What Are The Similarities Between The Damsel Archetypes And The Chakras

Archetypes and the Chakras
The chakra that resembles the light and shadow attributes of The Damsel archetype is the Heart Chakra. Like The Damsel archetype, the Heart Chakra’s purpose is to obtain balance and love. The Heart Chakra is secure when an individual exhibits acceptance within themselves and others. In my opinion, The Damsel is balanced when one is able to identify and reflect on what a healthy relationship means to them while having a strong sense of self-reliance and self-acceptance.
When I am able to recognize and appreciate the light of my being, I know that both the Heart Chakra and The Damsel archetype are in perfect unison. For as long as I can remember, it has been difficult for me to appreciate myself for who I am. I inherently
find reasons to belittle myself through the voices of my Inner Critics. Perhaps I behave in this manner because I am in perpetual fear of losing love and recognition by the people I admire. After, all the traumas of the Heart Chakra included rejection, shaming, and abandonment. I have come to believe that this incessant terror originates from traumatic experiences in my childhood, which includes the death of my father, and humiliation and harassment from peers. The Heart Chakra suffers greatly from the death of a loved one, which is possibly partially why I utilize the shadow attributes of The Damsel archetype. I haven’t fully explored the abandonment of my father, and how his love was so suddenly ripped away from me. I experience an emptiness in my life where his love once was, and I desire to fill that void with temporary relational fixes.
It is extremely obvious that the deficiencies I experience the most through the Heart Chakra and The Damsel Archetype is isolation and loneliness. I have explain previously my craving for intimate relationships as a result of my fear of being alone. However, I recall feeling isolation on multiple occasion while in a relationship. Most of my relationships have bed extremely unhealthy and damaging to my psyche partially because I dedicated my soul to that individual. I would bankrupt myself of loving emotions simply so that the individual wouldn’t leave. There is truth in the saying “You can’t love someone without loving yourself.” By giving everything I could offer, I was blatantly disrespecting myself and not displaying self-love. How could I love myself if I was constantly giving my soul away? Similarly, how could I love someone without a sense of self-respect? The Damsel in me desires to be like Rapunzel, and heal my partners with all of the innocence and purity I can internally gather.
While I regularity face harmful deficiencies in the Heart Chakra, I also experience behavioral imbalances from an excess in said chakra.
Theses behavioral imbalances include codependency, and possessing poor boundaries. I have been told on a number of occasions from therapists and psychologist alike that I have an exceedingly codependent relationship with my mother. My mother and I have the tenancy of feeding each other’s negativity through enabling bad habits and damaging actions. I have noticed throughout my life that my mother has convinced me on several occasions that I am unable to survive on my own. This was an attempt to keep me home and not venturing out into society. You could say that she has often played the enchantress in my fairytale. However, I would be lying if I stated that don’t feel the safest when being regulated by her. At times, I do miss abiding by her rules as a child. It was an undemanding life where I didn’t have to confront the complicated and stressful turbulences of adult life. Since moving away from home, I notice that I subconsciously endeavor to build relationships off of the codependent structure that I established with my mother years ago. I have enabled terrible personality traits in those I have been intimate with through my timid nature. My mother frequently refers to me as a “doormat” that will do anything someone asks me to. There is truth in that statement, I enable those I am intimate with to act upon unhealthy personality traits as I
am terrible at establishing boundaries. If something an individual is doing is bothering me, I regularly keep my concerns to myself and endure it. My mind convinces me that the person will think lesser of me if I speak my mind, so I refrain out of my craving for love and respect.
My relationship with the Damsel archetype is slowly improving with the introduction of specific healing modalities in my daily routine.
Studies have shown that babies thrive in nurseries when hospital faculty hold them. In the womb, infants are surrounded by the sensation of touch and it is their primary instrument for gathering information regarding their surroundings. Even when children are born, they are not developmentally capable of seeing clearly and possessing sounds. Infants utilize the sensations they receive on their skin as primary way to communicate with their surroundings. Our need for tough does not reduce when we progress into adulthood, which is why I integrated more touch in my life. Touch does not have to be received from another individual, simply breathing and walking count as a form of touch. The healing modality is incorporated involves walking in nature and experiencing the physical sensations of the outside environment. For example, when the rays of the morning sun hit my body as I walk to class I feel a sense of warmth and belonging. Through this healing strategy I have realized how fortunate I am to live in a world of such natural wonder. I have come to appreciate myself and the Earth more as I recognize that there is potential for unconditional love in the most trivial aspects of life. I don’t have to exploit the shadow attributes of The Damsel archetype as I now know that I am not entirely alone on this material plane. The earth is continuously
showing me love by allowing me to breathe clean air and uncontaminated water. The Damsel in me is inspired by the purity of the natural environment, and desires to further her connection with it.
In addition to the walking method, I practice a breathing exercise every night before I fall asleep to reduce the sensation of anxiety in regards to loneliness. Logically I developed a healing modality involving breath because the element associated with the Heart Chakra is air. In this practice, I lay flat on my back slowly inhaling and exhaling, upon exhalation I imagine releasing the negative energy of my body. Through inhalation I envision a pure light entering my body and healing my soul. Since developing this simple technique, my relationship with the self has significantly improved. I am expressing the light attributes of The Damsel archetype since exercising this method, as I feel more self-reliant and self-loving.