Lisa Erickson - Chakra Empowerment for Women: Self-Guided Techniques for Healing Trauma, Owning Your Power & Finding Overall Wellness

Contents

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Disclaimer

The information in this book is not intended to be used to diagnose or treat any medical or emotional condition. To address medical or therapeutic issues, please consult a licensed professional.

The author and publisher are not responsible for any conditions that require a licensed professional. Readers are encouraged to consult a professional with any questions about the use or efficacy of the techniques or insights in this book.

All case studies and descriptions of persons have been changed or altered so as to be unrecognizable. Any likeness to actual persons, living or dead, is strictly coincidental.

Foreword

Decades ago, I was under the tutelage of a Belizean shaman. One afternoon, after he explained the curative properties of various jungle plants, he smiled and leaned toward me, ignoring my male companions.

Im only teaching the men, he whispered. You are a woman. You are aware of what I am speaking.

I was puzzled and asked the shaman, a natural herbal healer, what he meant.

Women already know all things. Men must learn all things. He paused and pointed toward my abdomen. There, that is why. You have the power of the Motherand of all mothers.

Since that day, my awareness of the inner magic afforded the feminine has been increasingly heightened. Miraculously, Lisas book speaks to this reality, the tradition of the feminine as anchored in mystery, mastery, and marvels. Rather than locating our personal power in the first chakra, the subtle energy center devoted to primal activity, we are rooted in the second chakra, the home of emotions, creativity, sensuality, and endless wisdom.

Lisa shares that all women, no matter how they identify in terms of sexuality, are like the lotus, a flower epitomizing the second chakra. The lotus is the sacred flower of India. The petals bloom upon long stalks that rise out of muddy waters. Representing purity, the lotus is able to detach from the murky desires that pull us down and enable service to higher forms of love. Each blossom opens to the streams of the sun, the moon, and the stars, receiving droplets of heaven with which we can remake the earth. My Belizean teacher of long ago had known this. His tribe understood that because women inhabit the second chakra, the womb-space, we hold a mini universe within us. Through each woman flows the knowledge of the Milky Way.

The problem isand this is a huge problemthis knowledge isnt widely taught, even in energy medicine circles. Nearly every presentation of the energetic anatomy, the complex rendering of chakras, channels, and fields that compose our subtle body, accentuates the first chakra, the male center of power, as the fundamental chakra. Until Lisas book, the positioning of the female power base has been largely ignored. This means that the solace, healing, and restitution that is promised through chakra-based systems has been unavailable to the very people who need it the most: women.

It is not biased or sexist to insist upon the need for a feminine-oriented energy system and set of applications. It is a necessity. Society has stripped women of their originality, self-esteem, and safety. It is women who bring future women and men into this world, and whose ability to spin peace out of cruelty is now required to save the very world that has demeaned them. It matters not if a woman has given birth to a third-dimensional child; the power of the womb gives all women the gift of creation.

Long overdue are the sacred understandings and exercises featured in Lisas book. After all, for thousands of years, women have been disempowered and disenfranchised. During much of that time, women were considered the property of men, to be used as seen fit. Little wonder that the templates for the energetic systems forget the women. It is equally disturbing that in many places, women are still considered economic and political commodities, their powers repressed, their achievements unrecognized. Unfortunately, when the god in the mirror has a male face, to protest rape, violation, or harassment is to try and move forward against a headwind. These factors make it all the more important to repair and renew the subtle system.