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get groovy chakras!

October 2, 2009 at 9:00 am (chakras, energy medicine, healing, metaphysical, transformation) (Austin Powers, carolyn myss, chakra, energy medicine, groovy, healing, metaphysical, mojo, self expression, sensory, sensual)

A few years ago, I did the free online chakra test through Eclectic Energies to assess the strength of each of my chakras. Yesterday, I retested.  My results are attached below.

Ever since the first test in spring 2007, I’d thought of doing a chakra project — I’d call it…hmmmm….”THE CHAKRA PROJECT” — to work on each chakra in sequence for a few weeks or months at a time.  Just to see what would happen.  Just to see if I could enhance my life or emotions or goals as I tuned up my chakras.  Just to see….

I didn’t act on that desire at the time, but the thought stayed with me and kept coming back to me at unexpected moments: while eating Haagen Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream by myself late at night; while putting my kids to bed on a hot summer night, during a full moon; every Sunday night and Monday morning (ok, that’s an exaggeration); in the middle of a Spinning class at the gym (spinning…wheels…hmmmm….guess that one actually makes some sense); and other less spectacular moments (which kind of gives you a look at how dull my life really is).

An Austin Powers’ Mojo Thing

So, as of today, I stop holding out!  I’m initiating the GET GROOVY CHAKRAS! mandate (I changed my title after seeing the movie “Julie and Julia,” in which I discovered that Julie Powell called her now-hugely-famous blog “the Julie/Julia Project”… Hey, I have an underfunctioning 3rd chakra, so what do you expect?).

I’ll be recording what I’m doing to explore each chakra and how it’s going along the way. I’m beginning with, of all things, the first chakra, the Root Chakra, and I’m pledging to spend the month of October with it before moving onto the next….and on and on, until I hit the top, the Crown Chakra, in April.  By which time, I’m hoping I’ll have that whole Austin Powers mojo thing at work in my life (shiny, happy, GROOVY, BABY chakras), be once again gainfully employed — did I mention the unemployment? — and, possibly, be writing shorter sentences and more succinct blog posts.

This is a bit scary, as I hate to make promises I might not keep (I think that’s, again, due to my underactive 3rd chakra…?  Boy, I can’t wait until December to get down and dirty with #3.). But, I’m hoping that this semi-public pledge, combined with my ever-present desire to live by my word, will provide an appropriate level of potential shame to keep me going with this until I get through all seven chakras.

Join me (or not) on this journey into the mysterious and colorful world of GET GROOVY CHAKRAS!   Explore your own chakras (or not) along with me.  Let’s see if we can become more balanced and whole and create more tapped-in, colorful lives by re-energizing and re-aligning our chakras.  I’m excited!  (I think that might be my 4th chakra talking…)

My Results (read ‘em and weep)

Results from my Eclectic Energies chakra test, 5/31/07 (all I can say is, thank goodness these weren’t my SAT scores):

root: underactive -50%;  sacral underactive -25%;  navel underactive -44%; heart underactive -13%; throat open 0%; third eye open 0%; crown underactive -13%

results from same test, 9/30/09:

root: underactive -50%; sacral underactive -31%; navel underactive -38%; heart open 13%; throat open 13%; third eye open 19%; crown open 6%.