Advanced Chakra Healing: Four Pathways to Energetic Wellness and Transformation

By Cyndi Dale

Remove Energy Blocks and Achieve True Healing through the Four Pathways

Join world-renowned energy healer and bestselling author Cyndi Dale as she provides a comprehensive guide to energy and chakra work using the four pathways healing system. The concepts and techniques of this potent approach are designed to be totally aligned with divine love so that you can achieve the awakened state that brings true healing.

Featuring nearly fifty hands-on exercises and a full-color insert, this book shows you how to negotiate the pathways—elemental, power, imaginal, and divine—through the subtle energy organs known as the chakras. You will explore the energy patterns and programs that underlie imbalances and illness and learn methods for energy mapping as well as Cyndi's signature Spirit-to-Spirit practice. The four pathways are interconnected and dynamic, so when you transform one you transform them all, leading to healing outcomes that are based in the unifying energy of love.

Foreword by Dr. (Doc) C. Michael Scroggins, PhD,CEng, CMarEng, FIMarEST

• Language: English
• Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
• Release date: Dec 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9780738765006

Cyndi Dale

Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, healer, and business consultant. Her books to-date includes the bestseller, The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy, published by Sounds True. The Subtle Body has garnered over 100 five-star reviews on Amazon.com and continually sells in the top place, leading millions of books. It has also won four internationally recognized Publisher's Awards.

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About the Author

Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, healer, and business consultant. She is president of Life Systems Services, through which she has conducted over 65,000 client sessions and presented training classes throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Cyndi is the author of many books, including The Complete Book of Chakra Healing, Llewellyn’s Little Book of Chakras, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Chakras, The Spiritual Power of Empathy, and Awaken Clairvoyant Energy. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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contents

List of Exercises

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface: The Limitations of Our Current Healing Approaches

Introduction

Part 1

The Four Pathways: The Bold Healing Paradigm

Chapter 1: The Four Pathways Healing Paradigm

Chapter 2: The Two Universes

Chapter 3: The Four Pathways of Healing

Part 2

Basics of Energy: Natural to Supernatural

Chapter 4: Scientific Understandings about Energy

Chapter 5: Supernatural Understandings about Energy

Chapter 6: Of Communication and Consciousness

Chapter 7: Energy Sources and Connections

Part 3

Energy Types and Bodies on the Pathways

Chapter 8: Categories of Energies on the Pathways

Chapter 9: Energy Types and Bodies on the Elemental Pathway

Chapter 10: Energy Types and Bodies on the Power Pathway

Chapter 11: Energy Types and Bodies on the Imaginal Pathway

Chapter 12: Energy Types and Bodies on the Divine Pathway

Chapter 13: Chakras and Auric Fields on All the Pathways

Part 4

Advanced Chakra Healing

Chapter 14: The Crystal Ball for Intuitive Mapping

Chapter 15: Protocols for Safe Intuition

Chapter 16: Locating Your Intuitive Center

Chapter 17: Your Intuitive Gifts and Change on the Pathways

Part 5

Creating Change on Each of the Four Pathways

Chapter 18: The Elemental Pathway: Uniting the Finite and the Infinite

Chapter 19: Healing on the Elemental Pathway: More Insights and How-To’s

Chapter 20: Energy Body Specifics on the Elemental Pathway

Chapter 21: Conduits of Light: The Power Pathway

Chapter 22: Moving Through the Mirror of the Imaginal Pathway

Chapter 23: Illumination: The Risen Heaven

Part 6

Energy Mapping on the Four Pathways

Chapter 24: Creating Energy Maps

Chapter 25: Specific Energy Maps

Glossary

Bibliography

Color Diagrams

exercises

The Intuitive Capability Quiz

Spirit-to-Spirit

Summoning Healing Streams of Grace to Create Boundaries

Getting Assistance from Beings in the Imaginal Realms

Five Steps for Grounding

Finding Your Intuitive Center

What’s Your Chakric Bloodline?

Easy Healing of a Chakra with Healing Streams

Sheltering Within an Angel’s Wings

The Chakra Circle Breath

Locating a Chakra with a Pendulum

Locating a Chakra with Your Hands

Locating a Chakra with Your Intuition

Figuring Out if You Are a Heyoke

Evaluating a Chakra By Using a Pendulum

Evaluating a Chakra By Using Your Intuition

Setting an Intention

Pinpointing the Causal Chakra

A Regression to Uncover the Causal Story Line

Bringing Healing Streams Through the Inner Wheel

Releasing Energetic Constructs

Exchanging Energy

Releasing Others’ Energies

Journeying

Using Neutrons-and Neutrality-to Clear an Issue

Healing Energetic Anxiety and Depression with Neutrons

Closing the Gap

The Kanda and Your Basic Life Energy Flow

Enabling a Healthy Serpent Kundalini

Evolving Your Energetic Intelligence

Freeing Yourself from Others’ Energies: The Transpersonal Process

Finding Your Fragments and Reclaiming Yourself

Healing a Challenging Feeling

Working the Subluminal and Supraluminal

Pulling Down Your Ninth Chakra Template

Setting Your Seals

Keying Into Your Personal Harmonic

Activating Your Golden Kundalini

Using the Imaginal Pathway Mirror

Working from the Middle of the Mirror

Manifesting Through the Imaginal Pathway

Using Silence on the Imaginal Pathway

Imaginal Storytelling Toward Healing

Forgiveness on the Divine Pathway

Healing Through Feeling

Healing a Belief on the Divine Pathway

Healing a Feeling on the Divine Pathway

illustrations

Figure 1: The Four Pathways and the Two Universes

Figure 2: The Twelve-Chakra System

Figure 3: The Hassidic Kabbalist Tree

Figure 4: The Imaginal Realms

Figure 5: The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Figure 6: Loop Quantum Gravity

Figure 7: The Twelve Auric Fields

Figure 8: The Chirals of DNA

Figure 9: Headaches

Figure 10: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Figure 11: Allergies

Figure 12: Overeating

Figure 13: Pain and Chronic Inflammation

Figure 14: Fibromyalgia

Figure 15: Arthritis

Figure 16: Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Figure 17: Depression

Figure 18: Osteoporosis

Figure 19: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

Figure 20: Cancer, General

Figure 21: Heart Disease

Figure 22: HIV Infection/AIDS

Figure 23: Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)

Figure 24: Addictions

Figure 25: Asthma

Figure 26: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Figure 27: Codependency (In Relationship with Alcoholic)

Figure 28: Energetic Anxiety and Depression

Figure 29: Financial Lack

Figure 30: Interactive Forces

Figure 31: Bacteria

Figure 32: Fungus (also Yeast and Mold)

Figure 33: Microbes—Parasites

Figure 34: Microbes—Viruses

Figure 35: Narcissism (and Their Codependents)

Figure 36: Phobias

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foreword

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I met Cyndi Dale seven years ago following a July 7, 2013, interview she did with George Noory on his show Coast to Coast AM . The episode was called Chakras and Energy Healing. Little did she know that mentioning her email address on the broadcast would lead to the two of us collaborating. It was all because of a statement she made: that subtle energy is hard to quantify.

I wrote to Cyndi, and we discussed how, in fact, using the research and development methods I was pioneering in the oil and gas industry, all energy actually can be quantified. We have been friends ever since, sharing moments of loss of family members and beloved pets, sharing laughter and tears that have strengthened our friendship. While Cyndi was working on the Complete Book of Chakras, I had the pleasure of providing a few details about the interaction of quantum physics and nature, which are one and the same.

In Cyndi’s new book, Advanced Chakra Healing, using her vast knowledge of energy healing, she eloquently maps out the four pathways healing system. Her understanding of how the process of healing occurs is extraordinary, but it is her ability to share and to bridge a range of levels of understanding that is truly amazing. Readers are led through a step-by-step process that allows them to capture the teachings at their own pace. Cyndi shares her experience by painting vivid pictures that readers can see and sense as chapter after chapter unfolds. Readers are left with fresh knowledge and a hunger for the next adventure in the fields of healing and energy arts that have been part of our world since the beginning of time.

In reading Advanced Chakra Healing, I learned from my friend and teacher, as I always do. Our backgrounds remain intertwined, weaving my knowledge of engineering, patent, and quantum realms together with Cyndi’s mastery, teaching, and understanding of how our lives revolve around nature. As she has so often pointed out, our walk together is a unique one because, from our different perspectives, we can both see that the metaphysical and scientific worlds are one.

Dr. (Doc) C. Michael Scroggins

PhD, CEng, CMarEng, FIMarEST

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preface

The Limitations of Our

Current Healing Approaches

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Why does the world require a fresh approach to healing? After all, there are many different forms of healing. The truth is that there are strengths and weaknesses to the current healing modalities, and the four pathways practitioner can benefit from understanding the other methods that exist. The knowledge conveyed in this special section provides context to the four pathways system.

Fundamentally, there are two contemporary approaches to healing. These are usually termed allopathic and holistic, though there are other names for each. While both tactics fall short, each also presents benefits.

Allopathic modalities are considered Western in nature, and holistic care aligns with Eastern thought. Allopathy is also called biomedicine, as well as conventional, mainstream, orthodox, and traditional medicine. Holistic therapies are also labeled alternative, integrative, functional, and complementary medicine. They include a component called energy medicine. In general, allopathic medicine seeks to destroy pathological invaders or suppress symptoms. Holistic therapies assert that a human is composed of a body, mind, and soul, and because of this, the causes of a problem might be found in a physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual component of the self—and the same is true of the solutions to a problem.

As we review the most fundamental allopathic and holistic philosophies and practices, I’ll point out their positive features but also showcase what each is missing. These comparisons will help me make the case for the need to address the assumptions underlying each model by presenting two different universes.

The Allopathic Healing Modality

As I’ve already suggested, allopathic medicine is largely based on Western principles. In allopathy, healthcare professionals usually employ medicines, radiation, or surgery to treat or repress the symptoms of disease or other challenges.

Even though allopathic approaches are often called traditional, the term is a misnomer. Traditional medicine constitutes whatever healing approach is indigenous to a group of people. And actually, these modalities are anchored in the holistic principles that have existed in most tribal and village communities across time. As the World Health Organization (WHO) reports, most traditional medicines not only maintain and improve health, but are used to prevent and treat both physical and mental issues. WHO adds that alternative or complementary medicines are merely those that aren’t integrated into a country’s traditions, but instead are used in a supplemental way.¹ These points mean that in many cultures, practices such as surgery would be considered complementary, not traditional.

Why am I making a fuss about the definition of allopathic medicine? Because I want you to know there are effective healing treatments beyond the narrow band of methods allopathy currently employs. In fact, there are philosophies that allopathic medicine ought to embrace but is currently ignoring.

At this moment, allopathic treatments are mainly destructive in nature—but there are two other allopathic philosophies that are dissimilar. The easiest way for me to illustrate this point is through the treatment of microbes, which allopathy seeks to destroy under the model approved by the American Medical Association (AMA). In fact, AMA-approved allopathic researchers most frequently describe microbes as pathogens or parasitic organisms.

Microbes, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa, do cause disease. But they also quite actively contribute to our well-being. In fact, most of the microbes in our microbiome or gut support health, assisting with concerns including immunity, digestion, weight control, and disease resistance. We’re lucky this is the case, since our microbiome’s microbes outnumber our human cells—those coded with our own DNA—ten to one.²

The overall healing strategy of the AMA allopathic medical model is called germ theory, which basically means that microbes, or germs, are the enemy and must be abolished at all costs. This theory goes back centuries, but its destructive bent is frequently credited to Louis Pasteur, who lived in the nineteenth century. After proposing that microorganisms initiate disease, he experimented with killing them as well as developing vaccines against them.

I’m not arguing against an obvious point. Among other diseases, bacteria underlie ear infections and dental plaque; protozoans trigger malaria and sleeping sickness; fungi instigate ringworm and candidiasis; and viruses initiate influenza and AIDS. Complicating microbial dangers is the fact that certain types create biofilms: clumps of microbes that form a community around which develops a protective sheathing. Biofilms lead to hard-to-treat infections such as Lyme disease and cystic fibrosis.³

Medical specialists, however, are beginning to question this raze and burn approach to healing. Taking the microbiome alone, researchers are discovering that it can be as important to add beneficial microbes to the system as it is to reduce harmful microbes. For instance, doing so can assist with treating and preventing acne, diarrhea, asthma, multiple autoimmune diseases, various types of cancer, dental cavities, diabetes, depression and anxiety, ulcers, digestive diseases, obesity, and more.⁴

Maybe we need to search beyond the seek-and-destroy philosophy to add a couple of new ideas—wait, they already exist.

One of these is resonance. I can best explain this idea by illuminating the thinking of Georges Lakhovsky, a scientist, inventor, and author of The Secret of Life, originally published in 1939.⁵ Lakhovsky’s theory relates to his perception of the origin of life. Basically, he believed that the chemistry of all living beings is vibratory in nature and that optimum health and functioning are supported by the correct oscillations of heat, light, electricity, and magnetism. Every component of this earth has to vibrate at its correct frequency for balance and health to exist. Disease is therefore a product of the insertion of a harmful vibration.⁶

For instance, imagine that you’re dealing with pancreatitis. According to the resonance theory, pancreatic cells must vibrate at their own optimum frequencies to form a healthy pancreas. Along comes a microbe that sings its own song, or vibrates at a frequency that overwhelms that of the pancreatic cells, weakening the latter and setting up the pancreatic condition. We can restore the pancreatic function in one of two ways: cancel out the frequencies of the troublemaking microbes or enhance the correct frequency of the pancreatic cells—or we can do both.

The second major theory contrasting germ theory is pleomorphism, which professes that changes in a system—moisture, temperature, and other environmental factors—can allow a toxic microbe to overtake a system.⁷ As well, and more miraculously, alterations in an environment can actually transform a microbe not only from lethal to nonlethal and vice versa, but from one type of microbe to another.

A major purveyor of pleomorphism was Antoine Béchamp, a French scientist who lived in the late 1800s. He stated that the entirety of the planet is made up of micro-

anatomical elements. He called the most rudimentary of these tiny living elements a microzyma, or small ferment. Béchamp said that microzymas often change into bacteria, but bacteria can also revert back to their elemental state.

The by-products of this fermentation process include enzymes and other valuable substances, the existence of which can support good health. In regard to the microbiome, this controlled fermentation formulates health protectors that strengthen the colon wall and digest foods. However, if the gut conditions aren’t just right, such as occurs when the environment is too acidic, the fermentation process will backfire, and we’ll become sick. Bottom line: Béchamp’s hypothesis shows that disease is a product of the environment.⁸

Another proponent of pleomorphism was American scientist Royal Raymond Rife, who was said to have cured people of cancer. We don’t know for sure because the AMA discredited his claims, although Rife’s proponents believe that was done because his findings would have drastically altered the medical landscape and, therefore, the economics of medicine.

During the 1930s, Rife invented a special type of microscope with a finer resolution than any other microscope—seven hundred times finer, in fact. Through it, he observed the pleomorphic states of various microbes, categorized the frequencies of various microbes, and was also able to spot the just-discussed microzymas. Rife also identified ten families of micro-life and showed that within each family, a single member could transform into another.

For instance, Rife watched a virus found within cancer tissue turn into a fungus, and then finally into a mold. He was also able to turn lethal microbes into nonlethal ones and vice versa by altering the environment in which the microbes were placed, such as by changing the frequencies and angles of light they were exposed to. He also developed a beam ray, a resonant frequency that could rid the body of diseases, including cancer.

Overall, Rife believed he demonstrated the basics laws of pleomorphism, showing that by themselves, microbes don’t cause disease. Rather, he concluded, a microbe can evolve from harmless to morbid depending on the chemistry of the body.⁹ Actually, Rife combined the ideals of pleomorphism and resonance, suggesting that there is a functional vibration for healthy cells and organisms and that when the environment can’t support this vibration, challenges ensue.

One more name should be mentioned in our pursuit of alternative allopathic theories. Edward C. Rosenow was a renowned medical doctor who served as the head of experimental bacteriology for the Mayo Foundation from 1915 to 1944. Rosenow’s research suggested that many infections begin in a focal point and then spread to bodily areas exhibiting a similar environment. For instance, a dental infection can spread to other mucus membranes and cause a follow-on infection there. This assumption of the existence of a foci infection for at least some diseases is a form of pleomorphism.¹⁰ It’s also one of the major theories behind functional dentistry, which asserts that unhealthy conditions in the mouth can cause local disease but these same microbes can spread and stimulate problems elsewhere, such as the heart, resulting in heart disease.

Equally vital in our discussion is breakthrough research into the newly emerging field of epigenetics. Epigenetics is the study of our epigenomes, a soup of chemicals and switches that instruct the genes. The epigenomes lie next to the DNA double helix. When responding to changes in the environment, these epigenes toggle DNA on and off, thereby stimulating or stopping diseases ranging from cancer to mental illnesses. Typical environmental triggers include diet, air quality, and physical stressors, but the presence or absence of love is also a factor, and so are events that mirror ancestral experiences, in that the epigenes are chemically coded with our ancestral memories. This means that if we go through an event similar to one undergone by an ancestor, the epigenomes might switch a gene on or off, causing everything from cancer to mental imbalances.¹¹ In fact, scientists have observed that epigenetic memories can be passed down for at least fourteen generations.¹²

As we know, allopathic medicine has much to offer. The use of surgery allows the body to recovery from a calamity. Sometimes the best response to a disease process is to wipe out the microbes. If we have a headache, we certainly like the reprieve promised by a pain reliever—even if we have to take another one to remain pain free. But approaches like germ theory don’t cover all the possibilities that might be afforded through allopathy. Employing vibrational resonance and pleomorphism have much to provide.

Can we create a paradigm of healing that allows the use of the powerful tools of allopathy yet embraces additional ideas? Yes. This book does exactly that. Before exploring this idea, however, I’m going to examine the ins and outs of holistic medicine.

The Holistic Healing Models

There are many versions of holistic healing. As I’ve already indicated, they are distinct from allopathic treatments in that they seek to assist the whole person. Most versions of holistic medicine also address the internal and external factors that create health challenges. This means that factors related to the environment, discussed in our last section about allopathy, are built into the holistic model.

For example, I participate in a Sufi support group. Sufism is a form of Islamic mysticism that, for me, enables an inward search for the Divine. I primarily use the practices to understand my truest identity and also learn how to heal through spiritual means, as the Sufi school I’m a member of is devoted to healing.

I embrace this path because its tenets are equivalent to most of the holistic healing endeavors I’ve studied or employed. The goal is to work through the ways I keep myself separate from the Spirit, which is my word for the Divine, God, Source, and the like. This endeavor requires assessing my blocks, or the ways I prevent connection, in the main aspects of self: body, heart, mind, soul, and the secret, or the spirit-self. I’ll further define all these terms in the upcoming section called "The Soul-Spirit Approach."

Semantics aside—and depending on specialties—holistic healers interact with the same aspects of a person. The goal of a truly holistic healer is to assess symptoms but treat their underlying cause. Often there is more than one cause and if so, various issues can be found in one or more aspects of the self—body, mind, and soul. Specialties are vast and varied, however, including folk medicine, herbalism, lifestyle changes, acupuncture, massage therapy, naturopathy, homeopathy, chiropractic care, psychotherapy, energy medicine, and more. Fundamentally, however, I can categorize the holistic venues into four groupings: mind-body, healing by feeling, soul-spirit, and energy medicine. As I did with the allopathic analysis, I’ll evaluate each of these healing philosophies for their benefits as well as their problems, as this book aims to propel forward only the highest and best components of all current healing modalities.

The Mind-Body Approach

For decades, science has explored the many ways in which the mind is stronger than the body and can even overrule what is occurring in the body. Demonstrating this point best are the placebo and nocebo effects.

The placebo effect relies on the validated theory that in many cases, the brain can convince the body that a fake treatment is real, thus achieving a positive and measurable effect in the body. Often, an inactive substance, such as a sugar pill or distilled water, is given instead of a medicine. The same outcomes also occur when someone is simply told that an outcome will be beneficial, showing that even a suggestion can strengthen the connection between the brain and the body, enabling them to interact together.

For instance, during a 2014 study led by Professor Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, researchers discovered that a placebo labeled as placebo and given to one group of individuals after a migraine attack was 50 percent as effective in providing pain relief as the real drug given to a second group. According to Kaptchuk, the enhanced mind-body connection was critical, but so was the ritual of taking a pill, which makes us believe we’ll get better.¹³

There are many caveats involved in obtaining strong placebo results, but the ritual is really one of the most important factors. Consider an incredible finding in which patients with Parkinson’s disease were divided into two groups. One underwent a placebo brain surgery. This mock surgery featured all the protocol and paraphernalia involved in stem cell therapy, but the patients weren’t actually injected with stem cells. Another group received stem cell treatment but didn’t think they had. The patients who didn’t receive the actual therapy but experienced all the bells and whistles had far more positive results than those who had.

There are other factors involved in the placebo effect. The more artificial pills are taken, the more powerful the effect. Injections incur a greater outcome than pills, and even the color of a placebo pill will make a difference. For instance, blue placebos are more effective at sedation than pink ones, and pills with branding are stronger than those that are plain. As well, some doctors are better able to reinforce the hope required to gain a convincing placebo result, and depending on the condition, patients who are friendlier usually fare better than those who are grumpier. Even animals respond to placebos; for instance, once rodents start associating the effects of an active drug with a taste or a smell, only the latter becomes necessary to stimulate a positive response.¹⁴

I love studying the power of the placebo effect. In fact, I’ll never forget a story relayed by a client of mine who had just returned from medical missionary work in Kenya. The nuns in the African clinic where she worked distributed medicine but had run out. So, they mixed food coloring with water and passed out this new medicine to treat a variety of ailments from colds to HIV. My client, a nurse, was astonished at the results; many patients reported being cured. The rainbow water, along with the nuns’ reassurances, combined to create a belief in the water’s healing property. What we think and how we think can help fix what’s broken in us.

But the placebo effect has a dark side. It’s called the nocebo effect, and it occurs when a patient has a doom-and-gloom expectation of the treatment, causing it to have a more negative outcome than it would otherwise have. As with the placebo effect, nocebo interactions can apply to the use of pills, injections, practices, and even ideas, including statistics. For example, when spinal tapping was new, medical providers were told that headaches were an expected side effect. These informed doctors relayed their expectations to their patients, and in fact, seven out of fifteen patients given the warning got headaches. Then in 1981, on the island of Kiribati, doctors failed to warn their patients of this side effect. Only one in thirteen patients got a headache.¹⁵ As these stories show, our mind has the power to make what is dark become darker.

The nocebo effect is one of the main reasons the mind-body approach to healing can backfire. In fact, in his classic book Timeless Healing, Dr. Herbert Benson points out several such cases, some of which actually created epidemic-level problems. An example includes a situation in which seven hundred people in New Zealand became ill from fumes said to be toxic. In fact, the fumes were not. People became ill simply because they thought they would.¹⁶

If you’re told your cancer is most likely fatal, isn’t that outcome most likely? If you believe your spouse will stray, might you not act in such a way as to drive them away, perhaps, for example, by compulsively under- or overeating? I’m not suggesting that we blame ourselves for the behavior of another person, but merely that we examine the effects of our attitudes and beliefs on our own behavior. Whether or not a belief originates within you, if you take it to heart, it becomes your belief. Your mind—not someone else’s—then affects your body.

The truth is that most of our thoughts are both negative and recurring. According to the Cleveland Clinic, the average person has sixty thousand thoughts a day. About 95 percent of these are repetitive; of these, 80 percent are negative.¹⁷

An even more startling idea is one presented to me by Dr. Michael Scroggins, who authored the foreword of this book. Most of us have heard the claim that we only use about 10 percent of our brain. I remember being told this as a child, and I was filled with glee: What else could I accomplish if I could harness the other 90 percent? Yet as Dr. Scroggins has pointed out to me, this actually isn’t a hard truth. In fact, we do use much of the other 90 percent of our brain, but it’s to review what we’ve already experienced and learned, most of which is untrue, pessimistic, and historical.

Although our realities might be forged by our own mind and perceptions, the placebo and nocebo studies prove that we are greatly influenced by our environment. I suggested the same in the last chapter with the discussions about resonance, pleomorphism, and epigenetics. What if you have been raised to align with a universe that is dark, dreary, and disconnecting? It would be the equivalent of living within a great big nocebo experiment. Don’t we owe ourselves the benefits of the placebo effect instead?

The Healing by Feeling Approach

Emotionally minded people believe that every illness is a result of a repressed or mistaken feeling. As an energy-based intuitive healer, I constantly find correlations between emotions and diseases and other challenging conditions, such as difficulties in recovering from accidents, job losses, childhood abuse, relationship woes, and other stressors.

When people fail to fully feel and express their feelings, their physical bodies become tense and rigid. From a mechanical point of view alone, an inflexible body won’t operate smoothly. If your muscles are tight, your lymph system won’t flow correctly. The lymph releases toxins, and if these waste products aren’t passed out of the body, they’ll be stored where you least want them. For women, this might be in the breast tissue, thereby creating the conditions for breast cancer. For men, the repositories could include the stomach, hence the heavy gut that increases the chance of heart disease.

Before further analyzing the role of feelings—and emotions—in disease, I want to define a few terms. I’ll be continuing this exploration in several later chapters, but first I want to lay the groundwork.

At a baseline, emotions are different from feelings, although an emotion technically includes at least one feeling. A feeling is an internal reaction to an event or a need. Psychologically, feelings are sometimes called affects, indicating that in infancy, our feelings start as biological responses to getting our basic needs met. As we mature, we figure out that others can meet our needs beyond the instinctual ones, such as food or warmth, and feelings evolve into ways to exchange communication with others. This evolution occurs even when we’re babies. If we’re unhappy and show that we’re sad, Mom will hug us. If we’re happy and smile, Dad will toss us up in the air again. Overall, we learn that those around us can respond to our basic feeling expressions—fear, anger, sadness, disgust, and happiness—and we can also react to their feelings. Now we can have relationships.

An emotion isn’t based only on feelings. Emotions exist when we partner a belief with a feeling. There are other factors that can combine, which I’ll discus at several points in this book, but basically an emotion allows us to respond intellectually and organically to keep ourselves safe and to meet our higher needs, such as to be loved, accepted, and seen. The mature person understands that what we desire to receive, such as affection, also feels good to give.

Beliefs are simply ideas or opinions. For instance, I might believe I’m a nice person or a mean one. Even though I might take such a judgment as a fact, it’s actually only a perception. Same with beliefs like bees are dangerous or all women are foolish. Why do we formulate an emotion? Emotions are coping mechanisms. The proverbial example centers on an emotion encoded to dealing with hot stoves. The first time we touch a hot stove, we feel pain and fear. In reaction to witnessing it, our mother scolds us, even while she runs our finger under the cold water. Hot stoves are dangerous, she advises. Our internal self has now combined the feeling of fear with the belief of hot stoves as dangerous. Voilà! We have an emotion. If we keep those two reactions bonded and never separate them, every time we see a hot stove, we’ll feel scared and unconsciously remember our opinion of hot stoves. We won’t touch them, thus saving time. Because of that emotion, we don’t need to keep relearning the same lesson over and over.

Emotions can also backfire, however, as many of our emotions are based on inaccurate ideas. Consider the many individuals stricken with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that happens after someone has lived through or witnessed a traumatic event, such as an accident, combat, rape, or environmental disaster. However, PTSD also follows in the wake of verbal and emotional abuse, being in relationship with an addict, or other acute or chronic stressors.

Basically, someone with PTSD in conditions that seem similar to the one causing the trauma will re-experience the disturbing feelings and thoughts that occurred during or right after the causal event. I’ve had PTSD, and I know how horrifying it can be to suddenly start picturing images from the past or reacting with uncontrollable feelings. Yet the salient truth is that the past never repeats itself. We are never in the exact same situation as we were before. This is because once a moment has passed, we’re in a new moment, which isn’t forged from the same ingredients as that prior moment.

Think about it. Imagine that you are drinking a cup of coffee and you set it down to stretch for a bit. Then you pick up the coffee again. That drink is slightly different from the one you just enjoyed; certainly, there is a sip less of it and it’s not quite as warm. Neither are you the same person you were. You’ve thought new thoughts and wondered new wonderments.

I’m not discrediting PTSD. It is very real. Responding to today’s events with yesterday’s emotions can be helpful. If we begin to feel rage when we’re around a person who likes to make fun of us, that rage is instructing us. The anger tells us they are crossing our boundaries. The core belief—that what they are doing is wrong—is accurate. When emotions are never released, however, and are also misapplied, they cause disaster. For instance, if we become enraged at anyone who looks the same as does a former verbal abuser, we are misapplying our rage. The current situation is not the same as the earlier one.

To heal, most of us must address our emotions, including our mental state, in terms of the way we perceive similar situations. If we don’t, we’ll become sick. We’ll remain continually looped in the stress response that encouraged us to form an emotional reaction, which includes physiological chain reactions such a racing heart, sweating, and the desire to fight, flight, freeze, or fawn (play peacemaker).¹⁸ Bottom line: pent-up emotions cause stress, and stress leads to 90 percent of all healing problems, including asthma, immune dysfunction, heart disease, cancer, mental illnesses, digestive problems, arthritis, mental illnesses, and so much more.¹⁹

As this research might suggest, healing by feeling is extraordinarily important. For example, I worked with a woman who had asthma and had undergone one treatment after another, including allopathic medications, acupuncture, and cognitive therapy, to no avail. After a few sessions with me, the asthma attacks disappeared. What worked? I helped her express the feelings she’d held about her overbearing mother. After we figured out that her mother only paid attention to her when she was sick, we could work with one of my client’s primal beliefs: I need to be sick to be taken care of. Releasing the repressed feelings and altering that belief, which was only true in relation to her mother and not the rest of her relationships, freed her from the emotional underpinnings of the asthma.

But working through every single emotion is a slow and painstaking process. There is a complex relationship between feelings, beliefs, memories, chemicals, and spiritual forces. It is hard to get to the nub of an emotion or the most basic of underlying beliefs. People and their issues are complicated and unique, and emotional work is all too often simplified and systematized. For instance, I frequently find that feeling-based healers associate hopelessness with cancer. However, I worked with a client with breast cancer, and neither of us detected a spot of hopelessness. Rather, she was extraordinarily hopeful and upbeat. She did recover from cancer, but only after she used symbolic healing tones rather than processing or feeling her feelings.

It’s also difficult to figure out which feelings might be causing a physical problem and which ones might result from that problem. I had a client with rheumatoid arthritis who displayed a lot of anger. Several holistic-minded providers had told her that anger was the root of her disease; if she dealt with that anger, she would get well. I had a sense that my client’s anger wasn’t causing her arthritis; rather, she was angry because she had arthritis! Ultimately what assisted my client was taking a purely energetic approach, a modality I’ll explore in the upcoming section called "The Energy Medicine Approach." Ironically, the feeling of anger was underlying her arthritis, but it wasn’t my client’s anger. She had internalized subtle energies and rage from her father, who was a roaring alcoholic. Recall that subtle energies are vibrating waves of information we can’t easily perceive through our senses.

Reducing emotions to their component parts and actively expressing and accepting our feelings are essential to getting and staying well. Being clear about our feelings is necessary for living a full, vital, and juicy life. But we can get so busy processing yesterday’s emotions that it’s easy to forget we have a life to live in the here and now. And fundamentally, we’ll never gain emotional balance if we align with the assumption of being broken rather than whole, if our foundation is anchored in a universe that testifies to the need to be unworthy rather than the acceptance of being intrinsically lovable. We have to start in truth to end up with what’s true.

The Soul-Spirit Approach

The belief in spiritual healing is as old as the hills. It’s actually the most ancient form of healing. Part the mists of time and you’ll see shamans drumming, medicine healers murmuring, and mystics chanting for purposes of soul healing.

Soul healing is an important form of spiritual healing. It is the calling forth of wisdom and curatives from the invisible to produce effects in the physical. The basis for soul healing is essentially the same from culture to culture: correcting karma, life’s collateral damage held within the soul.

When talking about soul healing in specifics, healers are in for a complicated undertaking. The soul is interconnected to dimensions across time. It is able to communicate with beings and forces far beyond the norm and visit sites wild and wonderful, though usually unseen. While these linkages lend a magicality to our sometimes gray human lives, they also leave the soul vulnerable to unusual problems.

When working on a soul, a shaman will examine for a variety of issues, such as soul fragmentation, which occurs when a part of the soul separates from the greater soul and becomes lost or stuck somewhere in time. A shaman must then rescue or retrieve that aspect of the soul in order to enable wholeness where there is brokenness. As you might perceive, this activity is comparable to the therapeutic treatments of modern psychologists, who help their clients uncover and restore their disassociated inner child that experienced childhood trauma.

Science has long questioned the existence of the soul—at least, our ability to decisively prove it. There are a considerable number of experiments in mediumship, the act of connecting to the deceased or the otherworldly, that suggest an aspect of us exists before and after death. In fact, many double- and triple-blind experiments conducted between 1997 and 2017 with mediums indicated that accurate information was obtained from souls on the other side. Technology has actually become a boon in this drive for proof. For example, three proof-of-concept experiments showed that measurable photons (particles) of light appeared in a pitch-black light-proof chamber when spirits were asked to enter. When their presence wasn’t requested, no changes were detected in these chambers.²⁰

The challenge with soul healing is that it is an inexhaustible endeavor. We all have a past. And if you believe in reincarnation, you’ll know that you have a seriously long past, one rooted in former lives and inclusive of in-between-lives experiences. How will we ever erase all the yesterdays to catch up with today? Healing our history, whether it involves this lifetime or others, is a valuable step on the healing path, as long as we don’t get stuck there.

Many spiritual healers skip the soul altogether and take a more direct approach to the Spirit. Several studies indicate that people with religious associations are often healthier, recover faster from disease, and live longer than those without these associations. For instance, a study of nearly two thousand adults in North Carolina found that those attending church regularly had healthier immune systems than those who didn’t.²¹

The conventional process involved in religious or spiritual healing is prayer. Many of us pray. A survey published by the National Institutes of Health examined the most common alternative and complementary therapies used by Americans. Of the top ten, three involved prayer. In fact, 43 percent employed prayer for self; 24 percent used prayer for others; and a large number were members of prayer groups.²²

Prayer is not exclusive to a specific tradition or political party, and it does seem to help our lives. Studies beyond those just mentioned have found that prayer softens the negative effects of financial problems on older adults and that religious practices contribute to feeling as if life is meaningful. As well, a sampling of cancer patients who focused their prayers on gratitude exhibited the least symptoms of depression. Prayer can also clear the mind, paving the way for more mental acuity. But prayer is a mixed bag. People who believe that God is loving benefit more from prayer than those who believe that God is distant. Plus, we don’t know if prayer is really about connecting to a divine source or if the type of people who pray are already participating in healthy social bonds and behaviors.²³

It does seem that the efficacy of prayer and spiritual healing is hard to prove or pin down. One particular study, led by internationally renowned researcher Marilyn Schlitz, was conducted with great hopefulness. Healers were asked to pray or direct intention to women who had just had reconstructive surgery after undergoing mastectomies. The healers included Qigong masters, Johrei and Reiki practitioners, Buddhist monks, Carmelite nuns, and Christian groups.

The women were organized into three groups. Two of the groups received distant healing for about twenty minutes a day for eight days following surgery. One of these groups received a call daily from a healer reminding them about the healing; the other group wasn’t reminded. The other of these groups didn’t receive off-site healing and knew that fact. Implants were used to collect collagen samples, to be analyzed after the eight days, and there was a follow-up questionnaire, which some of the recipients failed to fill out. The results actually showed little to no difference among the groups.²⁴

Many other studies revealed a similar lack of effectiveness in the use of spiritual healing. Certainly, it is good to feel loved and equally good to be loving. I must ask, however: Is it enough to simply call upon things spiritual? Would it make a difference if we were to do so through a means of connecting more knowingly to a truly supportive source of love, not only a ragtag collection of oft-judgmental religious beliefs?

The Energy Medicine Approach

Energy is information that moves, and it composes absolutely everything. There are two basic types of energy, however, and this distinction must be understood for those of us who are devoted to healing.

Physical energy is the nuts and bolts of concrete reality. When you pick up a coffee cup, you look forward to enjoying the very physical substance filled to the brim with caffeine and any number of other savory ingredients. You want the physical reaction, including energy to burn. Subtle energy, on the other hand, is ethereal and immeasurable. Also called psychic, intuitive, spiritual, and quantum energy, it doesn’t obey the traffic laws of physical reality. Rather, subtle energy appears when noticed and disappears if ignored. Once the subtle energies of two people, objects, feelings—or just about anything else—are connected, they continue to remain connected, even if parted by great distances, even the veil of death. Quantum reality is one of magic, and I’ve devoted a great deal of ink to it throughout this book.

Quite often, energy healers work with one or more of the subtle energy anatomy structures, which consist of energy organs or centers including the chakras; energy channels including the meridians and the nadis; and energy fields such as the auric fields. We’ll focus on working with the chakras and auric fields in particular in this book.

Overall, however, energy healing—now called energy medicine—has grown as a category to encompass nearly every type of alternative or integrative modality, including homeopathy, chakra balancing, acupuncture, massage, sound and light therapies, yoga, meditation, hypnotherapy, intuitive counseling, Reiki, Healing Touch, Qigong, and tai chi, among others. What all approaches have in common is that they acknowledge the existence of subtle energies and energetic structures, allowing for the assessment and directing of these energies.

Rigorous scientific studies are proving the efficacy of subtle energy medicines. As Dr. Daniel Benor states in his book Spiritual Healing, 191 controlled studies of energy healing suggested its effectiveness, and of the 52 most rigorous studies, 74 percent showed significant positive effects.²⁵

I am an energy medicine proponent. In fact, I’m an energy healer. Not only do I believe that energy medicine works, but I’ve seen it do so. I’ve watched a student of mine use my signature techniques, which you’ll learn in this book, to send streams of energy into a dog that had bitten thirteen people and was about to be put down. Within a week, the dog’s entire nature changed, and he became docile and loving. His life was spared. I’ve watched people become freed of tumors, PTSD, mental challenges, financial woes, addictions, and so many other issues. Energy is real. But while it can be a medicine, it can also, to some extent, be a poison. What can cause benefits can also instill harm, and that is the reason I’ve become a devotee of the idea of two universes—and the need to select which one to align with when healing.

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1. World Health Organization, Traditional, Supplementary and Integrative Medicine.

2. Hair and Sharpe, Fast Facts About the Human Microbiome.

3. Lumen, Introduction to Microbiology: Defining Microbes.

4. Genetic Science Learning Center, The Microbiome and Disease.

5. Lakhovsky, The Secret of Life.

6. Ibid.

7. Gibbons, Germs, Dr. Billings, and the Theory of Focal Infection.

8. Young, Who Had Their Finger on the Magic of Life—Antoine Béchamp or Louis Pasteur?

9 . Laleva, Louis Pasteur vs Antoine Bechamp and the Germ Theory of Disease Causation—1.

10. Gibbons, Germs, Dr. Billings, and the Theory of Focal Infection.

11. Watters, DNA Is Not Destiny: The New Science of Epigenetics.

12. Dean, "Scientists Have Observed Epigenetic Memories Being Passed Down

for 14 Generations."

13. Harvard Men’s Health Watch, The Power of the Placebo Effect.

14. Jarrett, The Placebo Effect, Digested—10 Amazing Findings.

15. Daniels and Sallie, Headache, Lumbar Puncture, and Expectation.

16. Benson, Timeless Healing, 267.

17. Goldberg, The 1 Question That Helps Me Combat Negative Thinking.

18. Weinberg, Mind-Body Connection: Understanding the Psycho-Emotional Roots of Disease.

19. Salleh, Life Event, Stress and Illness.

20. Pitstick, Scientific Evidence that Bodily Death Is NOT the End of Life.

21. Cherry, Healing Prayer, 14–15.

22. Schlitz, Meditation, Prayer and Spiritual Healing.

23. Routledge, What Prayer Is Good for—and the Evidence for It.

24. Schlitz, Distant Healing of Surgical Wounds: An Exploratory Study.

25. Benor, Spiritual Healing: Scientific Validation of a Healing Revolution, 187–371.

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introduction

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What if we’ve discovered the underlying physical law of life itself, Jill? Not how two parents biologically create an offspring, Darwin’s law, but why—why our universe creates things at all…

Jane Jensen, Dante’s Equation

Each morning invites us to wake up, stretch our arms, and walk anew on this good earth happily and peacefully. Whether the sky is sunny or overcast, moments abound for love and appreciation. Of course, we’re talking about real life. Our journey will encompass sorrows and suffering, disappointments and maladies. That’s where healing comes in. As simplistic as it sounds—and as many times as you’ve read this definition—to heal means to make whole. Healing isn’t a goal. It isn’t a one-stop service. It’s a way of living that involves interactions between ourselves, the universe, and all other sentient beings. Ideally, healing is based on interfaces that create more love, and it is these exchanges that result in ever-evolving wholeness.

In this book, I’m going to provide you the keys to the most organic and potent forms of healing that exist: in other words, healing concepts and techniques that are completely and totally aligned with love. In fact, I’ll be presenting four valid ways to formulate love-based healing, each represented by a distinct pathway, or reality. These levels of reality constitute different perspectives about the self and the world, and together they compose a greater reality. While totally unique, based in diverse rules and methodologies, each of these pathways offers opportunities to achieve the awakened state that brings true healing and also compels an invitation to the healing power of love.

The pathways that underlie the four pathways healing system are interlocking. Each functions independently of the others, operating under a specific set of rules and principles. What’s neat, though, is that when you perform a shift on one pathway, transformation occurs on the other pathways.

For instance, on the elemental pathway, you use intention—and honest hard work—to make changes by addressing the basic units of life, such as thoughts, feelings, foods, and other substances. On the power pathway, gigantic changes are created when you command the movement of forces. Through the imaginal pathway, you get to play shaman. By using your imagination, you can transfer energies between otherworldly realms and dimensions. Along the divine pathway, you search for the need underlying a negative situation. Meet the need in a different way, in accordance with divine truths, and appearances alter.

It’s easy to negotiate the individual pathways because they are all accessible through one particular vehicle: the chakras. Chakras are subtle energy organs, and you’ll learn a lot about them in this book. They aren’t so very different from other organs in the body, except they are primarily made of subtle, rather than physical, energy.

As I will explain, everything is made of energy, which is information that moves. There are two major types of energy: physical and subtle. Physical energy is relatively slow and quite measurable, whereas subtle energy—the stuff of the invisible, inaudible, and ineffable—is far less measurable but much more magical in its effects.

One of the reasons it’s so hard to achieve increased wholeness in our everyday world is that many of our challenges are anchored in subtle energies, which are organized by a subtle anatomy, a system made up of subtle organs, channels, and fields. In other words, you have to shift the subtle energies composing a problem in order to release that problem, and then you need to bring in better and more life-enhancing subtle energies. These activities are the basis for four pathways healing, the overarching label for healing conducted through the four pathways, which I also term shift-healing.

Why are chakras such a vital component of four pathways healing? As I’ll explain in this book, chakras can convert physical energy into subtle energy and vice versa. They also serve as tunnels through all four pathways.

In my mind, I picture the four pathways as continuums of space-time that are stacked atop one another, separate yet able to touch each other. Swirling funnels of light run through the four realities, interconnecting all four pathways. Like stairways between floors, these hallways are the chakras, with each independent chakra functioning as a doorway into one particular pathway but also interconnecting them all. In other words, chakras are entrance and exit points into and between the pathways.

In this book, you will learn how to use the chakras as the portals that they are. Soon you’ll be traveling these gateways for healing purposes. However, no matter how fluid you become at this voyaging, you’ll be facing one huge decision at every turn: Which universe will you align with?

I know you might feel confused by that question. After all, I have said that healing is a side effect of interacting lovingly with self, others, and the universe. However, I believe there are actually two universes.

The initial universe is founded on the principle of divine love. Hence, I call it the heavenly universe. A secondary universe, which I associate with the big bang, is based on dualistic themes that are muddled and confusing. Hence, I call this second universe the shadow universe. This is the universe we most often affiliate ourselves with, and because of the convoluted ideas associated with it, it becomes far harder to perceive love in this universe. And the four pathways? They are sandwiched between and inside both universes. This means that while you can choose which pathway to perform healing on, you can also select which universe—and its overriding principles—to align with.

Some of you might have noticed that this isn’t the first rendering of the four pathways system. Almost two decades ago, I wrote the first version of this book. Then the book went out of print. Over the years, however, I kept hearing from people around the world who wanted classes on the four pathways. Those who wanted to buy the book often spent a small fortune hunting it down on eBay and Amazon. I realized there was a bit of a cult following for the book.

Over the years, countless people also shared their experiences of using the concepts and exercises in this book to heal themselves and others. One man sent me a picture of his tattered, well-marked first edition and claimed that the ideas had enabled him to achieve long-term remission from cancer. Another woman had been using the divine pathway exclusively in her spiritual coaching practice, and she attributed the peacefulness that most of her clients reported to this four pathways knowledge. Yet another woman has taught dozens of classes with very expensive (out-of-print) copies of the book as the curriculum. She insists it’s the most logical approach to transforming would-be healers into real-life healers. (In fact, she likes to call them heroes instead of healers because of their devotion to boundaries and love, two of the pillars of the pathways’ system.)

Many other stories could illustrate why, when the copyright was returned to me, I snapped it up. Since then I have updated the book with increased understanding of the four pathways, a few new terms, increased insights and case studies, and leading-edge scientific research. The other main change, however, is the addition of the two universes. That inclusion alone, as well as other new material, makes this a brand-new and even more powerful book compared to the first version.

It’s only in the last few years that the science has existed to suggest two different and intertwined universes, and it’s only in the last few years that I’ve been teaching this concept. I’ve worked with over 65,000 clients and students in my nearly thirty years as an energy healer, author, and teacher. I’m honored to say that over the years I’ve received a lot of input and acclaim from my students. Their reaction to the notion of two universes has astounded and sometimes even overwhelmed me. Students demand more. Some are moved to tears and tell me that science and spirituality finally make sense to them. They ask questions. They get it. All our decisions basically reduce to what universe we’re seeking to align with, and this book will help you make that choice a lot easier.

What’s in This Book

As with the first version of this book, here you’ll learn about the four pathways system and how the chakras are key to its functioning. You will gain an understanding of the role of the chakras and other subtle energy systems as you progress through the book and learn a variety of shift-healing techniques and how to make them work for you. Before you’re through, you’ll crack the code of the energy mapping method that is central to four pathways healing. You’ll also discover that although there are different pathways, or approaches, to truth, your choices always reduce to making decisions based on truths that are seeded in love and unifying in their outcome.

In Part 1, Chapter 1, we’ll begin at the beginning, establishing why we need a new healing paradigm in the first place. (This chapter is augmented by the preface, which offers an overview of a number of current healing modalities and their advantages and shortcomings.) Then in Chapter 2 you’ll move into the all-important concept of the two universes, and you’ll get an overview