Guest guest Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 Second Chakra: Svadhisthana/sweetness Swimming in the Waters of Difference Lose your mind and come to your senses. Fritz Perls As we enter the second chakra, we encounter the watery realm of emotions and sexuality. Where we have worked for grounding and stability in the first chakra, we now cultivate feelings and movement; where we have been concerned with survival and structure, we now focus on sexuality and pleasure. Our associated element has shifted from earth to water, from solid to liquid. In this transmutation we encounter change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. If we think of the body as a vessel for the soul and spirit, then the element of earth in chakra one provides support and containment for the fluid essence of chakra two, much like a cup holds water. Without approprite containment, water flows out and the cup runs dry. With excessive containment, however, water cannot flow at all and becomes stagnant and dull. Ideally, we want to have a cup that is capble of filling, holding, and emptying. The task of the first chakra was to build this continer. Now we look to its contents. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow. Where we developed grounding, stability, focus, and stillness in the first chakra, now our second chakra challenge is just the opposite; to let go, flow, move, feel, and yield. Only by moving does our consciousness expand, and only through change is our consciousness stimulated. Movement and change stimulate awakening. Movement overcomes the inertia of chakra one. Through movement, we extend our field of perception, increasing our sensory input. By moving the body, we build muscle tissue, increase circulation, stimulate nerve endings, and generally enhance our flexibility and aliveness. The flow of pleasure and excitation through the nervous system bathes the organism in sensation and awareness and awakens the consciousness within. Movement becomes its own pleasure. By paying attention to the way we move, we can uncover previously buried issues and feelings. In the first chakra, the structural forms of the body gave us clues to unconscious process. In the second chakra we observe the way these forms move and make contact. The senses are the essential link between the inner and outer worlds. Only through the senses do we transcend isolation and make connection to a larger sphere. Sensate experience is simultaneously physical, emotional, and spiritual. The senses are the gateway between the internal and external world. Sight, sound, touch, taste, and hearing give us a constantly changing inner matrix of the world around us, through which we form our basic belief systems, coping strategies, and thought processes. The senses are the data input of our overall system. They orient us in the world, allow us to connect, give meaning to our experience. Through our senses, we differentiate between pleasure and pain, we expand or contract, move forward or backward, react or enact. When there is pain or emptiness, our senses shut down. When this happens, we restrict information entering our consciousness, and cut ourselves off from the world around us. Senses are the only means we have of experiencing connection. The complex combination of sensation and feeling gives us the emotional texture of experience. Senses, as the language of feeling, form the basis of our values. How we perceive something and how we feel about it are the ways that we determine value. Without a sensual connection to what is around us, we lose our sense of values and distinctions. Second Chakra: change, movement, flow, sensation, pleasure, emotion, need, desire, the shadow, guilt, duality, sexuality. (The book goes into all of these...great stuff!) Taken from: Eastern Body Western Mind by Anodea Judith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 Very nice novalees - thanks. Being a newbie, I'm still trying to learn how to mentally stimulate the Chakra... to " breath into the chakra " , is that a visualization of life force going into your body as you breathe? I'm used to just gazing into the " 3rd eye " , so it's kind of like learning to drive again. hahaha Blessings to all... Paul > " novalees " <Novalees > > > Second Chakra >Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:32:34 -0000 > >Second Chakra: Svadhisthana/sweetness > >Swimming in the Waters of Difference > >Lose your mind and come to your senses. Fritz Perls > >As we enter the second chakra, we encounter the watery realm of >emotions and sexuality. Where we have worked for grounding and >stability in the first chakra, we now cultivate feelings and movement; >where we have been concerned with survival and structure, we now focus >on sexuality and pleasure. Our associated element has shifted from >earth to water, from solid to liquid. In this transmutation we >encounter change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; >through change it finds stimulation and expansion. > >If we think of the body as a vessel for the soul and spirit, then the >element of earth in chakra one provides support and containment for >the fluid essence of chakra two, much like a cup holds water. Without >approprite containment, water flows out and the cup runs dry. With >excessive containment, however, water cannot flow at all and becomes >stagnant and dull. Ideally, we want to have a cup that is capble of >filling, holding, and emptying. The task of the first chakra was to >build this continer. Now we look to its contents. > >To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow. >Where we developed grounding, stability, focus, and stillness in the >first chakra, now our second chakra challenge is just the opposite; to >let go, flow, move, feel, and yield. Only by moving does our >consciousness expand, and only through change is our consciousness >stimulated. Movement and change stimulate awakening. > >Movement overcomes the inertia of chakra one. Through movement, we >extend our field of perception, increasing our sensory input. By >moving the body, we build muscle tissue, increase circulation, >stimulate nerve endings, and generally enhance our flexibility and >aliveness. The flow of pleasure and excitation through the nervous >system bathes the organism in sensation and awareness and awakens the >consciousness within. Movement becomes its own pleasure. > >By paying attention to the way we move, we can uncover previously >buried issues and feelings. In the first chakra, the structural forms >of the body gave us clues to unconscious process. In the second >chakra we observe the way these forms move and make contact. > >The senses are the essential link between the inner and outer worlds. > Only through the senses do we transcend isolation and make connection >to a larger sphere. Sensate experience is simultaneously physical, >emotional, and spiritual. The senses are the gateway between the >internal and external world. Sight, sound, touch, taste, and hearing >give us a constantly changing inner matrix of the world around us, >through which we form our basic belief systems, coping strategies, and >thought processes. The senses are the data input of our overall >system. They orient us in the world, allow us to connect, give >meaning to our experience. Through our senses, we differentiate >between pleasure and pain, we expand or contract, move forward or >backward, react or enact. > >When there is pain or emptiness, our senses shut down. When this >happens, we restrict information entering our consciousness, and cut >ourselves off from the world around us. Senses are the only means we >have of experiencing connection. > >The complex combination of sensation and feeling gives us the >emotional texture of experience. Senses, as the language of feeling, >form the basis of our values. How we perceive something and how we >feel about it are the ways that we determine value. Without a sensual >connection to what is around us, we lose our sense of values and >distinctions. > >Second Chakra: change, movement, flow, sensation, pleasure, emotion, >need, desire, the shadow, guilt, duality, sexuality. > > (The book goes into all of these...great stuff!) > >Taken from: Eastern Body Western Mind by Anodea Judith > > _______________ Interest Rates near 39yr lows! $430,000 Mortgage for $1,399/mo - Calculate new payment http://www.lowermybills.com/lre/index.jsp?sourceid=lmb-9632-18466 & moid=7581 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 Looking forward to tomorrow's installment... Sarita , " novalees " <Novalees wrote: > > Second Chakra: Svadhisthana/sweetness > > Swimming in the Waters of Difference > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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