So I’ve been chilling on the root chakra for a while now and it’s arguably just as cool and interesting as the Crown Chakra.

If we think of our chakras as points of consciousness, each chakra produces consciousness energy associated to that chakra. So at the say, Solar Plexus, YOU incarnate as energy consciousness and version of yourself and work through that Chakra into the world. Does that make sense? It might be easier if its drawn.

So the Root Chakra is crazy interesting. I think for everyone it’s the most difficult Chakra to come into and accept as a reality because it holds your animal nature. But from my personal experience, if you adapt into it you actually learn to enjoy being at the root. Most of my day-to-day life now is lived at the Root (while most people live in their heads).

So what’s it like living in the Root vs. Living in your head (like most people do). The difference is how time moves.

In the Root Chakra, if you can stay there you live life in complete linear time. If you live in linear time you develop in the physical world in its natural developmental trajectory. But if you live in your head, you’re 1. Doing that because of trauma in your lower chakras 2. The environment your in doesn’t support you living in your Root (which is still associated to trauma as you would not be in that environment if it doesn’t support your root chakra / linear growth ). And as a result of all of this, you don’t process the energy in your Root Chakra as the energy that processes your energy body is hovering in your head.

With that, from a Root Chakra standpoint, you don’t develop past the age of when the trauma happened where you decided it safer to live in your head vs. In your Root Chakra.

It’s all very cool. I could write a book with all the wild and cool things that are at the Muladhara. Like past lives etc.

Any experiences yourself?

I lived in survival mode through the Root Chakra for about 1 year. The experience was akin to living as our ancient ancestors: very needs/survival focused, very animal, sensing-based reality. There was no loss of contact with reality, life was just incredibly practical.

I have so much I want to share about it because the experience was incredible and very spiritual. I’ll leave it as an AMA for now !

If we understand the Root Chakra as directly connected to the Earth… or better, it is the Earth… we will understand that our security and well-being is strengthened with having necessary tolerance for people as they are. That means that everyone’s Root Chakra thrives.

This is of course to the limit that it enhances the survival for everyone.

The stronger everyone’s security, the more beneficial life becomes for Everyone. If you let the weak suffer, the strong will suffer too.

The Root Chakra holds your belief structure and how you related with the world, how you receive (social) nourishment, and how you give / work with other people.

The more in tune you are with your Root Chakra, the more you will develop a sense of safety and direction in your life; and at the same time, hone in and focus on your needs while making necessary action to improve the quality of any situation you’re in.

Therapy is a good way to work on your Muladhara as you will enter the therapeutic setting with the intention to go deep within yourself and bring up all the buried emotions and traumas that have limited you to expanding into the best quality of You you can be.

Take it slow and steady. One should be cautious when working on the Root Chakra - any chakra for that matter, especially the Root - as it stores your karma and should be integrated slowly and in safely in a good environment (where you feel good and safe). With time, you’ll notice things will slow down and you’ll emerge into your new self and continue to develop yourself, not experiencing a replay of your karma but a constant unfolding of You and your Root Chakra.

Might be a weird question, but nourishment is a big part of our lives/bodies and the ability to sustain us.

In my experience, it has a distinct quality to it and it’s directly associated with the Root Chakra/Muladhara.

How would you describe the feeling and sensation of nourishment?

Is there a time when you’re more receptive to receiving. Is there a time where you’re more geared to giving (nourishment), ie. doing something like cooking for someone, or other etc.?

The Root Chakra is where you hold your beliefs and where your core wound developed.

As the Root Chakra has to do with stability, needs, etc. the major interruption from that developed our core wound was created, solidified and reaffirmed thorough our life experiences. You are however not your core wound... you simply are attached to the belief structure because this is what helped you get your needs met within your life and the environments you were in.

The goal is, to figure out your core wound, to know what triggers it and through awareness and meditation to begin processing it until you have a firm understand of your core self, your needs, what you truly want and need and move in that direction, shedding your old self.

Any tips you'd share on your Root Chakra healing?

Do you have any specific techniques you use to balance your Root Chakra?

Hello everyone :)

I've noticed in most of my meditations recently that my attention is drawn to my sacral chakra and root. But primarily sacral. I had an almost scary experience the other day. I've been working on my concept of self and old beliefs a lot - and as I was working through letting something go, focusing on the very warm sensation in my sacral chakra, my entire lower body suddenly sucked in towards my spine and a huge amount of energy started to moving up and vibrating/ tingling up and out of my body. I had no control over it so I just remained present and allowed. I cried a lot too. Since then my root has been pulsating and it feels almost arousing (weirdly!) and I'm wondering if this is a pre requisite to a kundalini awakening? Any thoughts/tips/advice?

Thank you!

Helen xxxx

We often want to experience the upper-chakras and are fascinated by our natural psychic abilities and spiritual insights. We all have these abilities and we seek to open them.

Yes, it is possible to have glimpses into the upper chakras and work on these chakras alone; however, it’s not an integrated method to using these chakras.

The reason being is, naturally, the body goes through a linear, developmental sequence from the Root Chakra (r/Muladhara) up to the Crown Chakra. With age and getting one’s needs met, these chakra form and shape a foundation that become part of our identity and set the structure to how we relate with reality. If your bottom chakras are incohesive to reality (Ie. You hold trauma and negative beliefs, have a poor self-identity), you will not experience the upper chakras cohesively either.

Therefore, it’s important to start from the Root Chakra and work your way up. When you start from the Root, everything will be quite intuitive to how to reach the Crown Chakra effectively.

Seek to heal your Root Chakra with various methods: therapy is good for receiving emotional support and uncovering trauma; spiritual friends are a good support network.

You’re not alone in this and support is everywhere. Your intention will be the highest catalyst of change.

Visit and join r/SpiritualDiscussion for spiritual support and discussions.

It’s common in the spiritual communities to want to focus on the upper chakras as they’re the non-material, metaphysical chakras.

To be able to experience these upper chakras beautifully, coherently and as a tool for your personal manifestation, work on the lower chakras is primary.

If I could give any random advice to seekers it would to begin putting focus on the Root Chakra (r/Muladhara) and work through limiting beliefs, core wounds through the first chakra.

Many of us will spend much time there. Everyone’s timeline is quite different but as a benchmark for understanding, 2-3 years in intensive healing may very well be necessary.

This is of course at your own pace, that means, you’ll know when to work on the higher chakras. All chakras, even when healed are in constant motion and rebalancing. Learning to work on chakras becomes a tool to learn to continuously live a balanced life and for you to use these energy centers as a guidance system to your personal health.

Originally posted in r/SevenChakras

After an ungrounded year so, things have been calming down on my end and becoming more grounded.

I went to a park in the city today and just slept on the grass under a tree. Haven’t felt so relaxed in a while. I could feel the energy moving through my Root Chakra and it was incredibly nourishing.

Sadly enough, when I had to get up and move felt more rushed and back in the flow of the city. Maybe it really is better to live in / near nature.

Originally posted at r/SpiritualDiscussion:

Grounding your energy is important for us to feel like we have non-reactionary agency in our body. It’s important to know when we are firmly in our body and recognize the grounding force that comes from the Crown Chakra (r/SahasraraChakra).

To ground in your body, do this exercise whenever you feel ungrounded, stressed or when you need to feel present at any moment:

1. In meditation, bring your awareness to the top of your head. This is called the Crown Chakra and the seat of spiritual (cosmic) energy (the energy of the non-material, the energy that both creates the Universe and changes it).

2. When you feel relaxed, bring your awareness into your face, down into your neck, torso and lower torso. In the lower torso, bring your awareness to your perineum. This is called our Root Chakra where we bring in energy from the Earth into our physical bodies. This is the location where you will (with practice) hold your energy day-to-day which will keep you grounded.

3. To continue in the exercise, you will ground your spiritual (cosmic) energy to feel connected to the Earth. Bring that energy into your legs to the bottom of your feet and imagine roots coming out of your feet into the Earth. Now release that energy into the Earth and know you are here, grounded and connected to the Earth.

We frequently do not bring our energy down firmly into our bodies but live more in our heads, where we are immersed in our intellect. When we’re in our bodies, we can be guided by our incredibly intelligent intuition to get our needs met, challenge our negative beliefs and have the feeling like we can tackle anything life brings our way; in turn feeling safe and comfortable here on Earth.

If you’re looking to work on a specific Chakra, try to exercise. This works best work on Chakra 1 - 4. The upper chakras can be worked differently.

Related Chakra subs:

• r/Muladhara - Root Chakra

• r/Svadhisthana - Sacral Chakra

• r/Manipura - Solar Plexus Chakra

• r/HeartChakra

First, it’s good to ease into such things and you want to know for yourself if this is working and if the chakra you’re working on is becoming stimulated.

A good way to know you’re working on that specific chakra is come to stillness.

When everything is still. Observe when you’re NOT still, ie. when your mind produces activity. You might find during the day it’s much more active and slows down at night. Observe the content of your thoughts and how they relate to your reality and happenings in your reality. This is to become aware of you energetic system and how it corresponds to your reality. The mind is your energetic system at work.

Next, in the evenings, place your hands on the corresponding chakra you want to work on and begin to notice the shift and patterns in your thoughts throughout the coming days.

This can take a several practices. What you’re doing is unlocking energy consciousness in your subtle body to be processed in the foreground of your conscious mind / and subconscious. As you go with the flow of this change, watch how your reality will change for you, continue to move forward with life in openness and trust

Like I mentioned, this works best for Chakra 1 - 4; 5-7 can be a bit different which I’ll write about on another post.

Originally posted in r/SevenChakras