A Third Eye Exploration: Where do you run to?
Hey mama!
I can’t believe it’s been a whole month since we last spoke. June required all of me and didn’t leave much time for writing. But I’m here nonetheless and I pray this email finds you well.
The month of June has been all about the third eye chakra for my clients and I. For anyone new, chakras are energy centers located at various points in our bodies. They receive, interpret, and share energetic information. We have 7 main ones along our spine. We seek to have balanced and open chakras so that we can show up for life in the present moment. Unfortunately, due to life events, our energy centers may begin to close off or shrink. This often results in us experiencing things in our present but reacting to them from a past response. Together we have been clearing out stagnation and seeking to bring our temples into harmony. We know that working with the chakras is a life-long process, but we choose to do it little by little. There will always be something to adjust, clear, or express.
Associations of the Third Eye Chakra:
Main Function: Seat of wisdom, center of inner vision
Color: Indigo
Element: Light
Body Parts: Mind function
Ways of Working with the Throat Chakra:
Foods: Fasting
Herbs : marijuana, blue lotus
Oils: Sandalwood, amber
Crystals: Lapis Lazuli, black opal
This month has involved a lot of meditation, visualization, fasting, and movement just like most months do for me. However, this month also required more moments of solitude and quiet. Have you ever felt like there was too much noise in your mind? Like you can’t decipher between your voice and everyone else’s? I had been feeling like that for a while. I know for me, it stemmed from too much doing and not enough being. I needed to slow down.
Many of my choices to slowdown this month were voluntary. I had a family camping trip planned, I just bought a new hammock and wanted to break it in, and Kairo didn’t want to go anywhere many days. But I guess that wasn’t enough, because God also forced me to slow down. The involuntary moments of slow down involved a broken phone, a car break down, and vertigo. All things that require you to stay right where you are. But why did I need to be forced to stop when I thought I had been doing it all along?
In further reflecting, I see that while I was giving myself moments of solitude, it always had been scheduled, and often, in-between different appointments. In other words, I had made it something to do versus something to experience. I had made my time of rest, solitude, and stillness just another thing to cross off my to-do list rather than something I let myself be fully immersed in. I need true solitude and silence because that is where I see things clearest, I receive solutions to life problems, and I feel the most relaxed. But where do I get that?
I’ve been asking myself these questions, and I invite you to do the same: Where do you run to when you need silence? Where do you run to when you need solitude? Where do you run to when you need to hear your inner voice? Where do you run to when you need to rest? Where do you run to fill your cup?
For me, I believe the answer to this is a place that can accommodate unstructured and unscheduled time. It’s nature. The trees are great listeners. The animals keep great company. The elements are great messengers. I believe nature is the remedy for many things, but ESPECIALLY, quieting the mind and listening to your intuition in motherhood (and life in general). This requires stillness and solitude.
So here’s to more walks, sister circles, eating, and meditating outside. May the Earth anchor you to her. May the wind blow your inner cobwebs away. May the Sun illuminate your light. And may you be like water, flow through it.
Catch you outside!
Kayla
