Open
You tend to feel grounded, stable and secure.  You don’t unnecessarily distrust people.

Underactive
You tend to feel nervous and fearful.

Overactive
Tend to be materialistic and greedy.  Obsessed with being secure and resistent to change.

Sacral Chakra

Open
Feelings flow freely and you are able to express yourself without being over-emotional.

Underactive
Tend to be stiff, unemotional, or have a “poker face”.  You are probably not very open to people.

Overactive
You tend to be emotional all the time.  You will feel emotionally attached to people.

Solar Plexus Chakra

Open
You tend to feel in control and you have sufficient self esteem.

Underactive
You tend to be passive and indecisive. You probably don’t get what you want.

Overactive
You tend to be domineering and maybe even aggressive.

Heart Chakra

Open
You tend to be compassionate and friendly.  You work at harmonious relationships.

Underactive
You are probably cold and distant.

Overactive
You tend to suffocate people with your love and your love probably has quite selfish reasons.

Throat Chakra

Open
You have no problems expressing yourself and may do so as an artist.

Underactive
You tend not to speak much and are probably introverted and shy.  You may not be speaking the truth about something.

Overactive
You tend to speak too much, usually domineering and you keep people at a distance.  You are probably not a good listener.

Third Eye Chakra

Open
You have good intuition. You may tend to fantasize.

Underactive
You are not very good at thinking for yourself and may tend to rely on authorities.  You may be rigid in your thinking and rely on beliefs too much.  You might get confused easily as well.

Overactive
You may live in a world of fantasy too much.  You may even daydream too much.

Crown Chakra

Open
You are unprejudiced and quite aware of the world and yourself.

Underactive
You may not be aware of spirituality or in some sort of transition and and may be quite rigid in your thinking.

Overactive
You are probably intellectualizing things too much.  You may be too focused on spirituality and your path vs. your bodily needs.

One of the best resources I have found is a small book called Heal Your Body by Louise Hay.  This book provides a list of physical ailments and their possible causes.  I have found the book to be very accurate and very helpful for both myself and my clients.

Some of you have heard about my journey over the past couple of months.  I made a commitment to begin consciously eating.  In other words, paying attention to the choices I make and why I make them.  It began with a book by Geneen Roth called Women, Food, and God.  She has written many books on eating but I hear this is the cream of the crop.  I don’t know about anyone else but this book has changed my life. With the support of Geneen, my choices have begun to shift and I started to see why I make the choices I make.  Sometimes I make different choices and sometimes I don’t but I make them all consciously.

So what does this have to do with aura photos and what shows up?  Conscious eating isn’t really about eating.  It’s about connecting with how I FEEL.  Ahhh, therein lies the issue.  I know that weight is about protection and stuffing emotions.  I would have sworn that I was not a stuffer of emotions nor do I need protection any more in my life BUT Geneen has shown me the truth.  When I sit with something, I am recognizing what a pro, an absolute expert, I am at stuffing emotions.  Stuffing them so deeply that I don’t even know they are there.  I think I feel NOTHING about something when the truth is I am not allowing myself to feel anything.  Just stuff, stuff, stuff like a fake fur creature from Build-A-Bear.  And yes, my emotions sometimes look like that big machine full of white batting that blows all over the place when they hit the switch and step on the petal to begin the stuffing process.

I am not alone in my struggles with connecting to how I feel.  Sad but true.  I am working to recognize them and actually feel them.  I am amazed at the process, the fact that when I allow myself to do what I have been too afraid to do in the past, they come in and then they leave.  I acknowledge them and let them go.  I thank them for being there, for making life a journey.  I spent all these years afraid of the FEELING when the truth of the matter is the RESISTANCE  is what we should be afraid of.   The resistance is where the pain resides.  The resistance is where the pain lives.  The resistance is where we begin to die inside and not live life to the fullest.

We are emotional beings.  Life is full of pleasure.  Life is full of pain.  It runs the gamut and without one, there cannot be the other.  Today I invite you to let those feelings surface.  To find them deep inside.  To thank them for adding dimension to your life and then release them.  Enjoy the ups AND downs of life.

BE CONNECTED.