Chakras & Blessons

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 …

These are definitions 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. 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.

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.

Today’s Chakra Vocabulary Word is BLESSON.

In the sense of chakras, blesson is a relatively newly-minted term, (I coined it) meant to replace the word lesson.

Lessons lessen.

“It’s time you learned a lesson, young man!” ugh. That kind of lesson, I’m sure you can hear in your own mind’s ear has punishment at the core of it.

Life — the good, the bad, the indifferent, and the ugly — is not a punishment. Nor is learning how to navigate it better.

This word was inspired by the late representative john lewis, who marched repeatedly with Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma, Alabama during the civil rights protests.

Instead of asking, “Why did this happen to me?” he used to ask, “Why did this happen for me?” hence, the blessing in the lesson = the blesson. A good reminder.

Each chakra has its own spectrum of blessons, often vastly different ones from chakra to chakra, and uniquely suited to your growth this time around.

Now, what’s a Blesson to you?

Blessèd week.