and nervous system via certain glands andnerve ganglia. The full chakra system is extremely complex. There are 7 major and over 300 minor chakras in the human body. There are also several non-physical chakrassituated outside of the body. Detailed maps of the chakra system and their connectingmeridians and pathways, have been used for thousands of years in Eastern mysticism andmedicine, i.e., acupuncture. The chakra system is used with every psychic ability, noexceptions. Whatever the psychic ability, the method of development or the terminologyused to describe it; it is all done the same way, through chakra stimulation. It isimpossible to manifest any psychic ability without first stimulating the chakras.Many people will deny this, above, and claim they have never done any chakra, energywork, but still have psychic abilities. There are many ways to develop yourself, agreed,but they all, directly or indirectly, stimulate the chakra system. And lets not forgetnatural ability. Many people are born with naturally active chakras and hence, naturalpsychic ability.Mediums are people who exhibit psychic abilities when aided by a nonphysical spiritentity. This entity stimulates the chakras of the medium directly, by melding with themedium and causing psychic abilities, clairvoyance, channeling, healing, production ofectoplasm etc to manifest through the medium. This is why they are called Mediums orchannels, i.e., they have the ability to become a passive vehicle for a spirit entity toaffect, or communicate with, the physical world.You do not need a spirit entity to develop and use, a psychic ability. If you learn tocontrol your own chakras and energy, you can do these things on your own, with no spiritentity involved, and without the inherent risk involved with that method.Energy RaisingSit, or lie down, do the relaxation exercise and clear you mind with breath awareness.Focus your awareness in your feet. Use your HANDS to pull energy up from your feet,through your legs, to the base chakra. Imagine you are gripping energy and pulling it upthrough you. Just like you did when you used these HANDS with breath awareness andcolor breathing, pulling air and energy into your lungs.Note: Try and imagine your HANDS are inside your legs and just inside the front ofyour torso as you do this.Use breath awareness as an aide to energy rising. Draw energy up through you, with theinhale, and hold it in place on the exhale. Do this over and over again, pulling energy tothe Base chakra, for at least a few minutes. You may or may not feel anything while youdo this. Even if you dont, you are still drawing some energy with this exercise. Theamount of energy drawn up through you will increase as the chakras develop with timeand use.From the feet, up the legs to the base center, is a natural path for the energy that flowsthrough you. This energy will stimulate your chakras and they will transform this, basicenergy, into energy of a different type. This transformed energy will then flow into yoursubtle bodies, energizing them. With practice, you will actually FEEL this energytingling and surging through you. Chakra StimulationOpening a chakra: Your imaginary HANDS are used for this. Imagine you