The crane that calls Anahata home.
Another Teacher training weekend has passed. After spending the past two weeks crying, digging up stuff, processing, crying some more and wondering if I was beginning to be depressed things began to lighten up a bit… maybe it was because I was ready to step back into the weekend with my fellow classmates and maybe it was because I was getting a bit giddy about Chakra Friday! I just have to say this… I feel high after Chakra Fridays! I am not sure what takes place on those Friday nights that could make me feel this way. Maybe it is the focus on the Chakras alone. But I can hardly contain myself. I giggle, my eyes are fluttery, I am full of energy and can hardly sleep. I come home and talk a mile a minute sharing my experience of the night. So this past Friday we explored the third and fourth chakras. I am still a bit curious about the 3rd chakra, Manipura. I kind of feel like I want to skip that one… not really connecting to it or fully understanding it. There must be a “Lustrous Jewel” in the 3rd chakra for me, I just haven’t found it yet. So I will just move on to the 4th Chakra, Anahata, Heart Chakra! Oh, I do connect here. And as I have these animals that have appeared to represent my 1st chakra (Lion) and 2nd Chakra (Whale)… nothing for 3rd yet… I now have a beautiful white crane that calls my heart home in the 4th chakra. And the more I think about this the more perfect I realize the fit. This chakra rules over the heart, lungs, arms and hands and the expansion of these body parts is very bird like. And the 4th chakra element is air…what this bird needs to soar. I could go on and on about what this bird means to me actually and how it has been in my life for some time. This bird is a powerful messenger and I am grateful to recognize it in relationship to this chakra. We did a meditation where we thought of something we were angry about ( which was hard for me because this is not an emotion that comes easy for me…sadness, yes…anger, not so much) and we imagined this anger as a thick, heavy smoke and then breathed it into our Anahata transforming it into love and compassion and then breathing it back out into the world. We did this until the smoke was gone and all the while my bird was flying overhead, flapping its wings and dispersing the smoke (anger) making less for me to breathe in. it is a symbol of freedom, of love, of compassion. And this bird has nested in my heart. I will write more about the weekend soon. It was great!
