(04-30-2011, 10:00 AM)zenmaster Wrote:(04-30-2011, 04:38 AM)Turtle Wrote: It is of course, an ongoing process for us all. I also have found that it is much more practical to focus more on balancing the chakra system as it is, in any given moment, as opposed to trying "open" or "purify" each center...that seems to happen naturally, and when I am ready for it.I would go further and say that it is more practical to work on misunderstood (unbalanced) experience than it is to work on the separate centers themselves, because self (m/b/s) information is available, in totality, to consciousness and will always be drawn to awareness from (at least) honesty of the current 'flow' of, as Ra says, 'intelligent energy' - regardless of resonance to a particular chakra station. To me the chakras are 'secondary' or 'just' indicators of balance, so the 'work' is not so much focusing on the chakras (any more than seeing all catalyst to be of the body), as it is on simply being able to listen to that totality. What comes to the attention first as 'discomfort' is always the appropriate aspect to address, regardless of where it might correspond to an energy center.
I agree, and did not mention that I employ that "approach." Focusing on the entire system, my mind, my physical body, as well as the intangible spiritual energies that I can perceive, as a whole. When approached this way, the more immediate distortions of self that are just screaming to be experienced or balanced, come to the surface of one's thoughts. Then, the faculty of imagination is best employed to experience as deeply as is possible...sometimes meditation works well enough, other times I find that having the intention to experience a distortion more deeply through dreamwork is more proper.
This method has become such a fulfilling and enjoyable practice to me.