The Chakras – Key To Life

I own a book titled “The Body Is The Barometer Of The Soul”, by Annette Noontil (14th printing 2006, Brumby Pub). I sometimes think to take it out if I experience a health issue, or car issue. I lead a very busy life. My husband and I run our businesses together and recently it has seemed like we require super human strength! When did what we both love become so hard?

Today I was stopped in my tracks. I was struck with an optical migraine, and the only thing I could do was let it run its course. If you do not know what this is, this is what happened. The light penetrated my eyes so that I could not see. When I closed my eyes and sought darkness to sooth myself, the lightening-like shapes continued inside my closed eyes, and the headache began. The cause is a combination of having light coloured eyes, and stress. That’s what the optometrist says. According to Annette’s book what happened to me was due to the following:

“…not liking the way you do things…
“…you are being a perfectionist…
“…saying you cannot perform what needs to be done…
“…Not outflowing what you know…
“…Thinking that good things do not happen to me…” (pp 101)

Annette Noontil is not the only Author to write about the correspondences between physical health and our emotional and material states. Carolyn Myss is famous for her work in providing answers to medical questions her allopathic partners cannot. (Read “Anatomy Of The Spirit”, by Carolyn Myss and all her following books.) Crowley in the 19th Century, and before him the Kabbalists and Astrologers were all involved in elucidating for us the very real relationship between Body, Mind, Emotion and Spirit. My site chakra-spinach.com is based on this same knowledge.

Knowing this stuff does not make you immune from living it. What it does do is provide you with the tools to understand and work with yourself.

Buddhists do not think much of their bodies and many religions place the body in lesser categories than soul or intellect. Yet every one of us knows deep down that our souls, our spirits and our intellects are all affected by our body. And visa versa. The Chakra system is based on the Body’s inclusion wholistically.

When you are in bed with a flu how ready are you intellectually to sit for an exam? When you are low in iron how emotionally ready for happiness are you? Most of life’s experiences are chemical reactions.

To sit under a tree and starve yourself to discover the Universe will induce a different experience to a meal high in sugars. Neither is healthy, and any spiritual information discovered this way must be bias, serving only a piece of a perspective at best, that must be further researched under better controlled conditions.

When I experienced my optical migraine today I could have scanned my chakras for visual symbols, I could have thrown a Tarot card, or checked my Astrology chart. I could have taken paracetamol and slept the pain away and done nothing else. I did take paracetamol and sleep until my body calmed and the pain was gone. Then I referred to the work of someone who has written down their studies. I benefited from Annette’s work. I listened to her when I have not been listening to myself, until my BODY forced me to STOP! Annette’s outflowing of her own information and findings helped me today.

Life is about a journey in, out, through, and around, many pathways. Ill health is as much a journey as traveling to another country. The Life Journey we take becomes illuminated and joyfully lived when we are AWARE. I did not like what happened to myself today. I cried as my husband guided me to the car and drove me home. He asked me: “What’s going on in your head?” It seemed to be the strangest question to be asking someone with a migraine! But it was the best question to ask me. I didn’t want to answer him because my thoughts were those of helplessness, guilt that he had to work twice as hard because i was out for the day, and grief that my real work – this website and all that goes with it – as not being nurtured and grown by me because I could not find the ways to make the rest of our world right!

“…not liking the way you do things…”
“…saying you cannot perform what needs to be done…
“…not outflowing what you know…”

Out of today this article is being written, with pen and paper because my eyes are still too strained to face the light of my laptop. The difference between writing what you Live in the moment and writing from memories or formed arguments is sometimes the difference between Life and Death. Life is full of signs, confirmations and miracles. Often our bodies’ ill health leads us towards better health!

For a while now I have viewed our other businesses as blocks to my creativity when really they are gifts towards it. And just like those who leave the Body out of the equation of Life, I have been Guilty (and feeling every bit of it) of leaving out the work I perform with my partner as contributing to what I have to offer as part of my own Outflow.

Today I am grateful for Annette Noontil’s outflowing. Tomorrow you may be grateful for mine. Or I may be grateful for yours. The lesson of the Chakra System is a continuous flow – in and out – sharing – seeking health – but not resenting ill health. A colourful dance of Life!

Mena Baines ©2009