This chakra resides about one inch below the navel and controls sexual organs, the endocrine glands of the gonads in men and the ovaries in women. Its normal function is blocked by the fear of being hurt by relationships. By people or things which we are strongly attached to - like parents, children or spouse being taken away from us by death or disagreement. The result of this pain, which is stored in the second chakra, is the inability to breathe into the abdomen.

In 30% of all people, as found in many surveys, this is the case. 30% of all people cannot breathe naturally, automatically, without constantly turning their attention towards breathing properly. In extreme cases this lack of proper breathing function contributes or even causes panic attacks, multiple sclerosis, and M.E. or "yuppie flu". Always it causes a lack of energy. So, the retraining of the breathing function can help release this stored pain and give much more energy to the system. The chakra is also called "the lower emotional centre" which is involved in the marital connection and the nurturing of children.

It is Negative Energy held in the Second Chakra, which causes all of the above problems

The lack of education of the Second Chakra is called a lack of Emotional Intelligence Quotient (IQ) which causes the fleeting desire filled relationships we see in modern society and the emotional pain which is always involved. This emotional pain is negative Energy, which causes all the above problems.

The education of the emotions is encompassed in the statement from the "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" - the father of Raja Yoga from the second century AD - "The conscious self mastery of non-attachment towards those things heard about or seen." The ability to stop and start attachment, at will.

The Sanskrit name for Mastery is Acharya. God can be Brahma. The mastery of the connection with God is Brahmacharya. In Sanskrit Brahmacharya is sometimes translated as "Celibacy" but it is not celibacy. The ability to be celibate is only a side effect of the mastery of the Crown Chakra connection. When your connection with God is the Highest. Then you have Mastery over any lower connection. And that lower connection can be the connections between the Second Chakras. The Lower Emotional connection. The connection which can create dependency when addicted to. The connection which is needed in order to create babies.

If you become attached to any Energy lower than the very highest, then you will find the problem of the next story.

Once upon a time there were two boatmen. They knew how to row, but they did not own a boat. They had been drinking and decided to ‘borrow’ a boat and go to a neighbouring town on the River Ganges. At about midnight they came to the shore and saw a new boat there. The moment they saw the boat they were happy.

"We have a boat. Come on, get in." They found the oars and started rowing. All night they were just singing a song as they rowed. Slowly, dawn came.

As you may know, people normally come to take a bath in the Ganges in the early morning. The boatmen saw a couple of people coming whose faces were familiar. "That’s strange," they thought. "How did they get here so easily?" We’ve been rowing half the night."

Soon there was a little more light, and they saw familiar buildings.

"Hey," they called to the bathers; "we are still in the same place. What happened?"

The bathers replied, "What did you expect? Whose boat is this?"

"We just wanted to go to the neighbouring town and come back soon. We have been rowing the whole night. Why are we still here?"

"You fools," they said. "You forgot to undo the knot of the rope attached to the shore. All the while you were tied to the shore."

In the Zen tradition we chant the Heart Sutra to increase our energies. The last sentence of the chant says "Gyate, gyate, paragyate, parasamgyate, bodhi svaha!" The translation of this is "Gone, gone. Gone to the other shore. Landed on the other shore. Let’s go!" or even "Gone, gone beyond. Gone beyond the beyond. Let’s go!"

Without loosing the ropes of attachment, no matter how much practice we do we cannot attain complete freedom to ride the holographic wave of awareness, of integration.

There is a good method. Get some paper and write down everything that you call "mine." My house, my money, my country, my race, my children, my wife, my parents, my body, my intellect, my this and that. Know that every "mine", when it is threatened or taken away from you, will explode into the pain and negativity held in the second chakra.

If the above list was very long then know that you are very far from your goal. As you reduce the list you know you are coming closer to the "other shore."

Disappointment,- The Pain of Bereavement, Divorce and leaving are at the top of this list.

Methods of reducing this list, of having the choice of connection and how to connect correctly are the subject of the Techniques of Energy Enhancement.

We should care about, the expression of love, every member of society. John Donne said - "No man is an Island , complete unto himself. Every man is a part of the Maine" - the continent, society itself. When you hear the bell Toll at a mans death, remember, it Tolls for thee!". This is the ultimate expression of love, the heart chakra in society.

In order for society to evolve, people need to evolve.

They evolve as their lower needs are taken care of.

Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" shows that the lower needs must be taken care of first before the higher, more evolved needs can be activated. An evolving society looks after these lower needs. The more of these needs which are taken care of by society; which are given free by society, then the more highly evolved is that society.

The more a society uses these lower needs as a stick or as a form of "condigne punishment", as JK Galbraith termed them in his book "Anatomy of Power", the more fear will be created which will stop the evolution of people, and so society. This type of society is lower. The more low as more fear is used.

At the moment, in the UK there is a split, stopping the evolution of society. Some of the lower needs are given freely but are removed, you are made to pay for them, if you gain money through work. This basic split in the Thoughtform above is stopping people from working and stopping a lot of creativity through the fear of being sent to jail if found working whilst on basic income.

A Basic Income, money, is given but taken away if you work. If you work, you get no basic income.

I once heard the story of a woman writing a book. Because she was honest, she admitted this fact to the Benefits Office. The Office then took away her basic income, because she was working. You may say that she was stupid to admit this fact to the government, but this moral dilemma is what is happening to the vast majority of people on benefits who wish a better life for their family and want another job. This moral dilemma is squashing the creativity, of which most people are capable. The rules are not allowing them to be creative, To follow the path of their souls. Instead, they are allowed to watch television, or work at one of the countless, soul destroying, Slave Jobs provided by the Government.

The solution proposed by many thinkers, fully in accord with the evolution of advanced societies, is to give every member of society a "Basic Income" which is not taken away when you work. With this income, people will only work if they like the job or if they are greedy. Thus, the lower level basic jobs of society will attract the more lowly evolved. The rich will still be rich. The poor will still be poor. Fear will be eliminated.

Housing is given through Housing Benefit, money, being given but taken away if you work. If you work, you get no Housing Benefit.

The solution is a basic housing benefit payable to everyone which is never taken away.

Medical Benefits are free, but you have to pay more if you work. There is not enough money to pay for some operations so you could die if you have no money. You can get a much higher standard of care if you pay for it.

Medical care should be free but unfortunately is in the hands of a strong guild jealous of their incomes. The Guild fears the loss of jobs and incomes. Thus homeopathy, acupuncture, Bach flower remedies etc etc and Preventative Measures designed to prevent illness are vilified by them as useless. Guilds insist that people are properly qualified as doctors before being allowed to practise in order to maintain the incomes of practitioners. The State will only pay Doctors for health care whereas it should pay any qualified alternative practitioner up to a certain level. Guilds and Pharmaceutical Companies resist preventative measures because they would restrict the incomes of their members through reducing the number of clients and the number of pills ingested.

Preventative measures like Pure Food free of Xeno-estrogenic chemicals, Pure Air free from incinerators and unfiltered factory outputs and Stress Education like yoga and meditation at school will halve the number of operations needed. Then we could more afford the best of health care for the rest.

Education for the young is free. If you live in a poor area, the standard of education is likely to be bad. If you live in a rich area and have good social contacts then you can ensure that your child goes to a good school. If you are rich then you can pay for the best schools.

Education at university used to be grant aided for the poor. If you worked you had to pay more. Now society has devolved, making the above the case for only half of the money. Loans are granted which must be paid back if you are poor. Rich parents pay for their children laying no such restriction, burden, on their future life. – Education is Basic. It is the means whereby society evolves and becomes better. Any restriction to education will restrict society. Education should be free.

Please note that the benefits given by UK society are, as yet, the best in the world. For all its problems, this is the highest expression of love given to its members by any country. Is it any wonder that this world is in the mess that it is?

The reason why money and the fear of having no money is being used as a stick is because of the following story:-

There was once a miner, who only came to work four days a week. The Boss asked the miner why he did not come in to work for the full five days. "Because I cannot live on the wages of only three days." Was the reply.

Money is being used as a stick to make people work. In effect, they must work for money, for life itself. They are being treated as slaves.

However, it is a well-known fact that advanced production techniques and computerisation now make it unnecessary for most people to work in production. Most work can now be done by machines. Thus the growth of unemployment. There is a vast growth of the service industries, which really contribute nothing to society except to the quality of life of those using these workers as slaves.

We do not need all these unnecessary workers working. It is expensive to keep them working. Far cheaper to give them a basic income and the desire to earn more, in more educational and creative ways.

This fear blockage of the Base Chakra is causing many societal problems as well as stopping the evolution of that society.

I could go on about the vast growth of this misery causing Drug abuse, Violence in society and the numbers of people in prison caused, statistically, by base chakra fear.

I could go on about the fashionable reply to this misery, of screwing down the lid. Zero Tolerance and Three Strikes and you are Out, rather than reducing the causes of this misery as detailed above.

There are many poor me’s, but the expression of caring, of love in society, is that everyone should have access to sufficient food, money, decent housing, and education. There should be no-one dying of starvation. There should be no-one living in a box in the street.

There should be many places in well run, excellent, libraries, schools, colleges, Universities and Open Universities on Television. Anything else fosters the ease of people making harsh, violent decisions because the fear of death and the death of our aspirations. It leads to violence and the break down of society.

"Knowledge is Knowing. Wisdom is Doing"

These words are those of the Buddha, spoken thousands of Years ago. And Buddha had exactly the same problem then that we do now. The problem is not that the information is not available. The problem is not that we do not know. It is simply that we do not have the energy to act. Jesus Christ talked of it when he said, "Those of you, who have ears to hear, let them hear." If you really heard the information printed here, you would not hesitate to act. You would not hesitate to hasten your evolution by starting a Meditation course now.

Once There was a husband and wife and as normal they were verbally sparring. The husband was used to it, and as his wife verbally took him apart, I think they call it mental cruelty these days, he calmly ate his meal and read the daily news. Then the talk changed. She said, "Do you know? My brother is going to join the Buddha. He is going to become a monk."

"Oh!" Said the husband, "And when is he going to do that?"

"Next week." Said the Wife.

The husband replied, "Your brother is all talk. He will never do that. If you really know something. If you really know that your daily life has no meaning and that the only way to evolve is to meditate, you could not hesitate like this. Your brother would lay down his clothes now, and walk off to the Sacred Grove, where the Buddha is giving initiation. This very moment."

"Oh!" Said the wife. "And I suppose you are different, you idiot!"

The wife ran after him. "Stop!" She cried. "Where do you think you’re going, cretin!"

And the man replied, "I’m off to take Initiation from the Buddha, right now. I’m going to leave this life. I’m going to become a monk."