Feeling Thankful is Good for Your Health

Holding and Cradling your Chakras

Having gratitude lifts your energy. Holding and cradling your chakras boosts your gratitude. You
can single out any or all of your chakras for channeling in your gratitude and thanksgiving.

To begin, hold your hands over your third chakra (see Figure 30, p. 149), bring your elbows to
the sides of your body, and hug and cradle the chakra like a baby. Bring your mind's eye into
the chakra and breathe deeply. Send thanksgiving and gratitude. Your body responds when
you treat it like the holy vessel that it is. Be open to whatever you experience.

The Solar Plexus chakra (see pp.167-70 for more detail) is so overactive in our culture that it is
a good chakra to use in learning this technique. Especially when you are feeling tormented by
an inner voice scolding you about what you should do, ought to do, or did wrong, cradle your
Solar Plexus, rocking it like a baby as if rocking it to sleep. Donna makes a "shhh" sound as if
to calm the baby. The forces that cause you to judge yourself, or another, helped you survive,
and you can sincerely feel gratitude toward your third chakra. This makes the chakra less
reactive, helping it to evolve and support you in feeling more centered and confident. You can
cradle and express gratitude toward any chakra in this way, and it will respond.

Note: Page numbers reference Donna Eden's book Energy

Medicine (Tarcher/Penguin, 2008).