FernI got into chakra stuff in the last post and want to run with that topic again.

I just finished reading the chakra stuff in Donna Eden’s book Energy Medicine . I could actually never keep alot of them straight but she has a very engaging way of describing them. Her description of the difference between the 2nd and 3rd really blew me away.

The first chakra is basic to the survival of the body, it is at the second chakra that the soul embraces that body….the second chakra reveals the sweetness of a person’s soul, the innocent self as it was before being hardend by life’s tribuations. When people meditate and contact the true, precious essense within, they are often making contact with the energy contained at the deepest layer of the second chakra. People who are strong in the second chakra have a tendency to exude an atmosphere that makes other people feel cared for and comfortable.

One of the most important things to understand about the second chakra is that you don’t make sense of things with it. You move up to the third chakra when you want to make sense of things. The second chakra is governed by faith and trust in the larger picture. It is artistic in its logic rather than linear, childlike rather than sophisiticated, organic rather than doctrinaire, flowing rather than time-bound, innocent rather than cunning, trusting rather than suspicious, and free rather than responsible.

The pure innocent energy of the second chakra moves up into the crucible of the third chakra where it….is pushed and pulled, stretched and consticted, deconstructed and reconstructed….the qualities of the third chakra are almost the reverse of those of the second chakra.

Third chakra energy is logical rather than artistic, sophisticated rather than childlike, doctrinarie, rather than organic, cunning rather than innocent, suspicious rather than trusting, and responsibility-bound rather than flowing. If the second chakra holds the natural child, the third chakra holds the controlling parent. Where the second chakra is more like the right brain side of the eidentity, the third chakra “thinks” more like the brain’s left hemisphere….the energy of the second chakra can be cut off from that of the third chakra as well as the others above it….when this happens, as it frequently does in modern Western cultures, the person may be tormented by merciless self-hatred, a descecration that often originates in the third chakra’s attempts to shape an identity that differs vastly from the natural child of the second chakra.

Wow huh? And that’s why knowing ourselves is so important. Knowing the essense of our internal child-side. All that stuff that has been criticized, socialized and institutionalized out of us, that’s what we need to remember and bring back. That’s what makes us whole.