Body energies, yoga/chakra exercises, Benthe Ploug

Preface

We are heading for a new millennium, a new era and we are confronted daily with changes in physical and psychological levels. For many, it means that the space that used to be filled up by a family, the help and consolation that could be found with the priest or the doctor is replaced by a vacuum. Such a vacuum not only creates fear and insecurity, but also depression and doubt. But the gap may be the driving force that can cause us to delve into ourselves and as the seed in the earth's darkness get strength and power to shoot up - or as Grundtvig says:

The cross that have burdened your neck
can be your richest song -
and then it can happen that you would like to thank
for what you once cried for.

Fear, uncertainty, depression and doubts have the drive to the light, the desire for change. Changes that broaden our consciousness, so we feel we are heading up the mountain, on our way to a broader view and a wider vision.

Therefore, we have to change the authority concept of the past to an inwards directed force. To become and be our own authority means that we must learn to know our capabilities and limitations - and act from there. We need more contact with our emotions, greater insight into what we ourselves believe and feel, experience to have a meaningful life, experience to be part of a larger, higher community from which we can enrich and be enriched by others.

When we choose without doing this knowingly, or from other persons opinion or moral, we suffer and are eaten away by internal divisions. By being conscious of ourselves, our choices, try to be objective and aware of what we say and do, we can change the behavior that gives us pain - and thus promote growth, joy and love.

With this book, it is my desire to turn the authority concept inward, and hopefully you will find joy and inspiration to work with the book's exercises and techniques.

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