 
# Some Techniques For Becoming More Aware

# Book No. 2 in a Series Featuring Quick, Smart, EZ, & Aware™

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# Apt, Tie-and-Wrap (Trap), and The Scrap Twins™

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Lee masters, a DBA of Lee Gabor

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Published by Aquarian Age Incorporated at Smashwords

Copyright 2014 by Lee masters and Aquarian Age Incorporated

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# Table of Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1 – Getting Started

Chapter 2 – Chakras

Chapter 3 – Chakras and Lights

Chapter 4 – Chakras and Sound

Chapter 5 – Chakras and Smell

Chapter 6 – Chakras and Taste

Chapter 7 – Chakras and Touch

Chapter 8 – Opening the Chakras

Chapter 9 – Yoga

Chapter 10 – Reflexology

Chapter 11 – Copper and Solar Nutrition

Chapter 12 – Colon Cleansing

Chapter 13 – Rolfing

Chapter 14 – Reiki

Chapter 15 – Float Tanks

Chapter 16 – Aromatherapy

Chapter 17 – Dry Brush Baths

Chapter 18 - Inversion

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# Dedication

This book is dedicated to all the people in my life from whom I've learned (and that would be everyone). Thank you for being on Earth and for making it a better place to live. And also thank you for your gentle treatment of people, animals, and nature.

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### Introduction

As with all of our books, we know some people will be comfortable with the content and others will not be. Those who are not comfortable will occupy a point somewhere along the line between the poles of "Can't believe this and reject it totally" and its opposite of "Makes sense and I can live with this."

We are fine with where you stand. We do, however, hope you will read the entire book before discarding it. You may find there are some areas of agreement or comfort level, even if they are not at the beginning.

Learning can be correlated to the digestive system within us. We ingest matter, chew on it, swallow it, digest it, use it, and we eliminate the waste. That process is worthwhile and feeds and offers us nutrients for our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual selves.

This is the second book of a series featuring Lee's Quick, Smart, EZ, and Aware Program™. We hope readers don't just take this as information, but also do something with it. We will include the graphics for QSE&A as well as the three characters who promote action, Apt, Tie-and-Wrap (Trap), and the Scrap Twins, ScrapBook and ScrapBag™.

In Book No. 1, (and we highly recommend you read that book first ii order to have a good idea of balancing the self through recognizing the effects of the four major parts of our brains) you met Quick, Smart, EZ, and Aware™ , which are four characters that represent the four major parts of the human brain: emotional wholistic or holistic right brain (Quick Quack™), reasoning compartmentalized step-by-step left brain (Smart D Dolphin™) ; medulla oblongata alligator brain that is in charge of basic physical processes and is driven by the other three parts either in balance or with one being prominent and the second being very secondary and possibly the third not being considered (EZ Elephant™), and the frontal part of the brain, which is the location of our moral and ethical compass (Aware™).

As has been realized for thousands of years, we live in a physical world (using our physical senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch), but there is also an invisible world around us. The wisest people of all Ages have known we have more than one "body." Yes, we can sense our physical body, but at a higher vibration and extending from that are our emotional, mental, and spiritual "bodies."

The following graphic is simply a representation of that and if you study Theosophy or other philosophies, you will find graphics that are more sophisticated than this one. The purpose of this graphic is to simply give a general idea that we are more than the physical self living in a physical world sensed with physical sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch. (And if you use a cell phone, you already should be comfortable with the idea of invisible waves of energy bringing to your material phone a voice and words that can be sensed with your ears. In times gone by, your use of a cell phone would have led to your being burned at the stake as a witch.)

This graphic shows a smaller mental body than emotional body and the spiritual body is the largest and most far-reaching. Some individuals would actually have a huge emotional body and small mental and spiritual bodies. We EACH develop our invisible bodies to varying degrees and in this ebook our goal is to develop the spiritual or Aware™ body.

In order to do this development, we sit comfortably in our physical EZ Elephant™ body. We put aside our Quick Quack™ emotions and our Smart D Dolphin™ thoughts. Because it is important to do this, we made this a QSE&A ebook.

We don't develop awareness or expand our consciousness without effort. Therefore, we think about the possibility of developing consciousness, we do it by our efforts, and as life progresses, we can analyze what we've gained and, if we so desire, continue with the practice. These steps relate tour three Behavior Mode characters, Apt™, Tie-and-Wrap (Trap)™, and the Scrap Twins, ScrapBook™ and ScrapBag™. The word "trap" is included to remind us to progress and to not get stuck in one place in our development.

If you go on to study the new Masters Aquarian Age Astrology (channeled through my degree of awareness), you will see how the 4 times the 3 = 12 to make 12 steps of progress enjoyed by humans in a 24,000-year- period of time. A hint – we are now in the era of Tie-and-Wrap (Trap)™ Quick Quack™ and this is where we learn much more about our emotional actions and reactions and how they drive our physical bodies and physical world. Does the subject of psychology come to mind? This is also a time of great transformation. More information will be available in a later book.

As noted in Book 1, in our history of the past, men dominated from about 12,000 BC to 1BC-1AD and this has carried over somewhat, while a female began to dominate just before 1 BC and during parts of the past thousand years as we take notice of Queen Isabella of Spain, Catherine the Great of Russia, and Queen Elizabeth of I of England. Now, we are seeing females rise to high levels in governments, businesses, education, banking, medicine, and other areas.

And, of course, for each of us TYPICALLY, our physical bodies are born through a woman's body and we are nurtured and loved while we depend on a male for the major financial support and often for discipline.

This role is changing as more men begin to stay at home to raise families and their wives continue in their corporate or other careers.

It is imperative for each of us to understand: regardless of gender, we EACH have emotions and intellect and physical body and at least a seed for Awareness. Please do NOT fall into the trap of thinking people using male bodies are smart while people using female bodies are emotional. Males can be as emotional as can be females and females can be as intellectual and reasoning as can be males. Because of where we were on the "timeline" of the large Master Sunday, society has TRIED to raise us in a certain manner but THAT is no longer working!

THERE ARE VARIOUS LABLES TO DESCRIBE OUR GOAL OF BECOMING MORE AWARE. Some say we are "on the path" and others say we are "seeking enlightenment" and others say "we seek to ascend," and others may have different labels. The concept is the same regardless of how it is described. We recognize we start at some point and we have a goal of moving to a more advanced point.

In order to make that journey effectively, we must accept that we are a physical being and we have invisible parts, also known as "bodies." We experience and express emotions, we can think, and we drive our physical life through those two parts of the brain. When life on earth is just not enough, we begin to seek a more spiritual or aware life.

Here is the graphic for the four parts that we describe as our four "bodies."

If Quick Quack™ drives your life, you see the world in a more wholistic or holistic manner, see yourself in relationships, and emotions are most important. You also use your creativity talents.

The Quick Quack™ emotional self loves immediate results and when things don't go your way, you can be quick to fly off the handle. When life isn't going forward in a peaceful emotional immediate gratification manner, Quick Quack™ may behave in one of two extremes, the aggressive, screaming, fighting back of Duck This One™ OR the passive withdrawn Play Dead Duck™.

That is called the passive-aggressive approach to life.

If Smart D Dolphin™ drives your life, you spend more energy reasoning and developing intellectual pursuits. You set goals and are willing to move toward them in a step-by-step manner. Life is compartmentalized rather than wholistic or holistic and one is comfortable with numbers and letters rather than with emotions.

It is possible for there to be two extremes for the reasoning self. These include being such a cold-hearted Barry Cuda™ that one gives up NO TIME OR ENERGY TO LOVING EMOTIONS and life becomes ONLY numbers and words OR one can be the opposite in which an individual needs to make others believe he/she is grander than he/she actually believes she/he is and we have Whale of a Tale™ with the made-up self-importance stories.

Most of the time, either Quick Quack™ or Smart D Dolphin™ is driving life and our physical selves can be seen as behaving either emotionally or rationally.

The physical body is represented by EZ Elephant™, which is in black outline (to represent we all came from one ancestor and that was Lucy in Africa) and with other skin tones of brown, yellow, red, white. Our eye colors can be dark or lighter and we can be of female or male gender.

Since our physical behavior in our physical world can be a result of our feelings and reasoning, we have extremes at this level also. They are Grabby Moore™ and Fade Driftaway™. Grabby needs more and more stuff to fill some emptiness and Fade doesn't give any attention to the physical self and, instead, typically prefers to work only with Aware™ or with either the emotions or the intellect.

Awareness is a higher vibration and we look to the frontal brain to see ethics and morals in a person's behavior.

Many people have evolved enough to be Aware™ to some degree. If a person can discuss global events and problems, you can bet he or she has reached a degree of awareness. If all conversations are only about the self, one is still on the emotional-intellectual-physical level and consciousness expansion has not been important.

As we begin in human form, we are Sub-Aware™ and have no sense of right and wrong, fairness, justice, etc. Once we pass the usual sense of being Aware™, we may choose to move to being Super-Aware™, which is a highly developed sense of others and ourselves and, especially, seeing life globally and being willing to get involved in solving major issues that are not simply affecting the personal self.

A SuperAware™ person sees the forest and the trees or can perceive life as wholistic or holistic as well as work with details. The major issues are not too overwhelming if we start with one small element at a time and work with it. The distant goal is in mind, but we are willing to solve small problems first. Eventually, we learn there are no large problems, since what seemed massive to us was simply a group of small pieces.

Both Aware™ and SuperAware™ people want all the children and adults fed. We want everyone to sleep peacefully and to be healthy and to have the opportunity to learn and grow and be educated, etc., etc., etc.

We want solutions to the following major global problems:

An example of being emotional, mental, and physical WITHOUT using ANY sense of awareness is how the U.S. Government sends money to foreign countries, SUPPOSEDLY to aid the citizens. The money sent, U.S. Government representatives do NOT track the funds. "Our" hands are washed as we leave the use of the money in the hands of whoever is leader of the foreign nation. And, what do many of those people do? Use the money for their personal interests, possibly placing a lot of it in secret bank accounts or to buy big homes and fancy cars, etc. The "aid" doesn't reach the people.

A government of Aware™ people would first, have a written agreement of how the money would be disbursed and a guideline for monitoring such disbursement and secondly, would actually monitor the money, which would be sent in SMALL amounts so that if the agreement is NOT followed, the flow of money is stopped.

That isn't hard and it also should be the way parents disburse money to children.

Aware™ is a good monitor. And Aware™ seeks to find ways to negotiate and compromise in order to bring together others so that a mutually-satisfying goal can be reached. When a person is not Aware™, he/she is participating at the Quick Quack™ and Smart D Dolphin™ level (his or her EZ Elephant™ physical body is being driven by emotions and/or reasoning or a combination of the two).

If election time is coming near, Aware™ and SuperAware™ people consider the issues and the stand individual candidates take on the issues. We also look back at the records of those candidates. We don't vote by personality or race or gender, since that is what puts into office people who speak from both sides of their mouths, people who are hungry for personal ego aggrandizement and financial gain, and people who can't stand up to truth or to take responsibility for actions.

For more information on how to be balanced and centered, please read Book No. 1 in this series.

The goal of this book is to provide techniques for developing more awareness.

One more thing – an individual can be wonderfully emotional and creative, intellectual with great reasoning ability, healthy and fit physically, and with highly developed awareness. However, this isn't enough.

It is our responsibility to DO SOMETHING in this world or on this planet. We each have a destiny to fulfill. There is something to accomplish as we make the world a better place for each and all of us.

There are three steps of DOING! These are the1) idea, 2) bring the idea to reality (and don't get trapped into staying only with that), and then 3) analyzing that reality and assigning our analyzed thoughts or things into two places, which are ScrapBook™ of what we keep and use again (our Pearls of Wisdom) and ScrapBag™ of what we don't need to use any longer and, therefore, want to place deep in the subconscious.

Please note what is thrown away, discarded, or placed in the ScrapBag™ can be brought back for use if we allow ourselves to get into certain situations. For example, we may have learned to not kill others, but we could allow ourselves into a very negative situation and bring back to action the idea and implementation of murder. This is why good people must always pay attention to our actions and to get away from other people who could lead us into a negative.

People can be like chemical elements. Individually, we are fine. Perhaps one of us is like the element hydrogen and the other is like the element sulfur, one of us being the more dominant personality. Put two of us together with the right proportion of dominance and receptivity and we can become like sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and very destructive. This is why it is important for parents to monitor their children's and teen's friendships and for those kids to understand the potentials for rally messing up one's life by hanging with the wrong people.

Now that you have a general idea of the four major parts of the brain and the three activity or behavior modes, let's work on techniques for further developing awareness (you wouldn't be reading this book if you were not already quite Aware™!)

We will begin with a discussion of the Chakras. As we work with these energy vortices, we are stimulating ourselves to enormously expand the consciousness.

Since the ability to pay attention and to be Aware™ requires that we are NOT concentrating on our physical needs, in later chapters we will discuss a few techniques that relate to bodywork. The less we are dis-eased in our physical body, the more we can pay attention to other aspects of life, including healthy emotional expressions as well as the ability to mentally concentrate.

In other words, we must let go of a tendency to be tied only to our physical, emotional, and mental selves in order to become more Aware™.

There are many who believe any dis-eases of the physical body had to first begin in one of the invisible bodies. The belief is that negative thinking and negative emotions can be revealed by what is happening in the physical body since the physical body simply reflects or mirrors our invisible selves.

Along this line, the belief is that even if we heal a dis-ease in the physical body, unless we also find the cause of it in the invisible self, that dis-ease will reappear.

Therefore, awareness of ourselves as spiritual beings who can properly analyze our emotions and our thinking can help us to enjoy physical health.

The question is to what extent genetics rules the body. We do believe that genetics is half the picture and the other half is our experiences. For example, if we choose to eat junk food and not healthy food, even if we are genetically designed to be healthy, our bodies will rebel from all of the outside chemicals and we can expect that eventually some type of illness will follow. Diabetes II could be a result of bad eating. This is the nurture-nature argument – which has the most effect on us?

There are lots and lots of articles available on the Internet for those seeking more information. Point your search engine to keywords such as "spiritual development, yoga, ancient wisdom, and other words and phrases similar to these.

Now we will use our emotions, intellect, and physical body as well as our 3-step Behavior Modes™ to read, digest, and act on developing awareness.

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# Chapter 1 – Getting Started

The purpose of becoming more Aware™ is so that we can better manage ourselves emotionally, mentally, and physically and, as we do this, better participate in our family, community, country, and planet.

A wise man, Hermes Trismegistus, once said, "Man, Know Thyself." By becoming Aware™, this can be supremely accomplished. Awareness of ourselves also makes us less vulnerable to negative impacts from others.

In order to accomplish this project in a balanced manager, we need to WRITE DOWN where we are now and LIST OUR GOALS. You may want to skip this, but it is vitally important, because it gives us a way to look back and analyze where we started and what we've accomplished.

Individuals who are heavily dominated by the Quick Quack™ emotional right brain especially dislike journaling. It takes too much time. However, it is time well spent PLUS it disciplines our emotional selves as we do this. Journaling emphasizes our mental left brain and we want to be in balance between right and left brain lobes.

What do we want to write? In our journal we need four pages. The first page (and each should be dated) is for us to identify our goals. Are we too emotional? Then we need to use our reasoning abilities more. We write something about that. Do we live too much in the physical world or not enough? We write that. Do we want to be balanced among the four so that we can draw upon each skill as necessary? Then, that is a goal.

Obviously, Page 1 is a focus on awareness, on knowing where we are now and what we want to transform about ourselves.

Page 2 is an emotional self-analysis. Let's list and state an example of when we are too emotional and how that affects our spiritual and Aware™ selves. Do we suffocate others that we dearly love? Are we jealous of what others have? Whatever the feelings are, we need to write them down so that we can look back on this in say a year and determine if we still feel the same way or if we have been able to rid ourselves of the same degree of negative emotions.

What feelings do we need to control during this project so that we don't allow ourselves to be swept into a frenzy at the start and then we "peter out" and never finish this project? If we know others who want to become more Aware™, we don't let their emotions overwhelm us.

There is a psychological term with which we need to become comfortable. It is "emotional contagion," which means it is possible for one person's feelings or the emotions of a group of people to overtake another individual.

We see this when mobs come into existence and some people may not even know why they are involved with the mod and they certainly don't have any information about the target of the mob.

We also see this in times of natural disasters, such as floods, hurricanes, tornados, etc. A television fundraising program will appear and people will call in donations based on the emotions of the moment rather than STOPPIING TO CONSIDER ONE'S BUDGET. The numbers look great – how much money was raised for relief – but actually a lot of that money is never paid, since many people who called in donations couldn't actually afford to send them. It is better to not be swept up by charity appeals and, especially, without knowing something about the group that is vying for the money - the statistics of how much of the charity's money goes actually goes to help people versus how much goes into the "administrative fund," which is often the high-dollar paycheck of one person.

Another aspect of emotions is being able to let go of people who want to hold one back, even if the person is a family member. Information regarding the letting go of negative people can be added to our journal later as we begin our project and then become Aware™ of how someone is seeking to keep us from participating in this or some other positive project.

As we gain more control of our own lives, those who once controlled us often don't want to lose such control, whether it was through the emotion of guilt or constant praise, etc. When we become Aware™, we are able to discern the motivations of others and our journal is a good place to notate their initials or names. We can determine to what extent we are under their power by how much we modify our desire and schedule to accommodate the other person.

In good relationships, each person wants the other to be the best he or she can be. In negative relationships, one person wants to control the other. If you are anywhere along the negative line (between being a victim or victimizer, you can become Aware™ of that position and then, if you desire, choose to do something about it.

Obviously, all of Page 2 is a focus on Quick Quack™ right brain lobe.

Page 3 is for us to list expenses and any income derived from this project. Income could be later, if we decide to teach yoga or metaphysics, etc. This is simply a way for us to balance in the mental and physical worlds the fact that we have spent money on this project. Therefore, we list the cost of anything we purchase.

We also set out a schedule for ourselves. Perhaps we will work on this one hour a week at 6 am on Mondays, for example, or perhaps sometime during one day a week, a Saturday, for example. Only by stating how much time we will devote to the project will we actually get it done. Otherwise, the timing becomes nebulous and somehow six months pass and we did nothing to move toward our consciousness expansion.

Even a 10-minute segment of time each week reminds us of the project. Something is better than nothing!

Obviously, Page 3 is a focus on Smart D Dolphin™ left brain lobe.

Page 4 is for us to list any physical challenges we have that require us to augment or modify what we do AND, IF we didn't notate a general timeframe on page 3, we outline that here for this project as well as for our daily or weekly schedule. It usually isn't possible to follow a time schedule minute by minute or even hour by hour, but a general idea will help us to remember.

We may want to do Yoga with Chakra concentration half an hour each day for seven days. Or, perhaps four days with three dedicated to other activities. You alone know what works best for you. Simply try to determine some schedule and when we look back to analyze our activities, we can determine how closely we were able to follow the schedule. You may even want to note that in one month we will check Page. 4 to "modify schedule as necessary." If we don't control time to some degree, it will get away from us and all of a sudden a year has flown by and we've accomplished nothing. This is why setting even a very general tentative schedule is so important.

Obviously, Page 4 is a focus on time and physical abilities and those are related to EZ Elephant™ or the medulla oblongata (although time is also a mental exercise - we include it with the mental Page 3 and physical Page 4 to ensure we become Aware™ that a day doesn't pass without our becoming more conscious).

The Journal is important and in these first four pages, we have an excellent start to being more Aware™ about ourselves, our emotions and relationships, our budgets, and our physical abilities and schedules.

Since the goal of consciousness expansion or awareness is to simultaneously develop the twelve (13) powers within us, by keeping a journal we can monitor our progress. We will discuss powers in a future book, but they are listed here:

Strength (Stability, Steadfastness, and Loyalty)

Wisdom

Reverberating Universal Love

Power to Master Challenges

Imagination and Inspiration

Understanding

Will

Ability to Live within Spiritual Law and Order

Zeal and Enthusiasm

Renunciation (elimination of what we don't want in our lives)

Creativity or Generative Life and Regeneration

Faith

Judgment

We all have some degree of each of these now. With conscious work, we can make these skills much stronger. Also, Masters Aquarian Age Astrology™ ties each of these powers to systems we have in our physical bodies. More about that in a later book.

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# Chapter 2 – Chakras

A great place to start on our journey to awareness is with the chakras. We will look at the seven best-known ones, although there are more and a later book will cover Chakras 8 through 12 and more advanced chakra knowledge.

Awareness is a result of the opening of the chakras. Therefore, we will spend quite a bit of time discussing these seven energy vortices in general and then explain how we can use our five senses to get in touch with the chakras and after that, how we can consciously open each chakra so that we gain the skill available with each one.

It should be obvious that a "genius" such as a Mozart or Leonardo DaVinci or Albert Einstein, and others, had a chakra really open and spinning. One or more areas of life would have been outstanding and awesome, even if others were not.

An example is Einstein. As brilliant as he was, during the time he was at Princeton University, he was assigned a "helper" who walked with him everywhere. Einstein's mind was so into the invisible world that, unless his "helper" directed him, he would step into a manhole on the sidewalk and drop. Einstein simply wasn't connected strongly to his physical self. You already know he was a mathematical genius and, therefore, his Smart D Dolphin™ left brain lobe was in use to a very high degree. One other point – he was one of the people responsible for the nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II. Einstein later stated if he had known the nuclear energy would have been used in such a destructive manner, he would have had nothing to do with the Manhattan Project. This is an example of his not questioning what was happening around him. The U.S. was at war and if the government were sponsoring the project, wouldn't it be safe to assume it had something to do with building some type of armament? Einstein just didn't use a sense of awareness, although his brilliant ability with math and science (left brain lobe) was awesome and very comfortable for him.

It is important to always ask questions and consciousness expansion teaches us to do that.

Specific techniques will be offered for opening each chakra and since we live in a physical body, it is important to know about some activities, such as yoga, Reiki, and others that can help us get more in touch with our material selves and, as we become more and more healthy and active and less toxic, our chakra development will proceed in a more effective manner.

The word chakra is pronounced with the ch sounding like in the word chocolate. It is not pronounced like "shock-ra."

The idea of the chakras comes from ancient times in what is now the country of India in Asia. The invisible bodies (emotional, mental, and spiritual) were recognized as existing.

A wheel or vortex was said to connect the closest invisible body (technically known as the ethieric) to the physical body. The primary wheels or energy vortices were determined to be near seven plexi of nerves in the physical body. (In the following graphic, the line at the throat should be more of a light blue than turquoise.) The graphic is to show give you an idea of the chakra placements and that they work through the body and are not just along the backbone.

Again, the word chakra means wheel and these chakras or wheels rotate at different speeds. The root or lowest primary chakra rotates at the slowest speed and the crown chakra rotates the fattest of these seven.

When a chakra is blocked or out-of-balance, it slows down and the skills and abilities available through that chakra are not usable.

Following is a graphic showing the location of each of the seven chakras as we look at the front of the body. The graphic labels the Sanskrit name as well as English name.

To make it easier for the reader, we will use the English terms throughout this document.

You also can see the color associated with each chakra and you'll want to learn the color associations. If you already know the colors exhibited by light through a prism (and that the red color is the slowest wavelength and the violet or purple is the fastest), you can very easily remember these seven colors as associated with the seven chakras.

It is important to recognize how we select our wardrobe. Are you wearing black every day or are you wearing all these colors over a week?

When I taught astrology lessons, I wore the color for that day as related to the chakra. Even when I taught public school, I wore a scarf that featured the chakra color as predominant. Students weren't aware of that, but I was.

By learning the colors, you can light a color candle and know what energy you seek. For men who are color blind, that bottom chakra at the base of the spine represents red and it is an earthy red, not candy apple red unless the chakra is spinning very fast. Also, if you can't read the Sanskrit word for the root chakra, it is Muladhara.

It also is possible to wear a piece of jewelry that relates to one chakra or to wear a pendant that has a stone for all the chakras. Years ago when I first started learning about the chakras, a friend cut a piece of lapis for me and since then I've worn that on Saturdays (6th Chakra or 3rd eye). I'm also a 6 destiny number, so the lapis is very meaningful to me. (Destiny numbers will be covered in a later book on Masters Aquarian Age Astrology). I'm so thrilled that I have this piece. When I dress for the chakra color of the day, I try to match with some piece of jewelry.

The chakra colors and days are: Monday or Moon day white with some violet for the crown chakra; Tuesday or Mars day is red (an earthy red) for the root chakra; Wednesday or Mercury day, orange for sacrum chakra; Thursday or Jupiter day is green for the heart chakra; Friday or Venus day is light blue for throat chakra, Saturday or Saturn day is indigo or dark blue for 3rd eye chakra; and Sunday or Sun day is yellow or gold for solar plexus chakra and we think of this as the yellow sun being the center of our solar system, just as we are the center of our own life. The more awareness we develop, we begin to think past our Solar System Sun to the larger Sun around which our local Sun revolves – our Sun and solar system are part of a far greater system and awareness of that really helps to open oneself to advancement..

The chakras are represented by lotus flowers with petals and these petals are typically shown in artwork for the chakras. Five of the chakras relate to elements. These are:

Root (4 petals) – Earth

Sacral (6 petals) – Water

Solar Plexus (10 petals) – Fire

Heart (12 petals) – Air

Throat (16 petals) – Ether, which is an even finer element than air – at a faster vibration we might say)

The 3rd eye has 2 petals and the Crown has 1000 petals. They are related to such high vibration matter that we don't name these "elements" at this time.

Again, the chakras are places of energy in the invisible bodies and are not seen with the physical eyes. They have been perceived as wheels turning and the word chakra means wheel in Sanskrit, the language of India. If the wheel is still or turns slowly, this means the Chakra is dull, blocked, and out-of-balance.

As the chakras speed up, the individual obtains more skills and higher spiritual knowledge, understanding, and judgment. Also, when all seven charkas are active, we feel healthy and have a sense of well-being and comfort and at-one-ness with the universe. It is the Universal Energy that is active in the chakras and when that energy is blocked by us, we don't feel whole.

It is important for us to learn to NOT shut down experiences we have by denying them or ignoring them. Experiences are teachers, even if the only purpose of one is to teach us to NOT get into that same situation again. When we ignore an experience instead of thinking about it and analyzing it thoroughly, we shut down one or more chakras and this can lead to dis-ease.

Also, if we experience life in such a negative way that we then use drugs, alcohol, shopping, gambling, or other activities as an anesthesia, we are shutting down our advancement. The goal is not to advance spiritually by destroying the physical body and brain.

Some New Age people use crystals and gemstones to clear the chakras. This is done by placing the object along the back or front of the body near the invisible chakra. Since crystals respond to electrical energy (labeled by scientists as the "piezoelectric effect"), the belief is over time, the chakra will be cleared of negative or slow energy and will speed up to bring relief and balance.

Each Chakra can be "opened" and we do this through concentrating on that area. Once a Chakra is open and spinning, we usually can immediately "feel" if that same chakra is active in another person. If we are with people whose chakras turn at speeds similar to ours, we find comfort and can cooperate to achieve goals. We feel "in tune" with that individual.

If, instead, we have active chakras and the other person's are inactive, we may not achieve anything positive in that relationship. It may be frustrating (depending on our reason for us to be in the relationship and we should ALWAYS know the reason – this is Awareness to know WHY we do something).

Another thought is about lust. Rape is a result of a person whose sex chakra is going nuts with its tinglings and that person sees an individual and desires to consummate a physical act and does so through force. Sometimes we meet a person and our sex chakra tunes into that person's and the result is a sexual encounter. Neither of these actions must happen if we become more sensitive to our surroundings. Of course, the event may be karmic and that discussion is for another book.

When we feel that lust, we can concentrate on moving the energy from the sex chakra to another. We can even pull that energy up to the Crown Chakra to become very enlightened. That is the development of Kundalini Yoga and we will write about that in another book. Just know that Kundalini Yoga is moving the energy from the base chakra through each chakra and to the Crown Chakra.

During our awareness project, the goal is to work with each chakra to "open" it. If we simply become Aware™ of its existence, we've accomplished something. However, there are specific actions we can take to more strongly develop our chakra activities and we will discuss those in the following chapters.

Using one technique can be beneficial. It is possible to simultaneously use more than one technique. It is up to you to determine IF you want to open your chakras and which technique(s) you want to use.

In addition to a color, each Chakra has a sense and purpose associated with it. Also, we our next chapter will cover using light with the chakras and some people prefer that to using crystals and gemstones.

Let's look at individual chakras.

**Root** is SENSE of smell and is LOCATED at the base of the spine and its FORCE is gravity. IT RELATES TO the basic needs for survival, security, safety, eating. The Muladhara is the most in touch with our Earth Mother and our material world. IF BLOCKED, we may feel fearful, anxious, insecure, frustrated and may create problems for ourselves, such as obesity, anorexia nervosa, hemorrhoids, sciatica and some say even knee problems. We may exhibit addictive behavior, intimacy avoidance, self-centeredness, distrust, and workaholicalism, and often financial irresponsibility and family problems. WHEN IN-BALANCE, we feel secure and rooted to Mother earth. We value ourselves and are able to be in the present moment. The root areas of the PHYSICAL BODY are the bones, feet, legs, hips, lower back, and male sex organs (the sexual energy in females for this chakra relate to assertiveness in attracting and holding on to a mate). GEMSTONES for this chakra are garnet, smoky quartz, black tourmaline, and obsidian. For those really into the ancient Sanskrit techniques, the MUDRA (symbolic or ritual gesture, sometimes a hand symbol) is earth, BANDHA is Mula or perennial lock and the MANTRA is "I am safe."

**Sacrum** , SENSE of touch, LOCATED about two inches below the naval and the FORCE is Magnetism. IT RELATES TO creativity, intuition, and self-worth, friendliness, and emotions. It is the primary sexual energy for females, but also is the secondary sexual energy of males who should provide emotional connection to the mate. IF BLOCKED, we become emotionally explosive, obsessed with thoughts of a sexual nature, manipulative and we may have lower back problems, including muscle spasms and be constipated. We may try to "keep up with the Joneses" or have what others have - envious is the behavior. We may be shallow in relationships and ashamed of our sexuality. We may be frigid, impotent and have urinary problems. Feelings may be of possessiveness, seeking satisfaction in material items like food and other possessions instead of in relationships. We constantly crave stimulation and have feelings of inadequacy. WHEN IN BALANCE, this chakra relates to being open with others rather than secretive, although we may start out being quieter around new people until we get our bearings with them. When this chakra is active, we are able to accept and express our emotions. We are creative and are able to enjoy life and to share knowledge. PHYSICAL BODY areas are female reproductive organs, large intestine, and lower back. GEMSTONES to use for this chakra are carnelian, agate, orange calcite, and "Tiger Eye." The MUDRA is Vajoli for men and Saahajoli for women, BANDHA is Mula or perennial lock, and MANTRA is "I flow with the rhythm of life."

**Solar Plexus** \- SENSE of sight, LOCATED just above the belly button and about two inches below the breastbone and the FORCE is combustion. IT RELATES TO ego, the idea of the individual self, personal power, impulses, passions, and strength. This is the center for astral travel, if you are interested in developing that ability. IF BLOCKED we may experience nervous exhaustion, and digestive difficulties, we can become overly concerned about what others think of us and we can become very controlling, trying to make that person be what we want him/her to be. We may also deal with depression since we aren't experiencing life as we think we want it. This is the place where many people believe they feel love, but it is an ownership type of love, especially trying to form the object into one's personal ideal. This is where religions are represented, since the organized sects set a lot of rules that one must live by and if the person doesn't fit into that box, he or she will be severely punished. This chakra negates free will and is strongly tied to force. We may be too controlling, think we are always right, greedy, power hungry, and blind to our own faults. Physical problems can relate to liver dis-ease diabetes, food allergies, WHEN IN-BALANCE, we are confident and have a sense of ourself as part of the bigger picture. We are beginning to develop will power and can handle crises. We also are beginning to develop courage. We feel expressive, have self-respect, and are cheerful and outgoing. We are happy to accept new challenges and have the confidence we can be successful. PHYSICAL BODY parts for this chakra are the pancreas, gall bladder, liver, stomach, and small intestine. GEMSTONES are citrine, topaz, yellow calcite, and of course yellow diamond if you have one of those rare gems. MUDRA is Naga, BANDHA is uddiana or abdominal lock, and MANTRA is "I stand in my personal power."

**Heart** – SENSE OF Touch, LOCATED at the heart region. IT RELATES TO unconditional love, which is allowing others to be who they are. It also represents compassion and the desire to become more of a spiritual person (not religious, but spiritual). Here we learn to give and receive love. IF BLOCKED, which means we are trying to be too controlling, we can feel heart-broken, but it is important for us to realize that we may be dealing with the Solar Plexus chakra instead of the heart chakra. The heart chakra can help us release pain by allowing us to understand that others who hurt us simply may have been dealing with their lower chakras and our pain is a result of our lower chakras being involved. We may be lonely and bitter with an inability to forgive. We may be pessimistic and alienated from others. We lack empathy. We may become emotionally flamboyant and overly dramatic, smothering others with our behavior. When severely out-of-balance (because we won't heal ourselves), we may feel sorry for ourselves paranoid, indecisive, afraid of getting hurt, unworthy of love, and afraid of letting go. Since the chakra relates to love, the color "green" has been misappropriated to relate to jealousy or "green with envy." That jealousy color should be yellow for the Solar Plexus Chakra, where we compare ourselves and what we have with others and we always fall short in those comparisons (there is always someone prettier, richer, smarter, etc.). Health issues may include asthma, heart problems, circulatory system and respiratory system dis-eases. WHEN IN BALANCE we feel compassionate empathetic, nurturing, see the good in everyone, accept that nobody is perfect and many people are living on the lower chakras, which is why their behavior may be as it is. We offer unconditional love and are in harmony with nature. We find the neutral point in arguments so that we can try to bring together two opposing sides. We are nonjudgmental of self and others and are peaceful and compassionate. PHYSICAL BODY part is the heart and circulation system, as well as lungs, upper back and shoulders. GEMSTONES are rose quartz, kunzite, and watermelon tourmaline. MUDRA is Lotus at the Heart, BANDHA is Maha and MANTRA is "I open my heart to ______."

**Throat** \- SENSE OF Sound, LOCATED at the throat, more precisely in the v made by the collarbone. IT RELATES TO the ability to speak truth and to communicate. It also comes into play as we begin to transform ourselves. Rather than just thinking what we want to be, we need to speak the words, because they set up strong vibrations around us. IF BLOCKED we hold back from speaking, even when we have something important to say. We find it difficult to put together the right words and we develop a fear of speaking. We allow our own voice to be overshadowed b others OR we become extremely loud and aggressive, we gossip, are very critical of others and are unable to listen to others. We allow ourselves to be intimidated by others. Note the letters in that word "intimidated" that spell the word "timid." A blocked throat chakra is obvious when someone is too timid to speak up or make himself or herself known. Also, anger is stored in this chakra, which is why someone goes along for quite a while and doesn't speak and then all of a sudden there is an explosive and angry spurting of words. It is better to speak instead of holding in the anger, which can cause physical ailments like skin irritations, ear infections, sore throat, hyperthyroid problems, inflammations, and neck pain. WHEN IN BLANCE we are able to speak our own truth and our communications are clear. We can live in harmony. We feel centered and allow our musical talents to unfold. We have no need to lie or to exaggerate. PHYSICAL BODY parts of the throat neck, ears, thyroid gland, and teeth. GEMSTONES are aquamarine and azurite. MUDRA Shunya (Heaven), BANDHA is Jalandhara or chin lock, and MANTRA is "I speak and follow my truth."

**3** rd **Eye** \- SENSE OF Intuition, LOCATED between the eyebrows and FORCE is Psychic. IT RELATES TO psychic abilities, higher intuition or accepting inspirations from the Supreme, and deals with light energies It also is where we purify negative energies we've lived with and we finally rid ourselves of selfishness. IF BLOCKED we are afraid of success, withdraw from life, become too egotistical (this means we allow a lower chakra to be in charge instead of its place as it should be, which is inferior to the 3rd eye chakra. We tend to overachieve for the sake of overachieving rather than using achievement to further educate ourselves in order to fulfill our destinies. We may lack poor memory, lack of clarity about life, and unable to find our truth path and destiny. We may become highly skeptical of everything appearing before us and have a poor ability to focus. We may suffer from headaches, blurred vision, blindness, and eyestrain. WHEN IN BLANCE we have clear perception and a reliable intuition. We are able to follow our own path and we readily receive guidance, are able to channel information and to be tuned into the Higher Self. We lose the fear of death and the extreme attachment to material objects. We can develop telepathy and know our past lives (for those who believe in reincarnation). PHYSICAL BODY includes eyes, face, brain, lymphatic and endocrine systems. GEMSTONES are sodalite and lapis lazuli (which was used often in Egyptian times). MUDRA is Hakini, BANDHA is Maha, and MANTRA is "I see and I follow the path of truth."

**Crown** \- SENSE OF Divine, LOCATED at the top of the skull and FORCE is Consciousness. IT RELATES TO enlightenment, dynamic thought, high energy, spirituality, wisdom, and the idea of cosmic consciousness. The soul, which animates our physical body, enters through the crown at birth and leaves through the crown at death. IF BLOCKED we feel no connection to life and believe we have no purpose. There is no joy in waking up each day and learning, developing, evolving, etc. We may experience migraine headaches and severe depression. We are closed minded and live only in the head and have several emotional difficulties. We go to spiritual elitism or extremism and we often abuse lower life forms. WHEN IN BLANCE we are moving toward our acceptance of our at-one-ness with the Divine and this can give us very unique and creative or genius thoughts, which may include inventions, entirely new ways to look at problems, and solutions for ridding our planet of imbalances. We are open minded, accepting of all, have inner wisdom and are at peace with the self and can reach a place of bliss, Samadhi or nirvana. PHYSICAL BODY is the top of the head. GEMSTONES are clear quartz crystal, Oregon opal, and amethyst. MUDRA is Lotus, BANDHA is ALL and MANTRA is "I know and I accept."

Again, there are more chakras, including higher ones, but if we can achieve activation of these seven we've covered, we are doing great!!!!!

Now that we have a good idea of the chakras, hopefully, we can immediately think about the people we want in our lives. Do we want people who live only using the lower three or do we want people who are balanced with all seven chakras activated?

When we choose a mate for marriage, what are the characteristics and behaviors we want to see in that person? If we are working with all seven chakras, hopefully, we choose a mate who is doing the same. Some people working with all seven choose a mate who is dealing with only the lower chakras and there is constant frustration. The two just are NOT in-tune.

I've known New Age people dealing with all seven chakras who decide to marry someone who is heavily into the root and sacral chakras and the New Age person has the idea he/she is going to "lift" them. The fact is, sometimes that lower chakra person is able to pull the other person down. That is a two-way street between lifting up and pulling down.

The problem I've seen in those marriages (which would have been okay if left at friendship) is that children were born and those kids lived in very chaotic homes.

People working with all seven chakras typically desire peaceful environments in which we can enjoy quiet music, lovely plants and flowers, expressive art, etc.

Experiments have been done in which loud modern songs (acid rock, negative rap, etc., were played in a room with plants and the plants tried to escape by turning their leaves away from the music. Some simply withered and died. Even plants are aware when life is chaotic.

As we really get to know the chakras, we can make better decisions about how to live our lives and how to create the best home environment for our peace and development.

Also, as we learn about the physical senses of the chakras, we can begin to think about the invisible senses we have, for example a sense of direction, sense of what clothing goes with what, how much "street" sense we have, if we have a sense of fair play and justice. There are many more of these invisible senses that we develop.

If you decide to work with gemstones, it is important to "clear" them of the vibrations already there. The clearer the stone is, the more powerful it is (and that is true for us as well – the more clear-minded we are, the more powerful our thoughts are).

To do a Moonlight clearing, simply place the stone outside during the full to the new moon (waning moons are the time for letting go; from new moon to full moon or waxing moon is when there is a buildup).

Another method is "Smudging" or covering them with burning cedar or sage. You hold the burning stick while passing the stone through the smoke and it may take a few times of doing this to totally clear the stone.

Other methods include burying the stone in a cup of dried herbs (like rose petals, sage, frankincense, myrrh, sandalwood); burying in the earth by placing it point down, then covering with soil and use a popsicle stick or other marker so you can find the stone; and the "Sacred Breath" which is blowing away any negativity as we hold the stone and ask the higher self to cleanse it.

One other method is to hold the stone under cool tap water, point facing down (don't use hot water, it may crack or break the gemstone).

Once you have cleansed your stone, the best thing to do is to wrap it in a small piece of silk and away from all other stones. We don't allow other people to pick up our stones unless they grab them while in the silk protective fabric and then place the stone along our backbone where the invisible chakra vortex is located.

You can buy a white silk scarf and cut it into pieces or a fabric store may have silk fabric. China silk is fine (it is usually the most inexpensive). You may want to buy fabric in each of the seven colors and place your stone in the chakra color it relates to.

I buy silk online and you can search engine "discount silk fabric" and find some resources.

When your gemstone is cleared, it is important to dedicate it. Hold the stone in your hand and feel its energy. Ask aloud (or pray) that the stone is blessed with the best energy for activating (or opening) and balancing the chakra it will be used for.

Once stones are cleared and dedicated, you can use them in the "laying on" activity. Each is placed along the spine and skull at the place the invisible chakra vortex is. Remember, the chakras are not seen by physical eyes, but they can be felt by someone in tune with chakras, since they give off energy.

Some Reiki healers use stones and you can take your own stones to a Reiki healer. If the person is a reputable Reiki healer, he or she has learned how to clear his or her stones of energy vibrations so that he/she can actually touch your stones in order to place them along your back.

Gemstones can be in any form, such as raw, tumbled, egg, beads, faceted. If seeking to move energy to a higher level, stones are placed with the point toward the skull. If one has enormous energy in the upper chakras and needs more balance in the lower ones, the points can be placed toward the feet.

If you prefer to use the stones while alone, you can lie on your back in a comfortable, quiet, and peaceful location, and place the stones along the front of the body instead of along the spine. You may choose to be nude or to wear something other than silk.

Before leaving this chapter, you should know it is possible to determine whether or not a chakra is open by using a pendulum, which can be colored, wood, or clear crystal (on a chain or cord).

Hold the pendulum above the area of the body where the chakra is. If it moves counter-clockwise it means there is blockage of the chakra or you have negative thoughts regarding what that chakra represents. If it moves clockwise, the chakra is open and well-balanced and full.

If the pendulum moves in an elliptical swing you are in tune with the chakra, but using too much male aggressive energy (if the swing covers a large area) or too much female nurturing energy (if the elliptical is tight and covering a small area).

If the pendulum moves in a very erratic swing, you are in the process of changing your thoughts about that chakra. You are in an upheaval.

If the pendulum does NOT move, it means you are totally blocked in that chakra and you need to do a lot of concentrated work (with color, sound, scents, gemstones, etc.) to open the chakra.

When all the chakras are active and balanced, we are able to complete projects, but we never take on more than we can handle. We are able to say "NO" when we do not want to do something. We are able to walk away from trouble. We can think ahead and consider ramifications of actions so that we don't put ourselves into situations that can become problems for us. We are loving, caring, and nurturing. We are honest and speak truth. We are open to ideas from our Higher Self and we don't judge where someone else is "along the path" and certainly don't put them down for that because we know we've already been there. We become excellent stewards of our money and all material possessions. I'm sure you can think of many more great qualities that are available to us as we get in tune with our chakras.

The Chakra system is holistsic or wholistic and all chakras are interrelated. If we work on one, it is important to also work on ALL the others.

The lower three chakras or triangle (root, sacral, and solar plexus) deal with elimination. The upper three (throat, 3rd eye, and crown) deal with accumulation. The 4th or heart chakra is the midpoint of these forces.

Some people enjoy studying the Kabala and there are lessons available online that connect the chakras to the Kabala (an ancient philosophy).

Also, there are three channels that exist between the root and crown chakras. Starting at the base of the spine, the Ida and Pingala energy paths move out from each side of the root chakra and go to the sacral chakra, where they switch sides and on to the solar plexus chakra where they switch sides again, following this same pattern to the crown chakra.

It is said that the proper use of the breath during yoga results in the marriage of Ida and Pingala and a deep calm (called sandhya) can be reached.

Ida holds the energy of the moon, receptiveness and emotional energy (we receive energies from around us and respond in an emotional manner) and Pingala embodies the energy of the sun, assertiveness and mental energy (we move out to think through a problem and reach a conclusion). Between these two runs the central line straight up the chakras and this energy is called Sushumna. In the lower triangle of chakras, it is more of a physical nature and once it is consciously worked with at the heart (midpoint) and then upper triangle of chakras, it is of an Aware™ or consciousness expansion place.

Hatha Yoga is all about balancing the Ida and Pingala. _Ha_ means sun and _Tha_ means moon. As we do this in asanas, we can eventually learn to move energy along the Sushumna (Kundalini Yoga specifically targets drawing the energy up the center channel from root to crown.

In many ancient and mythological stories, we have read or heard about snakes and dragons and the powers they held over people. Snakes and dragons are the symbol for the Kundalini "fire" energy that can be moved from root to crown chakra.

In the average person, the Kundalini energy is asleep at the root chakra. As it is raised and moves through the chakras above Muladhara (root), the chakras speed up and we are able to know and use the powers released. It is because of these powers, that we are very careful with raising Kundalini. There are classes offered in some cities in Kundalini yoga. If you decide to be in a class, be sure to check out the instructor and his/her sense of ethics and morals.

In the diagram above, you can think of the ida channel as blue and the pingala as red and the sushumna as red at the bottom and changing colors as it hits each chakra (orange to yellow to green to light blue to indigo blue to purple at the crown). You may want to print this page and color the channels for yourself. It has been proven in education that we learn best by the mere act of doing something physical (called "hands-on"-activities).

One more thing, if you are interested in the Mudras, you can type that word into a search engine in the category of images and see many examples of these rituals.

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# Chapter 3 – Chakras and Lights

Since we have five senses in the human body, we can easily connect our physical body to our chakras by using these. The first is sight and using colored lights can aid in this development.

Each Chakra is attuned to a certain frequency of light rays.

On eBay and in some New Age stores on the Internet, one may buy a small LED light bulb with remote that lets us change the color of light when we screw the bulb into a receptor. I bought my light bulb on eBay for just a few dollars and free shipping.

Here is a photo from one seller (who offers free shipping) and some bulbs have slightly different colors (you want one with the seven major colors of the rainbow, which are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet or purple).

If the illustration doesn't include all the colors, be sure to ask the seller a question to confirm that bulb and remote offer the colors you need for this work.

The light bulb(s) and remote come in various prices on eBay, so you can shop for what you can best afford. Because eBay is best known for auctions, you may find some bulbs available that way. However, eBay also features "stores" and you can do a "buy it now" for the bulb with a set price. Often you can note how many items are available in this specific eBay listing. Some "wins" or "buys" come with two bulbs instead of one and the second bulb could be saved for future use or even placed in a different lamp for mood lighting as you desire.

Once you receive your bulb and remote and screw in t he bulb, you can begin playing with the remote to determine all the possible ways it can activate the bulb. Mine can let the chakra colors move from red up to purple and then begin again or move from purple down to red and repeat that or hold one color or hold the color and then allow it to move to white. Since my remote didn't come with instructions, I just tried all the buttons to discover what they activate.

Here are photos of a couple of desklamp possibilities (I bought mine for $5 at a second-hand shop). You want a lamp that is adjustable or even fixed, but in which the bulb when screwed in) is parallel to the table surface instead of parallel to the wall (the latter would mean the light is focused on the ceiling and you want the light focused on you). Note in one photo there is a shade for the bulb and in the other, a regular bulb has been used (the LED bulb is much smaller than the old fashioned 60-watt light bulb).

The technique:

First, you want to decide if you'll work with all seven chakras in one sitting or with one chakra on one day and go through the seven charkas over a week's time (or some other schedule – you figure this out for yourself). I work with a different chakra each day, starting with the base or root or Muladhara chakra on Tuesdays. This chakra is red in color and Tuesday is Mars Day and the color for the day is red.

1. If you need to do so, set a time or alarm clock to notify you when the session is over.

2. Turn out all lights in the room so you are in darkness.

3. Find your comfortable way to sit. This may be in a chair or on the floor with legs out or crossed or in a yoga asana, such as full Lotus, etc. Try to NOT lie down, since it is so easy to fall asleep while doing this concentration work.

4. Press the remote to turn on the bulb and press a button to select the color of the chakra. The colors are (and we'll use the English word – you can learn the Sanskrit if you want to).

Root – red

Sacrum or Sacral – orange

Solar Plexus – yellow

Heart – green

Throat – lighter blue

3rd eye between the eyebrows – indigo or midnight blue

Crown at top of head – purple

5. Whichever chakra you are working with, receive the light and place your concentration at the location of that chakra. See it turning, perhaps slowly at first and then gaining in speed, or if you already know you have developed chakras, you may see it turning rapidly.

6. Open your mind to thoughts about the chakra. Concentrate on receiving the energy expressed by that chakra.

These energies are:

Root – our connection to Mother Earth, how grounded we are, and the assertive sex energy (male)

Sacrum – our connection to others, how dependent we are, how we relate on a personal level, the beginnings of a personal "love" we want from others so it can fulfill a need within; the receptive sex energy (female) – we want to avoid the idea that sex and love are the same thing

Solar Plexus – our connection to our own personality and ego; gaining confidence in the self so that we have healthy self-esteem; more ideals of personal love

Heart – our ability to love unconditionally, which means to accept traits about others and their right to be who they are, even if we do not agree that those traits are the best to have

Throat – our ability to speak truth and we want to pay attention to the tone of our voice so that we speak loudly enough for others to hear us, but we don't try to intimidate or yell at others and we don't become silent when we should speak

Third Eye – our ability to comprehend what we see with our physical eyes, to "see" where someone is coming from as they interact with us, to know the motivations of others

Crown – our ability to understand all phases of life, from the smallest to the largest, how things work, why they exist, how we can better use them, etc.

A later chapter goes into more detail on how to develop each chakra.

There are specific metaphysical skills that are also associated with the chakras and these are called siddhis. They are extra sensory perceptions (outside the senses of the physical body). By developing these siddhis, we increase our manifestation and creativity abilities.

Also, in ancient texts and pertinent for work in this Aquarian Age, we are warned to proceed with caution because to develop one or more of these skills before the individual is ready for the power associated with the siddhi (mature enough emotional to control oneself) can mean the person misuses the power and that can significantly retard one's awareness or consciousness or spiritual advancement.

Sometimes we learn by trying something we aren't ready for, but in the situation of siddhis, it is best to be careful. If you believe in reincarnation and karma, you can easily recognize the potential "re-payment of energy to balance a life in which there has been abuse f power" and the required "repeated life that could come from wrongly using a power." It is best to avoid such regressions.

As we open chakras, it is possible for us to be suddenly healed of past traumas and pains. This can free us to be more positive and to no longer be trapped in negative thinking.

As mentioned, there are exercises or concentration work we do in the physical body to open and clear the chakras. It is best to work on ONLY one chakra a day when a high level of intensity is in use.

Let's go through what each open chakra can bring to us and in a later chapter, after your sub-conscious and super-conscious minds have had time to digest the information you are reading, specific exercises will be explained. Always be cautious. Chakras hold enormous power.

**Root** – this is the center of vitality and physical energy and the ability to succeed in business and in acquiring material possessions. It is said that teleportation and levitation are possible and that these can be learned by opening this chakra. We learn to ground ourself to earth and unground from the physical plane. If this appeals to you, you may want to keyword "Hara Line" in your search engine. Also, an open root chakra brings us a strong sense of courage.

**Sacral or Sacrum** – gives us the ability to feel energy and this skill is known as psychometry. We can hold an object or even touch a person and immediately sense the energy surrounding that thing or person. Another word for this ability is clairsentience and you may have seen an example of it on television or in a movie in which a "psychic" touches a knife or gun and can tell police who pulled the trigger and why. When one learns to feel energies, we find they can be heavy or light, gentle or chaotic, smooth or abrasive, positive or negative. This talent can make us very sensitive to others and we can find when we near a person, we feel nauseated or shiver or want to immediately back away and escape. Or, we may feel very much at peace and that we are safe with that individual. Many times rape and assault victims tell police they had a "gut feeling" to not get in that elevator or walk alone to the car in the parking lot, etc., and they ignored their own second chakra energy trying to warn them of impending negative activity. Opening this chakra can help us to make better decisions in life. You may want to know that when this chakra is really open and working well, you may detect energies as they are revealed in colors or in white to darkness or in emotions that may be joyful all the way to sadness. The ability to "read the aura" or another person is gained with an open 2nd chakra and we typically see the aura in colors. Reminder: we are NOT seeing with our physical eyes. Instead, we are able to determine the wavelength with our higher sense. Most people who work with hands-on healing have this chakra open. One other ability that comes with a fully-opened second chakra is being able to see the past and the future of an individual.

**Solar Plexus** – is the center of personal power and it is yellow to represent it is this center for us (just as the sun is yellow at the center of our Solar System). As this chakra opens, we become more cognizant of our destiny and our personal talents that can be used to pursue and fulfill the destiny. This chakra is the center of CHI as you may know if you have studied martial arts. And if you read the Harry Potter books or watched the movies and noticed his cloak of invisibility, it is said that a fully open 3rd chakra will allow us to become invisible as necessary. Rather than actually disappearing, we may simply no longer be noticed by others. This could be very helpful if we are in a dangerous situation. I'll leave it to your imagination as to other situations in which you may want to be invisible.

**Heart** – is the center of unconditional love, empathy, and compassion. When it is fully open, we are able to communicate with plants, animals, and all of life, but we wouldn't use the words we speak from our mouth, since plants and animals don't speak that language. Instead, it is a feeling that we transfer. People with this chakra spinning will become interested in social causes and global problems. Very often political candidates will offer public relations and campaign slogans to make us think he/she is coming from this chakra, when, in truth, it is the 3rd chakra and power that is the motivation. When this chakra is fully open, we are able to discern the true motivations of others.

**Throat** – is where we develop the ability to be clairaudient or to hear information that is not being spoken to us out of the mouth of another person. We can hear what is happening in the invisible world. We can think of this as the "little birdie" flying around us or even as the angel on one shoulder and devil on the other, each trying to persuade us to a certain action. We become telepathic when this chakra is open. Also, while there can be a ringing in the physical ears that can be most disturbing, when the 5th chakra is fully open, we are able to hear a subtle continuous sound that is the energy of the Universe. It is this sound that can bring us inspirations for inventions or programs that can be of help to humanity.

**3** rd **Eye** – is where we find higher intuition. It is the door to our Higher Self. When fully open, we are able to read our past lives and thus to know WHY we are in a relationship with others and what karma with them needs balancing or paying. Here we gain ESP and clairvoyance or seeing the invisible world.

**Crown** – center is very special in that when it is open, we can move past the laws of nature and work directly with the Laws of the Universe. People with this chakra fully open can be called "miracle workers" and we may think of the saints in history who were able to evoke miracles. Often they were painted with halos to represent the crown chakra. At this point, nothing else will be explained about this chakra. If it becomes open, you will know all you need to know.

Instead of using the colored lights, some people prefer to use colored candles. Drishtis is the idea of focused gaze and as we gaze at the fire emanating from each candle (preferably one a day or no more than two a day), we concentrate on that chakra and what it means when it is open and balanced.

(Drishtis is also used in certain Yoga asanas or postures so that we concentrate on a specific part of the body during those moments).

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## Chapter 4 – Chakras and Sound

Just as light can influence us, so can sound. Instead of using the light or along with using it, we can add sound.

We may choose to use our voices to make the sounds for the chakras, or we may choose to use CDs or other media.

I do each of these, depending on my mood.

CDs have been produced especially for Chakra work and they typically use singing brass or crystal bowls or tuning forks.

There will be a bowl (singing bowls, for example) or a bell struck or rubbed that gives off the tone associated with specific Chakras. Tuning forks may be struck and the single end (not the fork end) placed against the skin of the body where the chakra energy lies. Tuning forks can be used by the individual, although some people use a singing bowl, rub it, and then concentrate on the chakra as the tone fades away.

I use a CD so that I don't have to use my hands to make tones. The CD is "Tibetan Singing Bowls: Journey Through the 7 Chakras" (music for deep meditation), which I bought on Amazon for $14.99 plus shipping (it also can be bought in MP3 format and each song can be purchased individually). I happen to love this CD. On the Internet at  http://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Singing-Bowls-Journey-through/dp/B00BJCAEFE/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_5 you can listen to samples of the various individual chakra tones as well as the mixed songs.

I like to use the CD so that I can sit in meditation. Some people enjoy creating the sounds themselves by using singing brass or crystal bowls or tuning forks.

On the CD I use most often, the first two "songs" play all Chakra tones slowly, so that all seven are represented. Then there is a "song" for each Chakra.

If you are concentrating on one Chakra each day, you may play only that tone for the period of time you are working with the Chakra.

Perhaps you want the colored light on while you listen to the Tone.

You may want to play the tone "song" and then while humming that same note you shut off the CD player, return to seated position, and hum the tone for awhile.

Whatever technique you use, eventually, you will feel the vibration of that tone in the area of the body where that specific chakra is located. Don't expect this to happen immediately if you are just started to do sound work with your chakras.

On the 7th day of chakra work each week, you may want to work with the Crown Chakra and then play the CD's song with the range of tones, if your CD has that. (The reason I purchased the Tibetan Bowls CD was so that I could have all chakra tones in one song – there are actually two songs, but I wanted to be sure there was a least one. And, of course, I wanted to have a song for each of the chakras.

We also can use the universal "OM", which is actually produced as three tones that are pronounced and held momentarily. These are A-U-M. This sound can be made as we concentrate on each chakra. It is often used at the beginning or end of a yoga session.

There are actual sounds that go with each chakra, if you prefer these:

**Root** – Lam

**Sacral** – Vam

**Solar Plexus** – Ram

**Heart** – Yam

**Throat** – Ham

**3** rd **Eye** – Om or AUM

**Crown** – that sound is not given out.

When you see the graphics for each chakra, the petals contain Sanskrit letters and there are people on the Internet who teach Sanskrit, if this is of interest to you.

Sound can help us relax. This is a chart of brain waves and when we slow the brain to Theta waves, we are opening ourselves to thoughts from the Divine.

There are YouTube videos that feature Solfeggios and the specific frequencies for each tone. You may want to listen to one with 528-529 frequency, which is the natural frequency of the earth body.

The frequencies are (and relate to the chakras):

Do – 396 Hertz for liberating guilt and fear (root chakra)

Re – 417 Hertz for undoing situations and facilitating change (sacral chakra)

Mi – 528 Hertz for transformation and DNA repair (solar plexus chakra)

Fa – 639 Hertz for connecting better to relationships and moving to universal love instead of jealous and possessive love and for transmuting lusts to love (heart chakra)

SOL – 741 Hertz for awakening intuition and better expressing oneself vocally as appropriate (throat chakra)

La – 852 Hertz for returning to spiritual order and developing intuition (3rd eye chakra)

Ti – 936 Hertz – connecting to the Supreme (crown chakra)

Perhaps you already are aware of the experiments in which metal plates have sand spread on them and then a sound is played and the sand forms specific patterns, which may construct in some order and beauty or may be chaotic. These experiments also have been done with water droplets. You can find more information on this by searching the Internet.

There are Mantra Seed Sounds that can be used. **OM** (with 3 tones of **A-U-M** ), of course is the best known. Others are:

**KRIM** (pronounced kreem) which stimulates the lower chakras and to begin purifying the body.

**SHRIM** (pronounced shreem) is for the 3rd Eye and Crown and also promotes bodily and spiritual health to bring beauty and happiness.

**HRIM** (pronounced hreem) holds powers of healing and creativity and is very helpful for opening and purifying the heart.

**HUM** (pronounced hoom) helps to break down negative feelings and to spread positivity and vitality through the body.

Loud unexpected sounds and screaming and yelling can be very chaotic to a human. If you are being screamed at by another, just tell them to stop and if they don't, you would be wise to be away from that person. On the other hand, if you are doing the screaming, it means you are emotionally upset because life isn't going your way, unless, of course, it is that emergency situation in which you are being attacked and in that case, screaming is acceptable. If you are simply screaming at people around you, screaming at your kids, or significant other, or employees, obviously they aren't listening to you. Try the opposite of speaking very softly and in a very soft voice talk to each individual to discover why the communication is so negative between you. Screaming as a necessity of communication means we are powerless.

Further, check the astrological natal charts – yours and the other persons. In Piscean Age Astrology, the planet Mercury is the ruler of communication and each person's Mercury will be in a "sign." in your chart and in the other person's chart. We are looking at the "sign" Mercury is in each chart.

In Piscean Age Astrology, the signs in counter-clockwise order are: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.

How do we count "signs" apart? Start with the sign your Mercury is in and count that as 1, then count in order moving either clockwise or counter-clockwise. You are looking for good communication when you count to the sign next to the one your Mercury is in. This would be a count of 1 (your Mercury) and then 2. We name this a semi-sextile and say these two signs are 30 degrees apart. More good communication is the 3rd sign (remember to start with your sign as 1, and the 3rd is 60 degrees and called a sextile), and the 5th sign (120 degrees called a trine).

Difficulty in communication will occur when you count to the 4th sign (90 degrees and called a "square), 6th sign (150 degrees and called an inconjunct), and 7th sign (180-degrees called an opposition). Remember, we are moving either clockwise or counter-clockwise from where your Mercury is located and from that spot to its opposite point is 180 degrees of an opposition.

If we were going in ONLY one direction, our whole circle would be 360-degrees, but to look at the two Mercuries (yours and the other person's), we need to move only as far as seven signs.

When our communication with each other is in square (90 degrees), inconjunct (150 degrees) or opposition (180 degrees), we are truly NOT on the same wavelength when talking to each other. The best way to fix this is to write instead of speak and hope the other person is able to comprehend the meaning of what we've written.

Here is an example of people who don't communicate well: Former President Bill Clinton has his natal Mercury at 7 degrees Leo 36 minutes. His wife, Former First Lady and Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has her natal Mercury at 21 degrees of Scorpio 24 minutes. If we start with Leo as 1, Virgo becomes 2, Libra becomes 3, and 4 is Scorpio, the signs are 90-degrees apart and we call this a square aspect. So, simply looking at the "signs" and not the individual degrees and minutes of the two people being compared, we could say these two have difficulties in communication. That has been confirmed over time by various friends of theirs as well as people who served in the White House during the Clinton administration. Friends and staff have discussed publicly the screaming arguments the couple had, especially with Hillary doing the loudest screaming (and we know Lions roar, so I think it is likely both have been very loud). The couple is still married, however, and we look at a lot of other planetary comparisons (as well as house locations of planets and other points) in a chart to see the full picture.

Some people can have loud vocal fights and still be compatible in other ways. However, it is better for the individuals to be compatible regarding communication since we do that the most often (hopefully, in the relationship).

We can see anxiety in many children when they are around a lot of loud vocal arguing, but they may be fine at a sport event when the screaming is expected.

A sense of calm is best for any esoteric work and really best for our health. Stress and anxiety causes heart attacks, not to mention weight gain.

Again, when there are problems with communication, you may want to write notes to leave around the house or business, so that you at least have something physical to use as proof that you made your thoughts known. Always date and time the notes.

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## Chapter 5 – Chakras and Smell

Incense or essential oils can be used for our concentration work. Most large stores carry incense or incense-scented candles. Health item stores often carry essential oils. I buy my essential oils online, since they are less expensive than the oils at the local health food store.

Here is a list of scents for the seven Chakras and a number of essential oils are listed, since among them you should be able to find one to use. Hopefully that one will become a favorite.

**Root** – earthy and musky scents; essential oils may include: Angelica Root, Black Pepper, Cedar wood, Cinnamon, Clove, Coriander, Cypress, Geranium, Ginger, Grapefruit, Juniper, Lemongrass, mandarin, Peppermint, Petit rain, Rosemary, Sandalwood, Vativer, and Ylang Ylang

**Sacrum** –essential oils may also be Bergamot, Cardamom, Clary Sage, Jasmine, Neroli, Orange, Patchouli, Rose, Sandalwood, Ylang Ylang

**Solar Plexus** – pungent such as Sage and Camphor; other essential oils are Frankincense, Myrrh, Oakmoss, Patchouli, Speck moral, Vativer

**Heart** – perfect sense is Rose and other essential oils would be Bergamot, Cypress, Geranium, Jasmine, Lavender, Lemon, Mandarin, Melisa, Neroli, Orange, Rose, Sandalwood, Tangerine, Ylang Ylang

**Throat** – Mint or Frankincense and other essential oils would be Basil, Bergamot, Chamomile, Cypress, Peppermint, and Spearmint

**3** rd **eye –** all aromas and essential oils may be Angelica Root, By Laurel, Clary Sage, Cypress, Elemi, Frankincense, German Chamomile, Juniper, Marjoram, Patchouli, Rosemary, Sandalwood, Tansy, Yarrow, Vativer

**Crown** – all aromas and essential oils may be Cedar wood, Elemi, Frankincense, Galbanum, Jasmine, lavender, Neroli, Rose, Rose wood, Sandalwood, Speck moral, Vativer

Since I prefer to use more than one scent while doing chakra concentrations, I either burn incense for that day's specific work OR I place a drop of essential oil on a cotton wristband so that I can lift my arm and smell the scent during my meditation. Because of the potency of essential oils it is better to NOT place a drop directly on the skin and there is more info on this in Chapter 14 on Aromatherapy.

There are plastic droppers called pipettes, which can be bought for a few cents each, maybe a dime or 10 for a dollar, etc., and these can be used to draw a drop of oil from the bottle.

I buy my oils and plastic pipettes (and I buy small amounts at a time so they can be used up before losing potency) from http://www.bulkapothecary.com.

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## Chapter 6 – Chakras and Taste

It is best to NOT do chakra work on a full stomach, since one's body is working at digestion during that time.

Determine the time of day you intend to do chakra focusing and eat something light at least a full hour before hand.

This is probably a good place to mention how important it is for us to do "Clean Eating," which is ingesting ONLY what is healthy for us. We can pay attention to the pH of foods, so that we do NOT eat a lot of acidic foods (causing inflammation in the body) and we do try to keep our pH balance about 6.9 to 7.1 (7.0 is the midpoint between acid and alkaline on the pH scale).

You alone should choose whether or not you are vegetarian, vegan, or a meat eater and, again, it is important for you to know WHY you choose one style over another.

We need glucose for our brains and, therefore, some sugar is fine. We don't want to overdo it, however, since too much sugar can lead to insulin resistance and to diabetes.

We do need our balance of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Fats are absolutely necessary since our hormones are produced from fats, but we want good ones, such as from eating avocados, using olive oil, etc. There are plenty of books and Internet information on this topic.

When we eat with balanced nutrition each day, we want to know how many grams of food we ingest. A gram is small. Following is a graphic of a single gram of gold against a U.S. quarter. When I taught school we had little green cubes to represent grams and these were very small.

Since heating at certain temperatures destroys nutrients (vitamins and minerals), it is best to include raw foods in the diet. And note that some raw foods may seem to be acidic, like the tomato, yet when digested, it is actually alkaline.

Some people eat ONLY raw and others eat both raw and cooked. Your diet is up to you.

It is important to hydrate enough daily and that means drinking water. Tap water carries within it the residual effects of drugs people have taken and have eliminated (urinated). These can be prescription drugs, including steroids.

Some filtering methods can get rid of these medicines and we are all better off not drinking tap water that has them.

Instead of filtered water, some of us choose to drink distilled water and others choose spring water. Whichever you choose, you should have a reason for that.

Foods contain vitamins and minerals and we need certain ones each day in specific amounts. These are usually either specified in milligrams (1,000 of a gram; think of that previous graphic showing the 1-gram piece of gold against the quarter and picture it in a thousand pieces) or micrograms (μg and that funny looking u is actually the Greek letter mu) A microgram is one millionth of a gram, so we need to ingest only a tiny, tiny amount of some vitamins and minerals daily.

Whether to take supplements is up to you. Some of us prefer to gain vitamins and minerals from the food we eat.

If you want to know a lot more about the chemistry of food, there are various free courses on the Internet these days that cover this topic. As I write this book, I'm taking Food for Thought (chemistry of food) from McGill University in Toronto, Canada and I'm in Ferris, Texas, USA, taking this course FREE online through Edx.org. One student in the course mentioned she has taken a similar course from Harvard.

There is no excuse for not learning more about our foods, if one can afford Internet connection or has the transportation available to go to the public library.

One more thought about food and crops – Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs is a hot topic these days. Some crops are a result of one food being genetically inserted into another food (and this has happened naturally in the history of this planet as well as some plant to plant engineering has been manmade – I think the Romans took cabbage and created broccoli, although that food was available only in Italy for the next 1900 years and has only been introduced to the American palate in about the past hundred years).

Some GMO foods, however are not about changing the DNA with ONLY crops or seeds. Some large chemical companies modify seeds so the crops are resistant to pesticides. That way, a farmer can spray the entire field and only the weeds die – the crop doesn't die.

Some of us choose to not eat GMO foods of any sort and others reject only the latter type of GMO foods.

Also, to avoid pesticides, herbicides, and GMO, we can pay more at the grocery store or market and buy certified organic food, or perhaps find a small farm nearby that raises food organically but hasn't gone through the certification process, which is expensive (a future book will be on the topic of organic food).

We may even choose to grow our own crops.

What does all this have to do with chakra development? It should be obvious. If the physical body is a mess from not eating well, we won't be able to easily concentrate on our chakra work.

During chakra work, we may want to drink an ounce of a fruit juice that is the color of the chakra and/or eat a bit of fruit.

For example, on Tuesday, working with root chakra which is connected to the color red, we may want to eat a bit of a strawberry while we are in concentration mode of 10 minutes, half hour, hour, whatever your schedule. Eating helps us to think even more about our physical body than simply working with the senses of sight, sound, and smell.

Rather than eating during concentration time, we may choose to eat the associated food/drink before or after.

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## Chapter 7 – Chakras and Touch

How we sit for concentration relates to touch. Which body parts are touching other parts, such as an awareness of crossed lets or sitting in a chair and our bottom touches the wood or fabric of the chair.

What we wear during concentration also is a matter of touch. Some people like to do chakra work in the nude and others wear sweats or silks. The point is to be comfortable enough so that we can concentrate and our mind is not constantly drawn to whether or not our clothes are too tight, etc.

We can choose to wear clothes that relate to the color of the chakra upon which we are concentrating. Or, we may want to sit on a towel or a rug that is of the color.

We can design our area for chakra work in a way that best fits our desires. If items are purchased, we want to be sure to write those expenses in our journal.

At the end of the project, we can add up our purchases and have an idea of how much money we spent on this project. Whatever it is, it will be well worth the cost. However, by allocating in writing the dollar and cents amount, we are making sure to respect our reasoning and mental left brain lobe.

Some people choose for the room to be balanced in the Feng Shui style and others like to have a small closet type of area, with walls painted white or black and that location is used only for concentration and spiritual development work.

We are in a physical body and therefore, it is important to give at least some thought to how we set up our location for chakra work.

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## Chapter 8 – Opening the Chakras

In this chapter, we will discuss specifically how to open the chakras. This book has been heavily weighted toward chakra information, since it is through having chakras that are spinning and open that we become more aware. Much information has been dispersed throughout the book. I suggest if you are really interested in developing your awareness and opening your chakras, you may want to create a document (on computer or by hand) in which a spreadsheet or table is designed to include all the info in abbreviated form. Columns might be labeled: chakra, color, sound, ability, how to open, etc. with the details about each chakra added. Whether you do this is entirely up to you. You may have comprehended and absorbed all the information as it was presented in the various chapters and, therefore, don't need a summary document.

After deciding on which chakra we will develop in this time period, we dress for the session and then we set up our work area. This means we place our towel or rug, turn on the colored light, light our incense or prepare the wristband with essential oil, turn on our CD or pull close to us the tuning fork or singing bowl, have our tiny piece of food and/or beverage nearby.

Once we are dressed and our area is set, we want to sit down and relax and close our eyes. We relax our body. This is similar to entering a trance. We use our favorite technique for entering a meditative state. If you don't already meditate, you may want to use the method of counting down from 30 to 0 or from 0 to 30 (or some other number – whatever gets you into the relaxed and meditative state).

Next (when we are in meditative or trance) comes visualization – remember eyes are closed and minds are blank – we imagine a white light above the head (crown chakra) and the light gets bigger and bigger (expands). Imagine this white light moving into the crown chakra which is violet or purple. Try to see it, feel it, feel the energy pulsating (the more in tune we get with the light, the stronger it becomes for us).

Once we have vitalized the crown chakra, we move the light to the 3rd eye chakra and on down the body to that chakra with which we will work for this session. Hopefully, over the week's time, we concentrate on each chakra so that we don't get out of balance.

Next are the specific methods for opening EACH chakra:

Root Chakra

As you already read, the physical sense that is tied to the root chakra is the sense of smell. Therefore, the easiest way to open the root chakra is by concentrating on the tip of the nose. The root chakra is related to the earth element, which is directly connected to the sense of smell.

In this session we will do nasikagra drishti, which is simply the practice of nose-tip gazing. As we do this we stimulate the root chakra.

Sit in any posture which applies pressure in the region of the root chakra. Close the eyes and relax the whole body. Inhale deeply, hold the breath and contract the muscles at the root chakra region. Draw the muscles upwards as much as you are able without excessive strain and try to not act on the urinary musculature in front.

Stay relaxed and keep your attention fixed on the exact points of contraction at the tip of the nose and in the root muscles, maintaining this as long as possible. When you can't hold it any longer, release and breathe. This lock is called the Mula Bandha. By the way, it can be used anytime we are in a negative situation and need to feel powerful.

If you are working with only one chakra for the entire day, repeat this throughout the session. If you are working with all the chakras during the day, practice this one.

It is important to visualize the chakras speeding up and becoming more energized.

_Sacrum or Sacral Chakra_

_There is a specific technique for men and a different one for women._

_Vajroli mudra (for men)_

Sit comfortably in posture such as lotus or padmasana, preferably with a thin cushion or a folded blanket beneath the buttocks.

Close the eyes and relax.

Try to draw the sexual organ upward by pulling and tensing the lower abdomen and contracting the urinary system. With t his contraction, you should feel the same way you do when trying to control the need to urinate. Try to NOT perform mula bandha (lock of root muscles) or ashwini mudra (rhythmic contraction of root muscles) at the same time.

Contract for 10 seconds, release for ю seconds and continue this alternately. Concentrate on the sacral chakra, its orange color, the image of it if you can remember the graphic from a previous chapter.

Continue for a few minutes.

_Sahajoli (for women_

Sit comfortably in posture, preferably with a thin cushion or folded blanket beneath the buttocks. Make sure your foot is perfectly clean before you place the heel inside the vaginal entrance. Close your eyes and relax.

Contract the muscles of the vagina and then relax them several times in succession and then gradually increase the contraction until it becomes more intense and deep.

Hold the contraction for 10 seconds, release for 10 seconds and continue like this while concentrating on the sacral chakra, the orange color, and the design or image if you can remember the graphic from a previous chapter.

Continue for a few minutes.

Solar Plexus Chakra

Here we will work with contracting the abdomen and this stimulates the small and large intestines as well as affects the liver, gallbladder, spleen, pancreas, and stomach.

Sit in a meditative posture in which the back is straight and we sit back on our heels, or our legs butterfly out to the sides so that knees touch the floor. If this isn't possible, then sit with legs straight out in front.

Place the palms on the knees, close the eyes, and relax the whole body. Exhale completely.

Drop the chin to the sternum and then contract the abdominal muscles as far as possible inward and upward. This is a kind of sucking action of the muscles

Hold this lock for as long as the breath can be retained outside.

Concentrate on the 3rd chakra, visualizing the yellow color and, if possible, the image as presented in a previous chapter.

Slowly relax the stomach muscles and then lift the head to normal and inhale.

Once you breathe normally for a few moments, repeat the process.

Practice a few rounds and gradually increase until you can do 10 of these concentrations without strain.

Heart Chakra

The Anahata chakra can be awakened very simply through the practice of what is called ajapa japa. Japa means "repetition" and ajapa is the repetition of a mantra. In this mantra, we inhale with the sound of SO and exhale with the sound of HAM.

Sit in posture in which you will be totally comfortable.

Close your eyes and relax for a few minutes

Become aware of your natural breath as it enters and leaves the body. Do NOT try to control the breath. Instead, we just want to be aware of our natural breathing.

Now we begin to listen to the sound of the inhale and the sound of the exhale. Are they the same? They should sound like the SO on inhale and the HAM on exhale.

If this is what you hear, fine. If not, imagine you are hearing the so-ham, so-ham as you breathe.

This practice requires that we are totally relaxed. Thoughts and feelings may arise, but let them go. It is extremely important that we stay with our awareness of the so-ham breath.

The next step is to imagine the breath flowing along the front of the body between the throat and the naval and then naval and the throat.

As the flow moves from naval to throat, we think of the sound so and as the flow moves from throat to naval, we think of the sound ham.

We concentrate on this so-ham "psychic" breath between throat and naval.

Continue this practice for ю or 15 minutes more while staying totally relaxed.

Try to be aware of the so-ham breathing every day for at least five minutes. You may want to do a heart chakra concentration while lying in bed just before you go to sleep.

Throat Chakra

We already learned what the jalandhara bandha is. It is the chin lock in which we sit with the back straight and the chin resting on the sternum. We will use this lock in our first method of throat charka opening.

Also, remember during heart chakra work to visualize the color green and the image of the chakra with its petals as speeding up.

**Method 1**

Sit in any meditative pose which allows the knees to firmly touch the floor (typically we sit back on heels or we sit with legs butterfly outward or, if we can't do those postures, we sit with legs straight out).

Place the palms of the hands on the knees.

Close the eyes and relax the whole body. Inhale deeply and retain the breath inside while bending the head forward. We press the chin tightly against the chest (particularly the sternum).

Straighten the arms and lock them into position. Simultaneously hunch the shoulders upward and forward – this will ensure that the elbows remain locked. The palms should remain on the knees.

Stay in the final pose for as long as you are comfortably able to retain the breath.

Then relax the shoulders, bend the arms, slowly release the lock, raise the head and exhale. Repeat when the respiration returns to normal

Practice this 5 times

If you can, do the practice with the breath on an exhalation and be aware that the jalandhara bandha is stimulating the throat chakra.

Never inhale or exhale until the chin lock has been released and the head is upright

If you have high blood pressure and/or a heart ailment, please do NOT practice this method.

_Method 2: Khechari mudra_

Sit straight with the head up.

Close the mouth and roll the tongue backward so that the normally lower surface touches the upper palate. Try to bring the tip of the tongue as far back as possible without strain.

Keep it there for as long as it is comfortable (if you experience any discomfort, relax the tongue for a few seconds and repeat – sometimes this technique takes time and practice for us to be able to do it comfortably).

After practicing this awhile, you may be one of the people who can extend the tip of the tongue beyond the palate and up into the nasopharynx, where it will stimulate many vital nerve centers.

With the tongue back, breathe normally or you may use ujjayi breathing if you have practiced that in yoga.

Over a period of a few months, you can reduce the breathing rate to 7 or 8 breaths per minute. Some yogis are able to reduce the breath to an even slower rate. Also, some yogis choose to have the frenulum membrane beneath the tongue cut. I am NOT recommending this in the ebook.

_Method 3 | Ujjayi pranayama_

While doing the Khechari mudra with the tongue extended back, contract the glottis in the throat

When you breathe like this (or even without the tongue extended and just the throat contracted), you should hear a soft snoring type of sound, almost like the sound of a sleeping baby. You can definitely hear the breath.

You are inhaling and exhaling through the throat and not through the nose.

Try to make the breaths long and relaxed.

Start by practicing for only two (2) minutes and then you can gradually extend the time

Of course, the concentration is on the throat chakra color of light blue and try to visualize the vortex of energy at the throat and see it speed up.

You choose which method is most comfortable and use that or you may alternate methods as you wish.

**3** rd **Eye Chakra**

**The 3** **rd** **Eye chakra development uses a technique called Trataka, which is fixed gazing on one point. This helps us concentrate.**

The point between the eyebrows is called bhrumadhya. You've probably seen photos of women in India who have placed a red dot on this spot.

There are various methods for working with this center. We will discuss Trataka and when we do this consistently in our practice, we both cleanse the 3rd Eye as well as learn to concentrate better.

Sit in a comfortable meditative asana, in a dark room in which there is no draught or breeze. Place a lighted candle about two (2) feet away and directly in front of the eyes and at eye level. The wick should be straight and the flame should not be moving (the reason for no draughts or breezes in the room).

Straighten the spine, close the eyes and relax the body so that is becomes totally still. Try to be motionless throughout the practice.

Once you are totally relaxed, open your eyes and gaze intently at the brightest part of the flame, just above the tip of the wick.

With practice you should be able to gaze at the flame for a few minutes, without blinking or moving the eyeballs

Continue to gaze at the flame with total concentration so that your awareness or consciousness is centered in that flame. You should be UNAWARE of the physical body.

Hold the gaze until the eyes become tired, which may happen in a few minutes (or they may begin to water).

Close and relax the eyes, but don't move around. You may see the after-image of the flame.

When the after-image of the flame totally disappears, open the eyes and repeat the concentrated gaze. Repeat the closing and relaxing and seeing the after-image.

You can build up the time spent using this method until you are able to sit for about 15 to 20 minutes gazing at the candle.

**Other forms of Trataka**

Trataka can be practiced on a small dot, the full moon, a shadow, a crystal ball, the tip of the nose, an image in water, etc. It also can be practiced on the rising sun, one's own image in the mirror, or the eyes of another person. These should, however, be done under the guidance of a guru, as there are certain risks involved.

Once you have practiced on the external candle flame, and have grown proficient at that, you can then move your concentration to the deep blue image of the chakra and concentrate on its speeding up.

Trataka also can benefit eye weaknesses. Mentally, it helps us to become more stable in our thinking and less nervous.

Crown Chakra

_For the crown chakra we will be doing the humming breath, which is known as_ _Bhramari pranayama._

Sit in a comfortable meditative pose and become totally relaxed. Stay like this for a few minutes.

Place the index fingers into the ears while facing forward and sitting as straight as possible.

Close the eyes and relax.

Keep the teeth slightly separated and keep the mouth closed for the entire practice, which allows the vibration to be more distinct in the brain.

Breathe deeply and slowly a few times.

Exhale while producing a humming sound that is soft, smooth, and continuous for the entire exhalation. The exhalation should be controlled.

You should hear the sound reverberating within your head.

When all the breath is exhaled, stop humming and inhale.

Keep the eyes closed and the ears plugged with the fingers.

Try to repeat this for five (5) minutes.

Once you can do Bhramari pranayama for five (5) minutes, you can proceed to:

_Perception of subtle inner sound_

Here, instead of making the sound, we listen attentively to the inner sound.

Keep your eyes closed and your fingers in your ears and just listen. At first you may hear nothing, but with time, you will hear the soft subtle inner sound.

As soon as you become aware of any sound, try to concentrate on it to the exclusion of all other sounds.

Continue listening. After days or weeks of practice, you should find that one sound is very distinct, and it will become louder and louder. Be totally aware of that sound. This is your vehicle of awareness. Let your consciousness flow towards the sound, ignoring all other sounds and thoughts.

Gradually, through practice, your sensitivity will increase.

Now we are ready to perceive even more faint sounds.

At first the original sound will be strong and we must listen very carefully to the new faint sound. As we do so, it becomes stronger and we can let go of the original strong sound.

We repeat this and listen for more and more faint sounds. Our perception becomes more and more sensitive.

Remember to also visualize the violet or purple color of the thousand-petal crown chakra and to see it spinning faster and faster as we listen to the faint sounds. We will get more and more deeply in touch with ourselves as we connect to the Universe and are able to channel information that can be of benefit to others.

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## Chapter 9 – Yoga

The word "yoga" brings to mind Hatha Yoga to most Americans. Hatha Yoga is asanas (pronounced with emphasis on the first two letters as ASanas (with the ahhhhh sound) and NOT a-SAN-as. The idea is that the various postures stimulate organs in the body to help remove toxins AND Hatha yoga helps to prepare the body for other branches of yoga.

There are other "branches" of Yoga besides Hatha, which (again) focuses on postures and form of the physical body. These others include: Bahkti (devotion – heart chakra), Raja (mental concentration and meditation – 3rd eye Chakra), Laya (path of the will and the warrior), Karma (selfless work, like volunteering to help others), Jnana (wisdom – page of the sage or scholar and considered the most difficult), Agni (fire concentration), Tantra (consecrated or made sacred ritual and this includes sacred sexuality), Kundalini (raising the energy from the base of the spine to the crown).

In the Patanajili Yoga Sutra, there are limbs or stages of ethical standards: These are:

Yama (self-discipline), Niyama (posture or asana); Pranayama (breath control), Pratyahara (sensory withdrawal) dharana (concentration), dhyana (also meditation) and Samadhi (ecstasy or final liberation).

For more information on the various other types, you can use your search engine to locate articles on the Internet. All yogas are excellent to practice and can have a positive effect on the individual practicing them.

There are a variety of styles of Hatha Yoga and devotees often develop and promote their own style. An excellent list of the various styles of Hatha Yoga can be found at <http://www.yogajournal.com/basics/165>

For this book, however, we will discuss Hatha Yoga, since the physical body yoga is the type most Americans practice and if one can't move the mind past the physical body, it is difficult to obtain awareness.

Before saying anything else about yoga, please know this: if you practice yoga, whether alone or in a class, you may at one or more points of time cry. Tears may just flow and you may even feel like weeping. Please don't be concerned about this and don't think there is something wrong with you.

If you are seeking more awareness, a chakra may be stimulated that brings up an emotion. You may NOT consciously know what the emotion is or what memory it connects to. We don't have to consciously identify. We just experience the moment and know that something good is happening with us. This won't happen to everyone who is practicing Hatha Yoga. It happens to those people who are seeking more spiritual awareness, i.e., seeking to open the chakras and to develop the skills that have been hidden from us because our chakras were slow moving.

Some people enjoy doing yoga asanas and concentrating on a chakra as we stay in posture for a little bit of time. It may be easier to concentrate on the chakras when we are at home using one or more of the tools mentioned in previous chapters (lights, incense or essential oils, sound, etc.).

When we are in class with others, we may not be able to use these tools. I do my strongest concentration work at home using lights, sound, essential oils/incense, and paying attention to my food and close environment (clothing, etc.) during this time. However, I go to a fitness club for yoga four days a week and there I use what are called chakra stones to help me concentrate on the chakra for that day.

Since I go four days there, I sometimes use two stones that represent opposite chakras. For example, on Tuesdays, I use the root and the crown stones and go back and forth with my concentration during asanas.

Some weeks at the club, I use only one stone, such as root on Tuesday, because I know I'll make time to do yoga at home the other three days and can do crown on Sunday.

The following photo is of chakra stones and they usually come in two sizes – about the size of a nickel (U.S money) and about the size of a quarter. I bought my set on eBay and think it was about $8 plus shipping, something like that. The colors of two of these stones are not correct. The black one should be red for the root chakra and the one that is red should be orange (the moon is at the bottom).The remaining colors are the correct correspondences to the chakras.

The set I bought (and colors are a bit different from the graphic) came in a black velvet bag and the seller also included a couple of other stones, one crystal, one rose quartz.

Since we are talking about the physical body, we should mention the technique of working with another person so that we heat the chakra stones and we lie down on our tummy and the other person places the stones along our backbone one at a time (we concentrate on that chakra) and finally all seven are placed. To my knowledge the Spas who provide heated stones as a form of bodywork have not yet used chakra stones, but that will be done in the future as more people get in tune with chakra development. (This technique was mentioned in the chapter on chakras, but we discussed gemstones rather than chakra stones)

By the way, at the time of this writing, we sell only astrological reports and items and not items mentioned herein. We may in the future sell items mentioned in this book in order to be sure our readers can find them. You are welcome to check Our Store at htttp://AquarianAgeAstrology.com to check our catalog.

Among my favorite books on yoga are all of those written by Ray Long and available at <http://www.bandhayoga.com/> (and be sure to check out his 3-D asana viewer, which shows precise and correct form). Another very favorite book is _Anatomy of Hatha Yoga_ by H. David Coulter, which goes into enormous detail on how the physical body relates to the specific asanas. I have read dozens more and still have all of them, but the ones mentioned are my favorites.

When I began yoga in 1979 in Houston, Texas, there were very few resources. I remember there being only one book available ( _Heaven Lies within Us_ by Theos Bernard) and certainly the Chakra stones were not on anyone's shelf, at least not in Houston (and we didn't have the Internet to easily find items from around the world).

We did have a wonderful bookstore in Houston, Aquarian Age Bookstore near Rice University, but they primarily carried books and audio tapes. Two sisters, Lucille Brixey and Virginia Gray, owned and operated the bookstore and Virginia's son is Dr. John Gray, who wrote the book _Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus._

My first yoga teacher was Billie Golnick, who had studied in India and had been named Gargi for a famous person in that country. Billie established the first yoga studio in the southwest United States and I'm so honored that I was able to study with her. She is no longer in Houston but at the time of this writing, teaches classes in a small town named Bertram, Texas.

I also took yoga lessons from Lex Gillem in Houston and The Yoga Institute is still in operation there. Lex brought in "gurus" for lectures on our spiritual development. Here he is pictured (on the left) with Ram Dass, who spoke to us

Back then, yoga was seen as a way to spiritual enlightenment and consciousness expansion. It has since become more of a fitness or exercise program.

At the time of this writing, I am enjoying Power Yoga classes with Sarah Pruitt at Get Fit Ellis County, a fitness studio in Waxahachie, Texas. Sarah is a great instructor and it is especially wonderful to be in class with "regulars" as well as the students from Navarro College.

What do you need to practice yoga?

A **mat** and **space** inside or outside. Regarding the mat, a natural rubber (green mat) or natural jute (middle photo) or cotton quilted one is better than the ones made from plastics, which some people believe to be carcinogenic.

Other items may include:

A **yoga mat bag** can be purchased, or you may prefer a **mat strap** sold to hold the mat in a wrapped position for carrying.

If you are practicing hot or Power Yoga or any type in which you are sweating, you'll need a **towel** and the microfiber towels are really nice to use.

Be sure to have **water** available so that you stay hydrated. Since plastic water bottles leach toxins, an aluminum or stainless steel or glass container is best. I bought my red aluminum bottle at Dollar Tree in Waxahachie for $1.00, but you can certainly pay a lot more than that at another store, if you wish.

**Yoga blocks** are helpful for using as supports in some asanas: The blocks pictured are thicker than some thinner ones that are available. Also a graphic of some block uses is shown.

In addition to using blocks for some asanas, there are times you may want to use a **yoga strap** (these also can be used in Pilates).

**Eye Bags** are to cover the eyes when in the final yoga position of lying relaxed in Savasana (also known as Corpse Pose). If possible, it is best to use a silk eye bag, but some are made of cotton and other fabrics and, if you don't have an eye bag, just use a towel.

I bought a bag of flax seed from Ann's Health Food Store in Waxahachie and placed some of the seeds into a clear sandwich bag and then rolled that up in a violet silk scarf and I use it every day in yoga for Savasana (Corpse pose). At some point, I plan to make a silk eye bag for each chakra and will paint the graphic for the chakra on the bag. That means I will have seven eye bags.

Individuals who study in an Iyengar studio (featuring the techniques of B.K.S. Iyengar, one of the world's greatest Yogis and one of the first people to bring Yoga to America) are familiar with many more tools for the body. These include sticky mats, blankets, belts, blocks, chairs, benches, wall ropes, sandbags, and other objects that help students experience the various yoga poses more profoundly.

Iyengar's book Light on Yoga is still very popular and it is amazing to see how flexible his body is. The Concise Light on Yoga is a paperback with 150 illustrations of the various asanas and is well worth studying.

That said, you can find lots of yoga books and DVDs on the Internet. I especially like the DVDs from White Lotus (Santa Barbara, CA) featuring Ganga White and Tracey Rich. The website is http://www.whitelotus.org/index.html.

Also, there are many yoga studios that offer teacher training. In order for students to be certified as teachers, these studios often offer free classes led by the fledgling instructor. I attended classes like this at YogaNation in Ennis, TX and LOVED the work we did with Yin Yoga. Yin is slow and deals with the lower half of the body. We stayed in a posture for about five minutes. Yin is the opposite of classes like Power Yoga in which we move fast. These classes are very yang.

I'm sure you are familiar with the graphic for yin and yang energy. Here is an image that shows the times related to the active (yang) and passive (yin) energies.

When yoga classes began to be offered in America, not all the teachers had officially trained and been certified. There are still teachers who did not go through a formal training program of 200 hours or 500 hours, etc., yet they are excellent instructors.

Because of the popularity of yoga, most teachers do finish a program and earn a certificate. Hot Yoga is very popular now, especially among men, since one sweats enormously in the room that is held at over 100 degrees F. Power Yoga is another very popular style. There are articles on the Internet that describe in detail the various styles and even offer locations of studios that feature one or more of those.

Yoga for me (1979) started in a room with normal temperature and the asanas were done slowly with the Sanskrit names given as well as the English names. Some asanas now popular did not come from ancient India. In Houston, we did Cobra and I had never heard of Upward Facing Dog until classes in Waxahachie, July, 2013.

However you choose to do your yoga asanas, just know they are helpful in developing flexibility in the body while eliminating toxicity and they aid in opening the chakras.

Note that you may have to search for a yoga studio in which spiritual development is important. In some studios chakras are never mentioned and the whole purpose of yoga is for physical body development, such as greater flexibility and better physical health. I am so thankful that the classes I had in Houston included a focus on spiritual development.

If you choose to do yoga in order to expand your consciousness or awareness, just remember THE MOST IMPORTANT CONCEPT is to do what you can and don't be intimidated by those who can do contortionist type of asanas. The point of yoga is to have both positive effects on the physical body AND to learn to blank or free the mind during practice so that we are "here" and not someplace else in our thinking. Yoga is a peaceful practice.

Before ending this chapter, let me add something about an individual I know. This person devotes two hours a day to his yoga practice. Unfortunately, he really doesn't have a sense of the purpose of Hatha Yoga and doesn't seem to want to move on to the more spiritual levels. If he is doing his yoga (and there is no set schedule so others are never sure when this will be happening) and someone interrupts him, he gets very upset. This means, he doesn't get what yoga is.

The purpose of yoga is to be able to move into a less stressed out existence and to be able to accept others without getting mad. Maybe at some point in time he will "get" yoga and his own behavior will change. Yoga helps us recognize we are NOT simply a physical body. We are more than that and we are wholistic or holistic.

In Hatha Yoga, there are specific asanas for opening the chakras:

Root – earth element - grounding poses, such as the standing ones with bare feet on the ground and one stands in a centered posture, even if hands are to the sky. Also, the Crow Pose is considered to be helpful to eliminate fear. Grounding poses include: Mountain, Bridge, Sun Salutations, Hero, Hindi or Yoga Squat, Seated Forward fold, Cobbler, Child, Chair, Cow Face, Staff, Boat, Wind Release, Splits, and Swan.

Sacral – water element - hip opening and "bound" poses like lotus seated posture and Frog and other squatting poses. Yoga asanas include fish, wide leg forward folds, Cobbler, Chair, Reverse Table, Cobra, Warrior II, Cat, Scales, and Bow.

Solar Plexus – fire element - warrior poses and backbending ones and stretching poses such as Boat. These postures demand that we use strength of will and they work on ego balancing. Others are Twists, Lateral bends, Triangle, Warrior I and II, Downward Dog, Plank, Camel, Pyramid, Wheel, and Bow.

Heart – the air element - backbending and any pose that opens the heart, such as the twisting poses. Camel is especially appropriate. Asanas may include heart openers, lateral bends, back bends, Triangle, Crescent Warrior, Downward Dog, Dolphin, Upward Plank, Chest expansion, Wheel, and Bow.

Throat – the ether element - forward bending poses and Cobra as well as Upward Facing Dog and breathing pranayama (Ujjayi breath can become very powerful when we use that with our asanas). Asanas may include Neck postures, forward bends, back bends, Shoulder Stand, Reverse Table, Fish, Upward Plank, Camel, Downward Dog, bridge or wheel, Plow, Rabbit and it is helpful to also do chants and Mantras.

Pranayama in yoga is a subject unto itself and is only mentioned here.

3rd Eye and Crown – pranayama breathing and meditation during asanas, especially those in which we are not concentrating on other chakras; Guru Pranam is also very useful. We sit on the heels and bring the torso over the thighs and place the forehead on the ground, then extend the hands in front on the ground in prayer. This is similar to Child's Pose, although technically in Child's Pose our arms are by the body and not extended in front.

A Crown asana is Sat Kriya in which we sit on the heels and stretch our arms over the head (elbows straight and hugging the ears). Interlace the fingers except for index fingers which we extend. Men cross the right thumb over the left and women cross the left thumb over the right. During this asana, one chants "Sat Nam" and during the Sat, the naval is pulled in, and during the Nam, the naval is released. The energy is drawn up the spine and eyes are kept closed. This asana is to be done for three (3) to 31 minutes.

Other 3rd Eye asanas include balances (Tree, Eagle), Child, Head to Knee, Inversions, Seated Wide Leg Fold, Rish, Standing Fold, Downward Dog, Gate, Bridge, Plow, Rabbit, Head Stand, Shoulder Stand, Sunbird, Runners Lunge.

And, other Crown asanas are Inversions (headstand, handstand), Lotus and meditation is very helpful. Savasana or Corpse Pose can be a time to meditate.

People who have taken yoga a little while and also know a little about the seven chakras can usually discern which yoga postures are related to a specific chakra. You don't have to memorize all this info. Just pay attention to the position of the body while you are in an asana and you can quickly figure out which chakras would benefit most from the asana stimulation.

## Chapter 10 – Reflexology

Another body work is reflexology. Although there is full body reflexology (Mildred Carter and Tammy Weber have written a book on this, _Body Reflexology,_ which can sometimes be found on eBay or other Internet sites), most people think only of the feet and hands.

Reflexology uses the technique of acupressure, which is pressing the pads of the thumbs or fingers or tools onto specific places on the trunk or limbs. Acupuncture uses the same type of method, except very fine needles are pushed into the body. In both cases, the focus is to affect and balance what are called meridian lines.

The idea is there are points in the feet and in the hands that correspond to the organs in the body. When this is a dis-ease or imbalance in an organ, it can be eased by massage of the point in the foot or in the hands.

There are many reflexology maps available on the Internet. I'm including what I consider good maps of the feet and hands.

There are tools one can purchase to use with reflexology.

Moving in a circular fashion and starting at what would be 9 am on a clock face, we have a tool that can be used on either hand or foot with the individual wrapping fingers around the "limbs" and using the pointed areas to dig into the hand or foot at a place corresponding to an organ. The next tool has little "fingers" pushing out and is held in the hand to massage it. The next item is a roller than can be used anywhere on the body and often is used to move up and down over the backbone. The long pointed stick is similar to the first item in that the pointed end is pushed onto the foot or hand at the location of an organ relationship. Finally, the pyramid type item is sued either for hand or food with the point pushing onto the skin.

When doing reflexology, if one feels any sensation of pain TO ANY DEGREE (barely feeling to a major hurt), it represents an organ that is congested and out-of-balance. The idea is to keep working with that point until there is no more pain and this can take minutes, hours, or days.

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## Chapter 11 – Copper and Solar Nutrition

In 1979 when we moved to Houston, Texas, I found a spiritual teacher named Adano Ley, who was also known as Swami Nityananda Saraswati. He has since passed on.

Adano had been a minister in Tyler, Texas in 1972 (first photo).Second photo is from his Houston days and I don't know when the third photo was taken.

His center offered a number of New Age techniques for dis-ease preventions and balancing the physical body. My first introduction to many aspects of holistic health and how that can lead to awareness development began at Adano's center.

One of these was for individuals to wear a copper bracelet on each wrist and Adano made the bracelets.

It is interesting that there now exists clothing with copper that is reputed to help one better function after injuries. That name of that company is Tommie Copper and items are available on the Internet. My son has had problems with his calves (he is a runner) and he tried the Tommie Copper calf sleeves and has told me they took away the pain. That is called anecdotal evidence. Since I personally have not purchased and used Tommie Copper products, I can't speak to whether or not they have worked for me.

Adano was an interesting man. He had fallen from the roof of a building and had lived, but had broken 90 bones in his body and was in a body cast for a year. He told us that during that fall to the ground, he was given the choice of death or life and serving humanity with his teachings. Obviously, he chose life. There is a biography of him available at <http://www.adanoley.com/adanobio.htm>.

Adano taught Solar Nutrition, which he had developed, and meals were available at the Center. I was NOT a fan of tofu, but we ate it, along with more delicious fare.

In 1972 he had published his Solar Food List. Adano stated it is the time that you eat and not so much what you eat that determines health. When I was in Houston 1979-1983, I was a vegetarian and followed his solar Nutrition. My copy of the food list is old and rather wrinkled from folding. I ate using the Solar Nutrition method and it was fine for me. However, if a reader decides to try this, you may want to consult with your medical doctor first and we take no responsibility for your choices. This book is to offer information and not to pressure you into trying anything. Each individual is different from others and what works for some may not at all work for another person.

Adano taught us that the organs are connected to the time of day and that is why we eat certain foods at certain times. This is the organ chart with times:

As you can see, the times are:

11:00 PM to 1:00 AM – Gall Bladder

1:00 AM to 3:00 AM – Liver

3:00 AM to 5:00 AM – Lungs

5:00 AM to 7:00 AM – Large Intestine or Colon

7:00 AM to 9:00 AM – Stomach

9:00 AM to 11:00 AM – Spleen

11:00 AM to 1:00 PM – Heart

1:00 PM to 3:00 PM – Small Intestine

3:00 PM to 5:00 PM – Bladder

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM – Kidney

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM – Pericardium

9:00 PM to 11:00 PM – Thyroid

Following is a list of Adano's Solar Nutrition times and foods and the asterisk * denotes weight loss foods.

**From midnight to Noon, (SUN'S RAYS ARE AT AN ANGLE HITTING TOPS OF FRUIT** **TREES) we could eat**

Apples

Apricots

Avocado (had to be eaten alone and not with any other food)

Banana

Breadfruit

Bell apple

Cherries

Custard apple

Dates

Figs

Guava

Mangoes

Nectarines

Olives

Papaya

Peaches

Pears

Persimmons

Plantain

Plums

Pomegranates

Prunes

Sapodillo

Tamarind

_Citrus Fruits_ (which had to be eaten alone):

Grapefruit

Kumquats

Lemons

Limes

Oranges

Tangerines

Oils:

Almond

Apricot

Avocado

Coconut

Cream

Olive

Walnut

Nuts:

Almonds

Apricot kernels

Brazil

Cashews (must be roasted)

Carob

Coconut

Filbert

Hazel

Macadamia

Pecans

Pinion (Pine)

_Sweeteners_ :

Maple Syrup

Sugar

Honey

Coffee:

Aribica

From Noon to 6:00 PM (SUN'S RAYS HAVE MOVED FROM DIRECTLY OVERHEAD TO AN ANGLE HITTING THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND) we could eat:

_Breads_ (all kinds if baked properly)

_Cheeses_ (all kinds if natural)

_Meat_ :

Fowl

Lamb

Beef

Venison

Pork

_Seeds_ :

Caraway

Chia

Flax

Poppy

Pumpkin

Sesame

Sunflower

Vegetables:

Artichokes – Globe

Bitter Cucumber

Bitter Melon Squash

Bok Choy

*Broccoli

*Brussels Sprouts

*Cabbage – all kinds

*Cauliflower

*Celery

Cereals – all kinds

Corn – fresh

*Cucumber

Dried Beans – all kinds

Dried Peas – all kinds

Eggplant

*Endive

Escarole

Fresh Beans – all kinds

Fresh Peas – all kinds

Grains – all kinds

Greens – all kinds/garden & wild

Herbs – culinary or cooking

*Lettuce – all kinds

Okra

*Parsley

Peppers: Hot – Cayenne only (capsicum) and Sweet – Bell, yellow banana

Pumpkin

Rhubarb

Sauerkraut

Spinach – must be raw

Sprouts – all kinds

Squash – all kinds

Sugar Cane (good brown sugar

*Tomatoes

Oils:

Butter (clarified)

Safflower

Sesame

Soy

Sunflower

Wheat Germ

Sweeteners:

Brown Sugar

Honey

Molasses

Sorghum Syrup

_Fruits_ (best between 3:00 and 5:00 pm):

Blackberries

Blueberries

Boysenberries

Cranberries

Dewberries,

Gooseberries

Grapes

Raisins

Raspberries

Strawberries

Melons (all melons must be eating alone and not with other foods and these include Cantaloupe, Casaba, Honeydew, and watermelon)

6:00 to Midnight (SUN'S RAYS WERE BELOW THE SURFACE AND ROOT FOODS ARE INCLUDED) we could eat:

Fruits:

Pineapple, Prickly Pear Cactus

Fish, Seafood

Eggs

Nuts – Peanuts, which must be roasted

Water Chestnut

Oils: Butter (clarified), Garlic, Peanut

Vegetables:

Artichoke – Jerusalem

Artichoke Hearts (Globe)

*Asparagus Shoots

Bamboo Shoots

*Beet

Bok Choy (bottom 4 inches)

*Carrot

Celery – bottom 4 inches

Celery Root

Dulce

Edoes

*Garlic

Ginger Root

Hearts of Palm

Horseradish

Jicama

Kelp – all kinds of seaweed

Leeks – bottom 4 inches

Lotus Root

Malanga

Manglewurzel

Mushrooms

Nopalitos Cactus

*Onions

Parsnips

Plantain

Potatoes (red, white, sweet)

*Radishes (red, black, cohosh, daikon)

Rutabagas

Scallions – bottom 4 inches

Sea Cucumber

Taro Root

*Turnip – all kinds

Water Cress

Yams

Yucca Root (Cassava)

Sweeteners: Honey, Miel de Maguey (syrup from Maguey Cactus)

Sea Salt

Anytime foods – 1 food as therapy

Apple Cider Vinegar

Brown Rice

Clarified Butter

Herb Teas

Honey

Noon or Night

Brewer's Yeast

Miso

Tamari Soy Sauce

Tofu

Vegemeats

Prohibited Foods were:

Black Pepper

Popcorn with Hulls

Melted Cheese

Carbonated Beverages

Deep Fried Foods

This is another of Adano's illustrations –

Adano also taught his Basic 5 stretches or postures similar to yoga asanas. From standing, we do the other movements and holding for at least a minute. If you are familiar with yoga, you can see the 1st posture (after the standing) is the standing forward bend (Utthanasana), 2nd is a backbend, 3rd posture is Camel (Ushtrasana), 4th is a standing front to the leg bend, and the 5th is Downward Facing Dog. (Adho Mukha Svanasana).

Adano believed if we just did these postures daily, it would lead to better health.

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## Chapter 12 – Colon Cleansing

I'm mentioning this here because Colonics was another of the services offered at Adano Ley's Center in Houston. Back then, most people thought it strange to think we would have food wastes left in our colon. When one eats enough fiber, the food wastes should pass completely through the body to be discarded by defecation. However, autopsies have proven that in some people there was a large buildup of sticky waste along the sides of the colon and this resulted in only a small hole for wastes to pass through.

The purpose of colonics is for water, sometimes along with some substances (like coffee), to be injected through the anus and into the colon, held there, and then expelled through the anus so that any buildup of waste can be eliminated. Obviously, this is a more advanced type of enema.

Some New Age professionals believe individuals should get a colonic treatment at least once a month to be sure we are not building up waste in the colon (large intestine).

At Adano's Center back in 1979-1983, the setup was rather primitive. Now, places that offer colonics have much more sophisticated machines. Here is an example:

You can find more information on colonic cleanings on the Internet. You may even find images of the insides of colons that show the heavy buildup of wastes that have not been eliminated. We'll leave it up to you to investigate this subject.

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## Chapter 13 – Rolfing

When an individual is still trapped in traumas that occurred in the past, it is often difficult to let go and move to a state of more awareness. Certain bodywork techniques exist to help us let go of the past. One of these is Rolfing, which was developed by biochemist (Columbia University) Ida P. Rolf, PhD.

When I was in Houston 1979-1983, I went through the 10-step Rolfing program which is also known as "Structural Integration." The goal was for the alignment of the body to be in harmony (lined up) with the gravitational field of the Earth and this could only happen if one's personal posture was at its best.

Each week's session consisted of deep massage to a part of the body and during that time, old memories would be brought forth that apparently had deeply impacted my psyche (as though the trauma lived in that muscle that was being manipulated). I was not conscious of traumas until they were brought forth by the Rolfing.

As the memories come forward, we are able to deal with them and to realize our current points of safety and the people we choose to be with and to better analyze where we are today compared to back then, especially when we were children and at the mercy of parents and other adults. We also can better determine if we are drawing to us people that remind us of previous relationships and, if so, to what extent are we repeating previous traumatic events.

In other words, have we married our abusive father or cold-natured mother? Are we being picked on at work by someone who is like the sibling that picked on us as children? Are we afraid of heights or some other thing that relates to a fall or an accident we had before we can even remember? There are many other questions we can ask.

Note that people who do Rolfing sessions are certified (after much training) by the Rolfing Institute.

If you want to know about the ten sessions of Rolfing in detail, there is an excellent PDF available by Jason Mixter, a Certified Advanced Rolfer. You can find it on the Internet at <http://markreadsmith.com/10_series_pamphlet.pdf> and probably other websites as well (use your search engine).

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## Chapter 14 – Reiki

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a technique for balancing the body. Hands of the Reiki professional are placed just above the client's physical body or, if the client is not adverse to touch, the hands may be placed lightly on the body.

Professionals may use their hands or use a pendulum to determine the state of the chakras and energy flow, i.e., if the chakras are in balance and open or if they are closed or slow.

The professional then draws in energy from the Higher Self to help balance the client's chakras. The client should feel more energized following a Reiki session.

Some Reiki professionals offer scents in the room (incense or essential oils in aromatherapy pots) and it is normal for there to be music at a low volume. Also, the room may have plants and gemstones.

It is normal for the client to lie on a table that is similar to a massage table. The client is usually clothed. One should never feel uncomfortable in a Reiki (or other re-balancing) session.

People who perform Reiki attend training sessions before working on individuals. One should always investigate the training of anyone who is going to be doing some type of bodywork on us.

If interested in this, you can find Reiki professionals listed in the telephone directory, or online, or in a local New Age magazine or newsletter.

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## Chapter 15 – Float Tanks

Another consciousness expanding technique is to rid the self of all sense intakes. Back in 1981 in Houston, I tried the float tank and loved it. David Wasserman had built the tank and offered the service.

In a float tank, a heavy concentration of salt is added to the water. Once the client is in the tank, the door is closed. Some tanks now allow you to listen to music. This wasn't available back in the 1980s when I floated in Houston. We did it with no sensation of light, sound, smell, taste, or touch.

The idea was to experience what it must have felt like when we were back in mother's womb. I loved the relaxation and, since I wasn't claustrophobic, I had no problem with the tank. Some people found it very uncomfortable to be in the tank with the door closed.

At that time a float session was about $10 for an hour. Prices now are easily over $50 an hour and some $100 or more an hour.

This is similar to the tank David made available in Houston.

He is now in California and manufactures float tanks. His website address is http://www.oasisrelaxation.com and I greatly appreciate this information from Michelle deRouen who has a float tank service in Houston at http://www.FloatHouston.com

Below is a photo of a clamshell style tank.

Since some people still are hesitant to get into smaller tanks, there are Float rooms available. Dallas, Texas has a business that features a float room and that website address is http://www.adriftfloatspa.com.

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## Chapter 16 – Aromatherapy

Essential oils are made from leaves, barks, roots, and other parts of botanicals. Because of the cost and how quickly the scent can dissipate, the oils typically come in small bottles.

Essential oils carry strong scents. Rather than using them in full potency, we can dilute them by placing a drop or more of essential oil into a small amount of what is called a "carrier oil" (or, more drops into a larger portion of carrier oil, if you wish). Some people dilute some essential oils (like lavender) with water instead of oil.

Carrier oils are made from vegetable oils, fixed oils, or base oils (not all of the latter are vegetable oils). Examples of fixed and base oils are emu (from emu bird) and fish oils.

Examples of Carrier Oils are: Sweet Almond, Apricot Kernal, Avocado, Borage Seed, Camellia Seed (Tea Oil), Cranberry Seed, Evening Primrose, Fractionated Coconut, Grapeseed, Hazelnut, Hemp Seed, Jojoba, Kukui Nut, Macadamia Nut, Meadowfoam, Olive, Peanut, Pecan, Pomegranate Seed, Rose Hip, Seabuckthorn Berly, Sesame, Sunflower, Watermelon Seed.

Obviously, you can buy some of these oils at the grocery store, although you want to be aware of how much odor they carry, since the scent may interfere with the scent of the essential oil. You also can purchase carrier oils online.

A plastic pipette is used to transfer the pure essential oil into the carrier oil. Glass pipettes can also be bought and some oils come with a special top that allows you to press the rubber part to draw up the oil and then transfer it. Pictured are the plastic pipettes (like I use) and a bottle sample.

Some ways to use aromatherapy are:

Facial Oil – a few drops of essential oil can be placed in an unscented lotion or cream or in the carrier oil you like to use.

Facial Masque or Mask – using clay or avocado (mashed up) or egg white or mayonnaise or honey or whatever you like to use for a mask, simply drop a few drops of essential oil into the medium and spread on the face.

Steamer – place a few drops into water you pour into your facial sauna steamer or even into a pot on the stove if you will be holding your face over that with a towel over your head.

You also can inhale for sinus or bronchial problems and oils like eucalyptus are great for this use.

A few drops in a hot bath can be relaxing.

If you have a spritzer bottle, pour in water and add a few drops of your favorite scented oil and then spritz on your body, wrap yourself in a large and thick towel and lie down and relax.

Essential oils also can be added to a washing machine, if you want your clothes to offer a specific scent.

Of course, for our purpose in expanding consciousness or awareness, we can place a drop of essential oil on a cotton ball or square or a tiny piece of fabric or cotton wristband for use during our chakra concentration.

## Chapter 17 – Dry Brush Baths

The skin is the largest organ of the body and it is part of our elimination system. We are healthier when our pores are open to allow sweat and toxins to be eliminated.

One technique for opening the pores is to use a dry brush all over the body prior to showering. If hot water is used for the shower, the pores are even more open. Cold water closes the pores.

Dry brushing also helps stimulate the blood vessels.

The brushes are somewhat stiff and certainly not soft. Dry brushes can be brought at a variety of stores, including health food stores, as well as on the Internet.

Various styles of brushes are available. You may like a round one, a brush with a handle, or even a loofah pad.

When brushing, we start with the bottom of the feet and move up the body. Brushing is done in a circular manner. Some people find brushing the palms of the hands to tickle (the nerves there are very sensitive).

Dry brushing is important to developing our awareness because it helps to relieve toxicity. When the body is sluggish due to toxicity, it is harder for most of us to concentrate on our yoga asanas as well as on chakra development.

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## Chapter 18 – Inversion

You've probably seen a television commercial for an inversion unit. These have been around for decades and the idea is to flip upside down so that we lengthen the spine and release pressure on the spinal discs.

In yoga, inversion asanas such as headstands and shoulderstands, are regularly practiced for their ability to relieve stress, elongate the spine and aid the circulatory system of the body. In fact, head and shoulder stands are referred to as the "king" and "queen" of all asanas.

Inversion tables provide similar benefits to head and shoulder stands.

Here is an example of an inversion "table."

You lock your feet at the bottom and then throw your weight backs.

During use, blood is rushing to the head, although people with circulation problems are advised to NOT use these.

I began using an inversion table in Houston back in 1979 and loved it. I would only hang upside down for a few minutes. Over the years, I owned various brands of the tables and sold some at garage sales. I'll probably keep the one I have now.

Inversion tables were a hot topic among New Age people back then and they are used more now by people with back problems. The tables can be quite expensive these days and sometimes you can find one on Craigslist, eBay, or at a garage sale. Just be sure to double check all the bolts to make sure they are the right size and fit tightly. Examine all parts of the table before using it.

A much cheaper alternative to an inversion table is to use inversion boots (more like ankle wraps). See the following graphic for how the "boots" are implemented in conjunction with a horizontal bar.

The End

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# How This Book Came About

After writing and publishing the book, How To Be Balanced and Centered, it was obvious a follow-up book was needed to explain some techniques for chakra development, since speeding up our chakras can help us to become more Aware™. So, this book was born. It started out as a very short book on just the chakras, but each time I thought I was finished, another thought or topic came to mind that seemed to demand being included. I finally reached a point of completion.

Please note all books on astrology, metaphysics, and positive thinking will bear the Lee masters authorship. Most novels and other topics will show Lee Gabor.

# My Next Book

Related to Lee masters writings, I am still working on both the novel and the non-fiction book that introduce concepts about the New Aquarian Age Astrology. There will be more books in the QSE&A-ATS Series. Also, books on Laws of the Universe as well as Healing will be published.

# About Me

I grew up in a very conservative environment that was focused on education and religion. Life was heavily involved in church activities. Before I was a teenager I already was teaching a Sunday School class using puppets and playing piano and organ as well as singing in church in small groups with others.

By the time I was 12 years old, I began studying astrology and metaphysics. When I would learn the Bible stories, I saw them differently from others, although I hesitated to point that out. My perception was the stories were astrological lessons. Naturally, this was unpopular with my parents, but I had to follow my own destiny.

Therefore, I've been a student of astrology, esoterics, and metaphysics since 1958 and I am writing this in 2014.

My career goal as a teenager was to be a newspaper reporter and I didn't think about being a professional astrologer or metaphysician. I wanted to bring information to the public.

After some college, marriage, and the birth of my son, I was hired as a general reporter on a daily in Indiana. While there, I learned to write political news and wrote a weekly Business and Industry column as well as oversaw the weekly high school news page. While working for the newspaper, my daughter was born.

With one more year of college remaining (and now divorced), the children and I moved from Indiana to South Dakota where I accepted grants and scholarships to obtain a degree. Since there was no journalism program at the college, I finished that year earning a BA degree in elementary education. I never planned to use that knowledge.

Nearing graduation date and since I wanted to spend time with my two children, I decided to become an entertainer rather than returning to the very demanding newspaper business or entering the teaching field. By that time, I was starting to do charts consultations with people and would continue that for many years.

To help me keep my "two" lives more compartmentalized, I began using the name Lee masters for my New Age work. At first the name Masters was capitalized, but by 1990, I had changed it to a lower case letter "m" because the word was used as a verb to mean I was (and am) mastering knowledge and perceptions.

The children and I traveled throughout the U.S. to cities where I performed as a pianist and vocalist in piano bars.

Eventually we settled and I opened a talent agency to book other performers. I also continued to entertain, working solo as well as with various size groups of musicians. The other part of my life was continuing with astrological studies, research, and consulting.

At the end of 1995, I closed the talent agency and stopped entertaining. By that time we were living in Dallas. The move here was so that I could channel the new astrology, since Pres. Kennedy was killed here (an explanation of that will be included in a future book). As soon as we settled, I gained new clients. A few years later, I began more research into astrology and channeling the new Aquarian Age information and was not as available for consulting, although I did counsel a few clients I had known for years.

Since income was decreased from entertaining, the agency/academy, and from astrology, I did free-lance technical writing to support us and it was quite enjoyable. For me, this was rather like a bridge between newspaper reporting and fiction writing.

In 1983, I read the autobiography of Albert Einstein and a thought struck me about mass and the speed of light. I decided to gain mass and did so with the plan to continue that greater mass (weight) through an entire progressed cycle of the Moon in my astrological chart. That meant about 30 years and I'm now finished with that and returning to less mass.

In the spring of 2002, I was drafted (that's a story within itself) to teach with a local public school district and that was quite a crazy experience. I was told that 50% of my students would quit high school before graduating and that made me very angry. To stop that from happening to my 6th grade students, I developed a consumer math program for their nightly homework.

I taught 6th grade two years, then 5th grade two years and used the same type of program for all the students. As it has turned out, to my knowledge and as a result of the information I have right now (from the fact that most of my students are Facebook friends), only one student has quit school and he plans to get his GED. All others finished high school and some are in college or have graduated and are in careers.

The best thing about teaching was getting to know and love the students as well as my teacher and staff friends. The worst thing was hearing people say teachers have it so easy, getting off work at 3 pm, off on the weekends, and off all summer. If only that were true! It isn't.

Teachers work late into the nights to grade papers, review for the next day's lessons, and make calls to parents. Weekends are usually spent reading all the teacher textbook lessons for the next week along with the curriculum requirements from the state and from the local district's curriculum departments (in elementary schools: math, science, language arts, social studies), then writing detailed lesson plans.

Summers are spent attending staff development sessions and gaining additional knowledge in one's subject(s).

Most of the teachers I met were wonderful at their jobs and loved helping the students. A few didn't belong anywhere near a school and, hopefully, over time, they will be weeded out.

During my 5th year in education, I served as an Academic Coordinator at my elementary school while earning a Master's Degree from University of Texas-Arlington. During that year I received various education awards, for which I'm extremely grateful. The acclaims reinforced that 1) teaching my students a lot of technology, 2) being creative in the classroom (using crazy characters, music, and dance to teach all subjects – as featured in the book I wrote Classroom Success Through Creativity), and 3) pushing my students was worthwhile.

The next school year, I transferred to another elementary school, where I served as Academic Coordinator. At the end of the year, I resigned from the district and moved to live near my son and his family.

My next venture was becoming a Master Gardener and a Master Composter. At the same time, I continued to lobby on political issues, as I have done for most of my life. I can't imagine I will ever see a day in which I'm not lobbying for some cause.

Through all these years after leaving the newspaper, writing was at the back of my mind and I knew I had to return to it. Since I was older now, I didn't feel I had the energy to return to being a newspaper reporter. To be good in that career, one must really hustle. Also, with grandchildren, I wanted more freedom for scheduling my life.

Therefore, after 2008, it seemed like the best time to try more creative writing and for the next few years I wrote both fiction and non-fiction books as well as published about 28 songs I had written years before.

Simultaneously (during every year), I have studied astrology, researched, and been available to a few clients. The time is obviously here for me to begin releasing Lee masters books on the New Age, Aquarian Age Astrology, metaphysics, and positive thinking.

To keep my brain active, I also take online college courses through such Internet sites as edx.com and others. I'm currently also working on classes to fulfill the requirements for renewing my 11 Texas teacher certifications.

# Connect with Me Online

LEE MASTERS

Blog: http://AquarianAgeAstrology.blogspot.com

Email: Lee@AquarianAgeAstrology.com

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# OTHER WORKS

Also by Lee masters and Published at Smashwords:

Series Featuring Quick, Smart, EZ, & Aware™ and Apt, Tie-and-Wrap (Trap) and Scrap™

No. 1 - How To Be Balanced And Centered

Also by Lee Gabor and Published at Smashwords:

FICTION

Bad Day at Eagle Rock

Cowboy Jesse and the College Girl

Pig Tales: Volume 1 \- The Stinky, Skinny Wolf; Pig Tales are educational children's books

Pig Tales: Volume 2 – We Win Poster Contest

Pig Tales: Volume 3 – The Smart Board

Pig Tales: Volume 4 – Two Parties in One

Love Never Dies, Christian-based romance novel

The Shirt

Texas Bootstomp Boogie

Texas Trilogy: The Legacy

Texas Trilogy: The Legacy (screenplay)

Chickamauga: The Battle of The Blue and The Gray, a poem with Civil War battle details

NON-FICTION BOOKS

Southern Cooking: Recipes for Fried Foods I'll NEVER Prepare or Eat

Southern Cooking: Recipes for My Favorite Fried Foods

Classroom Success Through Creativity

How to Improvise When Playing Piano & Keyboard

Free ebook - A Tribute to the PIGs Club of Madison, Wisconsin and Houston, Texas

Free ebook - A Tribute to The Cellar Door Piano Bar on Stella Link, Houston, Texas

MUSIC AND LYRICS

Parodies **(new words to old tunes)**

Astrology Fun Sun Sign Song Parodies with Birthdays of Famous People

Two Parody Songs About Umpires

### Sheet Music

Blues

I'm Gonna Fly Away to the Sun

Momma Blue

Celebration

The Birthday Song

Country Western

All the Angels Aren't In Heaven

Come Back To My Arms

Grand Old Opry Music in My Soul

(Two Guitars, An Old Piano) Hank & Elvis & Me

I Must Say Goodbye to a Lady

I See Goodbyes in Your Eyes

I'm Lying Here Loving You

I'm the Lucky One

(My Paradise Is) Just a Wedding ring Away

Old Fashioned Sunday Afternoon

Right Thing to Do

Texas Bootstomp Boogie

To Yesterday Goodbye

Holiday – Christmas

All I Want For Christmas Is An Angel

How Can I Make It Through Christmas

Inspirational

You Make Life Better When You Give Your Best

Pop

Black Creole Eyes

I See Love

Let's Start All Over Again

Loco Lou

Lost In Your Love

Love Never Dies

Magic Lights

My Love, You're My Every Day

Round on a Carousel

When You Need Me I'll Be There

Won'tcha Let Me Love You, Baby

Wedding

Wedding Prayer
