Embrace your true passions and discover the power of your second chakra.
You may have come across the seven chakras. Maybe it was in yoga class or during a meditation course. You might not know exactly what chakras are or how to work productively with them. Chakras are energy centers in the subtle body that distribute the flow of prana or energy throughout your body. Starting at the base of the spine and working up to the crown of your head, chakras influence your emotional and physical health.
Understanding the role and purpose of each chakra is a crucial first step in balancing your chakras and establishing the harmonious flow of energy. All of the seven chakras are interconnected; balancing one chakra will create change in the others. If you are working towards creative goals or needing to restore balance to your emotional health, it would be wise to focus on your sacral chakra in particular.
When we start building our fantasy world with the help of mental and intellectual faculties, understand that second chakra energy is dominated within us.
Mostly in boys, this chakra energy dominant between 7-14 and in girls, the 6-12 period of life.
THE SACRAL CHAKRA
Located in the lower abdomen below the navel, the sacral chakra or swadhisthana is the second in your seven chakras. The Sanskrit name translates to “one’s own dwelling”. The sacral chakra is associated with the emotional body, sensuality, and creativity.
The sacral chakra starts is located below the navel and extends up to the pelvic region. This forms your deepest connections with sensuality and passion. The sacral chakra embodies your relationship to discovery and exploration of your world. This includes emotion, pleasure, connection, and intimacy.
Motivated by pleasure and joy, the sacral chakra is the driving force for your enjoyment of life. When your sacral chakra is balanced, it enables you to feel and experience life to its fullness. As the center of passion, your sacral chakra awakens your power of creation. This allows you to discover what you truly enjoy and create intimate relationships.
The sacral chakra helps cultivate flexibility and adaptability. This empowers you to move on, accept change, and transform. When balanced, the sacral chakra allows you to be passionate, creative, and sensual while connecting with your feelings and emotions.
In Sanskrit, Swadhisthana means “the dwelling place of the self”, and some also say it has another meaning of “take pleasure in”. The sacral chakra relates to emotional and sexual energy in the body and our ability to flow with change.
When in balance, someone radiates warmth and feels playful, desirable, and free to express themselves. When out of balance, a person feels shameful, sexually dysfunctional, and prone to addictions and compulsive behaviours. Physically, an unbalanced sacral chakra can cause reproductive problems such as infertility, impotence, or menstrual issues as well as lower back, kidney, or stomach disorders.
Key Characteristics of the Root Chakra
Emotions — Connect with your feelings and emotions with the energy of the sacral chakra.
Pleasure —Motivated by pleasure and joy, the sacral chakra is responsible for your enjoyment of life through your senses. This creates the foundation for your emotional well being.
Sensuality — The sacral chakra helps you understand and develop your intimate connections with others.
Creativity — The sacral chakra awakens your creative expression, allowing you to explore new ideas and stimulate your imagination.
Passion —The energy of your sacral chakra allows you to discover and explore what you are truly passionate about. This passion lets you truly enjoy life.
SACRAL CHAKRA LOCATION
The physical location of the sacral chakra is in the pubic area just below the hairline of the pubic section & about two inches below the navel.
As sacral chakra is located just below the Pubic section; hence, your legs, Gonads, and Reproductive organs are associated with this Chakra. The Sacral Chakra is also connected with the Lumbar Plexus, kidneys and urinary system.
ORANGE COLOUR SIGNIFICANCE
Situated at the centre of our body, sacral chakra represents our state of joy, delights, compassion for others & that’s why its energy radiates in the orange colour spectrum. The colour is slightly brighter than the colour of Root chakra due to its relation with internal bliss and satisfaction.
This lustrous orange colour signifies how you attach with people through intimate or friendly connections. This radiant colour also indicates your ability to gaze inwards and be aware of the outer world. You can perceive the energy others reflect upon you once you awake this Chakra.
SACRAL CHAKRA SYMBOL SIGNIFIES
Sacral chakra symbol has the following components.
Crescent Moon Within Circle – Crescent moon in sacral chakra symbol is a representation of female energy.
Circle – Circle is the representation of the water element (Jal Tattwa) present in our body.
6 Lotus Petals – Lotus petals which are connected at the periphery of the circle in sacral chakra are the representation of cyclical nature of birth, death & rebirth.
The element (Tattwa) of this Wheel is Water represented by a crescent moon inside the circle.
The Sacral Chakra is the second junction where energy channels (Nadis) converge at the pelvic area. Being located at the central part of our Pubic region, Swadhisthana represents a symbol of an upturned crescent moon indicating the vital force.
The second Chakra signifies our emotions, sensuality, pleasure, and connections. This Wheel influences our deepest of feelings, emotions, empathy, joys, and sexual desires.
ENERGY FREQUENCY AND BIJA MANTRA
Being second in the order, this chakra consists of higher energy level and is represented by 6 number of Lotus petals. At the balanced state, this Chakra vibrates at 288 Hz frequency.
“Vam” is the seed sound (Bija Mantra) that resonates the Sacral Chakra. This sound is considered a healing chant in case you face experience the disturbance of Sacral Chakra.
BALANCED ROOT CHAKRA
When you have a balanced state of Sacral Chakra:
You can feel the inner and outer world with a stable and prosperous life.
You are active in sexual activities and find confidence while seeking pleasures.
You tend to find every relationship joyful and blissful.
Your immune system is soothed because of the balanced state thence.
IMBALANCED SACRAL CHAKRA
The chakra system distributes the flow of prana or energy throughout your subtle body. Stress, illness, emotional upset, or conflict all can cause blockages or imbalance in your chakra system. All of the seven chakras are interconnected; when one chakra experiences a blockage or imbalance, it affects all the others. This disruption of energy can cause your mind, body, and spirit to suffer.
When the sacral chakra is imbalanced, it can make you feel emotionally and physically destabilized. If you are working towards creative goals, improving your emotional health, or working on your relationships, it is important that you open and bring balance your sacral chakra.
Imbalanced Sacral Chakra can be identified with the following symptoms.
Physical Symptoms: You start experiencing Back Pains, Dysfunctional reproductive organs, Sudden Pain in the lower abdomen while sex, Kidney Troubles and urinary problems when Sacral Chakra is not tuned or out of balance.
Psychological Symptoms: Guilty feeling about sex, Confusion about own-feelings, excessive emotions, obsession, emotional dependency, and Addictive Behaviour.
Underactive Sacral chakra — When a chakra is underactive, it means that the chakra is experiencing a blockage or is not distributing the flow of energy. When your sacral chakra is underactive, it can affect your overall well being.
When your sacral chakra is blocked or underactive, you may be experiencing a sense of lack of control ranging from uncertainty to an inability to cope with life’s changes. When the sacral chakra becomes blocked, it often detaches you from your emotions and those around you.
How to Recognise If Your Sacral Chakra Is Underactive
Fear of Pleasure
Lack of Creativity
Feel Fatigued
Lack of Desire
Not Authentic to Yourself
Insecurity
Detachment
Overactive Sacral chakra — When a chakra is overactive, it means that the chakra is distributing too much energy. It is working in overdrive and bringing imbalance to the chakra. When your sacral chakra is overactive, it affects your overall well being.
If your second chakra is overactive, you may be experiencing issues of excess and conflict from thriving on drama to having unhealthy relationships. When the sacral chakra is overwhelmed with energy, it will make you feel overwhelmed. You may feel emotions more deeply, experience mood swings, or become overly dependent on others.
Signs of an overactive sacral chakra
Emotional Overreactions
Dramatic
Aggressive
Anxiety
Excessive Emotional Attachment
Codependency
Addictive Personality
PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE SACRAL CHAKRA
The Sacral chakra is the center of sexual instinct. Strong Sex chakras mean strong sexual drive. The Throat chakra or Vishuddhi chakra and the Sacral chakra are inter-connected. The Throat chakra is the center for higher creativity and is the higher correspondence of the Sacral chakra.
And that is why very creative, artistic and intelligent people have strong sexual drives and are therefore often embroiled in all sorts of sex scandals. It is believed that very creative people cannot be sexually impotent or inhibited.
HOW TO BALANCE THE SACRAL CHAKRA
Chakra balancing is the process of restoring the harmonious and balanced flow of prana or energy throughout the body. Your chakras are in constant fluctuation. Practicing chakra balancing and aligning is a regular and sometimes daily activity to explore. But how do you balance your sacral chakra?
Connect with Water — The sacral chakra is highly influenced by the element of water. Getting outside and relaxing near or in open water can help open and restore balance to your second chakra. Lakes, rivers, streams, or the ocean are all useful. Wade or dangle your feet in the water to allow your sacral energy to flow. A warm bath or shower can also help aid in balancing your sacral chakra.
Creative Play — As the center of your creativity and passion, it is important to explore new or old hobbies to help open your sacral chakra and let your creative energy flow. Dancing, drawing, writing, or engaging in playful activities are all useful tools to bring the harmonious flow of energy to your sacral chakra.
Yoga Practices for Sacral Chakra — Yoga can be particularly helpful in opening and bringing balance to your sacral chakra. Yoga for sacral balancing should focus on hip-opening poses. Below are specific yoga movements to connect you to the energy of the sacral chakra:
Open-Angle Pose | Upavistha Konasana
Frog Pose | Bhekasana
Pigeon Pose | Kapotasna
Goddess Pose | Utkata Konasana
Meditation for Sacral Chakra — Meditation plays an important role in restoring balance to your chakras. Chakra meditation techniques are similar to traditional meditation techniques but focus on a specific area of the body. Below is a simple meditation technique to aid in balancing your sacral chakra.
Sit with your shoulders back and spine straight. Relax your muscles as you close your eyes and breathe deeply. Inhale through your nose and exhale through the mouth.
Focus your attention on the location of your sacral chakra: your abdomen, a few inches below your navel.
Since the sacral chakra is tied to the color of orange, imagine an orange glow below your navel, slowly expanding to the pelvic region and making the whole area warm and relaxed. Rest in this sensation for 3-5 minutes.
When you are ready, slowly open your eyes. You may follow with positive affirmations.
Sacral Chakra Affirmations — Affirmations are a positive way to heal negative programming that can be embedded in your subtle body. When balancing your sacral chakra, practice saying the following phrases to yourself:
I am passionate
I am open to experiencing the present moment
I am comfortable in my body
I feel at peace
I am a creative being
Aromatherapy for Sacral Chakra — Aromatherapy can be a powerful and simple tool for opening and balancing your sacral chakra. Use Essential oils with cleansing and balancing aromas that promote joy, creativity, and emotional balance.
Sacral Chakra Crystals — Each chakra is influenced by unique stones and their energetic properties. The sacral chakra is highly influenced by carnelian. When balancing your sacral chakra, meditate with carnelian or even carry the stone with you to let the energetic properties help restore balance to the chakra.
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Energy Chakra Healing — Professional energy healers offer services that examine a person’s energy levels in their Chakra system as well as locate the causes of blockages. After a thorough examination they are able to offer suitable healing treatments in regards to Chakra healing.
Taking The First Step To Balance Your Chakras
Although this blog has covered some helpful methods for balancing your Sacral Chakra and restoring your energy flow, there’s a lot more to learn when it comes to striking the right balance for you and your unique physical, emotional and spiritual body.
We all want to lead more balanced, joyful, and fulfilled lives.
I hope you find this information helpful, or at least enlightening to some degree, and please share with your friends as this knowledge might help them to find their centre and manifest towards a healthy lifestyle and be able to enjoy life to the fullest.
Peace and Love to all 💞
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