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Staff Speak – Thoughts on Perception

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Perceptions are an interesting thing. How each of us as individuals perceive any one event can be different for each involved. How you perceive the events in your life is dependent upon many things which are including but not limited to what your parents taught you, the community you grew up in, and your various life experiences. When you expand your perception, it opens you up to a world of possibilities.

How would you go about perceiving daily events in a way that helps you grow and expand your perception? Always make sure that you are coming from a place of detached observation when looking at your daily happenings. It may be difficult to be detached from the things that you really want to happen. It takes practice to do this and with the help of a few of the crystals it can be achieved.

Snowflake Obsidian helps you see both sides of an issue and be an detached observer. In essence, it helps you look at things from a different perspective. Garnet helps to sharpen your perception of yourself and others. Before you can really understand others, it is beneficial to know and understand yourself. To know and love yourself is in service to all because that love and respect will flow outward and touch others in a transformative way. There are many more practices and crystals to help you fine-tune your perceptions. Being that crystals work with you on an individual basis, it is good to explore them on an individual basis and see which one works best with you.

Second: Sacral Chakra

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Name Svadishthana Chakra: “Dwelling place of the self”. Sacral Chakra or Cross Center (sometimes referred to as Spleen Center, which is actually a secondary center or the 3rd chakra).
Location Upper part of sacrum, approximately at upper limit of pubic hair, opens forward.
Symbol/Yantra 6-petaled lotus. Circle with crescent.
Basic Principles
Sensation. Creative reproduction of being—sensation. Acquire power of love; love everyone and loved by everyone. “I rejoice in my desires and my pleasures”. Reason. Home of intellect, logic, analysis.
Often considered real seat of Shakti, female aspect of God. Water. Physical level: decontaminating functions of kidneys and bladder: spiritual, liberated, free-flowing feelings enable see life ever-primordial and new. Lower/digestive: analyzes food ingested, separating useful and transforming for use. Higher: acceptance & integration of our feelings).
Primal feelings, flowing with life, sensuality, eroticism, creativity, awe and enthusiasm.
Ruling Planet Mercury
Astrological Sign Gemini. Cancer/Moon, Libra/Venus, Scorpio/Pluto.
Understanding Circular
Element Water (fertilizes, purifies, dissolves blockages)
Sounds D (re). 292.1 cycles per second. VAM. Flowing music (folk dances, dance music); birdsong, sound running water, splashing of small indoor or outdoor fountain. short “o”, as in “November”. Sets off circular movement: in many languages, sound expresses emotional amazement; at end, when approaches a “u”, awakens emotional depth, leads to circular unity where Yin/Yang interact to form harmonious whole.
Color Orange-Red. According to Ayurveda, is inner color of water. Encourages self-esteem, increases joy from sensual pleasures. Also blood red.
Deity Vishnu. Shakti: Rakini.
Animal Crocodile
Plants, Aromas Ylang-ylang oil (feel safe, encourages to entrust to flow of feeling; dammed up feelings dissolved and carried away), sandalwood (integrate spiritual energies on all levels of thinking, feeling, acting). These two are considered either very spiritual (high level consciousness or aphrodisiacs (low level consciousness).
Gemstones Amber. Carnelian (grounding energies into physical: brings into contact with beauty and creative energy of earth, helps live fully in present, stimulates concentration, brings back awe at miracles of Creation). Garnet (utilize of creative energy). Red Jasper. Moonstone (opens to own emotional richness, connects with sensitive, receptive, dreamlike part of self, accept it and integrate. Takes away fear of emotions, harmonizing effect; cleansing of blocked lymph glands, ensures female balanced hormone level). Ruby (creative energy developed to highest aspect of self). Red and Orange stones. Clear Quartz.
Nature Experience Moonlight (especially when full, brightens feelings, makes receptive to message of soul as revealed through dreams, imagination); clear water: if combine two, very beneficial.
Age 8 — 14
Sensory Function Taste
Body Issues: Parts, Glands, Hormones Genitals. Pelvic area, reproductive organs, kidneys, bladder, all liquids, such as blood, lymphatic fluid, digestive secretions, sperm (liver/digestive: analyzes food ingested, separating useful and transforming for use – higher, acceptance and integration of our feelings). Reproductive glands, ovaries, prostrate gland, testicles. Estrogens, testosterone. Organ of cognition: tongue. Organ of action: hands.
Body Issues: Proper Functioning Purifying, starts things to flow. Natural flow of life and feelings; of creative life energy flowing through body, soul, mind. Utilization of creative forces in all aspects being. Emotionally gratified. Creative reproduction of being: sensation, sexuality, family, fantasy. Primal feelings, flowing with life, sensuality, eroticism, creativity, awe and enthusiasm.
Body Issues: Dark Aspects of Energy Here people fall from path of light and truth: lower vital sex forces try lower consciousness of seekers but if can bring down purity from hearth chakra, ok.
Body Issues: Insufficient Functioning Usually traced back to childhood: parents suppress sexuality, transfer it. During puberty, you suppress sexual feelings, result in lack of self-esteem, emotional paralysis, sexual coldness: life seems dreary and not worth living.
Body Issues: disharmonious functioning Often originates during puberty with rules imposed by society, parents; negation or excessive fantasies or sex as drug. Lose sense of wonder at miracles of life. Restless, confused.
Body Issues: Physical Problems Impotence, frigidity. Affected by cycles of moon/emotions. Envy, jealousy.
Sleep Mode Prenatal position, 8 — 10 hours
Spin of the Chakra (facing the body) Female: right. Male: left.
Occupations When educated: logic, analysis. Pundits, pragmatists.
Yogic Discipline Tantra Yoga (sees nature as play between female and male energies, Shiva/Shakti, who bring forth visible world in never-ending dance of Creation).

First: Root/Base Chakra

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Name Muladhara Chakra: “Foundation”. Root Center, Base Chakra, Coccyx Center, Root Support.
Location Base of trunk. Between anus & genitals, connected to Coccyx, opens downward.
Symbol/Yantra 4 red-orange petals, chrome–gold inside.
Basic Principles
Survival. Physical will to be. Grounding, feeling love of universe, security. “I rejoice in my physical existence.”
Connects us with physical world: transfers cosmic energies to physical and earthly level, lets earthly energy stream into our subtle system. The memory center. Creates a consciousness of time through the power of memory, travel through time through memory.
Primal vital energy, primal trust, relating to Earth and the material world, stability, the power to succeed.
Ruling Planet Mars (solar, masculine)
Astrological Sign Aries. Aries/Mars, Taurus, Scorpio/Pluto, Capricorn/Saturn (in Ayurvedic teachings: the Sun).
Understanding Linear
Element Earth
Sounds Lower C (do). 261.2 cycles per second. LAM (said powerfully). Strongly rhythmic (stomping beat). Monotonous, emphatic rhythms: ancient music of primitive tribes. Sounds of nature. U (“ooh”).
Color Fiery red, also black. If red, tinged with blue, helps permeate vital with spiritual energy. Healthy chakra glows fiery red.
Deity Brahma, Ganesh. Shakti: Dakini.
Animal Elephant
Plants, Aromas Cedar (serenity, feeling security), clove (dissolves dammed up energies in root chakra, liberating self from old social patterns).
Gemstones Agate (seriousness, firmness, equanimity, dissolves negative emotions, protects inner self, stimulates esteem for own body). Bloodstone (blood jasper: cleansing, energizing of creative, feeling security within natural life cycle). Carnelian. Garnet (drive, willpower, self-confidence: helps heal diseases of genitals). Hematite (strength, energy). Red Jasper. Obsidian (awakening dormant unmanifested potential). Black Onyx. Red coral (encourages flexibility, remain rooted within Self while flowing along with life). Rhodonite. Ruby (harmonic synthesis between physical and spiritual love). Smokey Quartz. Black Tourmaline. Red & Black stones. Clear Quartz. All here help strengthen blood system in some way.
Nature Experience Dawn, sunset, fresh soil.
Age Child 1 — 7 acts from here, acquires language skills, relationships, cultural ways.
Sensory Function Smell
Body Issues: Parts, Glands, Hormones Everything solid, spine, bones, teeth, nails, legs, anus, rectum, colon, intestines, prostrate gland, blood, cell multiplication. Glands: suprarenal. Hormones: adrenaline, noradrenalin. Organ of cognition: nose. Organ of action: feet.
Body Issues: Proper Functioning Ground spiritual forces in body, gain ability to work lovingly on physical plane. Primal vital energy, primal trust, relating to earth and the material world, stability, the power to succeed, health, courage, patience, security.
Body Issues: Dark Aspects of Energy Violent behavior based on insecurity. A fearful person may strike out blindly like a cornered animal.
Body Issues: Insufficient Functioning Physical condition weak, lack physical and emotional stamina. Worry, uncertainty. Life is a burden. If higher chakras developed to detriment of the lower, sense not belong on earth; feels fearful, anxious, angry and frustrated. Blocked: feel fearful, anxious, angry & frustrated.
Body Issues: disharmonious functioning Thoughts and actions revolve around material possessions and security, or sensual indulgences and thrills. If challenged, easily irritated or upset.
Body Issues: Physical Problems Constipation and overweight (inability to let go, desire to maintain possessions). Anorexia (if sacral and solar plexus also blocked). Obesity, hemorrhoids, constipation, sciatica, degenerative arthritis, knee problems.
Sleep Mode On stomach, 10-12 hours.
Spin of the Chakra (facing the body) Female: left. Male: right.
Occupations
Yogic Discipline Hatha Yoga (unfolding of awareness through cleansing, stimulating physical body through exercise), Kundalini Yoga.