Even when you know what the problem is, it can seem impossible to free yourself in a healthy way. Negative world conditions can immobilize you. Broken relationships can immobilize you. Fear, shame, guilt, lies, illusion, and ego-based programs can immobilize you, appearing to be in control. They are not.
Survival issues are extremely real, especially for people fleeing for their lives. It is one thing to have empathy and compassion for those in need, giving of yourself in ways that can provide relief and assistance. It is quite another to not only not help in the ways that you can, but instead, choose to shut yourself down because the need of the world is so great that it blinds your attention span, numbs your free will, and saps your energy.
What can you do so that you don’t crumble in the face of debilitating situations?
Assess how you feel emotionally at each of your seven major chakras. Be specific. In your first, root chakra at the base of your spine, ask yourself if you are motivated by fear. If you are, take a deep breath and decide to never again be motivated by fear. It is literally a decision you make, not a feeling you are feeling at that exact moment. This takes courage to feel the fear, then go ahead to do what you need to do in spite of the fear. That is the decision part and is what courage is all about. This is also taking a step forward in character maturity and character development.
Then, move your consciousness up to your second, naval chakra, your pleasure center and sense of yourself. Many times, there are blocks here, either because of misuse of personal pleasure, or when another person may have taken advantage of you. That is what shuts this chakra down, by a constant or recurring sense of guilt. Now is the time to forgive yourself. There is no good purpose for guilt. Forgive yourself and refuse to be dominated by shame about this again.
Next, turn your attention to your solar plexus chakra, located in your stomach area. Notice when you give away your personal power, the result is often having an upset stomach. The body tells on itself. A great deal of shame is at the root of you realizing that you knew better at the time but chose to go against your inner guidance. It is not shame others put upon us but what we blame ourselves for. Now is the time to forgive yourself. Once you do, you reclaim your personal power, often with mental notes to yourself to not let this happen again.
The heart chakra takes such a beating, if you let it. You do not usually choose the heartache that you feel, often shutting you down. These are life’s traumas that have no emotional place to store other than your heart, like when someone you love dies, or a relationship you once knew to be true disappointed you. Again, forgiving yourself is the key. Also, disappointments of having prayed for the healing of a person or their situation and thinking that God did not answer your prayer as you directed God to do or arriving at the decision that there must be no God because you think a good God would have obeyed you, can shut you down by grief. Wouldn’t it be nice if everything always turned up roses, but that is not reality. It is how you deal with the problem that is the solution to the problem.
Your throat chakra shuts down with the truth you choke on not telling, as well as when a lie slips out of your mouth at times when you do not know what else to say. The more lies you tell, the easier it is to tell the next one, or a million and one. It is one of the worst bad habits a person can have, because it does not harm others, it harms yourself. The biggest reason telling lies harms you is that telling lies diminishes you. It is a character development flaw usually learned as a child trying not to get into trouble. You grow ten-feet tall the moment you start telling the truth as a matter of habit. Stand up for what you believe in, peacefully. Only use your voice to speak the truth. Then you will notice people listen to you much more.
Clear your brow chakra, in the middle of your forehead, from illusion. There is a difference between illusion and insight. You have a lot of insight when you pay attention to noticing what has happened in your life, and why things worked out the way they did. Even as an adult, you keep studying, continually learning, which grows your insight. Sometimes things change in light of more information. Many times, your beliefs change, like when your religion no longer seems to fit the way you think now, or by the way life’s experiences have played out. It’s time to grow past childhood indoctrinations. Now as an adult, it is time to shed illusion and reach for the stars with insight given from the Universal Mind, the place Nicola Tesla, Albert Einstein and Edgar Cayce frequented.
Lastly in this limited chakra exercise, understand what is motivating you. Is it purely ego? If you are motivated by what you want, when you want it, how you want it, where you want it, and why you want it only, then you are motivated by the ego. If this is the case, the ego inhibits spiritual growth. Perhaps you have been running the show, driving your life as a race car driver attacks the Daytona 500. You may have discovered there is not a lot of peace living this way. Transform your mind to include the breath of the soul. Your spirit needs your attention. You are not solely a physical and mental being. The problem with many western medicine counselors is that they do not address Soul Psychology, which is necessary for a wholesome you. Find the time to meditate, contemplate and pray. Prayer is you talking to God, Source, or Higher Power. Meditation and contemplation is God, Source, or Higher Power speaking directly to you, just like Tesla, Einstein, and Cayce did. You can decide to grow spiritually any time you do this.
Here are the five additional practices to become more fully you:
1. Take stock of what is actually taking place.
2. Make a realistic plan.
3. Begin your plan.
4. Each day is a new beginning.
5. Expand your knowledge.
These five steps can turn your life around. No one can change the past. We learn from the past, past mistakes. Time is always forward motion as our lives play out. While we know this to be true, we still often get stuck as if we were the marionette in our own lives, with some other person, situation, or thing pulling our strings.
Sometimes we follow routines as if they were the comfort zones they used to be. Time is always on the move. We need to keep up. If you want to stop staying stuck, try these five steps.
FIVE STEPS TO SELF-HEALING
- Take stock of what is actually taking place. We can be so programmed by our own habits that we may not have kept up with the current reality of the situation. Even if things are still the same dysfunction, take a deeper look into how you want it to resolve. If you want to stay stuck, stay stuck. Just know you have the ability to change whatever is not serving your highest good any time you choose. Make sure you are making a conscious choice presently.
- Make a realistic plan. For example, maybe you cannot leave your home, family, and work to help the flood of people of Ukraine who are so desperately in need of food, shelter, and clothing. But perhaps you could find an Ocean State Store near you that is offering buyers at the register to donate to this cause. They are most likely not the only store to do this. This is just one idea for ordinary people who have no idea how to help in this humanitarian crisis of our time. Make a concrete plan. Be specific. Plan to stick to it. It is possible for you to have a better tomorrow.
- Begin your plan. So many of us are great at planning but fail to start. Realize that it takes 21 days to break any habit. Sloth can be one of those self-sabotage habits that immobilizes you. Naming it is a fantastic beginning. Now you know what to work on. Has failure followed you? Your past is not your future, nor who you are. If you are still breathing air, you have an amazing ability to think a new thought, change what is not working. Apply for a new job. Take a new class. Spread your wings. Build on the positive possibility. Never give up.
- Each day is a new beginning. Past failure is an opportunity for a new wind to blow through new ideas, no matter how old, or limited by handicaps you are. Be creative. Stop beating yourself up for yesterday’s failures. Let go. Brainstorm your likes and things you are good at. Perhaps the internet can be your vehicle of action. Start a blog, vlog, or new business making art, jewelry, or a host of other ideas. Join a gym. Become a personal trainer, even if you are handicapped, other handicapped people could benefit from your services. Read a new book. Make a new friend.
- Expand your knowledge. Learn something new. Take night courses or adult college courses, or better yet, discover the transforming and healing energy, which is the basis for New Paradigm Multidimensional Transformation, if spiritual growth interests you. You have grown physically and mentally. Has your spirituality grown since you left grade school? Please know there is more, so much more. There is even more Jesus told us that most people have yet to hear, except through the words of other people. Namaste