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Understanding your chakras
Before we go any further in trying to understand our blocks, let us identify the seven major chakras. In ascending order, then, here they are:
1. The root chakra. This one is located between the legs. The root chakra is the storehouse of all our root beliefs and survival issues. This is our creative center
2. The sacral chakra, located about three finger breadths down from the navel. The sacral chakra is where we look when we have trouble with one-on-one relationships, with issues of our sexuality. This is our sex center
3. The solar plexus chakra, located at the sternum, is the chakra concerned with true inner power. This is our power center
4. The heart chakra, located in the center of the chest, in the area of the heart. It is concerned with matters of unconditional love and compassion and forgiveness. This is our love and forgiveness center
5. The throat chakra. Located at the throat, his is where our truth resides, This is also from where we communicate with the world. This is our truth and clarity of communication center.
6. The third eye chakra. This is located slightly above the center of the eyebrows, in the center of the forehead. This is where our Will resides.
7. The crown chakra, located slightly above the crown of our head. This is a highly spiritual center.
The first three chakras, the root, the sacral, and the solar plexus, are known as the chakras of the material consciousness. The major wars of this world are fought, not on battlefields, but in the sacral and the solar plexus centers of human beings. These three chakras almost rule your life for you, through the beliefs carried in your root chakra. What are these beliefs, then?
Let us start with survival issues which make up a major part of what I call root beliefs. Survival issues are those of security – financial security – the ability to provide for one’s self, and possibly for one’s loved ones, the ability to live in a society as part of a group, the ability to age gracefully, without the fear of old age or of death. Root beliefs are those beliefs which have been “programmed” into us since early childhood. A moment’s thought will tell us that our survival issues are controlled by our root beliefs. How have these beliefs been programmed into us? And by whom? The “whom” is answered very simply : by figures of authority – our parents, our teachers, the elders in our society, whose rules society lives by. From childhood we hear statements of group beliefs. Our elders, our figures of authority, all keep repeating to us statements of sociological issues, for example, how old you should be when you get married, or when you have your children… all these sociological beliefs we have an overwhelming and constant influence over our entire lives. Most of the time, we are not even consciously aware of it, but we project ourselves in our lives most definitely through these root beliefs.
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