The Best Child Development and Chakra Formation Guide

Mindful Attachment Parenting is your MAP for optimizing your children’s growth, wellness, and success on all levels of consciousness!

The sacred formula of child development and chakra formation

Chakras are the energy centers within that carry us on our journey toward consciousness expansion and vitality. Because they form the architecture of the soul, they provide an important blueprint for whether or not we embody our full potential, both personally and collectively. As an ancient spiritual system, they show the path to healing transformation and self-actualization. The word “chakra” is Sanskrit for “wheel of light.” And there are seven main chakras located along the spine and correspond to centers of consciousness, psychosocial age stages, life lessons, psychological themes, and so much more. Together, child development and chakra formation blend into a sacred formula for optimal growth. But you have to learn how they work in tandem. And the Mindful Attachment Parenting approach—also known as the Zen Mommy MAP—teaches you the way.

Nature and Nurture

The psychosocial age stages of child development correspond to the interplay between the chakra system (energetic DNA), physical DNA, and environmental factors such as the way we parent. This is the classic Nature vs Nurture question and the answer to it is that it is Nature AND Nurture—that determines which and how genes express or do not express. In fact, this system shows how the chakras develop, ascending from the bottom of the spine to the top of the head. And it reveals how the chakras energetically mirror the challenges and achievements that go with each age stage. Additionally, it illuminates how the energetic system supports children from birth to adulthood.

Breaking the cycle

As a result, when I work with clients to facilitate the healing of unresolved childhood issues and patterns, I teach them how their willingness to do the inner work, also known as shadow work, that moves their whole family system forward. Because they are connected not just by physical DNA but also by energetic DNA—thus, raising their own frequency lifts the whole family line, and what they heal does not get passed onto their children or their children’s children. As a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who uses a holistic approach, I get asked questions like: “I have a little one who is such and such years old; how do I support my child’s growth and chakras at the same time?” In response, I developed the Child Development and Chakra Formation Guide to address these concerns.

The MAP teaches you how to optimize your children’s development on all levels.

Chakras and age stages are interconnected and overlap throughout all of development (although this guide illustrates which ones are more predominant at which stage and why). Thus, try to think of the relationship between child development and chakra formation as a multidimensional spiral. One that connects throughout time and space, rather than in a direct linear way to Erik Erikson’s psychosocial age stages. And the MAP teaches you how to optimize your children’s development on all levels, because it addresses psychosocial and energetic formation on all dimensions—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.

The Child Development and Chakra Formation Guide:

You can use this chakra and child development chart to fully nurture your child’s growth, learning, and soul expression on every level!

ROOT CHAKRA

Age: Womb to around 1 year

Main Focus: Survival

Psychological Themes: Physical Identity, Sense of Belonging, and Security

The Basics:

Located at the base of the spine, the Root Chakra forms a child’s energetic foundation and represents the Earth element. It is therefore related to survival instincts and to a child’s sense of grounding and connection to their physical bodies and the physical plane. When well-formed and balanced, this chakra brings health, abundance, security, and a sense of belonging.

3 Essential Steps for Optimal Development and Balance of Root Chakra

1. Use the Mindful Attachment Parenting approach to build a secure attachment. The child’s only source of sustenance and safety is through attachment to the primary caregiver. Thus, it is important to be there as consistently as possible during the first year for proper grounding Earth side. This means utilizing as many attachment practices as you can, because when they are done with mindfulness, they are more conducive to building a secure attachment. And Mindful Attachment Parenting teaches you how to attune to your baby so you know when to do what. Then you can adapt these practices to meet your unique family’s needs if necessary—without it costing you the secure connection your infant needs. In addition, the MAP approach helps you increase your parental reflective functioning which is correlated with building secure attachments. 
2. Promote positive embodiment through sensitively meeting needs and baby wearing. The most important thing you can do at this stage is to help your infant to come fully into his or her physical body. Baby wearing in a wrap or sling and regular touch. Regular touch—holding, carrying, comforting, and attendance to physical needs—is fundamental, because your nurturing touch positively affirms your child’s physicality. When you hold your infant and offer soothing, you are teaching him or her how to internalize the ability to self-soothe later in life.
3. Practice natural and organic nourishment and nurturing. Breast really IS best. Breastfeeding and following your infant’s feeding and comfort cues is ideal for maximum bonding, nutrition, and immunity—as well as for building a secure attachment. If breastfeeding is not an option, I encourage clients to make their own organic formula. And to make sure to maintain eye contact while feeding to get the bonding chemical oxytocin flowing. Also, Co-sleeping (with appropriate safety precautions) makes nighttime feedings easier and wires your baby’s brain for less stress. In addition, an organic and non-toxic home—is a happy, healthy, and safe home base. And living clean and green will make the whole family healthier.

When the root chakra is out of balance:

How do you know when you or your child’s Root Chakra is out of balance on the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual levels? You or your child will have a general feeling of being scared or feeling unsafe.

Examples of physical level issues that can be seeded:

• Eating disorders
• Continual need for oral gratification (eating, drinking, smoking)
• Wanting yet afraid of physical touch
• Physical weakness or low energy
• Not having the will to move forward
• Does not share self or possessions (and/or hoarding)
• Immune system disorders
• Disorders of the skeletal system or teeth
• Disorders of the bowel, colon, and elimination issues
• Problems with the legs, knees, or feet
• Lower back pain and sciatica (financial issues)
• Being ungrounded

Examples of mental level issues that can be seeded:

• “Doom and gloom” mindset or expecting the worst from people, situations, and life
• Scarcity consciousness
• Black/white thinking
• Phobias
• Limiting beliefs that you can’t trust people, life, or yourself
• Belief that you should not be or don’t want to be embodied
• Buying into the belief that you are not worthy/wanted
• Survival fears resulting in dominant or submissive thinking and behavior (the seed of a Victim or Bully negative archetype)

Examples of emotional level issues that can be seeded:

• Poor or rigid boundaries
• Attachment disorders
• Abandonment issues
• Fear of intimacy because it may end in abandonment
• Fear of expressing needs because you are afraid they will not be met
• Suspicious, closed, or guarded attitude
• Inability to feel safe, secure, and trusting in the world
• Inability to feel settled and to feel “rooted” to home
• Generalized Anxiety or Depression
• Hypervigilance and always waiting for “the other shoe to drop”

Examples of spiritual level issues that can be seeded:

• Not open to or trusting of a Higher Power
• Driven by destructive carnal passions
• Believing you have been abandoned by a Higher Power
• Believing that you are just a body without a soul
• Feeling unworthy to receive, have, or generate material abundance
• Believing that the end justifies the means

SACRAL CHAKRA

Age: Around 6 to 18 months

Main Focus: Emotions

Psychological Themes: Emotional Identity, Desire, and Adaptability

The Basics:

The sacral chakra, located in the lower abdomen above the pubic bone, is related to the element of water and to emotions, creativity, and sexuality. And it connects children to others and life through desires, feelings, sensations, and movement. When well-formed and balanced, this chakra supports a sense of a sacred connection to life through fluidity, grace, depth of feeling, devotion, and adaptability.

3 Essential Steps for Optimal Development and Balance of Sacral Chakra

1. Be a secure base by welcoming the dance of attachment and separation. You will start to notice your child beginning to separate from you but coming back frequently to you for reassurance during this phase. Your little one is excited about the newfound physical freedom, but he or she is also scared to be away too long. Because you are the secure base. And this process is called the circle of security. Being equally supportive of separation and attachment teaches children that they are worthy—both when they want to be close and when they want more independence. 
2. Provide a sensory-rich environment and allow safe exploration. At this time, children are exploring the world through their senses so parents should encourage sensory exploration. In fact, this is their main mode of experience right now. And you can support optimal development by providing a safe and stimulating environment for your child to explore with lots of colors and interesting toys as well as sounds to experience. Most important, your voice and attention are an integral part of your child’s sensate experience. During this phase, children are discovering the pleasure of sensory experiences and freedom of movement.
   
3. Reflect and empathize with emotions. Mirroring your child’s feelings during this phase is very important as they begin to understand what behaviors are appropriate and which are not. And since this is also the chakra of our emotions, children experience a wide range of feelings, from pure delight to rage. This process of “big feelings” can be very frustrating for your little one journeying through the Second Chakra, with many highs and lows. In service to teaching emotional literacy, it’s important to mirror your child’s feelings with the same affect and tone. Also, use narration and reflecting feelings in order for your child to feel validated and worthy.
   

When the sacral chakra is out of balance:

How do you know when you or your child’s Sacral Chakra is out of balance on the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual levels? You or your child will feel emotionally dysregulated and will not know what to do next.

Examples of physical level issues that can be seeded:

• Holding the body rigid
• Feeling awkward about your body
• Frigidity
• Difficulty with transitions and adaptability
• Health issues related to the reproductive organs
• Disorders of the bladder and urinary system
• Chronic lower hip or lower back pain
• Inflexibility of joints

Examples of mental level issues that can be seeded:

• Obsessive and/or compulsive thinking
• Irrational and/or inflexible thinking
• Thinking in extremes and absolutes
• Pattern of perfectionism

Examples of emotional level issues that can be seeded:

• Excessive worrying or ruminating over things
• Being highly critical of yourself; full of shame
• Denying your own desires (Martyr negative archetype)
• Overindulging in desires (Addict negative archetype)
• Feeling inappropriately guilty and/or blaming self for everything
• Emotionally “thin-skinned”
• Overwhelmed and ruled by emotions
• Enmeshed with the male/female pain bodies
• Sexual shame
• Intimacy issues
• Addictions/Codependency
• Blocked creativity
• Anxiety/Depression
• Difficulty adapting to change
• Loss of interest in pleasurable activities

Examples of spiritual level issues that can be seeded:

• Lack of connecting to your own worthiness as a sacred being
• Difficulty feeling a sacred connection to self, others, and life
• Desire overrunning devotion to your values and purpose
• Not having a well-developed conscience or moral code
• Not connecting to your true sacred soul purpose

SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA

Age: Around 18 months to 3 years

Main Focus: Power

Psychological Themes: Ego Identity, Self-Will, and Ambition

The Basics:

This chakra is known as the personal power chakra and is located in the navel area of the body. It rules children’s personal power, will, and autonomy, as well as their digestion. When well-formed and balanced, this chakra brings children energy, effectiveness, proactivity, and authentic self-empowerment.

3 Essential Steps for Optimal Development and Balance of Solar Plexus Chakra

1. Encourage autonomy and healthy self-esteem. Cultivate positive self-will and self-empowerment by empathizing with frustration, giving appropriate options, and setting limits when needed. For example, instead of this dialogue: “Do you want carrot sticks?” “No!” “Do you want apple slices?” “No!” “Do you want cucumbers?” “No!” and then getting frustrated yourself, you can offer choices like this: “Do you want carrot sticks, apple slices, or cucumbers?” In other words, give them multiple choice questions rather than yes/no questions (because you will likely get a “No!” response). Also, you can foster self-esteem and confidence by giving your child tasks that can be completed successfully like puzzles or small jobs around the house.
2. Support empowered toilet learning. When children start to show an increased interest in the toilet and adult bathroom activities, they are indicating they may be ready. However, sphincter muscles are not capable of holding it until the child is 18 months to 2 years old. By waiting until the time is right for toilet learning, children will feel a sense of pride over this new adult behavior rather than engage in a battle of wills. Use validation for successful behavior, not punishment for mistakes because that creates shame. Find small things like stickers, which can be given as reinforcers, as well as hugging, high-fiving, and lots of verbal acknowledgment.
3. Practice positive discipline. Set clear and consistent limits and remember that the word discipline means “to teach.” In supporting your child’s autonomy and will, appropriate limits need to be set. Truly, children are not yet capable of sophisticated causal reasoning at this stage. As a result, you can narrate simple cause and effect statements, like: “Stove hot! Don’t touch!” or “That hurts Mommy! Don’t bite!” Punishing versus disciplining teaches aggressive behavior and fosters a sense of shame, which keeps children from actually integrating the learning. Instead, try to divert your child’s attention to something more appropriate. For example, if your child is biting, give him or her something hard to chew and bite, like an apple or an organic bagel.

When the solar plexus chakra is out of balance:

How do you know when you or your child’s Solar Plexus Chakra is out of balance on the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual levels? You or your child will feel nervous, like life is unfair, or feel disconnected from your personal power.

Examples of physical level issues that can be seeded:

• Difficulty with setting and/or cooperating with limits/boundaries
• Trying to aggressively overpower others or being easily overpowered
• Overfunctioning or underemployed (Workaholic and Indentured Servant negative archetypes)
• Challenges in finishing things and attaining goals
• Digestive disorders, indigestion, and ulcers
• Pancreatitis, hypoglycemia, and diabetes
• Gallbladder, liver disorders, and hepatitis

Examples of mental level issues that can be seeded:

• Difficulty with getting and/or staying motivated
• Procrastinates on projects and tasks
• Stubbornness and/or need to be right
• Egocentric point of view

Examples of emotional level issues that can be seeded:

• Anger
• Depression
• Low self-esteem and/or lacking self-confidence
• Feeling shame or self-doubt about ability to accomplish things
• Blames others for mistakes and choices
• Lacking willpower or feeling powerless
• Sensitive to criticism and difficulty with constructive feedback
• Emotionally manipulating or easily emotionally manipulated
• Feeling smothered when someone tries to get close
• Difficulty saying “no” to others out of fear of them rejecting you
• Difficulty stating how you feel based on fear of rejection or humiliation
• Fear of loss of control
• Feeling over-responsible for others when they have a problem and inadequate if you can’t “fix-it”

Examples of spiritual level issues that can be seeded:

• Believing in a punishing, vengeful Higher Power
• Feeling rejected by a Higher Power
• Seeking outside approval due to rejecting your true self

HEART CHAKRA

Age: Around 4–7 years old

Main Focus: Harmony

Psychological Themes: Social Identity, Emotional Intimacy, and Relationships

The Basics:

This chakra is the bridge between the upper and lower chakras. It is the harmonizer and integrator of opposites in the psyche: mind and body, male and female, persona and shadow, ego and unity. A well-formed and balanced Heart Chakra allows children to feel compassion, have harmony in their relationships, and have a deep sense of peace and overall centeredness.

3 Essential Steps for Optimal Development and Balance of Heart Chakra

1. Teach relationship harmony and kindness. Children in this stage of development learn about relationships through identification and imitation. In fact, parental identification is the mechanism by which they internalize their caregiver, so they feel that the parent is there even when not physically present. Accordingly, the implications of this are that your children will internalize your behavior as a part of who they are—as part of their inner voice. As a result, if you are kind and loving, you will teach your children to be kind and loving in relationships with themselves and others.
2. Normalize the process of rupture and repair. How parents and family members interact during the rupture and repair process has a dramatic impact on children—especially their Heart Chakra. The reality of relating is that people have different ideas, needs, and wants, and they don’t always line up moment to moment. As a result, misunderstandings or what we call “ruptures” are a normal part of cohabitation. What makes all the difference is whether or not they are repaired. Then they learn that things can go awry, but love and respect can put relationships back on track. 
3. Explain relationship dynamics and model compassion. Because children identify with their parents, you teach them how to make honorable decisions by modeling moral behavior. Make it a practice to explain to your children why you do or do not do certain things. For example: “We’re going to make healthy treats for the bake sale, because the money will help support animals at the shelter until they can get adopted.” Or “See how Mrs. Smith smiles when we take the time to help her with the heavy groceries she has trouble carrying?” Also help them connect the dots between things like, “We don’t eat sugar very often, because it makes it harder for us to get the nutrients we need to grow strong and vibrant.”

When the heart chakra is out of balance:

How do you know when you or your child’s Heart Chakra is out of balance on the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual levels? You or your child may feel lonely, picked on, or unimportant, and may feel disharmony in your relationship with yourself or others.

Examples of physical level issues that can be seeded:

• Stingy with belongings and things
• Heart disease
• Bronchial pneumonia
• Asthma and allergies
• Issues of the shoulders, upper back, and chest
• Problems with circulation
• Anxiety attacks
• Heart palpitations

Examples of mental level issues that can be seeded:

• Being judgmental
• Intolerance of differences
• Being demanding of others

Examples of emotional level issues that can be seeded:

• Pretentiousness (Actor/Actress negative archetype)
• Disingenuous about feelings
• Enmeshment or over-empathizing at your own expense and denial of your needs/wants (Enmeshed Empath negative archetype)
• People-pleasing
• Clinging to others or avoiding commitment
• Being jealous of others
• Being “green” with envy at others’ good fortune
• Being cold, withdrawn, and/or withholding feelings
• Feeling isolated and lonely
• Depression
• Lacking empathy
• Narcissism
• Putting yourself down a lot
• Vacillating between loving and hating (idealizing/devaluing others)
• Nervousness
• Emotional insecurity

Examples of spiritual level issues that can be seeded:

• Being “hard-hearted” toward self, humanity, and all of life
• Operating from a place of greed at people’s and the planet’s expense
• Being in your head at the expense of your heart
• Being “heartless” toward yourself an

THROAT CHAKRA

Age: Around 5-12 years

Main Focus: Philosophy

Psychological Themes: Speaking Your Truth, Discernment, and Faith

The Basics:

This is the chakra located in the throat and is thus related to communication and your personal philosophy. When this chakra is well-formed and balanced, children experience a two-way relationship with the Divine through vibrational reality.

3 Essential Steps for Optimal Development and Balance of Throat Chakra

1. Support communication and self-expression. By this phase, your child has developed a solid command of language. As a parent, you can encourage your children to use their voice in the world and to speak their truth. Through engaging in long discussions about current events and the nature of humanity, you can support their self-expression. Also prompt them to ask questions and take the time to answer them thoughtfully. Inquire about your child’s feelings and friends and what is going on in their world. By being an active and attentive communicator, you model good communication skills.
2. Stimulate industry and creativity. Success is the greatest motivator for developing competence. By providing creative opportunities for industrious expression, you help support your child’s optimal Throat Chakra development. Supplying things like art materials, musical instruments, crafts, or lessons and classes in the creative arts helps children cultivate self-expression. You can even model creative problem-solving skills by searching for new ways to look at or do things. Remember to acknowledge and value your child’s creations, validating their self-expression.
3. Expand tastes and horizons. By exposing your children to many different people, places, and things, you can broaden their horizons. It can be as basic as offering a variety of foods to sample or as elaborate as traveling to exotic places. Either way, consider trips to the theater or a museum, farmer’s markets, zoos, aquariums, or the beach and camping in the mountains, etc. In allowing your children to learn about other cultures and ways of life, you open their hearts and minds to greater overall wisdom and experience.

When the throat chakra is out of balance:

How do you know when you or your child’s Throat Chakra is out of balance on the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual levels? You or your child will feel like yelling, speaking out of turn, or not talking at all, and will have overall difficulty expressing your or their truth.

Examples of physical level issues that can be seeded:

• Excessive talking and/or interrupting
• Poor listening skills
• Stuttering
• Chronic sore throat
• Mouth ulcers
• Laryngitis
• Swollen glands
• Thyroid and parathyroid problems

Examples of mental level issues that can be seeded:

• Difficulty finding the right words
• Black/white view of life (Dogmatist negative archetype)
• Indecisiveness
• Being critical and judgmental
• Being dishonest and/or giving mixed messages

Examples of emotional level issues that can be seeded:

• Being introverted and shy
• Fear of public speaking
• Being secretive
• Inability to express oneself
• Gift of gab used for personal gain (Charismatic negative archetype)
• Withholding authentic expression (Masked Self negative archetype)
• Talking loudly and quickly; using talking as a defense
• Gossiping

Examples of spiritual level issues that can be seeded:

• Being deceitful and unscrupulous and lacking overall integrity
• Not having faith in a Higher Power
• Lacking faith that you have a life purpose

THIRD EYE CHAKRA

Age: Around 12-20 years

Main Focus: Wisdom

Psychological Themes: Identity, Self-Reflection, and Development of Intuition

The Basics:

This chakra is known as the sixth sense or the Third Eye because it is related to intuitive facilities. When it is well-formed and balanced, it allows children to see clearly on both the physical and metaphysical levels. As a result of being able to access archetypal energy and make meaning of it, this chakra helps us see the big picture of our lives.

3 Essential Steps for Optimal Development and Balance of Third Eye Chakra

1. Support identity formation. Children in this phase are searching for their own identity. And you can support this process by adopting a general mantra of “ask, don’t tell” by encouraging your child to think for himself or herself. By asking questions rather than giving answers, you support your child’s identity formation. For example, instead of telling your children what you did when you were their age, ask what they might tell their own children when they are a parent. Moreover, provide opportunities for more responsibility.
2. Strengthen reflective capacity for self-awareness. At this stage, providing more opportunities for your child to take greater responsibility for their inner and outer choices will support a deepening in self-awareness. By allowing your child to have more of his or her own life, you are facilitating the power of choice that leads to greater reflective capacity. Keep an ongoing and open dialogue about their choices and ask them what they think the negative and positive consequences are—be their sounding board. This is also a time to teach life skills.
3. Help your child develop intuition and clear purpose. Encourage your children to “trust their gut” and ask them to search their hearts to determine what resonates with them and what does not. Remember, you can teach children to keep a dream journal to help them connect the dots in their own consciousness. In order for your children to form their own identity and clarify their life purposes, they need to be supported in being able to listen to their own inner wisdom.

When the third eye chakra is out of balance:

How do you know when you or your child’s Third Eye Chakra is out of balance on the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual levels? You or your child will have difficulty seeing the big picture of your lives and how it relates to your Divine destinies.

Examples of physical level issues that can be seeded:

• Caught up in an active or passive state of rebellion
• Feeling self-conscious about physical appearance
• Headaches
• Brain tumors, hemorrhage
• Strokes
• Neurological disturbances
• Blindness and deafness
• Full spinal difficulties
• Learning disabilities
• Seizures

Examples of mental level issues that can be seeded:

• Negative outlook and attitude
• Closed minded
• Lack of common sense
• Difficulty with intellectual ability
• Poor memory
• Difficulty concentrating (Space Cadet negative archetype)
• Denial (unable to see what is happening)
• Delusions
• Intellectualized view of life (Rationalist negative archetype)
• Inability to remember dreams

Examples of emotional level issues that can be seeded:

• Frequent nightmares
• Feeling socially inadequate
• Poor vision; unable to see the future or imagine alternatives
• Difficulty visualizing 
• Lack of or having an overactive imagination
• Resistant to being self-reflective
• Feelings of inadequacy
• Incongruence between mental and emotional self-narrative

Examples of spiritual level issues that can be seeded:

• Hallucinations
• Unable to see the big picture of your life and purpose
• Not learning from your mistakes; can’t integrate life lessons

CROWN CHAKRA

Age: Around 21–40+ years

Main Focus: Spirituality

Psychological Themes: Self-Knowledge, Spiritual Connection, and Living Your Life’s Purpose

The Basics:

This is the Crown Chakra that relates to consciousness as pure awareness. It is a person’s connection to the greater world beyond, to a timeless, spaceless place of all-knowing. When developed, the Crown Chakra brings knowledge, wisdom, understanding, spiritual connection, and bliss.

3 Essential Steps for Optimal Development and Balance of Crown Chakra

1. Stimulate soul searching. By the time your child has reached the Seventh Chakra stage, your parental influence will be less impactful than in younger years, which is why encouraging spirituality throughout childhood is recommended. However, parents can support individual soul searching during this stage. Try openly discussing values and beliefs and encouraging them to discover their unique soul purpose. Also, suggest mindfulness meditation.
2. Encourage spiritual exploration. The best way to instill spiritual values in children is to model them. By demonstrating conscious choices and behavior, your children will internalize what they observe from you. In addition to exposing your child to whatever religion you may practice, you can make their spirituality even more grounded by educating them about other religions as well. And you can explain why your family has chosen the religion and/or spiritual approach you practice.
3. Reframe life struggles into potential soul lessons. One of the ways to nourish the Seventh Chakra is to commit to a path of lifelong learning, which stimulates and feeds the spirit. Fostering a learning approach to life will help your child learn problem-solving skills and develop a positive relationship with knowledge in general. Most important, whenever your child is struggling with a difficult situation, ask thought-provoking questions about how he or she could reframe it into an opportunity to learn a life lesson.

When the crown chakra is out of balance:

How do you know when you or your child’s Crown Chakra is out of balance on the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual levels? You or your child will feel disconnected from your spirituality and from others in general.

Examples of physical level issues that can be seeded:

• Inability to stay present
• Extreme sensitivity to light, sound, or other environmental factors
• Chronic exhaustion unrelated to physical disorders
• Migraines/Headaches
• Overly focused on materialism, greed, and power over others

Examples of mental level issues that can be seeded:

• Learning difficulties
• Rigid belief system
• “Analysis paralysis” resulting in not taking action on your life’s purpose
• Excess focus on first three chakra issues
• State of confusion

Examples of emotional level issues that can be seeded:

• Inability to trust the life process
• Detachment from humanitarian issues
• Dissociation from self and body
• Spiritual depression (loss of meaning in life)
• Apathy

Examples of spiritual level issues that can be seeded:

• Spiritual cynicism
• Spiritual addictions/elitism
• Disruption in values and ethics
• Too much self-contemplation and not enough taking spiritual action (Hermit negative archetype)
• Lack of faith in the Divine and life
• Loss of purpose and meaning in their life
• Identified as an ego not a soul (Egotist negative archetype)

Optimizing chakra development throughout a lifetime

As we discussed, chakras and age stages overlap quite a bit. And as children ascend up through the chakras, they have not necessarily outgrown the needs of the previous chakras. Children also need mindful affection throughout life, not just in the first and second  chakras. Receiving age-appropriate approval and encouragement nourishes their chakras and self-esteem throughout development. And they need ongoing mindful engagement, inclusion in family meetings and activities, and a felt sense of connection through all stages. Our children are the sacred beings of the future—they embody the hope for humanity for generations to come!

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