4th Chakra – Finding the Wish Fulfilling Tree
As a writer and storyteller and guide to Living the Wild and Precious Life I ask myself key questions. It is fairly easy to determine the level of consciousness of a person by knowing what questions direct their lives. “What is it that brings you truly alive?” is another good question. If you have ever felt truly alive, truly connected and totally in awe of any manifestation of the Universe then this gives you your quest. It gives you the starting point. This is a state of being in Love with the Universe. It is the magic state of being.
It is that magic state of being that is spoken of in fairy tales. It is when sleeping beauty is kissed awake in the tower. it is when beauty kisses awake the beast who lies dying in the garden of roses because he feels unloved. These instances of awakening are not just children’s stories. They are your story of the potential within you. You are the beauty that is locked away in the tower of the idea of separateness. You are the beast that is dying in the rose garden of your heart’s potential because you are under a spell.
What will bring you alive is intimated in all fairy tales. What will bring you alive is the empowerment of Love and the connection to beauty. This is the energy that kisses you awake. You think that you get it by finding that special other. Often, however, that special other mirrors the not specialness you feel when you look in the mirror of your unconsciousness which they reflect back to you. You feel the absence of your own love power and beauty. This beauty and the power of the kiss of awakening is worth more than an expensive villa, a top of the range luxury car or designer clothes. This is the magic state of being that the Sufi’s refer to as stations. A station is a state of being that you are able to access at will rather than a state that comes and goes.
The first step in finding this magic state of being is to begin to ask the question,
What is it I truly value?
No matter what you say you value the degree to which you value it will be manifested in your actions. Many leading teachers who I have researched via the World Wide Web begin the journey of personal development and beyond by asking you to focus, to really focus, on answering this question. Once you have identified what it is you value then a second question follows. This is
How committed are you to living this value?
You get an idea of the importance of this question from the master teacher Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus did not want disciples who were lukewarm in their commitment to the Way, the Truth and the Life. He wanted disciples who where passionate in their pursuit of living the wild and precious life of connectedness to Love and who were committed to serving Loves purpose.
Are you passionate about the value you are and the values you would live or are the worlds that articulate such values only words? When you talk about this value, or these values, do you feel impassioned or is the idea simply cerebral? Is it simply a nice idea locked in the tower of the intellect but asleep to the beauty held within it? Is it held within the spell of separateness that walks in a garden of roses and cannot see them because its mind is always focused on never quite enough?
A state of being is not a thing you possess. It is an energetic you live your life from and you engage your will in the service of. The true value that will bring you alive is the value of the heart. This is the value of the 4th chakra but it needs to be aligned with the will (3rd chakra) and to be grounded in day to day living (1st chakra). The way you ground it is through commitment (2nd chakra) to a spiritual practice. This can be the practice of meditation, prayer or yoga. It can be any practice you choose but it requires discipline and focus.
In the heart chakra you get the first flash of the true Self. You get to see (6th chakra) beyond the mundane world of the personal. You get to see and feel the magic of being. This takes you into the small chakra below the heart. This is referred to as the wish fulfilling tree – the boon tree. This is the wishing tree that grants you your true hearts desire. Does this invitation written here make you feel at all excited? Do you in any way feel attracted to the possibility of this kind of experience and this kind of power which is a power of healing and the power of the true Self? Does this invitation take you to a place, an energetic, that says this is what I truly desire and this is what I truly want to be?
The good news is that if you are reading this far then there must be some call from within that is keeping you reading about this magical state of being. This is a state of living your life that is more real than anything you can experience through acquisition of things. There is a part of you that knows that this state of being is your true home and that the power that beauty has to awaken this true desire within you can be yours – is yours to be realised.
To begin to access this magic wish fulfilling tree, which is your hearts true desire beyond your conscious desire, you have to take the work of healing the other three chakras seriously. These are the personality chakra’s. You have to do this over and over again until you can stand on solid ground of an integrated personality. This means that when you are invited to open the room of the 2nd chakra – the room of opposites and the room of opposition within you – the room with those unloved aspects of yourself that you deny, that you open the door and step into the possibility of the new. This opening the door of the room of the 2nd chakra and the crossing of the threshold of the unconscious is not for those who are lukewarm. This opening of the door and crossing the threshold is your commitment to the wish fulfilling tree within. This is the tree that bears the fruit of fulfilment.
You can’t make this state of your true hearts desire a station if you refuse to feel your feelings. The energetic of the second chakra is “I feel therefore I am.” Except, that because of deep seated trauma, or sustained neglect, many of us do not feel at all. We live, as the writer James Joyce said of a character in one of his books, “He lived some distance from his body.” Witness the increased experience of depression across all ages and class. We, as a culture have more and more material wealth and live longer but we are more and more subject to depression and addictions of all kinds.
This, I believe, mirrors our focus on values that do not engage the heart and allow us to experience meaning and propose that only direct connection to the heart centre can give. What is it that gives meaning and purse is to serve the value or values that excite and inspire you. If there are no values that do this then your energy system may have become armoured. You may have an inner critic or an emotional trauma that keeps you imprisoned and asleep. The good news is that if you ask you will be given but you have to do the work of removing all those energy blocks that keep you walled in to the prison of separateness. This is the work of opening up the personality to the unconscious and the integration of the shadow aspects of yourself that you do not love.
This is the work that is carried on by Debbie Ford. Debbie Ford runs a workshop on overcoming Self Sabotage.
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I came across the work of Debbie Ford when I read her outstanding book entitled Debbie Ford – The Dark Side of the Light Chasers
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We know the shadow by many names: alter ego, lower self, the dark twin, repressed self, id. Carl Jung once said that the shadow “is the person you would rather not be.” But even if you choose to hide your dark side, it will still cast a shadow, according to author Debbie Ford. Rather than reject the seemingly undesirable parts of ourselves, Ford offers advice on how to confront our shadows. Only by owning every aspect of yourself can you achieve harmony and “let your own light shine,” she explains. “The purpose of doing shadow work, is to become whole. To end our suffering. To stop hiding ourselves from ourselves. Once we do this we can stop hiding ourselves from the rest of the world.”
As threatening as shadow work may seem, it is often very effective in creating transformation. Ford’s step-by-step guidebook is modelled on a highly successful course she developed about embracing the shadow. Ultimately, she helps readers illuminate the gifts and strengths that lie within the shadows. Although this works sound vague, clouded in dark metaphors, Ford manages to make it clear and specific. She has the writing gifts of a successful seminar leader–inspirational, trustworthy, and able to convey murky material with grace and ease. –Gail Hudson
I have given this book away to some light chasers who have spent much of their life avoiding their feelings. Here we begin to consciously work to align the 2nd chakra which is the integration of the opposites. This is work required to be alchemised by those who are drawn to the light and drawn to the wish for delight in their lives and who think that they can have a wild and precious life by ignoring the emotional shadow self.
The magic of being is real. It is more real and more alive than living a life of separateness that is devoid of life. In my storytelling program I tell the story called, “The Way Out.” It is a story based around the poem by Mary Oliver entitled “West Wind ll”
West Wind II
You are young. So you know everything. You leap
into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me.
Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without
any doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
Lift the oars from the water, let your arms rest, and
your heart, and heart’s little intelligence, and listen to
me. There is life without love. It is not worth a bent
penny, or a scuffed shoe. It is not worth the body of a
dead dog nine days unburied. When you hear, a mile
away and still out of sight, the churn of the water
as it begins to swirl and roil, fretting around the
sharp rocks – when you hear that unmistakable
pounding – when you feel the mist on your mouth
and sense ahead the embattlement, the long falls
plunging and steaming – then row, row for your life
toward it.
~ Mary Oliver ~
(West Wind)
This poem is a clear statement of a value worth living for. This is stated in the negative but no less powerful for all that. Here is someone who has the confidence to say without embarrassment that they talk to your soul. They talk to you about that magic state of being. Here Mary Oliver tells you in no uncertain terms how a life lived without love isn’t worth very much. Is a life lived with Love or other related heart value what you truly value. Is it your passion? Are you committed (2nd chakra)? Are your disciplined (3rd chakra) or are you satisfied to stay asleep in the lower 1st chakra world and row, row your life away from the magic of who you are?
If your goal is magic then you will need commitment, discipline and practice. Let me tell you now that it is worth the effort. It is the only true way of bringing the revelation of the wild and precious life you are here to live. So if any of this writing excites you the check out the options for doing shadow work. This is the work of the 2nd chakra and the healing of the 2nd chakra where the unconscious and the conscious are brought into alignment. Then you begin to have real energy and passion and ascend higher to the place of the wish fulfilling tree. Then you find that what you thought you you needed wasn’t at all what you needed. What you needed was real purpose, passion and prosperity that you could give away in joy.
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