Chakra Development As We Grow-Part 1

As we develop our mental, emotional, and physical bodies, our spiritual bodies also evolve. Many times, this body, which is the essence of who we are, is forgotten, swept under the rug, and forgotten, for fear of what we may find. A large percentage of individuals never tap into this aspect of themselves and can feel lost, or as if something is missing from their lives, but they cannot pinpoint the reason.

When you realize this spiritual body, your Spirit and your Soul are “who you are” that is your life force, the one that is meant to shine as you merge your energetic form with your mental, emotional, and physical bodies, to become a complete self—a Spirit/Soul inhabiting a physical body, having experiences on this earth. To think, to feel, to develop who you are at the essence level.

By ignoring the growth of our spiritual body, we suppress what is essential to our existence, to our Soul and Spirit education. The chakra system is one of the many energetic bodies that form the spiritual body. Without us knowing it, we go through a development through the chakra system as we age; it is not as apparent as the changes we see in the physical, but boy oh boy, the growth is strong!

These energetic bodies can keep us stuck in limiting beliefs, strongholds, and programs when we do not process and heal these energy centers. We have no idea why we keep repeating the same bad habits and cycles, and we don’t even know where to begin. In turn, these energy bodies can also powerfully manifest, create, release, and reflect when the spinning energies of frequency process information with freedom and intention.

We evolve through the chakras as we develop from the womb until we transition off this Earth plane. It is our experiences in the emotional, mental, and physical selves that implant information and experiences within these energy centers. When we hold onto the beliefs, programming, and conditioning we were raised with, they can be stored within the energetic body until we are conscious enough to face what keeps us stuck in a relentless cycle.

We continuously navigate through the chakras, carrying experiences and insights from different stages of our lives. For me, it is the Spirit that ultimately perceives the light and consciously chooses to initiate the changes that the Soul yearns for. The burden of the Soul's desire to break free from the constraints imposed by caregivers, parents, and society echoes loudly, urging us to move toward wholeness. This wholeness represents a merging of the Spirit and the Soul into a unified state. This unlimited existence awakens to the understanding that our spiritual body, in conjunction with the other three aspects of ourselves, is how we should engage with the world around us. Once we achieve this merger, the ultimate awakening is realizing that we are one with ourselves, and consequently, one with the Divine Source Energy—our true point of origin.

The chakra development is as follows:

Chakra one - Womb to One Year /Fourteen to Fifteen / Twenty-one to Twenty-two

Chakra two - One Year to Two Years /Fifteen to Sixteen /Twenty-two to Twenty-three

Chakra three - Two Years to Three Years /Sixteen to Seventeen /Twenty-three to Twenty-four

Chakra four - Three Years to Four Years /Seventeen to Eighteen / Twenty-four to Twenty-five

Chakra five - Four Years to Five Years /Eighteen to Nineteen /Twenty-five to Twenty-six

Chakra six - Five Years to Six Years /Nineteen to Twenty /Twenty-six to Twenty-seven

Chakra seven -Six Years to Seven Years /Twenty to Twenty-one /Twenty-seven to Twenty-eight

This cycling of the chakra system occurs again and again, exposing us to the issues throughout our lifetimes. As we develop beyond the second set of the chakra evolvement cycle, we begin to incorporate our higher chakras as well. Adding the higher vibrational chakras to the other seven chakras, we begin to work with the eighth at the age of twenty-one.

This upgrades again at age twenty-eight as we add the soul chakra number nine, then again at thirty-five as we add chakra ten, chakra eleven at age forty-two, and chakra twelve at age forty-eight.

Let’s create an example to understand better how this process may work for an individual.

So, let’s say Taylor was in the womb and experienced the turbulence there. His mother was stressed, and in survival, he could vibrationally sense the fury of his father, as they would fight and bicker, blaming his mother for not taking precautions in order not to conceive. His mother was always trying to fight back, justify herself, but gave up the fight and began to send lower thoughts and feelings through the womb, that she and this baby (Taylor) are unworthy to be happy, are unloved, and sank into depression. At the birth of Taylor, the husband continues his outbursts, and the mother neglects Taylor, because she is in survival mode, to stay in the dysfunctional relationship for financial and sustainable reasons. Taylor used to cry from hunger, but his first chakra would always be triggered, so he learned not to cry out of fear of being unsafe.

Experiences like this will then sit in the first chakra, and sink deep into the subconscious mind that Taylor is unable to receive love, lives numb towards his feelings because he was never validated, even when hungry, that he is perhaps unworthy of existing altogether. This then becomes an unconscious program, creating a limiting belief that moves with Taylor as he ages. As he reprocesses his first chakra at age fourteen, and no changes have been implemented, instead, it has gotten worse for him as he became a teen; this can become a block or a stronghold in his energetic body.

What happens, though, as this information carries through the other chakras, is that he may feel resentment in his second chakra, anger in his third, and, as he learned to develop a heart wall in his fourth, to protect himself from his parents. His mental body may tell him, “Why bother?”, “What’s the use?”, “I may as well not even try,” instilling low-vibrational information throughout his energetic body, reinforcing what he has ingrained in himself, creating compounding limiting beliefs.

If people were taught to integrate the spiritual body into a child’s development, we would have a better understanding of how what we say and do to others is deeply rooted and impactful, especially for our parents and caregivers. When we are nurtured and supported through the spiritual developmental stages of our lives, we are permitted to express, process, and heal ourselves, providing what is needed for self-development.

In most cases, if we decide to shift our energy, my experience is that it happens again in our late twenties to thirties, we can awaken to our Spirit and Soul's desire for our own evolution. It is here that we begin to seek out our soul’s purpose. In our twenties, we face challenges and explore many experiences as we dip our toes into independence and adulthood. We begin to create our own karma with others and learn more about ourselves through the relationships we choose to experience.

At the same time, these challenges can also prevent one from growing beyond their twenties.

In Taylor’s case, perhaps all the programming from his mother told him that she would not be safe if he left her and moved on with his own life. He could feel guilt, obligation, and a need to protect her, and become a sort of replacement spouse to his mother, without nurturing his own growth.

On the other hand, if Taylor awakens to the unhealthy aspects of his childhood, seeing how other families may engage and interact with one another, feel a calling for something more or different, he may make a karmic shift and choose to start his path towards a new life, not knowing how or what would happen, but taking a courageous step to do so. At the same time, his mother may have the opportunity to experience her own growth through the separation from her adult child.

In the natural progression of leaving the nest, we find the courage and strength to discover our own purpose, manifesting the life we are meant to create as we move into our thirties. We realize we are in dominion over our lives, choosing where to live, the lifestyle that works best for us, focusing on a career, and perhaps our own family. Whatever we decide to manifest shows up for us, and we realize if it is not working for us, we still have time to make changes and clear our karmic patterns that served us in our twenties, but not so much in our thirties.

Part two of the blog post will touch on the movement into our twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties, and on how to use energy work, by yourself or with a practitioner, to assist you on your journey within. Stay Tuned!