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The most important thing, when doing energy-work, is to build a strong energy-field, or energy-body. Getting to know your energy-field, and building its frequency and size, means that you are also developing your Self. You are your energy field. It contains everything you need to know. It is like a vessel, a container for everything that you are in this lifetime, emotions, patterns of behaviour, thoughts, frequencies, keys, codes, memories and knowledge, both of this lifetime and all other lives which you have lived. Everything you have ever learned is in this field although, like a computer, you only use certain ‘programs’ at a time.

When working with earth energies we are working with the three Tan Tien in the body. The seven chakra system is the system that works with the energies moving into our physical body through the other layers of the energy field. The three Tan Tien, are in the Hara Dimension (see at the end for an explanation of this). The image below shows the seven body chakras and the three Tan Tien. The upper and middle Tan Tien correspond to the third eye chakra and the heart chakra but the lower Tan Tien lies behind the navel in the centre of the body. The image is from Barbara Brennan’s book, Light Emerging. (A book well worth reading if you want to develop your sensitivity and healing).

When you receive your first Gaia Method Earthways attunement the earth energy serpent lies coiled in the lower Tan Tien. The serpent is in the Hara dimension and when it is awakened it moves into place showing you how you will express the earth’s wisdom and fertility in your life, and your Soul’s intention for the expression of your gifts.

Your Hara Line is the core of your spiritual intention on earth. Your intention sends the energy messages of your thoughts and feelings into your auric field. What turns up in your life is what you intended, whether you are consciously aware of it not. The Lower Tan Tien is your physical centre of gravity and your connection to the earth energies. The Hara dimension is a deeper dimension within the auric field and aligned with your Soul’s intention and purpose. The top of the Hara line is 3.5 feet above your head and aligns you to Divine energy and purpose.

Here is the exercise I used to develop sensitivity in my energy-field so that I could get to know how I sensed physically. When you work with energies, you learn to feel them with our body, learning to sense the different energies which can often be quite subtle. Nature energies are very much a ‘felt-experience’, so learning to sense with your body is important. Working with your energies directly also provides you with an emotional map, because changes made to your energy-field effect your behaviour, bringing things to the surface as trapped emotional energies are released. The more you release, the more effective you become as an energy-worker.

We work with spheres in this system, energies often anchoring around your body in a spherical shape.

Here is the first basic exercise.

Building your connection to Sun and Earth and Creating Healthy Boundaries.

1. Sit in a comfortable position, but not so comfortable that you want to fall asleep. Keeping your back straight, state your intention silently to yourself that you are going to be spending the next 20 minutes strengthening your field. Take a deep breath into your lower Tan Tien (Small star at your navel) and breathe out a long relaxing breath.

Continue breathing in and out of your lower Tan Tien, until you feel ready to continue. At this point you should be more aware of the inside of you than the outside of you. Moving your awareness inside can take as long as it takes, so just keep breathing until you feel fully centred, keeping your awareness focused in your Tan Tien, which is the centre of your being.

2. Now imagine that a gold line, the Hara Line, is connecting into the earth beneath you. Let it connect to the earth’s core. When it ‘feels’ anchored, imagine that the gold line is also connecting to the sun, through your body. Anchor it there and wait until you feel that the line connecting you to sun and earth is stable. Sit with this feeling of connection for a couple of minutes. This line makes you feel strong, centred and confident. It is your spiritual connection to All that is and to the Heart of the Mother. (see below for information on the Hara).

3. Your energy-field is like an ovalish-sphere all around you. I visualise it as a sphere becasue it has a feeling of containment, and energies can move into energy field, or aura, spherically. The shape gives you something to focus on. Your lower Tan Tien is at the absolute centre of this sphere. To know the extent of your field, it should be at your fingertips, when your arms are outstretched and parallel to the ground.

If your aura is closer to your body it can feel like you are being oppressed by others around you. Your own ‘personal’ space is not valued by others. You feel ‘squashed’ and small. You might unconsciously pull it in to protect yourself.

If your aura is larger than your arms’ width, then you put a lot of your energy into outside things. People might perceive you as a ‘larger than life’ personality, or as dynamic and forceful.

4. Now, ‘look’ at the boundaries of your field. Is it spiky? Wobbly? etc. How it looks is how you feel. A healthy aura should be at your fingertips with your arms outstretched to the side, like the first image. If it is doing any of the others: wobbly, too small, or too large, then change it. If it is too big, mentally ‘pull’ it to a healthy size. If it is too small push it out with your intention until it is at a healthy size. If you find either of these things difficult to accomplish then it is pointing to issues which keep you in that pattern, so you are being given a clue.

When you can bring your auric field in to a healthy size create a safe boundary around it. A protection, if that is needed. Allow your subconscious to create an image which means protection to you. If you work with other protective energies, such as the Violet Flame, then you can place those around your field.

Once you have placed your chosen protection around your now ‘healthy-sized’ energy field, you can take a few breaths and bring your awareness back into your physical surroundings, feeling more relaxed and empowered.

Do this basic exercise a few times a week and see how both your behaviour changes and the behaviour of others around you. If you have problems asserting your values, and needs, then you might find that you stop being a doormat and people start treating you differently. Working with your energy-field helps you to ‘know yourself’ better. The more you use this exercise the easier it gets and you can soon do it in a couple of minutes. Energy follows thought so it can be done anywhere.

This is the foundation for the other work to come, so becoming proficient in playing with your energy-field makes the energy work that follows, that much easier.

If you want to go into Auras in more depth, I would recommend both of Barbara Brennan’s books. Hands of Light, and Light Emerging.

30 April 2015. Luxor, Egypt.
Sitting at my computer I began to feel energy coming in. I brought down the white sphere with my arms, until it was completely around me, then raised my central pillar and opened the lotus in the top of my field. Raising my arms up again I brought a sphere of Solar energy, slowly down into my energy-field. Then I had to bring another energy up from the earth. It was a black lotus. Never had one of those before! It completely folded up around me, so that I was sitting in the centre of it, with its petals closed above my head. I felt like I was in a dark cocoon, protected, but alone. I was aware of a lunar crescent at my third eye, and then the sun energy that I had brought down began to shine out of my heart, and light up the inside of the lotus.
I sat there for about 15 minutes, with just the lunar light at my forehead and the solar light in my heart. I seemed to be just shining this light. I felt like a seed in a seed pod, waiting to emerge. There seemed to be nothing I could do but wait and hold these two lights, but I felt like I was waiting for something to pass, something difficult and all I had to do was wait and hold the light.
After what seemed like ages, the petals at the top opened slightly and I could see a patch of blue sky. Again this lasted for a few minutes so I knew, that although that it was clearing ‘out there’, I still had to wait.
A few minutes later the OM symbol appeared in the blue sky above the lotus petals and I knew then that it was safe to emerge.
The next image I saw, as though I was being given an image of the future, beyond this experience of waiting, was of myself in some other place. I was living on a farm, more in my Goddess-self than my human-self. I had my arms raised to the sun. Then I knelt down and ran my hands and fingers through the soil, loving the earth, feeling my connection to its fertility.
I saw myself walking up the trackway to the yard and I stood in the centre of it, and once again raised my arms to the sky. I became a tree, huge and green, with large fruits growing from my branches. Then people began to appear and they each plucked a fruit from the tree. They opened the fruit and it was full of seeds, like a pomegranate, rich and red and full of potential. Then each of these people took their fruit and walked out of the place in all directions, like they were walking on a giant spider-web, to all corners of the Globe. The tree reminded me of the Egyptian carvings of the Goddess in the Tree, feeding the people.
The last thing to appear was a giant Cobra, whose energy covered the entire place. She was its protector, protecting the Divine Feminine energy from all harm.
Then the energies faded.

Looks like we are going to go through quite a challenging time around here. Feels like mourning, and reminds me of when my sister died suddenly, ten years ago. I grieved, but I also knew where she was, and I knew that she was back ‘home’. So I was glad for her, but sad at the same time.. I realised that it is a person’s Soul energy that we miss when someone dies, their essence. Once they have left it is a reminder to us, on an unconscious level, that they have returned to their Soul home and we are still here! Weirdly, as a medium, I was still able to communicate with her, so I really did have to put my money where my mouth was. Did I believe in the immortality of the Soul or not? Yes, I did, and my sister helped me to really live that belief.

Now, it looks like I have to do the same again. Glad I am energetically prepared! But beyond that, is my dream, so it will be worth going through it, even if it is hard work getting there.