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Swadhisthāna-Source of Creative Potential
magnified? No one stops us from being happy, creative, secure, and enlightened; yet we are afraid to leave behind the familiar habits of negative thinking. Why? Why don't we realize that every problem has a solution just as every lock has a right key? Our difficulty is that our daily haste and confusion prevent us from discovering the key that is needed. If we have refined our energy, however, it will guide us in the right time to the right place.
This purified energy is not indecisive and confused, nor is it scattered in all directions. It has the power to dissolve all feelings of impotence and free us from the conceptual limitations that block our creativity in any area of our life. If we have believed that others are luckier than we are that they are more gifted and showered by grace-then now is the time for us to realize that all human beings are touched by the same divine element. When the menta concept of limitation is lifted, then the door of our creativity is opened. Our inner store of energy is made available to us when we make a positive decision and take a step in a definite direction. We will discover that life offers us whatever we believe it will offer us. So when we meditate, let us give up our preconceived images and expectationsand all the tension and unhappiness that spring from them --so that we may become natural and our minds may become very pure and clear. Then we will enjoy our inherent creativity.
The second center, located at the pelvis area, is called swādhisthāna in Sanskrit, which means "the place of our origin.” Swa means "your own” and adhisthāna means
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