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t he sev en ch akra s
doing things to the other as object, something one would never do to
a fully functioning, whole person.
However, if such practices are located within a total-knowledge,
energetic, integral chakra system, those same highly technical, con-
crete tasks (manifest in the outer right-side quadrant/lower chakras)
can be informed/transformed by a left-quadrant evolved conscious-
ness and intentionality of the nurse who is working from the left quad-
rant, with an awareness that the whole is affected. Likewise, even if the
starting point is the right quadrant, the Caritas Nurse is aware that she
or he is affecting the left-quadrant experiences. They are the same.
In a professional, evolved Caring Science/Caritas Process model,
these basic tasks and body-physical acts are highly regarded, respected,
and viewed from a larger lens; they are viewed from the left-side quad-
rant as well as the evolved energetic chakra system. Thus, the task, basic
need, or physical care is not isolated from the whole person, nor is it
isolated from the total disciplinary Caring Science knowledge system.
To explore the chakra energetic system in more depth for the
Caritas Nurse, we seek wisdom traditions and perennial philosophies
across time and cultures. Such ancient knowledge, often located within
the left quadrant model, instructs us on ancient truths associated with
directing our life force and energy source in the outer world.
These chakra energy system understandings and evolution help
us understand how we embody and balance our energies of body and
soul, of thought and action, of physical and mental, for health and
healing. The system of primary energies is both/and, not either/or; it
is both physical and spiritual. It develops and guides us throughout life
toward an evolving consciousness and wholeness of being, transcend-
ing illness and disease. The energetic spiritual-physical chakra system
lines up with the left and right quadrant model. Thus, there is room for
wholeness of the practitioner and his or her evolution toward becom-
ing more human, more caring, more healing and humane while simul-
taneously allowing the profession to locate its actions within a whole
knowledge system for any practice epistemology (Hagedorn personal
communication, 2006).
Our bodies contain an immanent blueprint for healing, in that
humans are energy duplicates of a spiritual power, a life energy force

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