How to Heal your Lower Chakras

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by Kiran Bedi in Chakra Series, Emotional Wellness

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Do you want to access higher chakras with ease & grace? Do you want to evolve spiritually? Are you committed to your personal growth & transformation? Are you willing to put in the inner work to cultivate a high self-esteem?

If you said yes to any of the questions, you must commit to healing your Lower Chakras.

The three lower chakras form your energetic foundation. When you have a strong foundation, you can easily weather the storms & the vagaries of life. You become like a magnificent oak tree that knows its place in the world.

 

Introduction

Working with the lower chakras, is like embarking on the hero’s journey. Once you say yes to the adventure, you go through a series of predictable events. Such as,

  • Diving into the unknown (world of your psyche),
  • Enduring a period of trials & tribulations,
  • Discerning friends from foes,
  • Slaying your demons, 
  • Finding your treasure,
  • And then you return home (as an evolved human).

The hero’s journey from start to finish is at the heart personal growth & transformation. And it also forms the foundation for healing your lower chakras.

 

 

What are the Lower Chakras?

The lower chakras are Charka 1, 2, and 3. That’s the Root Chakra, the Sacral Chakra & the Solar Plexus Chakra respectively. Together, these three chakras shape & color your human experience.

The mind matrices connected with the three lower chakras are the Subconscious mind, the Instinctual mind, and the Conscious mind. Collectively, these three matrices form your personality. As in who you think you are in the world. Another common synonym for personality is the ego.

Every single human on this planet has an ego. And that ego is made of three layers (Subconscious mind, the Instinctual mind, and the Conscious mind). Of these three layers, the conscious mind is what you are usually aware of – b/c you live in the 3d reality. But the other two mind matrices – not so much.

 

The First layer of the Ego

The first layer of your ego is your SC mind. It acts like a hard drive of all your experiences. From your first kiss to buying your first car to losing a loved one, every single memory of your life, good or bad, is stored on this hard drive. The happy memories are a non-issue but the unpleasant & painful ones often impact your downstream

 

The Second layer of the Ego

The second layer of your ego is your Instinctual mind – it’s the HQ of your instinctual drives & addictions.

Think of your instincts as that which you do w/o thinking. An example would be the instinctive drive to procreate or to soothe a crying baby. These Instincts are inbuilt. You are born knowing them.

Then there are learned instincts, which we pick up from our environment, especially during/ after unpleasant experiences. For example, a learned instinct would be to retract around a bully, after being beaten up at school. Or to minimize yourself around those who are more wealthy or successful. Or the instinct to dissociate when feeling overwhelmed. Or you become defensive if someone challenges your authority.

Between the ages of 0-7, a child’s brain isn’t completely developed. And thus, depends on its parents for its physical, mental, emotional & psychological growth. Say, during your childhood years, your home environment was less than peaceful. Chances are you likely developed unconscious instincts to protect yourself. And to this day, in moments of stress, you still might be acting out those responses.

The bottom line is that your ego’s #1 job is your survival. And if that means keeping you dissociated/numb/ stuck so you can function in the world & feel safe – then so be it. The only way to change your instinctual responses is by addressing the painful memories stored in this hard drive.

If for any reason these painful memories are not cleared, then at an unconscious level, you start putting up emotional walls. This is how you start shutting people out. When the pain stored in the subconscious mind is not cleared, your ego will create ego defenses to minimize this pain.

Over time, these emotional walls morph into persistent negative thoughts & emotions that you simply can’t brush off. Meaning when you engage with the world, your predominant feelings regardless of the situation are, unworthiness, shame, guilt, betrayal, enslavement, anger, etc.

 

The Third layer of the Ego

The third layer of your ego is your Conscious mind. This is generally – who you perceive as the self or a personality. If you pay attention to your thoughts, you’ll know which type of thoughts you entertain. Are those thoughts happy, sad, or depressive thought?

When you have built emotional walls, it also affects how you think. Your default thinking becomes colored with envy, jealousy, laziness, discouragement, greed, & the like. And this way of thinking is further bolstered when you judge yourself & others.

Thoughts & behaviors go hand in hand. When you struggle with negative thoughts, you are bound to struggle with negative behavior. If you over indulge in negative behaviors, a demonic spirit can attach itself to your aura. When you have too many negative thoughts & emotions, it is very easy for the mind to form addictions.

 

Case Study: Matthew Perry

Matthew Perry, the actor who played ‘Chandler Bing’ on Friends, struggled with a lifelong addiction to drugs & alcohol, something he candidly shared in his best-selling book, Friends, Lovers & the Big Terrible Thing.

Looking at Matthew’s life through the backdrop of the 3 layers of ego, at a conscious level, his behavior was telling of an addict. He couldn’t help but drink & take drugs even if that meant sabotaging his relationships, his career, and everything else in his life.

But how did Matt get this way? He sure wasn’t born an alcoholic. Then what triggered this behavior?

In his book, he shares many traumatic childhood incidents. For example, his parents divorced when he was only nine months old, and he felt his father had abandoned him & his mother.

Then at age 5, he flew from Canada to Los Angeles to see his father but did so, without any adult oversight. He share this event made wonder if he was alone.

When he was only a few days old and wouldn’t stop crying, his parent took him to a doctor who put him on Barbital (which is a narcotic & a sedative).

In addition, he talks about constantly having to fight for his mother’s attention. He shares feeling lonely as a child. Feeling as if his job was to entertain others & take care of others.

Now imagine all these painful memories, including the happy ones, of course, are stored in the first layer of his ego, his Subconscious mind.

Based on his childhood experienced, his core emotional wounds in the Instinctual mind – were abandonment & feeling unwanted & unloved. Perhaps, his early exposure to Barbital, primed his brain for addiction. But what flipped that addiction switch was the lack of emotional nurture growing up.

Throughout his book, Matt shares stories ranging from auditioning for Friends to dating Julia Roberts to filming with Salma Hayek and about the time he wanted to take on Tennis professionally. However, his emotional issues remain the same.

  • I’m not enough.
  • I am too needy.
  • I need love but I don’t trust it.
  • If I show you the real me, you might leave me.
  • Before you can reject me, I will reject you.

It wasn’t until he addressed the painful memories (in Layer 1) that he found respite. But that relief came after decades of enduring physical, mental, emotional and spiritual abuse.

A lesson we can all learn from Matthew Perry’s life is, if we are to successfully tread the hero’s path, then we must get a handle on our addictions. Else they will constantly undermine our efforts for personal growth & evolution.

 

What constitues Addiction?

We generally tend to limit the scope of addiction to drugs, alcohol, food, and sex. But it is just as easy to become addicted to social media, fame, success, and money, plastic surgery, getting tattoos & even traveling. This list of addiction is endless in the 21st century.

 

The Secret to healing your Lower Chakras

In our modern world, most of us are cut off from our feelings & emotions. But what happens when you lose the ability to feel? You can’t access the first two layers of your ego mind (Subconscious mind and Instinctual mind). In other words, you can’t get to the root cause of your pain & suffering.

This is also why people get stuck in their negative thoughts because the keys to their freedom are tucked away in the first two layers of their ego mind.

The hero’s journey through the underworld is about deep diving into the emotional realm. That’s how the hero gains awareness of the content stored in the first two layers of his ego mind. And so, if you want to complete this journey, you must make your emotions your allies.

Perhaps the billion-dollar advice I could share to heal the lower chakras is that anytime you encounter negative thoughts, beliefs, emotions, or behaviors, ask yourself, but why?

  • But why do I think this way? Feel this way?
  • But why do I sabotage my efforts?
  • But why do I reject people?

Finding the answer to these questions is at the heart of healing the lower chakras.

 

Personal Experience with healing Lower Chakras

When I first learned about chakras, I was awe-struck by the higher ones & don’t judge me, but felt disdain for the lower ones. I so badly wanted my higher chakras to fully open. Because I thought it would put an end of my suffering. It’d magically resolve all my problems.

In retrospect, what I really wanted was to find ways to escape my reality. As you can imagine, my delusional thinking didn’t last long.

Because after years of a consistent meditation practice, I couldn’t fathom why:

  • I still had deep self-esteem issues,
  • I struggled in my relationships,
  • And I didn’t know how to handle my intense emotions.

The truth is opening your higher chakras doesn’t exempt you from your responsibilities. You still have to live on this planet, pay your bills & interact with the systems set up here.

Learning to work with the lower chakras has been one of the most fulfilling and humbling experiences in my life so far.

 

In Wrapping up,

The lower chakras form our energetic foundation. And if your foundation is weak, you won’t be able to sustain higher levels of consciousness.

Think of your lower chakras as the foundation of a skyscraper. The taller the building, the deeper & stronger the foundation it needs. For example, the Petronas Towers in Malaysia are 452m high. And guess what? Its foundation is 120 m deep. That’s roughly 26% of its height.

I hope by now you realize the importance of healing your lower chakras, not just for personal growth but also building your energetic foundation.

 

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