Light Body Business

What is your light body? It seems to me it’s one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot and has different meanings depending on who you’re talking to. This is my definition that works for me. My light body is a part of me that is not actually physical. It is the part of me that exists as thought form and does not quite occupy any technically physical space. Yet to me my light body is something very real and functional in my experience.

For example, visualizing geometries around your body will actually change the way that you hold your posture. Just think about it, if you are holding in your thought patterns that there is an ‘imaginary’ dodecahedron around your physical body, your awareness of this ‘imaginary’ dodecahedron will if ever so slightly change the way that your physical body relates to the world. This is of course just an example, I don’t actually know of a practice where someone would visualize exactly this, but this example serves to help me explain this concept.

One format of a configuration of a light body that is commonly adopted these days (and it has existed in human consciousness for a LOOoong time) is the chakra system.

Here’s a quick overview of the chakra system:

ROOT – base of spine – color red – issues of survival, roots etc..
SACRAL – below the navel – color orange – issues of creativity/sexuality etc..
SOLAR PLEXUS – the solar plexus – color yellow – issues of will, power etc..
HEART – center of the chest – color green – universal love, confidence etc…
THROAT – the throat – color blue – communication, speaking & listening etc…
THIRD EYE – just above and between the eyes – color indigo – psychic vision, seeing etc…
CROWN – top of the head – color violet – spiritual connection etc…
Want more on that? Check out this nice extensive series of articles onthe Chakra System

The chakras do not occupy physical space, yet when one authentically activates their belief in the chakra system, one can start to feel certain types of emotions in very specific areas of the body, giving one clearer insight as to what it is they are dealing with. In this way, this configuration of a light body can act as a tool to help you keep track of and deal with your emotions. Another way to look at it is by making these mental associations to these areas of the body with these types of inner feelings, you are giving your conscious mind(logical sense) a language to speak with your subconscious mind(feeling sense).

Now depending on which direction you desire to grow and evolve, you can adopt an established system like the chakra system into your field of consciousness or create any manor of light body to aid you in this process if you put just a bit of creative energy into it. It’s best though to explore which light body thought forms naturally flow out of you and work with what those natural flows seem to be guiding you towards. If you try to force your light body to be something that it’s just not resonant to, then it will likely result in discomfort and disharmony. As always, listen to your authentic inner voice and you’ll know which path to choose as you develop this new dimension of yourself.