Opening Chakras
Can Be Dangerous
Cleanse & Awaken Them Instead 

By Jon Terrell, M.A.

Beware of Opening Chakras

Chakras are focal points within ourselves where we can connect with and express the Inner Light of our true nature. But techniques for opening chakras can lead to severe problems. Over the past 40 plus years, I've helped many people who had gotten into trouble because they tried a technique before they were ready!

Most people have not purified and awakened these energy centers (chakras),, so they hardly function. Some spiritual and energy practices can help awaken these energy centers to express the radiance of your true nature more powerfully.

When awakened, more of your Light can shine, uplifting your consciousness to more effectively radiate joy and goodness into the world.

The problem with open chakras is that some people become too opened, too soon, and end up attuned to negativity and pain. We don't want to experience that or radiate that negativity into the world.

Sensitive people can take in too much pain from others and from the environment because they don't know how to protect themselves. We can take on  pain of others and find ourselves flooded with depression, anxiety, and other challenging feelings that are not our own.

Instead of radiating Light, we end up experiencing, amplifying and expressing pain.

We don't want to learn tools for opening chakras but rather learn to gradually and safely cleanse and awaken them. I've spent years and years learning and teaching specific techniques to do this.

We can learn to express our Light and power within ourselves and into the world.

My Experience With Helping Folks Awaken Chakras

I’ve been practicing and teaching meditation and awareness tools for over 40 years. I’ve worked with hundreds of people, teaching safe, step-by-step methods of awakening and cleansing energy centers (chakras).

Folks have come to me in pain, confusion, and anxiety, who have practiced opening chakras on their own, often from a book or the internet. They’re in trouble and don’t know what to do. There is so much misinformation out there.

I’ve helped them come back to balance, through Distant Energy Assessment, and guided energy practices called Inner Light-Fire. Sometimes my work has included closing down chakras so clients can slow down, not take in negativity and pain from others, and instead heal themselves. Clients may learn to develop healthy boundaries through our emotional healing retreats.

Dangerous Territory

As a spiritually oriented psychotherapist, I’ve observed people in mental wards who have intentionally or unintentionally opened chakras. They hear voices or see images that most of us would say are not there. They act and behave crazy, and they are not grounded or present.

What may be happening to them is that they have had a chakra opening into realms that they can’t handle, and the information flowing into them is too much. They’ve lost their balance and connection to the earth. It's like they've blown a circuit.

Years ago, I worked with a young man who had taken LSD and practiced Kundalini meditation, at the same time. He focused on opening chakras, but he wasn't ready. He got in touch with such “big energy” that he couldn’t get back to reality. He was living at a mental ward, unable to function. At that time psychiatry and I had little to offer him. 

Now I do. Over the years since then, I've worked with many people who have connected to energies that they couldn't comfortably handle alone.

For people who contact me, I often start with a Life Energy Assessment. In this session, I  evaluate what is going on with them from an energy perspective. Fortunately, this session works just as well long-distance as in person, and I've worked with people all over the world.

After the chakra and body assessment, I often teach clients safe, step-by-step energy meditations that, along with counseling, can help clients move through anxiety, and other emotional states that have troubled them. I also help them ground in the present moment.

I don't work with psychotic people, but I do work with healthy individuals who have the ego strength and desire to become more grounded, balanced and fully alive. For some clients, I recommend deep emotional healing, like the work we do at our retreats. (See below.)

Highly Sensitive People And Open Chakras

Many people walking around have open chakras. You may be one of them! Do you find yourself picking up negativity from others? Do you sometimes go places and feel awful afterward, when nothing particularly upsetting has happened?

We might this person is highly sensitive, although others can use a more judgmental term "oversensitive." Highly sensitive people can take on other people’s energy, or get overwhelmed by intense stimuli. 

They don’t need any more opening to outside influences! What they do need is healthy boundaries and grounding.

Highly sensitive people need to learn how to manage their life energy!

My main professional work is to help people stop suppressing uncomfortable feelings. I teach clients how to transform these stuck feelings into love, passion, and excitement. 

We do this work at our Grief, Loss, and Difficult Feelings retreats. 

Chakra Blockages

Chakras are energy centers in the body that lie vertically along the midline of the body. Different personal growth systems give varied information about the number, size, and position of these centers. 

While they can be sources of pure energy and healing for us, most people’s chakras are hardly functioning at all and, as just mentioned, are open to external negative influences.

And many of us have chakra blockages due to past life experiences. We may have been told our bodies are bad or ugly (see this article on shame) and have little awareness or life energy in our lower chakras around the belly and genital areas. We may be stuck in our heads and out of touch with the present moment.

Or we may feel we are dumb and have a blocked head center. Or that we are out of touch with our feelings and have a restricted heart center. And so on.

I’ve worked with numerous folks who are depressed. I can see that they actually have a “cloud over their heads.” As they cleanse and awaken this chakra, using our techniques, their whole outlook changes. They may also need the deep emotional work mentioned above, to get to the root of their depressed feelings and heal them.

Our clients can make rapid progress as they work through their stuck emotions, especially grief and anger. Suddenly the blockages are gone and they feel better, more joyous, and present.

Opening chakras is not the answer. More often than not, emotional work is much more effective and useful.

Evaluating Your Chakras Session–At A Distance

If you want to find out more, I offer a distance healing energy session where I assess your chakras, body energy and energy field. Using Skype or FaceTime, I look at you with extended perception (developed after years of Inner Light-Fire practice) and discuss what I perceive. It is a full Life Energy Assessment. For more information go to Distant Healing Energy Session.

I also teach a valuable Inner Light-Fire technique to begin cleansing and healing your body and mind. The whole session takes about an hour and thirty minutes and costs $250.

Learn To Awaken and Cleanse Chakras

Instead of opening chakras, I  recommend the guided energy healing meditations we teach, that uplift and transform your body and energy center's consciousness..

Closed chakras don’t need to be opened. Instead, they need to be awakened, so that they function according to their actual purpose. Our energy centers can be beautiful sources for all aspects of personal expression. Awakened chakras express the Light of who you are at the deepest levels.

For example, your heart chakra is a place to express the vital energy of love in your relationships. Your head chakra can be the place for you to get in touch with deep insight and understanding.

Each vital center has a gift to express, the gift of you, your Presence, your Light.

The method for awakening the chakras I teach is called Agni Yoga or Inner Light-Fire. It is not about opening chakras, but transforming them into sources of healing Light.

About once a year, I lead a retreat that includes this safe way to awaken the chakras called Inner Light Healing Retreat.

It’s a step-by-step process of cleansing your whole body and mind, freeing you from energy blockages. It includes techniques to purify your energy centers as part of an overall process throughout your whole body and mind. In this way, awakening happens safely and effectively.

Jon Terrell, M.A. offers counseling and energy healing for individuals and couples at his office in Sunderland, Massachusetts,  and via Skype and FaceTime. He also offers distance sessions for those further away. For more information or if you have a question, contact him using the form below.

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