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The Hara Level

The haric level is one quantum leap deeper into your nature and one dimension deeper than the aura. The haric level is the foundation upon which the aura rests. Hara is defined by the Japanese as a center of power within the lower belly. While the aura is related to your personality, the haric level is related to your intentions. It corresponds to your life task or your deeper spiritual purpose. It is the level of your greater incarnational purpose and your purpose in any given moment. It is here that you set and hold your intention.

The haric level is much simpler than the auric field, which has a very complicated structure. It consists of three points along a laserlike line that is on the center line of our body. It is about one-third of an inch wide and extends from a point about three and one-half feet above our head, down deep into the core of the earth. The first point above the head looks like an inverted funnel. Its wide end pointing down is only about one-third of an inch wide. It represents our first individuation out of the godhead, when we first individuated from God in order to incarnate. It also carries the function of reason. It carries our reason to incarnate. It is through this place that we connect to our higher spiritual reality. This place could be called the individuation point or ID point.

If we follow the laser line down into our upper chest area, we find the second point. It is a beautiful diffuse light. It corresponds to our emotion. Here we carry our spiritual longing, the sacred longing that leads us through our life. It brings the passion we have to accomplish great things in our life. This longing is very specific to our life task. We long to accomplish it. It is the thing that we want to do more than anything else in life. It is what we have come for. It is the longing each of us carries within, that lets us feel why we are here. This point could be called the seat of the soul's longing, or soul seat.

The next point on the line is the tan tien, as it is called in Chinese. It is the center from which all martial artists move when they perform. It is from this center that martial artists draw power to break concrete. It appears to be a ball of power or center of beingness, about one and one-half inches in diameter. It is located about two and one-half inches below the navel. It has a strong membrane around it, so it looks a bit like a rubber ball. It can be gold in color. This is a will center. It is your will to live in the physical body. It contains the one note that holds the physical body in physical manifestation.

It is with your will and this one note that you have drawn up a physical body out of the body of your mother the earth. It is from this center that healers can also connect to a great deal of power to regenerate the body, provided that the healer grounds the haric line deep into the molten core of the earth. When their haric line extends down into the earth, healers can gather great power. When used in healing, the tan tien can turn very bright red and become very hot. This is what is meant by being grounded on the haric level. When this happens and the tan tien turns red, healers feel intense heat all over their body.

When you have set a clear intention on the haric level, your actions on the auric and physical levels bring about pleasure. We will discuss dysfunction in the haric level (that is, your intention and your life task) with relationship to health throughout this book. For example, illness can be caused by unclear, mixed, or opposing intentions and disconnection from one's life task. Many people, especially in the modern industrialized part of the world, walk around in great spiritual pain because they do not know that they have a life's purpose. They do not understand why they are in pain. They don't know there is a cure for this kind of spiritual pain. The disconnection from their deeper life's purpose shows in the haric level. It can be healed from this level.

The Haric Level in Health and Healing

In health and healing, the same principle of aligning with your purpose holds true. To the extent that you stay on line with your purpose to maintain or regain your health, to that exact degree you will maintain or regain your health wherever it is humanly possible.

Distortion in the hara line and the points along it depict the tremendous pain of humanity. This is pain that humanity feels but does not understand. Dysfunction, in the haric level, is related to intention and life task. Many people do not even know, let alone understand, that we create our own experience of reality. They do not understand the idea of life purpose or life task. They do not understand the idea that our intentions have a great effect on our lives. They are not aware of the subtle but powerful shift that a change in intention causes in our auric fields and our creative energy flow. In any serious or long-term illness, a dysfunction in the hara line will be apparent. A trained healer will be able to work on the haric level to heal it. Healing the haric level involves working on the deeper issues of the client's intention, including purpose at any one given moment, and life task issues. Before giving examples of what this means in practical healing sessions, let us first look at the types of distortions that can occur in the points along the hara line and in the hara line itself.

Dysfunction in the Tan Tien

Dysfunction in the tan tien shows in several ways. It can be displaced. It can be too far forward, backward, or to one side of the body. It can be misshapen. The membrane enclosing the tan tien can be torn, half of it blown open, or even worse.

The result of tan tien dysfunction is chronic back problems. If the tan tien is too far forward, the lower part of the pelvis will be tipped backward. Such clients are trying to jump ahead of themselves. If the tan tien is too far back, the lower pelvis will be tilted forward. Such clients are "holding back" from their life task. Both of these will show in the body as lower back problems.

Since the tan tien carries the one note, or tone, that holds the body in physical manifestation, if the tan tien is torn or blown open, its tone will be way off. In such a case, the body and psyche can be badly shaken. I have seen people with such a condition go into hysterics and not be able to get out of it for several hours. I have seen the body become extremely weak and not be able to recover its strength for years. I have even seen cases where the legs deteriorate.

No matter what such people do for themselves, even physical exercises, nothing will help much until the damaged tan tien is repaired. Therefore work must be directed toward healing the tan tien by repairing it, positioning it correctly along the hara line, connecting it to the earth through the hara line, and charging it. A healer who is advanced enough to do hara healing can do this directly or with long-distance healing.

Healing the tan tien may also occur by doing martial arts with a good teacher. The practice of tai chi is very good for this. It is very important to learn martial arts from a good teacher so that it is done right. Otherwise, the healing effects won't happen.

After the tan tien is repaired, then physical exercise to maintain alignment is very effective. All physical exercise ought to be done with focused intent to bring conscious awareness into the body.

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Dysfunction in the Soul Seat

The soul seat usually becomes disfigured by shrouding. That is, it gets covered by a dark cloud of energy. The result of this is that people don't have the ability to feel what they want now or in the future in life. They have no feeling for what they want to do in their lives. Such people also usually have a sunken chest and display a "give up," "I don't care," or "life is boring and meaningless" stance. They carry a deep sadness.

When a healer begins to clear the cloud of dark energy and enhance the light of the soul seat so that it begins to expand and flow forth, clients usually have one of two reactions. In the first, they may suddenly feel a new lease on life and being re-creating life according to spiritual longing of which they are now aware. The second is that they may go into mourning for all the lost time in life in which they have not been doing what they wanted to do. After a period of mourning, clients' lives begin to take on new meaning. New eros is born, and clients find themselves full of great excitement about what they can do with their lives.

Many people create a shroud of dark energy around their soul seat after they lose a loved one. This anesthetizes their feeling of loss. But it also stops the natural mourning process. If the couple had great plans with each other that were not fulfilled, many times the person who is left alone in the physical world thinks that continuing with the plans, as they were before the death, is an act of loyalty to the deceased. Unfortunately, since all plans are alive, constantly changing and unfolding, that doesn't work. Blocking the mourning will not allow the plan to be alive and changing. Refusal to mourn will eventually freeze all the life-force out of the plan. And after some time, no more unfolding of the work will continue. People will focus on preserving the work, and it will take on a museumlike quality.

The way to heal this is to go through the mourning of the loved one. This will release the plans for unfoldment. It can be done at any time. This allows other people to enter into the plan for new life and companionship. It is never too late for anything. The plan can be accomplished, but in a different way than before, because different tools and people will be there for its accomplishment.

Dysfunction in the ID Point

The funnel-shaped individuation point above the head can get distorted in form or clogged up. This results in a disconnection from the ID point. When the healer clears and reconnects this point, clients will actually begin having childhood memories about being connected to God. They will also begin to develop a new connection to God through their personal experience, rather than accept God according to someone else's description or rules, as in many organized religions.

Dysfunction in the Hara Line and Its Points

From observation, the alignment of most of humanity's hara line is not ideal. No-one has been observed who is able to hold their hara line straight and in alignment all the time. Most people do not hold it in alignment at all. A few can hold it perhaps thirty percent of the time. A very, very few can hold it more than fifty percent of the time. Most martial artists, after years of training, are able to hold the lower portion of the line that connects between the earth and the tan tien. Some can hold the middle part of the hara line from the tan tien to the soul seat. But they do not know about the upper part of it. It takes years of training for anyone to connect to and hold the entire hara line in alignment for any length of time.

Instead, most people are misaligned most of the time and suffer greatly from it. Misalignment in the haric level shows as distortions in the hara line and the three points along it, as well as disconnection between each of the three points and/or the earth. The figure to the left shows the most common haric level distortion that many people of our culture have.

It shows that:

The tan tien is off to the right of center, causing the person to be overly agressive. (The right side of the body in general has masculine/aggressive energy.)
The laser line is not connected to the earth, so that the person has no grounding to support aggression that is useful in a positive way. In other words, this person is dangerous and can be irrationally aggressive without power. Nor is this person connected to "being on the earth" with others and thus has a difficult time relating to other earth inhabitants.
The tan tien is not connected to the soul seat, so that this person's physical existence is not connected to the spiritual longing that is designed to lead him or her through life. Thus, the person cannot feel and does not know what he or she came here for, so he or she cannot accomplish it.
The laser line is not connected to the ID point, so this person is not connected to the godhead and thus has no true personal connection to spirituality or religion.

As a result of the above-listed distortions, many people in our culture are largely disconnected from the earth, from their fellow creatures, from God, and from their purpose, as well as from themselves. This causes great pain, both on the emotional and on the spiritual levels. They don't know why they are here, they don't believe there is a purpose to their lives, and they are very uncomfortable on earth. In short, as the popular saying goes, Life sucks and then you die. This too can be healed through hara healing.

Hara lines of people of other cultures are different from those of Americans. People in different cultures distort their hara lines in different ways. People within the same culture distort their hara lines in similar ways. Therefore, people within the same culture suffer in similar ways.

Hara Healing

Once healers have determined the state of the haric level, they can work on the haric level for healing. This healing will bring it back to the state of healthy alignment, balance, and charge, as shown in the colored figure. It will also put clients squarely back on their life path, and their life will change, usually quite a lot in a very short time. As people return to their true life's path, all the material world around them that is not in harmony with that life path either changes or drops away. This includes material possessions, jobs, and living location, as well as friends and intimate relationships.

The entire text of this article is taken from Barbara Brennan's book, Light Emerging, page 29 and pages 291-5.