2nd Chakra:
Location: A couple inches below the navel, in front of the spine.
The 2nd chakra is an energetic center of expression: feelings, bonding (relationships), sexual energy and sympathetic attunement.
It’s an important creative center… feelings run the (human) world!
To begin tuning into your own 2nd chakra, start on the level of sensation:
following the natural movement of your breath down into your belly, ask your breath to show you where your second chakra is now.
Supposedly it’s a couple inches below the navel, in front of your spine. How are you experiencing it? Does it have a shape, color or feeling tone in this moment? Is it centered in your body, or more over to one side or the other? Is it pleasant, neutral or unpleasant to be connecting with this chakra?
Take a moment to let your 2nd chakra appear to you, guided by these questions.
If you struggle with visualization, stay with subtle physical sensation.
Try not to edit the information with your mind, or superimpose something you believe mentally onto your experience.
It’s not unusual for people who are going through fear to not be able to breathe as far down as the abdomen. How far down can your breathing go now? From wherever the lowest point your breath is going, wave down to the 2nd chakra from there and say, “hello, I love you.”
At the end of this post are some statements you could experiment with as a way to connect with the 2nd chakra. As always, let the statements be received by your body and the chakra, and allow them to respond.
You don’t want to use these statements to brainwash yourself - they’re for opening up inner conversation.
Stay curious, and stay with the feelings that arise.
Watch them, feel them as sensation in your body and energy field.
What do they bring up for you?
Do memories, stories or certain beliefs begin to surface?
If you don’t feel anything, stay with it, or try again another time. Don’t force anything.
We can’t technically feel nothing, so you could try tuning the microscope of your awareness to a higher power, and see if something very subtle is going on. It doesn’t have to make sense - feelings and emotions are a different language than logic and analysis. Sometimes they can be translated in ways that our rational minds understand, but many times we need to be willing to step into the language of emotions- feeling and sensations, and accept them for what they are: energy.
Sometimes we feel numb - which is not nothing. Try checking in again at another time.
We hold a lot of history in our 2nd chakras.
An important part of healing is learning our history: the developmental stories of this lifetime, and trans-personally over many lives. As we do, we start recognizing patterns: the way we game ourselves, and we can decide if this is how we want to continue.
Some of this learning of our history will be remembering, some of it will be re-assembling, and importantly - some of it will be learning to feel more deeply, sometimes without an evident narrative.
Whatever needs to emerge as a story to inform your growth, will emerge.
If it doesn’t, you’ll need to allow feelings to move without explanation.
Getting real with ourselves usually entails a lot of pushed down emotional energy starting to move, and it’s important to let it.
Don’t let the control freak parts of your mind vet each feeling before you validate it, this is distraction away from forward movement. Feelings are just feelings. They may be nuts, but they are valid for what they are.
Throughout your healing and growth process, you’ll probably revisit certain parts of your story over and over again. This is not a sign that you’re not making progress.
Sometimes we need to revisit an event from the past that we thought we’d resolved, with more maturity.
Other times we can get stuck in the loop of a history: in this case we keep returning to the story to justify some part of our identity, and it’s time to move attention into the body and drop the story, and instead stay with the feelings (pain) trapped in the story, using ground and bare attention until the energy shifts.
This stage is often experienced as a grieving process, and may bring up deep fears around who you are and what your life is about… get support and keep going: you may be about to go through a big transformation.
Whichever phase of your process you’re in right now, working with the statements in this post can help you explore ownership of the 2nd chakra beyond its negative (trauma) programming.
Remember that emotions are energies in motion: if we just stay with them, they will to move and transform as they need to. Healing = moving energy.
Statements for Healing the 2nd Chakra
I need relationship.
I need to be connected to all of myself and for that to be ok.
I need to know that I will not reject myself if another rejects me. When I am hurt or disappointed, it’s ok because I connect with the hurt, I am there with my disappointment.
I need to be in sympathetic attunement with my bodies: Earth, physical, emotional, pain, astral in order to bring in more of my light and evolve my soul’s patterns.
I can connect, give and receive here, because I don’t manipulate my own experience - for myself or others.
I protect myself at this level, so that I can feel what I am feeling and grow through that inner relationship.
