Formation of the Lower Chakra System – First Chakra
When we are newly born, we experience reality in the first chakra. Our lives include trauma that results in suppressed fear and pain from early childhood onward. Often this begins even before birth, as when a baby is unwanted, or there is a lot of animosity or discord between the parents. A fetus is much more aware and connected to surrounding energies than is commonly realized. A feeling of a lack of safety, along with early traumatic events, engenders a host of negative emotions and variations of consciousness associated with it through the years, which I will call “energies”. The energies usually remain buried in the person’s psyche, below their conscious awareness, until certain powerful events cause them to emerge. One catalyst for this is romantic relationships; others are interactions with close family members and many other personal events.
Our separation from God and the Divine is the source of the core of human pain and feelings of loss.
Fully regaining this connection could be said to be ‘awakening’, and although there are many traditions to help us reach this, I believe that some path of energetic and emotional healing must be a part of our journey back to the wholeness we seek.
We become indoctrinated into the consensual reality of our parents and humanity, slowly forgetting our connection to the Divine as our first year of life unfolds. The timing varies with the individual, but living in a society it is the natural order of things to develop a concept of duality and an ego. Ego, carried in the third chakra, protects us and gives us the personal power to interact with others in what is often perceived as a cruel world, especially as a child. It also becomes a block to remembering who we really are.
We are really still one with Spirit in consciousness at birth, and for months to perhaps a year afterwards. For a baby there is a Oneness that adults have forgotten. This is living life through the first (Muladhara) chakra and seventh or crown chakra. The Sanskrit word for chakra means ‘turning wheel’. The first chakra is an energetic vortex at the very bottom of the spine, the physical coccyx, or ‘tailbone’. Although seen as separate in the world of duality, our mother is an intrinsic part of that Oneness, provided we are lucky enough to have a mother figure, hopefully one that holds and adores us the way all babies should be cherished. This loving nurture reinforces and integrates the baby’s connection to God, humanity, and earth-plane at once. The effects of being neglected at this crucial time are sad; the frightened little soul cries out for love and human touch, and finding none, withers and even dies, as with orphans who have no loving physical contact with a caregiver.
A few souls cleave to this Oneness for several years, and their entire lives remain imbued with a deep spirituality, much as found in those who have had near-death or other deeply mystical revelatory experiences. They typically feel fine with shedding their physical body and passing on to ‘the other side’, and this may be sensed in their first chakra by a clairsentient person as a very ‘light’ connection to the earth. (Clairsentience is extrasensory perception through a direct ‘knowing’.) Their soul may not have even entered the baby’s body until after birth, often a symptom of not wishing to leave “The Garden” of Oneness with Divine Spirit.
The ‘will to be here’ on earth is the predominant characteristic in a deeply grounded first chakra. Many variations are sensed within all the chakras. A first chakra connection that is weak and fearful of ‘being here’ is a weak and unbalanced type of connection and inevitably causes problems for the person holding it.
The first chakra has a direct esoteric connection with the seventh, or crown, chakra, and in my experience, these two operate together more than any other pair of chakras.
© Andrew M. Williams