Base Chakra (Lower Calibration Tree of Life) Pattern.

"I had attended a psychic development workshop and the meditation at the end unfortunately left me feeling disconnected from my physical body - it's hard to explain... basically I could not feel any emotion towards anything.  It was like being in a state of calm, but outside of reality (if that makes sense), I suppose it could be described as mind paralysis.  It was so bad I had to call in sick from work.

I should mention now that I have received acupuncture treatments before for physical ailments and the sensation from that is very different to that of Esoteric acupuncture. Once all the needles were in, I was told to relax and just let them do their work. After a while I could feel the tiny vibrations around the needles, which felt like miniature disks circulating around the base of each of them. It was a weird sensation, but not painful, just interesting to observe.  I could also sense a solid geometric shape in the form of a diamond suspended above my back where the needles were.  Normally with acupuncture, you can feel an energy pulling on the needle, but in a very direct linear way, not in a circular motion, and usually the energy feels a lot heavier, but this was lighter.

After the treatment, I felt more connected with my physical self and able to feel my emotions again. Had I not had the treatment, I'm not sure I would've been able to get out of that state, and it's certainly not one I'd like to be in again.  Sometimes we all wish we would escape from our senses, but when it happens it's a scary place to be.

If the Esoteric world is new to you or you have a curiosity about it, then I think acupuncture could be a good way to start your exploration to all that is out there.  I can totally recommend it and would urge anyone to give it go - whether you believe in it or not"

Solar Plexus Chakra Pattern.

The client said she had noticed some 5 or 6 years ago that she had very few memories of herself as a child. Her dreams of late had recurring themes of an angry young boy & an innocent young girl. She related one instance where the boy wanted to talk to her, but she woke herself up as she couldn’t face it. Once awake she said she felt cowardly for running away.

Whilst the needles were in the client said she saw “endless pictures of scenes from my childhood passing before my eyes, as though I was watching them on cinefilm. Hundreds of images passed through, none of them seeming more significant than others. I remained emotionally detached & just watched.”

Since treatment the client reports that “I now have access to alot more memories of my childhood.” The pattern was repeated a week later. The client reported that the treatment felt more solid & stabilising. “There were no more childhood scenes, but the energy felt more solid & substantial.”

Heart Chakra Pattern.

The client’s relationship had broken down several months prior to treatment & she was still feeling the heartbreak. She woke the day of the treatment with a stabbing pain in her back behind the heart. She said she couldn’t take a full in breath without it hurting. She said that she felt very distrustful before the pattern & wanted to back out.

“As soon as the needles were in, so much hurt and pain poured out. It kept pouring out for maybe 15 minutes. I was very emotional & tearful. Then there was a lull, then more hurt & sadness which quickly turned to intense anger.” She said that the strong emotions kept surfacing until just before the needles came out (around 45 mins). She “focused on just breathing through them, then felt a degree of calmness & relaxation, a hint of a brighter place.” After the needles were removed she reported feeling exhausted, but calm.

The client reported that in the 24 hours after the pattern, a lot more emotion continued to surface, the overriding one being intense rage, underneath which was a feeling of deep hurt. The client said she felt that the “rage has been very deeply suppressed. Whilst it’s pretty uncomfortable, it’s actually a relief to be feeling it. I think it’s releasing something at a very deep level. I have a sense that it may be to do with my father’s emotional withdrawal when I was very young.”

Throat Chakra Pattern.

The client reported that she often has difficulty speaking her mind. She described this as a major life issue and attributes it largely to the effects of being shouted at during her childhood for speaking her mind. She described a recent experience where during a workshop she felt “a very physical sensation of unlocking in the throat chakra, like a key suddenly turning in a lock.” She had also recently had dreams about having to speak out to make things change, and described feelings of intense fear about doing so in these dreams. She said that she felt very fearful about having the pattern needled.

Not much was felt during the needling although awareness was maintained throughout the treatment.

Since the pattern, further issues around speaking out & expressing herself have arisen. “On several occasions I have been able to express from a calm detached space to people when I feel their behaviour is unacceptable. I am still not always able to do this & still feel some fear around it, but there has been a very significant change since the acupuncture.”

She also described a dream where “I actually calmly faced my angry father, raging about nakedness & being hateful & derogatory to women. I was calm in the face of his rage & spoke out in defence of the naked woman, saying this was a natural state of being & that it was his attitude that was inappropriate. It was very empowering.”

Third Eye Chakra (Indigo Triangle) Pattern.

The client wrote the following about their experience of this pattern.

The practitioner put in the first four needles. I asked her to wait for a time before putting in the fifth and final one. It seemed that the first four were preparing the ground, it felt like fertile, fine soil. I waited until each needle had become not just quiet but silent. It was like the silence in the dead of the night, at midnight. When the practitioner placed the last needle in wow! - I burst out laughing! An eye appeared in my forehead and opened its eye! Really, it felt so physical and real- I knew now why it was called the 'third eye' because it really was an actual eye in my forehead.

The practitioner held the needle and for a few seconds I just felt my understanding increasing at a tremendous rate as I felt as if new information was being downloaded into me but too fast and it was more than I could take and I recoiled away from it. It did not come back like that. The feeling then was of thousands of little boxes opening and unpacking themselves within me.

My first understanding was on how the third eye energy, when brought down to a material level, gave the ability for true sight; eyes wide open. For seeing truly and clearly on this plane. The ability of the third chakra/third eye is the interpretation of information on different levels. When it is open one can take in information from different levels at once and relate them to this level.

For myself, there grew an understanding that, for this function to awaken for me, I had to make the conscious decision to go to this level and to take on the responsibility which came with it. I chose to do this and, of course, I was transparent to whatever powers were present, as to my own honesty and intention. I then turned thru 90°. Cannot explain it as I turned within other dimensions. In our normal frames of reference I did not move. But in this dimension, I turned and reorientated and did not move back.

The needles eventually seemed as if they had all clustered together and I knew that the pattern was complete.

Crown Chakra Pattern #1.

The client wrote their own account of this pattern:

The first point needled immediately connected with the brow chakra. After the four outer points were needled I instantly felt a pressure at my crown, which quickly developed into a sunken square structure within my head. There was a sense of peeling back of layers & unfolding & opening as the sensation went deeper. After a short time I felt a complete openness & readiness to receive. The sunken base of the pattern remained whilst I had a sense of the centre rising up, as though my scalp was being pushed up to a point above the crown. At this point I asked for the final needle, which seemed to release the building pressure & allow this rising of energy to proceed to a point above my head.

It’s not easy to write about this pattern as it was not a linear experience. I was supreme stillness, deep peace. It was as if even my breath, although deep, was silent, slow & still. Every cell was still. A blissful state. Divine. I spent much time resting in this energy/space. I feel so thankful for the opportunity & experience, for all that has lead me to this profound experience & awakening/awareness.

At first I was aware of my body & its heaviness/presence, with a sense of pressure building, then awareness moved to a structure, a pyramid around me. Very solid & tangible. Within this pyramid I lost awareness of the body & was the space I was in. It was contained & yet vastly spacious.

At all times my awareness was bright & clear. At a point I became aware of my awareness. It was a point & yet so vast as to have no bounds. Expansion. A part of a vastly infinite web that is all that there is/was/will be. I felt no need to explore this vastness, it was enough just to be aware. All but the awareness fell away. I was no thing, pure consciousness.

I explored the crown. It felt like a wide channel almost as wide as my skull, tender, raw almost, but not at all in a painful way. White gold light flooded in through my central channel, down to my base in waves. I observed it passing freely through each of the chakras (noting a slight block in the sacral area, but still the light was able to flow through) The sparkling light energy bathed my cells, transforming them with high vibration frequencies, extremely fine energies. Along with the energetic awareness I saw a very clear visual representation of this. I had a sense that my cells were able to take on so much more light than they could hold before now. After a while the channel seemed to fill with space, then emptiness. Seems a contradiction in terms to say filled with emptiness, but I don’t have better words to describe it. Then there was no channel, just emptiness.

When the practitioner re-touched the needles, the frequency of the vibration/spin points felt so much finer/more rarefied than before. An incredibly fine light bright frequency of spider’s web platinum.

Since the treatment I feel that every cell is vibrating at a higher frequency. In terms of my awareness I feel that I have progressed further during this treatment than in years of meditation. I feel Divinely connected, deeply peaceful, joyful, energised, bright & clear. There is also a sense of awe & wonder & newness.

Crown Chakra Pattern #2.

The client wrote the following about his experience of this pattern.

It felt very slow to activate at first, very slow and steady. When the practitioner had put in the first four needles she retired before placing the final one in the crown (Du20).

It felt as if the whole of my skin, scalp and skull had been peeled away from the top of my head, leaving me completely exposed, bare and vulnerable. This was not a bad thing. It just was, and there was much activity going on within this space.

On the one hand, this was an opportunity to work with the idea of acceptance of one's own vulnerabilities, with the vulnerability which comes from being open and trusting. It would be quite acceptable I knew, to have this pattern done and, if this was where one was at, to not put in the last (Du20) at all.

Looking inside this 'hole' created by the first four (sishencong) needles, there appeared a small globe, pretty much like a tiny planet earth floating in space. The thought that this was the base chakra and Malkuth, which is Kether on another arc, came to mind. I basically sat with this opening on my crown, and, as I made a conscious choice to accept my own vulnerability in being open, after a few minutes, it suddenly closed and it simply wasn't there any more! This is when I asked for the final needle.

After it was inserted and activated, my first impression was a vision of a lilac tower coming out of the top of my head. I quickly realised that this was just the top of a pyramid extending down to my lower chest.

This pyramid stayed for much of the treatment, sometimes expanding to the size of the room. It felt extremely physical and real; I could feel this rigid structure around me. The thought occurred whether this was similar to the Merkabah structure?

I felt very conscious that the crown chakra is the interface between the human and the divine and very aware of the two energies within myself. Very aware of the limitations of being in a human frame and, at the same time, aware that part of me was also divine and of the same nature as the 'bigger or parent' Divine. One and the same. I felt happy and the limitations of the human frame made me smile. Everything was fine. Perfect actually.

I felt so flooded with Divine energy I did not know what to do with it. The most appropriate thing I could think of to do was to put my hands together and simply 'pray', by which I mean just pour out my feelings of utter gratitude and thankfulness to Divinity. Why? Because I felt filled with love for it and wanted to give my thanks. It just seemed the most appropriate and natural thing to do.

After a while I began to feel sleepy. I was aware that the pattern was still active, but I just did not know what to do with all of this energy. Then I realised; there was nothing to do. It wasn't at all about 'doing'. It simply was. The Divine IS. That's enough. That is all.

I asked the practitioner to hold the needles again and this rewoke both them and me.

I then simply wanted to just sit in this energy because it felt so beautiful and so right. So I did. Every so often I would place my awareness in my crown chakra. At one point I became aware of a small sphere of pearl light, held aloft between four arms of energy; the sishencong. Over the last 20 minutes or so of this pattern, each time I looked there this sphere had grown, until it was around 8 inches across.

The pattern then came to a close in the most natural way imaginable. Like slowly awakening, like a natural birth, like a fully concluded returning.

In all, this pattern was one of the most profound experiences of my entire life. It felt like it opened up a direct line of communicaiton between myself and the Divine. And between my human self and my divine self. It has left me with something very special and a knowing that everything is fine and perfect just as it is. There is nothing to actually strive for.

This is very different from when I first had this pattern done a year previously, when I did nothing but fall deeply asleep for the entire treatment, awaking immediately when the needles where taken out.