DR. SWATI S JOSHI

AAYUSH CARE

Add. : 202 Nimesh Ind. Est., Vidhyalaya Marg, BhoirNagar,

Mulund (East)

Tel. : 9987079420/9869045041

Email : swatisudhirjoshi@yahoo.com Web : www.aayushcare.co.in

SWADHISTHAN CHAKRA

Age 6 Months to 2 Yrs

Element Water

Planet Saturn

Location Lower

Abdomen/Sacral

Task Sensate Exploration

Colour Orange

DIVING IN THE WATER

Our element has shifted from Earth to Water.

From Solid to Liquid. In this process we

encounter change through which we find

stimulation and expansion.

Emotional fulfillment comes from balancing

the emotional flow and emotional

containment.

The task of first chakra was to built this

container. In secound we look at its contents.

LETTING GO MOVEMENT

In first chakra we learned to ground, stabilize

and focus. Now, our challenge is just the

opposite--- to let go--- to flow and move, to

feel and to yield.

We build muscle tissues, increase circulation,

stimulate nerve endings, and enhance the

body's flexibility and aliveness.

SENSATION

Senses are the bond between the internl and external world. Sight, touch, sound, taste and hearing give us constantly change of the world around us.

We differentiate between pleasure and pain. When in pain our senses shut down.

Without a sensual connection to what is around us, we lose our sense of values and distinctions.

PLEASURE

What do we do after a day of hard work? We relax and turn towards some form of pleasure.

Pain makes us contract, withdraw, or shut down, but pleasure invites us to extend, expand, tune in to our senses.

For a child pleasure comes from touch, closeness.

But not all children are given such basic requirements.

EMOTIONS

Emotions are reactions to sensory data.

Without consciousness, emotions govern our

reactions.

We may get angry, fall in or out of love, feel

depress or afraid.

We may choose the way we respond to the

situation but feelings have their own life.

Releasing the emotions frees the body.

NEED

Need is the necessities. As children we are

often shamed for our needs. Our parents

may have been unable to meet them, or may

have had unmet needs of their own. We were

taught they were not necessities.

Some times we feel guilty of our needs.

When we reclaim our needs, we take

responsibility for our own fulfillment.

DESIRE

You are what your deep driving desire is. As

your desire is, so is your will. As your will is,

so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your

destiny.

Desire is a spiritual/emotional impulse that

inspires us to move to something greater, to

embrace the change.

It is the essential thrusting forward that leads

us to action .

SHADOW

This chakra is associated with duality and

polarity.

Shadow represents repressed instinctual

energies that are locked away in

unconsciousness.

Reclaiming the shadow dissolves judgment,

and brings greater acceptance of self and

others and restores wholeness.

GUILT

Guilt is the DEMON of 2nd chakra because it

curtails free flow of movements.

Guilt tells us where the boundaries are and

where we need to make change.

Guilt is a teacher when it guides us, but a

demon when it blinds us.

TRAUMAS AND ABUSES

When body identity is not affirmed through

touch, it often replaced with frozen self.

Lack of touch prohibits the development of

the principle channels of sensory reception.

Child retreats into inner world of fantasy and

imagination.

EMOTIONAL ENVIRONMENT

If a child has gone through parents divorce

and seen constant rage then they feel that

the way to express is through anger.

However they are often punished for it.

Emotions are the first language of a child.

We feel guilty about our feelings and repress

them, and develop fear or phobia in future.

SEXUAL ABUSE

This has long lasting effects on all aspects of

2nd chakra.

It can produce emotional numbness,

dissociation, various addictions, eating

disorders or phobia, sexual dysfunction,

sleep disorder etc.

Abuse survival often feel betrayed by their

own body.

RAPE

As the 2nd chakra is the first place where the

outside comes in, the violation may force the

entire system to close.

The stronger our basic lower chakra

foundations, the better our resources for

recovery.

ABORTION

This is not an abuse that happens to young

child but it has tremendous effect on

women's 2nd chakra.

On an emotional level it constitutes a

struggle, the decision is never easy. It is

accompanied by emotional trauma, guilt,

fear.

EFFECTS OF ABUSES

Anything that blocks 2nd chakras growth

serves 2 connections the internal connection

between the mind and body, and the external

connection that joins inner and outer world.

If expression through movement is denied

our bodies become rigid. Lack of flexibility

and openness to new ideas, adventures etc.

EXCESS OF 2ND CHAKRA

A person is more alive in intense emotional

state.

In this type the upward current based in

unconscious instincts is more active.

They face difficulty in separating ones

feelings from others.

An excessive chakra grabs energy and does

not allow it to flow to other chakras.

DEFICIENCY OF 2ND CHAKRA

Depressive moods, not able to decipher thre

cause.

Restricted movements .Jerky or rigidity, stiff

joints.

Lack of sexual desire.

Shame around sex.

Social skills are not developed.

HEALING THE 2ND CHAKRA

Healing is largely a matter of encouraging

the excess or deficiency to move towards the

center

Where movement is restricted, identify

holding patterns and encourage movements.

Where movement is excessive, learn to

contain, either by releasing emotions, or by

tolerating the increase sensation.