Mankind as a species has developed many ways of interacting with the physical world, which are dysfunctional.

There are more people on the planet today than at any other time in written history. The rate of reproduction in undeveloped nations is very high and the population continues to grow. There are many countries where the number of people under the age of 18 outweighs the adults in the population. Yet at the same time opportunities for employment, earning money and surviving according to the western model are few and far between. So they survive by living off the land.

In developed nations, we believe we must survive by controlling the resources of the planet. We own the land and have turned vast tracts of it into factories, mines and monocultures. We consume enormous amounts of the world’s natural resources in our pursuit of more.

We also think that we can only survive if we have leaders, laws, police and armies that control the populace. That somehow we are animals that need restraining should our natural instincts be allowed to dominate.

The distribution of wealth is imbalanced, with a very small percentage of people holding the majority of the wealth. We believe that abundance is limited and this keeps most people on a treadmill of a 9-5 job to pay for their survival needs such as food, water, heating and mortgage.

Do you recognize these beliefs within yourself?

The good news is they are only beliefs, they are not the truth and beliefs can be changed.

You can get to know your beliefs and change them through meditation. Grounding is a very powerful technique that helps you connect with yourself and beliefs about the physical world and then you can use the flow of energy down your grounding chord to release beliefs that are not helping you, your fellow humans or the planet. Centering is another powerful technique that allows you to review your beliefs and those of others from a neutral perspective.

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Physical survival requires homeostasis, which is a biological term for balance. To stay alive, our bodies can’t be too hot or too cold, too active or too passive, too acid or too alkaline. We need to be in balance physically with exercise and rest, in what types of food we eat such as salt and sugar, mentally such as balancing studying or mental work with reading of listening to music.

The first chakra is also associated with the adrenal medulla and the fight or flight response. This is an innate response to danger and a mechanism that functions to keep the physical body safe. This makes complete sense in a situation of true danger, like when you are about to be attacked by a saber-toothed tiger. The trouble is that modern humans have taken this a step too far.

The human stress response now kicks when we only imagine danger. For example, your under pressure at work because you have to deliver a project to a tight deadline and you’re afraid you will go over time and over budget and the boss will not be pleased. The adrenalin starts to kick in a long time before this imagined event even happens. Not only that, but unless you have a particularly sadistic boss, your body was never in any danger.

So how can we stay in balance so we don’t over-react?

Daily meditation is a great way. Grounding is a simple but powerful technique that helps us release fear and imbalance. Centering is another powerful technique that allows a neutral perspective and helps us not to get too carried away with our fear or extreme perspectives.

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For example there may be a group belief about tithing a percentage of your income to the religion. Some may even go so far as to take a vow of poverty and give all their worldly possessions to the religious organization. Depending on how that income is used it may or may not be beneficial for the group; depending on the circumstances of the giver it may or may not be in their best interests.

There may also be a belief that money is the root of all evil and if you give it to the religion you will be saved, but if you fail to do this you will burn in hell. At this point people are being controlled at the first chakra level by their fear.

Some people who have been raised in a specific religious belief system rebel and harbor strong feelings against it for the rest of their lives. These people may never release their pain and resistance. They therefore continually create their lives through that pain. They may even reject any and all concepts of God. So they will never connect with their own unique concept of divine consciousness.

Others due to peer pressure or other limitations accept religious tenets blindly and without question. They too may never discover their own unique truth. Perhaps it is believed that only the priests or religious representatives can communicate with God. These messengers may tell them how to live their physical lives, such as how to dress, when to take holidays, what days to work on and the roles of men and women in society.

Some other examples of religious beliefs that relate to the first chakra concern reproduction. For example, you must not use contraception, abortion is against God and sex should be for reproduction only. Others concern beliefs about healing the physical body, such as you may not have a blood transfusion or an organ transplant, if you are sick God is punishing you for your sins and hands on healing is the work of the devil or the work of God, depending on the religion.

Every human being is unique and therefore has a unique concept of God. They may call it God, Nature, Supreme Being, Divine Consciousness, the Great All That Is. Having a direct connection with their God is the birthright of every human being. A religion that intervenes and says they must communicate with God on your behalf and tell you how to live your life is interfering with your direct connection with your God and with the expression of your first chakra which contains your unique information on how to live your life in physical reality.

Meditation is a great way to get clear on your information about God and to let go of concepts that come from outside of you. As the age old tenet says “The Truth Shall Set You Free.” For only then will you be free to choose your unique path and your  own unique direct link with divine consciousness.

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If you are a nomadic tribesman living as a hunter gatherer in the African desert, you will need to access your survival information much more than a wealthy property magnate in New York or a Royal Arab Prince living in a palace in Dubai.

The African tribesman will have his first chakra open more widely than the property magnate or the prince. This is because he needs to draw on his survival information much more than they do.  They have all their basic needs of food, shelter, air and water met, whereas the tribesman could be in a daily battle to stay alive.

Most people living in the developed nation’s only need to have their first chakra open about 15% or so.  Physical survival is not usually an issue as they on the whole have their basic needs met. The exception may be in times of danger such as an accident or natural disaster.

Cultural groups develop belief systems about survival that stay within the racial memory and are passed on through generations. This can have an impact on how individuals within the groups interact with the physical world. For example if one group has been persecuted by another group or been hammered at war many times over the centuries then a member of the group that feels victimized may feel very afraid when meeting a member of the group that has been the perpetrator, even if they are were born and are living in a time of peace.

Throughout your life you are influenced by the culture of the country you were born in, countries you have lived in, the family you grew up in, companies you worked for, as well as places where you were educated. All of them influence your beliefs about the physical world and how you should function within it.

An example of a common belief that many nations collectively hold is that the survival of the group is more important than that of the individual and this justifies sending people to war, when it is almost certain that many will sacrifice their life for the group. Governments also levy taxes to provide for our safety such as emergency services, healthcare, old age pensions, benefits for single mothers and welfare for the unemployed.

Families can have similar beliefs that particular individuals are responsible for the survival of the group. For instance the younger fitter members are called to be responsible for the survival needs of the younger and older members of the group; as well as the sick. This belief is more prominent in certain cultures that others.

Sometimes the information of your first chakra gets confused by that of others. It is useful to clear the foreign energy that comes from your culture, country and family, so you can access and operate from your information. Spending time to release the energy of others can get you much clearer about your own survival information and what is correct for you.

Meditation techniques such as grounding can be very helpful for this.

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The first chakra contains your spiritual information on how to survive in the physical world. That means your basic life needs such as air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sleep and so on. Beyond that how we obtain those needs, so creating money to use to obtain these basis needs is also included.

Reproduction is the mechanism that ensures survival of the species. The first chakra is associated with the gonads and contains spiritual information concerned with this survival aspect.

A baby’s birth experience may impact how that being uses its first chakra through its lifetime. This is because it may set up a blueprint of belief patterns about physical reality. A quick and easy birth may result in the belief that the physical world is safe and fun. Whereas a long, complicated labor where mother and baby are in danger may result in a belief that the physical world is very frightening.

When a baby is born it is not capable of surviving without the assistance of its mother. Babies and young children therefore rely on the mother’s survival information located in her first chakra until they are capable of fending for themselves.

An energetic mechanism for this is through an energy chord. This communication chord connects the child to the mother at the first chakra so it can benefit from all that she knows about how to function in the world. It’s like the umbilical cord that connects a child to its mother’s blood supply in the womb.  Once a child is able to survive on its own this energy connection is no longer appropriate and is released.

Athough it takes some longer than others to let go of these energetic apron strings!

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This energy center is where you bring your spiritual creativity into physical manifestation. If you don’t activate your first chakra, then much of your information lies dormant. Worse if you don’t cleanse it of foreign energy then your true information may become buried beneath concepts you have taken on from others. Either way you will have difficulty creating the life that you want.

This is why grounding is so important it helps you the high vibration spiritual being come more fully into your physical body and take more conscious control of your life. Grounding is an energy connection that you can create between your first chakra and the center of the earth. It is an energetic anchor that holds your focus on the physical plane.                                                                  It stops you drifting off and daydreaming and keeps you in the here and now.

To ground from your first chakra, focus your attention on an area near the base of your spine, the location of this energy center, and visualize a flow of energy that goes from there all the way to the center of the earth. As it is pure energy it will flow effortlessly through all layers of physical matter. You can also use your grounding to cleanse the first chakra by allowing foreign energy and outmoded concepts to be released.

You can choose a visualization that works well for you. I use a laser beam, but I teach my students to be creative and have fun when making their grounding cords. Some other suggestions you might like to try are a rope, a well, a tree, a giant root or a waterfall. I even have one student who imagines they are sieving soil in their garden when they grounding as that helps him with the concept that he is releasing energy that no longer works and keeping what does work.

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This month I am teaching them about the first chakra and so I’ll be posting articles about the function of this energy center. This first article is just to get you oriented.

Many names have been used to denote this chakra. In the Hindu system it is called Muladhara. It’s also often referred to as the base chakra or the root chakra. I simply refer to it as the First Chakra, as it is the first of the seven major chakras as you travel up the trunk of the body.

The first chakra contains your information on physical reality and survival of the physical body. This includes information important for the survival of the species and healing of the physical body; as well as how to function in the world of physical forms and dualities.

The first chakra is located near the base of the spine. It is the only chakra that is positioned differently between the sexes. It is located slightly higher in women than men. I’ll tell you more about why that is in a later article.

The chakra itself is shaped like a cone with the narrow end of the cone touching the spinal column and is oriented so that it is parallel to the ground. This orientation allows for a strong connection to the physical world as the entire base of the chakra can be grounded from.

It is important for the spirit to take charge of the first chakra because otherwise the physical body and its natural urges and instincts will predominate. You need to consciously own and operate your first chakra so that you the spiritual being can create the life you want.

An Introduction to the First Chakra is a post from: Spirtual Resources and Meditation Classes

In daily conversation we use the word media to describe how we get our news.

A spiritual medium is also a means through which information travels, but in this case they are a conduit for communication the spirit to the physical world. There are many ways of communicating with the spirit world and a medium can be using one or many of them when they receive their messages. A friend of mine, who is training to be a medium, uses her clairsentience and so she will often say “I am feeling…” Others use their clairvoyance and will say “I am seeing…”; their clairaudience. “I am hearing…” or they will “just know”.

What is the difference between a medium and a channel?

A medium is a messenger, an intermediary, like the postman. Some examples of famous mediums are James van Pragh, Betty Shine and Sylvia Brown. A channel leaves their physical body completely and allows another entity to take possession. Examples of famous channels are J.Z Knight, who channels Ramtha, Jane Roberts, who channeled Seth and Edgar Casey, the sleeping prophet, who was not present in his body when he gave his readings.

Some mediums do share energy with the spirit without giving up complete control of their body. So they will feel the physical and emotional aspects of the person, usually as they were just prior to them passing over. The safest connection is via the heart chakra because that allows a connection based on empathy.

Am I a medium?

Everyone is able to communicate with spirit and everyone is a trance medium. Trance mediumship is simply the ability of spirit to enter the physical body. You are spirit you are not your body. You use your trance mediumship every day to bring your consciousness into the physical world. Spirit enters the body through the seventh chakra at the crown of the head and this is where your spiritual information on trance mediumship is located.

Learning to consciously use your trance mediumship is an important step in your spiritual evolution.  How you use it is your choice. However, I recommend using it to bring in your own consciousness so that you can be in charge of your body and your life

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Over the last few days we’ve experienced a massive cosmic energy shift and we are all adjusting to it.

On a spiritual level its a great opportunity for opening to our ultimate source on a new level. Yet on a physical level you may be feeling fearful, overly emotional or generally out of sorts. Your physical body needs time to adjust to any shift in the energy frequency around you and your reality is shifting like never before.

I liken it to driving a car at a comfortable cruising speed and then shifting up a gear and driving much faster. It can be frightening and to stay on top of things requires extra vigilance. Luckily we have spiritual techniques to help us cope. In yesterday’s blog article I talked about grounding, which involves creating a flow of energy from near the base of your spine to the center of the earth. This will help you stay in balance through this energy shift and those yet to come.

A new level of knowing about everything in our universe, on our planet and our lives is emerging. It is like the original book of knowledge has been turned on its head. What we thought we knew is no longer true and these new realizations are reverberating through each of us in many ways. This is an opportunity to shift our world on all levels, in each individual and in all systems on this planet (finance, food, health, energy, education).. We can change what is not working and replace it with something new and more beneficial.

It offers you the opportunity for freedom to be the unique spirit you are and to release your pain and limits!

We are being supported by many spiritual beings in this massive growth cycle, so remember to ask for help!

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Did you realize that the Earth is a living being with a spiritual consciousness, just like you and I?

Humans are like cells in the Earths larger body and we are meant to live in harmony with her. Right now we are out of balance. Many humans think of our planet as a collection of resources to use to feed the man created cycle of economic growth and expansion.

But what goes up must come down.

From a spiritual perspective, our planet is like a schoolhouse for developing souls.  This world manifests a reality of dualities and opposites and our challenge is to balance these opposites. We must do this first within ourselves. Then we come into balance within, we can extend this to our fellow humans and our planet.

The Earth goes through cycles of growth and change, just like we do. In fact we go through these cycles together. How can we not when we are bathed in her energy every moment of our lives. Right now we are in a major energy shift.

How can we cope with the energy shifts?

Meditation helps for sure and there are two key techniques for connecting with the Earth.

The first is called grounding. Create a flow of energy from near the base of your spine to the center of the Earth. The second is to consciously run Earth energy through your energy field. Bring in energy from the Earth through the arches of your feet and let it flow up your legs to near the base of your spine and then down your grounding.

Do these two meditation techniques and see how connected you feel.

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