Open the Central Column of Light

Open the Central Column of Light

One of the most valuable ways I have found in working with the entire energy system is through a

meditation that I call opening the central light column with the breath

Open chakras fully – grow roots into Earthstar chakra and deep into mother Gaia. Open all

upward to the heart. Then towards to Star chakra up into Source, bring this energy down into

all chakras to light up, heal, cleanse, purify, balance. Spin them and create a vortex.

Remember we have front and back chakras. Don’t rush and be gentle to open the filament

around each chakra.

Start breathing, counting to keep me grounded.

NSEW

Build up the energy vortex

Dedicate time to this practice

Awareness of the beautiful world we live in and be grateful.

Opening the Column of Light and the Steps to achieve Reiki

The steps for breathing open the column are as follows:

1. Ask the person to breathe more deeply and slowly than normal, breathing in up from

the lungs, through the shoulders, and to the top of the head, then breathing out all the

way down to the bottom of the feet. Suggest that the individual do this several times,

creating a circular flow of energy around the entire body. Encourage the inhalation and

exhalation to be even in length.

2. After the person has begun to relax and quiet down, draw his or her attention to the

central light column that runs vertically through the middle of the body from the top of

the head to the bottom of the feet, roughly parallel to the spine and connecting the

chakras. Ask the person to then intuitively open and expand the column to the perfect

diameter by gently breathing in and out several times.

3. Next ask the person to imagine that he or she is standing firmly on the Earth and to now

send the column down like roots from a tree all the way into the center or heart of the

Earth and then to anchor it there.

4. Now ask the person to also extend the column above the head all the way through the

celestial realms to the heart of the Source and anchor it there.

5. Ask the person to continue the same breathing rhythm, simultaneously breathing the

grounding and supportive Earth energies into the column from below and the celestial

Heaven energies into the column from above, allowing Heaven and Earth to come

together within the heart region. Here the energies blend, merge, balance, and unify as

One and fill the heart to capacity with the universal life force energy of Reiki, which

activates and nourishes the development of the unified heart chakra within the person's

energy field.

6. Encourage the person to permit the flow of Reiki to then spill over into the entire

circulatory system of the physical body, nourishing all the tissues, glands, organs,

muscles, bones, and cells. Then have the person use the breath to expand the flow from

the heart like a sunburst into the etheric, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies that

surround and interpenetrate the physical body.

I do the meditation in the early stages of a session, as this method has the effect of

opening the various levels of the energy system in such a way that much of the effort one

might otherwise need to expend in getting the main areas of the energy system flowing is

taken care of quite easily. You can then spend the rest of the session focusing Reiki healing

energy in areas that need specific attention.

As you lead the recipient through the meditation, place your Reiki hands wherever you are

guided. As I begin, I often find myself cupping the person's head in my palms while I

quietly speak the instructions into his or her ear. Take care to allow adequate time

between each phase for the person to complete the instruction. Also, assure the person

that he or she does not have to actually "see" or even feel the column and everything that is happening during the opening. The intention to simply breathe in and out to move the flow of the healing energy throughout the physical and subtle bodies during the meditation is all that is required.

After completing the meditation, the healing energies of Reiki will now be circulated

through the central light column, into the heart, then on to the physical and subtle bodies

as the person continues to inhale and exhale. Gently remind the person to reestablish the

deeper and slower breathing rhythm whenever he or she lapses back into a shallow

breathing pattern during the course of the session.

If so guided, you can also expand Step Six of the meditation to take a longer period to

gradually move the Reiki energy into the physical body and each of the subtle bodies. This

allows additional time for the Reiki to cleanse and purify the body and each of the layers

of the auric field, offering the person a greater opportunity to fully absorb and integrate

the universal life force into his or her total energy system.

An example of expanding Step Six in this way occurred during my sessions with a breast

cancer patient named Shelly (not her real name). When we were at the physical level, I

asked her to breathe the flow through her bloodstream into her entire body, and then to

gently focus it in the right and left breasts and surrounding tissues. I then asked her to do

a scan of the rest of her body from head to toe and to likewise breathe the energy directly

into those areas that called to her in some way.

Once this was complete, we moved to the etheric body and repeated the process, and

then out to the emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies one at a time. I suggested that

Shelly intend for the healing flow to move into those places within the subtle bodies that

held the patterning in place that was contributing to the cause of the breast cancer. We

took whatever time was needed at each level, perhaps as much as ten to fifteen minutes

each (this was a ninety-minute session).

While Shelly was focused on breathing the Reiki energy into each level of her field, I

scanned and intuitively worked with hand positions on the physical body, as well as off

the body within the energy field from a few inches to several feet away using angelic light

weaving. I was also using my voice, making healing sounds. While scanning, I was looking

and feeling for places within Shelly's energy anatomy that were in some way drawing

attention to themselves, as well as taking direction from information provided by Shelly

during the session.

We repeated this process as called for in subsequent times together, and depending on

Shelly's needs, sometimes spent an entire session on only the emotional body or any of

the other levels of her energy field. This allowed for in-depth clearing and healing of the

patterning that was contributing to her disease. While she was in chemotherapy and

subsequent radiation, Shelly adapted the meditation to convert the treating agents into

pure light and then distribute them throughout her entire energy system. She reported

that once she started doing this during her treatments, she thereafter had fewer negative

side effects .

Shelly and I worked together like this quite intensively for about eight months. I am

pleased to report that she later invited me to annual parties celebrating each subsequent

year of being cancer-free. She moved away and we lost touch about four years ago, and at

that point she had remained cancer-free for almost five years.