The Divine Channel of Light
By now as you've been reading these blogs you know a little bit about the chakras; the seven centers of consciousness that are lined up more or less with the calling of the spine. These centers of consciousness regulate the four archetypes of the whole human being: the mind, the physical, emotional, and spiritual.
There is of very powerful column of light that shines through the lenses of all 7 chakras and has a double pulse going up and down the spine through these lenses. This pulsing column of light along with the chakras and the ida/pingala form the human aura or biofield. It has been written about in sacred texts.
There is a biblical story about Jacob's ladder (Genesis 28:12) that references the shushumna. To me, this is a story about Jacob awakening his chakras and ascending through the shushumna’ column of Divine light up from his earthly physical presence at the base of his chakras towards the top of the spine representing heaven. Or awakening to a higher spiritual level of awareness in his consciousness. The angels ascending and descending through the shushumna were his own levels of awareness and his guides. This is a beautiful story about Jacob’s spiritual awakening!
Also, my interpretation of Jacob’s “ladder” is a reference to the 33 vertebrae in the spinal column (includes the fused vertebra in the coccyx. Jacob “ascended” through the 33 vertebrae in the shushumna’s column of light passing through the lenses of all seven of his chakra’s, providing his spiritual awakening to higher orders of consciousness and high dimensional awareness.
I teach my Integrative Chakra Therapy® practitioner students how to measure, assess and modify this pulse as a form of enhancing and balancing the chakras. Using their own chakras to work on the client, the practitioners are also stimulating and awakening their own chakras by this method. It is difficult to describe the power of this form of energy medicine and its effects on the four archetypes!
There are exercises to help strengthen and tone this column of light that have existed in eastern philosophies and practices for centuries. A breathing exercise called the Circulation of Light is one that I use daily. The circulation of light exercise is also called shoshuten breathing or the Microcosmic Orbital Breathing (Video) and Downloadable Circulation of Light and Chakra Breathing exercise. You can practice to balance and tone all 7 chakras through the shushumna by doing seven breaths (cycles) or more, as you wish.
Blessings,
Dr. Richard Jelusich, Ph.D.