Awaken Your Inner Power

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Awaken Your
Inner Power!
A Guide to Meditation, Kundalini
Awakening and Hermetic Magick
or
How to Awaken Your Kundalini and
Harmonize Your Body, Mind & Spirit
for More Powerful Spells, Rituals and
Manifesting
Robert Morgen
Mystic Wolf Media
www.Inner-Power.net
Copyright © 2011 by Robert Morgen.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or

transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or
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ISBN 13: 978-0-9790400-7-8

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Author photo by Anya Yankelevich
Printed in the USA

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About the Author

Robert Morgen experienced a near-death kundalini
awakening in 1992 and spent over a decade discovering what
happened and how to adapt to the changes in his life.
He’s the author of “Awaken Your inner Power!” and

“The Spiritual Entrepreneur”.
He’s a Reiki Master who holds a Black Belt in

Hoshinjutsu and a Deputy Black Belt in Combat Hapkido.
He’s the founder of The Inner Power Online

Community, the Inner Power Meditation Meetup Group,
host of The Inner Power Radio Show and creator of 4 CDs on
meditation and energy work.
You can download several free Guided Meditation

MP3’s at his website.
www.Inner-Power.net
Robert Morgen produces a FREE Podcast in which you

may download many of the exercises from this book as
guided meditations.
You may access this Podcast, The Inner Power Online

Community, The Inner Power Radio Show and see Robert's
workshop and seminar schedule at the Inner Power Blog
at: www.Inner-Power.net
Dedication
For Anya, for standing by me when it didn’t make any sense.
For Jake for being so much fun.
For my sister Karen, for all the years of wondering what was
wrong with me. ☺
For Andy for being so cool.
For Jeff, Lynda, Jan, Doug Bueckert, Brad Feaster, Brian

Earnest and Jen Brown-Cutrell because good friends are nice
to have and when you can list them all that easily then you
should.
For Glenn Morris for making things make sense, even when it
hurt (a lot ☺).
An unexpected side effect to writing a book has been the

interesting people who've looked me up after reading it.
Thanks to Scott Malone, Robert Weiland, Tom Lux and all the
others who've come along to lend a hand and offer support.
A special thanks to Margie Casados! Margie did a great job

helping me get my radio show and some other projects going.
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Table of Contents

Introduction: WHO Do You Want To BE? ................................ viii
Part 1: Preparation ............................................................................. 1
Chapter 1: Understanding Enlightenment ...................................... 2
Chapter 2: What is Inner Power?..................................................... 6
Chapter 3: In a Perfect World ......................................................... 13
Chapter 4: Creating Your World .................................................. 20
Chapter 5: Kundalini Basics ........................................................... 37
Chapter 6: Closer to Bliss ............................................................. 48
Chapter 7: Introduction to Meditation .......................................... 81
Chapter 8: Basic Meditation Exercises .......................................... 91
Chapter 9: Energy Safety and Troubleshooting ........................... 101
Chapter 10: Healing ...................................................................... 105
Part 2: Awakening Your Power ...................................................... 112
Chapter 11: Complete Self Acceptance ......................................... 113
Chapter 12: The Chakras .............................................................. 116
Chapter 13: Advanced Meditation Exercises .............................. 142
Chapter 14: Feeling and Seeing Energy ........................................ 150
Chapter 15: Damo’s Cave ..............................................................155
Chapter 16: Opening the Chakras ............................................... 159

Part 3: Living an Awakened Life ................................................... 165
Chapter 17: Finding your ‘Inner Gods’........................................ 166
Chapter 18: Travels in the Void .................................................... 174
Chapter 19: Becoming Your True Self .......................................... 177
Chapter 20: Living in Abundance ................................................ 200
Chapter 21: Death and Reincarnation ......................................... 209
Chapter 22: Becoming Who We’re Supposed to Be ...................... 213
Chapter 23: Setting Boundaries for the Universe ......................... 219
Chapter 24: 1% for Inner Peace ..................................................... 223
Chapter 25: How to Achieve Inner Peace .....................................226
Chapter 26: Giving Without Sacrifice .......................................... 231
Chapter 27: Living The Law of Reversal ...................................... 235
Chapter 28: Drawing and Sending Energy ................................... 237
Chapter 29: Witches, Druids and Shamans .................................242
Chapter 30: Putting it all Together ...............................................250
Resource List for Inner Power ....................................................... 252

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Introduction: WHO Do You Want

To BE?
Inner Power is the combination of your basic energy and what you
can do with that energy to accomplish your goals in life. The more
energy you can generate, the more energy you have available to focus on
your goals.
Of course it’s not just about having more energy, but rather it’s
about using the energy you have more effectively. I’ve laid this book out
in a simple progression of concepts and exercises that would’ve helped
me immensely when I started meditation and energy work.
I've written this book from what I hope is a very secular
viewpoint. My goal is to provide a manual that helps you to develop
greater levels of spirituality. How you choose to express that spirituality
is completely up to you. You may choose from any of the current
religions or simply choose to be a spiritualist and go deeper into your
Inner Self.
Religion provides a framework or infrastructure. It's a good way
to network and have a premade solution for many of the questions and
problems that arise from developing one's spirituality. While the Far East
has provided many of the tools and philosophies on which I've built my
own practice, I've also delved into Shamanism, Wicca, the Druid Path
and pretty much any available Mystery Schools. I consider myself to be
simply a Hermetic Mage for lack of a better pigeonhole.
I occasionally use the phrase 'when your Inner Power awakens'
and I mean it exactly that way. Human beings have a pool of dormant
energy that lies at the base of the spine. Known as Kundalini in Sanskrit,
this energy is blocked by the stress, mental inflexibility and poor
physical fitness of the average person but with a little training and a lot
of practice anyone can access this pool of energy. I'm going to refer to
the Kundalini as Inner Power or energy from this point on. When your
Inner Power awakens it travels up the spine and sends a blast of energy
throughout your system and this event can alter the way you look at the
Universe and everything in it.
This awakening will cause you to deal with every aspect of your
life, and how many people do you know who do all they can to avoid just
that? My experience has shown that you can take the time to cleanse and
balance your life on your own terms, or this energy awakening will force
you to do it. Your physical/mental/spiritual self is like an onion. You can
peel it back, clean it up and balance it one layer at a time or this energy
cleansing will do it all at once, like smashing the onion with a
sledgehammer. The exercises and principles in this book are all designed
to help you make gradual, incremental changes to your life rather than a
shocking spiritual awakening that completely changes who you think you
are.
The Universe functions, in many ways, like a vast computer.
Like any computer it gives you what you ask for, or what you’ve
programmed it for, rather than what you want. Many of the principles in
this book will help you take control of that programming. Like many
programs, yours can run automatically once you know how the system
works and what you want to accomplish.
The Human Energy System is a fascinating piece of bio-
technology and we’re fortunate to live in a time when science and
spirituality are becoming sister sciences. Scientists have now proven
beyond a doubt that everything in the universe is connected and we as
observers/participators have much more control over our lives than we
ever believed possible.
The concepts in the first part of the book will help you get your
head around what this means to you on a personal level. After that we
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move into meditation and energy work. This section will help you
develop and increase your energy levels, primarily by showing you how
to get out of your own way.
The meditation exercises will help you learn to see and feel
energy as well as move it around in your body and even in other people.
The goal with meditation is to help you reduce the internal and external
resistance to your energy by reducing stress and toxicity. The less
resistance you have the more energy you can use. Take your time with
the meditation exercises. Some of these took me years to learn on my
own and I’ve included links to some free Guided Meditation MP3’s of
some of these exercises that you can download and share with friends.
The Chakra chapter introduces some of the energy vortexes on
your body. Chakra, an ancient Sanskrit word for wheel, refers to an
interface for aspects of your energy, personality and emotions. When
working with the chakras we can take much more control over our lives
while healing deep mental and emotional trauma and even wounds from
past lives. I’ve included enough about chakras to get you started, but this
chapter isn’t meant to be a comprehensive training course. I’ve included
references to some good books for further study.
The Healing chapter will help you balance your energy and clear
more energy blocks. I’ve included instructions for Reiki and contrary to
popular belief you DO NOT need to be ‘attuned’ to Reiki in order to use
it. I’ve proven this repeatedly with my own students and in classes and
seminars. The attunements give you a jump start but if you use it
consistently your body will attune itself. The Reiki exercises here will
help you cleanse and balance your body and energy fields.
The latter part of the book includes more concepts and lessons
I’ve learned the hard way. We’re all a collection of thoughts, feelings
and emotions that may have piled up for years without any cleansing or
direction. Learning to take control of those thoughts, feelings and
especially emotions can give you much more control over your life.
Much of the bio-technology in this book is based in Eastern
sources because that’s what survived the religious purges of the Dark
Ages. I’ve tried to minimize the Eastern terminology as much as possible
but in some cases there are no Western words for the concepts.
While much of what I cover in this book could be called
‘spiritual’ in the sense of ‘dealing with the spirit’ I want to make a point
that this is a bio-technology. This means it’s a technology that’s available
to everyone with a biology, regardless of religion or spiritual path. The
concepts and exercises here can be used by anyone who wants to develop
a better mind/body/spirit connection and done properly will enhance any
spiritual path.
You’ll notice that I repeat some of the concepts throughout the
book because some of these concepts are extremely important and can’t
be stressed enough. I also repeat some concepts because the human mind
can’t store a new concept the first time it’s encountered. Frequently I’ll
mention a concept and say a few words about it and then get into it more
deeply later on.
As your energy awakens you’ll see that we tend to come back to
the same concepts repeatedly. Usually this happens in a spiral. You’ll
learn something and later you’ll come back to that subject at a higher
level and learn more about it. I’ve used that idea in the layout of this
book.
I stress safety in this manual and made it a point to provide
several exercises and principles that can make your journey significantly
safer. One side effect of intense meditation and energy work can be
extreme changes to your perceptions. These changes can affect all
aspects of your life. This type of training should definitely be considered
a ‘warrior path’ and it’s not at all what many people think of when you
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mention meditation. Like any warrior path this one requires discipline,
dedication and the courage to face your most dangerous opponent head
on. Those who think of meditation as a fluffy, New Age version of sitting
and staring at the wall are in for a shock.
When you embark on this path I assure you that you will be
afraid, confused, hurt, depressed and angry, but I also promise that if you
pay attention to the principles and do the exercises in this book you'll
have all the tools you need to handle those moments. I'm not a guru or an
expert or any type of 'Master', I'm just a guy who has screwed all of this
stuff up for long enough that I can now share some things that will help
and maybe give you some examples of what not to do.
No book can be everything to everyone, but I’m confident that if
you approach this one with an open mind and a willingness to go
somewhere new you'll find that this book can take you there… and you’ll
probably be someone new when you get there.
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Part 1: Preparation
Awakening your Inner Power is not something to be rushed into
lightly. This is a path from which there is no turning back. You are going
to see, feel and experience things that most people don't even believe in
and some of those things are going to be unpleasant (to say the least!).
The purpose of Part 1 is to give you the skills and abilities to
handle the challenges you'll meet on this path. In Part 1 you'll learn how
to cleanse and harmonize your body, mind and spirit, develop the
attitudes to handle anything that life throws at you and learn to reset your
basic programming to help you get the results you want from your life.
You will use the skills and exercises from Part 1 every day for
the rest of your life, so the more time you spend here now the easier the
more advanced exercises will be.
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Chapter 1: Understanding Enlightenment

I don't like many of the connotations that seem to go with the
word 'Enlightenment'. It's become such a buzzword in the last couple of
decades that for me much of the usefulness has been leached out of the
word, so you'll rarely hear me use it. With that said I want to take a
closer look at what enlightenment means the way I teach it.
Enlightenment is simply the ability to address each moment of
your life and every being that you come in contact with from a position
of love, joy and gratitude. In order to do that we have to get beyond all of
our own ego-driven desires and attitudes. That's a pretty tall order and
almost no one on the planet does it with as much regularity as we'd like,
although every being in the Universe has the ability.
I'm going to outline a few steps and attitudes that can help you
develop higher levels of enlightenment in your life. How well you are
able to follow these steps and develop these attitudes depends entirely
upon you and there is no set timeline as we all have different experiences
and lives. There are a lot of guidelines and points that I make in the
upcoming chapters for those of you who can't instantly grasp the
following concepts. Right now all I ask is that you keep an open mind.
The Benevolent Universe

One of the first great concepts is the benevolence of the
Universe. We live in a Universe that wants us to succeed, that gives us
everything we need for success and that with just a minimal effort on our
part will line up all the tools, resources and help we need. That paradigm
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is so far from most people's experience that it's almost impossible for
them to grasp without some major meditation and work.
The Magnificence of the Human Being

This concept has rattled around in the back of my mind for a
very long time. Of all the various concepts in this book this one may
have been the hardest for me to grasp and start to integrate.
Every human being has the spark of Divinity within them. We
are all here to have diverse experiences that lead to the growth we need
at a personal and spiritual level. Sometimes the experiences we need to
have require us to conflict at varying
levels with other humans and it gets
really easy to create an 'Us and Them'
Enlightenment is
mentality.
At the same time it's been
simply the ability to
scientifically proven that everything in address each moment
our universe is not only made of the of your life and every
same cosmic stuff, but that we are also being that you come in
completely interconnected with one contact with from a
another. The illusions of separation exist position of love, joy
simply to help us maintain the and gratitude.
impression of self required for our day
to day functionality.
Getting past the illusion of separateness is a vitally important
step in the process of enlightenment. Once we start to get past this
illusion it becomes easier to see the myriad ways we're connected to one
another. It also becomes easier to really feel a sense of unconditional
love and complete acceptance of other people even when we disagree
with the path they've chosen for their lives. At the point where you
realize (as in 'to make real for yourself') the fact that everyone and
everything that exists is simply a part of you then it becomes easier to
love and respect every being you meet and release the judgementalism
that prevents one-ness.
ALL Stress is Based in Fear

There are only 2 options for any given moment; Love and Fear. I
emphasize keeping a positive attitude and having Faith because all stress
is based in fear. Any form of anger, anxiety or any other type of stress is
based in the fear that we won't be able to accomplish something that we
need. Learning to let go of that fear and allow the Benevolence of the
Universe to work in your favor is a major stepping stone to living an
enlightened life.
Gratitude
It's hard to be angry, afraid or stressed when living in gratitude.
Realizing that every experience you have is simply a step on the path of
wisdom can make it easier to deal with the hard times every human goes
through.
Joy
Joy is simply the combination of all the above concepts working
in harmony within you. You can call it Bliss if you prefer. I prefer either
word to 'enlightenment'. When you can truly experience a moment when
you can feel the benevolence of the Universe, and love and appreciate
every being around you simply because they exist while releasing all of
your fears and stress then you can have a moment of Bliss. It's hard to
NOT feel grateful in those moments.
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True Enlightenment is simply a matter of how many of those

moments you can string together consecutively.
Bringing it all Together

My purpose with this book is to help as many people experience
this Bliss as possible. Every being in this Universe already has the ability
to live in Bliss, we've simply become distracted by our corporeal forms
and all the feelings, emotions, pains and pleasure that go with. The
concepts, meditations and exercises I outline here will help you learn to
get out of your own way and allow that Bliss to flow freely and regularly
in your life.
Chapter 2: What is Inner Power?

Think of the human body as a piece of electrical wire. Our body
has a measurable field of bioelectrical energy that flows through it. This
energy is in everything that we see, feel, experience or imagine.
There is a difference, however, between energy and Power. You
can be extremely energetic and go, go, go all the time and still not get
anything done. Hence my definition of Power is ‘The ability to use what
you have to accomplish your goals’. The more energy you can generate,
the more energy you have to focus on your goals.
At the same time it’s not just about having more energy, but
rather about using the energy
you have more effectively. In
It’s not about order to use your energy most

effectively you have to reduce
having more
the amount of resistance that
energy, but using
has to be overcome. When we
the energy you
look at a piece of electrical
have more
wire we see it has a rating that
effectively
allows electricians to know
how much energy it can carry and how much resistance is on the line.
When we look at our body we can see a lot of ways we add
resistance to our energy. The food we eat, the environmental toxins we
come in contact with and especially our emotions can add resistance to
our energy leaving us drained and powerless. There are many paths to
increasing your Inner Power and the methods and tools in this book are
by no means the only way.
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I’ve used what I’ve learned from studying the Eastern systems
primarily because those systems survived the religious persecution
suffered by Western energy workers over the last couple of thousand
years. I’ve tried as much as possible to replace the Eastern terminology,
but in some cases there is no good Western counterpart.
Take your time with the concepts and exercises that follow. I’ve
laid them out in a progression that would have helped me greatly in my
own studies in the hopes that it can trim some years or trials off your
journey.
Programming Your System

The Universe works like a huge computer, and like a computer it
will give you exactly what you program it to give, rather than what you
think you want. Learning to take control of that programming can allow
you to put much of your growth process on autopilot, rather than trying
to think about every piece of information that comes to you each
moment.
The human brain processes billions of pieces of information per
second. Even if you wanted to you couldn’t focus on each bit of
information you process. Your brain handles this information overload
by using various filters or triggers that are your basic programming for
how you handle certain situations or events.
Many of these filters can be adjusted, deleted or reprogrammed
to help you get the results you want from your life. The principles,
concepts and exercises in this book will help you take control of that
programming.
Some Keys to the Program

I’m going to get into much more detail as we go along, but for
right now I’m going to give you some simple keys to how your
programming works. Jack Canfield points out that “The Universe is like
a giant lock. If you have the key, the lock has to open”.
Belief – Your beliefs are some of your most basic and powerful
programming. Your subconscious can’t manifest what you don’t believe.
A good example might be a person living in poverty who wants to be
rich, but who also hates ‘rich people’ and uses words like ‘Eat the Rich’.
Your subconscious will never let you become that which you despise, so
as long as you believe rich people are bad, you’ll always be poor.
Emotion – Your body is your interface between the ‘real’ world
and the Universe. One of our primary problems is that our physical
language, a primitive version of English in my case, is not what the
Universe speaks. The Universe speaks emotion, and that’s how we
communicate directly with it. The Universe doesn’t bring you what you
ask for; it brings you what you feel. Learning to use the language of
emotion allows you to get better results more quickly.
Contrast – You have to know what you want in order to get it. I
came to a shocking realization a few years ago that I always get what I
ask (feel) for. However, I was consistently asking and feeling for what I
didn’t want because I didn’t have good control over my programming.
Whenever you experience an event you can look at that event and break
it into what you want and what you don’t. Many people get wrapped up
in the feeling of what they don’t want and therefore send out a message
‘bring this’ to the Universe.
Doubt – You can ask for anything you want, but if you doubt
your ability to get it then you block the manifestation of it. This is both a
pain in the butt and a safety. How often, through bad programming, do
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we ask for things that are bad for us? Once you decide what you want,
decide that it’s good for you and that you should have it, all you have to
do is know that it’s on the way and allow it to come. The feeling of
doubt is also the feeling of NOT having what you want.
I’ll cover these keys in more detail later on in the book. For now
just keep them in mind.
The Human Energy System

Energy, also called chi, ki or prana in various cultures, flows
through long channels called meridians. From the meridians your energy
flows into all the parts of your body. This electrical energy can be
measured with modern medical equipment and influenced by healing
modalities such as qi qong (chi kung), acupuncture and Reiki as well as
martial modalities such as Dim Mak.
There are energy centers on your body called chakras. Chakra is
a Sanskrit word for ‘wheel’ and these energy centers correlate to the
physical, spiritual and emotional aspects of your being. Working with
your chakras can directly affect your energy and the various parts of your
life. I get into a better description of the chakras in a later chapter.
Your energy can be affected by many things including diet,
exercise, environment and stress. Your energy can be felt with the bare
hand and seen with the naked eye. With training and practice you can
have a large amount of control over the energy in your body and even
affect the energy in other people.
There are a few simple things to remember when it comes to

energy work;
Energy follows thought – Energy will go to whatever you are

thinking about. This is one of the reasons I emphasize keeping a positive
attitude and having faith. Energy will go wherever you send it and the
more intentional you can be the better your results will be.
Think about where you send your energy. How much of your
energy goes either into the past or into the future? A lot of people spend
their time thinking about what they wish they had done differently in the
past or thinking about what they would like to do in the future.
How much of your energy is spent thinking about what you
don’t want? It’s important to know what you want and what you don’t,
hence the concept of contrast. Many of us however, fall into patterns of
focusing on what we don’t want when presented with contrast. Your
subconscious only sees what you focus on and tries to bring that into
reality; it doesn’t know the difference between ‘want’ and ‘don’t want’.
What you focus on is what you get.
Energy flows like water – Energy always takes the path of least
resistance. The energy pathways or meridians, in our body can become
blocked or stagnated. When that happens your energy is impeded in the
same way that a dam impedes a river, with the same type of results.
When your energy backs up behind a block what develops is a
pool of stagnant energy. Depending on where it blocks this can manifest
in mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health problems. Energy
blocks can have an extreme effect on your entire being, which is why I’m
giving you exercises on how to keep your energy moving and release
these blocks.
There are a lot of ways to release energy blocks. Exercise is one
of the best but it has to be something you love. If you love to dance and
hate the gym then an hour of dancing will do more for you than 2 hours
in the gym. Exercise, to be effective, has to be a part of your lifestyle,
which is why so many people buy gym memberships that never get used.
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Exercise you love can relieve stress, get your lymph moving and
increase the amount of energy you have available. Yoga and Qi Qong are
forms of exercise which help energize and cleanse your meridians
slowly. Acupuncture, Chiropractic and Reiki can do wonders for helping
to cleanse them more rapidly as part of an overall health plan.
Exercise can also do wonders to help your body eliminate
toxins, both organic and environmental. In the modern world it’s
impossible to avoid the toxins in our food and environment and a
healthy, active body will more efficiently eliminate them from your
system.
Energy doesn’t flow through tight muscles - Just as energy
can block up in your meridians, it can be blocked by tight muscles.
Stretching and flexibility are about more than being able to kick high.
When a muscle is tight it can’t move and you have to relax it
before you can do anything with it. The more loose and relaxed you can
be the faster and more easily you’ll be able to move.
There’s 2 ways to have more energy, make more or use less –
For now think of your energy levels as you would a bank account. If you
have $100 worth of energy budgeted throughout your day then the more
efficient you can be the more you’ll have left over at the end of the day.
If you start off by spending part of your energy thinking about
the past, and then blow some more thinking about what you don’t want,
and then spend another chunk daydreaming about the future or your
fantasy world then how much is left for the present?
Don’t misunderstand me and think that it’s never ok to
remember the past, think about the future or indulge your imagination.
My point is simply to do those things in a more mindful and purposeful
way. Invest rather than splurge.
Energy flows best through a happy body – One reason I stress

guided meditation exercises like The Secret Smile is because these
exercises let you take more control over the movement and feel of your
energy. The goal of The Secret Smile is to make you feel relaxed,
competent, happy and sexy; which is opposite of how many of us feel
throughout the day.
If you can develop a lifestyle of being happy and relaxed then
many of the common energy blocks will be avoided and your energy will
flow easily and unencumbered.
Using Your Energy

We’ll get into a lot of different tools and ways to develop and
use chi, but here’s an example.
My best friend is a former street cop for a small town in
Colorado. He began experimenting with people while he was on duty and
discovered that when he opened up and sent loving, green energy straight
out from his heart chakra it drastically cut down on the number of
conflicts he had with the people he dealt with.
An interesting side effect of this technique is that it keeps you
focused in a compassionate stance while dealing with conflict, rather
than mirroring the anger and frustration of the person you are dealing
with. It also keeps you more relaxed and in tune with people, allowing
you that split second of warning when it’s needed. Play with this. If you
have a training buddy then practice sending energy out this way and see
what you can both feel.
Energy is all around you and a part of everything you do. The
more you learn about it and how to use it the more you’ll be able to relax
and allow your will to direct the course of your life. That’s Inner Power.
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Chapter 3: In a Perfect World

If you’re like a lot of people, you have a list of things that you’d
change about your life, if you only had the ability. Well, you do have the
ability right now to take charge of your life and turn every moment of
every day into a miraculous journey
beyond anything you've ever dreamed
of, all you need is a shift in
Your reality is the
perspective. It's ok if you don't
sum of every
believe me. Come along and prove it
moment of your
for yourself.
life, so if you want
Here's the key. Reality as you
to change the
know it is the result of everything
you've done up until now. Your
reality of your life
reality is the sum of every moment of then you have to

your life, so if you want to change the take control of
reality of your life then you have to those moments.
take control of those moments.
"Holy Crap!" you might think. "You mean that I have to be
constantly aware of every single thing that happens all the time?"
Fortunately it's easier than that. You can put this process on
autopilot just by integrating a few simple principles. How often have you
heard someone say “In a perfect world I’d be ______.”? Insert whatever
you want; rich, smart, male, female, etc ad infinitum.
One of my big realizations is that we do live in a Perfect World
in this moment. Whenever I bring that up I get a plethora of
imperfections that people are currently experiencing. War, rape,
violence, taxes, planned obsolescence, Blues Traveler, HMO’s and so on.

We see what we look for. Those who look for strife and conflict
will find it, as will those who look for love and beauty. For those seeking
love and beauty and who have an open mind and heart, I have some
exercises and meditations that can help you along.
Recognizing Perfection
The universe, right now in this moment, is absolutely perfect. It
existed in perfection for billions of years before our earliest ancestor
crawled out of the primordial ooze.
It will exist, in perfection, for untold eons after our last
descendant fades into memory. I’m sure there are those who’d clean up
the Asteroid Belt or get rid of that red spot on Jupiter. I’m sure there are
a couple of galaxies hanging crookedly in the cosmic distance and folks
who would straighten them the way you’d adjust a picture on the wall.
Here’s a curve ball for you;
If the Universe is perfect then everything in it is also perfect. If
everything in the universe is perfect then YOU at this moment, are
absolutely perfect!
Everything about YOU, every pimple or blob of fat or unwanted
hair, is exactly as it’s meant to be in this exact moment! You are a living
example of the perfection of the Universe. All you have to do is accept
that as fact and it will be so.
Part of the Process

Many people believe in reincarnation. My experience shows me
that we’re here to learn specific lessons and there are simply too many
lessons for any one lifetime. Each life we live is an incremental process
as we learn, develop and grow into who we’re supposed to become.
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Along the way we’re learning lessons in harsh conditions and in

pleasant conditions. The area between comfort and effectiveness is called
growth, and we each have different comfort zones and growth lessons.
Everything that happens in this universe is part of someone’s growth
process.
That’s not meant to demean anyone’s suffering or victimization.
The horrible events that occur daily give rise to some of our greatest
discoveries, our most heroic deeds and our most inspiring examples of
compassion and teamwork.
For every outrage there is an inspiration. Every negative feeling
is a call to action and a chance to get involved at some level and you can
get involved in any way you are guided. Often these feelings are moving
us towards the realizations that we came here, in this life, to learn.
Meditation, self-awareness and a willingness to listen to your
internal voices are the keys here. You’re limited only by your willingness
to go inside and seek your own answers.
Learning to take control of your attitudes, feelings, thoughts and
actions can allow you to feel the perfection in every moment. Every
breath brings a lesson in how to live in higher awareness. ‘Awakening’ is
simply adapting your perceptions to see the perfection in each event.
I didn't say the positive in each event. Positive/negative,
good/bad and right/wrong are all subjective qualifiers that we place on a
moment or event. It's a way to classify something that happens. Simply
see the moment from the perspective of acceptance without any
judgment or classification.
When you judge, you’re restricting your perceptions of the
event. Mars for example, isn't good or bad. It's only big or small when
we compare it to something else, like Jupiter or your left foot. Take away
the judgment and you'll see that Mars simply IS.
With a little training and a lot of practice anyone can learn to

live in a perfect moment, a moment that simply IS. Once you’ve
experienced that perfect moment then you can start to string those
moments together to create your perfect life.
Looking for Answers

An interesting aspect of being human is that we constantly
search for answers. Why are we here? What’s it all about? Where do we
go when we die?
You’ll find there’s no shortage of religions, philosophies and
political organizations willing to supply the answers. In fact, throughout
our entire lives we’re constantly indoctrinated into one system of
answers or another. One of the things I notice is that most of the systems
that provide answers tend to require you to accept the external answers
provided rather than going into yourself and looking for your own
answers.
There are over 6 billion people on this planet and there seems to
be a different correct answer for each of us. With that in mind I’m not
going to write about ‘truth’ in this book. We each have to find our own.
I’m simply going to expound on some of the things that I’ve learned and
been shown and let you make up your own truth.
Acceptance and Growth
97% of the people in this world operate in the comfort zone. 3% of

the people in this world operate in the effective zone. The difference
between comfort and effectiveness is called growth, and growth is
uncomfortable. – Krish Dhanam
For many of us growth comes with experience, and frequently

our experience tends to be labeled either ‘good’ or ‘bad’. You don't have
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to like, condone or agree with any events you experience, you just have
to accept them as they are at that moment and realize those events are
exactly perfect.
"Sure" you might respond. "So a Chinese soldier is beating and
raping a Tibetan Buddhist nun. What a wonderful perfection."
We’re here to learn lessons that develop us into who we’re
meant to be. I'm not condoning rape, brutality, Chinese soldiers or
Buddhist nuns when I say that every event is a lesson, as is your response
to that event.
You can grab the soldiers AK-47 and send him back to Start and
hope he wants to learn something else in his next life. You can wait until
he leaves and do what you can for the nun, try to find help or take photos
for your Pulitzer and ALL of those will be the right answer depending on
what you’re here to learn.
Maybe the soldier and the nun both volunteered to come back to
this life and live this moment just so you could be outraged, take up the
pen and enlighten the world on the struggles of the Tibetan people.
Maybe the nun volunteered to live this moment because it's a turning
point in the soldier's life and he's going to change and spend the rest of
his life helping people.
You can’t see the ultimate cause and effect of what’s happening.
All you can do is have faith, do the best you can in any situation and
realize that every moment is a perfect lesson in itself.
It Just Doesn’t Matter

Once you’re comfortable with the Perfection of the Universe
then you’ll realize you’re completely free. Since you ARE perfect you
can follow your voices in any direction that you’re led.
There will be for awhile yet, those who need to come back to
this plane of existence and learn the lessons of poverty, hunger and war.
You can't do anything about that, although you can step up and do your
best to eradicate those issues. If you are led in that direction then by all
means embrace your lessons and empower yourself in every way
possible. Maybe you feel called to be a relief worker or a soldier or a
tyrant or a martyr. Go for it.
Some of us are here to learn the lessons of peace, love, self
worth, loving one’s self and embracing the infinite abundance of the
universe. “Know thyself” as Socrates said, and you’ll be able to figure
out your purpose. In fact, knowing oneself is what the journey is about.
Good and Evil

The more I'm shown about concepts like Good and Evil, the
more strongly I believe they don't exist the way we think. Rather, what
we have is Freedom and Restriction.
Many of us see Freedom as the ability to, as Anthony Robbins
says, "Go where I want, when I want, with whomever I want and do
whatever I want for as long as I want". However, with Freedom we have
responsibility and the realization that even when we are totally free we
are still subject to certain Natural Laws.
You’re free to jump off a building but be aware that the Law of
Gravity comes into play and you are going to hit the ground.
You’re free to treat others badly, but be aware that the Law of
Reciprocity comes into play and the Universe returns exactly what you
send out.
You’re free to live your life with a negative attitude, but be
aware that the Law of Attraction comes into play and you’ll attract
exactly what you think and feel.
So the idea of HARMONY becomes important. You have a
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great degree of Freedom, but also a responsibility to yourself and those

around you. With the above Universal Laws in mind the question
becomes "When I exercise my freedoms am I creating more freedom for
myself and others, or more restriction?" How you answer that question
determines how the people around see you, but not how you see yourself.
My suggestion is that you spend some time looking at the events in your
life from the perspective of freedom or restriction, love or fear.
To experience true growth always requires one to get out of ‘the
comfort zone’, but discomfort isn’t the same as pain and suffering. Your
ability to accept your situation exactly as it is, in this moment, can be the
deciding factor between growth and misery.
Learning to integrate these concepts into your life on a moment
to moment basis can help you put much of what you want to create on
autopilot. This is about changing your programming for how you feel
about everything that happens to you. When you can feel better about all
of your experiences you have the ability to prevent the manifestation of
the ‘bad’ energy that many people feel all the time. Learning to feel
Perfection on a moment to moment basis allows you to make that
Perfection part of your reality. You won’t have to think about it, you can
just DO it.
Chapter 4: Creating Your World

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the
distinction between past, present and future is only a
stubbornly persistent illusion."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Quotes from Albert Einstein
I believe each of us has the ability to create the world we live in and
change it as we see fit. I base that belief on my personal experience as
well as a growing volume of modern scientific evidence.
I believe we create our world for 2 simple reasons;
1. If I’m not creating my world and my reality then who is?

People frequently give the answer “God”, and I never argue with
that. I do point out that when you look to an external source for
creation and validation you are giving away all of your power
and ability. I’ve seen nothing at all in the Bible to make me think
I’m wrong and quite a handful of references that make me think
I’m right.
2. If I’m NOT creating my world, then I don’t have the ability to
change it!
Reason #2, more than anything else, is why I subscribe to this belief.
If I’m creating my world then I have the ultimate responsibility for it and
I can change it and adapt it as I wish.
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No matter how you feel about responsibility, in order to create your

world you are going to have to accept 100% of the responsibility for
everything you create. There go all your excuses! You can't blame the
system, the dog, the car, the judge or the weather. Who cares if the sun
was in your eyes?
Until you can accept 100% responsibility for everything that you do
then you are always, always, always going to be giving away your
power to anyone else who wants to take that responsibility away from
you!
We live in a world where we have far more power than we think. We

have the ability to take 100% of the control over what happens to us and
it’s all built into the system. No matter
what you are unhappy about, you have
the power to change it and make it No matter what
better. Before you can do that however, you are unhappy
you have to take responsibility for it. about, you have
Acknowledging that you created
the power to
your life is the first step. If you don't
change it and
admit to yourself that you created
make it better.
whatever situation you want to change
Before you can
then you are never going to be able to
do that however,
give yourself the power to rearrange it
you have to take
the way you want it to be. You are
responsibility for
going to have to say "I created this
it.
debt, this lousy job, this miserable
lifestyle or this depressing day. This
came about through my actions and the decisions and choices that I
made. It wasn't the government, the system, my parents, my spouse or

my school teachers fault. I take complete responsibility for my life from
this moment on."
Have you ever heard that thoughts have power? There are several
ways that you can begin to use the power of thought and harness that
energy.
Understanding 'Reality'
One of the questions that come up for me occasionally is the

question of 'reality'. What is it? How flexible is it, etc.? Here's how I
explain it. Feel free to disagree and substitute your own reality as it
pleases you. By the end of this chapter you'll see why that's necessary.
Our reality as we know it serves a very basic purpose. It
provides an infrastructure that allows us to interact with the Universe
while in human form. The human mind is exposed to about 4 billion
pieces of information per second and it's literally impossible to focus on
everything that happens around us at any given moment.
In order to function we have to have a certain number of Natural
Laws and a certain number of mental, emotional and physical filters that
work automatically, just like the programming of a computer. Some of
our filters can be ignored, reprogrammed or adjusted to allow us to
interact with 'reality' in different ways. In effect we have the ability to
create our own reality.
Modern science has also proven that we have much more control
over how we create our reality than we tend to be taught. In fact, there
are a number of well known institutions and religions that prefer that you
accept their conventional pre-packaged versions of reality rather than go
the trouble of developing your own.
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The good news is that it's easier than ever before to take more
control over the reality that you want to live. Learning how to integrate
some of the Natural Laws more fully and take more control over your
programming is a challenge that will affect every part of your life.
Creating your reality is also a never-ending process of trial, error and
experimentation. Some of the following concepts may help you flesh out
how you can change and adjust your reality.
Prayer, Spells and Manifesting

How we ask for what we want can vary from path to path.
However, the basic principles tend to always be the same. It doesn't
matter whether you are casting a spell, saying a prayer, going on a
Shamanic Journey or sending your desires up on the smoke of an incense
stick.
I'm going to briefly outline the principles here because this may
be the first time some of you have run into this concept. I'll get into
deeper detail later on but for now I want to plant the seeds.
8 Steps to Getting What You Want

1. Know what you want. You might be tempted to say Duh for this
one, but you also might be shocked at how many people really
don't know what they want from one minute to the next.
Frequently we find ourselves responding or reacting to what we
don't want rather than making a conscious effort to get what we
do want.
What you don't want is a good starting point, just look at the
opposite and focus on that.
2. Ask for what you want. I came to a shocking conclusion a few
years ago when I was writing the first version of this book. I
always get what I ask for; my problem was that I was asking for
things that I didn't want simply by focusing on the negative.
3. Be willing to receive. This is where the higher levels of
awareness come in. You may be asking for things that you know
subconsciously are bad for you or at cross purposes. You can ask
for anything you want, but if it's something that goes against
your basic programming then you won't let yourself receive it.
4. Get into alignment with it. I went to a bookstore event in
Albuquerque in the late '90's where the speaker was Amber K.,
author of True Magick. I still remember how she pointed out that
you can cast all the spells you want, but if you don't get off your
butt and DO something then your spells won't work.
5. Have Faith. The best way to short circuit your manifesting is to
have doubts about whether it's working or not. It's always
working the moment you send your desire out to the Universe.
Generally the only questions are how willing are you to receive
what you asked for and how willing are you to simply let go and
let the Universe bring it to you. Esther Hicks has a great book
called The Art of Allowing that I highly recommend.
6. Live Your Desire Right Now! Don't ask for more money and then
think, I'll do so and so when I get the money. Start making plans
right now for how to spend it. Generally I don't ask for money
because money is just a representation of what I really want,
which might be a car or a pair of shoes or a new computer. Start
looking for ways to get what you want (see step 1) and see it as
happening in the present. If you focus on the future then what
you want will always be in the future.
7. Make your desire as real as possible. Engage as many of the
senses as possible in this exercise. If you want a new car then
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buy some of that horrid chemical that makes your old car smell
like a new car (that smell is actually the toxic off-gassing from
the plastics, by the way) and sit in your old car with your eyes
closed and feel, smell and see yourself in your new car. Go to
the dealership and sit in the real thing and take it for a ride. Do
whatever it takes to feel and experience your desire at as strong a
level as possible because that feeling is how we communicate
with the Universe.
8. Be Grateful. Be grateful for this moment right now and for
everything that exists for you in this moment. As you get further
into this book you'll see that everything that's possible to exist is
here right now. That means that you already have that car, job,
mate or hairdo right now on some plane of existence. Be grateful
just as you would if you had it on this plane and that gratitude
will bring you one step closer to being in alignment.
You might be a Wiccan, a Druid, a Christian or a Delawarean

Secessionist and these steps will all be the same. When you use candles
and spells or heartfelt prayers or any other type of ritual you are making
a request to God, the Goddess, the Universe or whatever else you like to
pray to and making your desires known. After that it's up to you.
Concept – Energy Follows Thought

Your energy flows directly to whatever you think about. Later
on I've shown exercises for how you can project your energy and move it
around your body. This is not pseudo-science or New Age fluffiness.
This is scientific fact and all you have to do is experiment with it and
you'll probably be able to do it. Most people can learn it in just a few
minutes.
Another scientific fact is that you and the Universe are made of
exactly the same energy. The only differences are perceptual. You
perceive your Self to be separate from the Universe, so therefore you are.
As you begin working with your ego and taking more control over your
life you'll find there is a radical shift in perception in which the blocks
and separations between you and the Universe begin to disappear.
For a long time much of this process has been kept in the realms
of the esoteric and mystical. Teachers have doled out the information
piecemeal over a long period of time partly as a safety measure for their
students. We're fortunate that we live in a time when pretty much all of
this information is available. All you have to do is find a source you like
and start to use the information, with the caveat that the less you know
about what you’re getting into the more drastic the changes you’ll
experience may be.
Empowering Your Life

We use the word empower a lot. Personal Empowerment is all
about finding the power to make the changes in your life. I believe you
already have all the power you need, the question at this point is how to
use that power.
This book is about how to make changes in your life and you
wouldn't have started reading it if you didn't have something you wanted
to change. I want to emphasize that you have all the power you need to
begin making that change right now.
All too often we want to put off making changes. We want to
wait until we’re in better shape, or have more money or more time. You
have everything you need right now! This is a key point.
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Giving Yourself Permission

You are the ultimate authority on your life. You must be if you
are going to take responsibility for it. Therefore the first step to making
change is to give yourself permission to make that change.
Many of us are operating under old vows we've taken in this life
or another. A vow is a good tool. It's a way to give energy to your intent
and a great tool to help you manifest whatever change you needed at the
time you took the vow. Maybe you took a vow of poverty, or a vow of
celibacy (shudder). It's possible for a vow from another life to still affect
you in this one. All you have to do is give yourself permission to do
something different.
It’s not that you shouldn't take a vow seriously. I'm saying that a
vow is a good tool and when you're done using the tool it's ok to put it
down and pick up another one. Just because you started building a house
with a hammer doesn't meant you have to use the hammer all the time.
Sometimes you need a saw, a shovel or a beer when you are building a
house. Use the right tool at the right time.
Giving Yourself Permission is a tool that lets you break out of
subconscious ruts and start over. It's like shaking up the Etch-A-Sketch
in your subconscious. YOU can do anything that you want to do, or
accomplish anything you want to accomplish as long as you let yourself
do it.
Pick something small and give it a try. Grab an index card and
write;
"I give myself permission to forgive every person who makes me angry
today."
Or maybe;
"I give myself permission to receive every good thing that comes my
way today."
It doesn't matter what you give yourself permission for. It only

matters that you start doing it. Giving Yourself Permission is also a tool
for erasing the doubt that blocks our manifestation. In the sections on
Abundance and Synchronicity I'll get into much more detail about this as
we'll be using it a lot more. For now, just get started with it.
In Western culture we are taught that we need someone's
permission for almost anything. You need a license to drive, a permit to
hold a parade or add on to your house. You even need permission to
marry the person you love and there are laws that restrict your choices!
YOU are your own ultimate authority. YOU have the power to
change, manage, create and develop your life in any direction you wish.
YOU have the power to take the ultimate responsibility for your actions,
thoughts, desires and dreams and no one can take that away from you
unless you let them.
Punishment and Rewards

Many of us grew up in a restrictive religion using the carrot and
stick method. We’re told we must do this or that and believe this or that
otherwise we face eternal damnation.
WHY would any person, if given a choice, choose to live in that
sort of a system? Most people are never given the choice! They are
indoctrinated into it from birth and it becomes the only system they
know. When you are constantly told something by people you trust and
you have it drummed into you repeatedly then of course you are going to
believe it. One of the most amazing tools that humans can use for good
or ill is the concept of belief.
I'm NOT against Christianity, or Islam, or Zoroastrianism or
Corn Tortillaism or any other ism. For some people the ism's are great
tools and exactly what is needed at this point in their lives.
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There are other people, and you may be one of them, who are
trying to break out of that restrictive paradigm. I spent the best part of a
decade struggling with this after I realized there were other ways and
other paths I could take.
One of the advantages to connecting to the Universe and
creating your life is that you get feedback. You'll know fairly quickly
whether what you are doing is working and then you can continue
developing your Self in the ways that work best.
When you start giving yourself permission to delete and remove
old vows one of the first things that pops up is the thought 'If I do this is
God going to be angry with me? Am I going to get punished or
blackballed or struck by lightning?'
Sin
If we're going to talk about punishment we have to get into the
subject of sin, otherwise what are we getting punished for? It's a bit like
the Income Tax in the US. There is
no Law (let me repeat that!) there is
no Law that says you have to pay
You get what you
income tax. This is relatively easy to
focus on so if
prove and a slight bit of research on
you’re going to
your part will turn up a ton of
focus on a sin
information on the 16th Amendment
make sure it’s one
and the creation of the Federal
you enjoy!
Reserve. However, if you don't pay
your taxes the IRS will take
everything you own and put you in prison (welcome to the Land of the
Free).
The concept of sin is a bit like that; except you create your own
prison and you judge and convict yourself.
You can find the word 'sin' used in various contexts going back
nearly 10,000 years. My early research on sin was experiential, but a bit
of academic research turns up the word in Hinduism where sin or pāpa is
used to describe actions that create negative karma.
Most forms of the word have to do with guilt. The word
translated from Greek versions of the Christian Bible to mean 'sin' means
'to miss the mark or target'.
If you sin you are without the grace of God, or you've missed
your goal of not sinning. Various religions have interesting lists of sins in
order to free their converts from having to think too much about this.
The Universe brings what you focus on and it doesn’t
understand words, so when you think of sin and you have a feeling either
good or bad, the result of that feeling is what you get. That’s why it’s
impossible to stamp out sin, abortion, guns, politicians or anything else
you focus on. You get what you focus on so if you’re going to focus on a
sin make sure it’s one you enjoy!
A key concept in many religions is salvation. You need the
priests/middle men in order to be saved and without them you’ll burn in
eternal damnation. This was a big controversy in the early days of
Christianity. Documents from Jesus’ time (as opposed to the modern
Bible which was created hundreds of years later) show that He taught
“The Kingdom of Heaven is within you” and you are responsible for
your own salvation.
The idea of salvation is also based on the presumption that you
were born into sin in the first place. Once you delete the programming
that tells you that you were born a sinner then you realize that the
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concept of salvation doesn't really apply to you any longer. It reminds me

of the bumper sticker "Born Right the First Time!"
Creating Your World (the way you want it)

“It’s all YOU, only you” – Esther Hicks
When you take responsibility for creating your world you may
think you have to give up the ability to go to the outside sources when
times get hard. When times get bad you realize YOU have created the
trials you’re going through. It would be so nice at that point to stop and
pray to some outside authority for help.
So many people stick with religion because it answers all the
questions and gives firm guidelines. In hard times you can wrap religion
around you like a warm blanket on a winter night and be comforted.
Everything in the Universe IS you. When we say it’s ALL you
we mean it exactly that way. The Universe is filled with unlimited energy
and you can allow that energy to flow into your physical self simply by
willing it to be so.
If you’re having a tough time remember that all the energy
you’ll ever need is available and you can just ask for it. Our physical
form gives us limits we have to overcome and can make us feel cut off
from the larger energy of the Universe. It may sound contradictory after
some of my rants on religion, but there is a form of higher energy you
can connect with. The route is inside you rather than ‘out there’.
If you make a conscious decision to have a deity, and I
personally like the old Celtic Gods and Goddesses myself, then do so in a
high state of awareness. There are a huge variety of deities, spirit guides,
spirit animals and other beings that you can call on for assistance. It's all
built in to the infrastructure on the Universe that I mentioned earlier.
The Universal Laws

We are subject to number of Laws until we develop the internal
power to break them (Google Milarepa). Many of us are familiar with
these Laws in a general sense. We're taught about the Law of Gravity in
school, for instance. As Dr. Michael Beckwith says in the movie 'The
Secret';
"I don't care if you're a good person or a bad person. If you fall off a
building, you're gonna hit the ground."
There are other Laws you may be familiar with that you haven't
seen put into this same perspective. I can assure you that these Laws are
even more influential on your life than gravity.
The Law of Reciprocity – "What Goes Around, Comes Around". In his

book 'Shadow Strategies of an American Ninja Master' Dr. Glenn Morris
lists about 20 different versions of this Law from almost every major
religion and philosophical path. When you integrate the fact that you will
receive exactly what you give you have a much greater degree of control
over your life.
In his excellent book 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' Robert Kiyosaki
points out that you have to give that which you want to receive. If you
want money then you have to give money. If you want more time then
give freely of your own. The moment you say "I can't afford to give
because I don't have enough" you are restricting yourself and cutting
yourself off from the same flow of energy you are looking for. This leads
us right into the next Law.
The Law of Attraction – The short version is that what you think about,
and more importantly, what you feel, is what you are going to get. You
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have the ability to attract anything that you want if you take conscious
control of the process and develop the ability to control what you are
thinking and feeling.
Unfortunately most people spend a lot of time thinking about
what they don't want and feeling things that they don't want to feel, and
then wondering why they keep getting more of that.
In the 2006 movie 'The Secret' Bob Proctor says it this way; "I
don't care if you're thinking 'get out of debt' or 'get into debt', if you're
thinking about debt that's what you're going to get".
I’ve been shocked by the way people hate this movie, although
I’ve only seen the version with Esther Hicks and I realize that some of
that hatred may be political. Some of the controversy also comes from
some of the people from the movie selling their programs giving you ‘the
missing parts’ of The Secret.
Remember that the Universe is you! You are creating this as you
go and you can open up to unlimited streams of wellbeing if you have a
few simple rules. Jack Canfield points out that the Universe is like a lock
and all you need is the right combination.
Here are the parts of The Law of Attraction. You can complicate
this as much as you want beyond this;
1. Know what you want – contrast exists to show you the
difference between what you want and what you don’t.
2. Ask for what you want, be specific but also leave room to
get more than you asked for – You can say “I want more
money” and the Universe will bring it to you; you’ll find a
penny on the sidewalk. If you want $10,000 then ask for it,
but leave yourself open to get more.
3. Believe you can have it! – This may be the most important
part of the combination. How often do we ask for things we
know we can’t get only to say “This stuff doesn’t work!”?

You have to take the time to build up your belief patterns.
Start small and take little victories on a consistent basis.
4. Be open to receiving – I see so many people who give all the
time but can’t allow themselves to receive. We’ve been cut
off from using this part of the combination by beliefs like
“It’s better to give than receive”. When you open to
receiving you are allowing others to give and it’s equally as
important to be able to receive as to give.
a. Part of what you receive will be the how that makes
your desire possible. Be open to receiving this
guidance and then make a commitment to following
it.
b. You can be wide open to 'receiving' but
simultaneously block your manifestation with
doubt. Those feelings of doubt are telling you that
you have something to think about or resolve
concerning whatever you are asking for. Take the
time to explore your doubts and you'll probably find
some programming that you can change or delete.
You must be 100% sure that what you want is on
the way otherwise you are blocking it.
5. Get into alignment with what you want – You must take
steps to achieve what you want. You can put out the
intention to be the world’s greatest actress, but if you don’t
take acting classes or get a sex change then it’s never going
to happen, no matter how much you apply all the other keys.
Once you receive the how from step 4 you can get on with
getting into alignment.
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6. Be Grateful – Once you put the above parts of the

combination into play then just know that what you asked
for is already on the way. The key here is to hold that
emotion of gratitude consistently until after what you want
arrives.
The Safety is Built into the System

The word consistent might be the single most important word I
use in this manual. You can know what you want and put it out there, but
if it doesn’t show up quickly enough then you change your want and ask
for something else.
The Universe starts lining up this new want and since you’ve
stopped focusing on the old one it stops bringing it to you. Gregg Braden
points out that the Universe is like a computer. It doesn’t give you what
you want; it gives you what you ask for. Just like a computer what you
want takes time to get here and it may not show up in the form you
expected.
Like a computer, the Universe also gives you an ‘Are you sure
you really want this?” window, called time. If you hold what you’re
asking for in your focus then the Universe has its clarification and can
bring it. This is to prevent you from having random thoughts and having
those random thoughts manifest instantly.
You have to be consistent with what you want and the more
steps you can take to get into alignment with what you want the more
feedback you are sending the Universe.
Belief
Belief plays a huge part in manifestation. You cannot manifest
something that you don’t believe you should have; your subconscious
won’t let it happen. For example, if you hate rich people, your
subconscious will never let you win the lottery or have a lot of money.
You simply cannot become that which you despise at a soul level.
You have to believe in what you ask for and believe that you can
have it and deserve it. There is a safety built into at this level also. Many
times we ask for the right thing at the wrong time and we know this
subconsciously, hence the non-manifesting.
God-Consciousness
Each of us has a spark of Divinity within. It's that spark that we
are trying to fan into a larger flame and eventually into a bonfire, or at
least a burning bush. There are a lot of names for that spark including
God, the Goddess, Holy Guardian Angel and the Great Spirit.
At the universal level it's all the same thing! It's that little bit of
Divine Energy that propels us through the myriad lifetimes that we spend
trying to learn why we came here when all the time the answers are right
there within us, just waiting for us to knock on the door and ask.
The route to your Divinity can only be internal. Looking
externally for your Divinity is like going to your next door neighbor and
asking if they’ve seen your liver lying around anywhere. There are a lot
of routes to your specific Divinity and all of them will teach you
something so take time and explore.
At a spiritual level this book is about helping people learn to
connect to that internal Divinity, the God-Force that we all have within
that we simply need to learn to listen to.
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Chapter 5: Kundalini Basics

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
What is Kundalini?
Kundalini is a Sanskrit word for a pool of energy that lies at the

base of the spine. Dormant in most people, Kundalini energy can be
awakened. It subsequently travels up the spine, activating the chakras
and completing the body’s energy circuits.
Kundalini can be awakened by a near-death experience, a
mental, physical or emotional trauma, or by meditation and study. The
completion of these energy circuits can bring out many different effects
in the student/victim. Many people who experience a spontaneous
awakening find themselves on new spiritual or life paths. Some people
also have massive changes to their personalities as well as numerous
benefits to their health. Some of the unlucky victims of the spontaneous
awakenings can also experience epilepsy, depression and paranoia. It’s
my belief that many of the people we treat medically for these problems
have, in fact, accessed this energy but are unfortunate enough to live in a
world where its uses are relatively unknown and are for the most part
unrecognized or misunderstood.
The seeker who purposefully awakens their Kundalini can
discover increases in energy at the physical, mental, emotional and
spiritual levels that frequently cause them to see the world and its
inhabitants in a much different way than the ordinary person. Kundalini
adepts can experience noticeable gains in psychic abilities, sensory
perceptions and overall physical health, as well as a new spiritual

outlook. All of these dramatic effects are caused by the realization and
integration of the seeker's entire self into the greater consciousness of the
universe. In short, the seeker can now actually feel his or her place in the
interconnectedness of all things.
Kundalini in the Western World

I firmly believe that the kundalini experience is far more
common than we tend to believe. The primary problem here is that we
don't have the terminology or the knowledge of kundalini in our culture.
When someone begins to experience the awakening of the kundalini and
their perceptions of the world
begin to change then we
Dormant in most
immediately begin to do what
people,
Western doctors have done for
Kundalini energy
over a hundred years. We give the
can be awakened.
seeker pills to help alter their
It subsequently
travels up the perceptions so that they can once
spine, activating again be 'normal'.
the chakras and Another thing that makes
completing the the kundalini experience hard to
body’s energy recognize is the fact that it's
circuits. different for everyone. Frequently
when we start to experience the
kundalini and the developing of a greater awareness we try to look at the
written sources and see what's happened to those who have gone before
in the hopes that those earlier seekers will be able to shed some light on
our current condition. There are some extremely good books out there by
Gopi Krishna, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Dr. Glenn Morris and a host
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of others.
Invariably you are going to read one of those books and think,
"What's happening to me is different from what they experienced;
therefore I must be having something other than a kundalini awakening",
and you might be right.
On the other hand, it may be that your experience is simply
different from theirs! It's important to remember that the kundalini is a
uniquely personal experience and it's different for everyone. It's up to
you to decide what's happening to you and how to handle it, which is one
of the reasons I wrote this book. If you follow through with the exercises
and essays I've included you should be able to easily handle the various
experiences and energies you'll encounter on this path.
What is a Kundalini Awakening and What’s It For?

A kundalini awakening is what happens when the pool of energy
that lies at the base of the spine awakens and travels up the spine and out
through the top of the head. There are a lot of different descriptions of
how this actually happens, primarily because the experience is different
for each of us. I spent a very long time being confused by much of the
literature because what I had experienced wasn't identical to what others
had described.
When the kundalini awakens it begins a process that forces us to
cleanse and balance our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual lives
and brings us into balance and unity with the Universe and our own God-
Consciousness. It's not always a pleasant ride, especially if you haven't
learned to have faith in and follow your own inner voices. It's also a bit
rough if you don't surrender to the process and go where you're told to
go. Come to think of it, that whole balancing the Light and Dark dualities
is a pretty hellish period also.
On the other hand, there are some very simple things you can do
to make the entire process much easier. The point here is that the
kundalini awakening process is really more of a journey than an event.
I've met a few people who have experienced a kundalini awakening and
all of them have spent a lot of time and effort working through the
process.
My primary thought about kundalini, based on my experience
and that of the awakened people I personally know, is that it's the
Universe's way of getting us back on track. It's a way of beginning a
process we can't ignore and can't get away from in order to help us stay
on the path we came here in this life to walk.
The kundalini energy wants to awaken and rise. This is a natural
part of human development just like puberty or menopause. Sometimes
the energy will spike and begin the process of awakening, but not fully
awaken. I firmly believe that every human experiences this at some point.
It's simply the spark that begins the process. What we do after that
decides whether the kundalini awakens or continues to lie dormant.
The ways that a human being can experience a kundalini event
are literally infinite. Any combination of events, words, feelings, smells,
sounds or experiences can trigger a kundalini event. What generally
happens then is that kundalini side effects begin to appear as a way to
guide us through the process. Our willingness to address and deal with
those side effects decides whether we awaken, go insane or just flounder.
Kundalini Side Effects

There are a number of side effects which can accompany a
kundalini awakening. One of my primary reasons for writing this book is
to pass on a variety of ways I've been able to deal with the various side
effects. It's important to remember that, even though some people
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classify some of these as positive or negative, in reality all of the side

effects are simply symptoms of how and where the energy is working
within you. Any of these effects can be either positive or negative as too
much of a good thing is still too much. I'll get into how to handle these in
much more detail in some later chapters when I'm talking about the
siddhis (magicks).
Side effects you might enjoy can include better health, better
balance (in every part of your life), increased sexual function, greater
abilities in the realms of the paranormal, spontaneous trance states,
visions, inner voices, slowing and speeding of the thoughts, spontaneous
body movements and the feeling of being larger than your body. These
can obviously become annoying in certain contexts also, but I have to
point out that I've never had any spontaneous body movements or trances
that happened at dangerous or inconvenient times (such as when driving
or during a job interview). It's been my experience that most of that stuff
happens during times when you can be more relaxed and open to it.
Side effects you may not enjoy can include itching and rashes,
especially around the chakras, spontaneous orgasm, random pain in
various areas of the body, a radically altered perception of the people and
the world around you, intense positive or negative emotions,
depersonalization, various feelings of disconnection to most of the
people you know or meet, rapid heartbeat, sensations of heat or cold
throughout the body, shivers, vibration and tickling sensations as the
body rewires its electrical system and feelings of anger and anxiety. This
book includes tools and exercises for dealing with all of these and more.
All of these side effects are simply symptoms of the energy
working within your system. Remember that Western medicine simply
doesn't have the terminology or tools to deal with changes of this sort so
it can be hard to find real help when you actually have a crisis. I spent a
lot of time with massage therapists and acupuncturists because these

folks tend to have better tools for moving, balancing and releasing
energy than western doctors.
Much of the information in this book is geared towards helping
you avoid, reduce and handle these side effects. Most of the side effects
are simply symptoms that you need to be doing something differently
with your system. Sometimes pain is the only way for your body to
communicate with you, and you'll keep experiencing that pain until you
can figure out how to listen and make the right changes.
Kundalini and Depression

As I've stated before, and will again, there are many more people
dealing with kundalini side effects than is commonly believed in the
Western world. Everyone has this energy and everyone can have it
awakened spontaneously by a vast number of methods. Physical or
emotional trauma, a near death experience or simply a subtle shifting of
the various patterns that exist in the world around us can trigger a
kundalini event. From that moment people will experience various side
effects in different ways and some of those ways can be painful and even
damaging.
We live in a culture that is simply not prepared for people to
hear inner voices, see visions and experience spontaneous body
movements, mood swings, intense anger and anxiety and deep spiritual
experiences. If you experience any of these and then go to the doctor
about it they will most likely give you pills to cure the symptoms rather
than help you address the symptoms and work through the issues.
I don't want it to appear that I'm against Western Medicine.
When I have a broken bone or somebody makes a hole in me I want to
go to the hospital and I'm always the happiest guy in the ER. I also want
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to point out that many medical schools are working hard to include more
holistic practices and educate doctors on the more esoteric workings of
the body and mind. My point here is that there may be more going on
with your depression symptoms and that there are options to this
prevailing idea that we can fix everything with the right pill.
The National Institute of Mental Health points out that "In any
given 1-year period, 9.5 percent of the population, or about 20.9 million
American adults, suffer from a depressive illness"1. That is a huge and
extremely expensive burden on our already inadequate health care
system. I wouldn't say that all of those cases are related to a kundalini
event, nor would I deny its possibility. I can say that by using the
strategies, exercises and meditations that other kundalini teachers and I
advise, many of those people could find relief from symptoms as well as
relief from pills and the high cost of external health care. I don't think it's
any secret that much of the depression in this country can be avoided.
Depression is one of the common kundalini side effects. I don't
know of anyone who has experienced a kundalini event who hasn't had
some form of depression afterwards, although experiencing depression
doesn't have to be an integral part of the experience. If the depression
occurs then how that depression is handled becomes a major lesson in
Intention and Awareness for the kundalini student. The ability to self
govern and self regulate is extremely important, especially when you
purposefully set out on a path that is going to balance karma and force
you to deal with every positive and negative event from a position of
higher awareness.
One of the amazing advantages for the modern kundalini student
is that there are a huge variety of training tools, support groups and other
resources available.
1
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depression.cfm#ptdep1
The Kundalini as a Goal

One of the best ways to sabotage your practice is to set Kundalini
Awakening as your goal. Awakening your Kundalini should be a side
effect of a good practice, rather than the goal. It’s important to be clear
on this from the beginning.
When you have a good meditation practice, then you’ll be
automatically working towards awakening your Kundalini. You don’t
ever have to give the Kundalini another thought. It’ll happen when
you’re ready for it and when you can handle the growth and the changes
that it brings about. I’ve seen people who were completely focused on
the Kundalini, to the extent that they would scan the Table of Contents of
a book and only read the chapters directly concerned with the Kundalini.
The shortsightedness of this is the fact that the Kundalini is all about
connecting ourselves to a limitless pool of all-encompassing energy and
by limiting themselves this way they actually send out a message to the
universe that they aren’t really interested in the whole package, just these
certain parts of it. The result can be an extremely unbalanced person.
DO NOT look at the Kundalini as the end-all, be-all. It’s just another
experience on the path. It’s like crossing a small stream, now you’re on
the other side and ready to continue the journey. Just do your practice
and learn to BE, and the Kundalini will take care of itself. When it does
I’ll bet you’ll find the transition to be less life altering, and therefore
easier.
Kundalini and Energy

Many of you will be happy to know that modern science has
finally started to catch up to what the ancient sages have been saying for
thousands of years, which is; 'We are all made from exactly the same
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energy and we are all interconnected. Moreover, that connection is so

deep and pervasive that in reality we are ALL exactly that same energy
and therefore any differences are merely in the way we perceive our
Selves as different from those other selves that are also us.'
Actually both the modern scientists and the ancient sages said it
better and more clearly than that, but you get the point. A good
homework assignment might be for you to see how many sources you
can find that deal with our energy and interconnectedness. See how many
different people are saying exactly the same thing from a variety of
different perspectives.
My point here is that the sooner you are able to grasp this
concept and realize it (as in make it real for yourself) then the easier the
rest of this journey is going to be for you.
The energy of the kundalini is the energy of the Universe, the
energy of Creation. It's unlimited, all-powerful and available for you to
use right now. All you have to do is begin to open up to it and go where
it takes you.
Kundalini History
Kundalini is from the Sanskrit word “Kundal” meaning ‘coiled’

which refers to the coil of energy resting at the base of the spine in the
sacrum. The terms ‘Serpent Power’ and ‘Serpent Energy’ come from
seeing this coiled energy as a snake.
Throughout history the serpent has been used as a symbol for
Kundalini awakening. The Biblical story of Adam and Eve is viewed by
many as an example of Kundalini Awakening. Adam and Eve are seen as
the male/female energies and the “Serpent in the Garden” seen as the
awakening of the human spirit to the realities that surround us. The
Egyptians and the Greeks also used the serpent to represent knowledge.
The ancient symbol of the Caduceus used by our modern

medical profession is seen to represent the 3 energy channels of the body.
The Ida and Pingalla are represented by the twin serpents coiled around
the staff, while the staff itself is seen as the Sushumna, or the middle
channel through which the Kundalini ascends. Going back even further,
about 4,000 years ago the Sumerian God Ningishita was represented by a
single serpent coiled around a staff.
In Egypt the spinal cord was symbolized by the serpent and the cobra
on the Pharaohs forehead represented the divine fire which had crawled
serpent-like up the tree of life.
Another Biblical figure, Moses, also uses serpent energy in the
liberation of his people from the Egyptians. History is filled with
examples of the Kundalini, but most people simply don’t recognize them.
By the time you finish this book you’ll be able to recognize the
Kundalini in a huge variety of books, historical examples and even
modern movies. It can be a lot of fun to see the clues that are hidden right
out in the open. What makes them hidden is simply the fact that most
people have no clue that the Kundalini exists or what it’s about.
Interestingly enough there have been periods in our recent
history in which people in the Western world have been purposefully and
specifically cut off from learning about our internal energies. Over the
last 2 thousand years there has been a very purposeful movement to
externalize God and remove any knowledge that every person has the
ability to connect to and BE God by going inside themselves.
I bring this up not to create controversy, but rather to avoid it.
We are beyond the point when our Inner Deities are being violently
opposed by the church or the governments. Now is the time to help as
many people as possible see what we've come to realize as self-evident.
So don't waste time, effort or energy focusing on the Inquisition, the
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burnings at the stake or the witch drownings as that's all in the past. Now
is the time to focus efforts on helping and empowering yourself and your
friends and family. If we all do that then empowering the world takes
care of itself.
Chapter 6: Closer to Bliss

bliss (bl s)
n.
1. Extreme happiness; ecstasy.
2. The ecstasy of salvation; spiritual joy.
Phrasal Verb:
bliss out Slang
To go into a state of ecstasy.
[Middle English blisse, from Old English bliss, from bl ths, from bl the,
joyful; see blithe.]
Bliss is a concept that people bring up during my classes and

presentations. Not necessarily because I’m a good speaker, but because
they want to know more about it.
In the metaphysical arena we tend to throw around words like
bliss and enlightenment, yet these concepts tend to be ill-defined and
abstract more often than not.
Take the above example which I found at
www.thefreedictionary.com/bliss. OK, “The ecstasy of salvation” sounds
good, sign me up. Oh yeah and give me a side order of “Extreme
happiness” also, ‘cause if a little bliss is good then twice as much is
better, right?
My personal definition that I like to use is simpler and easier to
grasp;
”The ability to live each moment with a sense of gratitude and tranquility
and enter into a state in which you’re always happy and bad things
never, ever happen to you.”
Does that sound silly and improbable? I don’t think so. With just
a few subtle shifts in our consciousness it becomes easily attainable. If I
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haven’t lost you by this point the come along and I’ll see if I can explain
it in a way that makes sense.
Step 1 - Dealing with the dualities

Yin/Yang, Light/Dark and Male/Female tend to be relatively
stable as far as abstracts go and we all have those energies in some
combination. The combinations vary with each of us, which is why living
here is so interesting.
Other dualities are less solid
and much more subjective, such as
The good side of
Good and Evil or even Good and Bad.
this moment's
These tend to be much more
events may not be
judgmental and subjective. One
immediately
person might look at an event and
obvious.
think “Wow, that’s great!” while
Sometimes it's
another may look at the same event
only years later
and think “Man, this really sucks!”
that events make
sense and we're
Step 2 - Becoming less judgmental
Events in and of themselves
able to see them
are rarely good or bad. Rather it’s our in perspective.
judgmental position that assigns the
value to it. I remember lying face down in the ocean, completely
paralyzed. I was holding my breath and wondering if I was ever going to
get another and thinking “Man, this really sucks!” Yet I look back and
see that event as a pivotal point in my life and realize I learned much
more from it than the obvious “Don’t dive into shallow water”
(Apparently most people already knew that. I must have missed a
memo).
Often the events that happen to us are much less extreme. How
many times have you gotten stuck behind an annoyingly slow driver only
to discover the Highway Patrol speed trap up ahead?
Events are simply events. It’s the way we respond to them that
make them good or bad, positive or negative. Learning to look for the
good side effect or positive lesson in everything that happens is a major
step to developing a sense of tranquility.
The good side of this moment's events may not be immediately
obvious. Sometimes it's only years later that events make sense and we're
able to see them in perspective. Once again I have to mention the concept
of Faith. Living a period of tragedy is hard no matter who you are or how
well trained and experienced in these mystery schools. The ability to step
outside of your judgment of the situation is a very important skill and it
doesn't come easy for most people.
Step 3 - Developing a positive attitude

Once you cease judging each event as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ you can
begin to look for the positive lessons. From that moment on you’ll be
moving with more positive energy and drawing more positive energy to
yourself. This will have an immediate effect on your life.
Here’s an exercise for you;

Smile. (For you grumpy buggers out there, that’s when the corners of
your mouth turn upwards, possibly even revealing the teeth and part of
the gums. It also affects and tightens the muscles of the cheeks and
studies have shown that the mere act of smiling releases chemicals into
the brain that make you feel better and happier.)
Feel the energy within you change as you smile, making it easier
to continue doing so. Now use that smile on the next 10 people you meet.
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This is a meditation exercise and it’s homework so let go of your normal

daily worries and stresses and give an honest, sincere smile to the next 10
people you meet.
Can you feel the energy between you and the person you’re
smiling at? Does it feel good, bad, mistrustful? What does that tell you
about the person you’re smiling at (or about the way you’re smiling)? Do
this exercise with regularity as it really can help build your awareness of
the energy, as well as brighten the world a bit.
Few feelings are more powerful than looking around and
thinking “This is really Great! My life has never been this good before.”
It’s OK if that sentence is not exactly true, but as you consistently think it
to yourself or even better, say it to your friends, you’ll find that life really
is getting better. The universe will agree with anything you tell it, so if
you constantly reaffirm how good your life is you might be surprised to
find that it really is improving a bit each day.
Step 4 - The Joy of Gratitude

Now that you feel good, be thankful. If you don’t feel good then
you should also be thankful as the feelings of dis-ease are really warning
signs that we need to make some changes. How many people have
thought “I’d change if I just had a sign”, while the signs for change were
all around them and they just didn’t understand?
It can be really difficult to be thankful and express gratitude
when life deals you pain and heartache, but learning to look beyond the
judgmental reactions and find the positive lessons will allow you to smile
(or at least grimace) through the pain and see that the events had a
different meaning.
Our lives aren’t made up of days or years, but rather a collection
of individual moments. It’s how we approach each moment that
determines whether we can, at the end, judge our lives as having been
‘good’ or ‘bad’. In the meantime, smile and be happy. In this moment.
Keeping a Journal
In Path Notes of an American Ninja Master, Dr. Glenn Morris states
that you’re going to be making extreme changes to your life and
therefore should keep a journal. Two decades later, as I look back on all
that's happened and the places I’ve been, I realize that as usual, he’s
exactly right. I didn’t keep a journal however, so when I urge you to
begin keeping one right now it’s through my own bad example. Someday
when you try to write a book to explain how you got to be the way you
are (or at least the way you’ll be then), you’ll wish you had. You’ll see
many instances where I learned the hard way rather than just following
the advice of someone who’s already been where I’m trying to go.
Another reason to keep a journal is because our thoughts are
energy! When someone ticks us off we tend to walk around with that
energy for awhile before it finally clears. Depending upon the strength of
the emotions you've experienced, that energy will build up in your
muscles as well as your brain.
Journaling can be a good way to release stress. Just because you
journal something doesn't mean that you can't immediately shred it, by
the way.
Journaling can also open up your creative process and help
develop a flow of information. When I work with writers I advise them
to journal for exactly this reason. When we write we are opening up to a
flow of energy and often we'll have an idea that floats around in our
heads for awhile before we write it down. Once it's written down the
mind can release the thought and let new stuff flow in.
Write about what you want, what you love and what you'd like
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to see happen. Writing something down is an act of creation that goes

beyond merely thinking it. Thinking about something creates it at a small
level, writing it down adds more energy and creates it at a larger level.
Acting on it adds even more energy and helps to ensure that it manifests
in your life.
Creating your Personal Catalog of Experiences

I was at a Reiki Share where a young man was clearly experiencing
some awakening energy. As we talked about his experiences he’d start to
describe them and stop slightly embarrassed, and say “Well, this may just
be bullshit, but this is what I felt…”
After about the third or fourth time I stopped him and said “Look, if
you experienced it that makes it real. Nobody has the right to say you
didn’t. There IS NO external validation for a lot of this stuff! It’s all
about learning to feel things and then trust your feelings.”
Many of these exercises and concepts are about helping you access
and learn to use your internal energies, recognize what’s going on and
understand what’s happening to you. You are the only person who can
decide what you’re feeling and categorize it properly. This is about
building your own personal catalog of experiences.
What makes teaching subtle energy difficult (and so easy for the
charlatan) is that the energies are subtle. Often it takes a long time to feel
your connection to the energy and understand that connection. I did the
Microcosmic Orbit for over 2 years before I felt the connection and
began to figure it out. I can tell you what something feels like for me, but
I can’t tell you what it should feel like for you.
That’s why I repeatedly stress keeping a positive attitude and
playing rather than working, with this stuff. It’s the only way to discover
what it feels like.
You have been surrounded by amazing and miraculous energies

your entire life, but may not have recognized the energy for what it was
because you had nothing to compare it to. I'll be writing extensively later
on about feeling and seeing energy and you'll have a lot of exercises that
will help you build up your catalog.
This is something that you will be doing for the rest of your life
and you'll be amazed at how much attention you'll be able to give a pine
cone or a flower or to your mate while making love. Once you begin to
develop your inner catalog then you'll never be bored again as there is
always something new to discover or experience.
Karma
We hear a lot about Karma. This is good karma, you have bad
karma. People think karma is the result of your last life coming back to
bite you in this one. I only partially agree. I also think we make our own
karma as we go and have to deal with it during this life.
Karma is simply the result of our actions. If you frequently use
anger as a tool you have to expect to be put in positions where anger is
necessary. You create that circle and then perpetuate it. In part it goes
back to the Laws of Reciprocity and Attraction and in part it has to do
with our subconscious.
Awakening your Inner Power breaks the wheel of karma in that
it forces you to examine yourself in such detail that you’ll have to clean
up your messes, even those carried over from past lives. I don’t see Inner
Power as some karmic ‘get out of hell free’ card. Rather it’s like a huge
mirror that doesn’t lie to you and won’t let you lie to yourself.
As you cleanse and balance your chakras you’ll have the
opportunity to look at yourself and your life very closely. Make the time
to do this on your on and begin the process yourself rather than having it
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dumped on you all at once. It’s part of the self-awareness training that
you’ll be doing for the rest of your life.
As you develop the level of
self-awareness that allows you be in If you have an
constant control of your actions you’ll
awareness of
be able to move your karma in positive
directions. To use the earlier example karma what you
of anger, by showing more compassion
to angry people you’ll be given more really have is a
compassion on those occasions you slip
form of balance.
off the wagon and become angry
yourself. It's a tool to help
If you have an awareness of
you with your
karma what you really have is a form of
balance. It's a tool to help you with moment to
your moment to moment awareness of
moment
how you're treating yourself and others.
Karma gets a little deeper on a awareness of how
subconscious level and it builds up an
energy that you have to address and you're treating
balance out.
yourself and
The Transition to Awakening others.

There are things you can do to make
this entire process easier. You’ll see these mentioned repeatedly
primarily because they work. Inner Power doesn’t have to be a huge,
dramatic, life altering shock to your system. The following concepts can
make it much easier.
Have Faith
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole
staircase. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is important in awakening Inner Power because you have to

surrender your egoic sense of control and be willing to go where you’re
sent. You have to believe that you’re doing the right thing. You can have
faith in a limitless number of Gods both modern and ancient or you can
make up your own. They’re all just symbols of the eternal energy of
creation and you can personify them to your heart's content, just as long
as you truly have faith.
Personally I don’t bother with any of the common deities. I think we
humans have such a small viewpoint that we wouldn’t recognize a real
god if we got into bed with it. For me it’s enough to feel the “universal
energy” of creation that I can feel within and just believe in that. Inner
Divinity is what is important and learning to interface with it and trust it
is what having faith is all about.
To have faith you have to believe that the energy is intelligent and
directed, otherwise why would it matter if you had faith in it or not? I do
believe that, but that’s as far as I’ve bothered to think about it, because
beyond that it doesn’t matter. It’s enough to accept it at a soul level and
trust it.
Jack Canfield gives a great example of faith in 'The Secret' when
he points out that when you drive at night your headlights only shine a
couple hundred feet out in front of you. "…and you can make it all the
way from California to New York, driving through the dark, 'cause all
you have to see is the next 200 feet".
So take that first step. Listen to your inner voices and just go and
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trust that everything else will be revealed to you.
Keeping a Positive Attitude

On this path you’ll experience emotions, feelings and in some cases
pain. Sometimes it’ll only make sense years later when you look back
and realize what was happening. In many cases awakening your Inner
Power is like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle without having any
kind of picture to go by.
No matter what happens, or where you feel drawn to go, a positive
attitude will make the whole thing easier. I try to look at everything as a
test, and that works for my personality. Each individual moment I have
choices that I can make. I can be enlightened or ignorant, loving or
afraid, loud or quiet and it depends on my willingness to listen to the
inner voices that we all have. The inner voices are an amazing asset to
keeping you on the right path and helping you become the person you
came here to be.
This is where you want to remember the Universal Laws as well.
Remember that what you send out is what you are going to get. What
you think about and feel is what you are going to attract. Take the time
right now to develop these skills and put them into practice in your life.
Many people have grown up with the attitude that they have to
work hard and suffer for every lesson life gives them. If you have this
attitude then you can change it! You have the ability right now to start
redirecting your life so it flows smoothly, just by changing your attitudes
about the things that go on around you.
You don't have to agree with or like everything that you see, but
awakening is about your perceptions of everything that happens to you.
If you can perceive an event as positive you can learn a lesson from it
and integrate it into your life.
Developing Your Self-Awareness

“Asking good questions is half of learning.”
Muhammad - Essential Sufism
Inner Power begins with the process of learning exactly who you are,
with all your warts, wonders and blemishes. Once you’ve done that and
become completely at ease with your self-acceptance you can promptly
just forget all of it and disappear into the ether. Literally.
Your self is like a blanket you cover up with or a jacket you put on.
Spend some time becoming comfortable with yourself and you’ll begin
to see that you can put it on and take it off at will. It’s just an external
way to identify which self is yours. Once you get beyond that and see
that you don’t really exist, then you can really start having fun with this
stuff.
Developing your self-awareness is a multi-faceted exercise that
encompasses all parts of your being. No matter how good you become at
it there will always be new layers to uncover and new things to learn.
At the elementary levels of this book we’ll look at your physical self,
your mental self and your spiritual self and see how you can integrate
them into your total being.
Building Energy
There are 2 ways to have more energy. You can make more, or
you can use less.
A lot of this book is about learning to take control of your

energy and by extension, your life. I want to reinforce some principles
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that will help you literally direct more energy into the creation of your
life.
1. Energy follows thought – Most people are usually thinking

about what they've done in the past or what they want to do in
the future. In the process they are sending a huge part of their
energy away from them and away from the present. Remember
that the past is gone and the future may not get here. THIS
BREATH is the one that counts, right now. Stay focused, right
now.
2. Following the breath – I once spent a lifetime lying paralyzed

face down in the ocean. Every time a wave hit it turned my face
up out of the water and I took a deep breath and held it and
waited to see if I was going to get another. One of the big
realizations that came to me right then is that this breath is
literally the only one that matters. It's what you do right now in
the space of this breath that makes the difference.
3. Decrease the resistance to your energy – You'll be shocked at

how much energy you're blocking. The food you eat, the lack of
exercise, the mental inflexibility and the unwillingness to
surrender to the process all create resistance. MSG is a neuro-
toxin which means it decreases brain function. Yoga and
physical fitness help cleanse and rejuvenate the body. Keeping
an open mind and learning to relax and surrender to the
awakening process will allow more energy to flow through your
system.
4. Increase the amount of energy you have to work with –

Meditation is the single greatest tool you can use to take control
of your life. When you learn to take control of your mind and
your thoughts you can take control of your life, literally.
5. Take control of your finances – This may sound like a weird

topic for a meditation book, but a vast amount of the stress and
fear generated in the world today is based around money. Take
control of your finances and you will have greater control over
your life. Dave Ramsey, Suze Orman and Robert Kiyosaki all
have great tools to help you learn more about budgets and
business. We’ll get into this more in an upcoming chapter.
Yoga, Martial Arts and Physical Fitness

You don’t have to be in excellent physical condition to awaken your
Inner Power, but it helps. Your body is what you live in while you’re
here. I’m always amazed by the people who insist on having a nice house
or a big, fancy car, yet ignore the one vehicle they can’t live without.
I always advise people to get into a good yoga practice for several
reasons.
1. Our bodies store memories, feelings and stresses within our muscles
and organs. Yoga helps release those in a relaxed, gradual manner,
rather than all at once through a chakra-ic cleansing.
2. When you breathe properly during the yoga positions (asanas) you’re
massaging your internal organs as well as stretching your muscles.
This provides an immediate health benefit as well as helping to
release stored toxins and feelings.
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3. Yoga lubricates and relaxes the spine, allows you to move more easily
and freely and adds a much better quality of life. A relaxed healthy
spine is also a better conduit for chi.
4. “Energy doesn’t flow through tight muscles” (you’ll hear that over and
over again). The relaxing effects of a good yoga practice help
prevent muscle tightness that can impede your energy flow.
Some forms of the martial arts such as Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Tai Jutsu and
Hoshinjutsu help build remarkable energy awareness and strength. They
also help you become more confident and comfortable in your
surroundings. In my Hoshin classes we used the martial arts as a test to
see how your energy work is progressing, rather than as a violent sport.
A regular physical fitness regimen will help your heart, lungs
and muscles work more efficiently. You'll feel better intellectually and
emotionally as well as physically. As your self-awareness and meditation
skills increase you’ll begin moving in a constant state of light meditation.
A regular fitness plan helps develop your moving meditation skills in
addition to making you more fit.
Part of life is dealing with stress, and if we repress it we build up
stress knots in our organs and muscles. Many of these knots will connect
to a specific energy or memory and when they’re released you may find
yourself having to deal with that problem or memory again. You can do
that gradually, like peeling away the layers of an onion. You can also do
it all at once when your Inner Power awakens, like smashing the onion
with a big sledgehammer. Fortunately we get to choose how to do it.
If you have to wear this meatsuit then you may as well feel good
while you're here. Energy flows more easily through a healthy and
relaxed body. If you're tense and out of shape and feeling badly then
you're just adding more levels of resistance and making things harder on
yourself. If you have stress knots and tight muscles they are adding a
level of unnecessary PAIN into your spiritual practice because those
stress knots and tight muscles are going to block your energy.
In the 80's the saying "No Pain, No Gain" was popular around
the gym and it's funny how many other areas of our lives that mindset
tends to creep into. The gym saying is true within that context, but it
refers to a specific type of pain that is beneficial for the muscle growth
process. In most other areas of your life, however, pain is a sign that you
are doing something wrong and your body is going to take some action to
alleviate that pain.
Massage, Reiki and Acupuncture

When the stress knots begin to release out of your system you
may find it necessary to have some bodywork done. I’m a huge fan of
massage, reiki and acupuncture as well as chiropractic.
Stress knots are energy. When that energy releases it has to
manifest in some way and sometimes it helps to have it massaged out, or
to have an acupuncturist go through and balance your energy manually.
You’ll often experience emotional releases like crying or laughing during
these treatments. It’s just the energy releasing and draining out of your
system.
Reiki is a form of channeling universal energy. It can be
extremely powerful for healing at all levels and it’s an amazing aid to
Inner Power as it helps open up and cleanse the chakras. You’ll find
directions for how to perform a basic Reiki treatment on yourself in a
later chapter.
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The Interconnectivity of Everything

A truly amazing experience is the feeling of having your self
disappear and of connecting to everything else. To call it a defining
moment in a person’s life doesn’t do it justice as it literally changes the
way you look at and react with everyone and everything around you.
When you can feel everything at an energetic level you realize
that thoughts, words and actions have their own energy.
This is much more than just feeling the universe; it’s the literal
act of becoming the universe and realizing that the universe is you. It’s
why people who’ve done it have no fear of death. They’ve experienced
the reality of the (im)permanence of the universe.
Using Affirmations
One of the most powerful tools in the universe is one you can
begin using immediately! Affirmations are simple, you can do them
anywhere and they don’t cost anything.
When you use an affirmation you are literally making something
firm or real for yourself. The subconscious mind (the Id) can’t discern
between what’s real and what isn’t, so when you make a positive
affirmation like “I deserve LOVE” the subconscious is there in the
background going “Yeah, we do, so where the hell is it. Let’s make that
happen right now.”
The simple way to use affirmations is to identify some part of
your life where you feel a lack, and create the affirmation to convert that
lack to abundance.
I’m not going to bother giving you a list of affirmations as you
know yourself much better than I do. Instead I’m going to leave a blank
place here and as one of your first exercises you can identify 10 areas of
your life that you’d like to improve and create your own affirmation for
each. Go ahead and write in the book. It’s ok.
I’d like to improve;____________________________________
I deserve/am worthy of_______________________________

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I’d like to improve;___________________________________
I’d like to improve;___________________________________
Several times a day you should take a few moments and repeat these
affirmations to yourself until you’ve created your abundance in these
areas. Then come up with some new ones and start all over again.
Avoiding Negativity
"Is it possible to have knowledge and yet learn to be free from fear?"
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Just as positive affirmations can bring you abundance, negative

affirmations can take it away. Once again the subconscious mind will
create whatever you tell it. When you say things like “I can’t do this, it’s
too hard, I’m not good enough”, or some other wussification the
subconscious is right there in the background going “Yeah you loser,
what were you thinking to even try?” It’s just as important to break your
old negative habits as it is to replace them with new positive habits.
Once again we see the Law of Attraction at work. What you
think about and feel is what you create and manifest.
In 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' Robert Kiyosaki talks about using "fast
words and slow words". Slow words such as "I can't afford it" insure that
you are right and that you really can't afford it. Fast words such as "How
can I afford it?" open you up to the unlimited abundance of the Universe
and help you to find a way to manifest
what you want.
Slow words such

Inner Power and Enlightenment
as "I can't afford
We always hear about the
it" insure that you
“Enlightened Master”. I find that to be
are right and that
extremely amusing since enlightenment
you really can't
doesn’t really exist in and of itself!
Enlightenment only exists as a
afford it.
relative term. There's complete ignorance Fast words such
and lack of awareness on one end of the as "How can I
scale, and Enlightenment on the other. afford it?" open
Neither exists independently, but rather as you up to the
a moment to moment reaction to what's unlimited
going on around us. Is true enlightenment abundance of the
simply recognizing the connections we all Universe and
have to one another and really treating help you to find a
others as we'd want to be treated, loving way to manifest
others as we should love ourselves? what you want.
Awakening your Inner Power or
spending a decade in a cave on a mountain doesn't necessarily make one
enlightened. Spending every moment in the moment and responding to
the same divine spark in others that we also have within us possibly does.
Enlightenment cannot exist without ignorance. At the same time
you can't spend your life identifying ignorance just to make yourself feel
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enlightened. There will always be things that are perceived as bad or

negative. Those things are not only necessary, but a part of a greater
perfection that exists throughout the Universe.
Dealing with Attachments

You’ll hear a lot about attachments as you begin working with
the Meditation. Part of the process is to divest yourself of your
attachments so let’s take a look at what that means. Attachments are, in
my perception, primarily ideas about yourself and others that you hold
on to. So don’t feel like you have to get rid of the wife or the family pet
or sell your favorite putter.
Attachments are part of your ego. Sometimes they may be a part
of your learned ego, the super-ego. That’s the person you have been
taught to be. Other attachments may be a part of your subconscious or Id.
You can even have attachments that are holdovers from past lives! (A
note here, the Social Security Administration will NOT accept how
screwed up you were in a past life as justification for putting you on a
disability pension in this one - just trust me on this.)
As you get deeper into your self-awareness process you’ll
occasionally find these attachments and have to deal with them. Maybe
one of your attachments is to the thought that you should be an Executive
in your company by now, so you feel lessened or diminished because you
aren’t. Maybe you don’t fit Hollywood’s idea of the ideal weight and you
continually feel lessened by your “weight problem”. You could become
attached to the idea that once you become slim then everything will be ok
in your life.
Unfortunately there’s not much I can tell you that will help with
this. If you've paid attention to what I wrote earlier about giving yourself
permission then you'll have a big tool to help you. As part of your
process you have to develop the self-awareness to find your attachments

and deal with them. This is a different process for everyone.
The Siddhis
“Those who dance are often thought insane by those who can’t hear
the music” - George Carlin
'Siddhi' is an ancient Sanskrit word that means magic. One of the

funny (and sometimes annoying) side effects to Inner Power is that you
can develop abilities others don’t have and probably don’t believe in as
the average Westerner doesn’t have much first-hand experience with this
stuff.
Some of the siddhis will be physical, such as vastly improved
health and better balance. In my case I’ve had huge improvements in my
eyesight and my hearing. My balance also improved immensely, partly
as a side effect of the release of stress knots and muscle tightness.
Other siddhis may touch on the spiritual or psychic realms.
Many Meditation adepts report an increase in psychic abilities and the
tendency to just know things (usually seen by non-adepts as being a
smart-ass). In some cases you may find that you channel spirit guides (or
ancient wisdom, or whatever you want to call it).
One of the first things that a good meditation teacher should tell
a student about the siddhis is; “DON’T TALK ABOUT IT!”
Rule #1 – You don’t talk about Inner Power.

Rule #2 – You don’t talk about Inner Power.
The reason is simple. As you get deeper into your self-

awareness and deeper into the awareness of your interconnectivity,
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you’re going to see, feel and experience things most people don't. If you
talk about it people will think you’re seeing and hearing things that they
don’t and of course, that's true. The usual response is to give you mind
altering drugs and electro-shock therapy to make you ‘normal’ again.
Having said that, most of us tend to talk about it anyway.
Usually, by the time you know enough about it to really talk about it then
you have such a strange energy and probably dress weirdly enough that
most of the ‘normal’ people don’t really see you.
One of the amazing things about the internet is the ability to
form online communities, and this has been a major boon for meditation
practitioners. From 1992 until 2002 I never talked to another human
who’d experienced the things I was going through. Now, thanks to the
internet, it’s possible to get onto a discussion group and ask questions
and talk about experiences and just lurk and learn. I’ve listed several
good groups (including mine) in the Resource Section at the end of the
book.
Take some time and play with the siddhis, but don't be distracted
by them. A simple way I explain my view of these little magics is that
each of them has its own frequency and you'll be able to tune in to some
more easily than others.
You may be able to see energy and interact with it visually, in
which case I'd recommend some good books on Symbology and an
extremely open mind. A lot of things have meanings other than what
we've come to commonly accept and you definitely want to know what
you are playing with.
You may be able to feel energy and interact with it that way.
Spend a LOT of time just playing with it and seeing how different things
feel. Go for walks and get into a meditative state while walking and pay
attention to the different energies all around you. I like walking around
the mall because there are so many colors and feelings and different
types of energy. The mall can be a bit overwhelming at first and if it is
then start in your backyard and just open up your awareness and see what
you feel.
You may be able to
occasionally tell what others are
thinking or feeling. You may be able to
The vast majority
channel wisdom from the Universe.
of the people in
You may develop abilities with
the world can't
divination, telepathy or any number of
concentrate well
other things most people won't believe.
enough to still
If this world is an illusion then
their own mind,
EVERYTHING is equally unreal. It
much less
just becomes a question of opening up
purposefully
to that particular frequency.
Remember what I said about
attack you with
distractions. The siddhis can be fun their energy.
toys, great tools or an ego trip that can
totally derail your development. Have fun with this and don't be afraid of
it. Stay positive and humble.
Energy Attacks and Defense

Some recent cartoons have given rise to the ‘chi ball’ and now
people talk about this as if it were real, and even worse, spend a lot of
effort trying to protect themselves from it.
There are some real energy attacks and ways to defend against
them, however. One of the things I teach in my Hoshin classes is how to
use energy as a tool and send it into various chakras and pressure points.
It’s not the sort of thing that should be learned from a book or a video.
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It’s also not something you really need to worry about as the average
person can’t muster enough concentrated energy to still their own mind,
so why worry that they might still your heart?
When I was visiting the San Francisco Bujinkan dojo with Glenn
Morris and Doug Beuckert I once saw Master Dale Seago, a high level
Ninjutsu practitioner; knock an attacker’s leg out from under him using a
secret sword technique. As the attacker ran in, Master Seago directed a
burst of chi into his opponent’s leg and the leg just stopped working!
What made this really interesting is that the attacker was about 10 feet
away and Master Seago never physically touched him. If developing
these sorts of abilities interests you then check out Paul Dong's book
"Empty Force" and Dr. Mantak Chia's "Tan Tien Chi Kung". I've
included both books in the Resource section at the back of this book.
There are also some very simple and safe ways to steal an
opponent’s energy and strength. Anyone who can use these techniques
will be able to do so against anyone who doesn’t have a high degree of
awareness, so guess what your best defense is. That’s right, awareness!
The other good thing is that by the time a person develops that much
energy they’ve usually found so many ways to use it more productively
that you really don’t have to worry about being attacked by them.
The best defense that I can think of, and yes this sounds hokey,
is to be completely open and at One. If you have to defend yourself, let
your Self blend into the rest of the universe. If you are nothing there is
nothing to defend. If you are actively creating your life you have the
ability to avoid this issue entirely. If you have the ability to connect to
and become the Universe you have an unlimited number of options.
Remember, if you are spending your life in a defensive posture
then you have some definite issues with fear that need to be worked
through. Keep reading.
3 Reasons Not to Worry about Energy Attacks

1. The Law of Reciprocity
The Law of Reciprocity is very simple and easy. What you send
out is what you get back. What goes around comes around. As ye sow, so
shall ye reap. And on and on. This is obviously not a new concept.
Everything is made of energy. Our thoughts, dreams desires and
actions all carry their own energy and we get to decide on a moment to
moment basis whether that energy is positive and based in Love or
negative and based in Fear. Every form of energy is based on one of
those!
Attacking someone with energy is a Fear-based action. Using
energy as a tool for someone’s benefit is a Love-based action. Most
people who have the ability to use energy in either fashion will also have
enough of an understanding of how energy works to avoid sending out
the negative, Fear-based energy. Notice I said most people.
2. Most of our energy doesn’t get lost to ‘attacks’, we give it

away unconsciously to those around us.
There are those who unconsciously draw energy from the people
around them. The vast majority of the unconscious Energy Sucker
Zombies are usually untrained and are simply the normal people we run
into every day.
In his excellent book The Celestine Prophecy James Redfield
points out that many people use a variety of tactics to draw energy from
the people around them and often these tactics are learned in childhood
and are completely unconscious.
Have you ever run into an otherwise wonderful person who
constantly bemoans their fate? Everything they do is a chore and the
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world tends to be very heavy. Whenever you meet they talk about how
bad things are going and how much pain/despair/trouble/heartache/etc.
they are experiencing. Do you ever want to just bitch-slap this otherwise
wonderful person and tell them to Cowboy Up? (I’m coming to the
conclusion that the Compassionate Bitch-Slap may be a useful tool for
some folks)
These folks have been taught that when they begin their litany of
problems other people will go “Oh you poor thing!” and send them some
energy. Throughout the years it’s become the norm for them to use their
problems to draw energy from the people around them and they probably
truly don’t realize that they are Energy Suckers.
Did you ever see someone who tends to be aggressive and
pushy, and usually slightly angry? These folks have learned to use
intimidation to draw energy. It’s a different tactic, but still gets the same
effect. How many other tactics do the people around you use to draw
energy?
Rather than being attacked by “Psychic Vampires”, we’re
constantly besieged by the legions of Energy Sucker Zombies that we
come in contact with every day. So how do you defend against them? By
tapping into an unlimited source of energy that we all have access to. By
the end of this section you should be able to use this energy easily.
3. Most people don’t have the ability to attack you

The vast majority of the people in the world can't concentrate
well enough to still their own mind, much less purposefully attack you
with their energy. Statistically you have a better chance of
simultaneously being struck by lightning, hit by a bus and winning the
lottery than you do of being purposefully attacked. While there are, in
some of the esoteric martial arts, energy techniques that can be used
against an attacker, the simple fact is by the time a person can use their
energy well enough to accomplish such a response (to a physical attack),
they’ve found far too many positive ways to use that energy.
Protecting Yourself from Energy Drain

There’s 2 ways to have more energy. You can make more, or
you can use less. Let’s look at how to use less.
Think of your body’s energy system as a piece of electrical
cable. It is in fact a conduit in much the same way. A piece of electrical
cable can carry a certain amount of energy and has a certain amount of
Resistance. If you lower the Resistance in the cable then the cable can
carry much more energy. When you lower the Resistance in your body
you instantly have more energy to use for other purposes.
3 Ways to Lower Your Own Resistance

1. Relax your muscles
This sounds simple, and it is. Relaxing your muscles allows your
energy to flow unimpeded. How often have you heard the comment that
“Energy doesn’t flow through tight muscles”? One of the side effects of a
good Yoga practice is that it relaxes and loosens your muscles. A good
meditation practice also helps you develop better posture in which your
body is supported by your skeleton rather than being held up by your
muscles. Certain Martial Arts such as Tai Chi, Hoshinjutsu and Taijutsu
can be extremely helpful in loosening up the muscles and joints and
allowing you to move more freely.
2. Cleanse your body and mind of stress
Most of the above exercises will also help with this. Stress is a
Fear-based reaction to external/internal stimuli. Learning to identify the
stress in our life requires a certain amount of introspection and self-
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awareness. With practice one can learn to identify negative stresses and
learn to channel that energy in positive ways. That’s why I say “nothing
bad should ever happen to you” once you learn to walk this path. Events
are simply events and it’s the external value that we place on those
events that causes us to see them as “good” or “bad”. Those external
values also create the stress that goes with the event.
3. Conserving your energy
Whenever someone gives you a sob story and you say “Oh you
poor thing!” you’ve just given away part of your energy. It’s important at
this point to look at the difference between ‘Compassion’ and ‘Enabling
behavior’ as these two often get confused.
Compassion is the art of being Empathetic (NOT Sympathetic!)
for the plight of another. It doesn’t mean you should do whatever it takes
to make that person feel better, but rather you should do whatever is in
that persons best interest, which may not make them feel better at all in
the short term.
Enabling behavior is what happens when someone whines a
little and you say “Oh you poor thing!”, which gives them positive
reinforcement to continue whining. Your energy is a tool and you should
make a point of using it on behalf of others (go back and see the Law of
Reciprocity), but you also have to be aware of those who’d just drain it in
order to continue on with their “Poor Me” attitudes.
The same goes for anger. Whenever you are angry you are
sending that person part of your daily allotment of energy. To say one
should never get angry is unrealistic, but to say that one should never let
anger take control is not.
Tapping into an Unlimited Pool of Energy

There’s an unlimited pool of energy everyone can tap into very
easily. It’s simply the energy (NOT the emotion) of Love. The English
word ‘Love’ has both an Energy and an Emotion. It’s commonly referred
to by the emotion. It’s just like the difference between orgasm and
ejaculation for men. (Side note: Hey guys, did you know that you CAN
have an orgasm without ejaculation? Read Mantak Chia’s “The Multi-
Orgasmic Man” for some interesting and really fun experiments with
this.)
You don’t have to love someone emotionally to send them the
energy of love just like a man can have an orgasm without an ejaculation.
Most people don’t realize it because without some deep thought or some
real training they just never know to try to separate the two.
The energy of Love has been referred to for thousands of years
as chi, ki and prana. It’s the primal energy that connects everything we
do, see, feel, hear, taste or think of. It’s why such sayings as “thoughts
have energy” and “Energy follows thought” are true and taught in so
many different cultures.
Sensing Intention
A mystical aspect of the martial arts is the ability to feel another
person’s intention. Sensing intention allows you to be in instant control
of a potentially violent encounter, and it's one of the ways we use the
martial arts to test our energy work and meditation skills in my classes.
I’m including it in this book because sensing intention is all
about awareness and being in the moment. It’s easy to learn and can
bring new depth to the non-violence of your life as it can make you safer
and more confident.
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A Simple Explanation of Intention

When a person intends to hit you, that intention carries with it a
very subtle vibration. Since most people are unaware of this they put off
a variety of these subtle vibrations constantly. Have you ever come home
to an angry spouse and felt the entire house vibrate with the angry
energy? This is exactly the same.
When a person tries to hit you they put off a vibration you can
feel, even with your eyes closed. With training a person can distinguish
between the intent to strike and the strike itself as there are subtle
differences in the feel of the energy vibrations emanating from the
attacker.
In Hoshinjutsu we have a student stand with their eyes closed
and then, very slowly, send a punch towards their face with the full
intention to make contact. Almost invariably the student will feel the
difference in the subtle energies that surround them and their body,
seemingly of its own accord, will dodge out of the way. It's fun to see the
look of shock on someone's face when they realize what happened and
what they felt.
Another exercise is to have a student stand with his back to you,
then you walk slowly (and silently) toward them. The student is to raise a
hand when they feel you coming up behind them. You can vary this by
thinking angry thoughts and happy thoughts and watch the distance at
which you become noticed by the student.
The purpose of teaching a student to feel intention is to empower
them in situations most people find daunting. When you know another
person has ill intentions towards you, you are in control. Depending on
the situation you can leave, you can seek a diplomatic solution or you
can wait till the future attackers back is turned and hit him with a chair.
While some of these solutions are better than others (Chair Fu
should always be the absolute last resort) what's important here is that
because of your heightened awareness you weren't taken by surprise
when someone attacked you.
For an interesting illustration of using intention and feeling the
difference between the intent to strike and the actual strike read Chapter
6 of Dr. Glenn Morris' book Pathnotes of an American Ninja Master in
which he talks about his experience with the Bujinkan Sword Test.
Using Intention in Your Life

Just as you can sense intention when it comes from other people,
you can also project your intention out into the world. Intention is the act
of giving a form to what you want to achieve or acquire. It's projecting
the energy of attraction in order to bring about a desired result.
There are a lot of ways to project your intention. If you are a
Wiccan and you want to project your intention you may cast a spell and
light a candle. A Christian might pray for it. Maybe you write it down
and affirm it, or sit and meditate on it, or sing songs about it or write
stories about it or any of a million other ways you can project your
thoughts and give them physical form.
The key here is that you take some form of action. You can sit in
a cave and intend to make a million dollars all you want to, but unless
you are projecting your intention and doing something that brings you
into alignment with that intention nothing is going to happen.
Take some time here and play with this. Dr. Wayne Dyer has a
wonderful CD set called 'The Power of Intention', I'm a big fan of Esther
and Jerry Hicks' Abraham books. Some of the tools in financial books
such as Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad can also be extremely
useful.
A key point to intention is that you must be able to believe you
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can get whatever it is you want to attract. Most people have to take some
time and start small and work up to the big stuff in order to learn to have
faith in the process. Once you do that then you can sit in a cave and
manifest a million dollars, but not before.
The Downside of Inner Power

It’s not all about cool abilities, increased physical strength and
better health, unfortunately. Inner Power can have a downside for the
seeker who doesn’t pay attention and follow some simple rules.
Some of the siddhis, especially those in the psychic realms, can
cause paranoia, depression and even worse in the unprepared and
unknowing. I firmly believe that many of the folks in our culture who
suffer from schizophrenia, epilepsy, depression and paranoia are victims
not only of unbalanced Inner Power, but of a society that doesn’t
recognize it and has no reality into which Inner Power fits.
Other side effects that can be annoying (besides insanity)
include an increased sexual attraction by the opposite, and even the same,
sex. Inner Power is, by definition, sexual energy. It’s the primordial
energy from which we were all created and once you start boosting it, it
can be pretty easy for the opposite sex to feel attracted to it.
As you balance your chakras (which can be quite a process)
you’ll possibly go through periods that can only be described as a form
of spiritual superiority as you’re experiencing events and deities that the
average person no longer gets to interact with.
Giving Away Your Stuff

One of the things to remember when your Inner Power awakens
is you’ll probably go through some extremely life altering periods. Some
teachers advise their students not to make any major changes for at least
6 months after the Inner Power rises. Don’t buy, sell or give away
anything and don’t dump all of your stuff and decide to follow a spiritual
path. That’s not bad advice, although I go a bit differently with it.
My advice (coming from someone who had a particularly hard
time in this period, but I also didn’t know anyone else who’d been
through it) is to embrace the insanity and roll with it. Give away all your
stuff, wear funny clothes and ride the shakti-coaster til the gods all get
together and throw you off it. Go where the energy takes you and talk to
whomever it leads you to. Don't be afraid of the process. Explain to your
loved ones that you are going to take some time and 'find yourself' and
then get on with it.
Fortunately today there are relatively easy ways to communicate
with others who may be experiencing something similar to you, so you
can take time out from lying under a Volkswagen talking to god and go
into the library and use the internet. It gives you a bit more freedom to
explore.
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Chapter 7: Introduction to Meditation

Meditation is how you learn to connect to your Inner Divinity. In
the beginning you may have to really focus and concentrate to be able to
hear the Divine Voice within you. As you continue to meditate and
cleanse and balance you'll find the voice gets louder (and more insistent)
and much easier to follow.
This section is all about
doing your meditations. The
You may feel
meditations here range from very
you’ve progressed
basic to relatively advanced. You
beyond some of
may feel you’ve progressed beyond
this, but my advice
some of this, but my advice is to take
some time and go back through the
is to take some time
basics. One of the benefits of and go back
teaching meditation is that I’m through the basics.
constantly running through these
basic exercises as I teach them to others, and I can’t tell you how helpful
that can be. I remember the time before I began teaching when I hardly
ever sat through a Brain Scrub session, but when I began teaching it and
sitting through the sessions with my students I found going back to the
basics allowed me to get even deeper into the more advanced exercises.
We have some great tools to help with these including some free
audio and video lessons. See my website at www.Inner-Power.net for
more details.
Establishing a Daily Practice
"No man ever became wise by chance".

Seneca
It’s important to establish a daily practice and stick to it, especially

in the beginning. This doesn’t mean dedicating 12 hours a day to
meditation, it just means creating a space in your home where you can
take a few minutes and meditate and do the exercises.
Start with the basic exercises and devote 10-20 minutes a day as you
develop your physical and mental abilities. Many people overload
themselves and expect too much too soon, then get discouraged if they
don’t see the results they think they should.
In this section are some exercises, ranging from the very basic to the
moderately advanced. Do them in that order, simply because we all have
the temptation to jump in over our heads (which can also be a good
thing) and overload ourselves.
Getting Started
Set aside a corner in one of your rooms. You can stock it with
whatever accoutrement you wish. Have cushions, candles, incense and a
small CD player for music or guided meditation CD’s. Use whatever
tools and accessories you want, as there’s no right or wrong at this point.
Once you’ve created your sacred space all you have to do is use
it. Set aside a few minutes each day and begin working through the
meditation exercises. Don’t worry about how long you meditate, just get
into the habit of doing it. The effects of meditation are cumulative, so 5
minutes a day everyday is better than 35 minutes once a week.
Eventually you won’t need any accessories and you can clear
your mind and meditate anywhere, at any time, but for now don’t worry
about that, just create a pleasant, sacred atmosphere and get started.
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On Expectation
When we begin meditation we often feel that we should be able
to do certain things within a certain time frame. We expect to be able to
clear our minds and access our deeper abilities. We expect to be able to
sit for an hour and meditate, or to see auras, or feel other people’s chi. If
it doesn’t happen quickly we become disappointed and confused. I can’t
tell you how important it is to break free of these expectations.
When we let go of expectations and learn to relax in the moment
and just BE, we are making progress of the most important kind. In the
West we tend to be goal oriented and need to see quick results, but
frequently the cumulative effects of meditation aren’t noticeable until
much later. Meditation is about this moment, about BEing totally in this
moment, rather than about who you’ll be when you’ve become a good
meditator.
The important thing with a regular practice is to just do it. The
effects are cumulative and one day you’ll look back and see that all those
short meditation sessions really added up.
Meditation Positions
There are several ways to meditate and depending on your goals
you may sit in various positions, stand in various positions or even move
and walk around.
Seated Meditation
Sit on a cushion, zafu or a pillow with your spine straight. Don’t
worry about specific positions such as the full lotus or half lotus, just
cross your legs comfortably and let your knees relax.
The purpose of sitting on the cushion is to keep your hips higher
than your knees, which helps take the pressure off the muscles that run
up through your hips. Keep the spine erect, shoulders back, neck straight
and let your hands relax in your lap. Some methods require certain hand
positions or mudras, but for now just let your hands relax in a
comfortable position in your lap.
In this position your skeletal system should be supporting your body,
allowing your muscles to relax completely.
It’ll take awhile to get used to sitting this way, so just relax and grow
into it.
Touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Close your eyes
and look up towards your third eye (the chakra in your forehead right
between your eyes).
Sitting in a Chair
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to be a human pretzel
to meditate. Grab a straight-backed chair and sit toward the front of it
with your genitals out over the front edge. Keep your feet comfortably
flat on the floor, your hips tucked and your spine straight. Let your hands
rest in your lap. Touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Close your
eyes and look up towards your third eye.
Seiza
Seiza is the kneeling position used in many of the Zen temples.
You can use this position if you wish, but most people find it extremely
uncomfortable for more than a few minutes.
Standing Stake
When we get into the Chakra exercises we’ll be doing some
standing meditations using the “Standing Stake” (also known as the
Mountain) pose from Chi Kung (Qi Qong).
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Stand with your feet shoulder width apart, your arms hanging
loosely at your sides. Flex your knees slightly. Tuck your hips under
slightly and feel your lower spine straighten. Relax your ankles, then
your calves, then your thighs, then your buttocks. Let that sense of
relaxation flow up your back and across your shoulders and up your neck
and out through the top of your head.
As usual, touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Close
your eyes and look up towards your third eye.
Moving
As you become more adept at meditation you’ll be able to do it
while moving. In fact, you’ll get to a point where you’re in a constant
state of light meditation once you learn to access the energy and open up
to it. You may already be practicing some of the more formalized forms
of moving meditation such as Chi Kung, Tai Chi or yoga.
Anything can be a form of moving meditation, including martial
arts, dancing or just playing. What makes it a meditation is your state of
mindfulness and your awareness of the moment.
Keeping the Tongue Up

You’ll frequently hear about keeping your tongue on the roof of
your mouth. It’s extremely important to remember because when you
keep your tongue up you’re completing the energy circuit between the
Governing and Conception Meridians. Failure to do this can cause
energy overloads and create some very interesting medical conditions
you’d be better off not experiencing. The doubtful among you can read
Dr. Glenn Morris’ experiences with this in Pathnotes of an American
Ninja Master.
The basic position for these exercises is to touch your tongue to

the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth. Keep your jaw
relaxed and your teeth slightly apart.
Your tongue should always be in this position, especially when
you begin meditating constantly during your daily life.
Color and Sound

Everything is vibration, even color and sound. As you begin
these meditation exercises you may find it helpful to choose some light,
relaxing music that isn’t distracting. Music can have many different
effects on us and as you get deeper into the meditations then you’ll be
able to really enhance your practice with different types of music. There
are a lot of subliminal programs out there that can help reprogram some
of your subconscious issues.
Color can have varying effects. Each chakra has a color
associated with it, so you can use color to get in touch with your chakras
(more on this in the chakra chapters) or you can just relax and look at the
colors that appear in your third eye.
The Healer’s Manual by Ted Andrews has some great exercises
for using colors and sounds. As you build your sensitivity you’ll be able
to use and adapt your environment more easily for the energy that you
want.
Breathing
(This exercise is available online as a FREE Guided Meditation. Check

the website at www.Inner-Power.net for download locations)
Breathing is the most important part of meditation and

awakening Inner Power. Learning to breathe properly not only helps
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develop your awareness, it also has numerous health benefits.

From our birth until death we breathe more or less continually,
yet for the most part we do it without any awareness of our breath and its
effects on us, and believe it or not most people in the western world do it
wrong!
Breathe in through your nose and draw your breath down into
the area just below your navel, allowing your stomach to expand as you
breathe and filling your lungs entirely with each breath before exhaling
through your nose.
Take a moment and feel your breath. Pay attention to the air as it
flows in through your nostrils and down into your lungs. Don’t think
about anything or do anything other than just breathe.
1. Are you taking a relatively shallow breath and just filling the upper
lobes of your lungs?
2. Does your stomach move out as you breathe?
3. Do you feel the bones of your ribcage expanding and opening with
each breath?
For most people the answer to 1 is YES and the answers to 2 and
3 are NO so let's expand the exercise.
Draw your breath down to a point about 2 inches below your
navel (the body’s center of gravity). When you do you’ll feel your
stomach expand and push out in front of you. Most westerners keep their
stomach pulled in and their chest out, so if you do you’ll have to relax
your abdomen. Just take a moment and be aware of your breath as it
flows down into your center.
As you inhale and draw your breath down, let your ribcage
expand. You’ll feel your floating ribs at the bottom of your ribcage
spread and move, and you may get a few pops out of your spine also. Just
take a few moments and breathe this way. Don’t think or let your mind
wander, just breathe.
If you’ve never meditated before then congratulations, you just
did! It’s exactly that simple.
There are many benefits to proper breathing. The extra oxygen
in your system means your heart doesn’t have to beat as fast, which
lowers your pulse and your blood pressure. Drawing the breath down
into your center also helps to massage your internal organs, providing
more oxygen to them as well as helping to release the accumulated stress
and toxins that build up there. The long term health benefits have been
proven for thousands of years.
Breathing is by far the most important meditation exercise,
although it sounds so simple. Paying attention to the breath is the
beginning of opening up your awareness, so take some time to practice
this, as it’s the foundation for everything that comes next. If you have to
dedicate your meditation time to breathwork for awhile then that’s good,
as we all proceed at our own pace.
I once read a translation of some of Jesus’ teachings from the
original Aramaic (the language he spoke, although he apparently wasn’t
literate) and it was very interesting to me that in Aramaic they used the
same word for wind, breath and spirit. Those with a Chi Kung
background might find it interesting to take another look at the New
Testament and insert the word breath every time you see the word spirit.
Full Body Awareness
(This exercise is available online as a FREE Guided Meditation. Check

the website at www.Inner-Power.net for download locations)
Once you’re comfortable working with your breath it’s time to
bring in the rest of the body. Continue breathing as I’ve outlined above.
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In addition to feeling your breath flow and your stomach and ribs
expand, I want you to feel the energy that flows into your body with each
breath. For me it feels like a very light feeling. It may feel different for
you so take some time and open up and feel the energy.
When you draw in the energy can you feel it pooling at your
center of gravity just below your belly button? As you breathe just let
that pool of energy expand throughout your body. Can you feel it flowing
down through your legs and up your back and down your arms? Take
some time and practice feeling that energy pool expand through your
whole body. Later we’ll expand it out even further, but for now just let it
flow.
This exercise should help you to feel rejuvenated and refreshed
as you’re drawing energy from an infinite pool. Do this exercise
whenever you’re depressed or down, and eventually as you progress
you’ll learn to do it all the time. It’s a habit you have to grow into.
Awareness and Intention

EVERYTHING is about Awareness and Intention. Now that
you’ve begun to build an awareness of the energy, called Chi, Ki or
Prana in some circles, you’ll be able to do things with it and move it
around in your (and other peoples) body.
We move energy with Intention, and this is a very important
fact. EVERYTHING is energy! Our thoughts, our actions, our beliefs
and everything we see, feel, hear, think and do is energy. Intention is
what we do with that energy.
We are all connected in a vast energy pool that encompasses
everything that is, was and will be. It doesn’t matter whether a person
believes in it or can feel it; they still have the ability to affect it. How
many times have you seen a person with a negative attitude who
continually draws more negative reactions to himself? He’s broadcasting

his intentions through his attitudes with the result that he becomes a
human crap magnet, drawing in all the negative feelings and emotions
and experiences.
The other side of this is the continually positive person who
always approaches everything from a positive attitude. This doesn’t
mean everything always goes the way he wants it, but if you watch you’ll
see that even the bad times provide fuel for his growth and he tries to
take every bad experience as a lesson to help improve himself.
Just as our thoughts can influence Chi subconsciously, so can
they move it around in our body's. Energy follows thought, so when you
think about moving energy then it will go where you send it. The
important thing here is to stay out of its way. Energy moves in a spiral
and at its own speed, so don’t try to micro-manage it, just let it flow.
Do the Full Body Awareness exercise again, and this time feel
the energy go where you send it. You can also play with this a bit. Send
it down to your feet, now bring it back to your center and this time just
send it down to your left foot, now your right. Now send it up to your
head, and down to your left elbow.
The next time you’re stuck in traffic, or impatiently waiting in
line at the Motor Vehicles Office, just relax and start to play with this.
Isn’t this a neat toy?
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Chapter 8: Basic Meditation Exercises

Now that you’ve begun to develop the ability to move energy
around in your body there are some things you can do with it. The
following exercises range from pretty simple to pretty complicated, but
as you develop your abilities you’ll
eventually find you can do them all at
once and effortlessly. It can take Eventually you'll
anywhere from a few weeks to a few be able to
years to develop this ability, so remember how to
remember what I said about do these
expectations. exercises by
Eventually you'll be able to memory, and after
remember how to do these exercises that you’ll get to
by memory, and after that you’ll get to the point where
the point where you just do them you just do them
without having to think about them. In
without having to
the beginning it may be helpful to
think about them.
have a partner read the exercises to
you or you can order the MP3 Instant Meditation Course that goes with
this book at www.Inner-Power.net
Grounding
Grounding will always be an important skill, no matter how
advanced you become, so take the time to learn this now and to be able
to do it effortlessly.
Stand in the “Standing Stake” pose described above. Go through
the Breathing and Full Body Awareness exercises. Visualize roots
growing from your feet down through the core of the earth, just like a
tree. In later meditations you can add some variety by seeing the roots
flow down to a large crystal at the earth’s core. Depending on the effect
you want you can vary the crystals and access different energies, but
that's obviously beyond the scope of the exercise at this point.
As you inhale feel the energy of the earth being drawn up
through your roots and up through your body and out through the top of
your head.
On your exhale, let that energy drop back down through your
body and feel all the accumulated stress of your life flow out with it and
back down through your roots and into the earth. Feel your muscles relax
as the stress flows out. For best effect do 9 repetitions of this exercise. A
repetition is 1 breath cycle, or inhale and exhale. If you wish you can do
more sets (groups of repetitions) as needed.
Grounding is a good way to release all your stresses, fears,
angers and feelings of inadequacy. Repeat this exercise for awhile, as
many times as necessary to clean yourself out.
There’s nothing wrong (and a lot of benefit) to stopping at this
point and just doing the exercises I’ve gone over up to this point until
they become completely effortless. Whenever you feel yourself
becoming stressed or angry learn to take a moment and ground yourself
and let those feelings just flow out.
Progressive Relaxation
Progressive Relaxation is easy to do and you can do it anywhere
and anytime.
Assume your meditation position of choice (I like the half-lotus
on a zafu) and go through all the exercises I’ve covered up to this point.
Just take a moment and feel the relaxed energy you should have after
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grounding and releasing your stress.

Feel the energy that flows up through your roots and into your
feet. Make fists with your feet by curling your toes in as far as you can
until it hurts, then relax. Let that relaxed feeling flow from your toes
back over your feet and feel them relax.
As you inhale draw that relaxed feeling up over your ankles and
feel them relax completely. On the exhale let any residual stress flow
back out and down through the earth.
On your next inhale draw that relaxed feeling back up over your
calves, letting them relax after walking all day.
Draw that relaxed energy up over your thighs with the next
inhale. They’re the biggest muscles in the body, so let them relax and rest
now.
As you inhale feel that relaxed feeling flow up over your hips
and buttocks. Feel the stress bleed away. We store a lot of stress here, so
take a moment and let this area relax.
Draw that relaxed feeling up over your stomach and lower back.
Feel the muscles in your back relax and feel your stomach move with
your inhale.
Bring the energy up over your chest and the middle of your
back. Feel your heart area expand with the relaxed energy and feel all the
accumulated stress in between your shoulder blades release and flow out
and back down with your exhale.
Draw the feeling of relaxation up over your shoulders and neck.
Feel any residual tension flow out with your exhale.
Let that relaxed energy flow up and over your head. Let the
muscles of your face and those at the base of your skull relax.
Just sit here and feel this relaxed body you have. Remember this
feeling as it's how you should feel all the time. Tense muscles store
energy, which means your energy isn’t flowing through you, but rather
sticking in certain places in your body.
When your muscles are relaxed your energy flows unimpeded
and is continually renewed, leaving you feeling much lighter and more
refreshed.
The Brain Scrub

The Brain Scrub is designed to help you overcome the “monkey
mind” which leaps and bounces around from subject to subject in an
uncontrolled manner. After mastering this exercise you’ll be able to
instantly clear and calm your mind in any situation, allowing you to
focus completely on any subject.
First hit the meditation position of choice. Take a moment to
relax and let your breathing soften.
As you inhale focus on the number 1. Hold your focus and
exhale. On the next inhale focus on the number 2 and so on until you get
to 10. The purpose here is to focus entirely on the numbers and not allow
any other thoughts to intrude.
DO NOT beat yourself up with this exercise! Our minds are
constantly at work and the untrained mind will bounce from thought to
thought continually (monkey mind) and even during this exercise you’ll
have other thoughts arise.
The key is not to attach to any of those thoughts. When other
thoughts arise just let them evaporate like a wisp of smoke, passing
unheeded through your consciousness and on out of your head.
Your goal is to count from 1 to 10 without attaching to any
intruding thoughts, and if you do find yourself thinking of anything other
than your target number then go back to one and start over.
This exercise is invaluable for learning to control your mind, and
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even seasoned meditators will find it useful to go back and practice

occasionally.
Drawing Energy
During various exercises we’ll be drawing in energy through our
chakras, into our organs and even through the entire area of our skin.
Drawing energy into yourself is fairly easy to do and simply requires a
heightened sense of self-awareness to feel.
To begin drawing energy take a moment and focus on your
breathing. Feel your breath as it flows in through your nostrils and down
to your Dan Tien, the area two finger-widths below your belly button.
Feel the chi as it flows in with your breath down to your Dan Tien. Take
a few breaths and let the energy build up and spread through your body.
Now, as silly as it sounds, imagine a nose or an opening that
covers your heart chakra, just over your sternum. Remember what it feels
like when you draw the chi in through your nostrils? As you inhale let
the ‘nose’ over your heart chakra ‘inhale’ chi directly into your heart. It
may take awhile to really feel this, so don’t be worried if it doesn’t seem
to come easily. As you exhale let any stress or unhappiness in your heart
chakra flow down through your legs and deep into the earth.
Practice ‘inhaling’ energy this way. As you get comfortable
with it you’ll be able to draw chi into yourself in many different ways.
Below are some sample exercises that you can experiment with. You’ll
probably come up with some others on your own as the possibilities here
are literally endless.
Chakra Breathing– We’ll get deeper into this in the Chakra
Chapters, but you can draw energy into any of your chakras at any time
just like we did for the heart chakra.
Energizing your organs– This can be a lot of fun and really help
strengthen your immune system and improve your overall health. It’s
also an exercise in using intention to send energy where you want it to
go.
Take a moment and relax as we did above. On your inhale draw
chi into your Liver. Don’t worry if you don’t know exactly where your
liver is, you don’t have to. Just intend for relaxing, healing energy to
flow into your liver as you inhale, and then draw it in. On your exhale let
the stresses and built up energies flow out of your liver and down into the
earth. Can you feel the lightness and relaxation? The next time you find
yourself becoming angry do this exercise.
You can run chi into any of your organs exactly the same way.
The infusion of energy will help cleanse your organs and release bound
stresses and memories. You may find yourself having some unexpected
emotional releases as that energy has to go somewhere once it’s released.
Relaxing Stress Knots out of your muscles– Whenever you feel a stress
knot building up in your muscles just draw energy directly into the knot
on the inhale and let the stress flow down into the earth on your exhale.
As an exercise in awareness you can take some time and just choose a
body part at random and draw energy into it.
Improve your eyesight and hearing– I’ve personally experienced some
radical healing in both my eyesight and hearing by drawing more chi into
my eyes and ears. At an age when my eyes should be getting worse I
have gotten to the point where I only wear my glasses when I’m working
on the computer or watching a movie.
Drawing energy from trees, rocks and plants– Sit with your back to a
tree or better yet face it and wrap your arms around it. Relax and spend a
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few moments practicing feeling your own energy. Expand your

awareness to the tree. Can you feel the rough bark against your skin and
hear the rustle of wind in the leaves and branches. Can you smell it? Can
you feel the energy from it? Create a circuit with the tree. As you inhale
feel the energy from the tree flow into you. As you exhale let your
energy flow into the tree. Let your friends who haven’t experienced this
laugh at you for being a ‘tree hugger’. Experiment with this with other
plants as well as rocks and crystals. Do they all feel the same? Can you
tell the difference between tree species based on the feel of their energy?
Can you differentiate between different crystals based on their energy?
You could keep yourself occupied indefinitely in the backyard with this
exercise.
Drawing energy is something that you can do at any time, any
place. As you get better at it and more comfortable with it you’ll also be
able to develop more control over your emotions and your physical
responses by using variations on the exercises above. Don’t be afraid to
play with this and experiment with the healing energies as this is all
about building up your personal catalog of feelings and experiences.
The Secret Smile

The Secret Smile is one of Dr. Glenn Morris’ exercises and he
wrote about it in his book Pathnotes of an American Ninja Master. Those
of us who teach his martial art form, Hoshinjutsu, also teach this
regularly in our classes. This is a fairly easy exercise and I can’t
recommend it strongly enough. Energy flows better through a relaxed
and happy body and you should get in the habit of making this a regular
part of your practice.
Hit the meditation position of choice. Take some time to do the
grounding exercise and relax your breathing. Put a smile on your face
and keep it there.

To start the Secret Smile first clench your toes as tightly as
possible, until it begins to hurt. Relax them and feel the feeling that
follows, a kind of relaxed, happy, glad not to be tightly clenched feeling.
On your inhale pull that feeling up across your feet, then up your ankles
and up along your calves. On your inhales feel it rise up across your
knees, then over your thighs and across your hips. Feel the muscles relax
as you do this. Draw the feeling up your spine and up over your head and
down to the point where your tongue touches the roof of your mouth just
behind your front teeth. Mix the relaxed feeling with the saliva in your
mouth, swallow it down and feel it drop down through your body
relaxing it as it goes.
Think about a time when you did something well. It can be any
event you wish, but think of a time when you did something really right
and everyone knew it. Take out the event and just keep the feeling of it.
Take that feeling down to your toes and on your inhales pull that feeling
up across your feet, then up your ankles and up along your calves. Feel it
rise up across your knees, then over your thighs and across your hips.
Draw the feeling up your spine and up over your head and down to the
point where your tongue touches the roof of your mouth just behind your
front teeth. Mix the good, competent feeling with the saliva in your
mouth, swallow it down and feel it drop down through your body
charging it with the good feeling it as it goes. Let it mix with the first.
Think about a time when you laughed, a good deep belly laugh
that you couldn’t control or stop. Now take out the reason for the
laughter, but keep the feeling of it. Take that laughing feeling down to
your toes and on your inhales pull that laughter up across your feet, then
up your ankles and up along your calves. Feel it rise up across your
knees, then over your thighs and across your hips. Draw the feeling up
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your spine and up over your head and down to the point where your
tongue touches the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth. Mix
the happy, laughing feeling with the saliva in your mouth, swallow it
down and feel it drop down through your body feeling your body
laughing it as it goes. Let it mix with the others.
Think about a time when you were in love, truly, completely,
100%, head over heels, swept off your feet in love. Take out the person
or people. Take that feeling down to your toes and on your inhales pull it
up across your feet, then up your ankles and up along your calves. Feel it
rise up across your knees, then over your thighs and across your hips.
Draw the feeling up your spine and up over your head and down to the
point where your tongue touches the roof of your mouth just behind your
front teeth. Mix the loving feeling with the saliva in your mouth, swallow
it down and feel it drop down through your body charging it with
complete, unconditional love. Let it mix with the others.
Think about the best orgasm you ever had. Take out the person
or people and just keep the feeling of the orgasm. Take that feeling down
to your toes and on your inhales pull that feeling up across your feet, then
knees, then over your thighs and across your hips. Draw the feeling up
your spine and up over your head and down to the point where your
tongue touches the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth. Mix
the feeling with the saliva in your mouth, swallow it down and feel it
drop down through your body charging it with the good feeling it as it
goes. Let it mix with the others.
Feel the combination of the energies now and feel the combined
energies swirling around down at your feet. Take the feelings down to
your toes and on your inhales pull that feeling up across your feet, then
knees, then over your thighs and across your hips. Feel the happy,
relaxed, loving, competent, sexual energy as it flows up your spine and
up over your head and down to the point where your tongue touches the
roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth. Mix the combined
feelings with the saliva in your mouth, swallow it down and feel it drop
down through your body and then let it flow up again to the top of your
head, and then drop down to your feet.
Play with this awhile, run it as often as you can. This is how you
should feel all the time, relaxed, happy, loved and sexy. As you get better
at this you’ll be able to run it continuously.
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Chapter 9: Energy Safety and

Troubleshooting
There are a number of unpleasant side effects that can
accompany energy work. Remember that energy, such as stress knots
releasing from muscles and organs and emotional issues being released,
must go somewhere. Sometimes this energy can manifest as heat, anger,
anxiety or depression. These energies can also manifest as happiness,
uncontrollable laughter, uncontrollable crying and so on.
It's important to remember to give yourself space for some of
this energy to manifest and be
released. I'll occasionally go for a
drive and just start crying for no Remember that
apparent reason, which can be energy, such as
disturbing if you don't understand that stress knots
it's just an energy outlet. I also make it releasing from
a point to laugh a lot, work out a lot muscles and organs
and even occasionally go for a drive and emotional
and curse at everyone I know (on a issues being
mountain back road in the privacy of released, must go
the vehicle). somewhere.
We tend to connect emotional
reactions to the people in our lives, or events that happen, and this is just
not always the case! Sometimes it's the reverse, the event happens
because we need a release and subconsciously we were creating a
catalyst (an argument with a spouse for instance) to allow that release.
Taking more control of how you release these energies can have
a very positive effect on your relationships as well as the harmony of
your life.
Warnings and Troubleshooting

Some things to remember;
• Energy follows thought, which means it goes where you send it,
as opposed to where you want it to go. You must work with a
high level of awareness and intention.
• Cool Your Energy - As you begin drawing energy up your spine
in some of the more advanced exercises you’ll need to be sure to
cool it off. An excess of hot Yang energy will cause headaches
and a hot forehead and crown.
Troubleshooting excessive Yang;
1. The simplest way to fix this is to just relax and let the
excess heat just flow out through the top of your head.
2. If that doesn’t work then do the Microcosmic Orbit
exercise (from Mantak Chia’s Awaken Healing Energy
Through the Tao, also presented in Part 2 of this
manual) but run the orbit backwards, bringing the hot
energy back down the spine.
3. Ground and Center – The Grounding Exercise can also
help draw down excess heat. You can also draw all of
your energy into your Center (the point 2 inches below
your navel) by simply placing your hands there and
breathing into the point right behind your hands. Just
inhale and draw your breath into that point, it's easy.
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4. Left Nostril Breathing – Close off the right nostril with a

finger and inhale through the left. This will increase the
flow of Yin and help balance the heat.
5. A cold compress on the forehead. For years I had
problems with Yang headaches and had no clue what
was causing it. As a last resort a cold compress will
make the headache go away almost instantly.
Spontaneous Orgasms
Spontaneous orgasms are an energy release. It happens in many
cases when energy is blocked and unable to circulate through the
body, so you can think of it as a safety valve.
Many of the reported cases of spontaneous orgasm show that it
happens in times of stress. On the one hand it's better than bursting
into tears, but on the other hand it signifies that you need to be taking
some control over how your circulate your energy.
As usual The Secret Smile and the Microcosmic Orbit are the
tools to move that energy and help break up the blocks.
• Using Intention – Be sure to be aware of your intentions while

running energy with another person. A feeling of dislike or
disapproval for the other person can cause you to send harmful
energy into them.
• Energy doesn’t flow through tight muscles. Use the Secret Smile
and Mantak Chia’s Inner Smile and 6 Healing Sounds to ensure
that you are running relaxed, happy, loving energy as much as
possible.
• Do the Secret Smile as often as possible! If I could only do one
exercise this would be it. Whenever you seem to be having
energy problems and issues in your life take 15 or 20 minutes

and run through this exercise. After awhile you’ll find that
simply remembering to smile will help activate that energy.
I don’t put these warnings here to discourage anyone, but simply to help
you be aware of some of the more common problems. Many Qi Qong
teachers insist that students be closely guided by a competent teacher and
I don’t disagree. On the other hand, it’s not always feasible to try to find
a competent teacher as many of us are constrained by time, finances or
geography.
Be careful, be aware and pay attention to your intentions. Don’t
be in a hurry and don’t let your expectations get your ass into something
that your mind can’t get you out of. There are a LOT of resources on the
web these days as well as discussion groups. Sort through all of this with
an open mind and remember that in some cases it’s like the blind men
trying to describe the elephant. We all have different pieces of the
puzzle, in other words.
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Chapter 10: Healing

Life, Pain and Understanding
“Life is pain, Princess. Anyone who says differently is selling
something” – the Princess Bride
PAIN is unavoidable, SUFFERING is not. If you’ve spent any

time at all living in a human body then you’ve discovered it gets issued
to you with an amazing variety of aches and pains starting with birth. We
welcome a newborn young man into western culture by pulling him out
of a warm, comfortable, hopefully loving environment, smacking him on
the bottom and then chopping part of his penis off! Then we wonder why
guys spend the rest of their lives trying to get back in! Holy Crap! Then
there is public school, college, the military and the job world to look
forward to, not to mention dating.
It’s amazing to me that the modern American male is as well
adjusted as he is. It also explains why football is a more popular
spectator sport than women’s gymnastics. Guys would prefer watching
overpaid, hulking brutes roll each other around in the mud rather than
watch beautiful, athletic, highly dedicated young women demonstrate the
utterly amazing things that can be done with a human body because men
have been so mentally battered and sexually confused by the process of
just being alive! It can take a huge amount of intentional effort to
overcome this sexual disorientation.
I’m not being totally tongue-in-cheek here. The world we live in
can inflict a lot of subconscious damage that really requires some
specific work to repair. This is exacerbated by the fact that many of us
aren’t even aware we’ve been damaged. When you grow up with a pre-
existing condition then that condition becomes normal. Normal doesn’t
mean right or correct, by the way. It simply means that enough people
accept the same aberration as an everyday part of their lives. If 51% of
the people wore chickens as hats then the Chicken Hat would become
normal. What the hell, we can use the eggs.
Giving Yourself Permission to Heal

You can give yourself an excellent head start on your healing
process simply by giving yourself permission to heal. I realize this
sounds simple to the point of stupidity, yet many people subconsciously
block their body/mind/spirit’s natural ability to heal for a lot of different
reasons. Some people have been so brainwashed by modern medicine
that they believe they need pills for any kind of healing. Others may have
guilt or low self-esteem and may believe they don’t deserve healing or
health.
A lot of people simply aren’t aware they can start the healing
process themselves by simply asking for healing and then being willing
to receive it. This is a Big Deal. It’s important, hence the capital letters in
Big Deal. I was going to use italics again but I thought that this point was
worth going a little further for.
You can ASK for healing. You can use prayer, meditation,
energy work or spells to make your intention known to the
Universe/God/Goddess/Great Spirit etc. Then you have to be WILLING
to be healed. You have to get rid of any mental/spiritual/physical
attachments you may have to your ailment. This doesn’t mean you have
to mentally dissect yourself to inspect and observe all of your
attachments. It just means you have to be willing to release them and let
go of whatever effect, or affect, you get from those attachments. You
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must be willing to ACCEPT or RECEIVE your healing and recognize

you're making a small yet important life/lifestyle change and you're
going to be doing some things differently from now on.
You must also put yourself into ALIGNMENT with your
healing. You can’t ask for healing for a body that's chronically weak and
overweight and then sit on the couch eating bon bons and watching
Judge Judy and expect it to manifest all on its own. Turn off the One-
Eyed Plastic God, get your fat butt up and go for a walk! TAKE
ACTION to get what you want. MOVE ENERGY in some way or form
(“Objects in motion tend to stay in motion" – Isaac Newton).
GIVING YOURSELF PERMISSION to heal is an important
part of this process. We're taught from birth that we must look to some
external source for everything in our lives. You have to ask your parents,
your teachers, your government, your God or some other authority for
whatever it is you want. However, if everything is ONE then you ARE a
God or a Goddess. YOU then have the ultimate authority in your life and
YOU can create a life in which YOU can give your Self whatever
permissions it requires to accomplish what you came here for. Meditate
on that until it makes sense.
BE THANKFUL for your healing. Give thanks to the Universe
and your Self/Deities and do that every day for the rest of your
unnaturally long life. Living in gratitude can not only speed your healing,
it can empower you to remember that EVERY moment of your life
brings something you can be thankful for.
These healing concepts are going to become more and more
important the more you work with your chakras. As you begin cleansing
and balancing your chakras you're also going to be cleansing and
balancing the corresponding areas of your life. It’s a process that will last
the rest of your life and if you can consistently dedicate 5 or 10 minutes a
day to the process then you’ll find that your abilities will increase
dramatically.
Basic Reiki
Reiki is an extremely useful tool for cleansing and balancing the
chakras. I’ve used it for years and found innumerable benefits to it. This
is a very simplified primer on basic Reiki. It’s not a certification course.
It's intended as a basic lesson to help you start channeling the energy.
Clearing up some Reiki Myths

There are a few old myths and misunderstandings about Reiki
that I’ll address.
The Attunement Process

One of the major myths in Reiki is that you must be attuned to
Reiki by a ‘master’ to be able to use it. I’ve proven repeatedly in my own
classes that this is NOT true and the average person has the ability to use
Reiki instantly.
The attunements make the connection to the energy stronger and
cause a rapid cleansing of the body and the chakras, but this will happen
gradually over time if you just keep using Reiki. Reiki is out there and
available to everyone. You don’t need anyone’s permission or
certificates to be able to use it to heal yourself, friends and family.
The Energy Exchange Myth

A former Grandmaster of Reiki instituted the concept of energy
exchange to validate charging extraordinarily high fees for master level
attunements. Her position was that people wouldn’t value something
offered freely and I tend to agree with her.
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However, if you remember the Law of Reciprocity I mentioned

at the beginning of the book, you’ll also realize that merely by giving
healing energy to another person you’re making the world a better place.
No exchange is necessary. You get back what you send out.
I have no qualms with a professional healer charging for
services; just don’t mislead anyone in the process.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese phrase which means “Universal Energy”. Its
history is enshrouded in myth, legend and parable, but the simple fact is,
it works. Reiki is simply the process of channeling Universal Energy
through oneself and into someone (or something) else. The vast range of
uses for Reiki range from healing oneself to opening and balancing the
Chakras and even charging objects and food with the energy.
Getting Started
Reiki is safe and simple to use. To get started sit or lie down in a
comfortable position. Put on the music of your choice and relax. Place
your hands over your face with your palms over your eyes. Touch your
tongue to the roof of your mouth with the tip of your tongue just behind
your front teeth.
As you inhale open up and feel the energy flow down through
the top of your head and down to your heart chakra, feel it flow out along
your arms and out through your hands and into your face. At the simplest
level that’s ALL you have to do. The energy will go wherever it’s needed
and do whatever is required of it. You don’t have to send it anywhere in
particular or try to control it.
Getting Deeper
Reiki flows through you simply by your intent. You just have to
intend to open up to it and you’ll find it readily available. You may feel
many different things while giving yourself a Reiki treatment. Your
hands or the part of your body covered
by your hands may get hot, cold or
tingly. Some people feel it very easily
The energy will
and others take awhile to open up to it.
go wherever it’s
The simplest explanation I’ve found is
to think of what the emotion Love
needed and do
feels like, and then just relax and let it whatever is
flow. required of it.
Everyone should study Reiki. You don’t have to
I think that Reiki and money send it anywhere
management should be required in particular or try
courses in public school! Any energy to control it.
worker, massage therapist, healer,
martial artist or metaphysician can greatly benefit from Reiki, and there
are many FREE Reiki classes and sources of training available, as many
of us try to make it as easily accessible as possible to anyone who wants
it.
I hope this simple exercise helps some of you who’ve been
interested in Reiki, but just haven’t made the leap into studying it yet.
Detox
It's no secret that we live in a very toxic environment. In fact the
majority of items that we come into contact with during a given day will
have some sort of off-gassing, or toxins that you breathe, or that seep
through your skin or that you eat.
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I was shocked when I experimented with some detox products

such as Bentonite Clay and some of the 21 Day and 30 Day Cleanses
from the local health food store. I hadn't realized how gunked up I was
until I started cleaning some of the gunk out. After just some simple
experimentation I gained some radical improvements in my health and
energy and I'd be pretty safe to say that you could also.
Getting into a real detox program obviously goes beyond the
scope of this book, but do some research online and experiment for
yourself. One of the books I highly recommend is The Detox Strategy by
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith. I also like Gary Nulls books in
general and have used several recently.
Basic Maintenance
As we finish Part 1 I just want to close with the reminder that it's
so much easier to do some basic maintenance than it is to do major
repairs. This applies to your body, mind and spirit in the same way it
applies to your car and your furnace.
You'll probably use the exercises and concepts from Part 1 in
some way or another every day for the rest of your life. Even if you think
you're ready for Part 2 you should come back occasionally and review
these basics.
Part 2: Awakening Your Power

Once you have cleansed, harmonized healed and relaxed your
Self you can begin getting deeper into the energy work. I know that some
of you will rush into this section too soon, but you'll learn a lot from that
also. Just remember one of the good things about a book is that the first
half is still there when you want to go back to it. ☺
Awakening your power is an ongoing process. You will always
have new challenges and new levels of growth, so just enjoy the ride.
The exercises in Part 2 will get you deeper into your chakras, out into the
Universe and down into the dark regions that many people work so hard
to avoid.
If you haven't developed the ability to see everything that
happens to you as a learning experience then my advice is stop here for
awhile until you're really ready. Having said that, I'm also aware that
awakening your Inner Power is something that you can never totally
prepare for, so be sure to take advantage of my discussion groups and
Teleseminars to get more targeted help when problems arise.
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Chapter 11: Complete Self Acceptance
One of the most important parts of Personal Mastery is Self

Acceptance. This is much more than the usual self esteem issues we hear
about, although that’s a part of it.
Self Acceptance is about
accepting yourself completely, In reality we’re
exactly as you are RIGHT NOW.
For most of us this isn’t as easy as NEVER finished
it should be. We’ve been taught as there will
that we have to achieve certain
things or be certain things, and we hopefully always be
shouldn’t feel satisfied with who
more to learn and
we are until we’ve done so.
In reality we’re NEVER new ways to grow.
finished as there will hopefully
So when, exactly,
always be more to learn and new
ways to grow. So when, exactly, are we supposed to
are we supposed to feel good about
ourselves?
feel good about
Popular culture would have ourselves?

you believe all you need to feel
good about yourself is the right car,
or the right clothes, or the right beer. In fact many of our culture’s self-
esteem problems are intentionally created by the media and the
businesses that advertise there. How often have you seen an ad and
thought “I really need to update my style”, or “I really need a new car”?
Do you really? Hey, maybe sometimes we do. I have to admit my habit

of wearing sweatpants, t-shirts and sandals wouldn’t go over well when
making sales calls for the CDs or books, and I do in fact, really need a
good car.
As usual the question in our society is ‘how much do we really
need’? The difference here is the word need versus the word want. We’re
taught we need certain things to feel good about ourselves, and that’s the
key issue. I don’t care if you buy a new Mercedes 3 times a week if that’s
what you want to do and you can afford it.
However, if you feel like you need to buy or do anything in order to
feel good about yourself that’s an issue that needs to be addressed.
Self Acceptance is about FREEDOM. It’s the freedom to be happy
with who you are and not be a slave to the 'needs' we’re taught to believe
in. It’s the freedom to look at yourself in the mirror and love and accept
the person you see looking back and the freedom to be happy to be in
your own skin.
True self acceptance is one of the transformational moments in our
lives. It doesn’t mean there aren’t things you’d like to change, or have
new directions you’d like to grow. It means you’ve accepted yourself,
with all your warts and ugly spots, and now you can start moving in the
positive directions needed for your life.
It’s also the key to having the freedom to accept others exactly as
they are. The most important person you can love is yourself. Have you
ever seen someone who gives up their entire lives to help others, yet
destroys their own health and welfare in the process? Everything is
connected and One, which means anything you can see, feel or imagine
is a part of you also, with all the balances that apply.
For instance, a person who only takes care of himself, with no regard
for others, is no less imbalanced than someone who devotes his entire life
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to care for others at the expense of himself. The key here, once again, is
the word NEED. It’s all about the motivation that drives them.
Some of those so intent on self-sacrifice are driven by need. They
need to help others to make up for their own inadequacies, or to make up
for the bad things they feel they’ve done, or whatever other reasons drive
them. Yet if they truly accepted themselves then would they feel the need
to sacrifice themselves in order to help others? Wouldn’t they see helping
others as an extension of helping themselves, rather than as a way to
make themselves feel better about who they are?
A balanced person sees helping others as a normal, compassionate
thing to do, rather than as something to do to make up for their own lack
in some area. It’s the Law of Reciprocity again, by helping others we
help ourselves, by encouraging others to grow we also grow in the
process. By accepting ourselves exactly as we are, we can also accept
others exactly as they are, and that’s the beginning of unity.
Chapter 12: The Chakras

Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means ‘wheel’ and it refers to the
spinning energy centers on our body. A chakra isn’t really a physical part
of our body although with practice you can feel them pretty easily.
These energy centers affect the way our body functions on all
planes as well as store memories and
feelings. There is some pretty
persuasive evidence that we can even
This process will
store ‘left-over’ feelings and memories
never end, by the
from former lives. Occasionally these
way. Don't think
hold-overs can have adverse effects on
of it as something
our current lives.
that you're going
When your Inner Power
awakens you’ll go through a period of
to work through
chakra cleansing and balancing. This once and then be
period can (as in my case) last for done with.
years, although that obviously varies
from person to person. This cleansing is part of what many teachers refer
to when they say that the kundalini “breaks the wheel of Karma”.
Many volumes have been written on the study of chakras and
I’m not going to try to recreate that here. Rather than an exhaustive study
I’m going to give you enough to get you started and to begin exploring
your chakra system.
Those of you who wish to get deeper into the study of chakras
(and it’s pretty fundamental) are advised to find a copy of Cyndi Dale’s
excellent book New Chakra Healing.
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When most people mention chakras they're talking about the

seven primary chakras that run up a person’s center line. These seven
primary chakras affect our lives on many different levels and a clear
understanding of them and what they do is extremely helpful on your
quest for self-awareness.
The Japanese based martial arts usually have only 5 chakras;
Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and the Void. The Void encompasses the top
three chakras seen in other systems. In order to avoid too much confusion
I’ve avoided giving all the names from all the various languages usually
associated with chakras.
The chakras have both a front side and a back side. Each side
deals with different aspects of your life. The simple charts below will
give you some specifics about it. Most of the information in the charts
came from New Chakra Healing and deals with the front side of the
chakra.
As the energy starts rising through the chakra you'll experience a
huge range of side effects and experiences. Any time an energy block is
encountered extra energy is going to be applied to help break up the
block. This means you can experience extremes in any aspect of your
life. One of the lessons that I learned the hard way is that the energy will
keep pumping into that block and the issue can continue to get more
extreme until you develop your awareness of it and balance it out.
This process will never end, by the way. Don't think of it as
something that you're going to work through once and then be done with.
You will always be bouncing back and forth through your chakras and
balancing and fine tuning them, so get used to working with them and
take the time to learn about them.
1st Chakra
The First Chakra is also known as the Root or Earth Chakra.
Location Perineum, groin

Color Red
Key Word Awareness
Descriptors Images of a snake, dragon
or “holy fire”.
Source Of Passion; raw, primal
feelings, rage, terror, joy,
survival energy
Seat of The will to live
Problems Root of addictions,
compulsions, sexual
dysfunction, nervous
disorders, money, career
and finance issues
Contains Roots, family values,
heritage. Programming
affecting basic needs such
as sex, money, love, food,
air, housing, etc.
Physical Communication Communicates
Style physical/emotional needs
through aches and pains,
physical awareness, touch,
smell, vibration
Energy Type Meditation, raw earth
energy
In the meditation position of choice; first ground and then do the

Secret Smile.
Let your awareness drop down to your perineum. As you inhale
feel the energy flow in through your perineum and up your spine. Watch
the phosphenes behind your eyes as when you do this they tend to turn
red.
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Associated with the large intestine, feet and legs, the 1st Chakra
is your foundation. In this chakra you'll deal with security, stability,
money, housing, and other basic survival needs.
Imbalances in this chakra can result in angry, violent, fear-based
reactions. Often this is the hallmark of those who are insecure and unsure
of their place in the world. The trap for the unaware is the fact that so
much of our pop culture is targeted directly towards this chakra. This is
not a coincidence; insecure people make good consumers and are willing
to pay for solutions.
As with the other chakras, working with the 1st Chakra is an
incremental process. As you balance this chakra you'll find the other
chakras become more supported and easier to balance. This creates the
'Chakra Shuffle' in which you'll find your energy bouncing back and
forth between your chakras as the fine tuning process begins. Learn to be
aware of where your energy is, chakra-wise, and you'll be able to respond
to and eventually take control of the creation of your life.
2nd Chakra
The Second or Water Chakra is the center for our feelings and
creativity.
Location Abdomen, small intestine

Color Orange
Key Word Feeling, Creativity
Descriptors Water elements and
animals.
Source Of Female power, feelings,
creative energy, birth and
gestation activity for babies,
ideas, projects, etc.
Seat of Female identity, awareness
of feelings
Problems Appendix disorders, kidney
problems (childhood
issues), issues from stored
stuck or unexpressed
emotions, PMS, ovarian
disorders, creative blocks
Contains Feelings of self and others
Physical Communication Expressing feelings through
Style the appropriate physical
medium such as laughing,
crying, screaming, etc.
Energy Type Chi energy
In the meditation position of choice; first ground and then do the

Secret Smile.
Let your awareness drop down to the area about 2 inches below
your beltline (the Hara or dan tien). As you inhale feel the energy flow in
through your hara and up your spine. Watch the phosphenes behind your
eyes as when you do this they tend to turn orange.
Working with the 2nd chakra can often bring about extremes in
sexuality which can be difficult to handle. Some spiritual teachers advise
abstinence and there are probably some cases (such as prison) where I'd
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agree, but generally I see abstinence as an easily avoidable perversion.

It's possible to experience extremes in sexual sensitivity, excessive desire
or a lack thereof, spontaneous orgasms and even extreme sexual
reactions to various stimuli you'd not ordinarily be affected by.
When you are balancing out your light and dark or Yin and
Yang energies you can also develop fetishes or sexual inclinations that
would seem unusual when compared to the things that used to attract
you. Ride this out, so to speak, and feel free to experiment within any
consensual relationship that appeals to you.
If you are in a steady relationship you'd better be able to
communicate with your partner about all of this. This energy tends to
balance out and shift and you should always maintain your awareness
and communications.
Abstinence
In all seriousness, there are advantages to periods of abstinence
while working through the kundalini process. I was single for much of
the process because I had an instinctive realization that I was simply too
screwed up to get involved with anyone I really cared about. Once of my
first questions when I met Dr. Glenn Morris was "How do you handle all
of these changes and all of this energy while maintaining a good
relationship?" His instant answer of "Apparently not very well!" was
only half joking.
These days there is a lot more support and information available
and you really don't have to reinvent the wheel the way Glenn and I did.
Be sure to take advantage of the various forums and discussion groups.
Depending upon your energy practices there are times when
you'll want to recycle that sexual energy and use it for other things.
Those practices go beyond the scope of this book but spend some time
digging through a list of Dr. Mantak Chia's books and you'll see a
number of extremely good references.
3rd Chakra
The Third or Fire Chakra is the power center and is where we

store our judgments, opinions and beliefs about the world and ourselves.
Location Solar Plexus

Color Yellow
Key Word Power
Descriptors Air elements, birds
Source Of Masculine power,
intellectual understanding of
the physical/worldly
existence
Seat of Male identity, self esteem,
directed will
Problems Digestive, metabolic
disorders, weight problems
Contains Opinions, Differentiated
beliefs
Physical Communication Intellectual understandings
Style at the ‘gut’ level
Energy Type Mental, intellectual
In the meditation position of choice; first ground and do the

Secret Smile.
Let your awareness drop down to your Solar Plexus. As you
inhale feel the energy flow in through your solar plexus and up your
spine. Watch the phosphenes behind your eyes as when you do this they
tend to turn yellow.
Your Power Chakra is the seat of your ability to project your
energy and manifest your desires. It's one of the areas so many people
have trouble with. Self esteem issues, the tendency to be judgmental and
strong opinions and beliefs are all centered here.
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When the 3rd Chakra is balanced we can call up the secure,

loving, relaxed energy of the first two chakras and project it out into the
Universe as a helpful energy for those who need it. When it's unbalanced
we fall into dogma and strong belief as a way to try to maintain power in
a world that overwhelms us.
The 3rd Chakra also helps regulate the flow of energy into the
other chakras. Maintaining a healthy balance allows us to have more
power to work on all the other aspects of our lives. Digestive disorders
and weight gain can be signs of an unbalanced power center and the
concept of 'comfort food' begins to make more sense.
4th Chakra
The Heart or Wind Chakra is the melting pot for the divine
energy coming down from the crown and the earth energy coming up
from the root.
Location Heart, sternum

Color Green
Key Word Love, healing
Descriptors Earth elements, mammals
Source Of Healing energy, dreams,
innermost desires
Seat of Compassion, relationships
Problems Circulatory disorders, blood
pressure problems, sleep
disorders, relationship
problems
Contains The ability to relate
Physical Communication Communicates
Style physical/emotional needs
through pain, heart pangs,
tugs
Energy Type Astral (connects to dream
world and astral plane)

Secret Smile.
Let your awareness drop down to your heart. As you inhale feel
the energy flow in through your heart and up your spine. Watch the
phosphenes behind your eyes as when you do this they tend to turn
green.
The heart chakra is where we begin to combine the energy
flowing down from the Universe and up from the Earth. The ancient
Greeks thought the body was controlled from the heart and the brain was
just a useless mass up in your head. They may have been more correct
than modern science gives them credit for.
A balanced heart chakra allows you to give freely and in doing
so it helps to activate the Universal Laws of Attraction and Reciprocity.
It also allows one to use the Energy of Love. I go into this in greater
detail later in the book, but the Energy of Love is different from the
emotion of love and learning to tap into this source gives you literally
unlimited energy and resources.
Don't take my word for it. Robert Kiyosaki points out in his
books that "The more I help others, the more money I make." And this
becomes a recurring theme in many marketing manuals and business
books as well.
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5th Chakra
The Throat or 5th Chakra is our communication center. We express

what we see, think, feel, desire and detest.
Location Throat
Color Blue
Key Word Expression
Descriptors Etheric elements,
humanity
Source Of Truth
Seat of Wisdom, responsibility
Problems Inability to say ‘no’ or
‘yes’, any disorders
relating to the throat or
mouth
Contains The ability to define
ourselves in the world
Physical Communication Language, sounding,
Style singing, toning
Energy Type Etheric (emotional
energy charged with
spiritual awareness)

Secret Smile.
Let your awareness drop down to your throat. As you inhale feel
the energy flow in through your throat and up your spine. Watch the
phosphenes behind your eyes as when you do this they tend to turn blue.
The 5th Chakra governs higher communication, speaking,
hearing and more importantly, listening. All energy is vibration, so
chanting, singing, reading aloud and speaking are some of the ways you
project your intent through this chakra.
The throat chakra is your connection to the physical world
around you as it lets you relate and communicate with others. Those with
deficient energy in the throat chakra can have a hard time expressing
themselves; have a fear of speaking and show throat, mouth and thyroid
problems.
Those with too much energy can have a hard time listening and
have hearing problems and talk excessively.
Neck and shoulder stretches are good for this chakra and help to
release the energy blocks.
6th Chakra
The “3rd Eye” or 6th Chakra is our inner/outer visual center.
Location Forehead
Color Purple
Key Word Vision
Descriptors Spiritualized humans,
saints, spirits, gurus
Source Of Insight
Seat of Visions, visioning
Problems Adolescent issues, eye
problems, glandular
problems, growth or
development issues,
problems planning for the
future
Contains Self image and means of
shaping/correcting ones
view of self and the world
Physical Communication Uses ability to see, draw or
Style project images to
communicate
Energy Type Cerebral (draws energy
from the brain and 7th
chakra)

Secret Smile.
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Let your awareness go to your third eye. As you inhale feel the
energy flow in through your third eye and up through your crown and out
the top of your head. Watch the phosphenes behind your eyes as when
you do this they tend to turn purple.
Intuition, the ability to just 'know' something is an interesting
ability that can be developed as you work with this chakra. The 3rd Eye is
also a channel for projecting energy and as you continue with the
meditation exercises in this book you should be able to begin developing
that ability. I teach this in my martial arts classes and show how one can
project love and compassion and still use it to help you have a balanced
response to an attacker (a side advantage here is that if you are projecting
love then you are NOT responding through fear or anger). It's pretty easy
to learn and I give details later on.
When the 3rd Eye is balanced it's easier to move into a
meditative state and it's easier to ignore distractions. The increased
intuition can save your life, your marriage or both when used properly.
So far it hasn't been very good for Lottery numbers but I never buy a
ticket either, so I have to say that it really hasn't been properly tested.
As you get better at projecting your energy you'll find that it
does aid in manifesting. Just remember to manifest what you want, rather
than what you don't.
7th Chakra
The Crown or 7th Chakra is the “psychic center” for higher knowing
and it receives the spiritual energies and guidance necessary to activate
our purpose.
Location Crown of the head

Color White/clear
Key Word Divinity
Descriptors Spirits, God forms, angels,
powers
Source Of Divine awareness
Seat of Our oneness with all
Problems Cancers, bone disorders,
schizophrenia, depression,
ungrounded-ness, lack of
direction
Contains The receptive means for
understanding our path and
purpose
Physical Communication Describes physical needs
Style through our thoughts
Energy Type Ketheric, a form of spiritual
energy from beyond earths
space/time

Secret Smile.
Let your awareness go to your crown chakra. As you inhale feel
the energy flow in through your crown and back down to your heart.
Watch the phosphenes behind your eyes as when you do this they tend to
turn white.
Now start over and run the energy through each chakra at a time
in order. You can do this for as long as you like. I like to do it while
driving on long trips.
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In many old paintings of Christ you'll see the halo effect which
denotes a deeper connection to God and the spiritual realms. Once your
Crown Chakra opens you can feel the energy at the top of your head. It
feels a bit like wearing a very light hat. You may also go through a
period of intense itching, tingling or a crawling feeling around the top of
your head as the chakra is opening.
Too much energy in the crown can manifest as being overly
intellectual. I like to combine that with the energy of the 2nd Chakra and
be a 'Sexual Intellectual' (a fucking know-it-all).
Too little energy can manifest as apathy or indifference, spiritual
skepticism and materialism. It's not uncommon to give away all your
stuff when you hit this point as you begin to see that all 'things' are just
impermanent doodads and for awhile personal objects may feel like a lot
to drag around. As Jimmy Buffet says "It might come as quite a shock,
but you can't really own that rock."
I encourage people to go along with the give-away-all-your-stuff
mentality and ride it out. You don't need that crap anyway. Realize,
however, as you begin to see your true place and mission in this life you
may have to buy some of that stuff again. That's ok because if you've
balanced out your chakras you shouldn't have any problem manifesting
exactly what you need to get the job done.
It's important to understand your journey through the chakras is
going to be a continual process for the rest of your life. So what? It's like
breathing, just another thing that's happening in your system. How well
this works for you depends on your ability to surrender to the process and
go where you're supposed to go.
I tend to use the example of a pyramid when I teach about the
chakras. The broader and more solid your base the higher you can build
it. You may find that your energy jumps around seemingly at random
when your chakras are balancing. This book outlines a number of

exercises to help cleanse and balance your chakras. I've included a Reiki
Chakra Balance and I encourage everyone to spend some time on that.
I've also included some other energy work to help you manage your
practice and hopefully avoid some of the nastier side effects that can
come from working with your chakras.
Side Effects
Speaking of side effects, most of the side effects that will be
experienced during energy work are based around the chakras. Taking
the time to do the work and balance your chakras will help you avoid
some of these and give you the tools to manage others. Side effects are
simply symptoms of your energy work and they are neither good nor bad.
There may be some side effects that you can use in your life and in your
practice and there may be side effects that exist merely to help get you
onto the right path.
Understanding your chakra system will help you identify what
would appear to be random pain and recognize that a new stress knot or
energy block is forming in your system. The more you understand about
your chakras the better you'll be able to identify the things you are doing
right in your practice and the easier it'll be to keep everything balanced
and functioning.
Your physical body is the vehicle that lets your spirit interact
with the world around you. Chakras are the diagnostic tools that help you
maintain the energy balance in your meatsuit and keep it working
properly.
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Other Chakras
You’ll notice I keep referring to the 7 primary chakras. We have

other chakras in our palms and the soles of our feet as well as throughout
our organs and the rest of our body. We even have chakras outside our
body, below our feet and above our heads. You’ll notice I didn’t even get
into the back side of the chakras in the chart above.
In all we have 32 chakras which act in various ways and have
various effects on our spiritual, physical, mental and emotional selves. A
smart, curious person could spend a lot of time just researching the
various possibilities of the chakras and how they affect us.
I strongly advise anyone who wants a real understanding of
themselves to devote some time to this.
Chakras Balance Each Other

It’s important to remember that the chakras balance each other.
The Root chakra and the Crown chakra will both be affected when you
work with either one of them as will the 2nd chakra and the 3rd eye and so
on.
As you begin doing the following exercises you’ll see that
working with the chakras can have a synergistic effect. As you begin
cleansing and clearing the root chakra you’ll also be activating the crown
on a lesser level. When you follow this up with the chakra balancing
exercises you’ll find that even though you’re working with one certain
chakra, the energy in all of the others is also affected.
Pay attention to what you see on the phosphenes behind your
eyes as well as what you feel and experience emotionally. Your success
when working with your chakras depends on your level of self awareness
and your willingness to listen to and trust yourself.
As you balance, cleanse and open up your primary chakras

you’ll also, by extension, be opening up all the lesser chakras throughout
your body. This process will continue for the rest of your life, so don’t
feel like you have to be in a hurry to get it done.
Warning!
It’s imperative that you’ve developed the ability to have a
positive outlook before you start working with the chakras. As you begin
the cleansing process you’re going to experience old, repressed emotions
and memories. If you haven’t learned to remain positive and release the
energy then you can possibly get yourself into a lot of trouble here. This
is where the support groups and internet discussion groups can really
help. You are NOT alone with this stuff, no matter how it feels
sometimes.
Drawing Energy into the Chakras

There are some very simple exercises you can do for your
chakras. As you get used to using the ones below you may discover
variations and experiments you can do with them also. In the meditation
chapters I went over how to ‘draw energy’ into yourself. This works very
well as a chakra strengthening exercise.
In the meditation position of choice (even moving), go through
the grounding and relaxation meditations. Begin the Drawing Energy
meditation but rather than begin at the heart chakra begin at the Root or
first chakra.
As you inhale draw the energy in through the chakra. Don’t try
to control the wheel or do anything with it, just let it spin as you energize
it. Draw energy into it on the inhale and send energy back out of it on the
exhale.
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You may feel a variety of things with this exercise. You might
feel the spinning of the chakras, or just a light area at the chakra as the
energy flows in and out..
Continue this exercise up through the rest of the chakras. Don't be
distracted or even concerned with the images that come up relating to the
chakras. We'll deal with those later in another exercise. Right now just let
the energy flow and practice drawing it into your chakras and learn what
that feels like.
Hugging the Tree

Stand in the ‘mountain’ or ‘standing stake’ pose described
earlier with your hands held about 8-12 inches out in front of your first
chakra.
As you inhale feel the Earth energy rise up through your legs
and fill your body, overflowing down your arms and out through your
hands into the chakra. Let the energy continue to flow into the chakra as
you exhale.
After a few minutes let your hands rise gently until they’re in
front of the second chakra. As you practice this you’ll develop the ability
to just feel when you should move your hands to the next chakra.
Continue this with each chakra. For the crown chakra hold your
hands straight up at arm's length above your head. Turn your palms
inward and just let the energy flow where it needs to go.
Variations
You can do this using Earth energy as I just described. You can
also use Universal energy and let it flow downward through your head
until it fills your entire body and spills down your arms.
For the especially fun-loving you can combine this with the
Yin/Yang meditation shown later in the book and combine both energies
while visualizing the Yin/Yang symbol.
Releasing Old Energies

Our chakras store memories and emotions as do our organs and
muscles. Hopefully by now you’ve begun a steady yoga practice (or
other moving meditative practice) and started cleaning some of the
blocks out manually. You should also be able to ground yourself
properly and move your energy around.
As you pull energy into your chakras you’ll occasionally come
across memories or an emotion that’s painful. In many cases it’s good to
take a moment and study the energy and see if there are any lessons to be
learned from it, and then just let it go. Just release the energy and let it
flow down into the earth like any other stress. If it seems to stick and
develop a stress knot find a good massage therapist, Reiki healer or
acupuncturist (preferably all 3) to help manually release it.
You’ll find you have a tendency to laugh or cry much more
easily. This is also one of the ways the energy releases itself. I used to
spend hours just driving through the mountains (and sometimes still do)
just crying and laughing as this energy worked itself out.
If you’re married or involved with someone who isn’t following
the same path (and especially if they are) then it’s imperative to have
good lines of communication during this process also.
A Special Note for Those in Relationships

You’re involved in a process that changes the way your energy
flows, and the frequencies with which it flows. As your energy becomes
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stronger the energy levels of your mate will also begin to increase, just
by the constant contact with you.
What you do to yourself can easily affect those you’re close to,
so don’t be surprised if your mate also begins to experience some clean
outs. This can frequently happen after or during sex as this is all sexual
energy and when you begin to crank it up then it can easily affect others.
Fortunately, I was aware of this fairly early on as I’ve had issues
with several girlfriends who’ve experienced emotional cleanouts while
having sex. If you’re not really well attuned to your own process it can
be really disheartening when the object of your affections bursts into
tears after making love.
As usual communication is the key. You’ll probably also begin
to gravitate more towards sexual partners who are involved in
metaphysics and energy work, or at least open to it. It can take a long
time for a non-energy worker to get used to your energy and intensity.
If you’re fortunate enough to be in a relationship with someone
who can handle your energy the practice of Tantra can open up some fun
new areas of study. “The Big Red Book” (Douglas & Slinger's Sexual
Secrets) can bring you and your partner hours of practice and
exploration.
This is another area where the discussion groups can be
extremely helpful.
Seeking Help
You may stumble across a repressed emotion or memory that
requires some professional help and counseling to cope with. If that
happens take your therapist a copy of this book in the hopes it’ll help
them understand the process that you’re involved with and why you’re
delving into these areas. If you can't afford to take them a copy then
email me with their name and address and I will send your therapist a
free copy.
It’s important to remember that you are NOT alone with this
process. There are some good resources available today in the form of
support and discussion groups that can really help with your process.
Take advantage of them and don’t be afraid to get on and talk about
what’s going on with your practice. I can’t tell you how many times
someone has made some offhand comment that unlocked doors for me.
I spent a decade completely alone, just stumbling through this. I
see people today that effortlessly flow through things that took me years
to work out, simply because there are so many easily available resources
now.
Dealing with Fear

Learning to deal with your fears is a vital part of this process and
not to be taken lightly. As you can see from what I’ve written so far there
are some very real dangers for the careless and un-aware.
In the early chapters of this book I addressed “Keeping a
Positive Attitude” and “Having Faith”. I can’t stress the importance of
these concepts enough at this point. When you break all your emotions
down you’ll see that they all stem from either LOVE or FEAR. On a
moment to moment basis you have the ability to choose which of these
you’ll react from. Choose wisely.
Fear is much more than just the mindkiller. When you react from
fear you are reacting with a completely Id based response. It’s why I
stress the necessity for a good martial arts regimen. Not to allow you to
fight well, but to build your confidence and give you the ability to keep
from fighting and remain calm in desperate situations.
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Much of what you’re learning in this book will stretch your

comfort zones physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Fools do
indeed rush in where Angels fear to tread. If you haven’t developed the
ability to calm your mind and your energy, as well as create a body and
spirit that resonates with a loving, happy, compassionate energy, you are
setting yourself up for a trip through a paranoid, hellish, vitriolic
existence.
To be afraid of your own energy is to be afraid of dealing with
the most basic part of your Self. To be afraid of another’s energy is to
fear the reflection of yourself.
Exercises like the Secret Smile and the Inner Smile can be a
good defense against fear, as can good training and lots of practice. It’s
completely natural to get in over our heads and become afraid
sometimes. When that happens then remember there really is an infinite
pool of loving, relaxed energy you can tap into at any time.
I’ve also seen some otherwise excellent Chi Kung practitioners
who caution against being “open” with your energy. Some of the reasons
I’ve seen for this include the possibility of being attacked and also the
fact that when your energy is open then you are “leaking” energy away
from your body.
My usual response is “So what?” I’m not leaking it, I’m giving it
away as it comes from a literally limitless pool. I don’t have to hoard it
or hide it. I’m so utterly unconcerned about being attacked I won’t even
bother to address that, other than to point out that living in an armored
existence also limits you.
There are times when it’s good to pull your energy in and in
effect disappear, but those applications are usually used in combat and
intelligence gathering and aren’t really useful here. Those applications
are also NOT based in fear, but are purposeful.
There are dangers involved with energy work, just as there are
dangers involved in any other facet of life. Training and self awareness
are how to deal with those dangers. The best thing I can tell you here is
that love and compassion are the best armor that you can have. Does that
always work? Of course not, but neither does anything else.
Chakra Cleansing Meditation
This is IMPORTANT so pay attention!
When you start working with the chakras you are directing
energy and intention into some parts of your life you've possibly been
avoiding. It's very possible to have memories, childhood traumas and
even past life or subconscious traumas that are buried so deeply in your
system you may not even know they exist.
When you start cleansing your system you WILL have to face
and deal with these issues. This tends to be the #1 reason why some
people are scared off of energy work. During the cleansing and rewiring
process you are going to have emotions, thoughts, feelings and traumas
boil up out of your system and you are going to have to address them and
then let them go. In my experience this rarely happens when you aren't
open to it, such as when you are at work or out on a date. If you've taken
the time to work on your intention and awareness you should be able to
handle all of this with very little problem.
When I was going through this process I had memories come up
and realized that there were things in my childhood that I was angry
about that I didn't even consciously remember. With very little effort or
reflection I was able to release those old angers and hurts and just let
them go. I had other instances where I had to get a massage, acupuncture
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or a Reiki treatment to break up the energy and move it out. I still

frequently have uncontrollable laughter happen when getting a massage
or acupuncture. Let it flow. Once you get cleaned out it can be relatively
easy and enjoyable to maintain your newer, cleaner self.
I developed the flowing exercise in the hopes it would give some
people a little more control over this process. It's a fairly advanced
exercise, but with a little practice it shouldn't be too hard.
Part 1
Start in the meditation position of choice and go through the
Grounding and Secret Smile exercises. These are available on the CD Set
that I offer and the guided meditations make it much easier to get started.
After the Secret Smile choose one chakra to work on. Don't put a
lot of thought into which one to choose, just let your intuition be your
guide. Relax and feel the energy flowing into the chakra. Don't try to
draw more energy into the chakra or do anything special, just let your
awareness rest in your chakra and see what's there.
Pay attention to the colors and other visions behind your eyelids
but don't try to direct them. Simply be aware of what IS.
This should be very easy if you've been doing the exercises
covered so far. Here is where it gets a little tougher. As you've noticed,
the challenge has been to overcome the 'monkey mind' and learn to
ignore the distracting thoughts that arise whenever you try to clear your
mind. As we go into step 2 of this exercise we're going to allow thoughts
to come through so we can see them. The big challenge here is to be able
to see the thoughts and images, but NOT to be distracted by them and
start thinking about them. This may take a lot of work.
Part 2
After you've had a few minutes to relax into Part 1 and calmed
and cleared your mind it'll be time to start working with the chakra.
Focus on the chakra with which you are working and begin to let more
energy flow into it as you inhale just as we did in the 'Drawing Energy
into Your Chakras' exercise. Don't put a lot of effort into this or beat
yourself up with it. Just open up and 'inhale' the energy into your chakra
as you inhale. As you exhale let all the stress, emotions and pent up
energy flow out of the chakra and down into the earth.
Give yourself permission to cleanse and balance your chakra and
to let go of old, negative energy. Say this to yourself as you begin the
exercise. This is important because it not only defines your intent, it also
removes some subconscious blocks to working with the chakra.
Here is the hard part. As you breathe energy in and stress out
pay attention to the thoughts that are passing through your mind. You'll
have occasional thoughts that are not related to the chakra you are
working on such as 'this is a dumb exercise' or 'my butt hurts from sitting
here'. Ignore those, especially the one about this being a dumb exercise
and try to pay attention to the thoughts that would seem to be related to
the chakra you are working with. In the beginning this can be a little bit
like juggling cats because you are combining several different exercises
into one very powerful and relatively advanced workout.
You may find and identify a variety of different energy blocks
by doing this. Depending on which chakra you are working with you
may have childhood issues or angers that arise. You may find karmic
debts that have to be repaid and apologies that have to be made. You may
have emotional outbursts of laughing or crying as energy releases and
flows out of your system.
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When a memory or a trauma arises simply acknowledge it and

let it go.
Don't feel like you have to spend a lot of time on each chakra. In
my opinion it's better to spend 5 or 10 minutes at a time on each chakra.
Remember what I say about this being an incremental process! This isn't
about blowing yourself open, it's about making safe, steady progress that
gets results without turning you into an epileptic. Spend a few minutes in
Part 2 and then finish off with the Secret Smile again. For an added boost
you can do the 'Reiki Energy Balance' exercise described in the next
chapter.
Safety Note
It IS possible to have old, forgotten or even subconscious mental
and emotional traumas arise when working with the chakras. Remember
that you started this exercise and if it gets to be too much to handle then
you can stop it and go back into the Secret Smile.
The Secret Smile is the way for you to regain control of your
system if you start feeling overwhelmed. This is a simple exercise, but
it's very powerful and effective and you can spend some time doing it
and regain control of your emotions and energy.
Cleansing and balancing the chakras is about healing, and
humans have the capacity to store an immense amount of pain within our
bodies. The more relaxed, happy, healthy and comfortable your body is
the easier it is to cleanse and maintain it.
Chapter 13: Advanced Meditation Exercises

The Microcosmic Orbit
In his excellent book Awaken Healing Energy through the Tao;
Mantak Chia goes into great detail on the Microcosmic Orbit. Use this
exercise to get started, but get his book and get deeper into it.
The purpose with this deceptively simple exercise is to begin
drawing your chi up your spine and back down the front of your body.
When you do this you energize your entire body and your internal
organs, increasing your health and building up your ability to move more
and more energy. All we’re doing at this basic level is drawing the
energy up from the perineum up the spine to the top of the head and then
letting it fall back down the front of our body to the perineum again. Be
sure to keep your tongue up to connect the meridians.
Basic Practice
Sitting in a chair or on a cushion, go through the grounding and
the Secret Smile. As you inhale clench the PC muscle in your perineum
(kegels) and let the energy flow up your spine to the top of your head.
Let it flow over the top of your head and drop down the front of your
body to your perineum on the exhale.
As you inhale contract your PC muscles and your sphincter and
feel the rush of energy up your spine. This part can take a bit of practice.
Begin by only doing a few contractions at a time and then building up the
number of contractions as you practice.
At the most basic level that’s all there is to it. As you begin to
play with this and experiment then you can try running the orbit between
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various chakras also.

If you feel like you’re building up too much heat in your head
(headaches, drowsiness, hot forehead) then you can reverse the flow and
just run the orbit backwards.
Get into the habit of running the orbit all the time. This gets
easier as you become more comfortable, learn to stay out of the way of
the energy and just let it flow.
Intermediate Practice
The next stage is called the Macrocosmic Orbit and it includes
your arms and legs. You should be to the point where you can run the
basic orbit at any time, even while at work and during the day as you go
about your life. Going from the Microcosmic Orbit to the Macrocosmic
Orbit is simple because by now you’ve figured out the hard parts and just
need to expand your orbit.
Draw earth energy up the front of your legs as far as the first
chakra, then up your spine on the inhale while doing your sphincter
contractions. After you pull the energy over the top of your head let it
drop back down the front of your body to the perineum and down the
back of your legs into the earth. Seen from the side this looks like a
figure 8 with an open bottom.
As you draw up the front of your legs also pull energy up the
back of your arms to the midpoint of your back between your shoulder
blades. At this point it combines with the energy coming up your spine
and then rises up over your head. It can take some practice to coordinate
your breathing with drawing the energy up your arms and legs. It’s
perfectly fine if you practice these separately and just draw up your legs
for awhile before adding in your arms.
On the exhale let your energy drop down the front of your body.
When it reaches your heart chakra let it split and let the energy run down
the front of your arms as well as the front of your body. Let it flow out
your fingers and down to the earth. Let the energy flowing down the
front of your body go through the perineum and then down the back of
your legs, into the earth.
It may take awhile to build your coordination so don’t get
discouraged. This is a good exercise for clearing stagnant energy out of
your arms and legs and energizing your entire body. Keep at it til you can
get out of the way of the process and just let it flow all the time. You’ll
reach a point where you can stop trying to do it and just let it happen.
Skin Breathing
Skin Breathing is an excellent full body awareness exercise that
also helps strengthen your bones, among other things. It’s out of the
“Marrow Washing and Tendon Changing” school of Chi Kung.
To begin, first take a moment to do the grounding exercise and
progressive relaxation exercises. Pay attention to your breathing. On the
inhale draw energy into your body as described in the ‘Drawing Energy’
section, except that instead of drawing chi into a specific organ or muscle
we’re going to draw it in through the entire surface area of our skin.
This is a relatively advanced exercise. If you have trouble
feeling the surface of your skin over your entire body all at once just take
a more manageable chunk such as your head or hands to start with.
As you inhale feel the chi flow in through your skin and deep
into your bones. On your exhale feel any stresses or problems flow down
through your arms and legs and deep into the earth. Practice this until
you can feel the energy flowing into every square inch of skin over your
entire body.
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Exercises to Open the Meridians

My buddy Brian Earnest sent me these exercises to use in my
Hoshinjutsu class, and I really liked them a lot.
Tao Yin (Taoist Yoga)

By Brian Earnest
Tao-Yin exercises help your internal life force, or Chi, circulate

more freely, for the purpose of refreshing, attuning, adjusting and
regenerating your personal energy. All the Tao-Yin movements are based
on ancient spiritual development. Taoist Yoga floor postures stretch the
difficult-to-reach psoas muscle, calm the mind, open energy channels,
and relieve stress.
An important aspect of Tao-Yin is that it has alternating phases
of activity and relaxation. During the relaxation phase you will learn to
feel and gently guide the Chi flow to specific areas of your body. You
will learn to absorb the nutrition from the air and the surrounding energy
so you can open each cell to the fresh vitality of the universal force. This
practice will help you relieve any energy stagnancy.
Most Tao Yin (or Do-In in Japanese) or Meridian exercises are
directly or indirectly related to energizing the flow of electromagnetic
currents through the meridians, and in that sense it is not necessary to put
special emphasis on exercises for the meridians alone. However, we can
use certain exercises especially for the purposes of extending the
meridians to activate and release energy flow from any stagnation which
may be caused by improper diet, improper posture, or various unnatural
daily activities.
MERIDIAN EXERCISES:
There are 12 major meridians for the circulation of Qi on each
side of the body in the “traditional meridian system.” These 12 meridians
are grouped into 6 Yin/Yang pairs in relation to basic life functions.
In addition to the 12 major meridians, in traditional Chinese
Medicine, there are 8 extra meridians which are special pathways for the
Qi travel. The Conception Vessel and the Governor Vessel are
exceptional among the extra meridians in that they also have independent
functions and points which are located on the center line in the front and
along the back of the body’s centerline (independent points are
acupuncture points which belong to one meridian. All the regular
meridians have independent points, but most of the extra meridians do
not. Meridians without independent points share points which belong to
other meridians). The most exceptional feature of these 2 meridians is
that they regulate the flow of energy in all of the regular meridians. The
Conception and Governor Vessels are said to respectively serve as
reservoirs of Qi for the Yin/Yang meridians.
Open CV (Conception Vessel)

While bending back, holding behind bottom.
The lines of tension produced along the center line of the abdomen are
the Conception Vessel. This is the flow of Qi which regulates all the Yin
meridians. The conception vessel is a meridian running along the center
line on the front of the body which has at least 24 main independent
points beginning at the perineum and ending right in the middle of the
lower jaw.
Open GV (Governing Vessel)

Bend forward holding behind bottom at top of thighs.
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The line of tension which forms down the center of your back is
the Governor vessel. The Governor vessel has at least 28 main
independent points and begins at the tip of the tailbone and goes up and
around the crown of the head to the end up at the midpoint of the upper
jaw. The tension along the Governor vessel is felt most strongly when
you inhale.
There are 12 major meridians which can be divided into 6 pairs

according to Yin (quiet energies) and Yang (active energies).
For best results; during these 6 Meridian exercises we should

hold the postures at their extreme extended point for the duration of at
least two breath cycles. This serves for the extension of the meridians as
well as the acceleration of energy flow, resulting in the release of
stagnation and disorders along the meridians and muscles.
1. Lung/Large Intestine “A” (bend over, look to the heels, push hands
over head and up)
2. Stomach / Spleen “B” (Lean back from Seiza)
3. Heart / Small Intestine “C” (Pull forehead towards the floor and try
to touch Toes while holding them with the hands and opening the “Gau”
groin, feet and heels pressing together)
4. Bladder / Kidney “D” (Legs stretched out heels touching, bend
forward and reach)
5. Heart Constrictor (Governor) / Triple Heater Meridians “E” (Sit
in ¼ or ½ Lotus position and cross arms one over the other so hands are
cupping over opposite knees, bend over and touch forehead to center at
crease of arm)
6. Gallbladder / Liver “F” (Both Legs are stretched/extended out to

either side. Spread out as far as comfortable. Keep knees straight so that
backs of legs touch the floor. Reach up and then out to either side and
lean to one side and then the other).
Important Points:
The real purpose of these Six Basic Meridian Exercises is not to
attain the flexibility of a gymnast or ballerina. The most important goal is
to find the best position in which you can feel the resistance or a tingling
sensation coming from the line of tension forming along the meridians.
The main objective here is to get a feeling for what it really is
like to relax by releasing Qi and allowing tension to dissipate. Start out
doing only two reps for each exercise and one or two complete breath
cycles while in each posture. Increase the reps and breath cycles over
time. Use slow and deliberate breath patterns. Always keep your
attention on your breathing and be sensitive to how your body is
responding to each exercise.
Just relax after completion. Relax for a while on your back with
your eyes closed in an “X” position (the kind of position we got into
when lying in the snow to make snow angels, also called the “Corpse”
position in Yoga. Keep the eyes closed and feel for any bodily
sensations. Become entirely detached from the external world. When you
do this, your mind will begin to tune in to any internal events of your
body. You may begin feeling various sensations like tingling or buzzing
in the ears, eyes or along the course of the meridians which can be
regarded as “Energy Flow.” These sensations, instead of issuing from
conscious awareness, have their origins in the inner workings of your
body.
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These meridian exercises should not be viewed merely as a way

of stretching and limbering muscles and joints. Stretching in this context
does not refer just o lengthening or pulling something apart, but is rather
an act of extending or expanding which liberates the energy lying latent
within you. These exercises would serve as a form of physical expression
to release, through the act of stretching, those things which you have
been holding inside. These exercises are an opportunity to get in touch
with your body and give expression to your inner being through
movement.
Bibliography for Tao Yin:
Zen Imagery Exercises, Meridian exercises for wholesome living

By Shizuto Masunaga
The Book of Do In
By Michio Kushi
The Book of Shiatsu

By Paul Lundbreg
Attune your Body with Dao-In

By Master Hua-Ching Ni
Other Exercises to Open and Balance Your Meridians

A couple of other exercises that you can look up are ‘The 8
Pieces of Brocade’ and ‘The 5 Tibetans’. A Google search will turn up
videos and a variety of websites with these exercises. I do both and can
recommend them highly.
Chapter 14: Feeling and Seeing Energy

If you’ve been doing the exercises I’ve described by now you’ve
probably had some interesting experiences with feeling your own internal
energy and drawing energy into your body. Now we’re going to work
with feeling external energy. As you progress you’ll not only be able to
feel your own energy, but the energy of the people and things around
you.
The following exercises will help you feel your aura, the external
energy field that surrounds everything. Everything on the planet is made
up of various particles held together by energy, and you can feel and
even manipulate that energy with practice.
Exercise 1 – Building an Energy Ball

Rub your hands together briskly as if trying to warm them on a cold
day. Doing this increases the sensitivity.
Hold your hands in front of you about 6 inches apart. Now move
them away from each other until they are about 8-12 inches apart, and
then move them back to 2-3 inches apart, just like a fisherman describing
the sizes of the fish he caught. As you continue doing this can you feel a
ball or energy building up between your hands? It feels like a thickness
in the air between your hands, or a pressure between them.
Play with this exercise a bit. See how big you can make the energy
ball. Is one hand more sensitive than the other? Can you turn your hands
over and do it with the backs of your hands?
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Exercise 2 – Waving the Energy

Hold your left hand upright in front of you with your palm facing to
the right. Wave your right fingertips slowly up and down in front of your
left hand, but without touching it. Can you feel the motion of your right
hand across the surface of your left palm? Switch hands and do it again.
Does it feel different with the other hand? Is one hand more sensitive?
Exercise 3 – Feeling the Aura

Hold your hands out in front of you at arms length, palms in. Now
move your awareness down to your palms and slowly move your palms
in towards your body. Remember the way it felt when you made the
energy ball between your palms? Can you feel the same sort of thickness
or pressure as your palms move in towards your body?
With a partner, practice moving your hands slowly towards them.
Can you feel their aura? Can your partner feel your hands as you move
towards them?
Have your partner stand about 12-15 feet away. Walk slowly
towards them. Can you sense their aura as you walk up to them? Can
they feel you? As you get deeper into this you’ll be able to play with
intention and emotions also, but for now just concentrate on feeling the
aura.
Here's a game you can play with this;
Have your partner stand a few feet away and think angry
thoughts. Can you feel a difference in their energy? How about when
they think happy thoughts?
Some people have no trouble at all with this while others aren’t
as empathic and take awhile to learn to feel it. As usual this is all about
building up your own personal catalog and learning how things feel.
Chakra Diagnosis
Have your partner stand upright but relaxed. Stand with both your
hands held above their head. Slowly bring your hands down until you can
feel the thickness or pressure of their crown chakra. This can vary on
everyone. How far above their head did you feel it?
Move your hands down to their 3rd eye with one hand in front of
their forehead and one hand behind
their head. Move your hands out and
slowly back towards them until you When you learn
can sense the energy of their chakra. about the chakras
Did you feel a difference between the what you sense
front and back? Did you sense the front can be extremely
and back at different distances, was useful for learning
one of them noticeably further out than about who you’re
the other? Did it feel like your hands dealing with and
were pushed out away from the give you insights
chakra? into their
Do this again at the Throat Chakra,
personalities and
then at the Heart Chakra, Solar Plexus,
their possible
and Dan Tien. Don’t touch them
actions/reactions
physically; just feel the energy of their
chakras.
For the Root Chakra let your hands go down to just above your
partners knees and feel the energy over that entire area.
This exercise can be a lot of fun, especially as you learn more about
the Chakra system and what it means when you can feel the energy. It’s
extremely easy to do and anyone with a basic level of awareness can do
it fairly quickly as it’s just feeling energy.
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With practice you can build up the sensitivity to be able to sense

another person's chakras without going through the whole diagnosis.
When you build up the sensitivity you may even be able to use your own
chakras as antennae to feel other people’s chakras. It sounds weird, but it
can be extremely amusing to sit in public (bookstores are good for this)
and feel the people that walk by.
When you learn about the chakras what you sense can be extremely
useful for learning about who you’re dealing with and give you insights
into their personalities and their possible actions/reactions. This can be
somewhat akin to magic as these abilities are not only misunderstood,
but scoffed at and disbelieved by most of western society.
Seeing the Aura
Just as you can feel energy, a lot of people can also see it. Seeing the
aura doesn’t seem to be something everyone can do and those who do
seem to have wildly varying abilities. I’ve known healers who could look
at you and say things like “Oh you’re blocking some energy here” just
because of what they see in your aura while others can just barely see it.
Personally I’m more of an empath and while I can feel energy from
across the room I don’t see it that well. This is something that you can
play with and if you can do it then it’s just another cool tool in the
toolbox.
Seeing the aura is a matter of taking your eyes slightly out of focus.
If you’ve ever been able to see those holographic picture-in-a-picture
things you shouldn’t have any trouble seeing auras as you do exactly the
same thing with your eyes. The first time I was at a seminar and this
topic came up I had no luck whatsoever with seeing the auras of the
others in the seminar. That night I went over to the bookstore and
grabbed a bunch of the holograph picture books and sat there til I could
relax my eyes and see them. The next day when I went back for the rest
of the seminar I didn’t have any trouble at all seeing the auras of the
other attendees.
Have your training partner stand in front of a light-colored wall in a
dimly lit room. Have your partner hold one finger in front of their face
about 6 inches out from their chin. Now focus your eyes on their finger,
not their face. Have them remove their finger but keep looking at the
same spot, you’ll have to relax your eyes a bit to do this. Using that
same relaxed vision, if you look at them you should be able to see what
looks like a little line that runs all around them a couple of inches out
from their body. The next layer out is even more faint and may have
colors associated with it. The different meanings of the colors vary
widely depending on who you’re talking to. My advice in this area is to
open up your awareness and see for yourself which colors seem to be
associated most often with which types of people and their behaviors.
Play with this a bit. Does their aura change when they think
happy thoughts? Sad thoughts? Angry thoughts?
Some people can see auras instantly and others have to work at
it. Don’t be too put out if it takes awhile.
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Chapter 15: Damo’s Cave

Damo’s Cave is an ancient Shamanic Journey in which the
seeker travels internally. Damo is also known as the Bodhidharma or
Daruma, depending on which version of the tales you read. Damo was
the Hindu monk who traveled to China and taught the Shaolin Monks
Kung Fu. It’s a fun legend that may
even be true. It’s an interesting and
fun exercise that can teach you a lot It’s a great
about yourself. It’s a great meditation for
meditation for learning to visualize learning to visualize
and fantasize, both of which are and fantasize, both
important skills for creating the of which are
world you want to live in. important skills for
This works better as a creating the world
guided meditation as it allows you you want to live in.
to concentrate on the imagery rather
than trying to remember what comes next. You can either have someone
read this to you or you can order the CD Set that accompanies this book.
Hit the meditation position of choice and do the Grounding and
Secret Smile exercises. By now you should be able to do those pretty
effortlessly. Feel your body becoming lighter and filled with relaxed,
happy energy.
With your eyes closed and looking up into the third eye, see
yourself floating in a calm sea. Try to make this as realistic as possible.
Can you feel the warm water supporting you and smell the salt air?
In the distance is an island. You don’t have to swim for it, all
you have to do is relax and let the island come to you as you ride the
ocean’s currents toward it. As you get to the shore you can see the bright,
sandy beach and a forest of palm trees up the side of a huge volcanic
mountain. A trail leads from the beach up through the trees and up the
side of the mountain.
As you walk across the sand you can feel yourself drawing
energy from the ground up through your feet. You become stronger and
more confident as you begin to walk up the trail through the trees.
Off to the left you can see the abandoned ruins of an old temple
and a graveyard. There are also a couple of pools nearby. You go around
these and continue up the trail. The climb becomes steeper and harder as
you go and you feel yourself getting tired. You lean against the trees and
rocks and discover that you can draw energy in through your hands, and
this revitalizes you and gives you the strength to keep climbing.
Ahead of you the trail forks and you see that one fork leads
around to a large cave. There’s a guardian at the entrance of the cave
who wears a long cloak and a cowl that masks its identity. You get closer
to the cave and the guardian motions for you to enter. You can feel a
strong sense of acceptance and the guardian bows to you, making you
feel a bit like a king or a queen.
Inside the cave is a long, downward spiraling tunnel. The walls
glow with a slight phosphorescence that allows you to see as you
descend. The tunnel opens out into a large cavern with a faint glow of hot
lava far back towards the rear. On your left is a podium upon which rests
a large leather bound book. On the cover in gold letters is written “All
Knowledge Is Power! Seeking Truth, First Look Ye Here.”
Behind the podium is a room with a huge array of computers and
electronics. There are three very comfortable looking captain’s chairs in
the room and a young man and woman working there. They don’t see
you yet.
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To the right is a great stairway with five wide steps of different

colors. At each step is a door.
The first step is red and the door is massive. You can see past it
into a desert with a large stone city in the distance.
The second step is orange and the door is built like double Dutch
doors. Beyond this door you can see a small stream that leads down to a
huge lake or an ocean. In the distance is a ship coming in to the harbor.
The third step is yellow with an intricately carved door. Beyond
is a city that’s both ancient and modern and which shelters a wide variety
of people, including some who look like elves. You can hear the faint
tinkle of glassware and laughter if you listen.
The next step is green and opens out onto a bright blue,
cloudless sky. You can see a bird floating gracefully on the updrafts
outside.
The last step is tilted and spirals off into the distance fading
through shades of violet and white. It seems to penetrate through the rock
of the cave in the far distance.
In the center of the cave are your living quarters. You see a
series of rooms that house your bedroom, bath, a personal dojo and
instructor, stables, laboratory, machine shops, gear lockers, gardens, a
library and a kitchen.
In one room you find a hidden doorway and in another is a
trapdoor under the rug. You don’t explore either at this time as they are
both dark. In a room towards the back of the cave is an animal that seems
to regard you as its master.
My cave was bare when I first got into it, but it’s gradually taken
on a very Oriental/Native American look as I’ve explored it and begun to
furnish it more to my liking.
This is your space and you can do anything you like with it.
Explore through the doors, interact with the people and animals. Open up
the book and see what’s in it. You’ll find the gear lockers fully stocked
with climbing gear, scuba gear, etc. As I’ve begun to trim down my
possessions and build up my connections to the universal energy I’ve
found I need less gear for my explorations so I’m turning that space into
a hydroponics greenhouse.
Get as real as you possibly can with this exercise. Try to smell
the fragrances and feel the wind on your skin. Get as wild and crazy as
you want to also. This is your space and anything goes.
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Chapter 16: Opening the Chakras

By this point you should be in the process of opening and
balancing your chakras in a very gentle and safe manner. The following
exercises should be done one chakra at a time in the beginning. For the
first few weeks do the chakras one per night. Do the Grounding and
Secret Smile exercises first as you really want a happy, relaxed body for
this. Give it a few weeks and then practice opening the first four, Root
through Heart. Take your time with this.
Doing it this way helps cool
the energy as you work up through
the chakras. You do not want a blast You could go
of hot energy rocketing up your spine faster and get more
into the base of your brain. You could dramatic results,
go faster and get more dramatic but remember
results, but remember everything everything balances
balances between the dualities. The between the
more dramatic your experience on dualities.
one end of the scale the more
dramatic the aftershock will be on the other polarity. The goal is slow
steady progress that doesn’t turn your life upside down rather than a
sudden eruption of energy up your spine. The sudden eruption stories all
sound cool when the survivor tells them years later at parties, but there’s
a long process in between, so take it slow and easy.
The simple secret to opening the chakras is the lotus flower. It
has a root, a stem and the flower itself. Each Chakra also represents the
flower and each chakra has a certain number of petals which correspond
to the wavelength of the energy.
First Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let your senses
fall down to your first chakra. Visualize the first chakra as a red lotus
flower with 4 petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn slowly and
gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the four petalled lotus
and gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
chakras and out through the top of your head. Gently squeeze your
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale.
Do this for about 20-30 minutes and then give yourself the Reiki
energy balance as described earlier. Don’t skip this step as it helps to
equalize all your chakras to your growing energy levels.
Second Chakra
fall down to your second chakra. Visualize the second chakra as an
orange lotus flower with six petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the six petalled lotus and
gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
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Third Chakra
After Grounding and the Secret Smile, relax and let
your senses fall down to your third chakra. Visualize the third chakra as a
yellow lotus flower with ten petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
Allow the earth energy to flow through the ten petalled lotus and
gently up your spine, changing colors as it goes through the other
sphincter and PC muscles on the inhale. Do this for about 20-30 minutes
and then give yourself the Reiki energy balance as described earlier.
Don’t skip this step as it helps to equalize all your chakras to your
growing energy levels.
Fourth Chakra
your senses go to your fourth chakra. Visualize the fourth chakra as a
green lotus flower with twelve petals. Allow the face of the flower to
turn slowly and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
Allow the earth energy to flow through the twelve petalled lotus
Fifth Chakra
your senses go to your fifth chakra. Visualize the fifth chakra as a blue
lotus flower with sixteen petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
Allow the earth energy to flow through the sixteen petalled lotus
Sixth Chakra
your senses go to your sixth chakra. Visualize the sixth chakra as an
indigo lotus flower with two petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn
Allow the earth energy to flow through the double petalled lotus
and up through your crown and out to the universe. Gently squeeze your
Seventh Chakra
go to your seventh chakra. Visualize the seventh chakra as a violet lotus
flower with a thousand petals. Allow the face of the flower to turn slowly
and gently until it faces directly up your spine.
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Allow the earth energy to flow through the thousand petalled

lotus and up into the universe. Gently squeeze your sphincter and PC
muscles on the inhale.
The Lesser Kan and Li

After a few weeks of practicing one chakra at a time you can try
the following exercise. By now you should be in the habit of Grounding
and doing the Secret Smile. Remember the sphincter squeezes also.
The Lesser Kan and Li is a practice that combines the energy of
your lower chakras. At this point I'm not going to be giving as much
detail. If you're doing the practices I've shown so far then you won't need
more detail and if you aren't doing the practices more detail won't help.
There comes a point where you have to chart your own course
and this is it. You'll notice some places from here on where I give
reference to how to do a skill or a technique, but without any directions.
That's because the reference itself should be enough to get you started
and you'll have to find the specific tools that work for you.
Things can get crazy here and they can also get dangerous.
Remember that while you might be on your own as far as the process
goes, there are other people who are experiencing the same things. Don't
be shy about getting online on the discussion boards and asking
questions.
First Week
Practice drawing the energy up through the first two chakras.
Visualize the lotus flower growing up out of the mud, firmly rooted, its
orange six petalled face rising towards the sun. See the energy flow up
through the orange lotus and change colors as it flows through the other
chakras and out the crown and into the universe. Be sure to balance your
chakras afterwards.
Second Week
Practice drawing the energy up through the first three chakras.
Visualize the lotus flower rowing up out of the mud, firmly rooted, with
a stem holding its yellow ten petalled face, rising towards the sun. See
the energy flow up through the yellow lotus and change colors as it flows
through the other chakras and out the crown and into the universe.
Third Week
Practice drawing the energy up through the first four chakras.
Visualize the lotus flower rowing up out of the mud, firmly rooted, with
a stem holding its green twelve petalled face, rising towards the sun. See
the energy flow up through the green lotus and change colors as it flows
through the other chakras and out the crown and into the universe.
By this point you should be developing the depth and experience

to chart your own course with completing the cycle through the other
chakras and awakening your kundalini. If the path isn’t obvious by now
then start over and take your time. I'm not being cryptic in order to slow
you down; I'm not laying it out in too obvious a fashion because if it's not
obvious you're just not ready. No one is on a schedule here and this is
not something to rush into. At this point you’ll probably go through a
period of feeling very spiritually superior. Let it go to your head and then
get over it.
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Part 3: Living an Awakened Life

If you've done the work from Parts 1 & 2 then by now you've
cleansed and harmonized your body, mind and spirit, developed the
ability to see and feel energy and move it around in your body and in
other people. You've also developed the ability to heal yourself and
others, have more control over the creation of your life and may possibly
even have improved some of your relationships.
You've seen how to open your chakras and if you paid attention
you've seen how to awaken your kundalini.
All of that, when used together, means that you've done the
equivalent of graduating from grade school as far as energy work is
concerned. Don't feel bad when I say it that way. You've gotten a basic
education in a school that most people aren't even aware they can attend!
Now it's time to start putting some of that training and experience to use
in the real world.
Chapter 17: Finding your ‘Inner Gods’

I like the idea of Gods but personally don’t put much effort or work
into worshiping any I’ve heard of so far. I frequently see the word
Namaste tossed around (“the Divine in me recognizes and honors the
Divine in you”) and I really like that even though I don’t use it much.
Most of the Great Teachers
(Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna,
etc.) have been adamant that the Your mind can
Divine or Holy Spirit lives within each bring to reality
of us and that we can all access it any thought or
without the need for priests, popes, concept, so if you
clerics, pastors, televangelists or other
want to worship
middle men. This goes along with the
Our Lady of the
commonly heard “Everything you
Dirty Laundry
need is already inside you” attitude
then by all means
I’ve learned to believe in.
feel free and
Some people feel the need to
don’t ever let
personify their deities and even have
anyone tell you
different deities for different actions,
she isn’t real.
causes, days of the week, etc. Hence
the vast pantheons in some of the
religions, I think that’s great also. Your mind can bring reality to any
thought or concept, so if you want to worship Our Lady of the Dirty
Laundry then by all means feel free and don’t ever let anyone tell you
she isn’t real. I personally really enjoy some of the ‘honoring the sacred
feminine’ rituals. I tend to argue that some of the strictures placed on
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women in the larger religions go back to men who are afraid of their
feminine energies and represents an imbalance in their basic dualities.
You should see your inner deities from any viewpoint you wish, in
other words. Feel free to ritualize, sanctify, idolize and worship them in
any way you see fit as it’s extremely important to have FAITH when
you’re on the kundalini road. It doesn’t matter what you choose to have
faith in, just as long as you’re able to relax and listen to the inner voices
and trust that they are taking you in the directions in which you’re
supposed to go.
You should identify with the happy, positive and beautiful aspects of
your inner deities and always strive to remember and honor them in
every moment of your life. Your inner deities are part of the same energy
that everyone else’s inner deities are made of, so by honoring yourself
you should also be honoring them and vice versa.
Spirituality and Religion

One of the big conflicts that I see people having is between
Spirituality and Religion. The two are neither identical nor mutually
exclusive.
The simplest way to say it is that Religion is external (outside of
you) and Spirituality is internal. That’s a bit too simple.
In Western Culture we’re taught to look to external sources for
almost everything. We’re indoctrinated into the belief that we must have
someone else’s permission for anything we want to do. This includes our
relationship with God.
This external focus is one of our biggest problems, in my
opinion. When we have to go outside of ourselves for everything we lose
our autonomy and independence. It also makes it easy for us to look at
someone or something else and say “This is YOUR fault”. The ability to
point the blame somewhere else can be a pretty big draw for some
people. How many people do you know right now who are unhappy with
their lives? How many of them can point to someone else and say “They
ruined my life!”?
If God is external you have the ability to take NO
RESPONSIBILITY at all for your own life. Whenever something bad
happens it must be “God’s Will”. After all, you were trying your best and
living right, saying your prayers and eating your veggies and all that,
right? The source of your problem must be ‘out there’.
There is a lot of Power in externalizing God. When God is ‘out
there’ it only stands to reason that there must be certain people who are
better at communicating with Him or understanding Him. These middle
men always come with their own price, and hey, they’ve got mortgages
and kids in school also, so of course they should get paid for their time.
We now have huge industries built around the middle men. I don’t want
to seem like I’m denigrating the middle men. In fact, I consider religion
to be extremely important and I really don’t believe that our world would
function without it.
The Purpose of Religion

When I talk about religion I’m not referring to Christianity,
Islam or any of the other ‘isms’. I’m referring to the study of and
subscription to a broad form of spiritual belief held in consensus among
any particular group. Anything can be a religion if you approach it
religiously, even if you and your friends decide to worship linoleum.
Religion in this broader sense has 3 purposes.
1. It gives us a cultural basis for our morals and our laws. In every
country on Earth the major laws come straight from the
dominant religion. Don’t take my word for it, do some research.
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2. It provides answers to questions we can’t otherwise answer. For

a long time religion was the only place to turn if you wanted an
explanation for where we came from and why the crops grow
and just what is that big yellow ball in the sky anyway?
3. It gives us an outlet for dealing with death and loss. This sounds
simple but it should never be underestimated. No one escapes
dealing with death, and having a solid set of guidelines and
beliefs can be extremely comforting.
This external v. internal problem is just exacerbated when we

begin to reach for and learn about our own spirituality. Many of us have
been indoctrinated from birth to believe God is ‘out there’ or ‘up there’.
The conflicts begin to arise when we have the feeling that God is ‘in
here’!
The concept that God is within us changes everything. And it
causes a lot of problems.
Going Within
Spirituality, or the study and search for one’s spiritual essence
(my definition), pretty much has to be a solitary pursuit in the beginning.
This doesn’t mean you can’t share beliefs, rituals, chalices or bodily
fluids in the name of a deity or spiritual path. It just means that at the
most basic level you are dealing with your spirit. The only way to do that
is to go within and start getting to know your Self. This can be an
extremely long, complicated and even dangerous journey. It’s pretty
much guaranteed to kill you, so you may as well get comfortable with
that.
We have a lot of great tools in our modern world. Meditation,

yoga, Ayurveda, art, dance and pretty much any other form of personal
expression can be a spiritual tool if used properly. Building one’s Self-
Awareness and learning to use Intention and the Universal Laws also
become major stepping stones.
As you begin to open up your
spiritual toolbox you’ll begin to see that The Ego is a
everything you need is already inside you. combination of
As you begin developing your awareness our conscious self
it becomes easier to see where your (the Super-Ego)
culture ends and where you begin. In the and our
beginning we are all products of our subconscious self
culture and we exist as a series of (the Id)
reactions to the various stimuli around us.
That’s why we see so many people who are so influenced by peer
pressure, or political pressure or religious pressure.
I define the average person as someone with little or no true Self
Awareness. I’m not knocking average people, because at certain levels
you’ll begin to see they are us anyway, but that’s further on. Right now
I’m just laying some groundwork, which we’ll do away with later on.
When I talk about the ‘average person’ what I’m really referring to is an
Ego. The Ego is a combination of our conscious self (the Super-Ego) and
our subconscious self (the Id). My definition of the Ego is “That which
defines us and separates us from all the other Egos out there and provides
us with a framework for our reactions and responses to external and
internal stimuli”.
The Ego is developed as we grow up. How many of us have
knee-jerk responses to various words? How do you feel when I say Birth
Control or Gun Control? These are learned responses that have been
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trained into our Id. In most cases we no longer make a conscious

decision when those words come up, but we react automatically.
The Id can be trained to respond in any way we wish. Most of
the training we give it tends to be undirected, or at least not really
consciously directed. For example, the Id has no concept of reality. To
the Id your imagination and the world you see through your eyes are one
and the same! Therefore, when you give yourself a lot of negative
reinforcement like “I’m broke and I don’t have any money” that is
exactly what the Id believes, whether you are a billionaire like Donald
Trump or a dozenaire like me. That’s why I write and teach so much
about keeping a positive attitude, because what you reinforce is what you
create.
Some of the Id’s programming has evolved in humans for
hundreds of thousands of years. The ‘Fight or Flight’ response, for
instance. Fight or Flight developed as a survival mechanism back in the
days when we didn’t want to wait around to see if the Saber-toothed tiger
was really hungry or just out for a casual stroll. It’s a deeply ingrained
response and everyone has it in one form or another. Whether we run or
choose to stand and fight depends on the way we’ve been programmed.
The Id can be an amazing tool on your quest for Self Mastery. It
will create whatever you tell it to! One of the first steps in getting to
know your Self is to look at the things you tell your Id. What are you
training it to do? What do you think about, dream of, wish for, fear, love
or desire? How many of those things enhance the journey you think you
are on? How many of those things create conflict and confusion? That’s
why learning to look inward and live consciously is so important, and
why it creates such huge perceptual shifts!
Perception = Reality
What exactly, is reality? Is anything real? How can different
people experience exactly the same event and have different reactions
such as pain and pleasure or fear and excitement? You can put two
people in the same seat on a roller coaster and one of them may love
every minute of it and the other might throw up from fear. Why is that?
Didn’t they both just experience the same event? Apparently not!
Our reality is simply our view of the world around us filtered
through our perceptions. Some of this is biological. Our body puts out
certain chemicals that cause certain reactions at a physiological level that
may be beyond our conscious control. That’s just a scientific fact.
However, modern science, as well as very ancient science, has repeatedly
proven we can change our programming for just about any physiological
reaction. It’s just a matter of training our Id and changing our
perceptions.
Creating Your Reality

The Super-Ego is your tool for training the Id. What you think
and do on a conscious level filters directly down to your subconscious. If
you consistently take a positive viewpoint you will gradually train your
Id to react in a positive manner. How many times have you met someone
who always looked at the bad side of any situation? Did it seem like that
person is having a good life? Were they fun to be around?
That was a loaded question, because if you’ve been programmed
to be either sadistic or masochistic you might enjoy that person a lot. It
all depends on your perception!
We all have the ability to consciously change the way we look at
and interact with the world around us. Tools like affirmations, hypnosis
and Neuro-Linguistic Programming allow us to directly interface with
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our Id and take charge of our programming. Some of these tools can be
very fast and some of them can take awhile and there are arguments and
benefits for both.
I like to point out that making small, incremental changes tends
to be easier because it disrupts your life a lot less. The changes tend to be
more sustainable since you are making a lifestyle change rather than just
changing an aspect of yourself. For instance, you can win the lottery and
instantly change an aspect of yourself, but statistics show the vast
majority of lottery winners are broke again within a very short time.
Statistics also show many self-made millionaires went through a process
of learning about money management and financial education that
allowed them to create an entirely new reality, but in a much more
incremental fashion.
What it all comes down to is that it’s ok to feel good about
taking things slow and making small changes, even though that tends to
not be The American Way.
Chapter 18: Travels in the Void

When you look up into your third eye and clear your mind
completely you can enter a space that goes beyond the normal mundane
world. The Void is a place completely outside of space and time where
anything can, and often does,
happen.
Eventually you’ll run into You are more
something malignant while traveling powerful than
in the void. You can look at these anything you’ll run
beings as anything you want. You into in the Void.
can see them as spirits, demons,
aliens and representatives of human evil. The important thing to
remember at this point is that, while frightening, they don’t have any
corporeal form.
You are more powerful than anything you’ll run into in the
Void. Some of these critters feed off of fear, so when you give it to them
they like it and they’ll come back for more. You can avoid most of the
beasties in the Void simply by not showing fear. Occasionally one may
decide to test you and when that happens there are a couple of different
strategies you can use.
Medicine shields and spears

If you go for the Native American style you can easily make a
Medicine Shield and a Medicine Spear. These don’t have to be full-sized
as they are just symbolic. Make a hoop using a green sapling or tree
branch, attach a piece of rawhide, buckskin, rabbit hide, etc. and then
paint it with your own personal symbols. You can consecrate it if you
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desire by smudging it with a bit of sage and some sweetgrass and then
offering it for service to whatever directions or deities appeal to you.
Hang it on the wall.
A Medicine Spear can be as simple as a stick that you consecrate
and use to symbolize a spear. Hang it with the shield.
When you’re in the void and something wants a taste you can
just summon these and they’ll appear in your hands. I don’t advise
carrying them with you as it strikes a very defensive posture.
Armor of Light
Another defensive tactic is to see yourself armored in strong
bright light. Once again this can be summoned, so you don’t have to go
around feeling like you’re on the defensive.
Just Eat It
If you don’t want to bother with either of those you can just
swallow the beast, literally. It’s only energy so just inhale it and get on
with your trip.
Disappear into the Void

Another thing to remember is you can just disappear and merge
with the void. If you are nothing then there is nothing to attack in other
words. There is a lot more to this than originally comes to mind. Think
about it for awhile.
Love
Another tactic that works for me when I run into something that
would ordinarily be considered a nightmare; Love. Just relax and send it
all the unconditional love you can. Remember that some experiences or
beings will show up to test you so keep the Universal Laws in mind and
treat them the way you'd want to be treated.
These tactics all sound pretty weird, especially if you’ve never

been in the Void, but really they’re just confidence builders. If you have
enough confidence you really don’t have to worry about using them. If
something bothers you and you have the confidence you can just wave it
away and it’ll go. I only included this section because people
occasionally ask about what to do if they are attacked.
I haven't given very specific directions in this chapter because at
this point you shouldn't need them. The Void is an amplification of
whatever you bring to it, everything there is YOU. It's a good place to
practice being compassionate to the things that scare us.
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Chapter 19: Becoming Your True Self

Awakening your Inner Power is a fairly simple process. People
do it all the time without even meaning to, just in the course of their
lives. The hard part of awakening doesn’t have anything to do with
connecting the energy; it’s about living with the person who has
awakened the energy and BE-ing that person.
Many people experience dramatic changes in their personalities
and lifestyles after an awakening. Sometimes this is caused by the
changes that come from cleansing
and balancing the chakras. As all
the accumulated stresses and The hard part of
memories dissipate and are dealt awakening doesn’t
with the seeker finds that things have anything to do
that used to be earthshakingly with connecting the
important just don’t matter energy; it’s about
anymore. living with the
The brain and nervous
person who has
system go through a rewiring
awakened the
process as the body becomes used
energy and BE-
to running higher energies.
ing that person.
Frequently the person in the midst
of this rewiring process will experience shudders, called kriyas, which
run through their muscles.
During this process the seeker often begins to see their life and
their purpose much differently. This, combined with the process of
letting go of attachments and dropping the ego-based masks we’re all
taught to wear can cause some pretty radical changes in a person’s

behavior.
On the other hand some people just hit the awakening like a
speed bump and don’t seem to make the same extreme changes to their
life. Sometimes the answer is simply that they were already living their
intended life and the dramatic changes just weren’t necessary.
I stress the positive attitude and doing exercises like the Secret
Smile because this can be a pretty rough time, especially for those who
tend to be negatively oriented. Don’t be afraid to get onto the discussion
groups and talk about this either. Most likely there will be someone else
on there going through the same thing but doesn’t recognize it.
“BE” in the Moment
An interesting aspect of Inner Power is its inherent chicken/egg

quality. Did our lives change because our Inner Power awakened or did
our Inner Power awaken because we changed our lives?
Many people pursue meditation, healing, martial arts and other
pathways to personal mastery because they sense the need for change in
themselves. They know they need to become more, so they begin the
process of becoming.
Many people have the expectation that something will happen
suddenly and they’ll immediately just be the person they want to be. That
seems to be one of the misleading expectations about Inner power; that
they’ll have this amazing experience and just suddenly be enlightened.
For the most part it just doesn’t work that way. I remember
making the comment to Dr. Glenn Morris when I first met him that
“rather than becoming Enlightened, the kundalini makes me aware on a
moment to moment basis just how Un-enlightened I really am”. Such a
simple lesson that took so long to sink in.
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This moment, right now, is the only one that really exists. The
last moment has faded into some abstract, subjective past that only exists
in our individual memories, and the next moment is part of a future that
may never arrive. This breath, right now, is the only real breath, as the
last one is gone and the next one isn’t guaranteed. I once spent some time
face down in the ocean, paralyzed and unable to move. Each time a wave
hit me and turned my face up out of the water I took as big a breath as I
could get and then held it, wondering if I was ever going to get another.
Some of us need harsher lessons than others apparently. ☺
So the question becomes “What am I doing right now?” “Am I
living the way I want to live right now, and if not what can I do to make
that happen?”
Most of us have at least a vague idea of who we think we want
to be when we awaken to our true selves. Here’s your Wakeup Call then.
Start BE-ing that person right now! If you want to be like a Buddha then
BE like a Buddha. If you see enlightenment as being nicer to others and
treating them the way you want to be treated and loving them as you love
yourself then do it, right now.
Balancing the Dualities
Many of our issues with duality go back to our very basic nature,
not our good/bad, male/female or light/dark side, but even deeper to the
Id and Super-Ego. It’s extremely easy to see these as the basis for all of
the others with the battle being between the untrained, instinctive Id and
the overly intellectual Super-Ego and the need for balance.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that all of this started with some
old shaman sitting around the campfire trying to put it into terms that his
people could understand.
“Look at it this way” he might have told them, “On this side you
have Order and Law and Creation, let’s call that side God. Over here you
have chaos and disorder and acting intuitively on your baser instincts,
let’s call that side the Devil…”
Balancing the Masculine/Feminine

The Battle of the Sexes has raged for hundreds of years and in
my opinion it’s really beginning to screw up the planet. We all have a
masculine and a feminine side, and apparently most of us are severely
unbalanced towards one or the other.
Some of the heinous acts of our major religions are designed to
keep the feminine energies in check. Inner Power is by definition, sexual
energy. Everything that lives is created through a sexual act of some sort
and it’s that very energy we seek to elevate and awaken. Pick almost any
major religion or path and you’ll see some sort of sexual dysfunction
displayed as celibacy, clitorectomies, or the domination of men or
women.
What you’re seeing in many cases is the level of individual
discomfort with their own internal energies, a non-acceptance of that part
of themselves manifested in some sort of external sexual inequity. I
won’t argue that there are times when abstinence can be used to
strengthen a spiritual journey, just like any other form of fasting. I will
point out that it’s also frequently used as an escape that can leave the
practitioner in a severely unbalanced state. Having occasionally
experienced periods of abstinence for a variety of reasons (primarily by
using my personality as a means of birth control) I can definitely say it
leaves one unbalanced and reactionary.
I believe the human body was intended to operate with a certain
balance of male/female energies and these energies are meant to balance
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one another just as in any of the other dualities. I also believe it’s
possible to draw these energies from the world around us without the
need for an actual sexual partner; I’m just not very good at it.
“The Big Red Book” officially known as Sexual Secrets
(Douglas and Slinger) goes into a lot of detail on the various sexual
energies and it’s a lot of fun to read also. As with some of Mantak Chia’s
books on sexual techniques I can’t recommend it strongly enough. I think
the world would probably be a much better place if it was issued to
everyone and we were tested on it regularly.
Balancing the Light and Dark

Integrating my dark side was a fairly torturous process for me,
partly because I made it harder than it had to be. Apparently I do that a
lot.
One of the problems at the time was my inability to get out of
my own way and I continually tried to micro-manage the process rather
than giving in to it and going where it wanted to take me. Part of that
was from my own misconceptions about the light and dark and my
reactions to them.
Many of us spend a long time trying to suppress the various
elements of our light and dark sides partially because we're taught to
believe light is good and dark is evil, as if the 2 extremes didn't exist in
all of us.
For example, a lot of healers tend to shy away from their dark
side. When it does manifest it's usually in some context that the healer
may be shocked by or ashamed of. Thereafter the healer may have a
negative connotation with the dark side of their being. Sometimes these
connotations can come from events that happen when we're small
children or even be hold-overs from past lives.
It's important to find examples of the dark and light that can be
manifested positively and enjoyably as everything has to balance. It’s
unnatural for us to always be one or the other. Music, dance, theatre,
movies, martial arts and sexuality are some of the ways you can find
positive examples of both the dark and the light. In reality you can find
positive examples anywhere, those are just some that I personally enjoy.
This is where the self awareness part of Inner Power comes in.
You have to know yourself well enough to become comfortable with all
the aspects of your personality, and to find creative ways to balance your
proclivities. If you spend all day giving Reiki treatments and listening to
soothing new age music take some time in the evening and pop in a
suitably dark movie or some nice dark music on the stereo. If you choose
music as your balancing catalyst then turn off the lights, close your eyes
and do some moving meditation and ecstatic dancing. You might be
surprised at what you’re able to clean out of your system this way.
What’s important here is to learn to be comfortable with your
dualities, and then get beyond them. This can be a journey of self
discovery that can take you places you didn’t know you could go.
Dealing with Negativity

Once you start to become comfortable with your dualities you
can begin to associate with the positive (good for you) light and dark
traits and abilities.
Keeping a positive mindset is extremely important as you’re
pushing your comfort levels to new extremes. We usually lump
negativity into the ‘Dark’ category, but having a negative attitude isn’t a
positive dark trait. ☺
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Remember that this is all about developing your own personal

mastery. When you give in to negative feelings and emotions then you
are giving away your personal power.
Yin/Yang Exercise
Here’s an exercise I’ve been playing with. I won’t say that I
invented it because when it comes to meditation there really is nothing
new. It’s all been done before. I can say however, I didn’t learn this from
any external source; it’s just something that came to me.
Pick the meditation position you prefer and take a moment to
ground yourself. You do this by letting your energetic roots grow down
into the earth and feel the earth energy flow up into you on the inhale, all
the way up over your head.
As you exhale release all your stress and tension and let it flow
back down into the earth to be recycled. Feel your muscles relax as this
stress bleeds out of your body and feel your connection to the earth
increase as you draw in each breath. Do this as long as necessary to
become relaxed and feel a good connection to the energy.
Now as you inhale, feel the dark earth energy flow up the back
side of your body, while simultaneously opening up and feeling the light
universal energy flow down through the crown of your head and down
the front of your body.
As you exhale see the 2 bands of energy swirl through you and
into a yin/yang symbol that encompasses you. Continue at this level til
you can do that with one breath comfortably.
The next step is to let loose of your perceptions and become the
yin/yang symbol. Feel yourself expand beyond your usual physical
boundaries with the light and dark energies swirling through you in
perfect balance. If the energy wants to continue spiraling let it.
Now begin to expand yourself, feeling the connectivity to the

light/dark energy in everything around you. It’s all the same energy and
the parts of it that are in you are also the parts of you that are in it. Feel
your energy expand til it fills (feels) the room, now let it expand to fill
your house, your city, your state. Continue expanding out through the
solar system, then the universe.
This is the energy that’s all around us all the time. We’re as
much a part of it as it’s a part of us, and in reality there’s no difference
between it and us. We/it encompass everything and we’re/it’s the basic
building blocks for everything that ever was or is.
It’s the proper balance of the light/dark, masculine/feminine,
good/bad and positive/negative that holds everything together. “For
every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction” is not just a good
idea, it’s the law.
Feel the connections to the universe within and without. Feel the
swirl of the galaxies within you and visualize them as tiny yin/yangs all
swirling together inside a larger yin/yang which is also just another swirl
and realize (make REAL) that the dualities don’t really exist, they are
just perceptions of the same reality.
Choose one of the swirling yin/yangs at random and let yourself
fall into it. This should be easy since (sense?) your connection to
everything also gives you unlimited abilities. As you fall into this
swirling galaxy you can see it’s made up of billions of swirling little
solar systems all made up of little yin/yangs. Choose one at random and
flow into it. See the little yin/yangs rotating around a larger one in the
center. Choose one of these at random and flow down to it. When you
look more closely at it you can see it's also made up of billions of
swirling, individual yin/yangs. Choose one of these and flow into it.
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Feel yourself settling down on the yin/yang and relaxing into a

meditation position. Everything is smooth and safe and relaxed.
Without letting go of your connection to the universe, can you
open your eyes and feel the light/dark energies swirling all around you?
Did you come back down to the same room and body and mindset that
you left? Does it matter?
Play with this as there are infinite possibilities and energies to
explore.
Dealing with the Ego

We spend a lot of time dealing with self awareness and self
consciousness and self esteem, so who exactly is this Self and why does
it matter? Webster’s defines the Ego as “the self, especially as contrasted
with another self or the world”
The Super-ego is defined as “one of the three divisions of the
psyche in psychoanalytic theory that is only partly conscious, represents
internalization of parental conscience and the rules of society, and
functions to reward and punish through a system of moral attitudes,
conscience, and a sense of guilt”
The Id is defined as “one of the three divisions of the psyche in
psychoanalytic theory that is completely unconscious and is the source of
psychic energy derived from instinctual needs and drives”
Great, just when I was feeling better, now I discover I’ve got a
divided consciousness. So what does it all mean exactly?
When Webster’s mentions “the three divisions of the psyche in
psychoanalytic theory” what they're talking about is the Conscious self or
Super-ego, and the Subconscious self or Id, and the Ego, which is a
combination of both. So in short, our ego is that which defines us and
separates us from all the other egos out there and provides us with the
framework for our reactions and responses to external and internal

stimuli. It’s both who we’ve learned to be and who we always were
combined into who we think we are now.
One of the challenges many of us face is learning to release the
programming in our super-
ego and let the natural
We spend a lot of expression of our id have
time dealing with more control. We seek to
self awareness and access more of our
self consciousness subconscious abilities and
and self esteem, so break free of the restraints
who exactly is this that tie us down, to bypass
self and why does it the mental/emotional
matter? boundaries and experience
the oneness of the universe
and everything in it…you get the picture.
One of the problems many of us have is we are programmed
from birth to believe various things, depending on the culture we grew up
in. I grew up in a staunch Methodist community that firmly believed in
an omniscient God and the miracles of the Bible while simultaneously
scoffing at the metaphysical and supernatural. I learned early NOT to
point out the similarities and when I was older I went through a fairly
lengthy process of deciding which parts of the programming were useful
and which could be discarded. Religion is just the easiest example, but
there are many others.
We spend our lives learning how to be the people we become.
We learn various mores and norms according to the society we live in.
Since most of us are already outside what’s ‘normal’ for our societies I
probably don’t have to spend much time with this.
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Some of this programming is useful and it lets us move through

and function within our society. Some of it is useless and exists merely to
keep us in line with whichever religious, economic, political, social order
that happens to dominate at the moment. Some of it is destructive and
designed specifically to prevent you from accessing your subconscious
energies, preventing you from really thinking on your own and
developing your Self in the directions you think it should go.
In contrast the Id (or maybe just my Id) tends to be untrained to
function in society and has very little worry about what’s ‘normal’ or
even polite. It’s like a big, tough 6 year old kid. Just because something
is an instinctive reaction doesn’t necessarily mean it’s correct within the
social context. When I see someone abuse an animal or a child my first
response is to do to the abuser exactly whatever they are doing to the
victim. I’m very Old Testament that way sometimes, but is that the
correct response according to the laws we live under? Is it the correct
response according to the laws of compassion and reciprocity?
Sometimes a thoughtful solution can be better for everyone.
Rising above the Id is just as important as overcoming the
Super-ego. Many of us have very unbalanced responses that are based in
the Id rather than the Super-ego. Did you ever meet someone who tended
to be very paranoid and reacted with violence as a first solution? In many
cases the ‘warrior’ mentality is very Id based, as is the ‘nurturer’ and the
‘shaman’.
The Super-ego and the Id

So what is the correct balance? The challenge is to develop
enough internal and external awareness to be able to go through and keep
or discard the programming as we see fit. We have to thoughtfully,
purposefully think about what’s important and how we should react to

the various stimuli that bombard us constantly.
There are a few guidelines you can go by that will help the
process. Most religions are liberally sprinkled with these and if you apply
them they’ll help act as a filter between the Id and Superego. I’ve seen
about 20 different translations of “Do unto others as you’d have them do
unto you”, for instance. Personally I try to keep in mind there are only
two ways to respond to any given moment, through LOVE or through
FEAR. On a moment by moment basis I always try to be aware of my
responses and see which of those is dominant. Hopefully someday I’ll be
good at it.
The Super-ego and the Id will always be the defining factors of
your ego, but fortunately your Ego is also the defining factor of the
Super-ego and the Id. Through study and meditation you begin the
process of shaping the Id and Super-ego and therefore the Ego, creating a
single balanced entity, much like the Yin/Yang.
Ego Triggers
We all have ego triggers.
An ego trigger is any word, phrase, thought or feeling that
causes an unintentional, unthinking response within us. Some easy words
to use for examples are Abortion, Gun Control, Animal Rights, Human
Rights, the Environment, Child Abuse and Summer Camp. If none of
these words elicited a response in you then you are probably a rare
human indeed.
I used some politically oriented words, but you can address them
more specifically. How about hypocrite, chauvinist, moron, dipshit, idiot,
fat or slut?
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Our culture tends to purposefully build in these ego triggers

because when you're susceptible to them you are more easily controlled.
Using an ego trigger elicits a definite response and if that response is
beyond your control you are being used rather than making a rational
response.
Learn to be aware of the feelings created by the words used
around you. The goal here is not to do away with the feelings caused by
ego triggers, but rather to develop a level of awareness that allows you to
remain in control of yourself. Often ego triggers will instantly elicit
anger, or fear or shame. Examine your reactions to various words and see
if you can discover why you react to them at all.
Working with your ego triggers can be a very long process but
also a relatively easy one to start. Just pay attention to words, thoughts,
feelings or concepts that make you angry or uncomfortable. Look at the
trigger and see why it elicits a response. When possible look and see if
that response can be changed to include love and compassion. When you
begin working through your triggers you may find you are no longer as
easily manipulated by preachers, politicians, your parents, spouse,
coworkers, etc. You may also find it becomes much easier to find real
solutions to the issues that caused the trigger in the first place.
Ego Trigger Exercise

Make a list of words that elicit feelings within you. Take a few
minutes and go through the Breathing and Secret Smile exercises.
Pick a word from the list and meditate on it. Just keep the word
in your mind and pay attention to thoughts, memories or feelings that
arise in your mind around the word.
Give yourself permission to heal any issues that may arise and to
forgive anyone who has ever inflicted this word upon you. Forgive
yourself for any actions, deeds or words you used in conjunction with the
ego trigger.
Allow any emotions that need to come forth as you release your
attachment to the word. You may laugh or cry, scream or shout, jump up
and down or dance or anything else you need to do to get the feelings out
of your system. If you feel you need professional help with counseling,
massage or healing then by all means get it. If you start feeling
overwhelmed remember to use the Secret Smile to pull yourself out of
the stresses.
Once you’ve begun to release the stresses from the ego trigger
you can begin to look at compassionate and loving ways to respond to
that trigger from now on. It’s almost impossible to get rid of every ego
trigger you may have, but you can definitely replace the negative effects
with something more positive.
Dropping our Masks

In a sense it’s like we’re each wearing a mask. We each have a
set of pre-programmed responses to just about any external/internal
stimuli and it’s these programmed responses that make it so easy to
occasionally bend and twist entire societies. These masks are the external
personalities we show others, and believe it or not, other people rarely
see us as we see ourselves.
Beyond that, the masks we wear are also programmed with our
memories and likes/dislikes at a personal level. They’re an amalgam of
everything we’ve done, both good and bad, as well as our views of
ourselves. It’s also possible to have an entire series of masks you wear at
different times and places. Do you act differently around certain people,
or in certain places? Are those actions the result of self-awareness on
your part or simply pre-programmed responses that you do
automatically?
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One of the things that happen with Meditation is that all the
masks are stripped away. Suddenly you’re left with a completely blank
slate and it’s up to you to decide what should be there. It’s one of the
reasons why some people have such radical changes to their personality
after an awakening.
A lot of people also hide behind their masks and it can be
extremely frightening when those masks no longer hide them from
themselves. It’s one of the reasons I’m constantly prattling on about
intention and awareness and having a positive attitude.
The good news is that you don’t have to experience an
awakening to begin the process of dropping the masks. As you get deeper
into the self-awareness process you’ll begin to question some of the
things you do and the reasons you do them. As you expand your
awareness you’ll be able to have different views of your own actions as
well.
The simplest way to begin stripping these masks away is to look
at your responses to external/internal stimuli. Do you respond primarily
from the Super-ego (conscious) or the Id (subconscious) parts of your
ego? How’s that working out for you? Are there times when you’d like to
respond more consciously and other times when you feel like your
intellect gets in the way?
As you journey through your own self-awareness you’ll find
that you can begin changing your responses, and therefore changing your
masks.
Dealing with Anger
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and
study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."
Epictetus
As humans we have to deal with anger on a fairly constant basis.

Some of us tend to be a little quicker to anger than others, but in general
anger is one of the daily trials we all have to work towards overcoming.
Dealing with anger brings us to some of the core principles of
Inner power, namely awareness. It’s very easy to become stressed and
lose our tempers. It’s incredibly hard at first to deal with some of the
unfairness of life without getting angry and upset, but that’s exactly what
you have to learn to do. This was (and still is) a very long journey for me
and I’m still being tested fairly regularly with no reason to believe the
tests will ever stop.
For example I was recently filling out my financial aid
paperwork to go back to college and take some classes. In the process I
discovered the IRS had apparently lost every one of my tax returns since
1999. Only a few months ago this would have sent me into a rage (and a
righteous one too!) yet this time I tried to remember I was supposed to be
handling this properly. During the entire ordeal (about 20 hours worth of
phone calls, wrong instructions and outright ineptitude from the
bureaucracy), I tried to remember to make things as pleasant as possible
for the person on the other end of the conversation. While I probably
could have handled it better, I still showed a marked improvement over
how things would have been even a few years ago.
Like any other real change in our lives, dealing with anger is an
incremental process. It’s all about winning the little victory right now
rather than worrying about winning the war on anger. As humans we’ll
probably never eradicate anger, but we can develop better strategies for
dealing with it.
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Identifying the Causes

Here are a couple of examples of things that make me angry. We
all have a list like this, and my advice here is to write it out and then
write out the solutions for it.
Cause #1 - I’ve found I’m most likely to get angry when I feel
like I’m running late or short of time.
Solution – If it turns out I’m running out of time, for whatever
reason, I try to call ahead and make other arrangements for my
appointments. While this necessity can still make me unhappy, it’s at
least a positive step and keeps me from being any ruder than I can help to
the people waiting on me.
Cause #2 – I have a very low Stupidity Tolerance. I find
incompetence and ineptitude to be one of the most amazingly rude things
imaginable and a symbol of a business owner’s lack of respect for their
customers.
Solution – Lighten up, Old Man! We’ve all been new on the job
or thrown out to the wolves without proper training. Take a minute and
try to view things from the stupid-ees point of view and it may turn out
that the situation isn’t really anyone’s ‘fault’. Try to see the humor in it
and see if it can all be turned into a joke.
Another tactic that I use in general and I have pretty good results
with is to view everything as a test. This works well for my personality
type and may not work at all for others, but give this a try and see. Try
the ‘Sacred Space’ test and let me know how it works for you.
To do the “Sacred Space’ test first you have to understand that
you can’t change the world, but you can change the area directly around
you, your bubble of influence.
The test is to always have a bubble of happy sacred space around
you, no matter what’s going on. As your awareness increases you may
find this easier to do. You are a living, breathing sacred space generator
and everyone who comes in contact with you enters your area of sacred
space and therefore should pass out the other side of it feeling better than
when they went in to it.
The challenge with this is to feel that way about everyone, no
matter how they’ve treated you, or how stupid, rude inept or downright
mean they act. We all have the ability to be total jerks. Just as we’ve
accidentally shown our bad sides to others, then others will show their
bad sides to us. It’s entirely possible the one bad moment you witness
from your adversary may be the only bad moment that person has ever
shown. Judging them as a perpetual jerk may be as utterly unfair as the
times when others judged you as a perpetual asshole.
When you bring the jerk into your bubble of sacred space your
goal is to make their day better. Get beyond your own ego and the
attitudes of “How dare they treat ME that way” and see if you can help
break them out of their bad mood. Look at it like a game. Have fun with
it.
Does this always work? Of course not. Sometimes the other
person is still going to be a jerk, and sometimes in the case of a
potentially violent situation this tactic may still not be enough to avoid
the confrontation. As I often point out in my martial arts classes “You
may still find it necessary to bend, fold and spindle an attacker, but at
least this method keeps you from doing it in anger or hatred”.
Another thing to remember about anger is that the usual
response to it is more anger. What’s the first thing you feel when
someone becomes angry with you? If you’re like most of us you also
begin to get angry. It develops into a circle and keeps growing until it
either spills over or sanity prevails.
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Remember with anger that it’s just like love. Someone can give
you all of it that they want to, but it’s up to you to accept it. Like the old
example the monks use; if someone offers you a cup of tea and you
refuse it then whose tea is it? It still belongs to them. If someone offers
you anger and you refuse it then whose anger is it?
The next time you feel yourself becoming angry try this:
Begin your belly breathing drawing your breath deep into your
hara. Let your muscles relax and let any tension flow out and down into
the earth. As you inhale feel the earth energy flow up into you until it
fills your entire body. On your exhales continue to let stress and tension
flow out.
Begin drawing chi in through your liver. Don’t worry if you
don’t know where your liver is, just
open up and intend for the energy
to flow into it and you’ll eventually Of course, you
be able to feel your liver as you do also have to
this. Experiment and play with this. remember to forgive
If your concentration is good if yourself.
nothing else it may take your mind
off whatever you’re angry about.
Remember that the Law of Reciprocity applies here also so if
you send out anger then you’ll receive anger in return.
Forgiveness
Since none of us are perfect it’s important to remember about
forgiveness. When someone ticks you off the first thing to remember
once you cool down is to forgive them for whatever they did to make you
angry. This is extremely important because until you do this you’re still
carrying the seeds of that anger around with you. Take a moment to
forgive them for whatever moronic, utterly imbecilic action they

committed, and then forget about it.
Of course, you also have to remember to forgive yourself. Most
of us get just as annoyed with ourselves for losing control and giving in
to the anger as we do at the person who inspired it. This is one more area
where keeping a positive attitude can be helpful.
Take a moment to critique the incident without assigning blame
to either party. Look at the lessons learned and see what you could have
done better and then forgive everyone involved and get on with your life.
Righteous Anger
Looking at the world today makes you think there are times
when we should be angry. Human Rights abuses, starvation, injustice,
etc. When you start getting mad about those things where do you stop? It
might sound perfectly reasonable if you say “I’m only going to be
righteously angry about the worst injustices and then stamp them out”. If
you’re amazingly effective (more so than anyone has ever been) you’ll
single handedly make the world a better place. However, you’ll reach a
point where you’ve cleaned up the entire planet and you begin to vent
your righteous anger on some guy who spits on the sidewalk because
that’s the worst thing that’s left.
Of course no matter how angry you get you can never stamp out
injustice or abuse. Those things are part of our basic nature and you can’t
be angry about our basic nature, you can only accept it. Once you accept
it you can get beyond it.
Even righteous anger is subject to the Law of Reciprocity. You
may feel justified at being angry at the person who screwed up, but we
all screw up occasionally. Personally I’d prefer to give compassion rather
than anger (and I eventually hope to get good at it). When you react out
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of compassion at least you don’t have to worry about anger degenerating

into hate.
Using Compassion in Everyday Life

Compassion is simply the way we feel towards others. In any
given moment we have two ways to respond to whatever happens. We
can respond through fear, or we can respond through love. It’s exactly
that simple. The goal is to develop our awareness until we can decide in
an instant which way we want to respond.
This is one of the areas I have to constantly struggle with. I try
to remember on a moment to moment basis that it should be a pleasure
for another person to interact with me because I should always be
relating to them from a loving and compassionate viewpoint. Of course
this is the point where the little devil on my shoulder points out that the
best thing for some people is a good swift kick in the ass.
So how do you temper compassion and mercy with reality? In
my martial art classes I always teach the non-lethal, non-damaging
techniques first. The point is not to hurt the person who attacks you, for
instance, but merely to redirect them and get the point across to them that
you’re someone who shouldn’t be attacked in the first place. Of course if
you get to the point of physical violence odds are you’ve screwed up at
the other levels.
The next time you’re in a ‘discussion’ with someone who wants
to be argumentative try this;
Slow your breathing and remember to breathe down into your
hara. Relax your muscles and let all the tension drain out, then allow the
grounding earth energy to flow up from your feet and let your entire
body fill up with it, letting it overflow down into your arms and hands.
Keep your mind as clear as possible, send your awareness down
to your heart chakra and draw energy into it. Feel it relax and expand as
it energizes and let your awareness expand outwards carrying with it a

solid green wave of compassion. You can visualize this by seeing a
bright green bar of light extend out from your chest to the chest of the
person you’re talking to. If you want you can let that green light expand
until you are both inside a huge circle of compassion.
Experiment with this. You can also play with other colors and
try various colors in different situations. As with anything else the more
you use it the better you’ll be at it.
Spiritual Integration
"Soul development should take precedence over all things."

Edgar Cayce
Are we spiritual beings having an earthly experience or are we

earthly beings having a spiritual experience? Who said we have to be one
or the other? Are the two mutually exclusive?
The thing that’s most interesting to me about the Inner Power
process is that I’m much closer to my true spiritual self now than ever
before. It’s astounding to me to be able to feel past my physical body and
connect to something larger and more ancient. As usual this is part of a
larger process and it’s one that’s continually ongoing as I learn more and
loosen up more.
Developing our spirituality is what it’s about for most of us,
although for a long time I never thought about exactly what that means.
If we look at the overall picture and get beyond the shortness of lifespan
for our physical beings we can see the longevity of our spirit. I like the
idea that we come back over and over and learn lessons at the soul level.
From that perspective the life we live has far reaching consequences for
the hard headed as I can think of several parts of this life I wouldn’t want
to have to repeat just to get the proper remedial training.
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The process of integrating yourself spiritually, mentally and

physically can be a very long process. It requires a lot of self awareness
and it’s probably a different process for everybody. As usual many of us
in Western society are at a disadvantage because we expect to see instant
results.
There isn’t much that I can tell you beyond that as you’ll have to
just put the time into it and do the work.
Chapter 20: Living in Abundance

"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have
drawn them there.
What you choose to do with them is up to you."
Illusions - Richard Bach
“Poverty is God’s way of saying ‘you’re a failure’”

Anonymous (an ancient Greek philosopher)
The natural attitude of the awakened, balanced, sentient being is

one of abundance and plenty. When you have the ability to connect to the
universe at its core and become one with it there just isn’t room for the
attitudes of deprivation or poverty. The universe isn’t deprived or
impoverished. It’s huge; it’s full of fantastic, wondrous, amazing
creations we as humans aren’t big
enough to understand. We as
spiritual beings, however, have the When I talk about
ability to interact with it and connect poverty I mean the
to it and take part in it. impoverished
For the seeker who lives mindset, rather than
with constant self-awareness, the lack of stuff or
deprivation and lack are symptoms money.
of imbalance. That’s not to say that
those who suffer poverty are unenlightened, just that some forms of
poverty are symptoms of imbalance.
I should clarify a few things at this point. If you want to be a
monk and shave your head and be celibate and not own anything that’s a
choice, and terms like lack and poverty don’t apply. If you decide to get
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rid of everything you own and live free of the attachments and wander
the Earth as a spiritual being in human form that’s also a choice.
When I talk about poverty I mean the impoverished mindset,
rather than the lack of stuff or money. It’s this impoverished mindset that
makes people poor and keeps them there.
Another good point is that often people may have some hold-
over from a past life, such as a vow of poverty they still live up to. That’s
where your self-awareness comes in and allows you to get past it and
begin living the life of abundance.
When I was a kid growing up in the foothills of North Carolina
we hardly ever had money. We usually raised a garden and kept animals
for the freezer. In the summer mom would can the vegetables from the
garden so we’d have something for the winter. While my parents would
worry about money, they always made sure my sister and I had shoes and
decent clothes to wear to school. It never occurred to us that we didn’t
live in a time of abundance. Even when times were hard we had
everything we needed. The times when we felt a lack of money were
times when we wanted some external luxury. Of course growing up the
way I did also ‘programmed’ some attitudes into me. The section that
comes next is a posting I made on the Inner Power Discussion Group
about that and the process I was going through at the time.
Lessons about Money

I've been going through an interesting growth period lately that I
thought I'd share, as some of the lessons were pretty profound (at least
for me).
I've written before about my Awakening and the joys and
tribulations since, and I've also mentioned that it's an ongoing process
which, as far as I can tell, doesn't really end til you shuffle off this mortal
coil. Then you get to come back and start over.
The last couple of years or so have been a really interesting
period, partly through the guidance
and help from both Dr. Glenn Morris
and Susan Carlson, and it's Money is a fact of
interesting how much progress I've life in our modern
made and how far I still have to go. world. It's a tool
I've recently come to an too many of us are
interesting new period in my life, taught to ignore or
thanks mostly to my other half, misuse.
Anya. Living with her (and my step-
son Jake) has opened up new areas and forced me to deal with things I
was always able to avoid before. When you're a modern day gypsy
bouncing around in an old RV it's really easy to have a casual attitude
about living in our society, but settling down really brings on the new
challenges. Most of what I'm learning now is probably old hat to those of
you who've led stable, settled down lives, but it's a hell of an adventure
for me, even at my age.
The primary things I'm dealing with lately are financial. I've
always been able to make money, but in the last few months I've come to
realize that I've always had bad attitudes about it, and I see the same
attitudes reflected over and over from the people around me. It was a big
shock for me to realize how much my attitudes were limiting me. It was
shocking because most of what I do is about rising above limitations and
creating my own realities, and then realizing how badly I was doing in
this other area.
Susan Carlson mentioned to me several times last year that I
could learn a lot from Stuart Wilde's books, and I finally got around to
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reading The Trick to Money is Having Some. I have to admit she was
exactly right!
I followed that up with Rich Dad, Poor Dad and what I learned
there was just as shocking, so in the hopes that some of you learn easier
than I do I'll pass on some new revelations (apparently only new to me,
but what the hell).
I grew up in the foothills of North Carolina as a poor country
boy and most of the time money was a tool we just didn't have. Our
"reality" was that we had to struggle just to have enough to survive.
While the concept of abundance was nothing new to us, we saw our
abundance in what we could grow and make rather than what we could
buy, and while those skills are definitely valuable, it's a very limiting
attitude to have.
So within my 'reality' money wasn't really a tool that was very
prominent in my toolbox, even though it was consistently one of the
factors that prevented me from doing the things I needed to do.
Many of my attitudes came from the fact that I'm just not
interested in money for its own sake. I'm pretty unimpressed by the
people I've met who's primary characteristic seems to be that they have
lots of money.
It’s also easy to develop bad attitudes when we see the evils
done in the name of money, so for a long time my reality remained that I
was working to have 'enough to survive'.
Another interesting factor is that many of us in western society
are taught to believe we don’t deserve a lot of money. We're taught to
want it, but not to believe we deserve it, which only seems like a paradox
til you think about how our consumer culture is driven by desire and
want, rather than need.
I finally realized I have to expand my reality and shake off the

bad attitudes. Money is a fact of life in our modern world. It's a tool too
many of us are taught to ignore and misuse, and just because many of the
world's ills and evils are conceived to get it doesn't mean we should
ignore the fact that many of the modern world’s good things are caused
by it also. The fact that I can write this article and instantly send it out to
hundreds of people all over the world is just one example.
I expect the next few months to be a very interesting and
rewarding period as I learn more about this 'new' tool and how to
effectively use it. Many of the healers and new agers I know also have
similar attitudes to those I always had, so I thought I'd bring this up here.
I'm sure that many of you may have some interesting feedback.
The period since I wrote that posting has indeed been very
interesting as I learn more about living with the attitude of abundance. If
you haven’t done so I strongly urge you to read Stuart Wilde’s The Trick
to Money is Having Some and Robert Kyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
Kiyosaki wrote Rich Dad, Poor Dad as a manual for his board game
Cash Flow 101. I’ve been playing Cash Flow 101 pretty steadily for a
couple of years and even running a weekly game at a local bookstore.
Cash Flow 101 is a great way to learn more about using money as a tool
and for developing a new money consciousness. I really can’t
recommend it enough. If you live in the Denver area then by all means
come out and play with us.
Balancing Money and Spirituality

I'm running into a lot of deeply spiritual people who are having
an extremely bad time balancing spirituality and money. There are some
points I want to make here;
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1. Money is a form of energy – Like any other form of energy

money is completely inert. It's how you use the energy that
decides whether your ultimate result is good or bad.
2. We live in an unlimited, abundant and constantly expanding

universe – it is not only possible, but proper, that you should
partake of the unlimited abundance of the universe and do so in
the sure knowledge that you are not taking anything away from
anyone else in doing so.
3. We create our own realities – Through our thoughts, speech and

actions we create our own realities on a moment to moment
basis. This means you have the ability to create an abundant
reality and you have the ability right now to allow that reality to
come into place. If those around you are creating a lack-based
reality then by your very success you can establish the
credibility to be able to help them break out of the lack-based
consciousness that entraps them.
4. It's OK to be rich and use your wealth and resources to help

others – Face it; you could get a lot more done if you weren't
spending so much of your life trading time for money. I could go
on and on with reasons and rationalizations for how you could
positively influence the people around you by being financially
successful and philanthropic, but I think you probably get the
idea.
Some of the best and most helpful resources I've found for
balancing wealth and spirituality have come from the Teachings of
Abraham and Esther Hicks. To say I'm a huge fan of these

revolutionary teachings would be a massive understatement.
So many spiritually oriented people have trouble balancing
money and spirituality because we've been indoctrinated into being
poor for a very long time. Depending on the level of indoctrination
you've been subjected to these teachings can require some major
work and attitude shifts.
If you don't control your finances, you do not control your life
in this modern culture. I can't stress this enough. You can choose to
live in Voluntary Simplicity and grow all of your own food and
make all of your own clothes and so on. I really dig that type of
lifestyle and I've got the chickens in the backyard to prove it. But the
fact remains that money is a form of energy and you simply cannot
be One with the Universe while cutting yourself off from the
abundance and wealth that surrounds you.
Money as Energy
I know what you're thinking right now. I don't have to be
psychic. I've been around thousands of spiritual people for a very long
time. I've also been around an equal number of business people and I
know what the attitudes are.
You're thinking "Money is not important and I don't care about
money". You've been TAUGHT to think that way!
Money is ENERGY! It's a representation of the common
agreement of value in this culture and when you cut yourself off from it
you disempower yourself.
This is NOT accidental! When the spiritual leaders were
convinced to disempower themselves the flock the spiritual leaders were
supposed to be protecting was left completely defenseless.
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The moment you cut yourself off from abundance and energy
from the Universe you cut yourself off from your SOURCE.
Money is a tool. We're not talking about greed here, we're
talking about having the tools you need to get your message out, to help
the people you need to help and get the job done. It seems that many
people who focus on their spirituality also believe that in order to be
spiritual one must live in abject poverty.
I disagree.
In an infinite Universe there must exist both Infinite Abundance

and Infinite Lack. This manual is about learning to tap into Infinite
Abundance through personal development and financial education.
The Haves and Have Not's;

In the late 90’s Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under the
Clinton Administration, made the comment that “2 tracks are emerging,
the fast track and the slow track, and the absence of gradations in
between”.
As the gap between the Haves and Have Not's continues to
widen it's become apparent to me that one must make a conscious choice
about which of these they want to be. I've noticed we tend to create a
paradox for ourselves when it comes to money and financial education.
This paradox tends to spill over into every other part of our lives.
The Paradox;
We must be materially successful (to a certain point at least) in
order to accomplish our goals. But in many people's opinion successful
people (rich, wealthy, affluent, etc.) tend to have bad morals and be
spiritually unhealthy.
This paradox creates a certain push-pull effect on our financial
lives. For many people money still tends to be the deciding factor in
almost every part of their lives. How often do we forego training and
charitable opportunities because we feel we "can't afford" to spend the
money? How often would we like to do more to help with the various
social issues that concern us, but feel we are already at the limit of what
we can afford to give? How many good things are NOT being
accomplished because good people can't muster the resources to bring
them to fruition?
Money as a Tool
Today more and more spiritually oriented people are beginning
to view money as a tool that can help them to be more effective in their
life's work. To these people having a lot of money is not about a big
house or a fancy car or any of the ego bound trappings of wealth. Rather
it's about being able to promote their classes and create better materials
and tools for their students and being able to empower more people.
The reality of our modern world is that money is important.
Very few of us are willing to give away everything we own and live a
life of poverty and asceticism as an example to others. While I'm
certainly not knocking that path and those called to it, there are other
paths and other groups of people we have to make contact with.
The ability to use money effectively and manifest abundance is a skill set
all its own. I've included some of my favorite books on the subject in the
Resource Guide at the back of the book.
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Chapter 21: Death and Reincarnation

"You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good
training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind.
Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the
way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced
life forms, and they'll call you crazy."
Illusions - Richard Bach
“I offer thanks to those before me,

that’s all I’ve got to say.
Maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime,
and now I’ve got to pay.
Then again it feels like some sort of inspiration,
to let the next life off the hook.
She’ll say ‘Look what I had to overcome from my last life; I think
I’ll write a book.’”
Galileo - The Indigo Girls
One of the perennial questions when it comes to spirituality is

“Where do we go when we die?” All the major religions have ways of
dealing with this. In fact that’s one of the purposes of religion.
An interesting side effect that I’ve seen in the handful of people
I’ve met who’ve awakened their Inner Power seems to be a complete
lack of fear concerning death as well as a firm belief in reincarnation.
This isn’t reincarnation in the sense that the exact same person we are
now will return to live again. It’s more a recognition that the soul is
immortal and we come back here on a quest for further development on a
larger level.
Of all the philosophies I’ve seen so far, Tibetan Buddhism
seems to make the most sense. The idea that we come back to achieve
and learn certain things during our limited human lifetime is the only
idea that’s ever made sense to me intuitively.
Some of this is borne out through the study of the chakras and
their ability to hold onto memories and contracts from past lives. There’s
a mounting pile of evidence from hypnotic past life regressions that’s
hard to ignore without some deeply ingrained programming that lets you
argue against it. I find the usual “It’s not true because God said so in the
Bible” argument to be
exceptionally weak to the
It’s more a point of becoming boring.
recognition that the Apparently a lot of things

aren’t mentioned in the
soul is immortal and
Bible, which doesn’t
we come back here
negate it as a historical and
on a quest for
spiritual document and a
further development
lot of fun to read and
on a larger level.
debate.
The feeling I’ve
developed over the past few years, and it’s just that, my feeling, is we as
a spiritual beings have certain things we need to learn. We come here
(Earth) over and over until we’ve finally learned enough to move on to
whatever the next level of existence may be. It’s like an eternal cosmic
video game where you have to keep going back to the beginning of each
level and doing it over until you learn how to beat it. (Who said XBox
was useless? ☺)
My feeling is that before our re-birth we devise a plan and leave
ourselves clues about where we’re supposed to go and what we’re
supposed to learn. It makes perfect sense to me that this plan could also
include who our parents are and the part of the world we’ll be born into
as the lessons there can be extremely strong. At that point it’s up to us to
develop the awareness to follow the clues and learn to listen to our inner
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voices. It’s as good a reason as any for why humans can feel so out of
place and looking for something ‘more’ from their lives.
I’ve occasionally talked to some of the Buddhists who seem to
echo that theory almost exactly. I find that interesting since I’m not
devoted to any of the isms.
In Occult Tibet J.H. Brennan points out that “According to
Tibetan doctrines there are six possible “realms” into which you could be
born, each one the result of your particular karmic trace. These are, in
reverse order of comfort, the Hell Realm, the Hungry Ghost Realm, the
Animal Realm, the Human Realm, the Demi-God Realm, and the God
Realm”.
As he points out, it’s hard to tell whether the ancient Tibetans
were referring to other planes of existence, or whether all the realms co-
exist here on Earth. It’s fun to debate it in either direction.
Contracts from Past Lives?

An interesting idea in chakra studies is that apparently we can
carry over firmly held beliefs, both positive and negative, from past lives.
In effect we’re still honoring a contract we made in a past life. In some
cases the past programming is held in the chakras and causes the victim
to continuously act out whatever the contract may have been.
Given the fact the chakras can store information about every
aspect of our lives it stands to reason these contracts could be anything
from a vow of poverty to a reluctance to eat green beans.
As you get deeper into your chakra studies and begin to learn
more about yourself keep this in mind. There may be areas in your life
that require you to put some real effort into sorting out and it could be
caused in part by these past life vows.
I think a lot of the attitudes about money can be attributed to

past life vows of poverty. So many people in the metaphysical circles
have bad attitudes about money and seem to be constantly working
through it.
Many of those who travel in the metaphysical circles today were
probably healers, priests and shamans in past lives and still have the
memories of the tribe taking care of them. Today the average healer or
shaman has to have a day job and do their life’s work after hours, yet
they remember, at a soul level, the times when money and material
possessions weren’t necessary. Sometimes it’s hard to break out of that.
With that in mind it’s no surprise so many of us have problems
in thinking positively about money. We especially seem to have
problems anytime we’re mixing money and spirituality. Often we feel we
shouldn’t be charging money for anything related to our spiritual
teachings and pathways.
At the same time, we no longer live in a world where the ‘tribe’
takes care of us, so it becomes necessary to have a way to defray
expenses, especially when so many of us tend to travel to other cities and
teach seminars and workshops.
Just something to think about.
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Chapter 22: Becoming Who We’re

Supposed to Be
Our place in the world

It’s not unusual for humans to spend a lot of time wondering
why we’re here and where is here and what does it all mean? It’s part of
our natural curiosity of life but it’s also part of a deeper drive to follow
the plan we made for ourselves before our re-birth.
One of the great advantages with energy work is that once the
chakras begin the process of cleansing and balancing it’s possible to get a
much clearer view of life’s purpose.
In my personal experience,
one of the important effects of my
awakening was that I was finally As usual,
able to figure out why I’m here and
awareness is the
begin putting my life into some sort
key to learning
of perspective. Some people are
about our true
fortunate and don’t have to deal
selves.
with this. I’ve met people who
My awareness was
seemed to always know exactly
one of negativities
why they were here and what they
though, as I
were supposed to do with this
couldn’t see the
lifetime in order to develop their
possibilities, only
souls for the next level.
My path was much
the im-possibilities.
different. I spent decades
wandering around learning different skills and having a wide variety of
experiences. For a long time I felt like I was on the outside of our society
looking in, trying to figure out why I couldn’t just settle down and get a
good job and raise a family the way we’re taught we should. For over a
decade after I experienced the awakening I literally felt driven to go
places and learn a strange group of skills. It was only after I met other
people who’d also had awakenings and began learning from them that I
was able to open up my awareness and see the bigger picture.
As I look back on it now I can see I was always doing exactly
what I was supposed to be doing and all of a sudden I’ve arrived at a
point where I have enough grey hair to be taken seriously, enough
experience to back it up and a unique skill-set to bring it all together and
make it work. Once I figured out that I should just have a little faith and
go where I’m supposed to go and do what I’m supposed to do, all the
stress and angst about my ‘place in society’ just went away and I was
able to really make some progress internally.
As usual, awareness is the key to learning about our true selves.
I stumbled around in the dark for a long time, driven by something that I
was unaware of, but fortunate in the fact that I went where I was led
nonetheless. My awareness was one of negativities though, as I couldn’t
see the possibilities, only the im-possibilities. For instance, I knew I
couldn’t settle down and raise a family, but couldn’t understand why. I
knew I wanted to go to college and learn, but couldn’t see the point to
pursuing the usual career paths.
Once I began to expand my awareness (starting with the breath,
like usual) I was able to see a larger picture and have it make sense. It’s a
little like standing too close to a painting. It’s out of focus and just a
jumble of colors, but as you move back slightly and expand your
awareness the colors transform into shapes. Expand your awareness and
little more and the shapes come together as a painting. Expand it a little
more and the painting is hanging on a wall, and the wall is in a museum,
and so on. You can do this as a meditation and keep ‘moving back’ and
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expanding your awareness until your awareness isn’t of the painting at

all, but of the entire universe.
Now apply that same exercise to your own life. You can learn to
pull back and expand your awareness of yourself and everything around
you. If you’ve followed the exercises I’ve outlined so far you should be
well on your way to making this happen.
Inner Power and Ecology
“One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover -
our God is the same God. You may think now that you own Him as
you wish to own our land; but you cannot. He is the God of man; and
his compassion is equal for the red man and the white. This earth is
precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its
Creator. The whites too shall pass; perhaps sooner than all the other
tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night
suffocate in your own wastes.”
From the Letter of Chief Seathl (Seattle) to the President of the
United States, Franklin Pierce, 1854
Once the energy begins to awaken many people develop a much

closer affinity to the environment and environmental causes. As we
become more aware of our deeper connections to the world around us it
makes it hard to ignore how rapidly that world is being raped and
plundered by those whose only connection is to their wallet.
Working with Shakti, chakras and chi is to work with the
energies that surround us and that we’re created from. In my case I was
so attuned to those energies for a very long time that I had an extremely
hard time living in the city. I had problems with this until I learned how
to cleanse my energy and metabolize the bad energy that’s so prevalent
in most ‘developed’ areas. The realization that energy is just energy

made this much easier.
A lot of people today are beginning to look towards Native
American spirituality, Celtic and Tibetan shamanism and other paths that
tend to have a closer connection to the energies and elements. There are
some really good resources out there and the internet has made finding
them so much easier.
Mother Earth Spirituality and The Rainbow Tribe, both by Ed
McGaa, can be extremely helpful when you’re trying to put some of your
new energy into an ecological perspective.
It’s hard to ignore the utter malignancy of Western Culture. It’s
also important to realize that many of the benefits to the modern spiritual
seeker (the internet, easily available books and music, etc.) are also side
effects of that culture. The challenge is to find ways to keep the benefits
while creating a more sustainable lifestyle.
Us and Them
Once you open up your awareness you may begin to develop an
“Us” and “Them” complex. It’s important to remember that they are also
a part of the natural order and they’re even vital to our success.
Every human has the ability to awaken their Inner Power and
become their true selves. It’s funny that those who do are so few and far
between. Even though everyone could do it, most people simply aren’t
meant to at this time. That’s one reason I don’t spend a lot of time trying
to convince the skeptical about Inner Power. I know it’s real because I’ve
experienced it firsthand. It doesn’t bother me at all if others don’t believe
me. I’d rather put my time into empowering those who are looking for it.
The ‘normal’ people are just being normal and you have to love
them because of that, rather than in spite of it. So many of the issues that
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plague our unenlightened society could be solved easily through

meditation and intentional living. Hopefully as the numbers of those who
live intentionally increase, it’ll become easier for ‘them’ to find the path
and get onto it. Even though there are differences in perceptions of the
world and life in general, there’s really no such thing as ‘better’ or
‘worse’.
Breaking out of Judgementalism

Any time you make a distinction between you and anyone else
then you are also separating yourself from them. We are all ONE at a
very literal level and what you see reflected back at you from across the
room is still YOU. If you make a judgment on any one else you are
literally judging that part of your Self.
It’s like looking into a mirror. When you look into a mirror and
see a blemish or an aspect of yourself you don’t like you’ll make a
judgment. “I’m fat” or “My hair won’t do what I want it to” or “All my
teef fell out overnight and thith ith really gonna thcrew up the speeth I
have to give today and I’m gonna look thupid”. When we have a
negative reaction to an aspect of our self it’s just an indication that we
still have to spend some time on our self acceptance.
The mirror effect also applies to other people. We respond
negatively to those aspects of other people we don’t like in ourselves. If
you’ve ever met someone you instantly disliked go back and think about
that encounter and see what caused it. This doesn’t mean you have to
spend a lot of time with those people or have them as houseguests. Just
take some time and see if you can recognize those same qualities about
yourself that annoy you in others and see if there might be a way to
approach them from a position of love and compassion.
Our culture isn’t helping us with this either. If you don’t put
some thought and intention into your life it’s very easy to be entrapped in
some of the political bickering that goes on. How often have you heard a
liberal say “All conservatives are stupid and unrealistic” or vice versa.
Remember what I said earlier about ego triggers? Glenn Morris used to
talk about the ego and say “You control it or IT controls you”.
Take some time and work through this. Whenever you see
someone who causes a judgmental thought just remember that person is a
catalyst for you. They are a reminder that you are divine and within your
divinity there must be infinite variation and diversity. Everyone we meet
is a guru or a teacher.
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Chapter 23: Setting Boundaries for the

Universe
"Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at
once…and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you."
Susan Sontag
When you awaken your Inner Power and start to get balanced
out you're going to discover you have unlimited energy as well as the
ability to tap into the unlimited creativity of the Universe.
It's important to remember that you literally have all the time in
the world to get things done. After my first book came out it seems like
the floodgates of the Universe opened up and I was deluged with ideas
and concepts. It wasn't unusual to awaken at 3 am and work until
midnight during these periods. My
wife calls them 'the 3 o'clock
downloads' and I'd wake up with a
You can ask for
concept and so much energy that I
literally couldn't stay in bed. Some anything you want,
of these concepts were so big and
so ask for a plan!
mind blowing that I know they
didn't come from this human brain I'm carrying around; I'm just not that
smart. Therefore I knew it must have been something from the Universe
that I was supposed to be working on.
If you haven't experienced this or something like it then you
probably will. It can be an exciting and rewarding time as well as a strain
on your physicality, family life and career.
Remember that time is not linear the way most people think of it
and remember that just because you're given an amazing idea doesn't
mean you're supposed to jump on that idea right now. These were lessons
I learned the hard way so pay attention.
During this period I had concepts such as 'The Spiritual

Entrepreneur' that were so big that it was clear I was supposed to pursue
them. However, I was already up to my neck in a publishing business, a
full-time job and a wonderful family life so something had to give. That
something ended up being me, and by extension, everything else.
It's easy to fall into the trap of being too close to what you're
working on, especially when those projects come with a massive blast of
energy. After about 3 years of 20 hour days I had gotten to a point where
I was just burning out physically, however.
Some of my friends and assistants who were with me during this
period have given me some valuable feedback that I'm going to pass on
to you in hopes it helps you avoid the same mistakes.
Tom Lux and Margie D. were both helping me on various
projects. Margie was doing a spectacular job pulling together The
Spiritual Entrepreneur Radio Show and some other jobs. Tom was
helping me set up classes and workshops at local healing clinics. Both of
them ran into the same problem. As Tom puts it; "You were just moving
so fast that we couldn't keep up with you. By the time we realized what
needed to be done you were already two projects ahead and still picking
up speed".
Here are some of the lessons in a nutshell;
• You can ask for anything you want, so ask for a plan!
o I got all of this stuff downloaded at once and it
was like being shown a picture of a house and
being told "Build that, here's everything you
need", but not given the blueprints or
instructions. Being a visual guy I started
building the walls and the roof first because
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that's what I could see, but you actually have to

start with the foundation.
o If the instructions aren't clear go back and ask
for more. Remember all of this stuff is coming
from YOU, so be easy on yourself. Don't fall
into this mystical trap that we're supposed to
work hard and sacrifice. What we're supposed
to do is get things done!
o Put your plan on a vision board and keep
looking at it. Learn to write a business plan and
make a written plan for what you're doing. The
more solid you make your plan the easier it will
be to put new ideas in the proper perspective.
• Just because you are given a project doesn't mean you
have to drop everything and work on that project right
now.
o Time is a human concept; therefore the project
you get may not be something you're supposed
to work on right now. Say "Thank you" to the
Universe and put it into your plan for next year
or whenever.
o Sometimes you'll download something that you
simply don't have the experience to do yet. Put
it in your plan along with a list of the
experience, help or tools that you'll need for it.
• You can control when and where you get your
'downloads'.
o I finally told my 'guides' to just shut the hell up!
If you want to talk to me then send it in a more
easily understandable manner and at a time

when I'm not cuddling with my wife. Then I
took a year off and got re-grounded. When I
came back to work everything started to line up
much more easily and I didn't feel like I had to
do it all this afternoon.
The lesson here is that you have all the time, resources and ideas
that you'll ever need. You also have the ability to manage those resources
simply by using your intention.
Most likely you'll be given projects that force you out of your
comfort zone and force you to grow. Listen to your inner voices and take
the time to read the books, attend the seminars or take the classes in order
to learn what you need to bring the project to completion.
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Chapter 24: 1% for Inner Peace

The One Percent for Inner Peace Campaign is an annual
meditation on the Summer Solstice.
The goal is to have 1% of the planet meditating on Inner Peace
all at the same time. This is not a protest against violence, but rather a
joint meditation where we all just relax and let ourselves feel our own
Inner Peace.
For those who don’t know how to meditate or who just want to
join in I’ll have a free Guided Meditation in which I show how to clear
and calm the mind. Then we’ll go into an Inner Peace Meditation.
Inner Peace exists in each of us regardless of any external
factors. Learning to find and feel that Inner Peace is easy and anyone can
do it with a little bit of training and an appropriate amount of practice. As
more people develop and begin to move in Inner Peace then outer peace
will take care of itself.
Campaign Goals
The goals are simple:
1. Introduce more people to meditation and the feeling of Inner Peace
A. The 100th Monkey - This is the idea that when a certain
number of people learn how to do something a tipping point will be
reached and everyone else will be able to do it as well. There is a
significant amount of evidence for this.
B. The 4 Minute Mile – For years it was believed that it was

impossible to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. In 1954 Roger Bannister
broke the 4 Minute Mile and within months several more people had also
run sub 4 minute miles. The point
here is that as long as everyone
knows it can’t be done then it Inner Peace exists in
won’t be. Once enough people each of us
change a belief then what we regardless of any
knew to be impossible becomes external factors.
normal. Learning to find and
feel that Inner Peace
2. Provide a FREE interface for is easy and anyone
those who don’t know how to can do it with a little
meditate and want to learn bit of training and an
A. I’ll be broadcasting appropriate amount
my Inner Peace Meditation on my of practice.
Inner Power Radio Show. I’m
also going to prerecord the meditation and post it on blogs and podcasts
around the internet. Contact me using the form below if you’d like to
host one of these recordings on your podcast, blog or radio show.
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Chapter 25: How to Achieve Inner

Peace
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma
Gandhi
‘Inner Peace’ is a concept you hear about in certain circles. In

this chapter I’m going to go over some of the ways we cut ourselves off
from Inner Peace and how to reconnect to that feeling.
It’s Already There!

The first point I want to make is that you already HAVE Inner
Peace, everyone does! The problem is that our human body, the
interface between this world and the Universe, tends to provide us with a
lot of distractions. The simplest way to find your own Inner Peace is to
learn to let go of the distractions.
Energy exists in two ways – On and Off. Esther Hicks
continually states “There is only a stream of wellbeing” and I agree. It’s
like light; there isn’t a natural force called Dark. Darkness is simply the
absence of light. When you allow light to shine you have illumination,
when you block it you have shadow or less illumination. Energy works
the same way. When you allow it, it flows. When you block it, it stops.
The distractions that block Inner Peace are simply blocks to your
energy. Some of these blocks may be mental or emotional, some physical
and some may even be spiritual. For the most part getting rid of these
blocks can be very easy. With a little bit of training and a lot of practice
just about anyone can release their energy blocks and find deeper levels
of Inner Peace.
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Releasing energy blocks can be a very gradual process for some

people and fairly explosive for others. This is why I caution people who
are new to meditation or energy work. Energy blocks are energy, and
energy can’t be created or destroyed. When you release those blocks
from your system that energy has to
go somewhere and it may manifest
as anger, pain, joy, happiness or With a little bit of
any other emotion. Ask any training and a lot of
massage therapist, acupuncturist or practice just about
healer and they’ll regale you with anyone can release
stories of clients who had their energy blocks
uncontrollable fits of laughter or and find deeper
bouts of inconsolable crying during levels of Inner
healing session. In many cases the Peace.
client had no idea why they were
having this emotional outburst simply that the feeling came on so
strongly and they couldn’t resist it.
The release of an energy block can affect every part of your life
and in many cases has provided the catalyst for people to make life
altering steps in jobs, home life, relationships or just about any other part
of life. Fortunately there is a safety mechanism built in to our bodies.
Generally it takes some consistent effort to release these blocks and when
you make that effort through meditation then frequently you’ll have the
guidance to manage the effects of the energy release.
Some Common Distractions that Block Our Energy

Here are a few of the common distractions that can block our
energy and after the list I’ll talk about what they all have in common.
Anything can be a distraction if you let it. I’ve seen people distracted in
some fairly interesting ways by their very quest to awaken their energy.
TIME – If there is ever a distraction that seems to affect humans
on a universal level it’s this abstract concept of Time. How much of the
stress that you feel on any given day is caused by your scheduling or lack
thereof? Too much control of your schedule can be as stressful as too
little.
ANGER – There are times when Anger is probably the
appropriate emotion, if for no other reason than to get your attention.
How often do you get angry (or frustrated, or annoyed or whatever you
want to call it) at someone and walk around for hours with that anger still
seething? You are sending that person part of your energy as long as you
are angry with them. As long as you hold on to the anger then your body
will have higher levels of tension or stress. Remember energy doesn’t
flow through tight muscles.
ENVY – Have you ever looked at another person or their
possessions and thought “Why do they have a __________ (Insert object
here) like that and I don’t? What did they do, or what did I NOT do that
let them get to have that thing?”
It really doesn’t matter what that thing is. You could put any
word there; body, girlfriend, boyfriend, car house, snorkel, Albuquerque,
zombie and it would still signify your feelings of inadequacy or loss.
This is a big energy block for most people and it’s also one of the tools
that gets used against us the most by advertising, politicians and the
media.
EGO TRIGGERS – An Ego Trigger is a strong, unthinking,

automatic reaction you have to anything. For instance, if I say gun
control, birth control, liberal or conservative it’s very likely you could
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feel your energy shift around with each word or phrase. Some people can
become extremely angry or agitated simply by mentioning various
words. That strong reaction is an energy block. It’s part of an ‘Us or
Them’ mindset that once again becomes a tool for anyone who wants to
use it.
What Most Energy Blocks Have In Common

I can sum this up very easily in one word. It’s FEAR. In fact, I
challenge you to find one single energy block or distraction that is not
caused by fear. Learning to let go of our fears is a major step on the path
to Inner Peace.
In many cases our fears exist for a good reason, to keep us from
doing something stupid or getting out of control, but it’s also possible for
fears to be planted from seeds and cultivated, usually to be harvested on
Election Day.
Clearing Energy Blocks

I can give you an overview, but be aware this is a subject you
can study for the rest of your life and still not learn it all. Volumes have
been written about this and some of them were mine.
Some energy blocks can be released simply through intention.
Get into a light meditative state and simply say to yourself “I’m releasing
anything I don’t need and anything holding me back”. If you’ve built up
any energy sensitivity through your meditation practice you’ll feel your
energy shift when you do this.
Forgiveness is another powerful tool and once again, in
meditation, you can just say (and you have to mean it!) “I forgive
everyone who has ever wronged me, made me angry, hurt me or hurt my
feelings, _____________ (add your own here). I also forgive myself for
all the wrongs I’ve committed or the people I’ve hurt.” Don’t forget that
last part. Self Forgiveness is a very big deal. You may have the urge to
contact people and apologize after doing this meditation. Go with it. I
went through this process a few times and was shocked that I had felt bad
for years over some things the people I thought I hurt didn’t even
remember!
It can take awhile for some of the concepts I’ve written about
here to feel like they are working so don’t be discouraged if you don’t
experience much instant gratification. If you’re looking for McPeace
(with a side order of Enlightenment) you’re in the wrong place.
Remember you have a built in safety mechanism to assure that what you
ask for is really what you want, so be consistent and you’ll find yourself
well on the way to achieving your own Inner Peace.
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Chapter 26: Giving Without Sacrifice

NOTE: I cut this section out of my book The Spiritual Entrepreneur
and included it here also simply because Giving without Sacrifice is one
of the key teachings that I'm here to promote. It's a radical idea that so far
hasn't seemed to catch on very well.
As healers we all understand that when we help another heal then we

ourselves get healed. This seems to be one of those concepts that people
accept and believe in, yet don't apply to the rest of their lives.
For instance, how many people in your circle of healers and teachers
believe that in giving healing we receive healing, but also believe that
when we give anything else then we must make a sacrifice or that giving
doesn't count?
Too many of us have been indoctrinated into believing that if you are
going to give then that gift must be a sacrifice. I often point out that Bill
Gates gives away more money in the average day than most people make
their entire lives.
"Yeah but he's the richest man on the planet" someone invariably
says.
"So what?" I respond.
We've been taught to be martyrs and to believe that we must bleed
over every good deed or our deeds don't count. This is one of the
attitudes that keep people trapped in a rat race paradigm.
The idea that giving must be a sacrifice not only goes against the
basic Laws of the Universe, but it also causes a lot of problems in other
areas of our lives.
Taking Care of #1
There are a couple of reasons why it's vitally important that we
break out of this martyr attitude and learn to 'Take Care of #1'.
1. Your thoughts and words create your reality
This is a very simple fact. Energy follows thought. If your
paradigm is one of self sacrifice then the message that you are sending
out to the Universe is simply going to be repeated back to you.
If you continually sacrifice yourself through feelings of
unworthiness or martyrdom then you are going to get exactly what you
ask for.
2. You're no good to anyone else if you don't take care of
yourself
Again, a very simple fact. How many times have you sacrificed
your health, your money, your life or your family for a bigger goal? I've
done it. Sometimes I still catch myself doing it.
If you can't maintain a simple balance in your life that allows
you to be healthy and happy while achieving your goals then you cannot
become successful at a high level. Your physiology simply won't support
it!
Suze Orman gives a great example in her Women and Money
video when she talks about how the oxygen masks will drop down during
an aircraft emergency. The instinctive reaction of any woman sitting next
to her child is to take care of the child first and then to take care of
herself. However, in this particular example, if you don't take care of
yourself first and then you pass out from lack of oxygen then you not
only aren't taking care of yourself, but you can't take care of your child!
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If you don't take good care of yourself, financially, physically,

spiritually, mentally and in your relationships then you really aren't going
to be much good to anyone else as a healer or teacher.
3. There is unlimited energy, you don't have to give yours.
This is sometimes hard for people to grasp and maybe a bit to
'woo-woo', but the simple fact is that we are all connected to an infinite
source of energy. Energy flows through us continually. Learning to
channel that energy allows us to give more and accomplish more without
depleting our own energy. In fact, and the other holistic healers out there
will back me up on this, the more healing energy you allow to flow
through you the more you heal yourself.
Now why in the world would that simple principle not apply to
every other form of energy?
Giving is an Art
Giving is an art and just like any other art it requires persistence,
discipline and a real desire to help your fellow beings. Learning to give
also requires allowing others to give as well. Which means that
sometimes you must also be dedicated to receiving.
I had to put some real work into learning to receive and I had a
lot of deeply programmed self worth issues as well as some past life
programming that I had to clean out before I could really allow myself to
receive.
Here's an important point to remember;

If you can't receive then you are not ALLOWING others to give.
I also want you to remember that if you can't receive then it
doesn't matter what you ask for or how much you want to help, you
simply will not be able to accept the energy that needs to flow through
you. If the energy can't flow through you then it can't flow out to others.
Take some time to work through these concepts. Some of them
sound counter-intuitive because they run contrary to the programming
that we've been indoctrinated with.
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Chapter 27: Living The Law of

Reversal
By now you've hopefully done the energy work and changed the way
you think in some interesting ways. You may be having that feeling of
being on the outside looking in as far as society goes. Maybe you had
that feeling already and it's why you started this work. Good.
One of the important things to remember is that the vast majority of
the folks out there are working on something else in this life besides
reaching a high level of spirituality. That doesn't make them wrong or
less or diminished; it just means they have other priorities.
However, it also means that your priorities are probably at odds with
those of the dominant culture where you live. This is where The Law of
Reversal comes into play. I learned this from James Arthur Ray at one of
his talks.
Law of Reversal
To turn misery, disease and failure into joy, health and

prosperity, I must think, speak and act in ways that are the
exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act!
This is a pretty big deal for a lot of New Agers and Pagans in
particular. It means that not only is it OK for you to be on the outside
looking in, but you actually have a responsibility to get out there on the
edge and set the example!
It's actually not that hard to see the benefit to this way of
thinking when the average person in the US eats toxic food, doesn't get
enough exercise and spends an average of 4 hours per day in front of the
TV. You don't really have to be Gandhi to get out of that mold pretty
quickly and start doing things differently.
As usual it's all about making the incremental changes that allow
you to have real growth. You
can't change everything at
Law of Reversal once, but you can start
cutting back on the things
To turn misery, that don't serve you and start
disease and failure developing a different

lifestyle. Just be sure to do it
into joy, health and
without judgementalism. If
prosperity, I must
people want to watch reality
think, speak and
TV all night then that's OK,
act in ways that are
there's probably something
the exact reverse
they are learning right now
of how most
that will help them in their
people think,
next life. It may even be
speak and act!
something besides 'Eating
Cheetos in front of the TV
leads to heart disease'.
The Law of Reversal simply takes the concept of Contrast and
applies it to your life on a bigger level.
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Chapter 28: Drawing and Sending

Energy
I touched on this in an earlier chapter. Here are some more
things you can do with it. Drawing energy is something you can do at
any time, any place. As you get better at it and more comfortable with it
you’ll also be able to develop more control over your emotions and your
physical responses by using variations on the exercises.
One interesting tool that I discovered for myself is the ability to
connect to the energy of various places and people. Everything has its
own energy signature, its own particular feel that separates it from all the
other energies out there. Once you learn to feel and recognize that energy
you can always recall that feeling
when you think of that particular place,
person or thing.
Once you learn
I first began to really
to feel and
understand this when I drove out to
California for a seminar. It was early
recognize that
May and I was driving through the

energy you can
mountains between Reno and always recall that
Sacramento and thinking about what a feeling when you
good feel California had. I spent close think of that
to 3 weeks out there and for the entire particular place,
time I was aware of that feeling. I also person or thing.
discovered that once I left all I had to
do was remember the places I’d gone and I could reconnect to that
energy. After that I began to pay more attention to the feeling of places
rather than just the sights, smells and sounds.
You can apply the same technique to people. When you think of
someone you know well pay attention to how their energy feels. Can you
feel a difference in the energy between the people you know?
Play with this and practice it. I try to pay attention to the energy
I feel from my family as they are around the house and see if I can tell
who is in which room (of course it’s usually easier to tell where the 12
year old is just by the noise).
The benefits of this exercise go beyond just building up our
awareness. When you’re having a hard time with something in your life
it can be a greatly calming influence to sit and feel the energy of a
favorite place or person. I’ve had some feedback that also leads me to
believe that at least part of the time, there is a real energy connection
there, rather than just a memory.
Good and Bad Energy

When you start drawing and sending energy the concepts of
‘good’ and ‘bad’ energy will come up. I no longer break things down that
way. Energy is just energy; it’s what I do with it that makes it either
beneficial for me or unhealthy for me.
Occasionally people talk about the bad energy of a place or the
good energy of a person, etc. and those are valid qualifiers. Some
historical places where bad things happened tend to have a residual
energy left over from those events, for instance.
If you are unaware then it’s possible to be affected by that
energy, but as your awareness increases you can develop the ability to
recognize the ‘bad’ feeling of the energy and just metabolize it for your
own use. One of the seemingly silly things I like to do, whenever I feel
anything like that, is just to stand quietly for a moment and broadcast
feelings of love and joy out into the area around me. As silly as it sounds,
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if it’s done enough then eventually the energy residue will change.
This is also your defense against someone sending an ‘energy
attack’. This subject comes up a lot, inspired by the media and popular
fiction. While there are people out there who can use such techniques as
Dim Mak (the art of projecting energy into certain points on the body, a
bastardization of a healing technique) those techniques require a lot of
training and practice as well as the ability to focus a certain amount of
energy. Usually by the time a person can move enough energy to be
dangerous to anyone besides themselves they’ve found better and more
fun ways to use it. The average person can’t conjure up enough
concentrated energy to still their own mind, so I’m not at all worried
about them attacking me with their vague and unfocussed energy. If
someone tries to project harmful energy into someone else then they're
also hurting themselves simply because they also feel the energy that
they’re sending out. “What goes around comes around” is more than just
a cute saying.
Sending Energy
Sending energy is another interesting thing that you can do. It
can be fun to demonstrate this as it really blows people minds. Most
people see it as magic, but I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who pointed
out that any sufficiently advanced technology is seen as magic to less
advanced people.
3 important things to remember about sending energy;

1. You CAN send energy into people that either heals them or
harms them. It all depends on your intention so pay attention. Most
healings simply require more energy on the part of the person being
healed, so send them abundant doses of LOVE.
2. YOU have a finite amount of energy. Your body only holds

so much bioelectrical energy and if you send it out without replacing it
then you’ll run down your own batteries.
On the other hand you have access to literally unlimited amounts
of energy that you can use. All you have to do is open up to it and allow
that energy to flow through you.
3. Energy follows thought. Energy goes where you send it, so
it’s fairly easy once you learn to move it around in your own body, to
send it out into others.
Sending Energy
To send energy just reverse the process if drawing it. All you
have to do is, for lack of a better word, exhale energy out through your
hands (or any other body part) and into any object or person. It takes
most people quite awhile to get good at this; partly because there’s no
way that I know of to easily teach it. I can tell you how it feels when I
send energy out, but I can’t tell you how it should feel to you. It’ll take
awhile for you to find that combination of intention and energy.
Another reason that many people have a hard time learning this
is because most people send out tiny amounts of energy and it’s hard to
get good feedback.
The safest and simplest way to send energy is just to use LOVE.
I’m not talking about the emotion, but the energy and feeling that
accompany that emotion. You can send love energy to anyone, regardless
of how you feel about them personally. If you’re healing someone, for
example, then what the patient really needs is more energy, rather than a
specific type of energy.
I realize that some of that sounds conflicting, but as you get
deeper into it you’ll hopefully understand the line I’m walking trying to
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write about this. ☺

One reason that I’m so fond of Reiki is that it allows you to learn
to do this in a safe fashion that’s not harmful. Anyone who’s interested in
really developing these abilities is encouraged to find a good Reiki
teacher and learn to use and move the energy. After that you can begin to
safely experiment further.
Don’t be afraid to play with this and experiment with the healing
energies as this is all about building up your personal catalog of feelings
and experiences. It’s important to remember that you are going to be
using and feeling energy that most people aren’t even aware of, and that
no one has the right to try to invalidate what you feel and experience for
yourself. Also, in many cases you’ll have to be able to relax and let the
answers you need come intuitively, and then be able to trust your
intuition. The only way to build that trust is by experiencing as many
things as possible.
Chapter 29: Witches, Druids and

Shamans
One of the characteristics that sets those on the Pagan path apart
from the more mainstream religions is the tendency to come together and
use the natural energies that surround us in a more directed and
purposeful way. There are many examples in our history, as well as
many modern examples, of those who
seek to use religion as a means of
control and power. One of the simple What follows is a
ways these power seekers create the simplified
strife necessary to implement those breakdown of
controls is by pointing out that certain rituals, spells and
groups have different methods of shamanism and
worship and then vilifying those how they’re used
methods. and how they can
The witch trials and witch
be influenced by
hunts are a period that most history
some well directed
books tend to gloss over, especially
energy work.
since many of the atrocities were
committed by of some of the popular modern religions. Sometimes it’s
important to remember that it’s the winners who write the history books,
hence their version of events is the one passed on.
The religious persecution of the Dark Ages (and which still
occasionally happens) all but wiped out many of the Nature based
spiritual paths. It’s easy to see why those forms of spirituality were seen
as dangerous to the religions that wanted people to be subject to their
rule, rather than finding their spirituality through Nature.
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I find it interesting that the period we refer to as the Dark Ages

is also the period in which the average westerner was the most devoutly
religious. Many of the natural healers, homeopaths, midwives and
herbalists were incorrectly identified as witches and hundreds of
thousands of innocent people were viciously tortured and murdered in
the name of a 'loving and forgiving' God. Along the way much of their
knowledge and ancient natural lore was lost.
Witches, Druids and Shamans tend to seek the same goals using
slightly different methods. Often the methods used depended on the
teachings that were common to certain areas as they didn’t have the
ability to spread information the way we can today. Thus if you lived in
the geographical area of the Druids and were called to develop your
spirituality then you used the methods of the Druids. If you lived in what
was to become North America then your primary option was the
Shamanism of the ancient Native Americans and so on.
Today we see a lot of crossover in the pathways. While a lot of
people are concerned with preserving the traditional ways, others are
looking at how the different ways can be combined to increase the effects
and unlock new human abilities. Personally I think there’s plenty of
room for both sides and that they both make good points.
What follows is a simplified breakdown of rituals, spells and
shamanism and how they’re used and how they can be influenced by
some well directed energy work. There are plenty of books out there with
rituals and spells that you can follow so I’m not going to fill up more
pages with those, rather my goal is to help those interested in rituals and
spells have a deeper understanding of the energies involved in the hopes
that their rituals and spell work might be a little more effective.
Energy and Rituals

One of the most common ways for the average Pagan to connect
to the energies that surround us is through using various rituals. There are
several sacred holidays throughout the year when people gather together
to celebrate the seasons, harvests or other occasions.
These rituals can be as simple or complex as the people creating
them choose to make them. They’re an excellent way for people to come
together and combine their energy in a synergistic way that can be very
effective. Usually a ritual will have a specific purpose and once the
energy is raised and combined it will be sent out to accomplish its
mission. This can be anything from a ritual to help promote world peace,
a healing ritual for a member of the circle or a sanctification ritual for the
area in which the ritual is performed. It can also be a ritual that simply
celebrates a certain season, though in the old days even those rituals had
a purpose and the energies collected would be sent off to help plants
grow or help insure a good harvest.
Witches, Druids and Shamans all tend to use various rituals. If
you have the opportunity to attend one, and they’re pretty easy to find
these days, pay attention to the energy of the group and the energy of the
area as the ritual begins and progresses.
Most of the pathways involve some pretty common elements
and it’s interesting to me that these elements exist in practices that were
separated by many thousands of miles throughout history. As far as I’m
concerned that just illustrates the universal nature of the energy work.
Calling the Quarters

This may be referred to in different ways, but it’s the process of
invoking the elements, usually Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, God and
Goddess. In some traditions the elements will be linked to the directions
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themselves, in others the directions will refer to certain deities or

energies and the elements will be invoked separately. What’s important
here is to pay attention to the feeling of the energies as the invocation
proceeds.
See if you can feel a difference in the energies within the circle
as each direction, deity or element is invoked. Look at the people within
the circle. Do they look calmer, more agitated? Does the energy level
seem to rise during the invocations?
Energy and Spells

A spell is simply the physical manifestation of one’s wishes or
desires. It’s a way to give real, physical form to something that you want
to accomplish in your life, be it finding love, healing a friend or family
member or developing more prosperity in your life. Spellwork can be
done alone or during a group ritual and it’s usually seen as part of
witchcraft.
One reason for the vilification of Spellwork by most religions is
the fact that it’s a way to work with energies directly by invoking a deity
or the energies the deity signifies rather than using the 'middleman' found
in many Western religions. The complexity of the spells and invocations
depend on the skill of the caster and the systems used.
Even today Hollywood perpetrates the myth of the witch who
can change the world around them with just a wave of their hand. While I
do believe that it’s possible (but very improbable for most people) to
manipulate our realities at that level, the stereotype of the powerful witch
has been used for hundreds of years to frighten the ignorant and
misinformed.
Done properly, Spellwork is simply another form of personal
empowerment. Any real witch will tell you that casting the spell is only
the first part of manifesting your desires. Once the spell is cast and the
energy sent to accomplish your goals you still have to live in a way that
allows your goals to be met. For instance, you can cast all the “Get Rich
Quick” spells you want, but if you proceed to then lie on the couch and
watch reality TV you’ll never see it come to fruition. Spellwork is an
adjunct to achieving your desires rather than a complete one-shot method
as portrayed by the media.
This is also one of the internal safeties built into the system.
Some people like to portray witches in a malignant fashion. The simple
fact is that a competent witch must actually live the Craft, rather than
simply casting a 'fire and forget' spell and then moving on. Hence the
casting of a harmful spell puts the caster into a position of continually
reinforcing that energy, which would in turn be harmful to the caster. A
competent practitioner of Magick (the ‘K’ denotes the difference
between the Magick of the spell caster and the magic that’s usually seen
on TV by sleight of hand artists) must continually reinforce their
Spellwork by making their life an example of what they wish to manifest.
Energy and Spellwork

Casting a spell requires the caster to develop a pool of energy
and then send that energy off on a mission, just as in a ritual. In fact the
process of casting a spell is a ritual, but I separated them in this case for
illustrative purposes. Casting a spell requires one to go through many of
the same steps mentioned above in the ‘Ritual’ section.
The spell itself is just energy (just like everything else). The
deeper your ability to focus on that energy and visualize the effects you
want to achieve the easier it is for that energy to work. Some of the
exercises mentioned in Part 1 can be extremely helpful with this. The
Secret Smile can help you stay relaxed and happy, which by itself can
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increase the efficacy of your Spellwork as well as having a positive

effect on your life. Da Mo’s Cave is specifically designed to help one
achieve greater levels of visualization and manifestation as well as
helping to cleanse yourself internally and develop a much greater
connection to your own energies.
Energy and Shamanism
“Maybe you have a problem in your head because, like they say in
the medical science, a virus is going around. So you take an aspirin.
But aspirin doesn’t purify the air. It removes your headache, but it
doesn’t clear the virus away.
“So we borrow that medicine from the deer. So he brings that
medicine. Then it clears our head. It not only clears the headache, it
also clears the virus causing the headache so it doesn’t go around in
my family. Then it doesn’t come to us. It goes away. So that’s just
one medicine. That’s just an example of what we call deer medicine.”
Black Elk - The Sacred Ways of the Lakota
Wallace Black Elk and William S. Lyon
Casting a spell is the process of identifying what you want and

then sending out some energy to make it happen. A good example might
be a healing spell for a lung infection. You’d identify the spell
components and recipe and put it all together and send that energy off to
help heal the sickness.
Shamanism, on the other hand, works a bit differently. Here’s a
very simplified explanation. A Shaman would identify the bad energy
that was the root cause of the lung infection. This bad energy, usually
seen as a spirit, would then be found by the Shaman making a journey to
the Otherworld to contact the spirit and forcing it out of the body. The
Shaman might also suck the bad energy out of the patient's body and into
another object. This object would be the symbol of the bad energy on this
plane of existence, but would also symbolize the energy in the
Otherworld.
There’s obviously much more to Shamanism as it’s also a
complete healing art as well as a spiritual path. Shamanism and its
methods vary widely depending on the culture that you’re looking at and
for many thousands of years the Shaman was seen as a teacher and healer
for the community.
There are some extremely good resources for those interested in
pursuing Shamanism as an adjunct to their energy work, or as a spiritual
path. Michael Harner, author of The Way of the Shaman, runs some very
interesting workshops in California. His website for The Foundation for
Shamanic Studies is at www.shamanism.org
Using Energy Directly

A fourth option that exists for many people is simply to use
energy directly to achieve your goals, also known as Hermetic Magic.
This option is all around us all the time.
Rather than using rituals or casting spells you can accomplish
anything that you want simply by focusing on it intensely enough. I
realize that sounds too ridiculously simple, but I meant it exactly the way
I said it. If you can focus the appropriate amount of energy with the
appropriate intention then you can literally accomplish anything. There
are many visualization and meditation techniques designed to help you
do this and it’s pretty obvious that many ancient cultures spent a lot of
time working this out. The Tibetan Buddhists come to mind instantly as
they view this life as merely an illusion and some of their teachings are
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about how to handle and manipulate the illusions. As Morpheus tells Neo
in The Matrix, “Your mind makes it real”. Energy follows thought.
Spending some time learning to focus your thoughts and
intentions will benefit every part of your life. Living in an advanced state
of awareness is its own reward.
Visualization exercises such as Damo’s Cave are excellent for
helping you develop the ability to focus on what you want and how to
achieve it. I personally try to take a few moments every morning before I
get out of bed and visualize how I want my day to go. I find that if I can
visualize then I can begin to believe it. If I can believe it then I can make
it happen.
The Magic of Life

For me the arcane arts simply add a vast amount of depth and
wonder to my version of reality. I see agnostics and atheists who want
people to believe that there's nothing out there and that we're all just
going to vanish. I also see other religions who insist that their version of
the supernatural is the only accepted version and that we’ll all roast in
hell for eternity if we don't do it their way. Personally I don't worship any
deity who is more neurotic than I am, so I don't play with those folks
much.
The magickal arts are more appealing to me for a lot of reasons,
beyond the fact that they are none of the above. It's your reality, so if you
want a pantheon of deities and elves and faeries then go for it. If you
want to sit under a tree, or hug one, while communing with nature then
make it happen.
In an infinite and wondrous Universe there are so many ways to
add Magick and wonder to your everyday life. Find the ways that work
for you.
Chapter 30: Putting it all Together

“Sattvic knowledge sees the one indestructible Being in all beings,
the unity underlying the multiplicity of creation. Rajaistic knowledge
sees all things and creatures as separate and distinct. Tamasic
knowledge, lacking any sense of perspective, sees one small part and
mistakes it for the whole.”
- Bhagavad Gita 18:20-22

Excerpted from The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Eknath Easwaran
Awakening your Inner Power is not a metaphor or a catch

phrase. Every human has a pool of energy that can be accessed and the
journey to awakening can be long and fraught with peril and joy.
It's up to you whether your journey is frightening or joyous. If
you've read through the book without doing the exercises most likely you
ran into some principles and subjects that just didn't make a lot of sense
or seemed outlandish and 'new agey'. If you take the time and work
through the exercises you'll be able to develop your own connections to
the power of the Universe. Since you've done the exercises you'll know
that power is part of you anyway and all you've done is learn to let go of
your resistance to it.
So where do you go from here? The answer to that is completely
up to you. The journey to personal mastery is an unending saga in which
we each play the starring role.
As your self-awareness grows and deepens and you become
comfortable with the abilities you develop you may find your life going
in directions you never imagined. That’s certainly been the case with me.
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If you remember some of the basic principles from this book at

the very least you’ll enjoy life and see it as a grand adventure, rather than
just something to survive as best you can.
If you've taken the time to do the exercises then you will no
doubt have had some
interesting experiences of your
own. Hopefully by this point If you remember some
you have taken control of your of the basic principles
internal programming or are in from this book at the
the process. So much of this very least you’ll enjoy
process can be put on autopilot life and see it as a
and even though it may take grand adventure,
years to learn, what else are rather than just
you going to be doing anyway? something to survive as
Feel free to follow the best you can.
links in the back of the book
and check out the Discussion Groups and resources I host. Most of the
resources are free and the whole purpose is to give people a place to ask
questions and talk about their experiences.
If you liked this book get on there and tell me so. If you didn’t
like it or didn’t understand it feel free to get on there and let me know
that also. In later editions I’ll include some questions from readers.
Please visit my blog at www.Inner-Power.net and leave comments and
ask questions.
In the meantime, have fun with your life; it’s the best one you
have at the moment.
Resource List for Inner Power

(These are some of the books I use on a regular basis)
Books
The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False

Limits
Gregg Braden
The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief

Gregg Braden
Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty,

Blessings, Wisdom, and Hurt
Gregg Braden
Ask & It Is Given

Jerry Hicks and Esther Hicks
The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent: Living the Art of Allowing

Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks
Pathnotes of an American Ninja Master

Dr. Glenn Morris
Shadow Strategies of an American Ninja Master

Dr. Glenn Morris
Martial Arts Madness

Dr. Glenn Morris
New Chakra Healing

Cyndi Dale
Sexual Secrets (“The Big Red Book”)

Nik Douglas & Penny Slinger
Mother Earth Spirituality

Ed McGaa
The Trick to Money is Having Some

Stuart Wilde
Relaxing into Your Being

B.K. Frantzis
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The Way of the Shaman

Michael Harner
Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao

Mantak Chia
Iron Shirt Chi Kung 1

Mantak Chia
The Healers Manual

Ted Andrews
Inner power
John Selby
Occult Tibet
J.M. Brennan
Tan Tien Chi Kung: Foundational Exercises for Empty Force and
Perineum Power
Mantak Chia
If You Want to be a Witch: A Practical Introduction to the Craft

Edain McCoy
Celtic Myth & Magick: Harness the Power of the Gods and
Goddesses
Edain McCoy
Astral Projection for Beginners: Six Techniques for Traveling to Other

Realms
Edain McCoy
The Healing Power of Faery: Working with Elementals and Nature

Spirits to Soothe the Body and Soul
Edain McCoy
True Magick: 2nd Edition

Amber K
Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great &

Small
Ted Andrews
The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Carlos Casteneda
A Separate Reality: Further Teachings of Don Juan

Carlos Casteneda
Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Neale Donald Walsch
Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want

James Arthur Ray
The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where
You Want to Be
Jack Canfield
The Power of Focus: What the World's Greatest Achievers Know

about The Secret of Financial Freedom and Success
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-
That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Rich Dad's Retire Young, Retire Rich

Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

T. Harv Eker
The Power of Reiki: An Ancient Hands-On Healing Technique

Tanmaya Honervogt
Essential Reiki Teaching Manual: A Companion Guide for Reiki

Healers
Diane Stein
Reiki, A Way of Life

Patricia Rose Upczak
Reiki Healing Hands (Audio CD)

Anuvida & Nik Tyndall
Hon sha Ze Sho Nen (Audio CD)

Weave
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Coming Soon from Mystic Wolf

Media!
Robert Morgen's Kundalini Awakening Home Study
Course
The Inner Power Instructors Manual – A guide for

Meditation Teachers
Robert Morgen's Reiki I Home Study Course
You may contact Robert Morgen directly through the

contact form on his website at;
www.inner-power.net/contact
Websites
The Inner Power Blog

www.Inner-Power.net
Inner Power Online Community

www.inner-power.net/community
Mantak Chia’s Universal Tao Website

www.universal-tao.com/
1% for Inner Peace Blog

www.PerfectInnerPeace.com
The Inner Power Radio Show

www.blogtalkradio.com/inner-power
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About the Author

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Introduction: WHO Do You Want To BE? ................................ viii

Part 1: Preparation ............................................................................. 1

Chapter 1: Understanding Enlightenment ...................................... 2

Chapter 2: What is Inner Power?..................................................... 6

Chapter 3: In a Perfect World ......................................................... 13

Chapter 4: Creating Your World .................................................. 20

Chapter 5: Kundalini Basics ........................................................... 37

Chapter 6: Closer to Bliss ............................................................. 48

Chapter 7: Introduction to Meditation .......................................... 81

Chapter 8: Basic Meditation Exercises .......................................... 91

Chapter 9: Energy Safety and Troubleshooting ........................... 101

Chapter 10: Healing ...................................................................... 105

Part 2: Awakening Your Power ...................................................... 112

Chapter 11: Complete Self Acceptance ......................................... 113

Chapter 12: The Chakras .............................................................. 116

Chapter 13: Advanced Meditation Exercises .............................. 142

Chapter 14: Feeling and Seeing Energy ........................................ 150

Chapter 15: Damo’s Cave ..............................................................155

Chapter 16: Opening the Chakras ............................................... 159

Chapter 17: Finding your ‘Inner Gods’........................................ 166

Chapter 18: Travels in the Void .................................................... 174

Chapter 19: Becoming Your True Self .......................................... 177

Chapter 20: Living in Abundance ................................................ 200

Chapter 21: Death and Reincarnation ......................................... 209

Chapter 22: Becoming Who We’re Supposed to Be ...................... 213

Chapter 23: Setting Boundaries for the Universe ......................... 219

Chapter 24: 1% for Inner Peace ..................................................... 223

Chapter 25: How to Achieve Inner Peace .....................................226

Chapter 26: Giving Without Sacrifice .......................................... 231

Chapter 27: Living The Law of Reversal ...................................... 235

Chapter 28: Drawing and Sending Energy ................................... 237

Chapter 29: Witches, Druids and Shamans .................................242

Chapter 30: Putting it all Together ...............................................250

Resource List for Inner Power ....................................................... 252

Introduction: WHO Do You Want

Chapter 1: Understanding Enlightenment

The Benevolent Universe

The Magnificence of the Human Being

ALL Stress is Based in Fear

True Enlightenment is simply a matter of how many of those

Bringing it all Together

Chapter 2: What is Inner Power?

It’s not about order to use your energy most

Programming Your System

Some Keys to the Program

The Human Energy System