The Choice, Ray Balancing, Harvest

[Aaron]

The only way you could possibly not use your lower chakras is if you only focus on satisfying your basic human needs and don't ponder the meaning behind anything very often. I'd venture that someone who makes the intellectual choice to go STO or STS couldn't possibly do that.

I agree. Taking care of those basic human needs is what those parts of ourselves linked to those chakras are there for! This includes all selfish ways of thinking, which are really just self-protective ways of thinking that have just gotten way out of hand.

Those functions should definitely be used and appreciated every moment, for a basic sense of self preservation and striving to continue to be alive without any awareness or appreciation of it. But most people have closed themselves off to love so much that there is nowhere for all that extra energy to go, so instead of flowing into the upper chakras, which constitute an awareness and appreciation of self and aliveness, it just overenergizes everything about those lower levels of thinking... We have all seen the effect of that firsthand.