1-5-2012 Chakra 1 Here we go again...

There is only one journey.  Going inside yourself.
                            Rainer Maria Rilke

I hope that you are ready to embark on a deep journey.  The opportunity is here and now.  A cycle through the chakras, the wheels of life, are like going on a journey...perhaps even the journey of a lifetime.

How does it feel to hear that?
What does going on a journey mean to you?

The great Korean teacher, Ilchi Lee, says, What interest would any of us have if this were just some esoteric spiritual concept?
The chakra system is about happiness.  


Immerse yourself in this amazing system and you'll discover all sorts of things.  It might mean unearthing the dark places, the unknown,
but come,
dare,
enter,
offer yourself up to discovery
and commitment
and hard work
and great reward
and happiness.

In the days ahead I'll be writing about the First Chakra.  Muladhara.  The ground of us.  Our foundation and stability.  The building can't rise without the base.
But to begin with for today, for our beginning, commit to something -- something that's a little out of your comfort range.

Make an altar -- use a red cloth or a red flower, the color of the First Chakra.  Have pictures of your mother, your family, Ganesh, elephants.
Have you ever done a forty day meditation?  A thousand days?  Start with something.  A week!  If you know a meditation you'd like to try, do it.  Or just sit and follow the gift of the breath as  you inhale and exhale.
The one I'll be doing is to sit every day for at least eleven minutes and breathe and feel the ground under me and my absolute right to be here and to have -- the "rights" of the First Chakra.
Do spinal flex, squats, body drops.

Plant a seed, a bulb, an intention...