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Crown Chakra Summary
To know and to learn • universal identity
It is opened with stillness and fed by knowledge. Expanding our awareness through meditation, mindfulness and study (etc) to merge with divine consciousness & realize our true nature as divine beings.
With our crown liberated, we can then return energy back through the lower chakras with a sense of enlightenment and wisdom.

Third Eye Chakra Summary
To see • it is to look beyond and perceive deeper patterns & meaning. Recognize patterns and symbols through dreams, imagination, art, relationships and situations as a means to strengthen intuition and wisdom.
Intuition requires surrender and opens us to a larger, cosmic world.

Throat Chakra Summary
Communication • self expression • Creativity
To speak and to be heard.
Our life force is pulsing energy; cells, blood breath, voice. Maintain & enhance your resonant frequency by ridding internal and external negativity and speaking authentically.
Open the voice through chant, song, and quiet to listen within.

Heart Chakra Summary:
To love and be loved • development of social & ego identity as a basis for self esteem.
Abuse is a betrayal of love & twists our perception of love. Parental relations set the stage for our future relationships. Who knows us better than our partner? Integrate the shadow to heal/balance rejected and retreated parts of the persona.
Excessive & deficiency in this chakra is self explanatory.

Solar Plexus Chakra Summary
Manipura • power • will • ego • to act
The creator, receiver & distributor of energy. Energy is activity. How we develop our strengths, self esteem & individuality.
Find balance when raising our willful children. Don’t break your child’s will for shame diminishes our power. The power to run our lives with confidence and without fear of challenges, approval or our inner critic.

Sacral Chakra summary:
The prime mover of energy within us.
Without passion and pleasure, our lives are senseless.
Without expression, we don’t get to evolve.
Traumas lead to emotional wounds & bodily disconnect often resulting in addiction.
Second chakra healing - reconnecting with the body & understanding emotions help.
Sexual healing! Smash stereotypes & your guilt!
Bring the sacred back to the sexual act!

Root Chakra summary:
From the womb to earthbound, our everything stems from our body, home and environment.
Our root is the physical world.
Our right to have.
Our survival instincts.
Its the earth, culture, family, finances, shelter.
Reestablish a connection with your body, the earth and surroundings.
Go touch some grass.

To know, see, speak, love, act, feel, & to be here

god this book is good