I Respect!

I Respect!

Today's mantra challenged my ideas about respect. I was able to reflect on the ways in which I respect myself and others and what ideas that I hold true for myself about my boundaries and areas where I might transgress on the boundaries of others. It was illuminating. I have been wearing my red jasper and black tourmaline crystals to ground me and help me to understand even more about my personal space and where those ley lines reside. I have been doing a lot of musing around my first chakra whose mantra is "I Am". I focused on all the ways that I am respectful both of myself and others and how respect relates to the confines of the personal space.

We wear stones for grounding, but these stones also serve as a barrier to the energetic borders of our personal space. When we wear a black tourmaline it is also for protection from negative energy, entities,  thought forms and the like. These all relate to how much we own our bodies and how comfortable we are inside them. Can we sense when our space is being violated, or when we are violating other's space? Part of these lessons of course continue up the chakras, especially the first five chakras like an energetic daisy chain.

When we ground into our own self, our boundaries, our truths and our intuition, we become even more powerful and whole beings capable of making great changes in the world. And part of that realization of self, includes our respect for ourselves, others and all the things that make up the universe.