Beauty

You may have heard of Chakras or you may not but it makes no difference if you want to ponder upon the meaning in them. The Sacral chakra, or Svadhistana meaning “our own dwelling place”, represents how we relate to the world through the feelings and emotions of our experience. This is about our joy, creativity, sensuality, being moved by art and culture, appreciation of nature, our sense and value of self, our experience of beauty. Sounds good doesn’t it?

To experience beauty we might use any of our senses. It can give us pleasure and satisfaction, maybe even move us to our core. A piece of music or a painting may bring us to tears as we allow a wave of emotions from deep inside (from the sacral chakra if you will) well to the surface. It feels familiar somehow, it resonates, we are understood without having to explain.

To feel that we ourselves are beautiful, we have found our sense of self and value it, knowing that we are in harmony with true selves. We are treating others with due diligence, respect and love, without forcing anything on them or asking them to conform. Likewise, we are treating ourselves the same way and only allow others to treat us this way.

“Our own dwelling place” may be in need of healing when we have been cheated on, bullied or abused; when we have not been taught how to take care of ourselves or made to feel guilty for feeling pleasure – we may have learnt we don’t deserve it or that we need to work hard to have it. Likewise, we will need healing when we have done these things to others. We recognise these needs when we feel we are missing out or never satisfied, when we are overly aggressive when all we really want is to be held, when we don’t express ourselves artfully then wonder why no-one understands us.

It is a lifelong quest to care deeply for “our own dwelling place” but in the end, with the bittersweet of our experience, comes beauty.