ChristineS

April 26, 2014April 26, 2014

Sex, Money, Love, Being?..

What’s your most taboo subject? What is it that makes you want to curl up and die inside when you hear a certain word or question in conversation?

Is it about love, especially your relation to it? Sex, o that’s so improper.. Money, a private affair? Feelings? How much or what you’re worth? Your addictions? Loneliness? Fears? Insecurities?

What are you most scared of opening up about yourself?

And why?..

I feel, the deeper we can get to the roots of our fears, then the best chance we have of liberating ourselves from them and moving on into the vastness of life. Opening ourselves up to all the parts of it we’ve been too scared to explore before..

Start that conversation with yourself or with someone close by (even an animal friend).. Feel the fear and break through it, we’ve only got 1 life in this body..

April 24, 2014

Asking for Help?

Do you ever ask for help?

Do you over ask for help?

An interesting question which keeps coming up with me, do we ask when we need help?

If not, why not?

Or, do we ask for help to often, i.e. before we’ve even sat down to try and work things out for ourselves?

Hopefully you’re the balanced sort, but personally I’m coming out of the place of never asking for help but still always giving it a lot when asked. I LOVE helping people, it’s in my nature (funny that considering my occupation.. lol); so I meet a lot of people who either seem to ask too much or too little to assist in their optimal growth.

My main conclusion on this is that is comes down to trust – either not trusting ourselves enough or not trusting in others enough. This has given me much space for reflection on my own trust ‘issues’ and it feels nice to see where I may be able to grow as a person by having more trust..

Much love xxx

April 22, 2014August 24, 2015

Sahasrara Chakra

Moving up from Ajna Chakra..

Sahasrara chakra, the crown chakra, the last in our series looking at these 7 major, yogic (and Reiki) chakras. Sahasrara meaning thousand fold and hence it’s symbolised by a 1000 petal lotus, located just above the crown of the head and is most associated organ is the Pineal gland. It’s element goes even less tangible and is thought, thus it’s purpose is understanding and spirituality. The colour for this chakra varies much through different sources from violet, to white or gold; but my appreciation and experience keeps me feeling it as white. It is here that this world/perception meets with the wider universe and it is here we are able to feel that anything is possible if we choose to allow it; depending on what thoughts we feel we must hang on to also..

Balanced action in Sahasrara chakra may exhibit in a person as:

Intelligence, thoughtfulness and awareness
Being open-minded and confidence in questioning
Spiritual connection
Perceptiveness with wisdom

A deficiency in Sahasrara chakra however, can be seen as a person with:

Rigid belief systems
May have excess in lower chakras as energy is blocked from going up (e.g. greed, aggression, materialism)
A lack of interest or concern outside of themselves
Spiritually cynical

An excess in Sahasrara chakra may attribute to:

Spiritual addiction or head in the clouds
Overly intellectual, always over thinking
Confusion
Dissociation from the body/physical plane

Balancing or healing practices can be found in meditation, yoga (to either reconnect with different chakras), Reiki/Seichem, studying, becoming aware of where one may be too mentally rigid (talking therapies can help this).

I hope this might help the MASSIVE world of chakras to have a concise and tangible handle for anyone wishing to seek a little more balance in life. If you wish to discuss the yoga course, Reiki/Seichem or other then my inbox is always open. 🙂

Much love, balance and harmony! x

References

(1) Eastern Body Western Mind, Anodea Judith (Available at the Book Depository!)

(2) The Subtle Body: An encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy, Cyndi Dale (Available at the Book Depository!)

April 18, 2014April 18, 2014

Happy Easter? Pascha? Passover? Chocolate Egg Day?. Holidays!!

Easter

Personally, I was bought up as a Catholic. Thus Easter was boring with lots of church visits but balanced out by chocolate bribes.

As I’ve grown through life I’ve learnt I’m not much a fan of organised religion, and although I believe that like Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna and such, Jesus was a real man who left parables in an attempt to point at something divine. I don’t however believe in heaven and hell, except that which we create for ourselves in our own minds; but I do respect that everyone believes in what they feel is right, organised religion may feel good to you and I respect that too.

Easter for me now, is a great time when I can spend some more time with the people I love and choose to be around. Thus, I wish all people, (whatever it is you celebrate, love, family, suffering, God, chocolate, bunnies, the Sun) a VERY exciting Easter Holiday time.

We’re also between a lunar (moon 14/04/14) and solar (sun 29/04/14) eclipses right now, a powerful time of year for all!

LOVE and more LOVE xx

April 16, 2014April 16, 2014

Create Space in Your Life, Let Opportunities Happen..

Nature abhors a vacuum, that is, an empty space. Therefore if you have space in your life, new things will flood into it.

However, nature also tends towards balance and equilibrium, thus if there is already too much in your life nothing new can flow in.

TRUST in yourself and trust in nature. Let go of what no longer serves you, and create space for more amazing things to come..

Or, if you don’t trust my word, Terence McKenna of course had a beautiful expression relating to this:

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.”

Live, like you only have this moment..

April 15, 2014January 18, 2025

Ajna Chakra

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Moving our way up from Vishudda Chakra..

Ajna, meaning to perceive and command. Located between the eyebrows and is associated to the pineal and pituitary glands. It is represented as a 2 petaled lotus, each petal of which can be use to signify the unity of dualities, namely, sun and moon, feminine and masculine, yin and yang.. The colour most associated with this chakra are indigo and purple.

Now we’ve moved on beyond the more tangible elements of earth, water, fire, air and ether as we’ve moved up the chakras, Ajna contains all of those but thus it’s gross element is light. The purpose for working through this chakra is to help break through illusions and recognise patterning which may be present within us so we can see more clearly; enabling greater intuition and self-reflection.

A person who is balanced in this chakra exhibits characteristics such as:

Astutely intuitive
Good memory as well as dream recalling
Perceptive
Good imagination and is able to visualise

A person who may be deficient in this chakra may be:

Have poor memory or dream recalling
Insensitive or in denial
Lacking in imagination and ability to see the future
Problems when visualising, physically poor eye sight and/or poor projection

Remembering, life isn’t straight forwards and thus one can be deficient or excessive in any or all chakras (and thus helping us to highlight where our path is for this particular embodiment); so someone who may be excessive in this chakra may have:

Delusions
Obsessions
Hallucinations or nightmares
Difficulty concentrating

Good practices for balancing Ajna are to explore visual arts (by creating or observing however feels best), meditation, dream work, visualisations and working with memory.

..And next we’re going to infinity and beyond with, Sahasrara Chakra..

Namaste x

References

(1) Eastern Body Western Mind, Anodea Judith (Available at the Book Depository!)

(2) The Subtle Body: An encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy, Cyndi Dale (Available at the Book Depository!)

April 8, 2014January 18, 2025

Vishudda Chakra

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Moving up 1 step from Anahata chakra..

Vishudda is translated to, pure or purification; it is the name for the throat chakra and it’s associated colour is blue. It’s element is Ether or sound and the main aspect or purpose of Vishudda chakra is communication and creativity, it’s located at the throat area; it’s related organs are the vocal chords, mouth, throat, ears (very essential in some communications) and the thyroid/parathyroid glands.

The basic right developed with Vishudda chakra is the right to speak or be heard; I feel we’re undergoing massive transition in this with our current changing times – this and our abilities to express our creativity. Expression requires freedom of speech and self in space and time; thus working with this chakra can be massively liberating.

Characteristics displayed in Vishudda chakra when it is balanced are:

Clear communication
Good listening and receiving skills
Freely creative and expressive
Sense of timing and rhythm

Excess in Vishudda chakra can manifest in signs relating to the following:

Poor auditory comprehension, or simply an inability to listen
Gossiping or too much talking (talking as a defense)
Often interrupting, a dominating voice

Insufficiency in Vishudda chakra sometimes manifests as:

Introversion or shyness, a fear of speaking, often a weak voice
Difficulty expressing ones feelings
Poor rhythm, or tone deaf

If one is interested in healing at this chakra then practices which help to support the balanced characteristics all help, these could be things such as singing, chanting, story telling (if deficient), free and open-ended creativity, releasing shoulder tension, writing a journal or if in excess then practicing silence..

..Next, Ajna Chakra..

April 1, 2014January 18, 2025

Anahata Chakra

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Moving up from Manipura Chakra..

Anahata chakra, also known as the heart chakra; is located just below the sternum/breast bone. The heart is considered to be at the centre of the body and puts out thousands of times more electromagnetic activity than the brain; you really have got to live in a cave these days to not have awareness of the heart’s connection to love and relationships (both with ourselves and others). Anahata is associated to the element of air and thus also is related to the respiratory as well as the cardiac system; it’s representative colour is green.

The basic right of this chakra is to love and to be loved.

Some of the characteristics displayed if one is balanced in this chakra are:

To be loving and compassionate (to self and others)
Have a good immune system
Being peaceful and balanced
Empathic and altruistic

If one is working with issues in this chakra they may either have excessive of deficient energy, or both, and thus will potentially display:

Excessive energy

Demanding and clingy
Codependent and poor boundaries
Jealous
Unduly sacrificing

Deficient energy

Lacking empathy or excessively self-interested
Self-isolation, loneliness or depression
Withdrawn and fearing relationships
Judgmental, critical and/or intolerant

Due to it’s association with air and physical location in the body, good balancing activities for anahata chakra are breathing exercises or pranayama, journaling and potentially work on self-acceptance, emotional release and relationships. Helping us to comprehend and thus open our hearts from a place which feels right, rather than feeling we “should” or “shouldn’t” love; loving where we feel works best for our journey and those we influence/are influenced by.

..Next to Vishudda Chakra..