Drawing parallels to the second chakra our culture has also repressed sexuality, pleasure, and emotions, to say nothing of the feminine and is it any wonder that the element of water is affected as well?
In our own lives, we sit still at a desk for hours at a time, overriding the body’s basic need to move and flow. We repress emotions, locking their energies into the body and creating density and blockages. We work too hard, forgetting to relax, enjoy, and play.
And then we wonder why we don’t feel good anymore!
It was a masculine superimposition that demonized sexuality and pleasure, replacing it with shame and guilt. That is now a plague that is driving our culture to destruction, replacing with more damaging or addictive secondary pleasures. The work of James Prescott shows how societies that repress pleasure and sexuality have been shown to have more violence (witness the Taliban, for example) while permissive societies are more peaceful.
In the ancient texts, the downward current through the chakras is calledbhukti, or enjoyment. To enjoy is to have joy within, just as enthusiasm is to have theos, or the divine within. Can we enthusiastically enjoy what creation has given us? Is that not our birthright?
Today, let yourself out a little. Give yourself a little more room for pleasure, relaxation and fun. Do your part to balance the waters of the world, and enjoy the process!
Light and love,
Anodea
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