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Healing the Subtle Bodies of the By Ambika Wauters Each chakra has a particular “right of being” attached to it. Spiritual Homeopathy combines the healing power of homeopathic medicine with a penetrating understanding of the subtle energy bodies in the Human Energy System. These bodies contain our life force, desires and aversions, and the soul forces that regulate our karma and destiny. They form the context in which we live our lives, either by being balanced and open to life or by being closed and contracted. The etheric body is the subtle body which contains the regenerative life principles that stimulate physical and emotional development; the astral body holds our spirit’s longings and desires and our mentality while the egoic field showcases our individuality and sense of freedom which allows our soul to flourish. These subtle bodies, described by Dr. Rudolf Steiner in his Anthroposophical writings, can be considered pathways to healing and consciousness. When these bodies fail to thrive or grow appropriately, pathology and imbalance form a crucible of limitation and restriction. By addressing healing from this level, we can balance our genetic predisposition, known as miasms, and emotional blockage. This allows a gentle transformation and balance to occur, in the form of detoxification and distressing. The medium for that change is homeopathy. Homeopathy, developed by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in Germany in 1800, offers the most conscious and effective way of shifting both our genetic predispositions and emotional blockages in a permanent and productive way. Homeopathy helps us move on in our lives. It is the treatment of symptoms using the ancient principle of “like curing like” so that natural substances which have a specific imprint on the physical, emotional and mental aspects of our being can be used to help us decongest what is blocked and stagnant. These substances are made up into solutions of miniscule dilutions. They do not overpower the system but gently stimulate it to generate its own vitality and to strive for balance and health on all levels of the subtle bodies. It is through the direct application of these miniscule remedies that we redress what is disturbed in our physical, etheric, astral and egoic bodies. In recent years, the healing properties of sound and color, transformed into homeopathic remedies, have been used to destress and unblock the human energy system. They have proved to be gentle, safe and effective in healing a variety of pathologies, as well as emotional and mental problems. Each one of the subtle bodies resonates with and is especially attuned to personal archetypes of empowerment, responsibility and vitality, as well as to life issues and challenges. They also resonate with the chakras, or energy centers, of the human energy system. Color and sound, as it happens, have a particular affinity to these centers. Each chakra has a particular “right of being” attached to it. The Root Chakra, located at the base of the spine, has a “right” to the life we say we want. It helps us become anchored on the earth and to move from a place of belonging and connection. It helps us to receive what is rightfully ours to experience. When we do not possess a sense of this right to our own life, then we lose our grounding, both psychologically and energetically, and lack confidence and authority about who we are and where we belong. The right of the Sacral Chakra, located below the navel in the area of the pelvis, is our right to pleasure and abundance. When we deny ourselves ease and pleasure, abundance and prosperity, we operate in a paradigm of lack and limitation. Whether we experience guilt or a sense of unworthiness, we are not claiming our right to that which matches the abundance and creativity of the universe. The Solar Plexus Chakra, just below the sternum in the area of the stomach, is the right to our own power. This means that we know we are worthy of what we say we want, and we have sufficient self esteem to generate confidence and personal power. The right of the Heart Chakra is to give and receive love. Many people only experience love as a giving out without cultivating the capacity to receive. When we allow the love to enter into our lives, we calm the heart and stabilize our emotions. The Throat Chakra is our right to self expression. When we express our truth, both our personal truth and the higher truth of God, we open a channel for healing to happen in our life. Suppressing self expression creates tension and even pathology. The right of the Brow Chakra is the right to our own thoughts. Freedom to think intuitively is essential for a strong spirit. Discerment, knowledge, intuition and imagination foster the crucible for us to cultivate wisdom from the pain, loss, seperation and traumas of our life. Lastly, the right of the Crown Chakra is the right to our indelible connection with the Creator. Without a sense of this eternal connection, we give over our spiritual will to others to define what and who we are as spirit. By giving a homeopathic color or sound remedy, we can help the chakras to stabilize. As just one example, for the Root Chakra, we use red for a person who does not experience the right to their own life. This has been used successfully after divorce, illness, separation and loss. Each chakra resonates with a color that brings these rights into focus and clarity. Similarly, sound remedies bring balance to the Astral forces where our desires and longings can take sway over our lives and cause us to avoid fulfilling our destiny in life. This work is now being taught in weekend seminars for those who wish to see if this work is of interest to them, and in two year training programs that invite serious study and development of practical clinical skills. Ambika Wauters, R.S. Hom., UK, is the principal of The School of Spiritual Homeopathy in Chicago. If you would like more information about courses or the school, please contact her at 877-774-1812 or visit her website at www.ambikawauters.com. |
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