Reading the Body as a Map - Part 1

When we are reading the body as a map of the consciousness within, we work with the
idea that the tensions in the body represent tensions in the person's consciousness
concerning what was happening in the person's life at the time that the symptom
developed. The person was feeling stress about something that was happening in their life
at that time. We are going to examine the map of consciousness that the chakras provide, in order to understand the language of the symptoms that are associated with each chakra. In order to complete this map, however, we also need to look at ourselves as each a polarity of yin
and yang, feminine and masculine characteristics. For most people, their right side is their yang side, their will side, their acting or active side, and the left side is their yin side, their female side, their feeling or adaptive side. For people who were born left-handed, this polarity is reversed. Thus, for a right-handed person, their right leg can be described as their will leg, or their male leg, or the foundation of their will, but for a left-handed person, their left leg would be their male leg or will leg, and so on. Thus, we can talk about the will arm, or the will eye, or the will
nostril, etc., and which side it is on will depend upon whether the person is right-handed
or left-handed at birth.
Each of the chakras is energy vibrating at a certain frequency, in a logical and orderly
sequence of seven vibrations. As we move up the scale, the elements become more and
more subtle, moving through the five physical elements of earth, water, fire, air, and
ether, to the spiritual elements of inner sound and inner light. The heaviest element is on
the bottom, the lightest on the top. It is a logical and orderly sequence.The colors of the spectrum also represent a series of seven vibrations in a logical and orderly sequence, as do the notes of the musical scale. Thus, we can put the heaviest vibrations or the longest wavelength on the bottom and the lightest on the top, and a particular color can be used to represent a chakra in its clear state, as can a particular musical note. Music played in a certain key vibrates a particular chakra, and we feel a particular way when we hear that music. Our relationship with a certain color says something about our relationship with the part of our consciousness that the color represents. The Root Chakra is associated with the parts of our consciousness concerned with security, survival, or trust. For most people, this concerns the parts of their consciousness
concerned with money, home, and job. When this chakra is in its clear state, the person is
able to feel secure, be present in the here and now, and be grounded. When there is
tension in this chakra, it is experienced as insecurity or fear. When there is more tension,
it is experienced as a threat to survival. Parts of the body controlled by the sacral plexus and this chakra include the skeleton system, the legs, and the elimination system. Symptoms in these parts of the body represent, therefore, tensions at the level of the Root Chakra, and we therefore know that the person is seeing the world through a perceptual filter of insecurity or fear. The adrenal glands are also associated with this chakra.
From - The Body Mirror System of Healing