Tag: chakra balancing

In our modern day culture, we tend to associate awareness exclusively with the spiritual. In terms of your body’s energy centers or chakras, this means we almost always associate awareness with the upper chakras, the light and airy realm of pure consciousness. Want to know your overall level of awareness? Take this quiz.

Growing up, our caregivers and culture teach us that it’s bad to be in our lower chakras and good to be in our upper chakras (or the heart and above) where love and spirituality resides. This kind of socialization causes us to relegate our strong lower chakra and our weak upper chakra qualities into the shadow realm and pretend that they are not a part of us. And this pretending causes us to lose a lot of our chakra power.

While visiting Sedona in the summer, I got inspired to create this Chakra Archetype Meditation for you. My goal was to create a hypnotic meditation that would help you step fully into both your feminine and masculine power. Obviously these two types of power are very different. Masculine power focuses on individuality, goal-orientation, and external accomplishment, while feminine power is based on connection, receptivity, and universal co-creation. Clearly, to truly succeed and be fulfilled, you need both types of power.

The pose I demo here will not only boost your fifth chakra energy, but it will also help strengthen your neck muscles and get them moving back into their ideal position. You see, our culture is looking down at smart phones and gadgets so much these days that we are literally beginning to lose our nature neck curves. And that’s not good. More and more of us have our necks jutting forward from all our habits of looking down.

To get the heart open, you need to reverse this chest collapsing, You need to elongate the front of your torso upward away from your waistline and then draw your shoulder blades down your back. This takes the head of your arm bones back and let’s your chest open. It causes your collar bones to “smile,” that is, to widen.

The thing that closes the heart most is the kind of judgment that gets in the way of this connection. When someone does something we don’t like, we may feel hurt. We may then judge what they did as wrong and decide on some level to not forgive them, to protect ourselves against the possibility they might hurt us again.