
26 Apr Manipura Chakra
Manipura is the 3rd chakra or energetic portal of our body-mind.
The lower part of our system is primarily concerned with self-supporting (survival) and grounding parts of our personality. In contrast to the upper part of the body-mind which concerns itself with communication and social interactions.
This chakra is the centre of power and will. A person who allows energy to flow freely through this portal can focus their own power without the need to crush and debilitate others.
Our Most Vulnerable Centre
The third chakra is in the most vulnerable part of our system, there is no hard skeletal protection. If we moved around on all fours, this section would be protected by our spine from above or the earth from below. As we have decided as a species to walk upright, we bare this section to the world. We expose our tender bellies and many of our vital organs, especially our guts and with them our feelings.
Manipura is where most of our feelings originate, it is from this place that emotional energy seeks to find release. Some emotions will flow downwards seeking sexual release through the lower energetic centres. Others flow upwards into the heart, becoming amplified and passing through to the higher centres in the throat, arms, hands or the head.
Let The Emotions Grow and Flow
For us to remain in a healthy balanced state, these energetic charges must be free to proceed through the bodymind to return us to a place of balance and relaxation. This constant fluctuation between tension and return to relaxation is the natural ebb and flow of life. It is our vibration. A healthy Manipura chakra can generate feelings and dissipate them appropriately though the rest of the bodymind. Providing of course the body-mind system does not prevent this flow at a different energy centre. A blockage in the abdominal area can lead to a build up of feelings that can either be discharged in anger at oneself or at those around us.
A person who habitually holds on to the feelings that originate in the belly will experience congestion in this region. This can manifest as a number of different types of sickness or dis-ease. The strong feelings are directed at the organs in this area and can result in symptoms like a nervous stomach, spastic colon or bloating.
Our current culture extols thin, tidy and youth, physically for many of us this this is expressed as a perpetual state of “holding in” the belly. This constant, daily act of containing the natural shape of the belly can have the effect of galvanising the state of holding on to our emotions. Thus preventing them from dissipating through the rest of our body-mind in a natural and healthy discharge.
A Flat Belly Is Not a Free-Flowing One
We often believe that a tight firm abdomen is a sign of fitness, but an abdomen that cannot give up the contraction may be causing us to hold on unnecessarily to a host of unresolved feelings. I myself have noticed my unwillingness to look “fat” in an intimate situation can make it more difficult for sexual energy to flow down through my lower centres and reach the natural conclusion of orgasm.
When we devote time to focus on clearing this centre, in the following days we can experience the surfacing of buried emotions and even vomiting, but the feeling after the purge is one of divine relaxation and balance.
Once a year we travel though the 7 energy portals in a weekly exploration of Ecstatic Awakening Dance called “Dance of the Creatrix”
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