The root chakra is tied to our survival instincts and connection to the Earth. It’s located at the base of the spine and is red. Each chakra spins at a different rate and the first chakra spins the slowest. The kundalini energy is coiled in your root chakra also.

Characteristics of the First Chakra

Your desire to live relates to the first chakra. Because it’s tied to our survival instincts, a feeling of lack means you may experiencing an imbalanced root chakra. Being afraid you won’t make rent in time or have enough food to eat are signs of an imbalanced chakra. Of course if this is a reality, then you may have limiting beliefs which are keeping you from living an abundant life. In Wayne Dyer’s book, Inspiration, he says he’s financially well off because he always knew he’d be wealthy. He says he is money.


It’s important to keep the root chakra balanced because it’s the “roots” of the rest of the chakras. Like the roots of a tree, they must be strong in order to sustain the rest of the tree. Create a strong base and the rest will follow. Your hips, legs, feet, circulatory, skeletal, kidneys, and muscular system are tied to your root chakra.

Root Chakra Stats

•The root chakra is red
•It vibrates at the lowest rate
•It’s located at the base of the spine
•To ground, imagine a cord connecting from the root chakra to the center of the earth
•The scent associated with this chakra is musk and wearing it will energize this chakra.
•Red and black stones balance this chakra
•Seat of passion
•Goddess Gaia is tied to the root chakra. Doing a meditation with her will be useful for energizing your root chakra.

Is Your Root Chakra Healthy?

Here’s a small questionnaire to answer related to your root chakra:

•Do you dislike your feet and legs?
•Are you experiencing pain in the hips, lower back, legs or feet?
• Do you feel strongly about the color red whether it’s one of your least favorite or most favorite colors?
• Are you passionate?
• If you get angry, is your first reaction rage or aggression?
• Do you get angry easily?
• Do you often feel a loss of energy or inertia?
• Are money issues a concern?
• Have you experienced feelings of powerlessness or fear?
If you answered yes to a majority of the questions, your root chakra is in need of healing.

Energize the Root Chakra

Drumming, dancing, and jogging help to balance this chakra. Dances that require you to stomp your feet on the ground work well for this chakra. Think of tribal type dancing. Belly dancing is also great to energize all the chakras. During my goddess workshops, I get the women doing a fun sacred dance that’s specifically for opening the root chakra. This dance requires you to do a lot of squatting with slow movements.

Reiki healing is also great to bring the chakras into balance. Look for a practitioner near your home!

Eat foods high in protein or take mineral supplements. Because your root chakra is your grounding center, if you’re ungrounded you may feel “spacey.” Of course you should always eat a balanced diet so don’t overdo it on the protein.

Release energies from your first chakra by writing down your emotions on a piece of paper and symbolically burn it away.

Yoga Pose for First Chakra

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Stand with legs apart to create a triangle of equal sides with the ground. Standing in this pose alone generates a lot of heat. You’ll be surprised. Make sure to keep breathing normally.

Stretch your arms out to the sides and turn your left foot outwards. Exhale as you bend your left knee while keeping the right leg straight. When you reach a position where you could be sitting on an imaginary chair, stop.

Hold this pose for three counts. Come back to center. Then repeat on the right side.

Crystal Healing

Crystals are very effective for cleansing and balancing the chakras. For your root chakra, you want to use red or black stones. Some of these include- red jasper, garnet, hematite, or black tourmaline.

Carry them in your pocket because that’s near your root chakra. Place them under your pillow at night. Make sure to cleanse the stones when you bring them home. Use sage or incence and cleanse them with the smoke. You can also bury them in the Earth for a few days. When they’re cleansed, charge them with your energy. Hold them in your right hand and set your intention into the stone.

Root Chakra Meditation

Imagine your root chakra is connected to the center of the earth. Then visualize healing energy coming up from the Earth into your root chakra. Then see your first chakra filling with brilliant red light and expelling all the negative energy out of your body. Then draw up a surge of energy and watch it pass through your body out of your crown chakra into a fountain of a colorful rainbow. Use healing candles to assist you in your meditation.

You may also place the stone of your choice on your root chakra as you lay on your back. Then visualize your body absorbing the energies from the stone.

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Your solar plexus is your third chakra and is located between your ribcage and navel. The sound associated with it is “MA”

Ties to the Third Chakra

Your solar plexus is tied to digestion, nervous system and the immune system. The organs it affects is the gallbladder, pancreas, duodenum, liver, and small intestine. This chakra is put under a lot of pressure these days because of our diets. In order for the digestive system to work properly, we must eat a well balanced diet. Because the physical and emotional bodies are tied, one affects the other. When we continue to eat poorly, we’re affecting the energetic level of the solar plexus as well.

Personal Power

Your sense of self originates in the solar plexus. Your confidence, the way you perceive yourself and others depends on the health of the solar plexus. For example, if you feel inferior or superior to others, the third chakra isn’t balanced. If you were constantly around authoritative figures who made you feel dumb, clumsy, or worthless, then your relationship with the world will reflect this. Your level of personal power isn’t as strong as it could be. If you always listen to other when making decisions in your life, your solar plexus becomes blocked and you lose your personal power.

Wisdom

The solar plexus is often called the “Wisdom Body” because here is where intuitive intelligence is stored. I read in a book that when Japanese kids are asked where thinking comes from, they point to their bellies. The Western world points to their heads. That “gut feeling’ comes from your solar plexus. When this chakra is in balance, you’ll be more aware of nudges received from your gut. And when your gut talks, and you listen, life is good.

Emotional Imbalance

When the solar plexus is balanced, you experience happiness and appreciate it in the simplest forms. The sun is a symbol of the solar plexus. A good meditation is to visualize the healing and loving light of the sun. Imagine yourself surrounded in a warm caccoon of this energy. Sit there for as long as you wish.

Have you noticed that when you’re in an uncomfortable situation, you cross your arms? You’re subconsciously protecting your solar plexus. When you feel confident, you walk with your arms to your sides with your solar plexus exposed. If you find yourself crossing your arms, ask yourself why you feel uncomfortable.

Activities to bring the chakra into balance

Yoga Pose: Lord of Fishes

Kneel down on a blanket and rest on your heels. Slide your buttocks to the right of your feet and rest on the ground. Then lift your left leg and cross it over your right knee to the other side. Shuffle around until you’re comfortable.

Then twist your body by bringing your left arm behind you resting it on the ground. Your right arm will rest on the outside knee of your left leg. Hold your arm up at a 90 degree angle. Keep your back as straight as possible to promote a good twist.

When you feel ready to release, breathe in, then exhale as you unwind. First bring your left arm around then follow the movement with your head and rest of body. Repeat the steps on the other side.

Besides Reiki healing to bring balance to the chakras, here are the stones and colors to use:

Crystal Healing

Look for yellow stones like amber, citrine. Place the stone over the solar plexus while you lie on your back and imagine the energy from the stone entering and balancing your body.

Essential Oils

Amber is the scent that brings the solar plexus into balance. Wear it whenever you feel you need to bring this chakra into balance. I even rub a little bit of the oil around the rim of a yellow candle during meditation since yellow is the color of this chakra.

Use these methods to bring balance to the third chakra!

Hold the pendulum over your chakras one at a time. Hold the wrist softly and allow the pendulum to hang down. The crystal pendulum should begin to move in a circular motion as it moves with the energy field of the chakra. If it doesn’t move, it indicates a blocked chakra.

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Chakras are seven major energy centers in our bodies beginning from the base of the spine to the top of the head. When they are aligned the energy in the body is flowing properly. Blocks in the chakras may result in physical consequences. For example, a person who has an inability to communicate freely and express himself may create a block in the throat chakra which can result in a sore throat.

The chakras spin outward from the front and the back of the body.

Tip to test the chakras: Hold a pendulum over each chakra and watch for a spin. A healthy chakra will move clockwise. A blocked chakra will not move. Find someone to hold the pendulum over your chakras since it will be difficult to test your own. You can buy a pendulum or easily make one by tying a key to the end of a string of yarn.

Each chakra vibrates at a different rate from slowest to fastest. Each is a different color and correlates to different emotions and physical aspects of the body. Look over more details of the seven chakras.

Sit in a quiet and comfortable place for the chakra meditation. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Relax your body beginning with the feet and move up until you soften your eyelids.

Start with the first chakra at the base of the spine. Imagine energy coming up from the earth and filling your root chakra with a bright and brilliant red light. Feel the energy growing and becoming stronger. This is the chakra related to your ability to ground with the physical world. Meditate on this color and feel its richness. Allow the red light to fill your body and surround you. Exhale any negative energy. The negative energy is recycled back into the universe. You don’t have to worry about polluting the world with negativity!

Bring your attention to the second chakra. This is the sacral chakra and is tied to sexuality. See the orange light growing and swirling around right below the belly button. Watch and feel as it fills your body and wraps around you like a blanket. Meditate on this color for a while then exhale any negative energy associated with this chakra.

Focus on your third chakra. This is behind the solar plexus and is tied to our confidence and sense of self. Imagine the bright yellow light filling your middle, then your entire body and shine outward encircling you. Feel the energy as it builds up then exhale any negative energy tied to this chakra.

Move up to your fourth chakra, the heart. Feel the pink light fill your heart chakra. See the energy swirling about and filling your body then outward like a cocoon of pink around you. This is the chakra associated with compassion and love. Meditate on this loving light for a while. Exhale any negative energies you may have accumulated.

For an added meditation, see the color pink surround the universe to send love and compassion to all.

Bring your attention to your fifth chakra. This is in the throat chakra and is associated with communication. Watch as the bright blue light fills your throat and moves throughout the rest of the body. Stay here for a while meditating on the blue light. Feel as this color encompasses you. Exhale any negative energy from this chakra.

Now focus on the sixth chakra. This chakra is above the brow and is referred to as the third eye. An open chakra heightens intuition and inner awareness. Watch as a violet light fills your brow and your entire body. Feel the color violet around you. Exhale any negative energy from this chakra.

Finally, see a brilliant bright white light come up through the top of your head. This is the crown chakra and correlates to wisdom and universal consciousness. Watch as the bright light releases up out of your head and goes farther and farther beyond the universe and space. To close the chakra meditation, surround your body with white light of protection.

Use the chakra meditation daily for feelings of wellbeing!

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