TECHNIQUES: CRYSTALS, MEDITATION, SOUND HEALING, VISUALIZATION
Balancing energy involves balancing polar energies, creating balance among the elemental energies, and allowing a free flow of energy through your chakras. Each of the techniques here outlines a way to balance one of these types of energies.
Metta Sutta Yin Yang Balance Sound Meditation
For this technique, you will strike your singing bowl or sound the tone on a singing bowl app as you recite the Metta Sutta, a Buddhist discourse on loving-kindness, line by line. Allow the bowl or tone to ring until the sound completely decays before you strike it again. Strike it and state as follows:
Strike 1: “May all beings be peaceful.”
Strike 2: “May all beings be happy.”
Strike 3: “May all beings be well.”
Strike 4: “May all beings be safe.”
Strike 5: “May all beings be free from suffering.”
Elemental Energy Balancing
For this technique, use a freshly cleansed clear quartz crystal—preferably a point. Refer to the illustrations in the
Meridians
section of chapter 1 to see how to visualize each energy channel. Plan to spend about five minutes on this visualization.
Place the tip of the crystal on the big toe on your right foot and visualize the energy running up the channel in the diagram, clearing it. Continue in this order for each energy as follows: right big toe, left big toe, right second toe, left second toe, right middle toe, left middle toe, right fourth toe, left fourth toe, right pinkie toe, left pinkie toe.
Chakra Balancing
For this technique, you will need to gather the seven crystals (or their substitutions) recommended in chapter 2
here
.
1
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Go to a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed, and lie comfortably.
2
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Place your crystals on the area of each chakra as follows:
BLACK TOURMALINE—ROOT CHAKRA
CARNELIAN—SACRAL CHAKRA
CITRINE–SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA
ROSE QUARTZ—HEART CHAKRA
CELESTITE—THROAT CHAKRA
AMETHYST—THIRD EYE CHAKRA
CLEAR QUARTZ—CROWN CHAKRA
3
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Chant the Bija mantra or healing vowel sound for each chakra as you visualize energy moving through the root chakra to the crown chakra and back again. When ready, open your eyes.
