Diagnosing your chakra health is an important part of preventive medicine as chakras always get sick before the physical body does. Chakras can be easily treated once you’ve identified the cause of the energy drain or blockage.
Remember that first or root chakra? This is where you play out your relationship with the three families in your life: the one you grew up with, the one you have created around you as social groups, friends, and mates, and all of us on the planet as a large community. It is also the place where your tribal beliefs---good and limiting—are stored, and you explore the spiritual lesson of feeling safe.
Is it safe to step out of your comfortable existence and move to the beat of a different tribal drum? Can you have beliefs that do not align with your different tribes that include family, co-workers or friends? Is it safe to take a risk and be true to your own spirit? Initially you live by rules that you have inherited from the authorities in your life, or rules that make you fit in with your clubs, groups, friends, aka your tribes. But what if these rules are limiting your life, happiness, or health?
Make no mistake, you will find many people with similar limiting beliefs, but that doesn’t make them true, or good for your highest potential. Some common limiting beliefs include: only some people are born for success; being an artist isn’t a real job; overcoming adversity without help makes you a better person, you can’t trust God, and taking care of yourself is selfish.
These beliefs are called limiting because they limit your possibilities, slow your evolution, and can squash your dreams. Remember that tribal beliefs pervade all arenas of your life, from how you work and play, how you engage in relationships, to how you heal, receive and listen to guidance, and create a joyous life.
What if you’ve been taught that you can’t trust God, that if you ask God for help, you will owe something big, or that God only helps good people? Yet in your soul, you have a strong desire to communicate and connect spiritually and open yourself to guidance. How can you trust the advice of someone you’ve been taught not to trust, or believe might punish you? You won’t ask for help if you believe that payback will be a b----! But somewhere, deep inside of you are the rumblings that maybe, just maybe these beliefs are not Truth. The conflict between your spirit and your desire to be in synch with others has begun, and it will substantially drain the energy of your first chakra. And you wonder why you feel tired?
When Valerie’s inner voice told her that her marriage was dead, she went numb. Shocked and terrified to listen to her guidance that said “it’s finished, ”Valerie stood paralyzed at the bedside her relationship. A mechanical machine, a respirator simulated breathing, IV’s gave the illusion of nourishment, and drugs kept the heart beating. But the relationship was clinically dead; there were no spontaneous movements or activity in the brain. Val knew that no miracle would come.
Her relationship was clinically dead and no fancy procedures would change that. Val’s fear, pain and mourning overwhelmed her. She made no movements, made no choices, and never looked forward to the synchronistic events waiting for her. She let go of all possibilities and suffered. Taught that she couldn’t trust God and that God only helps good people, [and Val wasn’t sure if she was a good person], Valerie never considered asking for help or comfort. Alone with her grieving, she created the evidence to support her belief that God wouldn’t help her. She lived in fear, pain, longing, loneliness, and eventually agony.
And then I asked her: Are you willing to test the veracity of your tribal belief that you have lived with for 53 years, and ask God for some help?
My question was actually: do you want to waste your energy proving that your inherited belief system is right, or can you open to different possibilities? What is more important: being right or healing? “Well,” she said, “when you put it that way, the answer is quite obvious.” She took a risk like Galileo and listened to the voice of her spirit, not the voice of the masses.
Valerie took one simple step. It began with a simple intention or prayer that created movement in her life. This one step changed her position from static and stuck, to dynamic and moving toward the synchronicity in her life. Her words:
To my higher power: I’m not sure if I am a good person, and I don’t know if you help everyone that asks for help, and I’m not even sure if I trust you, or if you truly even exist. But I am hurting, I am scared, and I am stuck between my old life and today. I am trapped by my past and ask for help to feel better and see possibilities beyond my fear and pain. Please help me to heal my grief and be open to the next chapter of my life. Help my spirit remind me that it’s okay to want to be happy. Please comfort me and all involved in this difficult time, and help me to reclaim myself by lifting my head and seeing beyond the end of my marriage. Amen.
I don’t need to tell you the end of this story. You can tell from her words that all her energy was behind her prayer. She was sincere and authentic. Within 48 hours she not only felt stronger and clearer, but she remembered a friend who had offered to share a house with her in her past. Valerie moved in with her friend to take some time apart from her husband. After two months, he came to her and acknowledged that he too, was unhappy and wished to end their marriage but didn’t want to hurt her. Because Valerie was willing to take a chance and step away from her limiting beliefs, she was able to begin a healing journey for herself and the man she loved.
Someone has to be the leader and take the first step to remedy a situation. Is there any reason that can’t be you? When your inner voice tells you, it doesn’t go away because you don’t like the message. Valerie knew her relationship would not have a spontaneous healing. It was time to be grateful for the love that was shared, the wonderful times together, and the learning journey they took together. It was time to be honest and end her marriage with dignity and compassion for all.
Isn’t it time that you become authentic and step away from the mass consciousness beliefs that limit your life? If you want to be an artist, do it. If you want a relationship with God, go for it. If you are struggling, ask for help. Be pleasantly surprised. Listen to YOUR spirit and follow it. I know it will never lead you astray.
---Christel
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