07 · Sahasrara
When did you last feel connected to something bigger than yourself?
If you had to stop and think about it, that is the answer. Nothing has changed in what you believe. You still believe all of it. You just have not felt any of it in a long time. Prayers turned into a list. The practice you used to keep turned into a thing you used to do.
It is not a crisis of faith. You are just somewhere it cannot reach you.
What the Crown Chakra Handles
The crown sits at the very top of your head. Sahasrara, the thousand petalled lotus, the seventh and highest of the centers.
It is the one that connects you to something larger than yourself. Universal consciousness, source, spirit, the divine, whatever word you use for it. This is where the self stops holding itself separate and becomes part of something.
Which is why when it closes, nothing dramatic happens. You do not lose your faith and you do not stop believing. You just stop feeling it. The words stay true and go quiet at the same time.
A Blocked Crown Chakra Feels Like
- ❉Nothing feels meaningful, including the things that are going well.
- ❉You still believe it. You just do not feel it, and you have not for a while.
- ❉You stopped your practice and you cannot say when. It did not end, it just thinned out until it was gone.
- ❉You are cynical about things that used to move you, and a little embarrassed by how much they used to move you.
- ❉You stopped noticing the things you used to call signs.
- ❉Everything feels slightly flat and slightly far away, like you are watching your own life from the next room.
- ❉You have not asked for anything, from anyone or anything, in a long time.
You do not need all of that to be true. Two or three usually tells the whole story.
How to Find Your Balance
Go back to the practice you dropped. Not properly, not daily, not the way you used to. Once. Badly. The crown does not need consistency to reopen, it needs contact.
Be outside without your phone at a time of day you are usually inside. This chakra was never going to compete with a screen.
Ask for something out loud. Nobody has to hear it and you do not have to believe anything is listening. The asking is the part that matters, because asking is what a closed crown stops doing.
Stop forcing one thing. Pick something you have been pushing and put it down for a week. Notice whether it moves on its own.
Sit with the top of your head uncovered in the sun for a few minutes. It is a small thing and it is the oldest thing.
Violet, white and clear quartz. Moonstone, amethyst, purple Tiffany jasper. Stones that open rather than protect.
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