Anything Can Be Healed

The Body Mirror System of Healing with Chakras

Martin Brofman

• Publisher: Findhorn Press
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781620558973
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Alternative & Complementary Medicine

A new edition of the classic practical manual for utilizing the chakra system as a body/mind interface for effective energetic healing • Explores the physical body as a mirror of our consciousness, with symptoms reflecting inner stresses in our emotional being, our mind, and/or our higher self • Offers an in-depth explanation of different aspects of each chakra, alongside a chakra meditation and practical energy exercises • Includes color reference charts of the chakras and their associated vibrations, systems, layers of the aura, senses, and areas of consciousness Drawing on his own profound healing experience as a young man, Martin Brofman developed a system of healing that effectively and seamlessly blends Western psychology and Eastern philosophies: the Body Mirror System. He explains how the chakra system connects to both mind and body to form a body/mind interface, allowing us to read the physical body as a mirror of the consciousness within, track the route from symptom to cause, and then work on releasing the causes on all levels. Brofman shows how specific tensions or symptoms on the physical level reflect corresponding tensions in one's consciousness about specific issues in life--the inner cause to the outer symptom. The author explains how healing the symptom needs to involve not only releasing the tension on the physical level, but also letting go of the stressful way of interacting with the environment. Thus, the process of healing always implies a process of transformation. Within the concepts of his Body Mirror System, Brofman explores the chakras and their role in the body, including their associated vibrations, parts of the body, senses, layers of the aura, and areas of consciousness. He explains how to clear and connect the chakras, how to connect to the cosmos through the chakras, and how engaging with thought forms, time travel, and past lives can assist in healing sessions. Discussing the healing of others as well as self-healing, Brofman describes how to heal with chakras, thought forms, white light, and love, and how to perform distance healing. He provides practical energy exercises and chakra meditations, allowing the reader to imminently experience the healing energy in their bodies and prepare for a healing session. He also includes color reference guides, such as a chakra healing chart. Deeply examining the multilayered elements of the healing process, including transformation, this classic healing guide serves as a practical introduction to energy healing as well as a healer's tutorial and reference book.

SECTION VI

Appendices

APPENDIX 1

The Chakra Healing Guide

The Red Chakra

Also known as: Root Chakra, Security Center, Muladhara.

Location: The perineum, the point between the anus and the sex organs.

Parts of the body: The parts of the body associated with this chakra include the lymph system and the skeleton system (teeth and bones), the prostate gland in men, the sacral plexus, and the parts of the body and functions within the body controlled by the sacral plexus. These include the bladder and the elimination system, and the lower extremities (the legs, and the different parts of the legs – the feet, ankles, etc.).

Note: When we say that this chakra is associated with a particular system, we mean that something that affects that entire system can be traced to tension in this chakra. For example, something that affects the entire skeleton system, like systemic arthritis, can be traced to tension in the Red Chakra, but a broken arm, which is a skeletal problem in a particular part of the body, rather than throughout the entire body, would be traced instead to tension in the chakra controlling that particular part of the body, in this case, the arm, and that would be related to the Blue Chakra.

Within the endocrine system, the Red Chakra is associated with the adrenal glands. Technically, the secretions of the adrenal glands can be associated with both the Red Chakra and the Yellow Chakra, but the fact that they are triggered by a threat to survival shows their primary association to be with the Red Chakra.

Sense: The physical sense associated with this chakra is the sense of smell, the basic sense associated with survival. Therefore, the organ associated with the sense of smell, the nose, is also associated with the Red Chakra.

Consciousness: The Red Chakra is associated with the parts of consciousness concerned with security, survival, and trust—feeling safe and secure. For most people, the parts of their lives concerned with security have to do with their relationship with money, their home, and their job. Being able to feel “at home” as well as being present in the here and now, are also associated with this chakra.

Element: The element associated with the Red Chakra is earth. The Red Chakra can therefore be said to reflect, among other things, our relationship with the earth, or how we feel about being on the earth.

The Red Chakra also reflects our relationship with our mother. In the traditional family structure, the mother provides the nourishment and a safe space for her child. The baby nursing at its mother’s breast makes certain decisions about the way things are (“There’s always abundance,” or “There’s never enough,” or “You have to fight to get what you want,” etc.). The relationship the baby has with its mother then sets the pattern for that person’s relationship with everything that represents security (home, and job, and money as security).

When we experience a sense of separation from our mother, not perceiving ourselves to be loved or nourished by her, we cut off our own roots with those perceptions, and create a blockage at the level of the Root Chakra, or Red Chakra. The effect, the way we experience this in our consciousness, is to have a filter of insecurity or fear through which we see the world, until we can again open to allow ourselves to be nourished by her love.

Other symptoms experienced by someone without roots can be not having a home, not feeling at home, not being grounded, not having their perceptions based on their personal experience in the physical world, and difficulty being present in the here and now.

When a person is looking at the world through the Red Chakra, the motivations in that moment have to do with security, survival, feeling safe, or meeting material needs. It can also be about seeking nourishment for the inner being, that is, not food, but rather that which gives you, the person inside your body, a sense of solidity and satisfaction.

When our primary motivating force in life is security, or survival, we can say that the Red Chakra is our home during that part of our life, and that from that chakra, we move our consciousness to the other chakras, depending on what is being thought about or felt in a particular moment. (The primary motivating force is defined as the basis from which all decisions are made, and as that which motivates the individual.)

When the Red Chakra is in its clear state, individuals are able to feel safe and at home, solid and grounded. They are able to feel present in their physical body, present in the here and now where they are, and able to function in the physical material world. They are able to trust their perceptions, and in general, do not have a problem with trust as a process.

Tension in the Red Chakra is experienced emotionally as insecurity. Additional tension there is experienced as fear. More tension there is experienced as a threat to survival. When the tension continues for a period of time, or to an extreme of intensity, the person creates a symptom in a part of the body or a function within the body associated with or controlled by the Red Chakra.

Therefore, any out-of-balance condition or symptom affecting parts of the body or functions within the body associated with the Red Chakra is reflecting tension in the person’s consciousness in the Red Chakra concerning security, survival, trust, willingness or ability to be nourished, and/or the relationship with the mother.

It must be emphasized here that the mother’s actions or way of being have nothing to do with the person’s symptoms. It is, rather, the way the individual has chosen to respond to the conditions in life that have resulted in the stress and tension. Two children in the same family, for example, may be experiencing the same external conditions, but responding differently, to their situation, so that one experiences symptoms, and the other does not.

We do not say that certain conditions cause certain symptoms. Rather, we say that given certain symptoms, we can understand the conditions that the person was experiencing with stress. If there is a problem with the Red Chakra on one side of the body or another, we examine that in terms of the polarity of the will side and the emotional side, or the male side and the female side. (As was previously mentioned, for those who were born right-handed, their right side is their will side. For those born left-handed, their left side is their will side.)

Thus, a problem with the will leg can be interpreted in terms of the effects of the symptoms. If someone needs to be supported (with crutches or a cane, for example), we can say that that describes what the person has been doing in their consciousness—needing and soliciting support for decisions, and not trusting their will. Such people decide to do something, but do not act on it until they have received enough support from others affirming that they have made the right decision.

If we describe the affected or blocked leg as the male leg, this can represent blocked trust (the aspect of the Red Chakra) in a male. If it is a male whose leg is affected, we can also describe the symptoms as reflecting non-trust in himself as a man.

If it is the emotional leg that is affected, we can say that this represents tension in the foundation of the emotions, or emotional dependency on someone else. Those affected make decisions designed to hold onto someone, rather than deciding what is best for themselves. Or, they can have experienced an emotional shock regarding Red Chakra issues of money, home, or job.

If we describe the leg as the female leg, it can represent blocked trust in a female. If it is a female whose female leg is affected, we can say that it can represent not trusting herself as a woman.

We can also read the symptoms in terms of what the person needs in order to return to balance. For example, if the person’s leg does not bend, and that affects mobility, we can say that they need, for their healing, more flexibility and freedom of movement.

If there is a problem with the kidneys, even though they are located at the level of the solar plexus, we consider them in their roles concerning the elimination system. Their location at the level we associate with perceptions of power or freedom (the Yellow Chakra) can be combined with the level we associate with trust (the Red Chakra), and we can read the symptom as insecurity concerning power (perceived lack of power, making oneself appear helpless) or as insecurity about freedom (perceived lack of freedom, feeling restricted).

We can also consider the function of the kidneys in reading the symptoms. The kidneys cleanse the blood of toxins. The blood represents the heart, or perceptions of love, and the toxins represent attitudes that interfere with the person’s perceptions of love. These have reached an intensity that threatens personal survival, and there is need for change. Such people need to allow the love around them to nourish them, releasing the attitudes that threaten their survival.

Allergies to substances we associate with mothering, such as milk and dairy products, or those that we associate with the earth, such as wheat products, and those allergies that affect the nose, such as hay fever, all reflect tensions in the Red Chakra, and in people’s relationship with their mother, in which they have been giving themselves reasons to keep themselves from being nourished. When these attitudes change, the symptoms can be released.

Anything can be healed.

The Orange Chakra

Also known as: Sensation Center, Spleen Chakra, Hara, Svadhistana.

Location: The center of the abdomen.

Parts of the body: The parts of the body associated with this chakra include the reproductive system, the sexual organs, the lumbar plexus, and the parts of the body and functions within the body controlled by the lumbar plexus, as well as those in the region of the abdomen.

The endocrine glands associated with this chakra are the gonads (the testes and the ovaries).

Sense: The physical sense associated with this chakra is the sense of taste, and the appetite. Therefore, the tongue as the organ of taste can be said to be associated with the Orange Chakra. This chakra is also associated with that aspect of the sense of touch having to do with sensations.

Consciousness: The Orange Chakra is associated with the parts of the consciousness concerned with food and sex, as well as with having children. When there is tension in the parts of the body controlled by this chakra, it reflects tension in the consciousness, an attachment or an aversion, concerning food or sex, or having children, or all of these. It may also reflect suppressed emotions about something that happened in the person’s life at the time the symptom appeared.

Element: The element associated with the Orange Chakra is water. The Orange Chakra, then, reflects the individual’s relationship with water. If there is a non-harmonious relationship with water (with swimming, or with being on a boat, for example), the individual’s relationship with water will reflect the relationship with the parts of consciousness that water represents, that is, food and sex.

When there is a symptom that results in the person’s inability to have children, we say that it begins with a decision made to not have children. This is because everything begins in our own consciousness, and the body carries out the decisions of the consciousness. Since we believe that anything can be healed, it is possible to reverse old decisions by acknowledging them, and make new ones, at deep levels of being, and then watch the body carry out these new decisions.

This chakra represents the communication between the body and the consciousness residing within. The body communicates what it wants, and what it needs. Its needs are communicated through appetite, so that if the body needs potassium, for example, on the physical level, it will communicate through the appetite a taste for a banana, or for another food containing potassium, and for as much of this food as the body needs. The inner being within the body can respond to this communication as it wishes.

The body is the vehicle for the consciousness, as an automobile is for the driver in it. If the automobile communicates through its instruments that it needs gasoline, the intell...

Table of contents

• Cover Image
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Table of Contents
• Foreword by Anna Parkinson
• Preface
• Section I. Orientation
• Section II. The Body Mirror System—Concepts and Tools
• Section III. How to Do It—Creation and Co-creation
• Section IV. Other Dimensions
• Section V. Energy Exercises and Meditation
• Section VI. Appendices
• Footnote
• List of Illustrations and Exercises
• Also by Martin Brofman
• Also of Interest
• About the Author
• About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
• Books of Related Interest
• Chakra Reference Chart
• Copyright & Permissions
• Index