#Alberto Villoldo丨The Nine Chakra System in Inca Shaman#Second Chakra
Alberto Villoldo
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THE SECOND CHAKRA Second Chakra
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Element: water
Color: orange
Body Parts: Digestion, intestines, kidneys, urinary tract, sexual performance, adrenaline, low back pain, dysmenorrhea, loss of appetite
Instinct: sexual desire
Psychological aspects: power, money, sex, control, fear, fighting, passion, self-esteem, sexual or emotional abuse, genetics
Parental issues, incest
Glands: Adrenal glands
Seeds: Creativity, Compassion, Family
Negative expressions: fear, fighting
The second chakra is located four fingers below the belly button. It is connected to the kidneys and the water element. The second chakra activates the body’s stress glands, the adrenal glands. The adrenal cortex, the outer part of the gland, makes more than 100 different steroids, including sex hormones. The medulla, the inner part, produces adrenaline, which tells the liver to release blood sugar to keep us alert. Adrenaline is the hormone that mediates the “fight or flight” response. I mentioned earlier that the first chakra builds fences to protect itself, while the second chakra stores stones to protect itself. The thing is, we always need stronger stones to get the job done. The other side always seems to have more rocks than we do, so the threat we feel continues to escalate. The second chakra is what drives bullies and cowards. It inspires bravado and pretentiousness. Imagine the male display of a silverback gorilla baring its teeth and beating its chest.
The second chakra metabolizes energy nutrients in a luminous energy field. All forms of energy are food for this chakra. It processes earth energy taken in through the first chakra and digests emotional energy in the nervous system. When this chakra is functioning properly, it crushes negative emotions such as anger and fear and flushes them out of the body as waste through the first chakra. When this chakra is out of balance, these negative emotions ferment in our body and slowly break down in the intestines. We all know people who are unable to express their anger and resentment can linger for weeks or even years. These negative emotions get deposited in the second chakra, making it toxic. Eventually, these emotional toxins are assimilated through the luminous energy field.
The second chakra is the source of passion. It expresses itself through creativity and intimacy. In the first chakra we reproduce. In the second chakra we make love with our lover. The Sanskrit name for this center is svadhisthana, “the abode of the self.” Time-wise, this chakra corresponds to ages 8 to 14. The adolescent desire for romantic adventure stems from a surge in activity in the second chakra. This chakra is erotic, filled with desire and fantasy, and drives high-adrenaline romance. If adolescents do not develop a clear and positive sense of self during adolescence, the growth of the second chakra will be stunted. Such people do not develop healthy emotional boundaries or recognize that the needs of others may be different from their own. She may be tormented by relationships and people who never meet her needs.
Negative manifestations of the second chakra are anger and fear. Shamans believe that fear is the greatest enemy. It is a cunning opponent that you should never engage in combat, because once engaged, it will drain your power and emerge victorious. Our job is to understand and make peace with fear. Think of it as an early warning mechanism rather than a trigger for the fight or flight response. My mentor once told me that fear is the absence of love. I’m confused. I told him that as part of their spiritual practice, Amazon shamans go into the jungle alone when the moon is dark and the wind is high, to face their fears. I tried it once and was horrified. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up throughout the night. I believed that every large predator in the jungle was staring at me, and so were the ghosts here. The old man smiled. The practice is fun, he said, but the shaman’s real mission is to embrace fear. “When you understand that the jaguars you hear and the ghosts you feel are your hallucinations, you can dispel them,” he says. “When you are freed from fear, you can come face to face with the jungle cat, knowing that it is no different from you and that you are both expressions of the same life force.”
I’ve always been a vegetarian, mostly because I’m not willing to eat anything I’m not willing to kill. (I also discovered that eating red meat dulled my visual abilities.) In training as an Amazon shaman, I was required to track, ritually kill, and then eat an animal whose power I wanted to embody. The tracking animal my teacher chose for me was an anaconda (sachamama), a spectacular brownish-yellow animal that likes to roam the shallow tributaries of the Amazon River. While I didn’t have a hard-and-fast rule about not eating meat (I would eat meat when the shamans I visited prepared meat for special occasions), I refused to do this practice for a long time. I even left the jungle and returned to the United States, thinking that if my training required taking the lives of animals, then I was not willing to continue. However, something drew me back to the Amazon, and I decided to at least complete the tracking portion of the training. As for killing and eating, I’ll leave that to the situation later.
Pythons can grow to very large sizes, with the largest being 20 feet long and weighing over 600 pounds. They are relatively easy to spot in the water or on land, but can be difficult to track because they are so cunning and can remain lurking in the water for long periods of time.
I learned that sachamama represents passion and sexuality, but also creativity and the ability to see beyond the surface of things. I’ve been tracking pythons for days, but I’ve never been able to get close enough to take a photo of one. I took out a bag of mixed bait, watched the river flow silently, and fell into deep thought. I asked myself why I was unwilling to kill for food. I am genuinely disgusted by the thought of killing such a beautiful animal as an anaconda. In my reverie, I began to reflect on the love a jaguar showed when it snapped the neck of a deer it was about to eat. There is no malicious intent in this behavior. It suddenly occurred to me that I had killed the water snake violently only because I believed that I was separate from the snake. As long as we are unrelated, eating it is simply suffocating its life in order to provide me with food, and is therefore an act of violence.
It dawned on me that the snake and I were the embodiment of the same life force. We are no different. This is life’s self-feeding. The snake would continue her life inside me, and in that moment we would all become part of a greater force. I woke up from my reverie and moved my gaze to the nearby bushes, seeing the light reflected on the scales. It was a seven-foot anaconda that had just eaten a large rodent and was lost in a reverie similar to mine. I couldn’t believe my eyes. The snake was coiled up, digesting its food, with a large bulge about a foot above its body. A snake this size only feeds once every few weeks. After eating, it becomes sluggish. It cannot move while digesting food. This is the answer I’m looking for.
I picked up the large snake and it wrapped lazily around my arms and shoulders. I walked back to the shaman’s hut and proudly showed her the coiled snake. She started laughing and kept laughing for several minutes. I’m starting to get annoyed. I asked her why she had to eat the python to get its powers. The old woman smiled and said that knowledge is not easily absorbed through the digestive tract. She grinned and told me to find a protected spot by the water where the snakes wouldn’t be harmed. Over time I discovered that violence was something I had to conquer within myself rather than conquering myself by dictating what I could or could not eat. I learned a lesson, and it was indeed a worthwhile trip. Second Chakra Personality Disorder can cause great harm. These people live in a world where it rains because the sky itself wants to get them wet. Sometimes they think the whole world is conspiring against them. Of course, sometimes the rain does fall for us, but it also falls for the trees, plants, animals, and rocks, and for itself. Such people often have a self-righteous attitude. When he repairs his second chakra, he will discover that the world owes him nothing. Instead, he owes life. The second chakra is the center of love, and under its guidance we explore passion and discover intimacy. Dysfunction of this chakra can cause a person to confuse sex with love. The important task of the second chakra is to transform sex into love and romance into intimacy. This is not easy as the negative drive of this chakra is to control others through money, power and sex. The second chakra passes through the womb, where life sprouts. This center holds the seeds of passion and creativity that will bloom in our upper chakra.
To be continued
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joya joya is the founder of Full Moon Phoenix Society, a cosmic nature witch, Kurak Akuyek (fourth-level Paq’o and wisdom keeper), Misha Carrier, and manifestation coach.
She began studying mysticism in 2012 and has taught mysticism for more than six years. Her systems include pendulum healing, Rune / Runes / Lu’en rune mastery, Rider-Waite and Thoth tarot reading, Lenormand tarot reading, Usui / Holy Fire Reiki teaching, angel healing, angel Reiki teaching, crystal healing, crystal Reiki teaching, Akashic healing, Sub maker subconscious audio production, PGM research, and many other Eastern and Western mystical systems.
She has supported 5000+ cases, specializing in money, abundance, relationships, love, and emotional healing themes, using multiple spiritual healing methods to help clients manifest their wishes.
【Tarot】She studied the modern Golden Dawn Kabbalah tarot system (Rider-Waite / Thoth) with teachers including Lon, and studied Rana-system Lenormand with Rana.
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【Shamanism】She studied shamanic healing systems with Alberto Villoldo Ph.D. and Andean traditions. In the Inca tradition, joya is Kurak Akuyek (fourth-level Paq’o and wisdom keeper) and Misha Carrier.
【Witchcraft】She studied many Witch / Wicca courses internationally, and ultimately chose to study modern Witchcraft practice with a senior hereditary American witch with more than 30 years of experience, maintaining regular online exchanges.
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