07DEC11
Journaling Homework:
What Chakra is your dominate? Excessive or defiance...name ways to bring balance.
I would have to say, hands down my dominate chakra is the Anahata/Heart Chakra. The 4th chakra; the green/pink one. Never realized until just now looking at the chart, but it’s also the middle chakra…kind of the glue holding all others together…hmmm. The heart chakra is love, compassion, kindness, affection, balance, new beginnings (Aries), love teaching, etc. Growing up everyone always said I had and have a big heart...I have my daddy’s heart. I remember always adopting stray animals, taking in friends for the holidays, taking guest into the house when there’s nowhere else to go…if I could live on a farm and adopt animal after animal I would. If and when I win the lottery I want to donate, pay it forward, share with friends/family, give to the less fortunate…I have always been big into volunteering whether it’s with children, building playgrounds, tutoring, or picking up trash along the highway, doing good for the environment – for the future; educating people on recycling, helping others. And now in the past few years it’s been spreading the practice of yoga to my patients, co-workers, and friends, family. Whoever listens I’m talking about it. I feel if I can reach one person a month and let them feel what I feel when leaving a session I’m doing my part. To give back. That’s what it’s all about. The love of teaching most certainly fits my description…I’ve been teaching others in one field or another since 2003…lately yoga, in the past bartending…but I love it. I love introducing new ideas to people, opening up their view point, educating. One way I bring balance to my heart chakra is through volunteering – which I would always love to do more and being kind to friends, family, co-workers.
After reading and teaching my patients today about the Manipura, our 3rd Chakra the Solar Plexus…I can associate with this one too...not as much as the heart, but definitely a close second. I don’t know if I’m just drawn to the thought of sunshine and that it’s the strongest of all energy centers or what. Honor. Courage. Power. Love this. Every morning driving into the hospital I see the same signs Honor, Courage, Commitment…it’s powerful. Makes sense these are associated with fire. I read fire is energy...true, true. Aries-fire-energy-ray of sunshine!! LOVE IT ALL. My co-workers and patients always ask me what I’m on…why am I so happy, always smiling, always positive…I tell them I’m on yoga, coffee, water, veggie, and fish oil – they laugh. It’s just who I am…why be stressed or pissy all the time? What’s the point? Whatever happens is going to happen. I like being the little ray of sunshine when people need it the most J when we learned about this chakra in class and how when you hold more weight around the middle it’s due to “mom issues” I was like BINGO! Ding ding ding…you got it. So the past week I have been letting go, finding forgiveness for my mom, unconditionally loving her, and no more resentment towards her for something that happened 20 some years ago..I felt better immediately when I told myself…geeze, just let it go! To maintain balance in my solar plexus it says to run to create fire in the belly…running just doesn’t come natural to me...I always feel great afterwards, it’s the starting off point that’s troubling lol. So I like to do hot yoga to create fire within – or lightly jog with my dog.
So, not sure this is exactly what we were supposed to do with our Chakra journaling…but this is where it led me. Enjoy. Namaste.
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