Chakra Therapy

By studying and applying a variety of healing modalities, Paula Shaw developed a revolutionary process called CHART, (Conscious Healing And Repatterning Therapy). While creating this process and writing the book Chakras: The Magnificent Seven, she discovered that the chakras seem to act as "holding tanks" or "reservoirs" for the energetic disruptions and negative patterns created by trauma.

Whenever we experience anything that disturbs us so much that the memory of it causes emotions such as shock, rage, grief, anxiety, despair, fear, depression, distrust, guilt, resentment and the like, that event has been internalized as trauma. These traumatic experiences form energy disruptions or constrictions in the energy system.

If there is no opportunity to process the impact of the trauma to clear the system, these disruptions or negative energetic patterns will energetically remain in the chakras. Each chakra becomes a receptacle for the issues that are energetically specific to it. For example, physical abuse gets stored in the solar plexus chakra, the chakra of the self. This causes problems on two fronts, it creates an energy drain that leads to imbalance within the chakra, and it becomes the origin of negative beliefs, behaviors, patterns, attitudes and emotions. This is detrimental to both emotional and physical health.

After thorough exploration of the energetic connection between emotional imbalance and the energy system, Paula developed CHART, a technique which rapidly clears the damaging effects of negative experience. The post-treatment state promotes greater physical, emotional and spiritual health and the ability to attain one's desired goals more easily.

To learn more, please read the following excerpt from Chakras, The Magnificent Seven:

Heal the Wheel

The chakra system has a powerful interrelationship with the subconscious mind. In many respects it seems to be analogous to it. We have been taught that everything we experience gets stored in the subconscious mind. So where do the chakras fit in? Perhaps the way it actually works is this: The subconscious mind is like the hard drive of your computer, where all the information that goes into the computer is stored. The chakras are like the individual program folders that classify and retain specific pieces of information particular to that folder's category and purpose.

Traumas around physical abuse, for example, are primarily held onto by the solar plexus chakra. This can be validated through muscle testing and by observing the kind of problematic issues that appear in the life of someone that has been physically abused. Common issues we might see are addictions; obsession with the physical appearance; chronic fatigue syndrome; and/or psychological issues, such as anger problems and difficulty with trust, abandonment, and rejection. Depression and lack of self-confidence are other common manifestations of physical abuse. All of these conditions are also symptoms of solar plexus chakra imbalance (see: Health Issues - Solar Plexus Chakra chapter). These problems develop when the chakra is unbalanced, and in turn, they give rise to further imbalance throughout the system.

The degenerative process at work is this, trauma creates energy disruptions, which, if not processed and cleared, become stored in the chakras. The presence of these energy disruptions causes an imbalance in the chakra, which can lead to a myriad of dysfunctional manifestations. If unchecked, they will lead to further energy drain, causing the chakra to become more depleted and unbalanced. What can be done to stop this downward spiral? Simply put, we can use an energy intervention to clear the original negative pattern from the chakra, thereby eliminating the primary source of energetic imbalance.

In Conscious Healing and Repatterning Therapy (CHART), we do just that. We use an energy intervention to clear negative patterns, thereby eliminating their damaging impact on the energy system.

Let's return for a moment to the analogy of the subconscious mind being similar to a computer hard drive. We likened the chakras to the program folders that sort and store the information on the hard drive. Now, taking this one step further, we find that within the folders we have files that sort and classify the information in even greater detail. The contents of these files are the negative and positive events that took place during developmental periods of our lives. When the negative events are unprocessed, their damaging repercussions have the potential to become destructive to the positive functioning of the subconscious mind. Like computer viruses, they contaminate it and impact its ability to perform optimally.

When a computer develops problems in functioning after being attacked by a virus, we have to search out and delete any harmful information existing within the program files and folders in order to repair it. Similarly, if we want our lives to be successful and high functioning, we have to search out the traumas and negative energy patterns from our files and folders (sub-personalities and chakras), and delete them as well. Keeping negative energetic patterns and trying to create a new life is like trying to fix the hard drive without deleting the viruses that created the dysfunction in the first place. It just doesn't work.