Dear Screaming,
Of course, I believe in balancing your chakras so that you feel secure, compassionate, loving and in tune with your own feelings and those of others.

Another tool that is important is just LISTENING. The door to cooperation opens when everyone’s feelings and needs are understood, spoken and heard. But the key to opening that door is listening.

Practice listening to what other people actually mean (regardless of their words), and to express your desires in ways that are more likely to be heard and met. This happens when you are in touch with your feelings and needs and able to express them through an open Throat Chakra.

Try expressing your feelings and thoughts with honesty, even in the midst of uncomfortable emotions or conflict.

Listening empathically to yourself and others is the first skill to master, and Compassionate Communications (also known as Non-Violent Communications or NVC) can help.

NVC teaches to simply listen with our minds and hearts open to whatever is being shared and to say what we think we’re hearing. When you listen, understand and reflect back to a person the essence of what they said, they often can hear themselves more clearly and light up with relief and joy.

It’s also important to listen to your own inner self, because we’re not always aware of exactly what is going on inside of us. Underneath painful emotions, there is often some part of us that wants to be known. Listen to my guided Chakra Meditations to connect to your feelings and center yourself, then try expressing yourself and your needs in a calm and centered way.

For more info on NVC, see www.nonviolentcommunication.com. For courses and products you can access from your home or office computer, check out www.nvctraining.com.

Namaste!
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries

WWW.THECHAKRAS.ORG

 It’s a perfect day to share our book, The Chakra Diaries, novel life stories exploring the healing power of love. It’s free today, Feb. 14,  at Amazon.com on Kindle. Be sure to get your copy. Thanks if you take the time to put a review on Amazon.

Here’s the last quote in the book… it says it all:

“After we have mastered the wind, the tides and the gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Namaste!

Becca Chopra

www.thechakras.org

February 13th is  the international day of self-love…

Madly in Love with ME™ Day.

Your relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have, says Christine Arylo, and I agree.  Opening your heart chakra to compassion and love for yourself enables you to offer unconditional love to others.

How can you increase love in your life?
More kindness, less judgment.
More fun, less perfectionism.
More happy relationships; less drama and difficult people.
More of your dreams coming true, less settling.
More happiness today, less waiting for the day ‘when’…

Self-love is about empowering yourself to love and live your life to the fullest.  Because of that overflow of love, you can love others even more. (Tomorrow, Valentine’s Day, share the love!)

We, at TheChakras.org will also be sharing our love, so check our website.

Aloha nui loa (much love) from Hawaii,

Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries

www.thechakras.org

Ten Ways Monsanto and Big Ag Are Trying to Kill You – And the Planet, from the Organic Consumer’s Association:
#1 Generating Massive Greenhouse Gas Pollution (CO2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide) and Global Warming, While Promoting False Solutions Such as Industrial Biofuels, So-Called Drought-Resistant Crops, and Genetically Engineered Trees

#2 Polluting the Environment and the Soil-Food Web with Pesticides, Chemical Fertilizers, and Persistent Toxins, Including Dioxin

#3 Draining and Polluting Wetlands and Aquifers, Turning Farmland into Desert

#4 Poisoning Wells and Municipal Drinking Water, Lakes, and Rivers

#5 Chopping Down the Rainforests for Monoculture GMO Crops, Biofuels and Cattle Grazing

#6 Increasing the Cost of Food, While Reducing Nutrition and Biodiversity

#7 Spawning Pesticide-Resistant Superbugs and Weeds, and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

#8 Generating New and More Virulent Plant, Animal and Human Diseases

#9 Utilizing Wasteful Fossil Fuel-Intensive Practices and Encouraging the Expansion of Natural Gas Fracking and Tar Sands Extraction (Which Destroy Forests, Aquifers, and Farmland)

#10 Stealing Money From the 99% to Give Huge Subsidies to the 1% Wealthiest, Most Chemical and Energy-Intensive Farms and Food Producers

“It doesn’t matter if you can’t get a cell phone signal or Wi-Fi where you are. You are

Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love.

Want to feel at one with all there is? More peace, harmony and connection to spirit? Work on your 7th or Crown Chakra. Spiritual oneness is the goal of opening the 7th chakra, the Crown Chakra, the point of knowing and enlightenment. It is our highest energy center, representing liberation, deep understanding, enlightenment and spiritual growth. It represents union with the higher self and the Divine.

Major issues of an unbalanced Crown Chakra are lack of meaning in your life, a feeling of aloneness, depression, and on the physical level, chronic exhaustion and addictions to psychotropic and mind-altering drugs.

A balanced Crown Chakra brings a profound awakening, a connection to our spiritual nature as well as to cosmic consciousness.

YOGA FOR THE CROWN CHAKRA
In addition to silent meditation, chanting and conscious breathing, a beneficial yoga pose to increase circulation to this chakra is the Downward Dog.

CROWN CHAKRA MEDITATION
Here we open ourselves to awareness of the divine and our highest consciousness. Focus on breathing in violet light, relaxing, letting go. Keeping your focus on the crown of your head, allow the chakra to open, visualizing it as a crown of light above your head. Feel it expanding and opening to the wonder and radiance of spirit. Send love up and out the crown chakra and then welcome its return in a beam of light that pours down through your whole being. Let the energy flow through you and around you and embrace totality.

Breathe in the power and the healing. Imagine a rainbow of light pouring down your body, from your crown chakra down to your root chakra, enveloping you in harmony with everything above and below and around you.

For a full 10-minute guided Chakra Meditation, go to www.thechakras.org.

Namaste!
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries

In the shamanic experience, you can create realities by shifting mindsets through four different worlds, which he terms the objective, subjective, symbolic and holistic views. As his book takes us into these different worlds, King teaches a wide variety of powerful tools that can produce significant results. By shifting mindsets, we can do ordinary and non-ordinary things, explains King.

On the physical level, or in the objective world view, King recommends skill development – increasing your energy, strength of body and mind, and consciously changing your posture. On the second or subjective level, he recommends self talk – self praise and increasing your aura; on the third level or symbolic level – creative visualization, guided imagery, dreamwork; and on the fourth level, or holistic level where we are all one, modeling the behavior of someone/something you’d like to emulate.

Have you ever had a psychic moment, when you’re thinking of someone just before the phone rings with them calling, or you “know” that one of your children is in danger or hurt? This occurs in what King describes as the subjective experience, where everything is connected. In this worldview, everyone has ESP, “Extended Sensory Perceptions,” which can be enhanced using King’s exercises for more effective healing using techniques such as telepathic suggestions, creative visualization and energy balancing.

As an energy healer, I found the exercises, especially on how to increase your aura, both easy and effective. Whether you want to increase your own health and happiness, or work as a healer, this book clearly and concisely explains how to use the special shamanic tools available to us all. King has let out the secrets to shamanism!
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries

www.thechakras.org

See Becca’s Book Blog at www.beccachopra.com

“AN INSPIRATIONAL VACATION”
I won a week-long stay at Hale Haumea through TheChakra.org’s 2011 Hawaii Sweepstakes. Wow – we never expected the trip to be so exciting! Lava started flowing again into the ocean just prior to our arrival (Pele had taken a break for several months and Kilauea Volcano was not spewing lava down the mountain). We were taken on a guided hike at sunset and between the flow of the lava creating fireworks and the billions of stars above us, it was breathtaking. The days were also wonderful, from swimming on a black-sand beach with others brave enough to go bare, to snorkeling in a warm pond with two large and one baby turtle, to meeting the author of The Chakra Diaries for a yoga class at Kalani Oceanside Retreat Center, just a mile away. I’m hoping to enter and win again this year, as we didn’t have enough time to see all the sights we wanted to – like Waipio Valley, but we were able to see three fabulous waterfalls in the Hilo area, so the falls at Waipio are something to look forward to. My husband loved the aqua massage he got from the owner’s friend (at a great discount) and I loved my lomi massage – my skin is still soft from the coconut oil. The cottage had everything we needed to feel comfortable and right at home, but the people we met probably made the trip for us – from the owner and her friends, they made sure we didn’t miss one special site or event happening nearby.

Meeting Becca and doing some chakra balancing work was a real eye-opener. Of all the chakracters in The Chakra Diaires, I most identified with Debra, and when Becca checked my chakras with a crystal pendulum, my Sacral Chakra was also imbalanced. I’ve been wanting more flow and creativity in my life, and the chakra balancing work, including swimming every day in the beautiful warm pond, made me feel strong and balanced in the 2nd chakra again.
Mahalo, D. Stone

To enter the 2012 Hawaii Sweepstakes, in celebration of publication of Rebecca’s Version, sequel to The Chakra Diaries, go to www.thechakras.org.

Namaste,
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaires

I have found that inner work is reflected in the outer world. So, visualizing a ball of golden light in my Solar Plexus Chakra, or the center of power and self-confidence, actually leads to more self-esteem in all my dealings. Breathing in an aura of green into my Heart Chakra leads me to express more love and compassion, both for myself and others.

If you’d like to try the Chakra Meditations from The Chakra Diaries, they are now free to listen to and download at http://www.thechakras.org/meditations.html.

Many blessings of rainbow energy in the New Year!
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries

www.thechakras.org

It sounds easy, but it’s not always. Can you focus on the health you have and ignore the aches and pains? Then more health will flow your way. Can you focus on the happiness in the world rather than the misery? Then more happiness will flow your way. Can you focus on abundance in all forms, instead of lack? Then more abundance will flow your way.

This concept is known the world over, but easily forgotten too. In one of Paulo Coelho’s recent blog posts, he mentions of complaining about one burned-out Christmas light until his wife reminds him to look at the many that are brilliantly glowing.

Close your eyes and imagine what you want in the New Year. Focus on and bless everything and everyone that represents what you want. What’s so beautiful about this process is that the blessing (or praise) of others helps them as well as you.

For instance, if you want greater health in the new year, bless healthy people, animals, even healthy plants; bless everything that is well made or well constructed, advises King.

If you want greater prosperity, bless all signs of prosperity in your environment, including everything that money helped to make or do; all the money that you have in any form; and all the money that circulates in the world, King adds.

If you’d like to download a free copy of “The Aloha Spirit,” by Serge Kahili King, in which he further explains the power of focus and blessing, please see http://www.alohainternational.org/html/booklets.html.

Wishing you billions of shimmering blessings in the year ahead.

Namaste!
Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries

www.thechakras.org

If you’re experienced with visualizations or have a creative imagination, picture what you want in your life. Add positive affirmations, feelings and emotion, and watch the picture unfold in your real life.

If you need a helping hand to imagine your best possible future, there are numerous tools available — guided meditations. Look on Amazon.com or iTunes for just the right creative visualization tape for you, one that will take you on a journey toward improved health and wellbeing.

Unlike traveling with the physical body, costs associated with a meditative journey are nominal. In fact, guided visualizations are the most practical, easily accessible self-help tools available.

Whether you listen to a soothing voice through your iPod as you undergo a medical treatment, or you doze off after listening to a relaxing meditation, you’ll find that giving directions to your unconscious can greatly help you to relieve tension and pain, assist in healing, as well as inspire you to achieve your goals.

By using words and images to directly contact your subconscious mind, which is in charge of our habits and beliefs, guided visualizations open a window of opportunity to screen out any interference from the critical chatter of the conscious mind.

Imagery has long been considered a healing tool in virtually all of the world’s cultures, and is now being recognized by major medical centers as helpful in relief of pain and stress.

For a sample creative visualization, listen to my free Chakra Meditation at www.thechakras.org.

Namaste,

Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries