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I've been practicing robert bruce's chakra opening methods where you pull energy into the chakras and imagine opening them like tearing a piece of bread apart.

Robert states in his book that chakras will close naturally during sleep.

Does this mean that it is okey to do this chakra opening exercise every night before going to sleep and then just not bother about doing the chakra closing routines ?  Or will I risk "bleeding energy" the next day?

Because he also states that it is absolutely important to go through the closing procedure.

Thanks for any advice.

There are many techniques on how to come closer to a "no thoughts" state in various meditation practices. I have been practicing yoga and meditation for quite a few years and from the books I've read and the courses I've attended I am under the impression that most, if not all, of these techniques are based on concentrating the mind on one thing only for a while. Some of the additional techniques. which I personally find to work very well, is also based on trying to "tire" the mind.

Basic techniques like breath awareness should be a good starting point. Focus all your attention to your breath, experiencing all of your breath, how it flows in and out of your body, how it moves, how it behaves differently from time to time (sometimes calm/slow,some times fast etc), how it sometimes changes by itself during practice, and so on. Many people also add counting breaths, which is good. Or combine breath awareness with other things, like raising energy or whatever.

The key to doing this excercice, whatever variation you choose, is to let it fill your mind completely. When you focus on your breath, let your mind become one with it, to the exclusion of everything else.

After doing this for a while, for example after 50 or 100 inhales and exhales, it should be much easier to work on other things in your mind without being disrupted all the time by thoughts and inner dialog.


Robert Bruce has also described how to exclude everything else from your mind when practicing the rope technique.  I think he also described some other way of practice silencing of the mind, which is based on waiting for thoughts to occur and then just shutting them off at once or something. I think this was in treatrise for astral projection too, but I'm not sure.


One technique I learned in a meditation courses which I've found very helpful is "going for a walk in your mind". Decide upon a route (some existing place) that you know and decide that you will go for a walk. Try to visualize as clearly as you can, try to remember as many details as possible, try to see all the houses and trees and all the twists and turns - do this for 2 minutes and then switch to a completely different concentration routine.

Our instructor would give us one routine like this and we would do it for 2-3 minutes then we would get another technique and focus totally on that for the next minutes and so on. After 3-4 rounds of stuff like this it would be much easier to go on the the next stage in the meditation, which was trying to achieve "no thoughts".

At this stage the  mind is simply tired of thinking. It wants to think nothing at all.

So I've taken this concept and added techniques of my own like doing maths in my head intensely for a couple of minutes, etc etc. It all works well.


Of course, no thoughts at all is probably impossible, and it's not even what you want if you want to practice a specific technique, but the idea is to get much closer to silencing all the useless thoughts, and that is absolutely possible.

i hope this could be of any help, and hope some others have other useful techniques to share too!

Sorry if my english is bad.
Good luck.

I'm still wondering though; is there a chance of experiencing this "energy bleeding" ?

Or is it perfectly OK to say, "open" all chakras when sitting on the bus or something and then just walk around afterwards.

The book still says some stuff about reversing the energy raising actions, like Nagual pasted, to reduce activity in the primary chakras. What is actually the point of doing this?

I'm sorry I only have it printed and it would be too much to type in!

Oh... it seems I'm having an old version of RB's "treatrise on astral projection"...   where he talks about the importance of closing chakras after any energy work, or you will risk "bleeding energy" throughout the day. He uses those words.

I went to read the treatrise on the web just now because my printed verison is packed down in the bottom of a box (I'm in the middle of a moving process) and I couldn't find the same information in it.

However I found a section added in chapter 8 called "closing energy centres?" :

quote: *Author's Note* This section contradicts, corrects and replaces an earlier section in the original Treatise - on closing primary energy centres after using them. The reason for this contradiction is simply that my continuing research has led to an increased understanding of the energy body and how it works - with experience teaching me otherwise in this case:)

and then the stuff you pasted.


now that certainly clears up a number of things!

Thanks a lot for replies.