You’re a Third Chakra!
This chakra is located in your solar plexus, which is just below the breastbone. The third chakra represents one’s ability to honor and accept the self. In your case, this chakra appears to be clear and unblocked so that positive energy can flow from it freely. Radiating positive energy from your third chakra indicates that you’ve cultivated higher wisdom concerning the important life lessons associated with this energy center. You’re apt to treat yourself with kindness. You’re also likely to forgive your mistakes rather than dwell on them unnecessarily.
Whether they’re allowing positive energy to flow or preventing it from doing so, all seven of your body’s chakras contribute to how you are feeling on a day-to-day basis. When they’re balanced, you feel energized and at the top of your game. When they’re unbalanced, you may feel tired or ‘off’.
While we have focused on identifying the one chakra that allows your positive energy to flow most freely, we have also discovered the ways your other six chakras are handling the passage of energy.
The Chakra Test
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Learn How to Roll A Joint! A full joint rolling guide for beginners.
You can all thank me later.
Disclaimer: I’m not endorsing the use of any substance. People can make up their own minds as to what they want to put in their bodies.
This is my friend Jake on Mt. Cotopaxi in the Andes last weekend. Located about 75 kilometres (50 mi) south of Quito, Ecuador. Cotopaxi is one of the highest active volcaones in the world.
Climbing volcanoes is no easy feat, according to Jake:
… been weight training, running, swimming at 3000metres every single day for the last two months to climb that bitch.
Due to a storm he never completed the ascent.
How damn cool is that shot? Wish I was there!
/plays DJ Tiësto Feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw - Walking On Clouds
In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure. - Unknown
In 2004 I spent two months on vacation in Europe. Thirty-seven of those days was spent on a Contiki tour. I rarely speak to anybody about that trip when I got back to Sydney, and when I was asked soon after my return by people interested in how the experience was I could say nothing more than "it was great". I just found it challenging to convey the entire experience in a five or thirty minute summary, and unless the person had visited the same places then they really wouldn’t understand. You just had to be there.
Anyways, the single most poignant moment on the entire Contiki tour was when the driver took our group one morning to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. This excursion was not listed on the tour itinerary advertised, maybe because it would turn some people off who were mainly out to party. I don’t think anybody on my tour had any objections that day anyway.
Today Mauthausen is only a remnant of the hell on Earth that it once was, and a memorial museum stands to remind people of one of the darkest hours of humanity.
I felt shivers as I walked the grounds, read descriptions of human furnaces, passed small quarters that kept dozens of people in confinement, and studied the dedications, plaques and sculptures erected in memory of the fallen as well as the liberated. I can’t explain it but I felt the spirit of many that day, yet it wasn’t a scary sensation, it was actually calming. It was as if the souls were saying "we have found peace".
Here’s an excerpt of a second-hand account of one of many survivors of the holocaust. It’s rather graphic so you probably shouldn’t read it if you’re having dinner.
From Marysia Korfanty of Poland (retelling the experience of her father):
I cannot even begin in such a short space to unfold the horrors that took place at Mauthausen and the adjoining camps, including Gusen. Of a place so desperate that weak emaciated inmates would throw themselves onto the barbed wire fences to free themselves by suicide. The poor desperate inmates would then hang there for days as they slowly died. Of a place where daily beatings and torture were inevitable. Where prisoners received a starvation diet and were usually dead within three months. Of a place where my Uncle Ryszard, at the age of 25 and close to death from starvation on 20th January 1943, was injected in the heart with petrol and taken to the Gusen camp ovens to be incinerated. Of a place where my father, so close to death himself was thrown onto a pile of corpses to die.
Yet, even in a place such as this, compassion could be found in those inmates who recognised my father, lifted his body from the pile and nursed him back to life by sharing their meagre food rations with him. He was 21 years old. During his time in Gusen, he lost his memory completely soon after the brother he was so close to was incinerated and once again, those who knew him helped him to regain it. He then vowed not to be defeated by the oppressive nature of the place to which he’d been sent and with tremendous courage he learnt to survive this dreadful life for three years.
Refer here for the full story.
Having read of such atrocities I can’t understand all the wars going on in this day and age. Nothing good can ever come of war. If anything, we should learn from the past not repeat it.
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961
This is a photo I took on that memorable day. Click the image to view larger (and clearer) version.
I remember standing there before taking the shot. I imagined myself as a prisoner looking through the barbed wires at the heavenly blue sky above. Of course there’d be guards in that guard tower, rifle in hand shouting orders. Can you imagine what that would have been like?
It certainly put things into perspective for me, and seeing this photo reminds me of how appreciative I am for all that I have - a life of luxury and freedom. One that is devoid of hunger and persecution. Different time, different place.
Yet it will always be important to reflect, remember and be thankful for those that came before us.
Further reading
- Surviving Dachau ~ Liberating Mauthausen
- Dachau Trials