Chakras & An Unapologetically Eccentric Glossary

For the most part, when I mention the word chakra, most people, if they’ve even heard of chakras, have it filed under a vague heading like, All That Spiritual Stuff. And it is true, chakras form the basis of the human energy system — the one that powers all the other bodily systems that are so handily broken down in medical school curricula.

As part of my one-woman campaign to spread this vital information, I created a Compendium of information on the chakra system. You will never find it in a bookstore or online, but you can for a donation request a copy here.

As part of that process, I realized that I used all sorts of words like spirit, soul, archetype, incarnation that most of us assume we understand. But do we really?

If my counseling practice of over forty years is any indication, we actually don’t know what they mean. Or, we can’t articulate it. They’re in that same mental folder Spiritual Stuff.

So I created The Unapologetically Eccentric Glossary. Here’s part of the introduction …

A Note before we dive in: These are definitions and understandings that I have developed over 40 years of practice with actual persons and their struggles. They are things I say aloud to clients/patients to make sure we’re on the same page.

What’s important, though, is not that you agree with my definitions. Not at all. What’s important is that you give some serious thought to these sorts of words, figure out what you believe about them, and are able to articulate them clearly to yourself or to persons who come to you for care.

Why? Mostly because these are words we bandy about all the time, assuming we all agree upon what they mean, and we totally DO NOT agree, even remotely, on what they mean.

Healer, know thyself. [well enough to explain thyself.]

So just as it is supremely important to remember that the chakras are best considered as a system, and are meant, at all times, to work together, it is also incumbent upon each one of us to learn and know the vocabulary that best fits our belief systems.

For the next forty days, I’ll be taking each word out, airing it out, making space around it, telling you what I’ve come to believe, and hopefully, enabling your own inspirational thoughts on the matter as well.

Blessèd week.