Chakra less/MORES: 3rd & 4th
Patreon 12.31.22
Usually, when I do a podguesting spot, one of the things the host asks is: how can I start now? (Chakras are intriguing, dontcha know?)
I was asked it so often that I developed what I call the less/MORES. There’s one for each chakra. Two behaviors, uh, one to do less, and one to do more.
During this week when most of us set New Year’s Resolutions, I’ll be profiling two less/MORES per day. That way you can add chakra work to assist with your own resolutions if you want.
Oh, and if you want your very own free copy of the less/MORES, go to chakras.susancorso.com, and download one or both. I’m a Libra. I liked both images and couldn’t decide between them.
So the less/MORE for the 3rd Yellow Solar Chakra is:
control less/ENCOURAGE MORE
Good advice generally, but let’s look a little deeper. First, remember that each of these behaviors has an internal aspect as well as an external one. Sure, you could be surrounded by obvious control freaks in a less-than-happy work team, but you could also be the exact same control freak inside your own mind. Be on the lookout for both.
Second, humans don’t not do things very well. I’ll prove it; whatever you do, don’t think about the Statue of Liberty. How fast did she raise her torch? Usually, it’s instant. That’s why I made sure there were behaviors to replace the ones we’re stopping. Otherwise, all that will happen is we’ll go into resistance to complaining, and create more of it.
ENCOURAGE MORE. Start in the bathroom mirror, Beloved. Encourage yourself for something. Even if it’s just your next phone call, text message, or meeting. For real. Often, we want to control when we feel lacking in courage. Start by appreciating yourself and then, as Dolly Gallagher Levi of Hello, Dolly! fame notes of manure, “Then spread it around, encouraging young things to grow.”
Just think. If you feel unencouraged, wouldn’t you bet a nickel that your team of controllers feels the same? Start to encourage them for specifics and watch the whole thing turn around.
The less/MORE for the 4th Green Heart Chakra is:
hate less/EMBRACE MORE
This one doesn’t really come as a surprise. We don’t even think much about hate, and we use it verbally all the time, Don’t you just hate that? Our entire planet is based on a law called the Complementarity of Opposites a.k.a. Polarity. Polarization is Polarity mal-used and multiplied by ten thousand. The thing about hate is: it’s not good for you. Not for you, your family, your friends, your neighbors or anyone.
EMBRACE MORE is all about the Yes. Saying yes, repeatedly, to whatever is happening. Finding a way to embrace it because we already know that resisting it is what causes more of anything. When you embrace more, you deploy your personal ability to love and encompass the hate, subsume the hate, and thereby transform the hate. Do this for yourself, and you will be contributing moment by moment to the healing of the world.
Tomorrow: 5th Turquoise Throat Chakra and 6th Indigo Brow Chakra.
