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Opening, closing and protecting yourself. |
Over the next few months I shall be writing a number of articles to help you on your spiritual path. This first is most probably the most important because it will give you a good foundation for your future growth towards identifying and achieving your soul’s purpose and developing your spiritual and psychic gifts. Protecting yourself from lesser energies is essential.
There is much written about opening, closing and protecting yourself. There are also many ways of doing it. This article intends to explain briefly the importance of it and to give you a couple of ways of doing it yourself. First one by using earth and universal energy and another with angels.
Firstly we must understand that everything in the world and the universe vibrates. Everything vibrates at different levels. Our bodies seem real and solid, yet in reality they are trillions of cells made up of trillions of sub-atomic particles all vibrating in space. Trees and rocks vibrate slowly, people vibrate more quickly. Emotions and feelings vibrate quicker still. Nothing is how we imagine it but how we imagine it is our reality. So the more you use your imagination the more real it becomes. What we will be doing actually does show up on special cameras so you can see that what you imagine is actually taking place. The more positive the feelings the higher we vibrate. The more negative the feelings the lower the vibration.
When opening to spirit we want to only be open to the very highest, most loving beings, vibrating on the highest levels, so we need to protect ourselves against lower vibrations and feelings, whether they be our own, other people’s or spirits.
We all suffer from negative feelings such as jealousy and anger, we are after all human, but we do not want to put these negative energies out into the world to hurt ourselves or others. The law of the universe is that whatever we focus on we put out into the world and it is magnified and comes back to us. So we need to learn to protect ourselves from any negativity from others, whether they be alive or passed over. We will discuss ways to do this later.
The Bodies energy system
Firstly we must briefly discuss the bodies energy system known as the Chakras, because to connect to earth and universal energy to protect ourselves we need a basic understanding.
The chakras have a direct connection to our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. Chakras act as step-down transformers, converting subtle energy – Prana, chi, Reiki, (universal cosmic energy) to be used by the hormonal, nervous and cellular systems of our physical body. We take in air and food to fuel our molecular building blocks. The aura and chakras take in the subtle energy, which is also fundamental for life.
There are 7 major chakras situated in the middle of the body approximately along the spine. They vibrate at different frequencies, they are different colours, red, orange, yellow, green/pink, blue, purple, white. They each also relate to different emotional and spiritual issues as well as different endocrine glands and nerve centres.
It is by opening these chakras that we can draw in universal energy to protect ourselves. There are also many other chakras, 189 in all, around the bodies meridian system. We will be using the 7 main ones as per the illustration and the foot chakras.
We will work with the breath because you always have it with you. The more you use your imagination the stronger and better your experience and your protection will be. Really see, sense and feel as much as you can. The more you use your imagination the more real it will be. If you imagine or see something differently then do not worry, whatever you imagine is just right for you. There is no right or wrong way to do this, as long as you feel safe and protected you will be.
You can buy CDs and tapes which take you on journeys to open, close and protect yourself and they are very good to use to start with or you can make your own. Decide what you want to say and then put it on tape to allow yourself to follow the instructions. If you do leave lots of pauses to give yourself time to let your imagination flow. Some people see the chakras as flowers opening, as clear crystals taking on colour or spinning vortexes, whatever you see or sense is just right for you.
Give yourself at least half and hour of uninterrupted time. Turn off the phones etc. Make yourself comfortable in a chair with your feet uncrossed on the ground. You might like to put on some relaxing music, burn some incense or aromatherapy oils. If you light a candle please ensure it is safe.
Firstly focus on your breathing, then imagine your foot chakras opening, and with each out breath you grow roots out of your feet and into the ground to ground yourself. Then when focusing on your in breath, you begin to draw up earth energy up through the body. This earth energy will be whatever colour is right for you right now. As the energy comes up through the body, feeling warm and relaxing you notice your body relaxing more and more until the energy reaches your base chakra.. The breathing in and drawing the energy up with each breath you start to open the chakras from the base up. Opening each of the chakras in turn, up to the top of your head. Base red. Sacrum, just below the navel, orange. Solar plexus , just above the navel, yellow. Heart, emerald green and pink. Throat blue, third eye, between your eyes, purple. Lastly crown, at the top of your head either white or indigo. You can also imagine drawing down the universal energy from above to join with the earth energy and have them both fall around into your aura forming a hard shell of clear crystalline energy which only positive energy can go in and out of. Any negative energy will be transformed into positive energy and sent back to where it came from. You might like to sit in this energy for a while. This is what you would do if you were meeting your spirit guides or receiving messages from loved ones.
Then you begin to close down by closing your third eye and seeing the purple fade away and so down through the rest of your body until you have closed the base and breathed up your roots back into your feet. Lastly you close off your crown, leaving yourself full of white light, with a clear crystalline shell of protection around you.
You have now opened, protected yourself and closed down again. You should always open and protect yourself before doing any spiritual work and always close down again before getting on with everyday life.
Other ways of protecting yourself are just as easy or even easier. If you are walking or driving anywhere and you feel unsafe for any reason then you can quickly ask your guardian angel or Archangel Michael to protect you. Just imagine their wings (Michael’s are dark blue) but whatever colour comes is what is right for you, imagine them wrapping themselves around you so no one can see you, nothing can hurt you, that you are always protected. This is really good in emergencies in every day life because it is so quick.
There are also some very good books available on opening, closing and protecting yourself because for any spiritual work it is important not to leave yourself open to lower vibrations. For further information please see my web site: www.joylina.com. Enjoy your journey towards spiritual enlightenment and fulfilling your soul’s purpose. |
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