Day 5 (ST2): Continuing on from the weekend, today I felt good and strong and powerful.
Most of the morning I felt this radiating energy in my belly. On impulse I googled “navel chakra” and the first link I clicked on stated the following:
“When the navel chakra is in healthy alignment, you will be comfortable with your own inherent power and become empowered.”
and
“This energy center is associated with your self-esteem, sense of purpose, personal identity, individual will, digestion, and metabolism.”
Seems to fit with my current state.
It also feels like I’m losing or weakening the filter on my emotions. Last night I listened to a song and tears came to my eyes. I read an article on a news site and I felt rage. I thought about my mother, who is going through chemotherapy, and I felt the raw anguish as though I’d just been told about her illness. This experience is strange to me, this emotional sensitivity. I need to be a bit careful, emotions like that coming out unfiltered are just not appropriate at work, but I refuse to repress them. So what can I do? Best thing I can think of is to let go of any resistance and just let the emotion flow through. It’s transient, it passes quickly.
It’s funny because I was expecting something like this with ST1, but it never happened. ST2 is definitely taking me in an unexpected direction.