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“Our culture equates maturity with the ability to deny pleasure. We are often told to put our pleasures away as we grow older—to sit still, work hard, deny or control our feelings. Pleasures we once knew become regulated by guilt, held inside by rigidity in the body and rigidity in our thinking.” — Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self by Anodea Judith The second chakra is related to pleasure. As with all chakras, the challenge is in finding the right balance. The right amount of pleasure we need at any given point in time, or stage in life, is probably highly variable and personal

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