I was working with my stones the other day and I realized again just how important balance is to successful stone work.  The technique of laying color stones on the body’s similarly-colored chakra points is pretty normal in stone work.  What’s not stressed is that it’s also important to energetically balance each stone with the other.  When we do this we not only charge and stimulate each chakra, but we balance them one with another so that one is not open more than another.  

   It is very usual for people to have one or more chakras being more stimulated or open than the others.  Usually in the western culture the first, second and third chakras are quite stimulated and thus continually distribute that chakra’s energy throughout the physical, astral and etheric bodies as well as the mind and emotions.  So, if these three chakras have to do with survival, sexuality and power, these energies predominate within the person. However, if the heart, throat, third eye and crown chakras are not also similarly open, disharmony or “dis-ease” results.  This disharmony may not even necessarily show in the body, although often it does manifest as illness.  Instead it may manifest mentally, emotionally, psychically or spiritually.   For example, if I have a very well developed ajna or third eye center, I may be able to be very intuitive but also develop huge headaches because my lower centers are not very open and I’m not grounded.  Likewise, I may have a very open navel chakra and have tremendous strength of will but also feel very lonely because my heart chakra is closed and I have no empathy.

    Last but not least, it is very important to healing to have the sushumna or central energy channel open, but if there is a blockage in one chakra or another it is like putting a dam up...energy can’t flow freely.  If the energy or life force can’t flow freely between chakras, or in and out of our crown and root chakras, then we cannot “feed” our bodies the basic life force by which we live.

   So, when I lay on stones, not only do I lay stones which correspond to the color of the chakra, but I also visualize a cord of light or a free flowing line of energy from one stone to another.

 

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