a mistake to think that anyawareness or visualized action can succeed at closing or deactivating an energy center.This is a little like fanning a spark (inactive energy center) into a flame with anstimulation action (making the spark an 'active' energy center) and then trying to makethat same flame go out by blowing up on it from a different direction. However it isdone, it will continue to fan the flame.Consider this: Most popular chakra opening methods involve visualizing a smalldoor or pair of curtains opening over the site of a chakra. Once this is done that chakra isdeemed to have been 'opened'. This method is then simply reversed to 'close' that chakraat the end of the session. Once these doors have been visualized as closing, the chakrasare deemed to have been 'closed'.Primary chakras are complex non-physical 'vortexes' of energy, each with a greatmany functions, about the size of the palm of your hand. If you look at just how avisualized 'little door' opening technique like this would affect a powerful energystructure like this, it becomes fairly obvious that a reversed action of 'closing' a simplelittle door would have little or no effect. It would also not affect it in the desired way. Ifyou understand how bodily awareness and Tactile Imaging works, as per the Treatise, itbecomes clear this reasoning is somewhat faulty. Both opening and closing methodsinvolve a visualized or bodily awareness action at the site of a major chakra. Bothopening and closing actions will, therefore, each cause some degree of stimulation.Primary energy centers cannot be likened to simple mechanical devices that can beswitched off or closed by any such visualization or awareness action.Energy centers are, I think I have shown, not simply little doorways that can beopened and shut with good intentions and a little visualization. Some people may disputethis, as energy centers are 'traditionally' supposed to be closed after use; as per popularnew-age type theories and literature on this subject. Be that as it may, my logic is soundand based on repeatable experiments, and energy centers simply 'cannot' be deactivatedor 'closed' in this way. If a person thinks they have succeeded at doing this, they will find this is merely a coincidence, and that the energy centers in question were deactivating ontheir own anyway. In most cases, primary energy centers will begin deactivating veryquickly from the moment relaxation discipline is broken, when physical body movementand normal levels of mental activity are restored. Reversing the energy 'raising' action and taking energy down through the legs (notthrough primary centers) however does help reduce activity in primary energy centers.This reversed energy raising action does not involved any type of direct chakrastimulation and will reduces the amount of energy flowing into the energy body,especially through the legs. This reduces the amount of energy available to primaryenergy centers, thereby reducing activity in them to some extent. This does not, however,involve any focused awareness actions at the sites of primary centers.Energy centers, primary and secondary, naturally reduce their level of activityonce relaxation discipline is broken, as well as when they cease to be stimulated or used.The best