Formation of the Lower Chakra System – Second Chakra
Before a year has passed, we normally recognize a duality; there is ‘other’ – mother – and there is ‘me’, and our second chakra develops. The Sanskrit word for this chakra is Swadhisthana. We call it the sacral chakra in English. This energy vortex is about two fingers below the navel, in the reproductive organs, and its nature is creative. The baby now sees that its body, its fingers and limbs, are separate from mother and from others, and differentiates between themselves and the rest of their small world. This is the beginning of duality. When doing energy work with an adult, and contact with their inner child is established, I often find the child’s age to range between two and seven years old, and these years are when the second chakra is developing. Children from birth to this period are so open and tender that even the ones who seem to have the best home and family life are routinely exposed to traumatic events. To their parents and others such as friends, relatives, and teachers, these usually seem to be the normal childhood experiences, but to the child, they are often very scary, and can be imbued with negative energies. Feeling a dark presence such as “the monster under the bed” is a common manifestation during this part of a child’s life. From late pre-birth through this period of second chakra development is when most of the seeds of pain and fear are planted, and they stay within and grow into deeper patterns for the entire lifetime of the individual, unless deep healing is achieved, which is actually quite rare. Later, after puberty, this potent period of life from about two to seven years of age will coalesce into the inner child, seated in the second chakra.
Deep fear is the most universal core energy I find, and it will often manifest as energetic-sourced pain in the second chakra area of the body. At its core, it seems to be most related to a fear of death.
Although various other aspects of the second chakra are found and the inner child is often not even mentioned in the literature, my training and experience has shown me that inner child is without a doubt the key aspect of this energy center. Of course, sexuality and other important energetic aspects are a part of the second chakra. Still, one must have a real life experience working with chakra-based energy healing to understand the importance of the inner child, and I find much of the Western-based literature about chakras to be second-hand information listing basic colors, stones with affinities for each chakra, and other such trivial references with sparse value. Of course there are wonderful books on this ancient Hindu energetic science, and some of the English literature about them and especially kundalini (life-force or serpent-fire energy) is profound, but it’s a task to find the ones that actually help to understand with healing. It was my good luck to attend a real healing mystery school in the mid ’90s that taught through experiential work.
Interestingly, often fragments of consciousness which seem to originate from outside the person and have a primitive but separate consciousness from the individual are often attracted to these buried pains and fears. The unprotected psychic openness of a child yields to any source for ‘help’, so they enter and find a welcome place to take up residence. Read part 3 on the third chakra for more on this, as this is where they are typically found.
Unfortunately, many children are never given a mother’s deep love as all children need. Many are raised in emotionally difficult settings with disinterested, self-centered, cold, or brutal parents or guardians who show them no love. For these children and those who move from one foster home to another, naturally these energies of pain, fear, insecurity, and abandonment become deeply etched into their psyche and being. This results in many of the extremes of emotional turmoil we see in people all around us in society, including the psychotic and sociopathic behaviors we cannot fathom. The fragments of consciousness, or ‘entities’ are often hosted by such people. I usually find them quite easy to discharge. If only such people were more open to healing! Even children in “happy” families are usually at least somewhat traumatized; we forget just how deeply sensitive little kids are.
Voice dialog process is the method I use with energies that have individuated consciousness, and almost all do, whether they are originally from ‘outside’ the client or simply organic, ‘home-grown’ energies. Often the phenomena of an energy with a separate consciousness presents itself as totally self-generated and organic. Fear is almost always at the core of the energies I work with, although the client may not be aware of that at first.
Sub-personalities are another good example of this; for example, the judge, the victim, the seductress, the failure, the accuser and so on. Higher aspects such as the inner child, the higher self, guardian angels, and indeed all aspects of a client all can be contacted and worked with using this dialog method. A technique I call ‘The Conference Room’ is a wonderful method for getting all these together at once for the client’s healing.
The more developed consciousnesses from ‘outside’, often termed “ET” (for extraterrestrial), the so-called “Grays” and others first popularized by books and movies are a distinctly different problem, and are beyond the scope of this article.
The point in working to discharge these “energies” is that none of them are from the Light of God, and the ‘guidance’ they provide is always inferior to the connection with Higher Self and the Divine, which is brought in to replace them in a complete session.
The second chakra is esoterically related to the fifth chakra.
© Andrew M. Williams