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Breathing Under Water

kim on 10:32 pm May 26th, 2009 / Be the first to comment! »

I keep hearing the phrase, “under water,” as it relates to many people’s home and asset ownership situation.

It’s so interesting how cultures make up phrases that reflect energetic reality. Here’s the link. The vibration of the second chakra travels primarily through water — it is water, in a way. Underneath the second chakra is the first chakra, whose essence is terra firma, gravity, matter. We tend to understand the chakras most easily through the emotional body, or how we feel when one chakra or another gets revved up.

The emotional issues of these lowest two chakras are primarily rooted in desire, money, trust, and fear. We identify with the most basic “things” we “need” in this life through these chakras. Many of the needs are indeed totally real: a roof over one’s head, a feeling of security of safety, the right to be here and to have.

That’s why “under water” strikes me as so intelligent. If any of us were physically under water, we would obviously only be able to stay there a short period, or we would die from lack of oxygen. Of course, those of us with mortgages worth more than our homes are worth may feel like we are drowing, suffocating from the level of debt we’ve incurred, and from the fact that we are basically trapped there until the market “turns around,” and home prices again rise.

And in the first chakra, where fear and trust quite simply, then there is a choice. You decide to feel one thing or the other based on your current state. You can either let yourself drown or keep breathing because the metaphor is only that. Breathing mindfully reduces fear by its very function.