Mini-course Learn the Laying on of Hands Day 5 - The Navel Chakra — YouTube from the CEC Library

This is the fifth day of the course "Learn the Laying on of Hands." We will talk about the navel chakra. To carry out laying on of hands, it is essential to have knowledge about energy and chakras. Our goal is to make it easier to handle the energies that surround us, since everything around us is energy. At St. Damian, we look for a place to attune the navel chakra with the environment, but the region is more associated with the crown chakra than with the emotional ones.

Look at the landscape: it is a place of peace and serenity, where we seek emotional and spiritual stability. Spiritual stability depends on emotional stability. On Earth, we create descriptions of reality for the unknown, and over the course of our incarnations we learn and create complex emotional situations because of fears and threats that we invent. This leads to syndromes such as panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, and manias.

Here we can discuss spirituality calmly. The navel chakra defines our ego and individuality, which are not shaped by competence but by fears. The ego should be an identity, not a set of defenses. The navel chakra is reactive, like the base and spleen chakras, reacting instinctively to situations. Above the heart chakra, the chakras are more stable and do not react to the environment, providing inner calm.

The navel chakra reacts to the other person, often in a way that is not positive, generating confrontation instead of sharing. The world is one of relationships, and we learn from the differences in life experiences. The navel chakra reflects those differences, manifesting personality characteristics such as aggressiveness, passivity, and assertiveness, which vary in intensity.

Those characteristics are important in laying on of hands, because we donate energies that reflect who we are. The energies do not come pure from the helpers; they pass through us and are codified by our frequencies. The level of consciousness and the emotional characteristics influence the energy we transmit. There are differences in energy based on the person's intention and maturity. A stable environment helps in laying on of hands, but it is crucial that the energy accomplish what is needed. If someone has a problem in an organ, a person who works with the nearby chakra can be more effective in the healing. Laying on of hands circulates energies and eliminates blocks, both fundamental to health. Diseases are stagnant energies, blocks created over the course of life.

The way to remove blocks involves not only understanding through therapy and dialogue, but also the movement of our energies. Shall we focus on our navel chakra? Imagine that you have decided to do a laying on of hands on someone. When you look at that person, you remember unpleasant experiences with someone similar. This can disturb your energy, affecting the quality of your assistential work. This is not meant to make you despair at the number of things to learn, but rather to let you know what to avoid and what to improve.

Perfection in laying on of hands does not exist. What we can do is our best, the result of intention, effort, and knowledge. Accepting each person we meet is crucial, without excuses or justifications. Forgiveness often implies judgment. Instead, we must understand that each one has their own difficulties and is on their own path. If someone seeks your help, it is because they need it.

When doing laying on of hands, we are not superior. We are only fulfilling our role of helping our neighbor. This requires a well-resolved ego, so that we can act without anger or bitterness, recognizing that life is more complex than we can understand. Great historical figures were humble. True spiritual evolution makes us perceive our smallness. Despite our technological advances, there are still many mysteries, including in human relationships and in nature. Our ego is shaped by our family and social origin, and questioning it requires transformative events.

I suggest that you observe your inner discomforts, but know that many of them are in the unconscious, invisible to our ego. This affects our energies. The ego has conscious and unconscious parts, and both influence our emotions and energies. We often act in an automatic and reactive way. Euphoria, for example, is an energy that can be used both for good and for ill. Energies from sexual relations and from hatred are similar. We need to understand ourselves better, because we frequently confuse what is the same with what is different.

I want you to gain clarity, not to become confused. When doing laying on of hands, it is essential to know who you are and what you can do. We are at St. Damian, a place built by many hands and minds. When goals are shared, the results appear. We are relational consciousnesses, and life is a referential manifestation. The other person is an essential part of our existence.

Let us observe something important about the navel chakra, which is crucial in laying on of hands. Look at the orange trees, tangerine trees, and lemon trees ahead. This is life, and laying on of hands must carry life. To carry life, we need to be life. That idea is really beautiful. The ideal energy that each of us should process is something that even a plant, without movement, is able to produce. Plants generate things so good that we humans cannot. This is something for us to reflect on. Listen to the birds.

Returning to the navel chakra: this is the chakra of impulsion and aggressiveness, where we confront the other person. It exposes who we really are. The difficulties that arise in the base chakra and in the spleen chakra are manifested through it. The navel chakra is reactive, and our manifestations tend to be impulsive. The human impulse lacks discernment, being the result of automatization and conditioning. We live in a trained way: our greetings and gestures are conditioned. This is not necessarily good or bad, but it creates limits that we need to review in order to improve our path.

To improve our manifestations, it is necessary to modify our behavior through constant learning. Decisions grounded in enlightenment are more conscious and free of guilt. When something becomes clear, the decision also becomes conscious. The navel chakra connects us with the other person and with the sharing of life. At the moment of laying on of hands, we must not mystify the act. The energy of the universe is a universal good, and laying on of hands is everyone's right. Extending your hand to another person must be a gesture of thankfulness, not of arrogance or power. Power is far from the donations made with an open heart. It is important to live without prejudices and without nuances of power or submission. At the end of life, we take only what we are.

Taking care of our self is essential so that we can help our neighbor with affection and feeling. This makes a great difference. I remember a Japanese young man who, about 15 or 20 years ago, in a church, did laying on of hands with one hand over the person’s head, with seriousness and focus, surrounded by helpers of light. He really wanted the other person to be well, which requires getting rid of the ego. Healing is not about saying "I healed you," but about opening the heart and donating. We are only tools of the spiritual world and of the energies. The grade we give ourselves should be modest if our heart is truly open. This is our navel chakra, addressed in a broad way.