Emotional Body, Sacral Energy and Holistic Healing

Throughout my energy reports each week I have touched upon many facets that affect our Sacral area and the ability with which we are able to expand the emotional layers of our total energyfield. In this article, my desire is to combine them and also add more depth to the whole. Before starting into this, I want to note that if you are unfamiliar with the concept of chakras that there are many wonderfully insightful articles and websites on the Internet to learn more about them first.

I feel that a major motivation for writing this article came from my accident on August 11, 2000. That was hardly the first real "trauma" I'd experienced in my Life, yet it was the first trauma that I experienced so boldly and with so much conscious awareness of the crunches I had taken. I also know that part of the reason why my husband and I shared this accident together as we did was to build on our understanding of sacral chakra energy for this is the energy vortex that powers our reproductive system among other areas.

With the Sacral chakra I associate all the emotional layers of our energyfield, Orange vibrational frequency and Water/ Moon elements. Putting all this together, the healthy sacral gives us our ability to flow our emotions.  It was really through the intensity of experience and also energyflow research after this accident that I realized how very, very few individuals are currently working with their sacral chakra in conscious workspace or what some call the NOW moment and I include here those seen as professional healers either allopathic or alterntive. Why might this be so I wondered? Globally, of all the main chakras, it is only the sacral chakra which Mass Conscious has a dance with. All of the other main chakras have at least a basic working harmony at present according to the energyflows. Perhaps this dance with sacral is testament to the enormity of our task here in being human. I feel that one of our greatest gifts to this universe is our endless ability to feel and express emotion. As humans be-ing we are challenged with the difficult task of learning how to blend this emotional powerhouse with our intellect or mental ability. I term this combination of Emotional and Mental(Intellectual) as making up the Astral layer of our total energyfield. Thus, in my way of viewing this, there is within the total energyfield our Spiritual, Astral and Physical layers.

For instance, nobody in the medical community relayed to me the extreme importance of spending quality time listening and **feeling** the pain of my body. I chose to have less pain meds in general so that I would be able to feel what my body, mind and soul were telling me (but I did balance this with the need to rest as well). I have done everything from massaging and lovingly touching my leg and all areas of trauma to actually kissing the needle and IV marks. I realized that the trauma doesn't end with the accident or disease...there are so many things done to our bodies that are so important for our process of "healing" which I found carried their own burdens and needed full expression. Anyone who has gone through a surgery understands this...anyone who needs a weekly shot to control allergies understands this. Anyone who takes meds understands this. I did not then, nor do I now, feel that the allopathic treatments given were wrong for me. It is going well for my husband and I in all ways. It is not the path or paths we take but how aware of them we are as VEHICLES of FEELING and opportunities to truly heal body, mind and spirit, in my opinion. It is this exact concept that perhaps is the reason why a majority of people never heal more than the physical layers of themselves, and I speak of all experiences we have placed in our lives, certainly not just those leading to hospital visits. Anything or anyone that you do not feel total peace with represents a spot within you which is one that merits attention, is one that represents a vehicle for expression of feelings.

Emotions and our Sacral Flow: I needed to tell my physical therapist in the first hospital that it was not a bad thing should I not be "happy, happy" during all our visits (even though my normal state is a positive one). I *needed* to release emotions which were heavily impacted during a very traumatic experience and which seemed to flood up to me by trying to walk again with her help. Our day to day Life brings up our emotions, in other words. Sometimes, it's so simple and plainly under our noses that we tend to ignore such power of the clues we place absolutely *everywhere*. She was part of my healing process on deeper levels than merely the Physical and that is what I wanted to relay to her, and *that* is the miracle of our existence together as humans be-ing. I assured her that it was more than ok for me to be sad some days and that I would not be honoring myself to disallow flow of emotions whenever they wished to come out. Even though she had been a therapist for many years, I could tell this was quite a new concept. In a way, this was a new concept to me as well. New comprehension came to me that while I was feeling such frustration to try and move my leg even one quarter inch in the first few days as all my main muscles had been cut during surgery, I was not only feeling and expressing *this* frustration, but others from my life as well.

It was during my hospital time that I truly began to see the pattern of how global emotionally "high" days would trigger within me more than average emotional flows. Not only for myself, I noticed, but for everyone in the hospital, medical staff included! This was the moment of conception for the Quick Daily Reference on my website which continues to grow in it's format as I learn about global intensities and how they represent triggers within us.

I realized that I might wake up perhaps everyday from the accident onwards immersed in the impact on my Life, feeling the anguish of not walking or moving , feeling SO many things I couldn't even begin to name it all. And that was my first choice leading to healing all that I AM. I could either ignore all that uneasiness within myself, leaving it in its scrunched position and either pinning a smile to my face or projecting my pain to others... or I could allow it. Allow it and possibly need to allow it for days or months on end. I didn't know how long it would take, only that my heart said I must comply anyway. Through the vehicle of this trauma, I was about to heal *many* traumas. My sense is that when I made the conscious choice to allow it, no matter what the process or how long it took, that this was indeed the unconditional love I needed to open my door to deeper healing. This was taking responsibility for the experience and the allowance within myself to explore new worlds. Yes, I have felt anger for ten different reasons (dealing with insurance companies, etc) , felt deep panic and pain and sadness and a myriad of other emotions...and only through this process did my Emotional body begin to extend back *out*. My initial fears about being overwhelmed by too much "process" were put to rest, and I have found this healing to be extremely worthwhile.

We have all had traumas in our Life, whether this was through a sudden accident, is a disease or a slower route that is often inflicted throughout our lifetime by those we feel should be caretakers or those we love. Oftentimes we come into this Life, already emotionally impacted which manifests the situations that fall our way. These traumas , these scenarios we take on, leave an indelible impact on our Emotional body seated in the Sacral chakra. For myself, I found that the point of impact literally crunched all my outer energy layers within my physical. My job , as healer for myself then, was and is to unlock these layers, piece by piece until my Emotional and all my outer layers were again able to extend back out of my physical field. This is the process that I call Healing and we are the only ones who can do it although we may receive help from many people along our path. We set up the scenarios which we experience, we must sanction the allowance to heal and then we must pull all the emotions through that will actually accomplish it. Had I not been sensitive to energyflow and the many layers which we are, I may have heard the doctors' pronouncement that my leg had "healed" and yet might never have been truly whole again in my Life. Or, the distorted vibrational pattern that I didn't holistically heal may have popped itself into my Life again as an entirely different scenario (or the same). It is the powerhouse of the layers behind our densest physical being - those that we cannot physically see - which can keep us locked in past resonations, keep us recycling and keep our filters in place no matter how hard we may practice our spirituality. We set up many experiences, accidents and other scenarios to provide vital impact in our lives, to clue us in to the healing we need to accomplish, or the beliefs we need perhaps re-structure, or the insights we can bring to conscious awareness.

The sacral chakra and our emotions: In my opinion, one of our greatest gifts to the universe as humans is our Emotional Body. Perhaps this is why as a group we have expended so much experience both individually and in groups (including wars) on learning to flow our emotions and upon understanding and attaining Astral balance. We have such ability to Feel, it is our birthright. We get fearful to feel though, and in my opinion, it is a fear that we will get carried away by our emotions, particularly those that are "not nice"....shame, guilt, jealousy and perhaps the one with the worst reputation, anger.

Anger and Energyflow, a brief look: We each have a very distinct relationship with absolutely everything in our universe.....every person, every thought, every everything. Thus , I describe this as an energyflow ..there is a give and take *flow* of energy between we and whatever it is we are in relationship with. When we have worked to create Peace with anything we are in relationship with, then what we are doing is making a miracle. Two become Three and 3 become One. If we were to draw dots on a paper and the two lower dots represented "you" and "whatever", then a harmonic flow between you and whatever would lead to the third point...it is the creation of a sacred triangle. This triangle represents the ability of you and whatever to create a new and powerful flow with basis in unconditional love. This can only take place in our NOW or conscious workspace. The tricky part is whether we will choose to let this relationship exist within our conscious workspace or not. Will we acknowledge it and give it validation.

What happens when a person decides they do not have "anger"? Have they literally then, created for themselves a range without this emotion? No. They have only taken their flow with "anger" and placed it off to the right of their conscious workspace. This is also what I note for many of us with our entire sacral chakra energy. The fact is, we must do something with everything in our universe, especially and including the emotions we feel on a constant basis while moving through our days and lives. If we choose not to consciously acknowledge anger energy within ourselves, when we start to feel the resonations of this vibration we will tend to displace it immediately onto others OR we will over time store it until it accrues as a physical debit such as cancer (especially of reproductive organs). Sometimes we send our responsibility to others by displacing it to other people or often it can be our animal companions who provide this service for us. We may be "anger-free" but meanwhile we are not working on our "triangle" with the energy of anger and it may just be defaulting all over us in as many situations and ways as there are unique individuals. These defaults in themselves are Divine and represent glaring conscious awareness for us (traumas). And this works very well for some people but I, personally, wanted more than to constantly need to default my way through Life because it's not much fun.

I found out long ago that I either learned to deal with anger or it **was** going to deal with me. I am not talking about bouts of rage either...these I see as volcanic eruptions of stored up anger, which we sometimes play in our lives to try and reset some semblance of balance within ourselves. On emotionally "high" days, when the flow of emotions is too strong to handle in all our usual ways, then we can look around us and see what happens: road rage, beatings and any number of human eruptions. It wasn't until I consciously decided to ALLOW anger to become a valid emotion within my life - meaning, welcoming it and not feeling guilty for it - that I truly began to understand the immense power of this emotion to heal. I also saw my fears about feeling anger evaporate because in time I was able to choose this emotion as merely one from my full toolbox of all emotions....in other words, I'd be in control of anger and it wouldn't need to spiral into rage or illness. In particular I have relied on Anger energy to help me heal my Heart, for as I allowed anger validation and then used my mind to look at the situation with the detachment that only our intellect can do, I realized that I was feeling anger when others stepped over my personal boundaries and had hurt my heart. I began to understand Anger as a Champion for my Heart , as a most wonderful emotion for teaching me how to set my personal boundaries, and to be able to stand in my Center.

How does anger manifest in my life today? Will I sometimes feel it appropriate to do the same as a mother bear growling at her cubs? Absolutely, but the difference is that it is very short, very quick, very in control. This is vitally different than feeling the push of anger and then opening up a vent inside of us to spew rage until things happen that we cannot take back! Anger can manifest positively in our lives in many more ways than this one example and in my opinion, each way is serving as champion for our Heart. Anger is so very powerful, however, that we must use both our sacral and our intellect as a working team in order to truly benefit. This is what we are learning, as a Human race, not just for anger but for all emotions that we deem "darker".

A Place To Start: It can be overwhelming to discover all the people, places and items in ones' life that are not at Peace. But this is a journey, we don't have to heal and extend our Emotional body back out tomorrow. We are here and that is already cause for celebration as to our courage in Going Big. Personally I like the simple affirmation of " Every Day Better." Before starting to pull energyflows into our conscious or Now workspace , however, there is something that is crucial. Grounding. Grounding means (to me) that we have a solid energyflow from the top or crown chakra all the way through our feet and into Earth. On my journey I found it quite hard to understand this concept and even harder to know when I was grounded. This is something that we each need to practice ourselves in whatever ways feel comfortable to us. For many (including myself) the mineral kingdom can be a wonderful asset in helping to gain our grounding. I have many ways to ground now, and perhaps the simplest is to simply affirm to my self "Ground".

The importance of good grounding cannot be overstated! When we have proper flow between our chakras and through our body, then the emotions we bring up for release can actually be released. Without this flow into the Earth, we might bring up the emotions only to have them cycle around and around in our conscious workspace and able to cause distress. This is where I note many people retain their fears of healing and of pulling relationship flows into conscious workspace and it's no wonder! If an emotion comes to stay for lunch and dinner and forever, then we have learned we don't want to go there anymore. It doesn't have to be this way though...emotions can flow as water (another great affirmation!). If you find yourself in this situation, there are many holistic practitioners who can faciliate a starting point.

We can start flows going within ourselves by working with our Hands, our Ears and our Feet. These are the reflexology areas and by physically rubbing or massaging any of these areas we will be releasing some blockages for ourselves. This may trigger memories from early childhood, it may bring body aches into more focus....but the awareness *will* somehow be surfacing for validation and love and hopefully for release. Music can be a wonderful tool for helping to release emotions, and so can soaking feet in hot water into which an Evergreen has been placed, especially Juniper. I have noted that the Evergreens such as Pine and Juniper are "magical" in their high harmony with the Water Element. Trust your intuition in this as in all things. May we all make our peace with our sacral chakra and astral layers.

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