While clearing and balancing the chakra system can contribute to healthy energy levels, the energy reserves in the first and third chakras should not be deployed as a regular fuel source.

How chakras affect your identity reflects which chakra has captured your attention. Which chakra are you focused on right now?

By working with the chakras directly through new choices and intentions or contemplative visualization, we gain insight into who we are, as well as shape the way in which we grow.

Chakras spin like wheels, creating a balanced forcefield that helps us process information and integrate experiences.

The second chakra allows us to interpret safe and scary spaces, as well as happy and sad interactions. In this way, it is strongly associated with the inner child. Second chakra feedback can guide us through decisions about what and who to be around.

We deepen our access to first chakra wisdom when we deepen our sensory awareness. This chakra asks that we savor our senses; it reminds us to smell the roses. Just as taking in sensory delights requires slowing down, this chakra moves at Earth’s speed.

There’s more than one way to celebrate Groundhog Day. What will you do with yours?

Time changes the circumstances of our lives; we can re-define how we think about our lives in order to embrace our new circumstances.

Living with others can lead to misunderstandings; what are your assumptions about shared space?

Ever notice how some houses take on a mythic character in a neighborhood? Especially as children, we characterize houses—and often the people who live in them—as creepy, foreboding, magical or just plain different. What role do you, and your home, play in the neighborhood dynamics?