Chakras - Blossoms of Beauty
We live in a society filled with individuals. It is a world where we are taught to assert ourselves independently, to stand out above the crowd and to be unique. It is interesting that our society focuses so much on the individual, when we are, to a much greater degree, completely interdependent in so many ways. Without this interdependence, we would not exist. As individuals, we become caught up in our own to-do lists. The things that we want to accomplish and create take up so much space in our minds that we sometimes overlook the fact that our interdependence upon the planetary bodies, the life force energy that sustains us, other people and the delicate balance of nature are of much more importance to our own individual experience than we give credit for.
The colors and patterns that we are accustomed to seeing every day play a much more significant role in our lives than we might first assume, intertwined as they are with the energy centers that bring life and awareness into our bodies. Our Chakras are the doorways to this interdependence. We are delicate, intricate waves of energy put together in such a way that we may seem unique, and indeed in some social and physical respects we are, but what is more important at this time is to begin to open up to the ways that we are connected to a steady stream of energies that allow for our individual consciousness to unfold within the greater scope of existence. We are but tiny specks in a vast sea of consciousness, space and time, but within each speck exists the knowledge of the whole of everything.
Regaining balance is a continuous, lifelong process. Balance is upset as soon as it is found, because the pendulum of balance swings back and forth. The ultimate goal is not to find utter balance and harmony and keep it so much as it is to find ways to sustain it as often as possible. In this way we step back from our limited human mindset to become one with all of life, accepting where we find ourselves. Working with our Chakras, we discover the ways that energy affects us. Learning to harmonize the flow of energy within our Chakras is not difficult, though it does require that we change the way that we see things. One of the most important realizations that we develop when working with our Chakras is the understanding that everything affects everything else. We do not live in a vacuum, no matter how much our minds want to isolate us from others.
Let’s say that you feel a tightness in your stomach, a nervous sensation of some kind, and you visualize a complexly woven knot of energy that is slowly being untangled bit by bit as a beautiful yellow light runs through what becomes a golden rope of light, untangling the knot and restoring harmony to that area of your body. You release the light through your Solar Plexus Chakra and out into the universe and all of a sudden you feel lighter, healthier and positively glowing. Visualizations like these actually stimulate your brain into creating chemical and molecular changes, which in effect means that we create what we experience at very subtle levels by the thoughts that we associate with our experience. In the two minutes that it takes you to imagine something so peaceful and wonderful, you can effectively bring that energy into play in your own life. You can do it any time… so you may as well be taking advantage of it!
Working with our Chakras expands our perception of the ways that life affects us and we it, giving us a broader frame of reference from which we can reverse the selfish alienation of ourselves as all important, giving way to a continuum of experiences whereby we humans are forced to accept that the wrongs that we have perpetuated upon our planet, we have also brought upon ourselves.
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