#energy center

[sacred-awareness]

Finding Balance: My Journey Through the Chakras

There was a time when I felt disconnected, scattered like leaves in the wind. My thoughts raced, my emotions swirled, and I struggled to find solid ground beneath my feet. That's when I discovered the ancient wisdom of the chakras, and through them, I learned to root myself like a willow tree – flexible yet unshakeable.

Grounding with the Root Chakra

My journey began where all journeys must – at the foundation. The root chakra. It sits at our base, governing our sense of safety and security. I remember the first time I truly connected with it, laying in hammock in a university courtyard beneath an old willow tree. As I watched its branches dance in the breeze, I noticed how deeply its roots must extend into the earth to support such movement.

I closed my eyes and imagined myself as that willow tree. With each breath, I sent my own energetic roots deeper into the earth, drawing up its stable, nurturing energy. Like the tree, I learned to sway with life's challenges while remaining firmly anchored. This practice became a daily ritual, transforming my relationship with the earth and my body.

Opening the Sacral Chakra: Permission to Play

For years, I had forgotten how to play. Somewhere between balancing grocery lists and adulthood. I had convinced myself that life wasn't supposed to be fun. My sacral chakra had become blocked, stifling my creativity and joy.

The breakthrough came during a rainy afternoon when I found myself alone in my living room. A favorite song came on, and instead of just listening while doing chores, I gave myself permission to dance. Really dance – wild, uninhibited movement that came from deep within. I twirled and jumped and laughed like I hadn't done since childhood. In that moment, I felt the sacral chakra burst open like a flower in bloom. My ideas around adulthood a d fun changed that afternoon

Finding My Voice Through the Throat Chakra

Perhaps the most profound transformation came through working with my throat chakra, As a child, I had always been told to be quiet, to take up less space, to keep my thoughts to myself. These messages had lodged in my throat like stones, blocking the flow of my authentic expression.

Writing became my salvation. Late at night, when the world grew quiet, I would sit with my journal and let the words flow out into poetry. At first, they came as a trickle – hesitant and unsure. But gradually, the stream grew stronger. I wrote about my fears, my dreams, my anger, and my joy. Each word felt like a small act of rebellion and liberation, clearing the energetic blockages that had accumulated over years of silence.

Creating Harmony Through Balance

Working with the chakras taught me that balance isn't a destination – it's a daily practice. Like a symphony, each energy center needs to be tuned and attended to. Some days, I need to focus on grounding through my root chakra, while others call for the heart chakra's healing embrace or the crown chakra's connection to higher wisdom.

I've learned to recognize the signs when a chakra needs attention:

- When I feel scattered and anxious, I return to those willow tree roots.

- When life feels too serious, I turn on music and dance.

- When words feel stuck, I open my journal and let them flow.

The practice has become as natural as breathing. Each morning, I take time to scan my energy centers, feeling where attention is needed. Sometimes it's as simple as placing a hand over a chakra and breathing into it. Other times, it requires more focused work – meditation, movement, or creative expression.

The Ongoing Journey

Today, I stand taller, speak clearer, and laugh more freely. Like that willow tree, I've learned to bend without breaking, to stay rooted while reaching for the sky. The chakras have become my internal compass, guiding me back to balance when life pulls me off center.

To those beginning their own journey with the chakras, I offer this advice: start where you are. Listen to your body's wisdom. Trust that each small step – each grounding breath, each moment of play, each written word – is part of your path to wholeness.

For in the end, working with the chakras isn't about achieving perfection. It's about coming home to yourself, again and again, with patience, curiosity, and love.

[davidking124]

Meditation is for you to separate yourself from who you are NOT

[mindsetmatters3023]

Meditation is for you to separate yourself from who you are NOT

[frogcroaks]

[design commission] The spirit of clairvoyance gazes towards you!

[10001gecs]

one 100 word email written with ai costs roughly one bottle of water to produce. the discussion of whether or not using ai for work is lazy becomes a non issue when you understand there is no ethical way to use it regardless of your intentions or your personal capabilities for the task at hand

with all due respect, this isnt true. *training* generative ai takes a ton of power, but actually using it takes about as much energy as a google search (with image generation being slightly more expensive). we can talk about resource costs when averaged over the amount of work that any model does, but its unhelpful to put a smokescreen over that fact. when you approach it like an issue of scale (i.e. "training ai is bad for the environment, we should think better about where we deploy it/boycott it/otherwise organize abt this) it has power as a movement. but otherwise it becomes a personal choice, moralizing "you personally are harming the environment by using chatgpt" which is not really effective messaging. and that in turn drives the sort of "you are stupid/evil for using ai" rhetoric that i hate. my point is not whether or not using ai is immoral (i mean, i dont think it is, but beyond that). its that the most common arguments against it from ostensible progressives end up just being reactionary

i like this quote a little more- its perfectly fine to have reservations about the current state of gen ai, but its not just going to go away.

[honeytonedhottie]

decentering men and recentering urself⋆.ೃ࿔*:･💅🏽💓

the secret to decentering men and not having ur entire world revolving around them (bcuz it should be revolving around you, duh) is having a fulfilling life. it makes me ICK so bad when im watching a video or reading a post and im rly loving it, and then it'll find SOME way to make it revolve around men. like can we not?…💬🎀

WHY WE CENTER THE OPPOSITE SEX ;

a lot of people find themselves centering their lives around the opposite sex in an attempt to fill a void within themselves. they do it because they aren't happy with themselves or their lives, or maybe its learned behavior. whatever the reason is, its NOT hot.

some things that someone who centers men might think are "oh my life is so boring, maybe it would be spiced up if i got with a man" or "maybe it'll bring some excitement into my day" like EUGHHH. obviously the solution is to find ways to make our lives fulfilling but how do we do that? and how do we get to the root cause and squash this self sabotaging behavior?

SELF AWARENESS ;

if u have nothing going on for u, ofc ur gonna be energetically desperate and accepting anything and EVERYTHING. practice self awareness and try to get to the root cause of why u center men through things like shadow work, therapy, or just straight up having an honest conversation with urself cuz i swear it helps.

when you make the conscious effort to build ur dream life you'll notice that people that are on the same mindset as you will vibe with the REAL you. the need to fake/adjust urself to fit in with other people will dissipate because ur fitting into ur own standards and ur connections will be more meaningful because of it.

TAKE UR POWER BACK ;

no ones actions should ruin ur day or make u upset for more then a day (even less) cuz its YOUR world. 💕🍰

make time for YOU, doll. plan self care routines for urself every week. doing face masks, journalling, vision boarding, WHATEVER U LIKE TO DO. making time for urself reminds u that ur the main character of ur life so u dont have to settle for crumbs.

stop giving that power to someone else and dictate how u feel, NOT the actions of a significant other or the opposite sex or anybody. the reason why its important to make sure that ur the center of ur own life is so that you can be happy and fulfilled regardless of if there is a man or if there isnt a man present. so the objective is to decenter men -> and then put yourself at the center

GET A HOBBY ;

find something to make ur life fulfilling. pursue ur OWN interests and try out different hobbies if ur unsure of what ur interests are yet. cultivate ur world to the point where it GLEAMS with perfection and then do a little extra. build a life that u love so much that whether u get male attention or validation doesnt even matter cuz their opinions have little to no relevance 💀

challenge yourself: next time you catch yourself thinking, ‘would a guy like this?’ flip it and ask urself "hey, do i like this?" start checking with yourself first instead of checking with others.

MAKING THE DECISION TO DECENTER MEN ;

decentering men simply means that ur deciding to no longer think, feel, act, dress, or plan ur life around a man or for the validation of any man…💬🎀

relationships will actually get BETTER when u decenter the opposite sex. cuz ur not looking for someone to compete with and ur whole on ur own. this sets the stage for balance and mutual respect and THATS hot.

you can be in a relationship and still decenter men. decentering men simply means that you are the priority, not the relationship. how can we tell if we're decentering men or not? here are a few questions to help you know if u are ->

if i did not care about looking good to the opposite sex what would i actually like to wear?

if i did not get married, how could i create the best and most abundant life for myself?

what hobbies/interests do i have that dont involve being around men/have male attention as a component of it?

[hermit-frog]

[meamiki]

imagine if isa's confession kept getting interrupted in increasingly bizarre ways…. ASFASDASF

((this stems from a stream silly!! with my friends!! we are streaming now!! its the finale!! info rbed in a lil bit!! yeah thats it!!))

[humbuns]

a quick natsume doodle cause i found him cute

[daddy-long-legssss]

oh but you're an explosion 💙

[good-pokemon-center-reviews]

[wishesofeternity]

My problem with The Dragon Prince is that while it preaches about "breaking the cycle" and "choosing love", it repeatedly does so in a way that echoes the age-old idea of telling victims to passively accept their lot in life and the injustices inflicted upon them while their perpetrators never have to acknowledge their wrongs or face consequences for their actions. This is the kind of narrative they follow on both a personal and systematic axis, and it's exactly why the show will always frustrate me.

[vaguely-concerned]

the way harding goes in so aggro on lucanis right off the bat (lmao I love you too harding it's good to know you always have my back❤️️I am trying to score here tho sooo pls don't actually shoot him maybe?) and then fairly quickly she's clearly like '...oh no he's like. sad sad huh :(' hfhaskjfa. one (1) nice solid sensible fereldan girl saddled with the burden of having to rep the southern attitude towards spirits in a sea of mourn watchers and other assorted freaks and doing her damn best to be firm but fair even so. I love these two so much tho, the way their friendship develops is everything. he makes her a guard in his mind because he trusts that she would never let anything out that could hurt someone he loves, he knows she WOULD use the arrow. and she knows it wouldn't even be his fault if she had to..... the early phase here is such a mutual state of 'you know what. that's incredibly fucked up and also incredibly sweet'

[mysecretwindowuniverse]

1x7 | Penguin's Umbrella ☂️

In between all the deaths via weatherballoon, clones, mutants, and resurrections, I still maintain that the biggest suspension of disbelief Gotham ever asked the audience was to pretend that Oswald wasn't stunningly pretty and most definitely didn't have a comically long line of eager suitors vying for his affection at any given moment

[bluebudgie]

we're brainstorming other pick-up items to /bless.

confirmed to work (and looking hilarious): the passed out skritt in ember bay