Welcome to In the Flow with Lori Albert,
A brief,
Positivity-inspiring chat and meditation designed to uplift and motivate us to live our best lives.
Let's get in the flow.
Some people are creative.
They can look at a blank piece of paper and see a gorgeous painting,
Right?
And then some are not.
Right?
I am not creative in that way at all.
Interestingly,
I love creating music and writing stuff out,
Doing my podcast and all of that stuff that I do,
The book and everything,
All that stuff.
I love that.
Right?
And I can do that.
But art,
Actual drawing?
No.
When I look at a blank canvas or whatever,
I see a white piece of paper.
Right?
I just see white and there's nothing else.
I can't envision it.
Right?
My daughter,
On the other hand,
She sees when she looks at that same white canvas,
She sees colors and images in her mind's eye and she creates beautiful paintings.
And me,
On the other hand,
It's just me being creative in a whole different way.
Right?
I love doing the meditations and like all of that stuff.
Right?
But my point is that we all tap into our creativity in different ways.
We all have a creative nature about us.
And we create,
You know,
We are creative in different ways.
We're all different.
We're all unique.
So this is where the solar,
I'm sorry,
Not the solar plexus,
The sacral chakra comes into play.
Just because we're not a painter doesn't mean that we are not creative.
I thought that that was reality forever.
I can't paint.
I can't even draw a line.
Right?
So I'm not creative.
But that's not true.
That's not true at all.
Our sacral chakra is about our emotions,
Our feelings,
Our sensuality,
Our connection,
And our creativity.
But it's not just artistic creativity.
Right?
A lot of times,
Okay,
So in talking about the sacral chakra,
A lot of times it's described as the sex chakra.
But oh my gosh,
It is so,
So much more.
I mean,
It is about intimacy and sexuality and all of that stuff.
But it's so much more than that.
It's about the intimacy of the emotions.
When this chakra is strong,
We are strong emotionally as well as creatively.
Svadisthana is the name,
The Sanskrit name of the sacral chakra.
And the sort of trial or challenge,
You might say,
Of this particular chakra is guilt.
Now,
Interestingly,
Okay,
If you think about it,
Guilt stops us when we feel that guilt thing.
And yes,
I know all my friends,
All of you guys are going to be saying to yourselves right now,
Oh,
The Catholic guilt or oh,
The Jewish guilt or oh,
The guilt that my parents did all that.
I totally understand that and relate to it.
But when we allow that guilt to come into our being,
Our soul,
It stops us from being creative and intimate and our full self.
It stops us from being who we truly are.
It can stop us from pleasure.
Right.
It can stop us from staying balanced that way.
So allowing ourselves to feel joy,
To feel pleasure,
To feel bliss.
That is how this chakra stays healthy.
Okay,
So it's not just about creativity.
It's about fully allowing ourselves to understand joy,
True joy and pleasure with who we are.
Isn't that amazing that one chakra has all of that power,
You know,
It's so true.
It's freeing,
Though,
When you think about.
When you think about allowing yourself to feel creative and to feel joy,
And I don't just mean sexual.
I mean just however it is.
Allowing yourself to feel alive.
It's about being free.
It's about it's it's not about sexual pleasure or not sexual pleasure.
It's it's not about that at all.
It's about allowing yourself.
To feel bliss,
However,
That is for you.
Feeling alive and blissful is how this chakra is balanced.
No guilty thoughts or thoughts of I don't deserve to feel good.
I mean,
I'm sorry to say,
But I think that at one point in all of our lives.
I think that one at one point in all of our lives,
We have thought to ourselves,
I don't and it might not be conscious,
But we have probably all thought to ourselves.
Oh,
I don't deserve that.
I don't deserve to feel good.
And isn't that horrible.
But there are other times don't get me wrong in our lives when we're like,
You know what,
Doggone it,
I do deserve that I deserve.
And that is when you come alive.
I deserve to feel good about my book.
I deserve to feel good about the painting that I just created.
As good or not good as it may be for me.
You know,
But I deserve,
I deserve.
I love that.
I deserve.
It's about keeping the balance of our chakras.
And it's okay to feel like you deserve to feel pleasure.
You deserve to and I don't mean necessarily like sexual.
I'm talking about pure pleasure in your whole being.
You know what,
You know what,
You know what thought just came to my mind.
Oh,
This is so cool.
The thought that just came to my mind is sitting on,
Oh,
I'm gonna like cry sitting on a swing set.
Oh my God.
Do you remember for me anyway sitting on a swing set and swinging back and forth.
To me that is such a feeling of freedom,
And that is joy that is bliss to me,
Feeling that wind going through my hair.
You know,
I love that.
I love that.
And I don't talk about this particular chakra that often.
And it's so funny because I feel like that in classes and stuff in,
You know,
Just in,
You know,
People in discussing,
Whatever,
About the chakras I feel like that this chakra gets overlooked for some apparent reason,
Because everybody just assumes,
Oh,
It's the sex chakra,
You know,
But guess what,
It's not just about that.
It's about feeling free and feeling alive and knowing that we deserve to feel bliss.
Love that.
It's okay to feel joy in your life.
It's okay to feel pleasure in everything you do in your day.
So we're just going to sit in meditation for just a few minutes.
So let's get ourselves comfy.
Close your eyes.
Close your eyes.
Take a nice deep breath in and release it.
So,
As we get ready to sit in that stillness for just a minute.
I want you to think of one thing that you could do for you,
For yourself today,
That would allow you to experience true happiness.
It would allow you to be free to go sit on that swing and feel that,
That joy that you used to feel as a kid.
That's just one thing that you can do today to feel true happiness.
You deserve that happiness.
We deserve happiness at every given moment.
So our mantra for today.
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
Today,
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
So let's repeat this to ourselves.
Over and over.
I will keep the time and let's begin.
Today,
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
Today,
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
Today,
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
Today,
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
Today,
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
Today,
I allow myself to experience pleasure in my soul and all of my senses.
