Though this isn't a direct answer to the question you are asking, I believe it's an answer to why you asked the question :) ...

I feel tied up in knots, that my friends manage this stuff and I don't, I should be better at this by now, and I get frustrated and angry with myself.

@Grace, don't be so hard on yourself. You really are doing extremely well just being here and understanding so many of the ideas that get thrown around here on IQ. It took me many years to grasp these concepts and you are up to speed with them in a few months :)

The thing to really remember right now is that the times we are living through are pretty unusual...intense is a good description. There is a lot of energy flying around and people are getting stirred up very easily and "issues" are popping up for many people in dramatic and powerful ways.

I received the following email from Wendy Kennedy's mailing list yesterday (she's the Ninth Dimensional Pleiadian Collective channeler) and, though it's been a long time since I've personally felt "depressed" or "blue" about anything, I could really identify with it because I can sense how raw and ragged the vibrational "energies" are on this planet these days.

Greetings,

Wow! I feel like I am typing the same thing I did last month, but I do hope you are all taking especially good care of yourselves. The energy this week in particular has been INTENSE. I found this to be true for myself as well as for my clients, family, and friends. One of the perks with my "job" is that I get loads of feedback which helps me to recognize trends in collective energy so I know it's not just my own personal stuff I am feeling and processing, but the collective energy is amplifying my own. Somehow knowing that seems to put us more at ease, and we can have a bit more patience with ourselves and others through the process.

Some of you may be wondering what an "intense" week looks like. To give you an example, I woke up Tuesday morning feeling energized and inspired. Two hours later I was in a complete funk, depressed and feeling blue. I hadn't spoken with anyone or done anything significant to warrant such a mood change, and I was keenly aware that the vibrational state I was in was a choice. I had the power within me to choose another vibration. Oddly enough, I decided to explore it for a bit, realized I was bored with it and shifted back to a more positive frequency. A few hours later the process began again with a new set of issues. Keep repeating that every few hours and it makes for an intense week!

The idea that our emotions are a choice seems odd sometimes to us. We believe we don't really have a say. "My emotions are my emotions. I just feel that way." But we do have a choice. I have included an extended clip from last month's group session on that very topic below.

Emotions As Choice - The Ninth Dimensional Pleiadian Collective

Higher Frequencies Newsletter - August 2012

Hi I have found when I have a day that I am down, I have a few visualizations that work.

Firstly, we are constantly bombarded with negative images and energies in order to keep us as a humanity in a position of submission. Governments and corporations today cant afford to have an enlightened population that ask questions so they prefer to have us in a state of fear and anxiety. There are mechanisms in place to keep us down, that is our first issue to overcome. We can alter our mind by altering what we feed it with, if news and TV depress you , turn them off and listen to podcasts, where you choose the content and therefore control how your mind is fertilized.

Another point, We have a direct line of energy with most people we deal with, if you close your eyes you will see ‘’strings’’ of light or energy that connect most of us together. If we have a lot of enemies we can draw in a lot of anger and hatred from people that can cause us to feel uneasy or depressed. If we are close to people and they are down we can sometimes sense their depression through these links. When we feel anxious, scared or depressed, we need to ascertain if it is us that is feeling these emotions or are we sensing them from somebody else.

With regard to our chakras, they are the windows to our worlds, if you get in your car and drive for a few hours you will need to stop and clean the bugs off your windscreen. We are the same, we need to stop sometimes and clean the bugs off our spiritual windscreens, sometimes on a bad day, every few hours we need to do it.

When it comes to draining or removing negative energy you can try a few visualizations.

1) Imagine you can see yourself represented as a glass image of yourself. It looks like you but it is like a glass mannequin. See through. Inside you can intuitively visualize a dark liquid level. This will be your negative energy level, for some people it will be low and for some it will be high or medium. If you look closely you will see at your ankles there are two corks. When you remove the corks the liquid level will drain and be absorbed into the earth, transmuted and dissipate, the energy wont hurt the earth, instead the earth will find the best use for your unwanted negative energy.

Now if you look you will see a stream of light coming straight through the top of the glass image of you, it is like liquid light, it flushes and swirls and rinses every corner of the glass mannequin that is you, the liquid also flows out the corks and into the ground till you feel your have rinsed enough and are squeaky clean. The corks are then placed back into the ankles and mould up and seal. The liquid light coming in turns to a bright powerful luminescent light and radiates through the glass. These bright clean image then gets placed over you. You can alter this visualization to what ever works for you, we are all different and there is no one silver bullet cure for everybody.

2)Close your eyes and see yourself standing in a perfectly green and peaceful field. A stream of light flows down into the top of you and through you and into the ground. Look and see the various strings or cords that are being connected to you from various places, don't judge them, just see them. A brilliant light being appears next to you and removed these cords from your and ties them into the steam of light coming into you so that all the cords are tied back to the source of the light and not tied to you. The cords then dissipate and you can no longer see them or feel them. You begin to radiate light and energy.

I find that this helps me because all those string and cords attached to us could be friends or enemies, by tying them to the light we feed them with positive energy and that can feed them with high vibration energy and lift their spirits and energies to. When it comes to enemies, if we feed them with good energy the problem dissipates and normally resolves.

When we fight with somebody we normally think hatred toward them and them toward us and we just create a huge cycle of negative attitude that eventually affects everybody that is corded to us.

Again, you can alter this to whatever suits you and works best, i could go on for hours but will leave it at that,

best regards Etienne Olivier

Here is an EFT Chakra cleanse....I've used this myself. The best method is to use water by wetting your hands or just do it in the shower....it works!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hy3P0W2BU

Dear Grace,

I can't be 100% sure, but it sounds like you may be experiencing something which "feels" negative, but is actually positive, and which happens to a lot of people when they first start making major spiritual progress. According to Swami Sivananda (a renowned teacher in the ancient, classical yogic tradition), often after the spiritual aspirant begins to make significant progress on the spiritual path,

he is horrified to find that, after a time, instead of feeling a gradual and progressive purification, morally, mentally and spiritually, he experiences more impurity, evil and undesirable emotions and thoughts. What is this strange phenomenon? Is he slipping backwards? What is this queer stage he is passing through? Is he indeed moving towards Light or getting more and more into darkness? These considerations begin to trouble his mind seriously. His natural anxiety and grave concern over his inexplicable state is quite understandable. If he reflects a little and patiently tries to introspect and analyse his condition and the change that is going on within him, he will soon know the actual truth and will at once be reassured. His mind will be at rest.

What is happening here, sans yogic lingo, is that a purification process is going on. Much like when one has food poisoning and goes through a process of vomiting, the vomiting feels horrible, even worse, but the body is actually making itself healthy. You could also liken the process to painful withdrawal symptoms experienced by an addict who is getting healthy. What is being vomited up here (spiritually speaking) are the "Vasanas," which are defined thus:

[vasana], karmic residues, unconscious propensities, disposition, habit energy, thought, habit formation, habit thought dormant, potential tendency, habitual pattern, habitual propensity, habitual tendency, impression, imprint, inclination, inherent tendency, inveterate tendency, karmic impression, karmic imprint, karmic propensities, imprints, predispositions; karmic traces, latency, latent predisposition, latent tendency, mental imprint, negative psychic imprint, potency, potential tendency, potentiality, predisposition, propensity, propensities, sediment of impressions. Tibetan synonym: nus pa, habitual patterning.

Sivananda further explains:

This is not a degenerating process but is actually a purifying one. The course of spiritual development at times appears as the contrary of what it really is. Extreme things that are diametrically opposite and contradictory tend to seem identical at times. Very low rates of vibration the ears cannot catch and similarly extreme high rates the ears cannot hear. A static object appears motionless, and the same object set rotating at a tremendous velocity appears to the eye to be perfectly still. Thus, when, during a stage in Sadhana, the extreme reverse process of purification and the getting rid of impurities (Mala) takes place, it appears alarmingly similar to that of the obverse positive process of acquiring Asubha-Vasanas (evil tendencies).

He goes on to explain what to do when one is experiencing this:

It is here that an important note of caution has to be vividly borne in mind. When these inner Vasanas (tendencies) begin to cast out themselves, then the aspirant should, with great alertness and vigilance, see that they are not afforded any scope to have any active physical manifestation. Like the excess water in a dam that is released out of the barrage by the periodical opening of a few sluice gates, these Vasanas must harmlessly flow out. Then the Sadhaka (aspirant) is all right, and he will soon proceed with his Sadhana as before. Else these outflowing Vasanas will get translated into actions and forge further bonds in the Karmic cording that holds the individual in thraldom here. Instead of becoming a release process it will be a reverse of it.

There are two processes in this connection which will be of great help and reassurance to the Sadhaka if he remembers and makes proper and timely use of them with a little discrimination. That is, it is not always necessary or even desirable that all such 'spending-out' forces should indeed be allowed to flow out abortively or that they should issue forth at all. Where they are imbedded in the Chitta or the subconscious mind, these can be directly sublimated and nullified. Just as the heat of the sun shining upon a pool of water reduces its contents by evaporation, so also regular meditation of the aspirant sublimates a portion of the store of Vasanas, day by day, as he proceeds. Then with those forces that actually sally out there is a very profitable alternative, viz., sublimating them upon the external physical plane and transforming them into some profitable spiritual activity. This latter can be employed either subjectively with beneficial repercussions upon himself or objectively to the advantage of others. Subjectively, for instance, should the subtle tendency of lust endeavour to manifest itself, then the aspirant should transform it at once into a dozen Surya- Namaskaras or a vigorous round of the favourite Pranayama, a course of Asanas, or a full-throated chant of Mantra Japa, etc. Thus the process of sublimation also is turned into Sadhana.

Should the Vasana or tendency of anger commence this 'spending-out' process, then repair to a quiet room and have a good loud hearty laugh and make it effervesce into a pure upsurge of good cheer. Or sit still and send out wave after wave of love, blessing and goodwill to the entire world from the bottom of your heart. Repeat again and again the sublime verses of the scriptures, and you will be simply filled with overflowing cosmic love. All tendencies to anger will vanish, leaving in their stead a continuous thrill of motiveless love. This feeling is indeed indescribable. This Sadhana will give you a positive asset of Sattva (purity) and Prema (love). You will find yourself a tangibly different being after even a single genuine attempt at this process of deliberate sublimation...

So, when the inner Vasanas break through and strike the surface, do not be dismayed. Understand what is happening and deal with them calmly. Adopt the methods outlined above to suit the case and with variations to fit into particular situations and temperaments. Overcome them wisely and be a gainer. This experience will enrich you and you will be more firmly established in Sadhana.

The whole essay is available here...you might find it interesting in its entirety. I know I did when I was going through the same thing (and it still happens to me from time to time):

http://www.dlshq.org/discourse/oct97.htm

Hope this helps!

SHE LET GO …. without a thought or a word, she let go.

She let go of the fear.

She let go of the judgements.

She let go of the opinions swarming around her head.

She let go of the committee of indecision within her.

She let go of all the “right” reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.

She didn’t ask for advice. She didn’t read a book on how to let go. She just let go.

She let go of all the memories that held her back.

She let go of all the anxiety that kept her from moving forward.

She let go of all the planning and all the calculation, about how to do it just right.

In the space of letting go, she let it all be. A smile came over her face. A light breeze blew through her. And the sun and moon shone forever more.

Written by Ernest Holmes (1887 – 1960)

Maybe I should post this here to as reference...

Kundalini Yoga With Maya Fiennes:A journey through the Chakras.

There is a 45 minute kundalini yoga workout for clearing/balancing each Chakra.

A good way to "prepare for the Aquarian Age" in 2012

1st Chakra:http://youtu.be/vxcWSj3XPgk

2nd Chakra:http://youtu.be/jBQ9qH-IMMg

3rd Chakra:http://youtu.be/kYVu1hMlz40

4th Chakra:http://youtu.be/BI088AW1nRQ

5th Chakra:http://youtu.be/fW38UiWZwb8

6th Chakra:http://youtu.be/PC4joGwXz8c

7th Chakra:http://youtu.be/vFMr8snZB2Y

Dear Grace, You have some good answers here on how to balance your Chakras and clear yourself of negative energy so I'll leave it at that. You can do simmilar visualizations to clear your home or place of negative energy as well and it is a good idea. Have you brought something old or something you were given by someone else into your home. Sometimes its not only the people but things as well that can change our vibration to sad and uncomfortable.

Here is an example of what happened to me. A wonderful artist friend of mine gave me a beautiful small painting as a gift. I was so pleased as I loved the work and remarked how much I liked it and that it was my favourite work of theirs.

That night I couldn't sleep for just as I fell asleep I would hear a loud bang and wake up. This kept on throughout the night. Needless to say during the day I was extremly tired and felt very down. This kept on for about a week till I eventualy couldnt take it any more for I was exhausted and depressed. My husband couldn't hear the loud bangs and I thought I must be ill or going crazy. I couldnt understand why this was happening.

One of my alernative friends mentioned that one can pick up others energy through their stuff and immediately I thought about the painting. Sounds compleatly crazy I know but I was desperate enough to remove the painting and wrap it in foil and put away in my storeroom which was tree floors below in the basement.

That night I slept like a well fed and satisfied baby. It was so wonderfull to be able to sleep and the depression left as well. My old self was back but I simply couldn't believe that something like that could happen so I too the painting out of the storeroom and put it back on my wall again. Well that night I couldn't sleep and the noises and depression were back. Needless to say I got rid of the painting and am now so carefull to note how I feel when someone gives me something and I dont buy old stuff anymore (I used to love that)

Of course things can also be cleansed of negative energy but once bitten twice shy. Go back in your mind when that feeling of yours first happened and think did you bring anything into your home or who you were with that it could posibly be their energy you are picking up on. The moment you realise whose energy it is the feeling disapeares like magic.

To raise your vibration quickly use props like happy music or whistle or sing a happy song no matter how miserable you feel. Gratitude and seing beauty and love also changes vibration quickly.

Heres wishing you good vibrations.