The goal of LEVEL 1
The completion of LEVEL 1 -> STEP 7, is defined as the Mid Life Crisis or the Spiritual Emergency (emerging). The entire process of living through these first seven steps is to accumulate what humans consider BAGGAGE or divine considers unique life EXPERIENCES so that the soul can have a singular personality and a perspective that can grow the collective experience.
The following stories have been taken from my first book “A 94-Chakra Journey” where I documented my own physical symptoms that allowed me to recognize I had limited my life experience which leads to the EMERGING process of the spirit.
SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA (step 3)
During my sleepless nights, dealing with my wounded second chakra energy, I would come up with strategies for my future. Because the energy of my second charka was damaged and unhealthy, I would plan ways to become completely self-reliant and independent of everyone. I made list after list of goals, which I set for myself to relieve the burden of this unhealthy second chakra energy. I knew I had to be successful; I knew I had to do everything on my own. I wasn’t going to be reliant on anyone. I wanted fame and, of course, I wanted recognition for all of these goals I set for myself.
You will now see how this sacral chakra energy ties in greatly to the development of my third chakra (solar plexus). A chakra's energy, healthy or deficient, will always affect the development of another chakra, and in the above example, you can see how my personal rejection of the second chakra energy denied me a flow in life and made me want to seek out approval for my gained successes by receiving that energy through my worldly success, not the genuine companionship of real relationships. The internalization of the abuse also led me to have low self-confidence. The solar plexus chakra symbolizes a person’s willpower, their self-confidence, their own self-love, and healthy ambitions. As I said before, anyone who knew me back then would claim some of my strongest qualities centered on the attributes of the second and third chakra, but to me, the pain and control was my way of avoiding the issues I didn’t want to deal with. If I could create a world where I could be seen as being confident, self-assured, emotionally stable, artistic and totally passionate then I wouldn’t really have to deal with the abuse I had experienced. I created a fairly opaque veil, so muddy that I even fooled myself. During my emergency, this is where my insomnia, migraines, and bulimia came into the picture. If you deny the energies of these chakras long enough they will manifest in physical problems and force you to deal with them. With my knowledge today I am able to analyze my experiences from that crucial time in life. Through many meditation sessions and conversations about the abuse, I have grown and mended the dysfunctional world views I created for myself back then, and this allowed me to finally heal from the traumas of my past.
Before moving forward I feel it is necessary to share one of my personal philosophies surrounding chakras. It is something that helped me understand myself better and get rid of some of the complexes I unknowingly held onto for so long. Here is my philosophy: the most amazing qualities in an individual most often turn out to be derived from the areas where they have dealt with the most trauma or overcame the most diversity. Sometimes these qualities are developed from a healthy chakra and sometimes these qualities are developed from an unhealthy chakra, the only difference being that a person may be portraying a true or false representation of themselves somewhat unknowingly. A way I like to see through this illusion and false identification is by using a method I call the mirror technique. What we dislike most in someone else is typically an issue we may need to work on in ourselves. Chose to look into the mirror and recognize if you truly dislike this person (never the case) or could it be that they are here to show you something you are denying in yourself. Likewise what you recognize as strength in another might just be the area they perceive as their biggest weakness. In life, I like to constantly check the mirror when I am feeling any kind of emotion and really try to gain other points of view and different perspectives before I claim anything as true. This technique becomes very helpful when trying to discover the shadows in your chakras, something we will review later.