Archetypes
& Chakras

The Chakra System

Chakras, originating from ancient Indian traditions, are considered energy centers within the human body, often utilized in various therapeutic practices. In a therapy context, understanding and balancing these chakras can be a holistic approach to promoting emotional and physical well-being. Therapists may incorporate chakra work as part of energy healing or mindfulness-based therapies, aiming to align and cleanse these energy centers to alleviate stress, anxiety, and emotional blockages. By fostering a balanced flow of energy through the chakras, therapy can help individuals achieve a greater sense of harmony, self-awareness, and inner peace, contributing to their overall mental and emotional health.

1. Root Chakra:

The first chakra is the foundation of emotional and mental health. Your connection to traditional familial beliefs supports the formation of identity and a sense of belonging to a group.

Sacred Truth: All is One
You are connected to all of life. Every choice you make and every belief you hold exerts influence upon the whole of life.

Organs
Base of spine, legs, bones, feet, rectum, immune system.

Effects
Chronic lower back pain, rectal and immune disorders, depression, multiple personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, addictions, sciatica, varicose veins.

Issues
Physical family and group safety and security, ability to provide for life’s necessities and stand up for yourself, feeling at home, social and familial law and order, abandonment fears, family bonding, identity, tribal honor code, support and loyalty.

Self-Examination

1. What belief patters did you inherit from your family?

2. Do all of them still have authority over you?

3. What superstitions do you have? Which have more authority over you than your own reasoning ability?

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2. Sacral Chakra:

The second chakra is your center of personal power, creativity, sexuality, and finances. Issues of physical survival, control, and one-on-one relationships are at the core of this energy center.

Sacred Truth: Honor One Another
Every relationship you develop, from casual to intimate, helps you become more conscious. No union is without spiritual virtue.

Organs
Lower abdomen to navel, sexual organs, large intestine, lower vertebrae, pelvis, appendix, bladder, hip area.

Effects
Arthritis, chronic lower back or hip pain, sciatica, pelvic/low back pain, sexual potency, urinary problems, prostate or ovarian/uterine illnesses, fibroids, menopause severity.

Issues
Fear of loss of control, through events such as addiction, rape, betrayal, impotence, financial loss, or abandonment by partners or colleagues, ability to take risks, personal identity, blame, guilt, money, sex, power, control, creativity, ethics, honor in relationships, decision-making ability, power to rebel.

Self-Examination

1. How do you define creativity? Do you consider yourself a creative person? Do you follow through on your creative ideas?

2. Do you often direct your creative energies into negative paths of expression? Do you exaggerate or embellish “facts” to support your point of view?

3. Are you comfortable with your sexuality? If not, are you working toward healing your sexual imbalances? Do you use people for sexual pleasure, or have you felt used? Do you honor your own sexual boundaries?

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3. Solar Plexus Chakra

The third chakra furthers the development of self esteem and personality, separate from your tribal identity. This is where you learn to draw and maintain strong boundaries and a personal code of honor.

Sacred Truth: Honor Oneself
Be mature and honorable in the relationship you have with yourself and accept responsibility for the person you have become.

Organs
Abdomen, stomach, upper intestines, liver, gallbladder, kidney, pancreas, adrenal glands, spleen, middle spine behind the solar plexus.

Effects
Arthritis, gastric or duodenal ulcers, colon/intestinal problems, pancreatitis/diabetes, chronic or acute indigestion, anorexia, bulimia, liver dysfunctions, hepatitis, adrenal dysfunction.

Self-Examination

1. Do you like yourself? What don't you like and why? Are you actively working to change the things about yourself you don't like?

2. Are you honest? Do you sometimes misrepresent the truth?
   Why?

3. Are you critical of others? Do you blame others as a way of protecting yourself

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4. The Heart Chakra

Here lies the powerhouse of the human energy system. From its middle position, the fourth chakra mediates between the body and spirit, and determines their health, strength, and balance.

Sacred Truth: Love is Divine Power
Emotional energy - love - is the central power point and true motivator of you body, mind and spirit.

Organs
Center of the chest, heart and circulatory system, lungs, shoulders, arms and hands, ribs/breasts, diaphragm, thymus

Effects
Congestive heart failure, heart attack, mitral valve prolapse, cardiomegaly, asthma/allergy, lung cancer, bronchial pneumonia, upper back, shoulder pain, breast cancer.

Issues

Love, hatred, bitterness, grief, anger, jealousy, inability to forgive, self-centeredness, fears of loneliness, commitment and betrayal, compassion, hope trust, ability to heal yourself and others.

Self-Examination

1. What emotional memories do you still need to heal?

2. What relationships in your life require healing?

3. Do you ever use emotional wounds to control people or situations? If so, describe them.

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5. The Throat Chakra

The fifth chakra is the center of your struggle with choice and the ability to release your will to Divine guidance. Its essence is faith - faith in our fears or faith in the Divine.

Sacred Truth: Surrender Personal Will to Divine Will
Your every choice, thought and feeling has biological, environmental, social, personal, and global consequence.

Actions
Motivated by personal will that trusts Divine authority, give you the richest power.

Organs
Throat, thyroid, trachea, neck vertebrae, mouth, teeth, gums, jaw, esophagus, parathyroid, hypothalamus.

Effects
Raspy throat, chronic sore throat, mouth ulcers, gum difficulties, TM], scoliosis, laryngitis, swollen glands, thyroid problems.

Self-Examination

1. What emotional memories do you still need to heal?

2. What relationships in your life require healing?

3. Do you ever use emotional wounds to control people or situations? If so, describe them.

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6. The Third Eye Chakra

The sixth chakra is the energy center of intuition, intellect and reasoning. Known as the "third eye", it involves our mental abilities, and our psychological skill at evaluating our beliefs and attitudes.

Sacred Truth

Seek Only the Truth. Continually search for the difference between truth and illusion, the two forces present at every moment. Trust what you cannot see far more than what you can see.

Organs
Brain, nervous system, eyes, ears, nose, pineal gland, pituitary gland.

Effects
Brain tumor, hemorrhage, stroke, neurological disturbances, blindness, deafness, full spinal difficulties, learning

Self-Examination

1. What is your definition of being "strong willed"?

2. Who are the people that have control over your will power, and why?

3. Do you seek to control others? If so, who are they, and why do you need to control them?

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7. The Crown Chakra

The seventh chakra is our connection to our spiritual nature and our capacity to allow spirituality to become an integral part of our physical lives.

Sacred Truth
Live in the Present Moment
Achieve a personal relationship with the Divine. All physical psychological and emotional illusions or fears need to be removed from your life. Let go of the past, do not anticipate the future and live in the presence of the Divine.

Organs
Muscular system, skeletal system and skin.

Effects
Energetic disorders, spiritual depression, chronic exhaustion that is not linked to a physical disorder and extreme sensitivities to light, sound and other environmental factors.

Issues
Ability to trust life, values, ethics, courage, humanitarianism, selflessness, ability to see the larger pattern, faith, inspiration, spirituality and devotion.

Self-Examination

1. What guidance have you sought during meditation or praying?

2. What type of guidance do you fear the most?

3. Do you bargain with the Divine? Do you complain to the Divine more than you express gratitude?

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Overview of Conversations With Our Archetypes

What exactly is an archetype? And why do I need to know about my archetypal patterns?

The simple answer is that an archetype is a pattern or recognized behaviours that everyone inherently understands. Your archetypal patterns are the first thing people notice about you, whether you know it or not. And likewise, you identify archetypal patterns in others all the time. Most people enjoy “people watching” these days, often sipping a cappuccino while identifying many of the individuals walking by with one word labels, such as, Geek, Fashionista, Addict, Entrepreneur and so on. It takes but a second to get a psychic impression that the observer then matches to a familiar mental label, such as, Artist or Mother. Perhaps more impressive than the lightening speed of a psychic reading, however, is the accuracy. Your are doing intuitive readings all the time these days. It’s time that we recognize being intuitive and multi sensory is our “new normal”. Our psychic, emotional, psychological and intellectual health requires knowledge that was not essential to previous generations, but it is to us. We need to know about our personal archetypal patterns, and we need to understand how our patterns influence our thinking, our choices, our dreams, our ambitions, our compulsions, our fears, and our shadow side.l. We are incomplete without this profound inner knowledge. And in this age of transparency when each of us can ‘perceive’ the other with growing intuitive clarity, we need to know our own patterns not only because they are so obvious to others, but because our archetypal pattens influence every thought we have and every choice we make.

These cosmic, psychic patterns of power are the means through which you create your reality. Archetypal patterns continually communicate subtle currents of influence into our unconscious and conscious mind. We are attracted to certain types of people and particular types of stories, like adventure stories or romantic stories, because of our archetypal patterns. Our archetypes have a direct influence upon how we imagine our place in the world, great or small, humble or on the stage for all to see. Our archetypal patterns animate or activate the creative laws of the universe in our lives. They give our choices energy, magnetism, and life force.

Knowing your personal archetypal patterns is essential to becoming a whole and healthy person. Numerous mystical teachings direct us to ‘know thyself’, a profound instruction meant to lead us to what Buddhist’s call ‘Self realization’. That goal may seem a bit old world today, so let’s describe it in more contemporary language.

Self realization is more accurately described as self empowerment/authentic self esteem. All of us today realize that developing our self esteem, our sense of personal agency, is core to knowing who we are, what we want, what drives us. How could any of us gain a clear understanding of those rich, core inner truths unless we strive to know our cosmic patterns?

So, let’s explore how archetypal patterns influence us. And through that influence, how we can better know who we are, why we have the fears and fantasies that we do, why we are drawn to certain types of people and avoid others, and why we have the ambitions and dreams that we do. Are archetypal patterns are the keepers of our highest potential and our darkest fears.

Each of us has a family of personal archetypes and it is through those archetypal patterns that we experience and express our power in the world. Which are your archetypal patterns, and which are not? Without a doubt, you know some of your archetypal patterns already. But no one knows all their patterns deeply, or even all their patterns at all. So many people select archetypes based upon their habits, but not their more revealing inner motivations or private agendas or unnamed fears.

Archetypal patterns are sometimes hidden from view, even from ourselves, until we have the courage to name that pattern directly. For example, the Addict or the Gambler or the Thief/Con artist. Not many people are eager to come forward with inner patterns that cause them to lead a secret life, and yet these patterns inevitably make their way into the external field of a person’s life.

Here is a list of some of the archetypes that people in the healing or service professions often identify with: wounded healer, rescuer, devotee/disciple, good samaritan, volunteer, hermit and advocate.

Here is a list of some of the archetypes that people identify with who find high risk adventures or living outside the boundaries of ordinary life. Some people find living according to ‘the rules’ too much to handle: warrior, hero, adventurer, pioneer, entrepreneur, spy/detective/pirate, thief, shapeshifter.

And then there are the archetypal patterns that heart-centred people identify with quite easily: lover, romantic, damsel/knight, rescuer romantic, narcissist, coward, destroyer, servant.