Dear Healers,
Have you been feeling the big root chakra energy of the groups recently? Maybe y’all know all of this already, nevertheless, here’s my latest installment in the Know Your Chakras series:
“Muladhara” (moo-laud-hara) is located at the base of the spine and its associated physicality includes the perineum, coccyx, sacrum, first three vertebrae, lower torso and colon, legs and feet, skeleton, teeth, and immune system. It’s the first chakra to develop, beginning in the womb and continuing through our first year of life. Its color is deep red, its element is earth, and its primary theme is base survival.
With an open and balanced root chakra, we feel grounded, healthy, nourished, calm, solid, stable, prosperous, safe, trusting, self-confident, and worthy of receiving. An overactive root can lead to feelings of sluggishness, materialism, resistance to change, greed, and over-identification with the body, and an underactive to fear and anxiety, feelings of unworthiness, financial worries, and disconnection from the body. If any of these have been active for you lately, it might very well be a function of the root chakra work you’ve been doing.
The lower chakras sometimes get an unwarranted bad rap for being more concerned with earthly rather than spiritual pursuits, but for the duration of our time here in these meat suits, everything we do is embodied, every prayer, every meditation, every creation, every instance of love, and as Allen Ginsberg famously reminded us in his “Footnote to Howl," there’s nothing that isn’t spiritual.
Practices to activate Muladhara include connecting with Mother Earth via gardening, hiking, barefoot grounding, surrounding yourself with natural objects, or visualizing roots drawing nourishment up from the earth—and also by engaging the body and the five senses through activities such as dancing, yoga, deep belly breaths, showering, savoring your food, and the one that can be practiced all day every day: bringing awareness to the soles of your feet or your sitting butt and feeling the planet's support.
May we all know our fundamental security, our importance, our right to exist, our every abundance, and our solid foundation.
With Love,
Colin
Have you been feeling the big root chakra energy of the groups recently? Maybe y’all know all of this already, nevertheless, here’s my latest installment in the Know Your Chakras series:
“Muladhara” (moo-laud-hara) is located at the base of the spine and its associated physicality includes the perineum, coccyx, sacrum, first three vertebrae, lower torso and colon, legs and feet, skeleton, teeth, and immune system. It’s the first chakra to develop, beginning in the womb and continuing through our first year of life. Its color is deep red, its element is earth, and its primary theme is base survival.
With an open and balanced root chakra, we feel grounded, healthy, nourished, calm, solid, stable, prosperous, safe, trusting, self-confident, and worthy of receiving. An overactive root can lead to feelings of sluggishness, materialism, resistance to change, greed, and over-identification with the body, and an underactive to fear and anxiety, feelings of unworthiness, financial worries, and disconnection from the body. If any of these have been active for you lately, it might very well be a function of the root chakra work you’ve been doing.
The lower chakras sometimes get an unwarranted bad rap for being more concerned with earthly rather than spiritual pursuits, but for the duration of our time here in these meat suits, everything we do is embodied, every prayer, every meditation, every creation, every instance of love, and as Allen Ginsberg famously reminded us in his “Footnote to Howl," there’s nothing that isn’t spiritual.
Practices to activate Muladhara include connecting with Mother Earth via gardening, hiking, barefoot grounding, surrounding yourself with natural objects, or visualizing roots drawing nourishment up from the earth—and also by engaging the body and the five senses through activities such as dancing, yoga, deep belly breaths, showering, savoring your food, and the one that can be practiced all day every day: bringing awareness to the soles of your feet or your sitting butt and feeling the planet's support.
May we all know our fundamental security, our importance, our right to exist, our every abundance, and our solid foundation.
With Love,
Colin
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