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Vibrational Healing through the Chakras

Introduction

Each child has at birth, a Bowl of perfect Light. If he tends his Light, it will grow in strength, and he can do all things—swim with the shark, fly with the birds, know and understand all things. If, however, he becomes envious or jealous, he drops a stone into his Bowl of Light, and some of the Light goes out. Light and the stone cannot hold the same space. If he continues to put stones in the Bowl of Light, the Light will go out, and he will become a stone. A stone does not grow, nor does it move. If at any time he tires of being a stone, all he needs to do is turn the bowl upside down, and the stones will fall away, and the Light will grow once more.
—Tales from the Night Rainbow

We are all vibrations. There is a harmonic frequency to which all life is attuned. The human body is made up of frequencies that form a harmonic and balanced whole when a person is healthy. The vibrations of the body easily go out of tune when a person experiences physical or emotional stress. Vibrational healing employs vibratory tools to help the body remember its own healthy harmonic resonance. Once the body is in balance, it can fight off harmful organisms.
            There are many vibratory tools. The primary ones that I use and discuss in this book include light and color (chromotherapy), crystals, aromatherapy, and sound. Other vibratory tools not covered in this book include flower remedies, gem elixirs, and homeopathy. You will find a glossary in the back of this book that contains definitions for these terms and other uncommon words found in this book.
It is difficult to conceptualize exactly how any form of energy healing actually works. There are many theories, and I will present the ones that seem most accurate to me, based upon my own experience.
In these busy times, few people can read a book from cover-to-cover. Vibrational Healing through the Chakras is divided into parts, each of which stands alone. You can read the table of contents to find subjects that match your areas of interest.
Chakra is a Sanskrit term that means “wheel” or “vortex.” The chakras are nonphysical centers of spinning energy located in the energy field at the spine and other parts of the body. The human energy field, or aura, is a reflection of the combined frequencies of the chakras.
Most illness is characterized by blockage in the channels, which include acupuncture meridians, nerves, arteries, and veins. When there is blockage in any of these channels, inflammation, irritation, and illness may occur. The vibratory energies emanating from color, crystals, aromatherapy, light, and sound can break up these blockages, releasing the energy and allowing it to flow freely.
            When I use these tools, I combine them with various modalities that allow my client to reach a deeper understanding of the underlying cause of her disease. Sometimes I will guide her back into childhood or prenatal experiences, or into past lives to explore the origins of her illness. I may help her to release emotions that have been repressed. I may guide her to examine dysfunctional core beliefs formed at an early age that still linger in her subconscious. In a future book, I will describe this work with core beliefs and underlying cause and how to do past life regressions.
Experiments with Kirlian photography (see Glossary) indicate that illness can be observed in the chakras before it manifests as physical disease. This means that a trained practitioner can detect energetic imbalances—and correct them—before they manifest as physical illness. This is best done through seasonal visits, ideally four times a year, and when there is significant stress in one’s life.
In 1989, scientist Valerie Hunt proclaimed in her book, Infinite Mind, Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness, “In the future, it should be possible to diagnose field disturbances and to treat them months or even years before they are manifested in the physical tissue.”2 That future is now.
When the chakras come into balance, the body resumes its natural harmonic resonance, and illness does not manifest—or, if it is already present, symptoms disappear and generally do not return because the underlying cause of imbalance has been removed.
This book explains how to use the chakra system to detect imbalance, and how to bring the frequencies of light, color, sound, crystals, and aromatherapy through the chakras to restore harmony to the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. It traces the history, science, and traditional uses of Vibrational Healing in various cultures. It also describes my methods of Chakra Diagnosis and Vibrational Alignment™. And it introduces my new Spectrum of Biological Frequencies that gives specific numerical values for the frequencies of color, light, sounds, foods, herbs, and essential oils.
            The vibratory tools can be used independently or in conjunction with other forms of energy work and bodywork, as well as conventional medicine, including psychiatry, psychology, and dentistry. This book is for people who wish to use Vibrational Healing for their own health and for those who are or wish to become practitioners of this healing art. It is for both beginning and accomplished healers. You will find that when you combine the vibratory tools with other forms of healing, the work becomes profoundly penetrating and goes from two to twenty times faster.
You may be able to free yourself from dependency upon chemical drugs and invasive surgical procedures that have potentially harmful side effects. We are fortunate to have a complete arsenal of heavy artillery medicine at our disposal. Doctors with drugs and surgical procedures can be angels of light when desperate situations arise. But there is no excuse for using a dagger to remove a splinter. There are usually gentler ways to bring your frequencies into balance and restore health.
In many parts of Europe today, where complementary medicine has long been practiced and appreciated, aromatherapists, herbalists, midwives, and other holistic practitioners are well respected and work side-by-side with allopathic physicians. In Switzerland, for example, homeopathy and kinesiology are covered by medical insurance. In the United States these healing arts are still considered by many to be questionable.
As of this date, crystal healing is still considered superstitious, despite the fact that crystals are being used universally in computers, clocks, lasers, and virtually all modern technology. The concept of healing with color is still viewed with skepticism, despite the fact that prisons have used pink holding rooms to quiet prisoners, and restaurants use orange décor to lure in customers.
Yet the times are changing. An article in the September 27, 2004 issue of Newsweek states that the federal government will spend $16 million on mind-body research in 2005, and private foundations will spend millions more. Acupuncture and massage are covered by some insurance plans in the United States and the Health Insurance Plan of New York, HIP USA, covers mind-body practices. Hospitals have mind-body clinics, and yoga classes are becoming widespread. Aromatherapy articles are appearing in popular women’s magazines. According to a recent government survey, nearly half of all Americans used mind-body interventions in 2002.3 The future holds the promise of truly complementary medicine.

            Vibrations. What are they? We think of them as waves. I am sitting at a point that juts out into the ocean, on an island in Hawaii. The weather has been rough, the surf tossed by wind. The waves are variable and magnificent.
Sometimes they come rolling onshore in one long line, almost diagonal to the land, where they unfurl and crash against the wall of volcanic rock. Other times both ends roll while the center lags behind, dissolving into a blotch of foam. To my right, the distance of a football field out to sea, little waves are frolicking, almost perpendicular to the land, like a roller coaster of wavelets.
We take for granted the magnificent orchestration of sound and movement in every living form (though these sounds may be inaudible to our limited hearing and the movements may be invisible to our limited sight). Yet few among us do not thrill at the crash and thunder of waves against the rocks.
Here on my point, where waves move in a crazy array of parallel, diagonal, and perpendicular patterns, there is a subtle organization. It is as if a Grand Conductor was pointing her baton, beckoning some waves to enter now and telling others to wait a moment before crashing in, then telling yet another set to roll in slowly while the first set thunders dramatically against the cliffs. There is an exquisite periodicity, a perfect pulse, a harmonic metronome that puts all of life in order and makes it look and sound harmonious and pleasing to our eyes and ears—even in the worst tempest.
Bringing the macrocosm to the microcosm, you can observe the ocean of your own physical and energetic bodies, with at least an equal number and variety of vibrational patterns. But how much more susceptible these inner vibrations are to disruption!
By eating foods that wreak havoc in your belly and then subjecting yourself to a stressful argument, you set up antagonistic waves that come crashing through your body at a furious pace, creating a deafening and disharmonious roar that can literally be heard in your belly.
            We know that when water pounds up against a cliff, it makes a huge roar. What if something prevents the water from making that sound? Can you imagine that the consciousness of that wave would carry around a sense of frustration and a lack of fulfillment until it is set free to express that roar?
When a person experiences a profound shock (such as the death of a loved one) it sets up an energy pattern that virtually demands to be expressed—like the sound of Navajo women keening when their men were killed in battle.
But most of us cut ourselves off from such raw forms of self-expression. Yet the unexpressed sound or vibration that should accompany the original shock remains trapped and stalks inside us, disrupting the normal flow of energies throughout the physical and energetic bodies.
Vibrational Healing combined with Underlying Cause and Emotional Release provides the context and opportunity to express old emotions that were stuffed and to release vibrations that may have evolved into vibratory disease signatures, enabling the natural rhythms of the body to return to their healthy harmonic frequency.
You can maintain the perfect rhythms that the Divine Conductor established within your body, or you can act—or allow others to act—as Grand Disrupters.

It is my hope that reading this book will inspire you to embrace new ways of thinking about your relationship with all of life; that you will begin to see yourself as a vibrating being in energetic interchange with your environment; giving and receiving energy from spirit and nature as well as other people, animals, and even unseen beings.

Joy Gardner, Paia, Maui, Hawaii, 2005

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