The Second Chakra - The Power Of Relationships

Taken from the anatomy of the spirit by Caroline Myss

Chakra is the partnership chakra. Its energy begins to pulsate and become distinct around the age of 7. At that age children start interacting with other children and adults, more independently of their parents and outside the home environment. Through these initial interactions they begin to individuate, form relationships and explore their power of choice. With the second chakra energy shifts from a bank travel authority to discovering other relationships that satisfy personal, physical needs. Still a lower chakra energy this pushes us toward relating to external forces, the second chakra is a powerful force.

Location : lower abdomen to naval area

Energy connection to the physical body : sexual organs, large intestine, lower vertebrae, pelvis, hip area, appendix and bladder.

Energy connection to the emotional / mental body: this chakra resonates to our need for relationships with other people and our need to control to some extent the dynamics of our physical environment. All the attachments by which we maintain control over our external lives such as authority, other people, or money, or linked through this chakra to our energy field and physical body. The illnesses that originate in this energy centre are activated by the fear of losing control. Prostate or ovarian cancer, chronic pain in the lower back and hips and arthritis or a few of the more common health problems.

It’s menopause, such as hot flashes and depression, or second chakra energy dysfunctions. Fibroids result from second chakra creative energy that was not birthed and from life energy that is directed into dead end jobs or relationships.

Symbolic / perceptual connection : the energy in this chakra enables us to generate a sense of personal identity and protective psychological boundaries. As we continually assess our personal strength in regard to the external world and its physically seductive forces, such as six, money, addictive substances or other people, the second chakra energy of a healthy physical ego keeps us able to interact with that world without having to negotiate or sell ourselves. It is the energy of self-sufficiency, a survival instinct for being in the world.

Sefirot / sacrament connection : the second chakra is aligned to the sefira of Yesod, which represents the phallus, the male energy of procreation. This partnership chakra also holds the energy of covenant. This procreative energy is both biological and spiritual. We desire to create children and also to bring our creative ideas into physical form, which is as crucial to our physical health as to our spiritual. The sacrament of communion resonates to the energy of this chakra and symbolises bonds reform with people. Communions of many types or symbolised by the act of sharing bread together.

Primary fears: fears of loss of control, or being controlled by another, through the dominating power of events or conditions such as addiction, rape, betrayal, impotence, financial loss, abandonment by our primary partner or professional colleagues. Also fear of the loss of power of the physical body.

Primary strength: the ability and stamina to survive financially and physically on ones own and to defend and protect oneself, the fight or flight instinct, the ability to take risks, the resilience to recover from loss whether of family members, partners, property, occupation, or finances, the power to rebel and reestablish a life and personal and professional decision making ability and talent.

Sacred truth: the sacred truth inherent in the second chakra is honor one another. This truth applies to our interactions with each other and with all forms of life. From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious. Some relationships are necessarily painful because learning about ourselves and facing our own limitations or not things we tend to do with enthusiasm. We often need to be spiritually set up for such encounters.

The archetypal energies of the sefira of Yesod and the sacrament of communion and the physical energy of the second chakra all symbolize that relationships are essentially spiritual messengers. They bring into our lives and we into theirs, revelations about our own strengths and weaknesses. From relationships within the home to those at work to community or political activity, no union is without spiritual value. Each helps us to grow as individuals. We can more easily see the symbolic value of our relationships when we release our compulsion to judge what and who has value and instead focus on honoring the person and the task with which we are involved.

The second chakras energy has an inherent duality. The unified energy of the first chakra, represented by the tribal mind, becomes divided into polarities in the second chakra. This division of forces has been given many names; yin / yang, anima / animus, male / female, sun / moon. Understanding the significance of these opposites is the key to working with second chakra issues. The energies of the sefira of Yesod and the sacrament of communion combined with these dual energies of the second chakra to ensure that we attract to ourselves relationships that help us come to know ourselves. OK well known expressions such as like attracts like and when the student is ready the teacher will appear, acknowledge that an energy working behind the scenes seems to organise when and where we meet people and always at the right time. The spiritual challenge of the second chakra is to learn to interact consciously with others : to form unions with people who support our development and to release relationships that handicap our growth.

Physical science recognises second chakra energy is the law of cause and effect, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction and the law of magnetism, oppositely charged objects attract. Applied to relationship, these laws mean that we generate patterns of energy that attract people who are opposite us in some way, we have something to teach. Nothing is random. Prior to every relationship we ever formed, we opened the door with energy that we were generating. This fact is what makes learning about second chakra dualism so delicious. The more conscious we become, the more consciously we can utilise the energy of the second chakra.

The Power of Choice

The energy of the second chakra helps us evolve beyond the collective energy of the tribe. Choice is born out of opposites and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of opposite and negative energy patterns. If your choice we make contributes A subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness.

Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward inspiring us to recognize that the power to make choices is the dynamic that converts our spirits into matter, our words into flesh. Choice is the process of creation itself.

The fact that our choices weave our spirits into events is the reason the major spiritual traditions are formed around one essential lesson: make your choices wisely, because each choice you make is a creative act of spiritual power for which you are held responsible. Further, any choice made from faith has the full power of heaven behind it, which is why faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain. And any choice made from fear is a violation of the energy of faith’s.

Choice has a mysterious aspect, however, for we will never completely know the full outcome of any choice we make. A primal lesson of the second chakra is the paradoxical nature of choice: what seems right can turn out wrong; What appears good can end up bad. Just when everything is going smoothly chaos breaks things up.

Paradoxically, while the energy of the second chakra inclines us to try to control our lives, the lesson of the second chakra is that we cannot be in control. We are physical beings and energy beings, but since the physical world cannot be controlled, the task before us is to master our inner responses to the external world, our thoughts and emotions.

Nevertheless, we all struggle in a seemingly never ending cycle of disappointment in which we attempt to control our lives. We search endlessly for the one grand choice that will put everything in our lives into permanent order, halting the motion of change long enough to establish final control over everyone and everything. Is their choice the right career? The right marriage partner? The right geographic location? In seeking this one right choice constantly, we give form to a fear of the changing rhythm that is life itself. In looking for this single external person or thing that will forever bring us peace, stability, love and health, we dismiss the more authentic power that lies behind our eyes and not in front of them. The truth contained within the paradoxical nature of dualism is this: it is not what we choose that matters; Our power to influence an outcome lies in our reasons for making a certain choice.

The challenge of the second chakra is to learn what motivates us to make the choices we do. In learning about our motivations, we learn about the content of our spirits. Are you filled with fear, or are you filled with faith? Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.