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When Healing Tattoos Talk…

Published on May 31, 2010 in Chakras. 0 Comments

I want to share an amazing Chakra Booster experience I had while I was in Greece teaching my chakra workshops, but first, I have to give you a wee bit of back ground information.

My boyfriend, Blayne, and I have been enthusiastically wearing and sharing my Chakra Boosters Healing Tattoos since their inception.  Around the New Year, we both began to comment on an interesting phenomenon we had independently observed over time – if we were applying a CB tattoo to someone who had pretty strong energy in a particular chakra, the tattoo seemed to stay longer, and even slightly resisted removal when we went to take it off with baby oil.

Conversely, if we were applying a tattoo on a chakra that felt very weak, a crack line would appear, or the tattoo would wear off more quickly and easily than usual.

Since we both had experienced this, we thought our observations had validity, but we weren’t completely sure – at least, not until I had an experience with Adriana in Greece (her name has been changed for her privacy).

Adriana was a sweet and lovely yoga teacher at an Athen’s studio.  One night, after her class, I offered her a Chakra Boosters tattoo and she enthusiastically accepted – saying that she really needed a third chakra boost.  I proceeded to check her third chakra energy by holding my hands inches away from her solar plexus in both the front and back, and I immediately detected a palpable weakness.

I told her I would put two Chakra Boosters on her – on front and back – and proceeded to put one on the back.  I placed it on her skin and wet it as I had done hundreds of times before on others, and something happened that had never ever happened before – the tattoo practically shredded off her back.  Over half of it peeled right off!

Curious, I tried the front – and it peeled off too!  I then started investigating more deeply (I love investigating!) and asked Adriana if she had put on any lotion or oils that day.  Her answer was a simple “no.”  Okay, I thought, then I will try another chakra to see if it is her skin that is “rejecting” the tattoo.  If her skin is the problem, then no tattoo will stick.

I asked her which chakra she considered her strongest.  She told me it was her fifth, which was no surprise at all, since everyone in Greece seems to have a strong fifth chakra!  I applied the tattoo on the back of Adriana’s neck and it stuck beautifully.  Perfectly.  Wow, I thought, it wasn’t her skin.  It was the “relationship” between her third chakra energy — that was not just weak, but resistant – and the CB third chakra tattoo!

I decided to further my investigation by seeing if I could shift her energy and reapply the two tattoos.  The studio where she worked was closing in mere moments, so I gave her a quick Sitha Healing focused on the third chakra, and she said she could immediately feel her energy shifting.  Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to re-apply the tattoos.  But 48 hours later, I saw her at the studio and suggested we try applying the third chakra tattoos again.  She gladly accepted, and this time, they both went on perfectly – no peeling at all (though the back side did have a small crack – evidence of a bit of continued weakness there).

Many customers have written to me with wonderful, interesting Chakra Boosters stories – of neck and back pains disappearing (L.A.), dreams getting clearer and more vivid (Greece and Burbank), feet feeling more grounded (L.A. and the Bay Area), and headaches disappearing (Sweden), but this incidence with Adriana sticks with me in an even more indelible way because I saw it and felt it as it physically happened.  I witnessed the energetic and physical worlds interacting!

Skeptics often try to say that the mere idea of the chakra tattoos creates a positive result by causing the “placebo effect” for the wearer, and if that is the case, good. Healing of any kind is always good.  Nevertheless, this incidence with Adriana showed me quite clearly that there is a tangible relationship between one’s chakra energy and the Chakra Booster tattoos.  Our body has energy and intelligence in its very cells – as do the tattoos with their color, symbols and elements, and there is an actual relationship between the two.

Have you had any similar experiences with the Chakra Boosters Healing Tattoos?  If so, I’d love to hear from you!  If you aren’t sure which of your chakras are “strong” or “weak,” you can ask an energy practitioner or take the quick but thorough verbal test on the Chakra Boosters home page.  While not a perfect measure, it is a very good starting point.

Chakra Boosters Tattoos – On Front Or Back?

Published on February 7, 2010 in Chakras. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

A couple of people have emailed me with a very important question that I want to address today – should Chakra Boosters Temporary Tattoos be worn on the front or back of the body?

First, let me just say that hair can obviously be a problem in certain areas of either the front or back of the body – and if you don’t want to shave it off, you probably don’t want to put a tattoo there for the same reason band-aids are never fun to remove – hair and adhesives just don’t mix.

Simple, huh?   Still, I wanted to get that logistical point out of the way, before approaching the front-back tattoo placement issue from a place of deeper meaning.

The question about the placement of chakra tattoos is actually a very good one, because the energy fields of the front side and back side of the body are very different.  The front body represents the conscious part of us, the Individual (ego) Self and the future, while the back body represents the unconscious, the Universal (spirit) Self, and the past.

So, for instance, if I put the third chakra tattoo (confidence, decisive action) on the back body, I am going to heal old insecurities – perhaps ones that come from my childhood or a past life, while if I put it in the front, I will gain a boost to my confidence for things that are going on right now and in the near future.  For instance, I could lead or perform more confidently or more easily finish a task or project in front of me, without procrastinating or giving up.

The third chakra is the home of the ego self, so it is advisable to make sure that old confidence issues are healed (back body placement) before wearing the front on a regular basis.   If one is insecure from the past, but feels compelled to act confident and boisterous, it can come off as unreal, compensating or overbearing.

Of course, there is always the option of wearing the third chakra tattoo on both sides of the body – and I have personally done this quite a bit.  But wearer beware – the third chakra is the “caffeine” of the energy body (it deals with digestion and metabolism and carries the element of fire), so if you put third chakra tattoos on both the front and back of your solar plexus, and you don’t have a project in front of you to work on, you might feel a bit antsy or anxious, like a car spinning its wheels while stuck in the mud.

Now, let’s look at the heart chakra.  If you put it on the back body, you are going to heal old relationship wounds and grief.  While if you put it on the front body, you are going to radiate more love forward – expressing it and sharing it with those around you.  Again, it’s good to start on the back to heal yourself and fill your own cup first, so that when you share your love “forward,” it is from a place of overflow.

I think it’s simple enough to figure out the appropriate placement for the other chakra tattoos using the same principle – that the back body heals the past and the Universal or Spiritual Self while the front body moves one healthfully into the future and deals more with the Individual or Ego Self.

I think it’s interesting that the top three chakras that literally represent the spiritual (as one rises above the heart and starts to serve a higher purpose) present a particular challenge for front side usage.  The throat chakra tattoo (speaking one’s truth) is just biologically awkward to apply on the front, especially for men, due to the Adam’s apple.

Nevertheless, I did wear the throat chakra tattoo on the front once, when I was a guest on my friend, Martin Hulbaek’s radio show.  Interestingly, that show faired very well for moving me forward in my personal communication, because the Director of Spirit Quest Radio heard me that day and offered me my own show. Now I host “Personal Evolution with Vicki Howie” on SQR on Sundays at 2 pm PST.

For most people, the sixth chakra tattoo can typically only be worn on the front side, due to hair being on the back side.  My recommendation for both the 6th and 7th chakras is to wear them anywhere you want, since we are about 70% water and our systems are circulating and bringing the energy wherever it is needed.

Still, my favorite way to wear the 6th chakra tattoo is this:  right before I go to bed, I peel the plastic cover off of it and place it face-down on the space above and between my eye brows.  Then, instead of wetting the paper of the tattoo, I simply leave the paper on as I sleep.  In the morning, I peel it off and put it in a zip-lock bag to wear again the next night.  It always lasts me 1-2 weeks before losing its stickiness, and I feel like I get clearer mentally and psychically — while I sleep!

As for the 7th chakra, my favorite place to put it is on the upper back, at the “high heart” – in the space between the 4th and 5th chakras.  It looks lovely there and brings peace and calm to the system.  Of course, if you are bald, I highly recommend wearing the 7th chakra tattoo right on your crown – at the top of your head.  You’ll make everybody wish they were bald :-) .

Beyond “Self-Help”

Published on December 25, 2009 in Chakras. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

When I was a teenager, my mother joined AA, started doing the twelve steps, and introduced me to the concept of “Self-Help.”    I became a sort of addict.  In any bookstore – shiny and new, or dusty and used – I could be found perusing through the “Self Help” section.  I devoured the works of Shakti Gawain, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Dorothy Corkville Briggs, and Seth, just to name a few.

So the term “Self-Help” held a certain nostalgia for me – or more accurately, a comfortable familiarity.  But recently, while going through the process of what to name this blog, I realized I had thoroughly out-grown it.  In fact, I no longer even like it.  I’m fine with the “self” part, but “help” implies there is a problem that needs to be fixed – or worse, that if there isn’t a problem (that is, we don’t need “help”) then we need not engage in personal development.

It all boils down to this:  after numerous decades of “fixing” my “problems,” I’ve now discovered that it’s more evolution I seek than solutions to my “problems.” How do the two differ?  Quite simply, “helping” yourself or “fixing” means going from a negative state to homeostasis of some sort, whereas evolution is endlesssssssss.

I know I don’t plan on stopping any time soon.

So welcome to “Personal Evolution”  – a blog about personal possibilities and all the modalities you can access to be the best possible you!

Just to give you a heads up, I will be writing about each of the seven, main chakras over the coming weeks – describing their characteristics (chakraristics) :-) and suggesting ways to boost and/or balance them.  If you are curious as the current state of your chakras, here is a quick and interesting chakra test you can take (warning:  take it quickly; don’t overthink!): Chakra Test