In this post, I offer guidance on how to clear and restore health for each energy center, as described in my book, The Eight Aspects of God: A Pathway to Bliss. A favorite exercise is what I call the Chakra Clearing Chant (included below). It is super simple and can be used as a chant, affirmation or mantra. I hope you like it.
Much love,
Ruthie
Chapter 10: Affirmations For The Chakras
The body’s energy centers hold both negative and positive energy. How each one expresses itself—more positively or more negatively—changes from moment to moment, day to day, and week to week. It all depends on what’s going on in your life and how you’re handling it.
In order to reach our maximum potential, we have to clear out any negative energy. It’s like managing weeds in a garden. An overlooked weed grows deep roots and competes with what you’ve planted. Sometimes you’re too busy to see the weed; you may even walk right past it without noticing it’s there. Other times you might actually notice the weed, but instead of pulling it right then, you put it off for another day. Next thing you know, the rains come and the weeds have multiplied.
Making a conscious effort to see a negative trait in yourself, then working to clear it, is akin to seeking out the weed in your garden and pulling it. It clears the path for more goodness to grow in your life—especially knowing that the rains will always come.
Using the Negative to Affirm the Positive
Exploring negative feelings to their fullest serves as a launch pad to propel you deeper into the opposing positive quality. For example, feeling the pain of sadness helps you feel the sweetness of joy. Without darkness you cannot know light.
A good way to overpower negativity is to be with the negative feelings, to feel them completely, and then to immediately plant a seed of the opposite—positive—energy in its place. Using affirmations is a simple and effective way to do this. To affirm something is to state it as if it is so, here and now. It is to declare something as if it is already true; to believe it is real.
Below are the three most common negative traits (weeds) related to each chakra, followed by an opposing positive (seed) in the form of an affirmation.
Chakra 1: rigid, unstable, unsafe. Affirmation: “Knowing that life will hold me, protect me, and nurture me, I am safe and at peace.”
Chakra 2: addictive, flighty, stuck. Affirmation: “I am a wise, free-flowing, creative, and whole being.”
Chakra 3: judgmental, insecure, controlling. Affirmation: “Knowing that I am a perfect, powerful expression of God, I celebrate others in their unique expression of God.”
Chakra 4: resentful, jealous, rescuer. Affirmation: “I love and respect others unconditionally because I love myself without conditions.”
Chakra 5: blaming, gossipy, pessimistic. Affirmation: “Because I know we’re all connected, I speak of others with a calming sense of love and grace.”
Chakra 6: indecisive, egotistical, confused. Affirmation: “Seeing and hearing clearly, I humbly trust my intuition.”
Chakra 7: lost, apathetic, depressed. Affirmation: “Vital life force energy runs through my veins. I am Spirit, I am bliss!”
Tackling a negative thought with will and determination—like you mean it—and then examining all sides of it helps in creating positive, meaningful, and relevant affirmations.
Feeling Feeds the Words
You can say words all day long, but if they lack meaning they are missing essential energy; they have no power. Think of the essence of any given word. What does love feel like? Or anger, or sadness, or joy, or peace? Pause to “feel” a word’s meaning, its expression.
Feeling gives meaning to words just as water cultivates growth in a garden. Words fueled by feeling become like a well-tended garden soaking up a warm summer’s rain. The water releases vital nutrients from the soil that feed the plants just as feeling releases the essence, the nutrient, of a word. Feeling is what makes the affirmation come to life, makes it take root and grow.
Chakra-Clearing Chant
The chakra-clearing chant is an affirming exercise to cleanse the entire chakra system in one fell swoop—as a single affirmation or mantra. To begin, close your eyes and take a few deep, cleansing breaths. Get centered. Be still. Invite energy to flow upward with each inhalation and down with each exhalation as you say the words. Keep your gaze uplifted. Practice outside or near a window if you can.
I am pure, I am free
Grounded like a tree!
I am pure, I am free
To express creatively!
I am pure, I am free
Accepting all of me!
I am pure, I am free
Love embraces me!
I am pure, I am free
Speaking joyfully!
I am pure, I am free
With clarity I see!
I am pure, I am free
As I unite with Thee!
Yes, I am pure, I am free . . . I live authentically!
For the last statement, tilt your head back and lift your gaze as you reach toward the sky with open arms. Really concentrate on the meaning of the words and how they make you feel.
Why Use Affirmations?
Using affirmations helps us achieve self-mastery, self-leadership, self-control, self-management, and self-realization. They also give us liberation! They’re a way of taking responsibility for our personal development and progress in life. We can read books, take classes, and listen to lectures, but without taking action, nothing will make a bit of difference.
Affirming the positive is the action of fertilizing your inner garden. It promotes maximum growth from the inside out. You become like the wise farmer who, having planted a tiny little seed and then nurtured it to harvest, ensures further growth by sharing his bountiful crop with others.
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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