Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have. Every single religion affirms this fact. All forms of mental or spiritual healing promise the same thing. Even psychoanalysis and other forms of therapy employ this healing power: The insight and understanding that effective therapy can bring releases tensions of various kinds, and through this release the healing power latent within and natural to the human system operates more freely.

The Centers of our mental and spiritual Nature.

Just as the teeth, stomach, liver, and intestines are mechanisms devised and evolved by nature for the assimilation and digestion of food, there are similar centers in the other components of our nature. The mouth receives food, digestion occurs in the stomach and small intestines, and there is an apparatus for rejecting waste products. In our psychic nature also are focal centers for the absorption of spiritual power from the universe without, and there are other centers for its distribution and circulation.

The dynamic energy and power entering us from without is not uniform or alike in its vibratory rate. It may be of too high voltage, so to speak, for us to readily endure. Within us, therefore, is a certain psychic apparatus hereby various cosmic currents of energy may be assimilated and digested, their voltage becoming stepped down or adjusted to the human level. The process of becoming aware of the psychic apparatus, ad using the energy it generates, is an integral part of this healing system.

There are five major spiritual energy centers. Since we must name them and identify them in some way, here we go. The first is Spirit, and the succeeding ones Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. These centers are not physical in nature and position– though there may be parallels with our physical organs and glands. These organs exist in a subtler spiritual or psychic part of our nature. Consider these as symbols or realities–great, redeeming, and saving symbols.

Under certain conditions we may becomes aware of them in very much the same way that we may become aware of different organs in our physical bodies. We often speak of reason as being situated in the head, emotion in the heart, and instinct in the belly; there exists a similar correspondence between these centers and various parts of the body.

There are three principal means for us to become aware of these centers, and awaken them from their dormant state so that they may function properly. The means are thought, sound, and color. First, through our thoughts, we concentrate on the assumed position of these centers, one by one. Then we make the sound of certain names, which are to be considered as corresponding vibratory rates to be intoned and vibrated. Finally, each center is visualized as having a particular color and shape.

The combination of these three things gradually awakens the centers from their dormant states. Over time, they become stimulated, each functioning according to its own nature, and they pour forth into the body and mind a stream of highly spiritualized energy and power. Ultimately, when their operation become habitual and stabilized, the spiritual power they generate may be directed by will to heal various ailments and diseases both of a physical and psychological nature.

First of all, the position of the centers as shown in the picture must be memorized. They are then to be stimulated into activity while either sitting upright or while lying down flat on the back in a perfectly relaxed state.

Then imagine there is a ball or sphere of brilliant white light above the crown of your head. Do not force the imagination to visualize the sphere of light, for this only results in the development of neuromuscular tension, and defeats our end. Let it be done quietly and easily. If the mind wanders, as indeed it will, wait a moment or to and gently lead it back. At the same time, vibrate or intone a sound. You have several choices here:

  1. You can simply hum a pitch that seems to resonate, as closely as possible, in the light of your center. Or you can resonate the pitch in your throat enter, and direct it mentally to the center of your choice.
  2. You can intone the word from the Judiac-Christian mystical tradition that is appropriate to that center. For the first center, the word to vibrate is Eheieh,  pronounced Eh-heh-yeh. 
  3. You can chant an English equivalent of the ancient word. For the first center, the words to chant are I am.
  4. You can meditate upon each center, and discover the words or sounds that have power and meaning for you