Opening chakras takes alot of time and patience. When you meditate or when you are laying in bed before you sleep use deep breathing excersizes to put you in the right zone for visualization. Once you are comfortable start by visualizing a thin silken thread of white energy decending from the heavens into a white ball of pulsating energy right over your head. try to feel the warmth from the ball of energy and the flow of the thread into it. Practice this until it is very easy to do. then try to feel it opening up like a blooming flower. You'll know when you've succesfully opened it because you will feel the energy flow easily without trying to even visualize it.
Once you have mastered that you may move to the next chakra. to visualize the following chakra you must do everything in the paragraph above, then feel the energy flow down your spine to your throat. At this point imagine, and feel a second larger ball of energy grow (I made the energy balls in the example to the right different sizes to demonstrate how large you should envision them in relation to each other). Feel the energy pulsating through the first chakra into the second one. Remember you have to visualise the thread, the energy packet above your head, the flow down your spine, and the second energy packet all at the same time. this takes practice. the further down you go the more you need to visualize the more practice it takes.
Once you have the flow to the second energy ball down. Feel the ball blossom like a flower. Again you will know the chakra is open because you will feel the energy flow down your spine without trying. Repeat this excersize down all the points till you get to the last one.
The last chakra is at your feet. I find it is easiest to envision the energy between my feet. But you may imagine what is easiest for you. Once you have opened the last chakra you should feel the energy flowing through you completely into the ground. You need to evnision ALL the points, thier colors, and the energy flow at the same time. The time it takes to achieve this varies from person to person. Just take your time and make sure you do it right.
When you can open all the chakras the next step is "The Crown and the Cube". This is by far the hardest part of the energy accumulation process. It takes ALOT of brain power and is actually good for your brain as it gives it excersize. The crown and the cube is what changes the pranic energy into magic energy to be used in casting or to open your sanctuary. I will discuss this part on another page.