the chores and suddenly your whole being feels wholesome and happy. What's happened?
So often we block that energy from coming through the energy pipe. We have our issues. We're holding hard feelings against someone or fears about life itself have eaten up our peace of mind. And so we block the flow of energy. This energy flow can be seen to take place in a kind of energy pipe which is sometimes called the energy body or the chakra system. Picture a pipe which runs along your spine from the bottom of it to the top. Along it lies a rainbow of energy centers. The incoming energy from the Creator enters the pipe at the lowest chakra or energy center, the red ray. It proceeds upwards, if the pipe is not blocked, through orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet rays, exiting the body at the crown of the head and returning to the Creator from there. What blocks red ray? Issues of sexuality and survival. When you are existentially depressed, thinking, "What does it all MEAN?" you're blocking your joy at the red ray level. The next energy center is orange ray. This chakra is at the level of the intestines. Its energies are concerned with relationships. If you are unhappy with yourself or with another person, you're blocking your joy at the orange ray level.
Upwards along the energy pipe the next chakra is yellow ray, situated
at the solar plexus. This energy center copes with issues of family,
marriage and work as well as any other groups with which you interact
that have a legal aspect to them. The next center along the pipeline is the green-ray chakra, which is located at the heart level. This center is the seat of unconditional love. Carried within this chakra is the energy of the consciousness of the Creator in its personal aspect. I would call this energy Christ-consciousness. The challenge of green ray is to love the self and all others unconditionally. Needless to say, we humans spend a lot of time trying to crank this center open! That agape energy of green ray is not so easy to come by, even though we pray to forgive the trespasses of others each time we say the Lord's Prayer. The pipeline moves upwards to blue ray at the throat. This is the energy center of open communication. And how well we block that as we attempt to make ourselves look better or shade the facts as we present them!
The pipeline continues on to the brow level with the indigo ray. This
energy center is the seat of work in consciousness. When we meditate,
contemplate, pray, sing or create, we are using that energy center. You can see how many ways there are to destroy our own peace and joy of life. Energy does not like to be blocked! It wants to flow. When it is baffled over a long enough period of time, the resulting lack of good energy through the energy pipe can create illness in the emotions and, finally, in the physical body. A good way to help this energy flow well in your life is to take some time each evening before you go to bed to reflect on what occurred today. Where were your thoughts and energy focused? What got your goat? What made you angry or irritated? Look at those things and consciously work to balance and release that stuck energy. Work your way through your rainbow energy body and you'll sleep better and awaken much refreshed! Tasting the Red Chakra Bar The red-ray energy center lies at the base of the spine, resting in the groin. The red-ray center is the seat of thoughts, emotions, feelings and impulses having to do with survival and sexuality. When your joy is missing, the first place to look for its blockage in the energy body is the base chakra of red ray. That's where we tend to get caught first and snagged away from our peaceful, natural state of good energy flow.
There is a strong tendency, as people get a bit older and lose that first flush of rosy optimism, for us to develop the feeling that not only do we not matter in the grand scheme of things but that we cannot possibly matter. The feelings of helplessness are fostered by a culture that wishes its citizens to consume rather than think, feel, dream and become better human beings. To balance these pervasive influences we need to call on our faculties of faith and hope. Our peace of mind - and the resulting free flow of energy through red ray in the energy pipe - depends upon our invoking the spirit of the living Creator, which is always with us to inform us as to how to make our life have meaning through our intentions of loving and serving the Creator in ourselves and others.
Sexuality is, at its start within us, the most base of our human natural
instincts. It is also potentially its most noble glory. In a dynamic much discussed throughout the ages, the sexual energy of the female is not at all random. Speaking strictly of red ray, the female's instinct is to pick the strongest "alpha male" for a mate so that her offspring will be taken care of. That is the arrangement in the great ape family of which our bodies are a part. So if we do not allow the energy of our sexuality to rise above red ray, we have a problem, Houston! Men want to nail women while women want to put off being nailed until they are mated. The potential for our sexuality is much more than this rather simple and predictable dynamic. When we form a sincere liking for another person who is also a sexual partner, the energy in the pipeline rises to the next stop along the way, the orange ray, which is located in the belly. When we take responsibility for that affection and formalize the relationship in marriage, the energy rises again, this time up into the solar plexus location of yellow ray. The shock of being tied down by relationships and marriages is not easy for either men or women, although women tend to adjust to the stricture better than men. There is a continuing tendency to feel as though we are chained in the yard of marriage and can only run to the end of our line and bark. It makes us restless.
Green ray, the heart chakra, sees all things with unifying, unconditional love. To green ray, sexuality is sacred play, a ménage a trois with the self, the mate and the Creator at play in the fields of the Lord. To green ray, your mate is not a man or a woman. Your mate is Man or Woman and you are Woman or Man - whatever applies to you. You have left behind the particularity of the lower nature of humankind and have become able to share unconditional love back and forth between you as an offering to the one Creator. It adds a tremendous kick to the hot and slippery friction of red ray, the genuine fondness of orange ray and the honor, respect and organization into family of yellow ray! It makes of sexuality that wonderful force that recapitulates the Creator making creation out of light and love. I open my arms and embrace your spirit. May you find in your sexuality the power and the peace of sacred energy! And may you use it with love, honor and infinite respect. © Carla L. Rueckert, 2007 Join
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The
energy of the Creator is flowing freely through your energy body. That
is what has happened.
Fussing
and feuding within the family can easily block your joy. Trouble at
work can do the same. Even one's team losing can halt the flow of infinite
energy if you are upset enough about that.
If our energy has flowed through to this level without being baffled
by our fears and other blockages, we probably have the use of this energy
in full strength.
Our
culture can promote feelings of depression, uselessness and suicidal
impulse because of its tendency to view human beings as consumers without
souls. Our corporations can also promote these deep-seated feelings
because of under-valuing employees, overworking and underpaying them
and not finding appreciation for them in terms of offering them the
benefits of health coverage and pensions. The resulting stress level
can be a huge challenge.
Strictly
speaking of red ray, the sexual energy of the untutored, young male
is random. His instinct is to impregnate as many females as possible
and assure the continuation of the human race.
Once
we do recover from that shock and experience how true companionship
and support helps us flower and bloom as individuals, sexual energy
can rise up the pipeline into green ray, which is the heart chakra.
This is the beginning of the Big Bingo in sacred sexuality. 