The Sacral Chakra

This is the second chakra, or energy center, located about 2 inches or so below the navel. It is associated with the emotions, creativity, reproduction, and one's view of sexuality. The color associated with this chakra is orange.

When I work on a person who has blockages in this chakra, almost always there are repressed emotions. This chakra can be kept healthier by being aware of the times when emotional states are blocked. Often this coincides with a clenching or tightening of the lower belly, which tends to block the flow of energy in this center and create emotional disconnection. I often remind clients to soften the lower belly. In other words, to release tension there.

This is the creative center of the world. Indeed, women create new life in the energy of this chakra. When a woman experiences menopause, the ability to create a baby is ended, but there opens up a new power to create in other ways. I frequently see post-menopausal women taking on extraordinary creative projects. A great way to keep the energy of the sacral chakra moving is to keep creating, whether through artwork, through volunteer services, or any number of inspired endeavors.

In a blocked 2nd chakra, one's ability to express the life purpose is diminished. The 2nd chakra works with the 5th chakra, the throat chakra, through which self-expression flows. These energy centers are part of your subtle energy body, and although they are not commonly discussed, they affect your health, your wellbeing, and your life's purpose.

There are several ways to keep the energy flowing through your sacral chakra. Of course I recommend that you have your chakras balanced first, which I do with each person I see, but you can do some simple things on your own to help it along.

1. If you are a visual person, see orange light flowing into and through the area of your lower belly.
2. Express your creativity: paint, write, sing, dance!
3. It is said that sweet fruits, nuts, and spices such as cinnamon and vanilla aid this chakra.
4. Move your lower body like a belly dancer. Circular hip movements aid the 2nd chakra.
5. Sit on the earth and ground yourself. A healthy root chakra leads to a healthy sacral chakra.
6. Lie down and place an orange stone on this energy center. I prefer carnelian to heal this chakra.
7. Breathe into your lower belly.
8. Practice qi gong, movements designed for subtle energy management.

Although we don't hear much about it in our conventional society, our chakras play a vital role in keeping body, mind, and spirit in balance. Anytime you feel unbalanced or unwell, having your chakras balanced will benefit your body, stabilize your emotions, and reconnect you to your source.

Rami Grant

Here is the boy who starts each day with excitement and exuberance.

A Priest and a Celt

I just returned from Ireland, the "Emerald Isle" where I had the great privilege to travel and soak up the many shades of green. While there, I got to thinking about how we rush from place to place in an attempt to get it all done, or do it all first, or what else I'm not quite sure. In Ireland there is extensive farmland where people live simpler, quieter, more peaceful lives. I experienced a kindness, graciousness, and consideration for others from the Irish people that I had grown accustomed to living without here in busy, get-ahead California.

But what I want to talk about is the flight home. I had the good fortune to have two empty seats next to me. I planned to stretch out and sleep as soon as the formalities of beverage service were complete. However, shortly after take-off, a large white-haired man decided to sit in one of "my" seats and use the one between us for his satchel, books, headset, and two bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon he had ordered from the flight attendant. His assigned seat didn't allow leg room, he explained to me as he settled in.

We ended up next to one another for the duration of the flight. Initially I kept my head in my book until his jovial self poured over into my space and I had to look over. It turned out the man was a retired Irish Catholic priest from Chicago who had been trekking around Ireland with several other priests also on the flight. I considered our flight was safe, with all the closeness to God on board. I quietly put my book away. We spoke for hours until our necks could not turn in each other's direction any longer. He had a twinkle in his eye and an unabashed joy of spirit that made me want to convert.

Never in my 42 years have I, who as a girl was raised in a Protestant environment, had the opportunity to talk with a priest. Not once. And I wondered how often it was that he found himself sitting with someone such as myself, an intuitive healer who had just been intently reading a book called A Bewitched Land: Ireland's Witches.

We talked about his life as a priest and how it was when he began as a young man. He told me about his former sabbaticals to Europe, and one to Ireland especially. He listened to my perspectives with an open mind and such understanding and agreement that it surprised me. Best of all, I got to see a human face behind the Father. Indeed the face I saw was one of love, devotion, and ceaseless service that made me glad to be alive.

As the doors opened for us and we were free to depart the airplane, I turned back to wave goodbye. The Irish Catholic priest from Chicago had just put on a newly purchased baseball cap with the word "Himself" embroidered on it. And that is exactly what he was.

Divine Healing

"Know that all strength, all healing of every nature is the changing of the vibrations from within - the attuning of the divine within the living tissue of a body to Creative Energies. This alone is healing. Whether it is accomplished by the use of drugs, the knife or what not, it is the attuning of the atomic structure of the living cellular force to its spiritual heritage."

Edgar Cayce (reading 1967-1)

White Eagle on Healing

To heal sick bodies is good, but to heal the soul is better. When your heart is full of love and compassion, you are sending out from your own center the light which God has implanted in you as a tiny seed. As you aspire to the Great White Spirit, God, so this light and power grows in you.

Every thought of God, every small effort that you make to think rightly, to reach up to a higher level of truth, goodness, purity, and love, is a help to heal the world. This manifestation of sunlight through you, the quiet infiltration of this holy light into human hearts and lives, will indeed heal the whole world.

White Eagle