Anodea Judith explains how past trauma gets stuck in your body's energy patterns and shapes your reality. Abandonment wounds lodge in the heart chakra, survival fears in the root chakra, creating anxiety, depression, and physical symptoms. Simple practices like grounding, breathwork, and forgiveness can restore balance.
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Past psychological issues from traumas and difficulties and challenges and neglect. They are lodged in our psyche. They're lodged in the energetic patterns of the body, and they affect and imbalance our chakras. Take, for example, the heart chakra. If you were abandoned or rejected or neglected or you lost a parent at a crucial time in your life, that may have affected the energetic programming of your heart chakra. The effect of that could show up in your relationships, could show up in your ability to be vulnerable, or just the ability to go through life with an open heart. And as we look at these blockages in the heart, we can see that someone may have overcompensated, making an excessive chakra, meaning that if they didn't get enough love, they have to be the center of attention and have to be social all the time. Or they may have gone deficient, which is an avoidant response, saying, well, I'm just not going to have relationships. I'm just going to isolate and be alone. But both of these are a type of imbalance in the chakras. When the chakra is balanced, we are compassionate, we're loving, we're generous. We feel spacious inside and relaxed and connected inside to ourselves and outside to what's around us. The problems of stress, anxiety, and depression have their signature in the energetic processes of the body. We might have too much energy and not know how to control it. We might have too little. And this can show up in physical problems as well. So take an imbalance in the root chakra, our chakra of survival. That can often show up as weight issues, Being chronically overweight or underweight. The overweight would be an excessive defense. Saying, I don't feel safe unless I have a big body to store all this energy. Or being underweight might be saying, I don't really want to be on the earth plane. I want to be light. And each of those are a kind of unbalance. When the chakra comes into balance, we have a sense of grounding stability. We feel healthy, we feel alive. And it helps to keep that grounding to make prosperity in our lives as well. So a simple way to remember your ground is to stop and feel your legs as the roots that go down into the earth. Take a breath, bend your knees, push your feet into the ground. Roots push down into the earth. So push your feet into the ground. Say, thank you for this life now. Chakras work with energy. Energy is inside us and it's all around us. So part of healing and healing the spirit is to heal that universal connection between inside and out. So take the heart chakra. One aspect of it is compassion, the ability to feel with, have passion with. When we have judgment of ourselves or someone else, we're not in that compassion. So you might look at what trait do you typically judge in yourself? Where did that trait come from? And how can you look at what it was trying to do at the time and bring some forgiveness to that trait? Through applying simple practices from yoga, from bioenergetics, from the study of psychology, and practices that we do out in our world in interactions with other people, we can bring the chakra system out as a system for wholeness back into balance once again. So if you want to learn more about these simple practices for addressing your wholeness through mind, through body, through the energetic processes of the body, through psyche, then join me in this free masterclass with mindvalley. I'll see you there. Sa.
