The Beginner’s Guide Learn Simple Easy Practical Ways How To Open & Balance Up Your Muladhara Root (First) Chakra
A Complete Beginners Guide about ‘’Mooladhara’’ Root Chakra
How to Heal & Balance
The Root Chakra which influences your career and money mindset.
It deals with survival and blocked by Fears.
Everything in our universe has radiating energy, from the biggest mountain to ocean, to the smallest blade of grass, to each cell in our body. All of our cells release energy in different ways, and different cells will release several types of energy depends on where they are located in our body and what their work is. There should be no surprise, then, that given the specialized nature of your body’s energy, there are several different channels located on the main points in the body through which energy can flow in and out in constant motion. These are called the chakras.
So, compelled this beautiful and practical information by Shiva Girish where we invite readers to begin from a profound understanding about Mooladhara Root Chakra is responsible for your sense of safety and security on this earthly journey.
In Sanskrit “Moola” means root and “adhara” is the support or base. Because of its location, it is the base of all the chakras. The Kundalini Shakti, the serpent power in each human being, it resides in the Mooladhara Chakra. At this center stabilization of vital energy takes place. This chakra has animal instincts nature. This chakra reveals how a person can succumb to the forces of nature and is related to the gross matter. The durability of bone’s and strength of muscles etc. are manifested in this state like for example: how to meditate on this chakra is by concentrating on the Mooladhara Chakra, the place between the anus and genitals, chant the sound LAM, and visualize the symbolic color Red. When energy increases in the first chakra, then psychological and physical presence will be visible.
The seat of physical energy and the fundamental desire to survive. It regulates that mechanism which keeps the physical body alive. It is the root chakra whose main aspect is innocence.
The Mooladhara chakra provides the groundwork on which we design our life, and it supports us in feeling safe and growing and exploring all the phases of life. It is related to our feeling of safety and security, whether it’s physical or regarding our bodily needs or symbolic regarding housing and financial security. The root chakra is where we ground ourselves into the earth and presents our body energy into the manifest world.
Also, one more thing by restoring the power of your chakras is about how you can take back control of your wellness and health by learning to work with energy. It will be life-changing material.
You can use Energy Medicine to:
• Renew balance, health, harmony, and well-being
• Lessen aches, pains, illness, and disease
• Increase focus, clarity, and productivity
• Create deeper happiness, satisfaction, and contentment
How Does a Chakra Work?
A chakra is a wheel, but it operates like a ball of energy interpenetrating the physical body. The chakras are not physical; you can’t see them on an X-ray or any scanners. They are pieces of consciousness, and they interact with the physical and energetic body through two major vehicles, the nervous system, and the endocrine system. Everyone chakra is related with one of the nine endocrine glands, and also with a particular group of nerves, called a plexus, this makes the significant components in healing. Each one of chakra matches with specific parts of the body and specific functions in the body organized by that plexus or that endocrine gland, which is the key to understanding how chakra healing devices work.
The chakras represent the parts of your consciousness and your physical body. All the senses, perceptions, and possible states of awareness divides into seven categories, and all of these are committed with a particular chakra. When you feel the tension in your consciousness, you feel it in the chakra connected with your consciousness experiencing the stress, also in the parts of the physical and energy body associated with that chakra. Where you feel the weight depends on why you feel the pressure.
When you feel hurt in a relationship, you feel it in your heart. When there is tension in the particular part of your consciousness, and therefore in the chakra associated with that part of your consciousness.When the tension continues over a period or reaches a particular step of intensity, it indicates a sign on the physical level and requires chakra healing to resolve the tension, problem, emotions, hurt.
People with activated chakras are robust and healthy. Someone with insomnia and hyperactive children has over-active Basic chakras. Individuals with non-activated chakras tend to be weak and fragile. Also, seniors who have strictly depleted chakras is the reason that they tend to shrink in size with age and their spines curve and the healing of wounds and bones slows down.
Chakras and Your Energetic Frequency
The energy of our all seven chakras influences our physical processes through stimulation and inhibition. Remember, chakras are like wheels whose job is not only to keep energy moving but also to contract or close as a defense against negative energy. To compensate the restricted, underactive chakra the another chakra will become overactive, sending out your low-frequency vibrations at a bigger rate, which then requires further balancing in the chakra healing process.
What happens when chakras are overactive and underactive?
The opening and closing of our chakras work like a dynamic guard system. A negative experience (and the low-frequency energy that comes with it) can cause the allied chakra energy to close to block that energy out. Likewise, if we are adhering to a low-calibrating feeling like delaying the emotion or blaming others because we refuse to deal with or move it, we close off the chakra which then needs special chakra healing techniques.
What happens when Root chakra is overactive and underactive?
When this chakra is overactive you feel fearful, nervous, insecure, or ungrounded; materialistic or greedy; resistant to change
When this chakra is underactive you have Lacking a sense of being at home or secure anywhere, inter-reliant, unable to get into one’s body, fearful of abandonment
Traditional Name: Mooladhara Chakra
1. Root Chakra
Traditional name: Mooladhara
Colour: Red
Layer: Physical / Gross
Location: The first (root) chakra is located at the base of the spine below the spinal cord and near the anus.
Element: Earth
Ruling planet: Saturn
Related gland: Adrenal glands
Mantra: “LAM”
Sound: “HUH.”
Chakra colors: The red color chakra
The usual color used to represent the root chakra is a rich vermilion red. This color used on its symbol to fill its petals. Its also related to the color yellow or gold. In the range of chakra colors, red symbolizes strength, vitality, and stimulates our instinctual tendencies.
Related glands/body parts: The Root Chakra is at the base of your spine, the foundation of the body. The body parts related to the (first) Root chakra are coccyx, anus, large intestine, adrenal glands, back, legs, feet, and bones. The core issues related to the mooladhara chakra are instinct, safety, survival, grounding, family, security, boundaries, and new beginnings.
Associated Endocrine Glands & Organs
Adrenal glands, spine, blood, and reproductive organs
Physical Symptoms of Unbalance
Restlessness, inability to sit still, unhealthy weight (either obesity or eating disorder), constipation, cramps, fatigue or sluggishness
How does the root chakra affect in the human body?
This chakra is closely related to the “tribe” we were born into and our sense of identity and safety. When the root chakra is not in the balance or not spinning properly, then the cause is related to physical survival.
Some of the specific causes of an unbalanced root chakra are:
• Fear and insecurity
• That you’re unable to (or feel you’re unable to) provide for life’s necessities
• You’re not able to stand up for yourself
• You may feel rejected by your core family
• You may have lost your sense of self
• You feel ungrounded and unsupported
• Your feel stuck in the daily grind without being able to look outside your problems and set a guiding vision for yourself.
• You will not be able to establish a vision for oneself and realize it
• The feel of Rejection of everything spiritual or beyond the usual
• You may feel lack of clarity
Objective:
• Issues concerning birth
• Patterns of survival and generation
• Relationship towards money and food
• Question-related to health and stability
More Characteristics of the Root Chakra:
• It gives you security and safety
• It helps in survival
• Works in basic needs (food, sleep, shelter, self-preservation, etc.)
• Gives your Physicality, physical identity and aspects of self
• Helps you to be grounded
• Support and foundation for living our lives
• Since energy starts from the root chakra, Tantra says spiritual work has to begin here.
• Concerns of survival, food, money, health, etc. which are essential for human survival.
• Controls the emotions of survival
• Kriyas and meditation on this chakra help gain control over sexual thoughts and urges playing an important role in controlling celibacy.
• Root Chakra is related to sexual energy, the urge to have sex, earn money and satisfy our craving towards food, etc.
• It helps in relationships and bonds with family, friends, relatives, etc.
• Exerts greater control over stomach ailments and can be used to heal anyone suffering from a digestive problem.
• Once there is control over this chakra, energy starts flowing up towards the crown of the head.
• Exerts greater control over stomach ailments and can be used to heal anyone suffering from a digestive problem.
• This chakra is a meeting point of two important Nadis that represent a positive and negative aspect of the mind – Ida and Pingala.
• Kriyas and meditation on this chakra help gain control over sexual thoughts and urges playing an important role in controlling celibacy.
When The Root Chakra Is Open:
• Ecstatic pleasure in sex.
• You feel a strong relationship with family as well as with friends that you consider to be a family.
• You feel loved.
• You feel more self-centered, grounded, fit and healthy.
• You feel happy, confident, secure, trusting, and stable with your finances.
• Feeling of being rooted, with a strong life force.
When the Root Chakra is Closed:
• You feel ignored by dear ones or parents.
• You become weak.
• You feel hatred or rejection towards your body.
• Greed, Sex Addiction, Jealousy, Less or No Libido.
• You feel excessive negativity, cynicism.
• You get to feel greed, avarice
• Extreme feeling of insecurity, living in survival mode always
• You feel that there is not enough money to satisfy your needs.
• You feel that you are not on the right track in life.
• It makes you Egotistic, sniffy, greedy.
• You’ve got the self-confidence declines. No grounded in physical reality.
• You can’t achieve your goals. Become self-destructive. Feel unloved, or abandoned.
• Over or underactive sex drive, Weight-loss/gain, weak immune system, anemia, laziness, depression, irritable bowel syndrome are all physical symptoms of an imbalance within the root chakra.
• You feel lack of focus and restlessness
Root Chakra is a positive polarity in men and a receptive polarity in women. It means that people can give energy from this chakra and woman can receive.
Physical symptoms of an Imbalance:
Weight-loss/gain, weak immune system, laziness, over or anemia, underactive sex drive, depression, irritable bowel syndrome are all physical symptoms of an imbalance within the root chakra.
Healing the Root Chakra with Nature: The mooladhara’s element is Earth. Easily getting out and experience the sound and smell of mother earth, can help for healing this chakra.
Walking on grass or sitting under a tress and allowing yourself to absorb nature’s energy.
Mindful Walking: is walking in a crowd or nature but just being aware of every step you take while walking focusing on your breath on every footfall. With every step take note of the sensation you feel each time your foot touches the ground. Mindfulness of something as ordinary as walking can activate the root chakra and ground you to the earth.
Mudra for Root Chakra:
• Other fingers should be kept open
• Place hands on the knees.
• Concentrate on the mooladhara chakra at the spot in between the anus and genitals.
• Thumbs of both the hands should touch the tip of the index finger.
• Chant the sound LAM.
This mudra for the mooladhara chakra is the instrumental force; it is used to awaken the willpower within you, reduce insecurity, and anxiety. The practice of this mudra enhances the flow of vital (pranic) energy by boosting the nervous system and improving vision. You will gain a stable effect by practicing this mudra with conscious breathing in any of the sitting asanas.
The role played by Fourth Chakra in our lives:
It is your core; it defines the essence of you. The root chakra is the location of life and survival – food, air water, and shelter. The reason why yogis traditionally sit in the cross-legged position is so that the root chakra touches the earth when they meditate – not metaphorically or symbolically, but physically touching the ground. When the first chakra is out of alignment, then you may find yourself actively bouncing from one thing to another in a rush without proper intention or attention. All this can lead to exhaustion, anxiety, and stress. And if it is imbalance can result in a feeling of lethargy, being stuck, feeling unable to take action, and manifest intention.
Primary fears:
Excessive negativity, cynicism
Eating disorders
Greed, avarice
Insecurity
Fear of death
Illusion
Extreme feeling of insecurity, living in survival mode always
Primary strengths
Physical energy
Common sense
Prosperity
Physiological Functions of the Mooladhara Chakra:
The base chakra or the Mooladhara Chakra controls and energizes the muscular and skeletal system. It also plays a vital role in the strengthening of the whole physical body. The red prana in the base chakra helps in the energizing of the entire body. This chakra helps in the production of blood and also effects of the quality of the blood. Yes, it also controls and energizes the bone marrow. Part of the altered essential energy helps in smoothing the functions of the chakras of the head and the brain. An over-activated root chakra will be characterized by restlessness, hyperactivity, or insomnia. The growth rate of the cells and the adrenaline glands are also affected by the Basic chakra. Body heat, the sex organs, the rate of increase of children, and overall general vitality also come under the outside of the root chakra.
How to tell if your fourth chakra is out of balance or not:
A blocked or imbalanced first (root) chakra not only creates an imbalance in energy flow throughout the body, but it can also activate feelings of restlessness. You may feel like you’re regularly searching for an elusive something that you can’t even identify.
A person with a blocked root chakra finds it difficult to “settle down” with anything, including where they want to live and work. Even their relationships are stuck.
Root Chakra Questions for Self-Examination:
The Root Chakra attracts your career and money mindset.
It deals with survival and blocked by Fears.
If energy is dominant in this center, then food and sleep will be superior qualities of your life. They will be one of the most important factors of your life.
1. What belief patterns did you get from your family?
2. What superstitions do you have and which have more authority over you than your reasoning ability?
3. Which of those belief patterns that still influence your thinking can you recognition are no longer valid?
4. Have you a personal code of honor? If yes what is it?
5. Did you ever compromise your sense of honor? If so, have you tried taking steps to heal it?
6. If you are now building your family, list the qualities that you would like your children to learn from you.
7. Do you have any unclose business with your family members? If so, list the reasons that prevent you from improving your relations.
8. List all the blessings which you feel came from your family?
9. What tribal traditions and rituals you will continue for your family and yourself.
10. Describe all the common characteristics within yourself that you would like to develop and strengthen.