1. Focus your attention on the area a little above your navel. Imagine that you can gather this energy into a sphere in the middle of your stomach. Breathe in and out through the belly. Notice if it has a color, texture, or weight.
2. Take a breath and picture lifting this sphere with your inhaled breath to the center of your chest. Keep shifting and lifting with the breath, until you feel more centered in your heart space than in the belly. Breathe in and out at the heart center. Notice changes in the sphere. Stay here awhile.
3. Now lift the sphere in your chest (which will feel lighter) to the middle of your brow with a series of uplifting breaths until you feel more centered in the 3rd eye than in the heart space. Breathe as if you had a nose in the middle of your forehead. Notice changes in the energy you have lifted. Stay here awhile.
4. Then from your brow, lift the sphere to the 9th chakra ( a little above the top of the head) Keep shifting the sphere of energy until you feel more centered in the 9th chakra, than in the brow. Notice how the energy feels and stay there until it is time for you to return.
You may use this meditation to relax, to move to higher realms or perspective and awareness, and to seek wisdom as you move through the energy centers of your body.
I always encourage you to keep a journal of these meditations so you can look back at them to see changes.
To retrieve these messages, sit in a comfortable position and start taking a series of deep cleansing breaths. Take the time to settle yourself and clear your mind of the days events.
When you feel quite and comfortable, focus first, on the base chakra. See the swirling red energy of this chakra. Connect with this energy and then when you are ready, ask this chakra if it has any messages for you. Take a moment and hear, see, feel what this chakra has to say. Write down everything you receive from this chakra. When you feel you are done here, move to the next chakra, the spleen.
Do as stated for all the chakras till you reach the Crown chakra. When you are down with the Crown, say thank you to all the chakras, for relaying the messages you received. Take a few deep breaths to clear your energy and to bring you back into your more physical state.
After this is done, move on to the next chakras and assess as you go. If any messages or reasons why the chakras have become unclear or unbalanced, write this for future reference and avoid what has come up to affect your chakras. Move your way up to the Crown chakra. When you are done, close your cleansing session with a brief meditation of cleansing breaths for all part of your physical and energetic bodies. Bring yourself back to a more conscious state of mind.
If you feel that you need to cleanse the higher chakras, do so. Most of the time these chakras are clean. You just have blocked them from yourself.