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CHAKRAS

I have found the ideas behind the Chakra system to be helpful in understanding what's going on with my body physically, mentally, and spiritually.  This one page of notes I took long ago has served me very well on my healing journey.  There are seven Chakras or 'energy centers' that correspond to different aspects of the body as noted below.  

My notes from the book, Chakra Healing, by Rosalyn L. Bruyere  1990

1.  RED - Physical Body Sense

Chakra Location:  at the perineium.

Prime body part: Pelvis.

All nerve endings connect to here.  Survival needs, pleasure, and pain are all located here.

Psychological growth stage:  4 years old - self separate from others.

 

2. ORANGE - Emotional Body

Chakra Location:  below the belly button.

Prime body part: Intestines.

Where all feelings are processed.

Psychological growth stage:  7 years old - want others to feel as they feel.

 

3. YELLOW - Mental Body

Chakra Location:  above the belly button and below the V in the rib cage.

Prime body part:  Spleen, stomach, kidneys, adrenals.

Where all thoughts, opinions, and judgements originate and are controlled.

Psychological growth stage:  12 years old - digesting data.

 

4. GREEN - Astral Body

Chakra Location:  to the right of the actual heart.

Prime body part:  Thymus, Auto-immunity.

Bridges real world and the spirit/dream world.

Psychological growth stage:18 years old - consider other before selves, make no decision without considering higher ideals and dreams.

 

5. BLUE - Eupheric Body

Chakra Location:  over the throat.

Prime body part:    Thyroid (controls growth and metabolism).

Controls time and speech.

Beginning of god-like abilities.  "Knowing the right time for things".

Psychological growth stage:28-35 years old - idealistic especially in regards to justice and truth, concept of perfection.

 

6. INDIGO/VIOLET - Celestial Body

Chakra Location:  on forehead, between the eyes and slightly above them.

Prime body part: Pinneal Gland (a light sensitive neurotransmitter).

Holds your individual future and is our access to understanding the future.

Realm of light that allows us to "see the Light" from a clairvoyance perspective.  Home of insight, inspiration, intuition, psychic phenomena, visualization. "The Third Eye".

Psychological growth stage:  45-50 years old - wiser self.

 

7. WHITE (Rainbow, all colors) - Catheric Body

Chakra Location: on the crown of the head; ie. on top of head even with the ears.

Prime body part:  N/A.

The record of your whole spiritual life is here.  Oneness with God is here.

Psychological growth stage::  Ageless - higherself, most like god we can be at this time.

 

How Big is a Blood Cell?

This is a must-see interactive "slide" for any one with blood cells - that means you!. . . it takes you from the size of 12 point font down to a picometer (that's 1/trillionth of a meter)!  And along the way you pass by a blood cell, e. coli bacteria, the flu virus, an anti-body, etc.!  (Hint: move the tab below the picture).

I'm in love with this creation:    Cell Size and Scale

Thank you University of Utah!

Bio-resonance - History

One of the first 'Bio-resonance' machines was created in the 1950's by German Engineers who heard about what the Chinese were doing with Acupuncture points.  Acupuncture is based on stimulating or opening the body's energy points.  The smart German engineers said 'Where there is energy it can be measured'.  And they set about creating a machine to measure these supposed energy points on the body.  They were successful and found that acupuncture points have several times more electrical activity than a point on the skin only a fraction of an inch away.

Today the machines have evolved and many companies make their own versions for different purposes from stimulating the acupuncture points (electronic acupuncture) to using the device for overall health screenings (bio-resonance testing, electronic homeopathy).  It is the use of bio-resonance to improve a person's health that intrigues me.

NMD

Naturopathic Medical Doctor - NMD - This term logically fits for US or Canadian Medical students graduating from Medical School at one of the 6 accredited Naturopathic Medical Schools in North America (1 more school is in the process of accreditation).  When students graduate from these four year schools they have the same education and training as a Family Physician (MD) with additional training/education on multiple naturopathic modalities.  The graduates can then take State Board Exams to get licenses in states that license ND's or NMD's. If a state does not license ND/NMDs then the person is limited in what they can do for patients but they can immediately go into practice.   CNME (the board that the US Dept. of Education recognizes to accredit Naturopathic Medical Schools) explains that anyone graduating with a 'Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine' degree can call themselves an "NMD".  However, only the state of AZ currently confers a medical license termed "NMD".

WARNING:  If a state does not license ND/NMDs then any one can legally call themselves a Naturopathic Doctor (ND or NMD) no matter what training they have or lack there of!! There are lots of ND degrees for sale - patient beware! 

For more links and information on accreditation, one of the accredited schools, SCNM, has a great summary page.