THE Seven center (chakra) system

Each center represents an area of human activity
The goal is to bring each center into loving and healthy harmony with yourself and the world

The Seven Center Holistic Health System

Using the Seven Center System, we can understand and master all areas of human experience:

The Seven Center System is derived from a logical integration of the seven chakra system with modern biological and psychological research.

THE PATTERN OF HUMAN LIFE: THE SEVEN CHAKRAS OF THE HUMAN FORM

"You can't change the fundamental pattern and process of human life - but you can understand it and thereby accept and manage it in a responsible, wise, and mature manner."

The pattern and process of human life is represented by the seven center system.

The seven center system serves as a comprehensive system of Holistic Life Management.

The chakra system serves us as a symbolic representation of the seven main arenas of human life. The seven main areas of each person's union with Life.

Holistic human activity is an attempt to fulfill and satisfy the expressions of the seven centers so that we experience successful and balanced interaction with every area of human life - holistic health.

Each "chakra" (center of life activity) performs various life functions which, when combined successfully, produce the workings of a healthy and holistic human being.

UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN FORM

By understanding and using the holistic seven chakra system we gain more control of our mind and our life.

We can learn to choose the types of connections/relationships that we make with other people and things.
We can choose when to connect, when not to, and at what intensity.
We can choose holistic health in all areas of our life.
We can quickly understand and interpret all of life's activities as expressions of the seven centers.
We can learn how to live a balanced, enjoyable, useful and conscious life.

THE SEVEN NATURAL DRIVES OF EACH CHAKRA

Holistic health concerns the healthy and appropriate pacifying and satisfying of each of the major seven drives (areas of activity) of the human form.

CHAKRA ONE: Base/root chakra. The drive for physical health, security, and comfort.
CHAKRA TWO: Sacral chakra. The drive for a satisfying, pleasurable sex life and reproduction.
CHAKRA THREE: Solar plexus chakra. The drive to take an active role on the world stage.
CHAKRA FOUR: Heart chakra. The drive to love and be loved.
CHAKRA FIVE: Throat chakra. The drive to communicate and be creatively expressive.
CHAKRA SIX: Brow chakra. The drive to use the intellect and imagination in a constructive way.
CHAKRA SEVEN: Crown chakra. The drive to transcend the body/mind and to realize the mystery of Existence.

Throughout the growth and development stages of the individual's lifetime, each center (chakra) becomes naturally active (awakened).

If we do not understand the functioning of the seven centers, then we will not understand our life.

If we do not understand the seven centers then we may become confused, irrationally fearful, and feel deep underlying and seemingly inexplicable discontent as these different areas of our life awaken and new drives need to be pacified.

When we don't understand things then we have the tendency to repress that area of life, and this leads to discontent, depression, and dis-ease - we feel uncomfortable and unskilled about exploring and pacifying that area of our life.

For example, the awakening of the crown chakra is accompanied by the drive to explore and pacify the question "Who am I?" and eventually leads to realization of the mystery of Existence. If we don't understand the appearance of this drive (center seven) in our life, then we may feel very uncomfortable about the sudden persistent need to pacify this drive.

By using HELM, you will understand the human experience and be able to offer many skillful services to others - including Holistic Life Management.

ATTITUDES TO AVOID IN THE SEVEN CHAKRAS

CHAKRA ONE: Base/root chakra. Refrain from greed, miserliness, and unnecessary hoarding. Refrain from physically damaging and unhealthy behaviors. Refrain from clinging to bodily life. Refrain from selfish attachment to the material world.
CHAKRA TWO: Sacral chakra. Refrain from selfish lust for sexual and sensual pleasure. Refrain from sexual misconduct. Refrain from addiction to sensual pleasure. Refrain from nurturing disappointment. Refrain from selfish attachment to sex and sensual pleasure.
CHAKRA THREE: Solar plexus chakra. Refrain from envy and jealousy towards others. Refrain from damaging, unhealthy, and antisocial behavior. Refrain from sloth. Refrain from nurturing anger and frustration. Refrain from hyper-activity. Refrain from egotistical and selfish abuse of power. Refrain from selfish attachment to life's activities.
CHAKRA FOUR: Heart chakra. Refrain from hatred. Refrain from nurturing grief and sorrow. Refrain from harmful behavior. Refrain from selfish attachment to love.
CHAKRA FIVE: Throat chakra. Refrain from unnecessary harmful and negative communications. Refrain from unpleasant and harmful creativity. Refrain from selfish attachment to communication and creativity.
CHAKRA SIX: Brow chakra. Refrain from cooperation with negative and unpleasant thought-forms. Refrain from over-intellectualizing life. Refrain from selfish attachment to the intellect and thought-forms.
CHAKRA SEVEN: Crown chakra. Refrain from attachment to the body and mind. Refrain from losing contact with or forgetting about the reality of the Mystery of Existence.

the seven CENTERS ARE THE Central teachings OF all HOLISTIC Life Management Systems

For example:

Yoga.
Taoism.
Tai Chi.
Buddhism.
Western Alchemical Tradition.
modern psychology.
Gurdjieff.
Rudolph Steiner.
Sufism.
Osho.
The Christian Sacraments.
The Kabbalah.
The Seven Rays.
The Celtic Cross
The Gnostic Tradition.
The True Teachings of Christ.

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT V'S STAGNATION AND RETARDATION

The contemporary western medical and psychological model focuses mainly on the development of the body and the intellect, but the functions of a human being are more than just these two aspects. Human beings have seven major areas of functioning which are represented by the seven chakra system. Growth and development, or stagnation and retardation, can occur in one or more of the chakras. This is something that the contemporary western medical model often overlooks.

LEARNING TO MASTER OUR SEVEN CHAKRAS

Having become aware of the existence of the seven chakras of the human experience and the area of life that each one represents we now need to learn how to master their experiences.

The first lesson is to learn how to ground ourselves via a strong connection with the base chakra. This is an absolute primary necessity for successful spiritual progress - especially in this age of overwhelming audio and visual media, and easy access to powerful drugs. It is too easy to become an ungrounded space-cadet who is overwhelmed by the seemingly endless choice of interesting and absorbing media, such as television and computer applications.
Secondly, we need to learn how to center ourselves in the spiritual heart center which is the actual location of the embodied soul.
Third, we need to learn how to be in control of chakras 1,2,3,5, and 6 - the worldly chakras.
Fourth, we need to learn how to form a private, independent, and enquiring relationship with the seventh chakra; Transcendent and Spiritual consideration and experiences.

NON-PHYSICAL INTERDEPEDENCE OF SOULS ON EARTH

Not only are we all connected physically be our actions and their consequences, but all souls currently embodied here in this world are also connected to one another in a network of non-physical (extra-sensory) interdependence. This network is created by the connectivity of souls by the chakras of each embodied soul. This is how psychic and extra-sensory perception (ESP/siddhis) operates. This connectivity also extends to other planes, realms, dimensions, like the spiritual worlds. It is from the spiritual planes that mediums channel messages to and from this world. It is also how psychic-channels tune into information that is required to be grounded in this world via books and other media.

CHAKRA HEALTH AND HEALING

We may also need to heal our life. The process of looking at our experiences of and attitudes to each of the seven centers and replacing negative attitudes with more positive one. We will need to understand and heal past traumatic and negative experiences; for example - the family, romantic partners, teachers, and other important relationships.

Healing the seven centers is a process of challenging and sorting out our inherited and conditioned attitudes to the aspects of life that each center represents.

The human aura

The human aura is the psycho-emotional, bioenergetic field surrounding a person that represents the sum total of the attitudes of the soul towards the seven centers (chakras) and life.

Aura is a traditional term for the protective psychic and spiritual energy fields that surround and penetrate the physical body. Historically, artists depict halos around the heads of individuals to denote their spirituality. Biblically, writers refer to the raiment or countenance of light in an attempt to describe the field of spiritual energy around angels, men, and women. It is from this invisible atmosphere that we receive our first impression of people. We use common-sense terms such as blue mood , red with anger, green with envy, full of energy, or radiant beauty. Such terms are similar to how individuals with spiritual sight describe the aura. From this intuitive nature, we form impressions and experience emotions and feelings regarding them and ourselves. Quantum physics describes the universe as energy. Psychology, Eastern therapy, and complementary medicine have terms for life as energy. Yoga psychology views the aura as an energy field surrounding the body, interacting through spiritual and psychological levels via structures called chakras.

So we may conclude that the aura is an energy field that surrounds the physical body. It encircles each of us as the sun's rays encircle the sun or the halo that surrounds the moon. The appearance of the aura, whether attractive or repulsive, depends on one's physical health, mental attitudes, and spiritual development. The human aura is a dynamic matrix that includes the physical, emotional, and mental-spiritual aspects of self. The aura is the self as energy. All the contributing factors in our daily life register in our aura as colors, lines, dots, emanations, and vibrations. Every one of us is different, and our hidden selves are expressed through the aura. Those individuals who live on a strictly physical, mental, and material level have an entirely different emanation than those individuals who are intellectual and spiritual.

THE KABBALAH

Above is a diagram of the Hebrew "Tree of Life", The Kabbalah, and also you will notice The Seven Chakras, and The Symbol of The Cross. These three symbolic systems are all mapped onto one diagram and this one diagram can be used as our 'Generic Template of Human Life.'

Kabbalah Sefirah	Sefirah Attributes.	Christian Sacrament	Chakra Name and Number.	Stage of Individual Development	Approximate Age when the Stage occurs.
Shekhinah.	Creation	Baptism	1. Mooladhara.	Birth and Infancy.	1 - 2
Yesod.	Foundation.	Communion	2. Swadhisthana.	Child and Juvenile	2 - 11
Hod and Nezah.	Majesty and Endurance	Confirmation	3. Manipura.	Adolescent.	11 - 18
Tif'eret.	Beauty	Marriage	4. Anahata	Young Adult.	18 - 28
Gevurah and Hesed	Judgement and Mercy	Confession (out with the old)	5. Visuddha	Early Responsible Adulthood.	28 - 35
Binah and Hokhmah	Understanding and Wisdom	Ordination	6. Ajna	Developed Responsible Adulthood.	35 - 55
Keter	Spiritual Realisation and Ultimate Peace	Extreme Unction	7. Sahasrara	Mature Years.	55 - 75

With this diagram we can understand human life and The Stages of Individual Development that we find in modern psychology. The Seven Chakras are also the central teaching of The Seven Rays as taught by Alice Bailey.

The core teachings of All Spiritual and Psychological Systems are also represented on this diagram.

The Chakras and The Christian Sacraments

It is no coincidence that the words "chakra" and "sacra" are almost identical because they are referring to the same thing - the chakras!

Sacrament and Chakra Number.	Stage of Individual Development	Approximate Age when the Stage occurs.
1. BAPTISM	Birth and Infancy.	0 - 2
2.COMMUNION	Childhood	2 - 11
3. CONFIRMATION	Adolescence.	11 - 18
4. MARRIAGE	Young Adult.	18 - 28
5. CONFESSION	Early Responsible Adulthood.	28 - 35
6. ORDINATION	Developed Responsible Adulthood.	35 - 55
7. EXTREME UNCTION	Mature Years.	55 - 75