The Energy Centers

Each energy center has its own unique energy (or frequency) that carries a corresponding level of consciousness; its own mind or intent that expresses specific information; its own associated glands, hormones, chemistry, and plexus of neurons.

Since different hormones change our chemistry, they cause us to feel different emotions. 

And, when it comes to doubt, we’re primarily working with the emotions of survival – the emotions associated with the first three energy centers – and transmuting them by opening our heart to feel the emotions of creation. 

Let’s explore that a little more.

The First Three Energy Centers: The Human Self

It’s important to remember, when we talk about alchemizing the power within each of these centers, there’s nothing wrong with them. In fact, we need every energy center; they’re all essential to our human experience.

And those centers are important. But when we’re experiencing doubt or lose our belief, it means they’re out of balance. We’re seeing challenging circumstances in our life, or the condition we’re facing, from the emotions of survival – and are therefore operating from a lower, or more limited, level of consciousness.

When that happens, instead of supporting us in their primary functions – to procreate (the first center); to nourish and provide; to feel safe and secure (the second center); to strengthen, to do, and to willfully empower (the third center) – these centers feed and fuel the feelings we most associate with doubt.

1. When the first center is out of balance, we might have addictions, obsessions, and compulsions centered on our sexuality. 
2. When the second center is reactive, we might be flooded with insecurity, worry, fear, shame, and guilt – or feelings of lack, need, victimization, or unworthiness. 
3. When the third center is imbalanced, the feelings that come up would be anger, frustration, hatred, judgment, entitlement, envy, jealously, control, impatience, unhealthy competition, or self-aggrandizement.

These survival emotions are so hard-wired into our nature, they’re automatic. They’re so familiar; so innately programmed; we can become addicted to them. When that happens, we move into the shadow side of survival – and our heart closes down. That’s because when we’re in survival, it’s not a time to open our hearts or create. It’s not a time to trust or be vulnerable.

So, when we talk about transmuting the energy in those first three centers to work through doubt, we’re not judging the centers themselves as “lesser than” – or “bad.” 

We’re simply talking about bringing them back into balance.

We’re working on ascending their tremendous power and energy to our heart – the center of creativity – and then working with that transformed energy to explore new possibilities in the unknown. And that’s what happens when each center is aligned – that energy can naturally move more easily into the heart.

As I’ve said before, we can think of those first three centers as the human self. 

The divine self begins in the heart. 

And so, if we’re able to move that energy into a more expansive level of consciousness (remember, recognizing our level of consciousness is the first step in working with doubt), we can move into a state of being where new doors open up to us. We stop trying to force and control; we stop resisting; we stop working within the realm of known, limited, predictable outcomes.

It's a way to get “unstuck” – to evolve from a state of survival, where that energy is trapped in those first three centers, to a place of creation.

Balancing these centers for our greatest good was my inspiration for creating the Blessing of the Energy Centers meditations. 

Let's talk about how we can apply that practice to access and work with the unique, essential information contained in each one – to create resonant order within.

I want to talk about what’s possible when all of our energy centers work together to create resonant coherence within our brains and bodies.

Blessing the Energy Centers Into Balance

I first conceived of blessing the energy centers when I was working on bringing my own body into balance and homeostasis. I knew that every energy center is under the control of the autonomic nervous system; that each carries its own energetic signature, its own frequency, its own message, and its own intent. Each center contains its own unique energy and possesses an individual level of mind.

Essentially, each center is like a mini-brain. 

And to bring them all into balance – and, therefore, bring myself into balance – I knew I would need to find a way to get into my “operating system” to access them. So, the Blessing of the Energy Centers meditations are designed to work with these mini-brains from that place of understanding.

I’ve crafted all the meditations in the series to create coherence in each center, enabling it to receive and transmit more orderly information. This information can then instruct each center – and directly influence more hormonal balance by sending a coherent message to all the cells, tissues, and organs of the body.

In the Blessing of the Energy Centers meditations, we slow our brain waves down from beta ... to alpha ... and even to theta. One by one, we narrow our focus and put our attention and energy on each center. Then, we open our awareness to the space around each one. We bring the intention to balance the center’s energy by organizing the information it receives and transmits to affect our biology. We bring our attention to the energy contained within each center and its unique frequency – which carries information. This attention activates that energy and information in ways that can inform matter.

In other words, the clear information carried on the coherent frequency of each center can be transformed into information – in the form chemistry.

Since the autonomic nervous system’s job is to create balance and homeostasis, as we bless the centers one by one with our attention, they will then work together to bring more order, harmony, health, and balance to our entire being.

I’ve been thinking of it lately like the instruments in an ensemble – each one a part of the whole; building on the other. You could think of the first energy center, maybe, as the low pounding of the timpani drums, sounding the first notes of a composition and setting the tempo and the tone ... vibrating at a frequency of large, slow, long waves of sound.

The second center could be the horns coming in, adding to the harmonic structure and echoing the rhythm of the drums. Those notes vibrate at somewhat shorter waves – and they build on what’s sounding from the first center. The third center might be the wind instruments, adding some movement; vibrating at a higher frequency; signaling notes in the melody that will come in when we get to the fourth center – the heart. Here come the soaring violins; that transcendent moment when everything comes together.

So, as each “instrument” comes in – with its own resonance; its own vibrations; its own energy – they combine to create a beautiful song.

Carrying this metaphor further, you can see that for this practice to work – for the centers to be in balance – they have to be in tune. They have to be in rhythm. In other words, there must be harmony and resonance among them.

And that’s what we’re creating in the Blessing of the Energy Centers meditations.

A Symphony of Resonant Order

I also like this metaphor because it connects to what I said: there’s nothing wrong with, or bad about, any of the energy centers. We need every one of them. But imagine what would happen if just one instrument in the song were out of tune or rhythm with the drums, or the horns, or the wind instruments. Imagine the song without the melody. Imagine it without the evocative sound of the violins as it reaches a crescendo. It just wouldn’t be the same.

Just as a song is composed of all those elements – all the instruments; all the notes; all the rhythms – the “song” of our very being is composed of all the information contained within all of our energy centers. While each is distinct, with its own gifts and information, they build on each other to create coherence and wholeness within us.

In other words, the energy of the first center is actually contained in the second center. 

The energy of the third center contains the energy of the first and second centers. 

The energy of the fourth center is holding the information and the resonant frequencies of the third, the second, and the first. 

And so it goes with the fifth, sixth, seventh ... all the way up to eight.

They all unfold, in a sense, like echoes from source – because we unfold from source. Each center unfolds to a slower frequency, in mathematical harmonics of the previous one, all the way down to density. As above; so below. As within; so without.

In this way, you can’t have the first center without the eighth – because the frequency of each is contained in the one that precedes it. And so, when we bless all of them, we bring all of them back to balance – because the energy within each one will influence the one above it. We bring them back to oneness. We bring them back to order. We connect to the energy and information inherent within each one. We align with their divine unfolding design.

When we bless our energy centers with these intentions in mind, and each center opens and offers its gifts to us, our entire being begins to vibrate with the song of coherence. As we learn to work with this energy, that simple song evolves ... into a symphony of resonant order.

From here, unlimited possibilities open up to us. We can go far beyond the challenges of working with doubt, getting unstuck, or solving a problem. We can evolve from surviving ... to creating ... to thriving.

Dr. Joe Dispenza