Yogi Bhajan said: “Faith is something someone else tells you, and guilt is something you tell yourself.”

 

Guilt is one limited emotion sometimes associated with the second chakra and Gurumukh said “For me guilt is summed up in the idea that I am less than”.  The last 2 weeks I wrote about this idea of not leaning into the pleasures of life because we don’t “deserve” them or feel worthy as well as our relationship to nurturance and looking at how we are treating ourselves.  I also wrote about the potential of expansion of the second chakra in the creativity, the flow of letting go and letting life unfold.  So if we are living in (A) fear, self doubt, guilt our life is small, our breath is shallow and our body is tight.  What is the opposite of this?  (B) Expansion, fullness of breath, openness in our bodies and abundance in our lives.  

 

How do we get from place A to place B? Faith, trust and hope!  This is what I want to focus on this week.

 

“If you knew who walked beside you on this path that you have chosen, fear would be impossible” A Course in Miracles 

 

My personal intentions are helping me so much this month.  So together lets start by saying out loud our intentions:

 

1st chakra, rooting, grounding, secure and stable - I am ……..(me - perfectly healthy), I am

2nd chakra, creative, flowing, letting go, trusting, fluid - I am……(me - trusting), I am

 

Repeat them 3 times with steady inhales and exhales. 

 

Where are you in relation to trust and faith right now? Are you in fear? Projecting scary outcomes? All of this constricts your whole self - body, mind and spirit.  Can you take the leap of faith into hope, expansion, fullness and possibility of your life?  That is where the joy of awareness, spiritual work and yoga come into our lives!  A friend (and member😇) this week (thank you Robin), told me about a podcast she had been listening to: Did you grow up with the statement - “what’s the worst that can happen?”.  What happens here? Our mind immediately goes into worst case scenario projections!  What my friend heard was what if we say - “what is the best thing that can happen?” - isn’t that a better starting point for projection?  I flipping love this!!! This is a shift, this is getting to choose differently, its all of it!! Now I do sometimes get gripped in negative projections and I do use my “rabbit hole” writing where I write out the worst, worst case scenario of a situation.  However, I then follow it up with the same situation but with a faith based, hopeful story and I write it in the present tense as if it is happening.  So yes, sometimes the negative story is really loud and hard to shift, but lets remember we always have the chose to choose to see it differently and today lets see it through the fluidity of the 2nd chakra and choose the expansion of living in trust and faith.  If you have any negative issues weighing you down, write out the fear based story, then tear it up and start fresh with What is the best thing that can happen!!!!