Lining it up

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Some very interesting things happen when you line up the Chakras properly. For instance (but not limited to) what happens when you make love to someone you love with whom you share a future. In such an instance you have sex (second), love (fourth), survival (first), creation of a future (sixth), and conceivably even spirit (seven) all lined up, and there is literally nothing that feels as good as this in my experience. It damned near dwarfs other pleasures, turning them into pale shadows, imitations or fractions at best.

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There are similar powerful benefits to, for instance, writing about things that you love, working for causes you believe in, exercising to achieve some specific heartfelt aim, etc. Any time you find yourself doing something "merely" for its own sake, you can increase motivation by asking yourself:

1) Will this increase my odds of survival? Will it ultimately decrease the amount of pain I experience?

2) Will I have more, or better sex?

3) Does this increase the amount of money, power, long-term pleasure or control in my life? Energy and aliveness?

4) Is this an expression of love, for myself, family or community?

5) Can I turn this into a form of Self-expression?

6) Is there a puzzle I can solve here? Is there something for me to learn, or teach?

7) Does doing this make my inevitable death more meaningful? Less frightening? Does it help me clarify what is ultimately meaningful in life?

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Any time you can take a goal and see how it can relate to multiple Chakric levels, you will find your motivation increasing humongously, I kid you not. If you CAN'T relate it to multiple levels, you will find problems in motivation. You "won't have the time" to do those things. You will find your fears and distractions pushing between you and your goals.

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This stuff is so obvious when you're on the other side of the issue, and so muddy if on the wrong side.

1) Relationships. If you have no confidence in your ability to have a healthy relationship, you'll probably have a million excuses about your relationship history, or reasons why you supposedly don't want one. How can you know? Well, unless your parents had a healthy, loving, successful relationship, it is safest to assume that you may carry poisonous memes in this arena, and have work to do.

2) Finances. Unless you were raised in a family where finances were openly discussed with joy instead of pain, it is safest to assume that you may have absorbed some negative attitudes. For instance: everyone knows that it's harder to balance your checkbook when the money is low. Pain and fear are horrible distractions from clear financial choices and actions. Be very careful.

3) Body. Unless you came from a family of healthy, joyous physical expression and athleticism, the chances are very good that you have beliefs, behaviors, and negative emotional anchors that are standing between you and free physical expression. I recently saw a friend list the way she spent her time, listing everything she did all day long. With hours daily to watch television and read fiction she didn't have fifteen minutes to exercise. Because any insect will move away from pain and do whatever it can to live as long as possible, I know this has nothing to do with intelligence. From my perspective, it has to do with really, really shitty programming. The sad thing is that this exact programming (eat as much as possible, move as little as possible) was, for millions of years, the ideal survival strategy. For the last hundred years, that has changed, but there is a GIGANTIC amount of inertia going in the "don't move! Eat!" direction. These are the people who can work eight hours a day at jobs they hate, but won't exercise for an hour a week unless it's "fun." Insanity, unless you grasp the strength of the basic programming.

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If you don't have these three arenas handles, you are leaking power like crazy. And the way to handle them is to increase the pleasure associated with the activities that will take you in the right direction, and increase the pain associated with going in the wrong direction, or accepting the status quo. In no way do I believe people "want" to be lonely, broke, and sick. But we often accept these things because we don't see any way out. It is a great tragedy, but if you will go through the seven-point checklist, it is easier to increase the motivation and clarity it takes to live your life to the max.

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I'd like someone to point toward statistics on murder, suicide, obesity and/or accidents in the following way: in those countries that implemented UHC, what happened to the trend lines for these mortality factors? Up? Down? Stable? The statistics must exist. My theory: they will drop due to increased social safety net and counseling. But it would be easy to prove me wrong. The point is that Conservatives are using "murder, obesity, etc." as factors making American health care look worse than it actually is. I suspect these things are connected. Statistics and time lines, please?