THE GOAL OF LEVEL 1
The completion of LEVEL 1 -> STEP 7, is defined as the Mid Life Crisis or the Spiritual Emergency (emerging). The entire process of living through these first seven steps is to accumulate what humans consider BAGGAGE or divine considers unique life EXPERIENCES so that the soul can have a singular personality and a perspective that can grow the collective experience.
The following stories have been taken from my first book “A 94-Chakra Journey” where I documented my own physical symptoms that allowed me to recognize I had limited my life experience which leads to the EMERGING process of the spirit.
Crown Chakra (step 7)
It wasn’t until I was older that I finally found a physical fix to my insomnia. During treatment for migraines, I realized that some symptoms were normal and some symptoms were not. When I started to discuss and seek assistance for my problems I found that doctors were more than willing to prescribe solutions to my symptoms. I first began a regime of muscle relaxers. I recognized this to be a prescription successful for my Grandma's insomnia. It was only a short time before I “graduated” from the muscle relaxers to sleeping pills, which erased my memory of the evening events, and also gave me hallucinations At this point in my spiritual emergency I was very literally numbing myself in order to not feel (or deal with) my mind and body. Physically I was still trying to quiet my mind so that I could control it. (Disassociation - Crown Chakra Block)
One night after moving back to my parents' house in Irvine, California around the age of 20, I, again, began to experience the onset of a severe migraine. At this point, I had been dependent on my pills for so long and detested the way the drugs now made my body feel. I clearly remember, before retrieving my pills, hearing a hushed, small voice inside my head asks, “what if the pills are creating your migraines?” Hearing this voice and contemplating the question gave me pause. I thought about my options. I knew the pain that lay ahead, so that night I downed my dosage of three migraine pills, with two to follow in the next hour. I applied cold compresses to my head and neck, had no feeling whatsoever in my body, and zoned out as expected. The next morning when I became clear-headed once again I recalled the question: What if the pills are empowering my migraines? This time, with a new perspective, I started to break down the recent experience with my migraines. Were the migraines all in my head, so to speak? I decided on the spot, with conviction, that the prior night would be the last time I would ever take my headache medicine. I discontinued everything from the smallest dose of aspirin to the heavy stuff. I went cold turkey.
The next six months were some of the most excruciating of my young life: I dealt with migraines, insomnia, and bulimia simultaneously while halting all forms of painkillers to erase my discomfort. The fight was epic; however, I remember experiencing such a sense of accomplishment and power from the fact that I completely surrendered the battle, allowing my mind to be released. My head, my brain, my mind was in a figurative vice grip, and I had finally given up and set it free. The seat of my soul was alive and speaking to me, and I was the one who initiated that breakthrough.
My opinion, which is also that of many chakra teachings, is that migraines are directly connected to your third eye chakra. The third eye chakra is sometimes referred to as "the seat of your soul." My journey to becoming free included relinquishing the life-crushing grasp on my mind and soul and allowing my true self to be set free. This was the first step in my emergency. My process had begun and as I’ve stated earlier, once your emergency starts there is no stopping it.
The next step to healing and progressing to LEVEL 2 was recognizing that I was going through the emerging process or what some consider the mid-life crisis.
During a spiritual emergency, the chakra system spins in a way that allows the person having the experience enough perspective over his or her own situation to begin to question everything going on around him or her. This is important because the person must have a great deal of perspective over his or her own situation in order to bring into context what is out of order and no longer working. One of my beliefs is that our chakras spin like they do to help our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies process things happening to us on all these inter-dimensional levels. On one level our Chakras spin energetically to bring more awareness into our field of perception. When this doesn’t get our attention the Chakras will spin energetically and bring positive or negative situations into our field of perception so that we may learn what is needed to move forward. When we go through this clearing process, our energy centers may latch onto another human being, a sort of spiritual hitchhiking, most of the time unknowing. The energetic system will begin its hitchhiking by blaming others, ourselves, or situations for what we are experiencing, going through denial, passing judgment on others, and seeking approval from others on the correctness and accuracy of our own process. When we find ourselves hitchhiking we must seek out awareness that an emergency is a state of being that is intended to get us to change our constitution and if we regress back into old patterns we will stop our emergency from fully blossoming. Be mindful while going through these experiences in your own lives and remember it is hard work. There are subtle reminders that we are on the right path and it is important to listen to those internal voices and reminders when they present themselves.