How to find your own energy centers/points
When I first started delving into witchcraft, many of the books and websites I read used the chakra system. Not knowing that these were all a whitewashed version of a highly variable system that is part of closed practices, I adhered to that practice for a while. When I found out the history and relevant cultural limitations of this practice, I put it aside. But I didn’t know what to replace it with, so I decided to find a highly personalized energy center system. Here, I’ll share my process with you.
Note: I’m not judging anyone for using chakras, I think the majority of new pagans (at least white new pagans) have probably used them at some point. However, I found cleansing my personal energy points much more effective than when I was trying to cleanse a “standardized” system that was not specific to me. The first time I did it, I was honestly kind of dizzy, but in a good way. It was powerful.
Meditate for a few minutes, focusing on your breath and trying to relax as much as you can.
Next, think about what part of your body is affected when you feel strong emotions. This is probably a center of energy for you. For me, I tend to feel difficult emotions like dread, fear, and anxiety in my solar plexus/stomach area, and things like happiness, love, and excitement in my chest, so I identified both as an energy center.
What about where you feel your pulse when your heart is pounding? Is it in your chest? Your neck? Your temples? For me, I am chronically ill and at the doctor often, so I felt the most connection here to my wrists, where nurses take my pulse. For you it may be different!
Where do you feel you process your thoughts most? Are you a “head” thinker or a “heart” thinker? This is probably going to be your head in most cases, but see if a particular part of your head feels more relevant. Do you do a lot of instinctual or intuitive thinking? Maybe this would come from the back of your head, where the more instinctual parts of the brain are.
Once you start identifying significant points in your body, try to really feel them. See if they feel different than the rest of your body now that you’ve recognized their significance. If you aren’t sensitive to energy, they may not feel different and that’s okay, you’ll just have to experiment with cleansing exercises to see what works and what doesn’t.
Extend your awareness of your body outside of the centers you have identified. Does anything else “feel” significant? For me, my spine at the base of my neck, where my neck meets my shoulders felt like one of these points, even though my analysis didn’t have a real reason why it would be important. Trust this instinct.
I have six energy points in my body, center of my head, center of my chest, my solar plexus, the base of my neck, and each wrist. You might have more or less, it’s really individual. Perhaps if you spend a lot of time on your feet for a job you love, or travel a lot, then maybe your feet would be energy points for you!
Try cleansing these points with your preferred method. Personally, I visualize a moonbeam reaching down to me and helping me cleanse each point individually, until my whole body is “glowing” with moonlight. But that’s just my method that works best for me!
Good luck finding your own energy system! I hope this personalized method is more helpful to you than taking someone else’s word for where your energy lies in your body!
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