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The tailbone is intimately associated with the root chakra, the chakra that is associated with our right to exist, to belong and to be here. The tailbone acts like an emergency brake when something challenges our survival. According to Wilhelm Reich, the father of bioenergetics, muscles become tense and later can turn into armor with certain childhood traumas. Anodea Judith, author of "Eastern Body, Western Mind," states when we feel pain; our natural tendency is to move away from it, shutting down the awareness of feeling. When we experience danger or a situation that has all the elements of a past trauma our energy is drawn up toward the head. We defend against feeling this fear or pain by energetically and physically shutting down our awareness of the pelvis. It's a survival strategy. The down side is if we can't feel our root we become ungrounded, mentally unstable, out of touch, overwhelmed. Our breath and our immune system become compromised. Curled tailbones mean you are in survival mode, fight of flight. Long soft palpable tailbones imply feeling present, grounded, secure, rooted. The root chakra is the first chakra. It is about arriving and stability. When the tailbone is long it translates to "I am here!", "I agree to living on earth." It is the beginning of making your life work.
submitted by: Don Juan