This is an excellent meditation, and at only 21 minutes, it isn’t too overwhelming.

My advice beforehand is to be aware of where your chakras sit in your body, and their associated color. Draw a picture and sit it next to you if you have to so that you can peek at it to remind yourself. Honestly, though- once you do this a few times, you’ll feel them without having to think about it.

I picture chakras as these whirling holes inside our body- black maelstroms surrounded by fleshy lotus petals. The centers are more like starry skies than a vaccuum, but there is a sort of beautiful terror in them too. A sentient whirlpool, both harmless and horrifying.

Even I initially thought it sounded terribly hokey. Mostly because spiritual things are so openly mocked, because believing in anything in this world makes you a rube. There is so much shame attached to words that are centuries old, somehow.

Once I saw them for myself in 2005, everything changed.

Each chakra tone in this meditation is three minutes. The goal is to inhale continuously through the vocal “ohm” sound, and exhale continuously through the celestial sound. It requires real focus, because it is outside a natural rhythm of breathing, and for most of you (and in some chakras, even for me) it will be very hard to breathe that slowly, that intentionally. It’s so slow it feels like suffocation. It sets your body into a strange panic, followed by an intense dissociative serenity.

As you cycle through each chakra, take note of your body. Is it hard to breathe? Does it hurt? What do you feel inside it? What thoughts float up?

This entire meditation you should try to keep your closed eyes turned up towards your third eye. Focus on it so hard it aches and then release.

Every time you drift off into a thought, flick your eyes up to your third eye with force, and it will reset your brain and bring you back to the present.

If you’re new to this, I also recommend holding crystals in your palms or laying them on your knees for this- amethyst, clear quartz, selenite, labradorite, fluorite. It will help you focus, and also align you to the right vibration.

Selenite is really the king of energy- everyone should have a selenite wand. It naturally cleanses and charges all crystals and is one of the few stones I can really feel in my palm.

Do whatever feels natural as you meditate. I usually lay my hands on that chakra, especially if it aches, but also to keep myself focused on it. I use my hands to “draw” energy out of certain chakras like I’m pulling scarves from a sleeve. Some make me rock back and forth. Some make me lay down flat. Some make me gasp and panic. Some make me hold my palms together and rub them slowly in circles, as if I am making balls of cookie dough.

It’s okay. All of it is okay. Take note and move on.

When I was first healing from “Alex,” I had the most issues with my root and sacral chakras. My connection to my sacral is still very hit or miss- it’s all the way on or all the way off.

By the way, if you get tuned into your sacral, you can have orgasms just from breathing into it.

My two most burdened chakras are my solar plexus and my heart chakras. They scream in pain the whole time I breathe, throbbing like an infected wound. It’s where I store all my trauma and sadness and wounds and rage. It’s better than it’s ever been, but there are still so many skeletons to unearth and give an honorable burial to.

My throat chakra I always have to pull ugliness out of (imagine that!). All this sass, all this unnecessary spite.

My third eye is a world on fire after seventeen years of deep intense meditation, honestly. I don’t even need to meditate to feel it. When I’m stressed I subconsciously rub my thumb against it. Trying to blind it, I think. Ha! …ha.

And then at my crown, I sob through nearly all three minutes, releasing everything I passed up through it from my root. I imagine toxic poison flowing out of the top of my head. I hold my crown and imagine my body filled with light as I weep.

Anyway. Highly recommend. This is great for both beginners and sages. It keeps you very present, very focused. Think of your breath, and let everything else flow.

You start a whole new life once you begin peering into yourself.