Sacral Chakra: Svadhisthana
The sacral chakra, also called Svadhisthana, is located just below your belly button, above the pelvic bone.
It is associated with the color orange and the element water.
The sacral chakra is the source of passion and personal power. Creativity, sexual/sensual energy, desires, and relationships all reside within this energy center.
Svadhisthana is connected with the lower back, genitals, and abdomen, so any health issues in those areas are likely an effect of an imbalance in the chakra.
Do you have full control over your passions and pleasure?
How do you feel towards your sexuality and relationships?
When the sacral chakra is out of balance, you may be left feeling uninspired, pessimistic, and distant from life. You may even feel ashamed of your creative force, or uncomfortable with your sensual nature.
Opening this chakra will allow you to take full control of your creative spirit, experience of pleasure, and power within your relationships.
While the root chakra reunites you with your most basic needs - and is for that reason very personal - the sacral chakra extends out into the world a bit further, and reflects your desires, tuning you in to your artistic, feeling self.
Develop your root first before rising to the sacral chakra.
Allow your creative power to flow.
The sacral chakra, also called Svadhisthana, is located just below your belly button, above the pelvic bone.
It is associated with the color orange and the element water.
The sacral chakra is the source of passion and personal power. Creativity, sexual/sensual energy, desires, and relationships all reside within this energy center.
Svadhisthana is connected with the lower back, genitals, and abdomen, so any health issues in those areas are likely an effect of an imbalance in the chakra.
Do you have full control over your passions and pleasure?
How do you feel towards your sexuality and relationships?
When the sacral chakra is out of balance, you may be left feeling uninspired, pessimistic, and distant from life. You may even feel ashamed of your creative force, or uncomfortable with your sensual nature.
Opening this chakra will allow you to take full control of your creative spirit, experience of pleasure, and power within your relationships.
While the root chakra reunites you with your most basic needs - and is for that reason very personal - the sacral chakra extends out into the world a bit further, and reflects your desires, tuning you in to your artistic, feeling self.
Develop your root first before rising to the sacral chakra.
Allow your creative power to flow.
Is Your Sacral Chakra Imbalanced?
As a child, you were controlled by external forces.
Your parents and/or guardians - whoever was the authority in your world - had power over you during a time in your young life where you desperately needed to express your own power, your own creativity.
These people stifled your emotions, taught you how to "blend in," and instilled lessons deep into your young mind about the dangers of pleasure.
Every interaction you had with society as a child molded you in some way. Teachers, friends, relatives, essentially anyone you interacted with had their own opinion on the "right way" to be and act.
As young children, we are inexperienced at knowing whose opinions we can trust, so we often follow the wrong advice.
You might not have understood the intentions of the people around you, or they might have taught you incorrect ideals which distorted your natural perception of right and wrong.
Perhaps you had an abusive authority figure in your life who manipulated you into feeling that you don't know what's right for yourself, that your creativity is useless, or that you should be ashamed of your sexuality.
Further on in life, you may have become stifled by the energies around you in school or work, and tried to dissolve yourself into society, so that no one could tell you that you were worthless.
Whatever the case, you likely need to do some work understanding how the expectations and limitations imposed by your early environment shaped your current relationship with passion, pleasure, and creativity.
It is time to return to yourself and your true desires, here and now.
As a child, you were controlled by external forces.
Your parents and/or guardians - whoever was the authority in your world - had power over you during a time in your young life where you desperately needed to express your own power, your own creativity.
These people stifled your emotions, taught you how to "blend in," and instilled lessons deep into your young mind about the dangers of pleasure.
Every interaction you had with society as a child molded you in some way. Teachers, friends, relatives, essentially anyone you interacted with had their own opinion on the "right way" to be and act.
As young children, we are inexperienced at knowing whose opinions we can trust, so we often follow the wrong advice.
You might not have understood the intentions of the people around you, or they might have taught you incorrect ideals which distorted your natural perception of right and wrong.
Perhaps you had an abusive authority figure in your life who manipulated you into feeling that you don't know what's right for yourself, that your creativity is useless, or that you should be ashamed of your sexuality.
Further on in life, you may have become stifled by the energies around you in school or work, and tried to dissolve yourself into society, so that no one could tell you that you were worthless.
Whatever the case, you likely need to do some work understanding how the expectations and limitations imposed by your early environment shaped your current relationship with passion, pleasure, and creativity.
It is time to return to yourself and your true desires, here and now.
Healing the Sacral Chakra
1. Connect With WaterThe element of water is connected with the sacral chakra.
Spend time caring for your body in the coming days (as you always should), focusing in on your level of hydration and how water is impacting your body.
Just as you would incorporate breath work or meditation into your daily routine, use the act of drinking water to center yourself and to remind yourself of how precious your life flow and creative energy is.
Study a body of water, whether that be the ocean, a stream, lake, or waterfall.
Observe the natural rhythms of the surrounding area, acknowledging the vitality of the water and its central place in the ecosystem.
Begin to know the values of the sacral chakra in the same way you understand the flowing motion of mother earth: your desires, intuition, self-esteem, emotions, and creativity are all vital aspects of your being.
They swirl in their own pool, at the base of your belly.
They must each be nurtured in order to allow you to move freely through life.
2. Perform a Bath Ritual
The sacral chakra can be beautifully cleansed in a bath ritual.
Keep in mind that this chakra focuses on the senses; consider, what is divine to you?
Sight - Light candles, use an orange towel, incorporate a bath bomb, fill the tub with bubbles. Turn your bathroom into a glowing sanctuary. Officiate your peaceful vision by cleaning the bathroom prior to bathing.
Sound - Allow the tones of singing bowls or ocean waves to wash over you as you close your eyes, gently sinking into the warmth of the water.
Taste - Take tea with honey, orange juice, or a glass of fresh water with a squeeze of citrus into the bath with you. You may even be inspired to bring along a bar of chocolate or another favorite snack. Let yourself indulge in taste and texture.
Touch - Fill the tub with water at your ideal temperature. Place a space heater in the room to maintain the warmth. Add bath salts, rose petals, or bubbles. Exfoliate your skin while soaking. Ensure that your towel is soft and fresh and that you leave the room wearing clothes in which you are comfortably yourself. Moisturize your whole body, loving every inch. Pay special attention to any places where you hold tension or anxiety, perhaps giving yourself a massage along the way.
Scent - Drop essential oils in the water (particularly warm scents like bergamot, patchouli, and sandalwood), slice up a citrus fruit or pick a nicely scented herb like rosemary to sprinkle in the water. Light a stick of incense. Put on your favorite perfume before you leave the bathroom to carry a reminder of this state of calm with you into the day (or night).
The sacral chakra can be beautifully cleansed in a bath ritual.
Keep in mind that this chakra focuses on the senses; consider, what is divine to you?
Sight - Light candles, use an orange towel, incorporate a bath bomb, fill the tub with bubbles. Turn your bathroom into a glowing sanctuary. Officiate your peaceful vision by cleaning the bathroom prior to bathing.
Sound - Allow the tones of singing bowls or ocean waves to wash over you as you close your eyes, gently sinking into the warmth of the water.
Taste - Take tea with honey, orange juice, or a glass of fresh water with a squeeze of citrus into the bath with you. You may even be inspired to bring along a bar of chocolate or another favorite snack. Let yourself indulge in taste and texture.
Touch - Fill the tub with water at your ideal temperature. Place a space heater in the room to maintain the warmth. Add bath salts, rose petals, or bubbles. Exfoliate your skin while soaking. Ensure that your towel is soft and fresh and that you leave the room wearing clothes in which you are comfortably yourself. Moisturize your whole body, loving every inch. Pay special attention to any places where you hold tension or anxiety, perhaps giving yourself a massage along the way.
Scent - Drop essential oils in the water (particularly warm scents like bergamot, patchouli, and sandalwood), slice up a citrus fruit or pick a nicely scented herb like rosemary to sprinkle in the water. Light a stick of incense. Put on your favorite perfume before you leave the bathroom to carry a reminder of this state of calm with you into the day (or night).
3. Embrace Your Creativity
Self-expression is now one of your core values.
Consider what endeavors bring you freedom.
What interested you as a child? What empowered your sense of self worth? What did creativity mean to you at the beginning of your life?
Do you indulge your desire to create, or did someone teach you along the way that it was wrong to express your innermost knowledge? That your truths must remain secret?
You may no longer silence yourself.
It is a devaluation of your being to ignore the power of your sacral chakra. Meditate, practice yoga, do art (whatever that means to you), and discover new methods of developing your passionate nature.
Continue your root chakra work as you extend, gracefully upwards, into the sacral chakra.
What brings you closer to your core?
Express that which is eternal within you. From the stable grounding of your root, embrace the ability to move freely, indulge your senses, and understand your relationship with intimacy and sexuality.
You are safe now.
Move with a sense of knowing.
Consider what endeavors bring you freedom.
What interested you as a child? What empowered your sense of self worth? What did creativity mean to you at the beginning of your life?
Do you indulge your desire to create, or did someone teach you along the way that it was wrong to express your innermost knowledge? That your truths must remain secret?
You may no longer silence yourself.
It is a devaluation of your being to ignore the power of your sacral chakra. Meditate, practice yoga, do art (whatever that means to you), and discover new methods of developing your passionate nature.
Continue your root chakra work as you extend, gracefully upwards, into the sacral chakra.
What brings you closer to your core?
Express that which is eternal within you. From the stable grounding of your root, embrace the ability to move freely, indulge your senses, and understand your relationship with intimacy and sexuality.
You are safe now.
Move with a sense of knowing.
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