The Sacral Chakra: Svadhisthana - The Second Chakra in The Body

The second chakra, namely the sacral chakra called Svadhisthana in Sanskrit, is located 2 inches below the naval where another muscle rigidity gives a slouch to the lower back.nnHumanity keeps the lower back slouched.nnWhy? It starts with the toilet training trying to control defecation. Controlling defecation when needed is not wrong but that should come naturally through the processing of body actions decided by the intelligence of the gray matter.nnWe are not animals.nnOur gray matter works! But we are in a hurry to teach our kids the lesson of toilet training way before the gray matter has developed enough to take a natural charge of the socially approved body actions. With forced and repeated training, the muscles of the abdomen go and settle down in an unconscious habit of keeping themselves contracted in order to stop and control defecation.nnThe habit gets reinforced by the kind of furniture that the humanity has designed for itself! The body settles down in a contracted abdomen; and the mind, in a shell around its own little self, concerned with a contradictory disposition of getting rid of the feces in the rectum as well as of keeping them there. The body loses its defecation sensitivity. The mind starts thinking about getting and keeping more and more of worldly materials in its possession rather than enjoying them here and now. It hopes to enjoy them in the future, turns greedy, and goes happy.nnHappiness (it's always for the impending future!) replacing the enjoyment of the moment!nnPity!nnA contradictory life-style!nnThe Svadhisthana (sacral chakra) gets established! Now, again compare this description of Svadhisthana (the sacral chakra) with my personal experience in the episode of passion, while working with a physiotherapist along: Came session two... And suspense turned passion! As we started from our state of heightened suspense, we were taken reeling together into the whirls of a maddening energy, which ultimately landed us onto our pelvic beds. We were sitting at the center of our pelvic beds - the seat of Muladhara (the root chakra). This center was one single point that was touching our chairs we were sitting in. Our bodies were in a perfect ready position. They were almost touching each other. But not at a single point did they touch the other. Sitting at the exact center of the pelvic bed was giving our bodies an upward push by an extremely piercing energy of Muladhara (the root chakra) that re-postured them (our bodies) in their wildest gesture of Svadhisthana (sacral chakra) and turned our wondering suspense into a burning passion. But we would not touch each other! Passion ran high. Every single organ of our bodies had turned into a burning torch of passion. These torches would not stay passive! They started playing with their counterparts. They would come closer, then still closer, and then the closest, and then jump suddenly back only to come closer again! It turned into a dance - the dance of Svadhisthana (the sacral chakra). The dance of passion! There was a flow in our movements. It was the coolest thing on earth. The burning passion was the coolest fire I ever encountered in my life! There was no emotion in between the two of us. We were in no hurry to touch each other. In fact we knew we never would! We were cool. That was the condition of our game of passion we were playing with each other! I asked her if the center of the pelvic bed - Muladhara (the root chakra) - was the point of connection between the body and the mind. Her eyes looked straight into mine. She did not reply. "Is it not on the top of the head?" - she spoke out after around 30-40 seconds. I put my hand on the top of her head. It was taut. "And the jaws?" - I touched the alignment between the two jaws of hers. "These collarbones?" - her fingers were on my collarbones touching my neck on both the sides. "But then the scapulae?" - I was touching her scapulae beautifully tucked-in into the plainness of her upper back at the two extremities of theirs, the upper and the lower protrusions which was imparting the most beautiful postural shape to her chest as well as to her breasts! "Feel your plexus!" - she was indicating to the solar plexus raised high and pulled back on the spine. My eyes fell on her Svadhisthana (the sacral chakra) around two inches below her navel, beautifully tucked in - giving an attractive shape to her posture overall! "Where, in your body, are you feeling your passion centered?" - I asked her looking deep into her eyes. Her eyes entered into mine, as if they were searching for the answer into them somewhere. Our bodies were positioned half a millimeter apart from each other and we were pondering upon the most basic question of the seat of passion in the human body. We were walking on the cool fire of hot passion - barefooted, together! Does this description not tell the same story in a more day-to-day language?n nEnergy gets trapped in Svadhisthana, and is stopped from closing the loop.nnOpening Svadhisthana (the sacral chakra) entails undoing the unconscious habit of keeping the entire abdomen stiff and rigid, not as an exercise but as a way of life.nnVision therapy not only opens Svadhisthana (the sacral chakra) but all the 7 chakras through a very subtle on-off switch in the body in one single go, since they are all connected anatomically as well as physiologically.