How Does Your Second Chakra Show Up In Your Life?

It’s Friday afternoon as I write this. And I just got up from a short nap.

We’re moving into our rainy season soon here in Java. What that means for about a month is intense hot, dry weather building up to a release in the wet months. You can feel this pressure in the air.

After working with my second chakra energy in class yesterday, I tuned in to what my body was asking of me. Feeling a light breeze slipping over me as I drifted off to sleep was delicious. Now I’m refreshed and ready to have a productive afternoon.

The nap was not giving in to procrastination or avoidance… rather a deep listening to my body. Feeling embodied, living down inside my own skin.

The second chakra is all about our body’s sensations, pleasure, sensuality and sexuality, allowing our needs and desires to be known and satisfied. It’s a profound sense of deserving. Of being valued for no reason other than being alive.

This is a tough one for many of us, especially, though not exclusively, for women. We’re trained from early on to discount our needs as less important and put other’s before our own.

I think I mentioned before that I’ve been in a year-long program called The Quest. The first half was all about following “the red thread” – those old stories attached to patterns of thinking and behaving we’re ready to release. That really did feel like a quest… a treasure hunt.

Then just around the time I got back from my father’s funeral we came to the point in the journey where we were supposed to name what we wanted.

I really thought it would be easy

In fact, I saw my life coming to a whole new expansion, a new chapter with my dad’s passing and I thought I felt excited to see what’s ahead. And yet I simply could not seem to sit down and write out “what I wanted.” I realize I’m at a different crossroads at this juncture of my life. There’s less of it left. And I’m even more aware of being curious about and being open to… what do I really, really want?

What are my deepest desires?

What are my deepest desires?

So I let the question simmer on the back burner of my mind and heart and I know it’s cooking up into something juicy.

What hit me as I was playing around in the second chakra awareness yesterday is that pleasure has to be a big part of it. Doing things that please me, that bring me into greater joy and contentment. And at the same time, things that challenge me, that keep me growing and evolving.

The question of course goes much deeper than doing or having things. It’s calling in qualities of being, ways I want to be in the world that expand far beyond the scared-little-girl-self who decided she was helpless. And beyond the one-who-reacts to her world in fear or anger or criticism or judgment. It’s a sense of coming into my own deepest SELF who stands at the Still Point and moves forward from her own Knowing Wisdom of the Heart.

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How about you? What are you calling in to create, to know about yourself, to evolve into? Share in the comments below. I’d love to know.

And in the meantime, how will you bring pleasure and play into your life today or this weekend?

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