The path to happiness.

[anagogy]

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the thing that fascinates me (as someone involved in the healing arts) is how  and why certain types of blockages are held in the energy centers.  

One of the general understandings that has developed over the past 12 months is that identification is a key issue.  That is, over-identifying (attachment) to a certain experience or quality of beingness.   This shocked me a bit, as it's consonance with the Buddha's 4 Noble Truths couldn't be deflected.  So let's say someone has a feeling of being rejected.  This could happen at the age of 4 years old or 40.  Doesn't matter.  The difference between someone who experiences that rejection, feels the hurt, integrates an understanding - and someone who holds onto the narrative "I'm rejected.  I'm rejectable.  I deserve to be rejected.  I did something to deserve rejection" is MASSIVE.  The later is trauma and attachment.

The mind has an inbuilt quality which wants to hold onto things.  It can't just be defused, but it has to be understood.  It can hold onto any mental concept - which then attaches to the most relevant one of the 7 energy centers.  This is what creates blockage and separation.

When the pathway from root to crown is clear (as you described), then ineffable joy is the natural state of beingness.  Happiness isn't attained.  It's more witnessed; when nothing else of distraction causes one to witness something else.

I'm sort of paraphrasing Seth here I think, but the nature of identity is such that is *resists* change, because change threatens identity.  Therefore, the "job" or function of our "subconscious" mind is that it holds onto identity which it gathers from the catalyst of personal experience.  These life experiences, or mind images, are collected and held onto, and projected outwards as the ego, the conscious self/personality.  I've talked before about the power of the momentum of habitual subconscious thought.  This is another example from my perspective.  Any experience that involves strong emotion will create a very strong attachment (i.e. blockage at whatever energy center is activated).  In fact, I like to think of emotion as the power, strength, or "charge" of a given focus of thought.  With highly intense emotional experiences, less repetitions of the experience are required before the subconscious mind latches onto the images, and identifies with them (sort of like streamlining habitual momentum). So once these intense associations or attachments are forged, they are held by our subconscious minds in a sort of death grip because it doesn't want to give up any of its identity, even if that identity is one of suffering and confusion.  

Balancing these charges can be intense work.  There are many healing techniques that allow the habitual organization to change: shamanic drumming, entheogens, alcohol, pyramid energy, the catalyst of a healer, meditation and other trance work, intense contemplation, visualization.  Or if the blockage is balanced in another life, it might require the reciprocal emotional charge/life experience in order to "cancel out" the previous attachment or blockage.