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It has been a long time since I have done the guided meditation bwrr and wonderful to revisit. The word “possible, and capable” arrived along with the sense of shift I g experienced through my subtle body. Thank you.
I love this, Pema! I hope you’ll begin to internalize this practice on a regular basis. I have had clients achieve profound results as they’ve integrated these two simple skills into their self-care practice. Very healing!!
After doing this meditation for the first time, I felt much more relaxed. At the same time, my upper back and neck muscles felt a little more tight. I now know where I need to focus working on myself physically. I knew I needed the grounding. This meditation definitely helped! Thanks so much! Very much appreciated!
Hi Christina, that’s wonderful! Isn’t it great to have a very clear understanding of how your energy is impacting your day to day experience of yourself and your life? Total game changer! As you keep working with the meditation, you’ll potentially discover lots more about how deeply you can ground, why your upper chakras carry constriction, etc. The CLEAR course supports the release of held energies, patterns and stories, inviting healing and evolution. That may be a great next step for you. Thanks for sharing your experience with me! Best, Jill
I came to this course from a reddit comment from Jill on clairsentience, i had googled up how to contain my clairsentience. I pick up on energies and odors just from photos, let alone people ive never talked to and just walked past. I understand now that the issue is in the Sacral Chakra alongside the Heart Chakra. I thought before it was only the Heart Chakra since i would feel like a knife in my chest if i feel too many energies, or like my chest is ripped open in half. I started using some protection sigils on my body which i know don’t have much to do with chakras, they helped me bounce back the energies and protect myself. but it wasn’t enough the knife in my chest and feeling chest ripped open didn’t leave (no medical problem obviously). Doing this meditation for the first time was very helpful, i felt halfway after containing the lower chakras a light in the darkness of my vision. a weight was lifted off. thank you for this ❤️
Hello! Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope you’ll keep working with setting your chakras and grounding your energy. The more you do it, the more aligned, integrated, balanced and contained your energy becomes. Beyond that, you may want to consider taking EHI’s CLEAR course. When you’re feeling other people’s energies so profoundly, they’re landing inside your energy field. Learning to clear your chakras and aura will give you a greater sense of ownership of your space, and more energy to live the life you want to create.
This meditation was so helpful to me. I have a very overactive brain and typically have a difficult time with meditating as my mind wanders. To have tasks and assessment of the chakras within the meditation helped me stay present and focused. As an individual typically driven by logic, it is usually a challenge to envision my chakras but being able to utilize the vegetable steamer method with percentages gives me something concrete to practice with until I am fully “housebroken” (LOL). As a former career nurse and a peacemaker (who seems to attract people with many problems and drama), there are several chakras of which I truly have to focus on very intentionally. I am thrilled to be able to incorporate this video into a regular practice.
This is so fabulous! I love the self-awareness and the clarity that you’re bringing to how you experience yourself and how you engage with others. Knowing which chakras are out of alignment with your authentic self (for example, a peacemaker is a role, and not necessarily Who You Are), is so powerful and bodes well for shifting into a different space, and perhaps, over time, attracting fewer people with excess drama & issues. Very excited for you!
This meditation is great – it left me feeling so balanced.
Love that! It’s really powerful, and you’ll find yourself teaching these practices to your clients over and over and over and over…you get the idea!
I really felt like my feet were rooted into the ground beneath me and couldn’t move them. I also felt my jaw literally relax when I set my throat chakra. What you said about the sacral, third eye and crown chakra being too open in some people resonated with me and I’m hoping to notice a different this week now that I’ve closed them some more. Thank you!
Hi Beth, I’m glad you had such a visceral response in your body to aligning your energy differently. Please know that it’s important to continue setting your chakras regularly. You have to train them to new behaviors. Setting them once and expecting them to remain in their new setting when they’re habituated to whatever was happening previously with their openings is not likely to be effective. I think you have a great mind-body awareness, so you’ll be able to integrate these settings quite quickly if you keep at it for a bit. Then you’ll be able to use your awareness of your body’s sensations to guide you into what chakra might need an adjustment. Thanks for commenting!
Really felt it in my heart chakra. Will continue daily to get more in tune.
How lovely Jacque! I often end my meditations by sitting in my heart chakra for a few minutes. It helps me anchor into myself and integrate whatever shifts I’ve made. A daily practice with the energy regulation skills to help you get, and stay, more in tune with yourself – love it!
Thank you Jacque! I feel clearer and feel!
Beautiful!
Hi,
I have two questions:
(1) How did you come up with the “ideal” percentages for each chakra? Wouldn’t these vary by individual?
(2) With respect to the visualization of the steamer, is a steamer open to its maximum (i.e. totally horizontal —:—) considered 50% open or 100% open?
Thank you!
Hi Paula – great questions!
1) The chakra settings were defined by Berkeley Psychic Institute and further refined by Jill’s first teacher in 1990, John Friedlander. All of the courses and content offered at EHI are grounded in the Western chakra system as discovered and defined by the Theosophists in their consciousness explorations in the late 1800’s. These settings, specific to the function of each chakra (not the individual!), are all about ensuring containment, self-awareness, self-responsibility. What an individual chooses to do with their chakras, consciously or unconsciously, is what drives their behavior and experience.
2) Yes, for visualization purposes, a veggie steamer fully open is the equivalent of a chakra at 100% open.
I am new to recognizing and coming to be aware of my chakras, and subsequently learning how to balance the energies. The answers I get a very subtle, and I am learning how to focus on them and allow whatever is, without doubting my experience. Thank you.
Hi Dan – we’re so glad you took the opportunity to experience the meditation. It can take a bit of practice to tune into the subtleties of the energy of the chakras. Experiences that are subtle at first soon become more concrete. Validate your inner knowing and any experience you have!
Thank you for the meditation i dont know i was out for 20 min or more after the meditation. I couldn’t feel my feet and hands i was numb i couldn’t move. Busy typing and trying to my get out of it feel like I’m in a daze my feet feel stuck the ground. Thank you i needed this.
Hi Patricia – you’re welcome!
I’m so glad you feel rooted to the Earth after listening to the meditation. With all the sensations you experienced, you’ll likely need to keep practicing energy regulation and grounding to have a deeper sense of presence, and a powerful connection between your body and Mother Earth.
Thank you for this meditation! I feel extremely anchored and present on Earth, but still in contact with the universe after listening to it.
Fantastic Sabina! That’s the name of the game! We’re so glad you found the meditation helpful. Return to it as often as you need!
And Sabina, the more you use it, the better you’ll feel, and the more anchored and aligned you’ll be with Who You Are and how you want to engage with your life. Best to you!
I have read many books over the years on chakras and I never got into it because it seemed so difficult. In this lesson and meditation I finally understand how easy and how important they are to our wellbeing. It brought home that my life is as important as others since I am always thinking what my loved ones need. Thank you for keeping it simple and I love the puppy example.
Looking forward to more information,
Mary
Thank you for your feedback, Mary! We’re thrilled you found the material easy to work with and understand. Chakras as puppies that need a bit of training is such a great analogy, right?! Enjoy your continued learning about your energy and how it can support you to live your best life!
Many thanks for the videos and meditation; I absolutely loved them. Grace
We love that you loved the videos and meditation!
Oh, wow! I did NOT expect to see my 5th Chakra at 10%. I thought it would fluctuate between 55 and beyond 100%, especially since I knew when I was “holding my tongue”. The “beyond 100%” would kick in when I had had it “holding my tongue.”. Yikes!
It’s eye-opening to see how impinged the 5th chakra can become through patterns such as “holding your tongue” or “going along to get along”. Now that you know, you can consciously choose a different way of showing up and regulating your energy to support your authentic self expression instead. How empowering!
Many thanks, Jill. This was tremendously helpful. I tend to operate on full tilt, so it’s no wonder I often feel drained and overwhelmed (and attract people who enjoy absorbing the energy I give out). Chakra knowledge is not new to me, but this very specific relationship between each center and forms of dysregulation (and strength) really spoke to me. I feel more gathered, calm and centered after the meditation. Being grounded is a skill I am still learning, and it’s so empowering when I’m truly in my body and connected to the earth.
I look forward to the process of training my “puppies” and seeing how it shifts how I show up in my life and relationships. And, because I have chronic health issues, I have a much clearer sense of how I hold my energy and how it affects my astral and physical bodies.
Hi Paula – hooray! We’re so glad you found the Present of Presence information and skills helpful. Grounding, embodiment and containment are foundational skills to creating the kind of life and relationships you want. The days of operating at full tilt, feeling drained and overwhelmed will soon be a distant memory the more you practice and integrate. We’re so excited for you as you step into your calm and centered self!
Thanks so much for this meditation and these videos. I’ve never gone through the chakras like that and it was interesting. I love grounding through my feet and often need it, and what struck me is at first, I thought my fifth chakra was pretty open, but then I started thinking about the ways that I check myself mostly because I want approval and everyone to like me. I’m no wallflower or afraid to speak my mind, but I think there are ways I could be more authentic. Probably the most powerful chakra was in my hands. I’m an empath and as I get older and my friends and family are needier and needier, I want to be there for them, but it’s good to have a way not to get drained. I felt more intact keeping the hand chakra to 25%. I probably walk around with it at 80, but I will now be much more aware. Thank you again and I look forward to the next videos.
Warmly,
Karen
Hi Karen – we’re so glad you enjoyed the Present of Presence. It’s a fabulous introduction to the chakras. Learning to work with your energy body enables greater facility with in-the-moment responses. You’re spot on that people-pleasing behaviors and empathic tendencies have their roots in the 2nd, 5th and hand chakras. Now, you get to attend to your loved ones without ending up drained. Enjoy this new found awareness!