An open crown thinks too much where as a blocked crown does the opposite, it avoids thinking as much as it can. If it does wander into thinking it will think about the unimportant small stuff as a distraction from thinking about the stuff that needs their attention.
I always know when I am avoiding stuff cos I am guaranteed to stub my toe, bang into something or become clumsy. I am so used to it now as soon as I notice my clumsiness I stop and ask myself "what am I avoiding!"
The experts say that learning difficulty shows up in a blocked crown and they are right but its not just the special education needs variety, our crowns can block when we are unable to learn a lesson or face that there is a lesson for us to learn. What often happens when a persons crown blocks is they get the biggest reaction from an open crown, the "learn from me" energy of the open crown can have a detrimental effect on the blocked crown keeping them stuck in resist mode.
On our walk yesterday Kate and I got into a heated debate about how she See's her life going, she was in a serious sulk and I instinctively knew that any effort or my part to get her out of it would more than likely just leave her in that head set longer. But the problem was she was affecting me in a way because she insisted I seen it the way she did, and I don't. If I expressed that she'd more than likely dig her heels in deeper so I was in a catch 22 situation. Eventually I explained that although I seen her situation differently I was aware that expressing it would not be helpful, but at the same time I felt that I was not the person she should be expressing it too. My nature is to motivate, and Kate did not want motivating, she wanted to wallow a little longer so if she expressed it to me I would be expected to stay quiet and just let her moan. The danger of me slipping into teacher mode was there and it was the last thing I wanted to do, but with her insistence in staying blocked in her crown the temptation for my crown to go to the other extreme was ever present.
I can't always be what someone else wants from me, especially if it goes against my nature and its wrong of others to expect it of me. I have different friends for different situations. There is no way I will go to my problem solver friend and tell her my problem then demand she does not attempt to solve it. And my laugh a minuet friend is the last person I will call on when I want to wallow for a while and expect her to listen and let me wallow.
Being able to see where your mood is coming from and what you want to do with your mood saves a lot of heartache and confusions for ourselves and others.
After the walk a friend popped round to chat with me, giving Kate the much needed time to digest what I had said. When my friend left Kate sought me out and admitted that she needed help to sort her own thoughts out. I have the complete set of Bach remedies and a few books on them and Kate had found one of the books and looked through the different mixes. She opted for the blues mix and told me that once she had completed her course on that she wanted me to make up a, follow your heart mix. In the hour that I was chatting with my friend, Kate had decided to question her mood and decide to address it, unblocking her crown in the process.
Often an open crown response to the avoidance of others leaves them little room to see that they can learn for themselves. Riding to the rescue at the first sign of trouble and pointing out where we think others are going wrong can help them stay in that "wrong" headset.
Knowing who we are, what we do and how we cope with situations helps us to slam on the breaks when we feel like someone is trying to get us to be something other than our natural selves.
Kate knows me and my nature better than most and later when we talked she admitted that she knew that she was putting me in a difficult position with her expectations of how I should respond to her needs while ignoring my own discomfort but was so caught up in her own mood she needed me to make her feel better at any cost. Knowing the chakras I knew that was an impossible request because for as long as she was stuck in avoid I had no way of giving her what she wanted.
Kate's answers came from within and that is the only way with a blocked crown, because they are unable or unwilling to learn from an external trigger. The block is with them so the solution needs to come from them too.
Arrogance shows up in both a blocked and an open crown and it is usually disguising an inability to accept there is something to learn before we can move on. The open crown takes the lesson too seriously and the blocked avoids it altogether, much of a muchness in a way.
Sulking and hissy fits also show up in a blocked crown and when it does the sacral has joined in on the avoidance and the person is caught up in the "Its not fair or I'm not wrong!" rather than look at the situation and attempt to address it fairly and in a grown up fashion.
I often see a picture of an ostrich in my head when I am dealing with a blocked crown type and the words "when we bury our head in the sand, all others see is an arse!"