It is safe to fill the higher centers with energy, like the head, if you bring it down afterwards to the sub navel and close it.
I don't practise NEW, but with doing this i can take energy to all energy centers without worry.
I've been practicing NEW for a few months now and I'm really pleased with the whole thing. I've been very active on a spiritual path for about 25 years and have tried and mastered a number of spiritual practices, but until now I didn't have a way to instantly gain energy like this.
I am past the stage with the heavy vibrations and other symptoms of clearing energy blockages in my arms and legs. Now I can create a magnetic pull from within my sub-naval center and create a very brisk flow of energy up my legs within seconds and hold it flowing wide open for as long as I want without any breath synchronization, just will and concentration (even watching TV). It usually takes me about 10-15 minutes to get a full, bubbly feeling in my lower abdomen which leaves me feeling slightly as though I need to pee (even if I've just gone).
The thing is that I've done a lot of development work on my main chakras for the last 20 years or so and the structures there are quite cleaned out and resiliant. So I'm very aware of them and especially for the upper 4 chakras, I can easily control the flow of Light to or from them, in or out. So what happens is that I'm very accustomed to pulling a small measured quantity of Kundalini up and stimulating my heart, crown and brow chakras and I can feel them all the time. And sometimes when I'm doing the NEW full body circuit thing, the light just doesn't feel inclined to go all the way down to the subnaval center and instead begins to aggregate in the upper two centers, probably because my consciousness lives up there mostly. I know that Robert Bruce says not to do this so I've tried to keep with his suggestion of cacheing the stuff only in the subnaval center. But I haven't noticed any of the negative effects he mentions as being hazzards of pouring energy into the upper centers. After this had gone on for a while I've said what the heck a few times and just completely filled the subnaval, the heart and the sub-brow centers until they just didn't feel as though they were taking any more in. Nothing bad happened to me at all. No headaches or paranoia or any of that stuff. Of course I had to master some of that stuff in my mid 20's when my Kundalini became active (I'm 43 now). Maybe I've burned out all the crud that can cause the problems he mentions.
So my question is to those of you who have been doing this (NEW) longer than I have, do you ever purposely fill the upper centers and if so have you ever had bad experiences with it? I imagine it's a little like what happens with Kundalini--it energizes whatever is there, good or bad. If you haven't cleared out the cobwebs, then you might have some bad trips...if you know what I mean. So I'm thinking that's why Robert wrote the blanket statement of not doing it. But I'd like to hear from others who might have another take on this. Or any other NEW comments you might have.
It's definitely helped my overall vitality level and improved my sleep quality too. I sometimes wonder if this general phenomenon which Robert calls NEW is a type of yoga that most adepts know about and use to keep them healthy without sleep or food. Comments?
Thanks!!