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BEING
GROUNDED
Years
ago I would not have known what this term meant but I hear it quite
frequently now, not only as people are developing greater self-awareness
but also as people are learning about the chakras.
The chakra system is an ancient map of 7 major energy centres in the body.
These centres are feeding the endocrine system and related glands.
The three lower chakras limit and confine us. They correlate to our basic
primary needs—those of survival, procreation, and will. They represent
our earthly connection—all things material and physical.
The three upper chakras liberate and expand us. These are concerned with
our psychological aspects—defining love, communication, and knowledge.
They represent our connection with the spiritual or internal realms.
The heart is the fourth chakra and is the bridge between the upper chakras
and the lower chakras and crucial in the process of connecting both
levels.
Being grounded means being in your base chakra, located at the base of
your spine, being rooted in the material world. Once you are here, once
the energy is flowing properly, the energy or life force finds it much
easier to flow up to the other chakras higher up the body. Disease ensues
if the chakras are not balanced properly.
Each chakra has certain energetic issues and the base chakra if unbalanced
has issued with fear and materialism, although materialism comes back to
fear of ‘lacking’.
The opposite of being grounded is being ungrounded which is what most
people seem to be. I know – as I was probably half out of my body for
most of my life. It was a lonely and uncomfortable place, earth, a place
where one has to experience painful emotions and meet harsh realities. –
it’s much safer withdrawing from that and not engaging with it. But
Saturn had a funny habit about calling me back to face reality. And
reality has to be dealt with and until some of these realities are faced,
the base chakra will always be starved of energy and we may never reach
our full potential.
What helped me was to find something I felt passionate about and I was
encouraged to follow that path. This was not easy and fears can still
dominate. But once engaged with the passionate side, the heart chakra
receives extra energy and the heart is the centre of it all. Eventually
this passion reduces the fear issues one might have hence the base chakra
becomes more balanced. But it requires a little courage to crawl out from
under the illusory comfortable blanket of occupying just the head.
The way I see it now, is that we are privileged to be here and have the opportunity to change our consciousness and are able to learn and
experience the material plane. Not to engage with it fully is a waste of
lifetime. To make a contribution to the material world i.e. make or do
something would be the best way to engage with this issue of being
here.
Wouldn’t it be a shame if in our final hours, all we could express is
the desire that we wished we had done things differently?
For more information, email: irma.vocht@virgin.net
© Irma Vocht 2007
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