The Seven Secrets to Living in Harmony — Secret #1 Answers The Question “Why is my back killing me?”
A Guide to Freeing You to Create Your Life by listening to the messages from your body
Seeking to create or birth the life you desire?
The art of creation is something that moves through us and changes us. As we create something new, we equally create something new within us. Which is why we then feel emotions such as frustration and self-doubt.
We then have a choice as to whether to proceed regardless or go back into the fight or flight mode which suppresses our creative energy. Meaning you stop creating and do not create and build your passion, what your soul is seeking.
Usually this is because we feel our safety, survival and structure are under threat.
Welcome To The Domain Of The Root Chakra
It is our connection to Mother Earth, bringing to us all the raw and formed materials of our embodied world. Gathering our lived experiences, wisdom, and becoming, before being released back to Spirit through our crown chakra.
The root chakra is not just at the base of the spine. It includes the buttocks, the anus, the perineum and also the high upper thighs close to the hip sockets.
When there is a feeling of belonging and no longer having to work on your own, the sense of support flows into the lower back, benefiting the kidneys as well.
Which influences your blood, spine, legs, bones and nervous system as well as vagina for women and testes for men.
Unable to move because of the pain in your back? Your back is all about the support you believe you are receiving, or not.
It is the fulcrum around which all movement takes place. When there is tightness, the pain can be excruciating — as I have known at many pivotal moments in my life.
By linking the location of the pain to one of the seven prime chakras it is possible to identify the core belief seeking to be changed.
The back also supports all our thinking and doing as the spine supports our skull as well as the brain. The hips connect to our legs which provide us with upright support and the ability to move.
Along with all this, the back operates as a storage facility. What we cannot process in the moment is pushed down and stored for later attention. This is actually a healthy built-in process which helps us survive.
When you see an animal shaking or tremoring this is clearing their storage container of any recent trauma. I started doing the same a year or so ago.
How Our Root Chakra Influences Our Life
So, our backs contain and maintain three key aspects of how we live our life: its structure, our nervous system, and storing/processing experiences.
1. Structure Of Your Life
The structure of everything we are and do in and navigating our life is provided by our back. Being both strong and flexible, the small of our back allows us to stand straight and yet to bend to the changes life brings.
If there is any belief in a lack of support, whether from your boss, team, or family, your back will feel the strain.
Tightness suggests emotions connected with a lack of support and a wish to hold on to something.
The lower back provides the support and foundation, therefore mirroring your life. It was bouts of intense lower back pain which led me to write The Seven Secrets To Living In Harmony.
In doing so I came to understand our bodies are the means by which we live and therefore reflect how we are living in any given moment. Which is why it is not uncommon for people who need to change a fundamental aspect of their life to break a bone. The effect is to literally change their physical structure.
A recent example was a lady who had broken her right hip about two years after her divorce. The support she received from her family and friends allowed her to re-structure of her life.
More on the differences between the left and right hand sides of our body can be found in the chapter — Why Harmony May Be Missing in Your Life.
A neck out of alignment, disks crushed or even disintegrated, fracture of a bone, joints disconnected or frozen, each is an indication of an imbalance in the flow of energy through our physical body.
By linking the location of the pain to one of the seven prime chakras it is possible to identify the core belief seeking to be changed.
2. Your Nervous System
Our backs from the neck to our sternum host part of our nervous system. Many refer to psychic gifts as acquiring information from the “other side” or as flowing through the third eye. In fact these gifts, the ability to receive a variety of information which is not available to us through our physical senses, are actually located in our back.
While we are focused in front on the issues present in our conscious mind, such as the direction we are heading, our back is a radar dish collecting energetic information in all its forms.
Most have felt this when they say the hair on the back of their neck has risen. For it is our back which receives the information, bringing it into our awareness to be distributed.
Anything suspect is routed into our protective system such as our root or first chakra. Information which requires soul level wisdom or is an opportunity for movement forward on our path, is processed by our solar plexus or third chakra for intuitive interpretation.
What we view as psychic information is processed through the third eye, which converts it into forms providing us with meaning and context.
Our bodies seek to ensure there is balance and harmony between these seven energy centres. Knowing that is the best way to create or birth the life you desire.
3. Storage Of Your Experiences
The back also supports our safety and wellbeing through the limbic system which includes our brain stem or lizard brain survival programming. The spinal cord as part of the nervous system is our information and experience super highway, connecting the various parts of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual bodies.
Directing the storage of experiences as well as the ability to retrieve or process what has been stored.
No matter why events, emotions, and information are stored, they reside most often in our back. To be held in storage until we choose to process it. Having specifically sought not to be conscious of the issue, we cannot hold it in front of us.
For here is where we are most conscious of ourselves and processing what we are working on during the day. The longer we store such experiences, they develop into core issues and eventually each block begins to agitate to attract attention through pain and dis-comfort.
Should we not feel safe physically, emotionally, or mentally for long periods, we establish coping mechanisms in order to survive.
To Support Your Back
Standing straight requires us to acknowledge all that we are and all which is around us, for better or worse. If not then…
…which is why Secret #1 answers the question: “Why is my back killing me?”
For further understanding of the message your root chakra is sending you, I have placed on YouTube a short video about Secret #1 — ready to allow yourself to feel supported?
Celine´s Broken Ankle
When I first met Celine at a workshop she was hobbling from having broken her ankle six months earlier. “I don’t know why it won’t mend properly,” she said. During our first session, it became apparent she was unsure about how to structure her life.
She was divorced, living and working in the New York area, and met her boyfriend in Michigan only once a month. Celine explained how her ankle broke one day while out walking. She stepped forward and her trailing ankle simply remained stuck to the ground!
During one Skype call, Celine excitedly told me she had become engaged though was concerned about how long it would take to raise money to pay for the wedding. She was also concerned about leaving behind the business she had created on the East Coast to live in Michigan.
Among the limitations we addressed was a vow of poverty made in another life and a childhood memory of her grandmother referring disparagingly to “being rich”. Both were acting to limit the income she allowed herself to create. When asked about her ankle, she said that apart from a few recent twinges, it felt great.
At the end of the session I asked Celine to complete a fire ceremony for all the limiting beliefs we addressed, along with every other one she could identify and all the roles, such as daughter, sister, college student, she had performed in her life to date.
She emailed me two weeks later, saying she had held the ceremony. A few months later I heard she was married and had created a new business in Michigan.
Warning Signs Your Root Chakra Is Out of Balance
The root chakra, muladhara in Sanskrit, is physically located at the feet, legs, and “roots” of your being. It is connected with the element of Earth.
Its association is with your sense of safety, security, and feeling at home within your skin. This chakra is also related to your family of origin and your human tribe.
Apart from pain or dis-comfort in your feet, legs etc. any of the following may indicate an imbalance in the root chakra:
• Excess flexibility in your hamstrings/low sense of physical stability
• Feeling ungrounded, unsafe, and insecure
• Home life feels chaotic and unsettled
• Feeling stuck in life/low sense of flexibility
Misalignment or blockage in this chakra may result in paranoia, fear, financial hardship, or procrastination. Preventing us taking action to, for example, attract and maintain financial security — meeting our basic, survival needs.
When the blockage manifests physically, this is usually through problems with waste elimination and the colon, bladder, lower back, feet or with the legs.
An overactive root chakra often leads to compulsive gambling, drug addiction, alcoholism, video-game addiction as well as being a shopaholic.
To help bring your root chakra into balance connect with Mother Earth. Go for a hike, walk in the sand, or garden. Be in Nature, just sitting and connecting with it. In doing so you are allowing Earth energy to move into you through your feet or perineum and flow upwards until it continues out of your crown chakra to return to Spirit. Wear the colour red and stretch and strengthen your legs.
When the root chakra is active and balanced, you feel grounded, stable and secure. You are able to put trust in others as you know they will support you in creating or birthing the life you desire.
Each of The Seven Secrets´ chapters can help you identify the nature of your message as well as the underlying emotions generating stress in your body.
Then you will be on your path to create what you desire in your life. Your back will tell you whether or not you are aligned with your soul´s desires.
Reminding you of this quote by Peter Heg:
“If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself”.
This energy centre is found on Mother Earth at Mount Shasta, California.
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ABOUT GREGORY
Gregory Reece-Smith, aka the Shamanic CEO, is a Creator and International Best-Selling Author. His diverse background includes being the CEO of a public company and coaching fledgling businesses as well as international executive teams such as IKEA. His passion is using his skills and wisdom to inspire others to lead, find their inner strength, and connect feelings they may have repressed in achieving success. Upsetting deeply held beliefs so all are free to accelerate their life and so their business.
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