Hi, I just wanted to add here my little bit about working with the chakras. I do try to open and balance mine everyday, and recently have kicked it up a notch with some Kundalini yoga excercises for the two chakras that are "underactive" for me (root and navel, just so you know). Anyways, I started to feel energy more so than ususal in these areas, part of it due to the fact that I fell and broke my tailbone recently and have been trying to heal it energetically- I am also trying to interpret just what a break in that area might symbolically mean for me. I do have some pretty good ideas, and have had several answers come to me in dreams.
So, I think that I am making progress, but I start to get weaker and weaker, even suffing from random low grade fevers and what seems to be chronic fatigue syndome and my feet and hands feel stiff and achey, like arthritus. What the heck? So, I start doing research on Kundalini Syndrome because I am writing an article about it, and during my searches I gain a lot of information that I had never come across previously, and I have read numerous books about the chakra system over the years.
The most important thing that I found out was that if you are an "Empath", and believe me, if you are here on this board, you are.(to be exact, you probably are a Shamanic Empath).....you need to not only protect yourself energetically, I know you know that, but being very sensetive, you actually need to work on shielding your chakras instead of opening them up wide. I did read that you could imagine them as a flower that has gently folded in it's petals. I am awaiting some interesting books on this subject due to arrive any day now from Amazon, so as soon as I get the ways in which you can go about this I will post more.
I do hope this tiny bit of information helps, maybe clears up why after all the work you do to open and balance your chakras, you need to constantly do more, and you just don't have the same, blissful experiences as your buddy who is not an empath. If you want to know if you are an Empath take this quiz, it is the one I took
http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/Pangeli ... h-are-you/.
Peace and Love to you all - Dreamgirl