September/October 2009 Cosmic
The Intuitive Advisor: Good Chakra Health

by Mona Lisa Schulz

The health of each of the seven energy centers or chakras of the body depends on following a rule that involves balancing two seemingly opposite or contradictory qualities in our lives. Just as harmonized brain function depends on having both the left and the right hemispheres in sync, healing body and mind in each of these seven energy centers involves following a rule to balance dual identities and engage two paradoxical mind-sets simultaneously.

Learning the seven rules for intuitive health for your energy centers will help you create a healthy mind and body. Whenever you're in danger of dropping the ball somewhere, you'll intuitively understand the warning signs your body is sending you via your health - and you'll know how to get back on track.

  1. For the health of the first chakra - your bones, joints, blood and immune system - you must balance the personal with the political and follow the first rulefor intuitive health: All for one, and one for all. To maintain health in this energy center, you need to be intuitively in touch with your individual needs as you simultaneously negotiate your way around those of the group, including your family, coworkers or some other organization.
  2. For the health of the second chakra - your lower back and your reproductive and sex organs - you need to balance money and love, following the second rulefor intuitive health: To be a lover, you need to be a fighter. To maintain health in this energy center, you must develop the sometimes feisty, detached persona of an entrepreneur and balance it with the warm sensitivity needed in an intimate relationship.
  3. To tackle those hard-to-treat weight, addiction and digestive problems - which can compromise the health of the third chakra - you need to balance self-esteem and responsibility by following the third rule for intuitive health: You can't always get what you want, but if you try, you'll get what you need. To maintain health in this energy center, you have to balance feeding your cravings and desires in an attempt to boost your self-esteem while fulfilling your duties and responsibilities in your personal life and your job.
  4. If you are one of the millions of people who suffer from heart disease or breast or lung problems, you'll need to pay attention primarily to the fourth chakra by balancing partnership with emotional wellness, following the fourth rulefor intuitive health: Got to love her madly. (After all, as The Doors song implies, it may not be possible to be in a relationship without going at least a little mad.) To maintain health in this energy center, you have to be able to be in a partnership and simultaneously maintain your emotional sanity, balancing your emotional needs with those of the partnership.
  5. For those unlucky people (and I am one of them) who tend to have fifth-chakra issues - highlighted by chronic problems in the neck, thyroid and mouth - the best course of action is balancing assertiveness with a compliant communication style by following the fifth rulefor intuitive health: Sometimes you've got to be cruel to be kind. Maintaining health in this energy center involves knowing when to be boldly assertive and stick to your position, and when to be more compliant and yield to another's point of view.
  6. For the health of the sixth chakra - eyes, ears and brain - you must balance a more structured, detail-oriented mind-set with broader, more outside-of-the-box views by following the sixth rulefor intuitive health: I know I'm different, but from now on I want to try to be the same (as other people). To maintain the health of this energy center, you need to cultivate a flexible and adaptive mind-set. This means developing the capacity to hold strictly traditional, toe-the-line views sometimes, and more loose and free-ranging ones at other times. It also means knowing when to agree for the sake of keeping the peace (agreeing to disagree and tolerating the difference in mind-sets), and when it's critical to stick your neck out and disagree with everyone.
  7. Finally, for the health of the seventh chakra - your longevity and connection to the universe - you must be willing when necessary to revise your life's purpose by following the seventh rulefor intuitive health: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. To maintain the health of this energy center (and possibly manage a life-threatening illness), you need to learn how, at any stage of your life, to pursue a life purpose in the face of potential death. You must be able to reconstitute your spirit and find a new focus and a new life goal.

Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz, author of Intuitive Advisor,is a practicing neuropsychiatrist. In addition to her extensive background in health and brain research, Schulz has been a practicing medical intuitive since 1987. Visit www.drmonalisa.com. Excerpted with permission by Hay House at www.hayhouse.com.