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The U ltimate Guide to Sacral Chakra Healing For Complete Beginners
When was the last time you felt emotionall y grounded, creative, sexually desirable, energetic, and bursting with passion for life?
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This vivacity you felt was likely when your sacral chakra was in complete harmonious balance. People with balance d sacral chak ras
radiate warmth, playfulness, and good humor.
Unfortunately, many experiences in life can lead to blocked sacral chakras. If you’ve experienced body shame, a strict or authoritarian upbringing, sexual abuse or dysfunction, toxic relationships, religious indoctrination, or critical forms of social conditioning that have limited the flow of your life forceenergy, you likely have an impaired sacral chakra.
I ’ll explore with you how to undergo sacral chakra healing in this article.
What is the Sacral Chakra? The sacral chakra, or Svadhisthana, is the center of our emotional, creative, and sexual energy. Located three inches below your belly button above our genitals, the sacral chakra is associated with the color orange, and it regulates the en ergy associated with passion, pleasure, and sensuality.
When the sacral chakra is imbalanced due to traumatic early and adult life experiences, we experience a multitude of physical, emotional, psychological, and interpersonal issues.
What is Sacral Chakra Healing? Sacral Chakra healing is the practice of opening, clearing, cleansing, supporting and strengthening the sacral chakra within our bodies. Sacral Chakra healing involves using a
12 Signs of an Unhealthy Sacral Chakra The best way to tell whether you need to undergo sacral chakra healing is to pay attention to your thoughts, feelings, actions and physical sensations within your body.
Here are some signs to look out for: • You’re addicted to anything that brings pleasure such as food, gambling, sex, work, alcohol, drugs, compulsivebuying, etc. • You feel emotionally numb or cold, and you find it hard to feel very much of any kind of emotion • You’resexually frigid, and you have a low to non-existent libido, OR … • You’resexually impulsive, and your libido tends to be in overdrive • You’reneurotic, and you can’t handle spontaneity or uncertainty • You’vegot reproductive problems such as infertility, impotence or menstrual issues • You’reconstantly fatigued, and you have little energy for anything • You feel inhibited and repressed from expressing your true feelings and desires, OR … • You’reextremely emotionally reactive, and you’re a drama junkie • You’reemotionally hypersensitive OR emotionally aloof • You’recreatively blocked, and you tend to overthink everything • You have lower back, kidney or stomach disorders • How many of these signs can you relate to in this list?
Do You Have a Deficient or Excessive Sacral Chakra? Did you know that there are actually two types of chakra imbalances?
While a deficient sacral chakra is passive or energetically “numb,” an excessive sacral chakra is energetically aggressive or manic.
Here’s a breakdown of the difference between the two:
Deficient = lifeless, sluggish, passive, blocked, inwards (not enough energy flows in)
Excessive= lively, agitated, reactive, aggressive, outwards (too much energy flows in)
Therefore, if you have a deficient sacral chakra, you will be more prone to issues such as detachment, emotional coldness, and sexual frigidity. On the other hand, if you have an excessive sacral chakra you will be prone to codependency, emotional explosiveness, and sexual addiction.
The question is, what type of imbalance do you have? I t’s also possible to fall somewhere in the middle.
So what does a healthy and balanced sacral chakra look and feel like?
When you have a clear, strong and harmonious sacral chakra, you will firstly feel comfortable in your skin. You will no longer struggle with sexual guilt or indulgence, but you’ll come to honor your sacred sexuality and enjoy it in a balanced way. Not only will you enjoy the pleasures of life, but you will be open to exp eriencing life and your passion for it. You’ll be both emotionally open but also emotionally grounded with healthy boundaries. Not only that, but you’ll get back your creative flow once again, and you’ll enjoy the spontaneity of life.
Here are some of the best sacral chakra healing practices out there that I have personally experimented with:
1. Practice emotional catharsis
Best suited to: deficient sacral chakra blockages Open the “frozen” energy channels within yourself by purging your emotions through catharsis. Try jumping, screaming, laughing, crying, or other physical forms of catharsis that release built up emotions.
2. Explore creative self-expression
Best suited to: deficient and excessive sacral chakra blockages
Pick an activity that you’re interested in such as sculpting, drawing, photography, quilting, jewelry making or cooking, and give it a go! Remember, art takes time, dedication, and practice. Don’t expect to be perfect at what you choose immediately! Think of what you would like to mentally or emotionally express, and paint, weave, build, tie or photograph thoseinner desires. Conscious Life Magazine
What beliefs, ideals, and prejudices towards sexuality were you taught as a child? You might like to write these b lockages down or speak about them with a good friend or counselor. Once you identify these blockages, you can then proceed to deconstruct them.
4. Meditate with and carry crystals
Best suited to: deficient and excessive blockages Use sacral chakra crystals such as carnelian, orange calcite, jasper, and moonstone. My favorite sacral chakra crystal is amber, which you can buy here.
5. Become mindful of your emotional triggers
Best suited to: excessive blockages
Explosions of emotion can be balanced by becoming mindful of your emotional triggers. For example, if you discover that your fists start to clench when you get angry, slowly uncurl them and breathe deeply. I f your blood temperature rises around a certain topic, become aware and present with that emotion.
6. Increase your intake of ginger Best suited to: deficient blockages
Ginger is a warming and stimulating herb that is terrific for the sacral chakra. Try cooking more with ginger, using ginger oil, or drinking a ginger tea infusion. I recommend this 100% organic ginger infusion from Buddha Teas.
7. Explore the root of your addictions
Best suited to: deficient and excessive blockages
Addictions are a way for us to cope with our reality and fill empty holes in our lives. I n a journal or with a friend or therapist, explore why you are addicted to something. Ask questions such as “What place was I at in my life when I started getting addicted to this?” “What do I feel this addiction brings me?” “What is this addiction trying to hide about who I believe I am?” I f you’re suffering from a serious addiction, make sure you schedule an appointment with an addiction specialist.
8. Practice self-caretowardsyour body
Best suited to: deficient and excessive blockages
Explore empowering resources such as books, workshops, and guided meditations that will help you to accept your body type and other physical quirks. Stop apologizing for how you look and start embracing your unique body and its needs. Join online or real life groups that help you to love your body. Find out what eating plan suits you the best, and cut out processed foods. For the sacral chakra, try eating fruit and vegetables such as coconuts, oranges, apricots, almonds, sweet potatoes, carrots, mangos, passionfruit, and papaya.
Introduce the colors orange, peach and apricot into your life as the color of the sacral chakra is orange. For example, wear orange clothing, surround yourself with orange objects, and creatively express yourself in the color orange.
10. Do a sacral chakra visualization
Best suited to: deficient and excessive sacral chakra blockages
Imagine a throbbing or swirling ball of luminescent orange light three inches below your bellybutton. Feel the ball of orange energy dissolving all blockages or aggressive flows of energy within you.
11. Do something spontaneous
Best suited to: deficient sacral chakra blockages
Give yourself the permission to do something that you wouldn’t usually do. Break the cycle of rigid and uncreative living! For example, watch a movie you’d never watch, travel to a place you’d never thought possible, take up a wacky new craft, you name it!
12. Get sexually creative
Best suited to: deficient sacral chakra blockages
If you have a partner, explore different creative forms of sexuality. For example, discover what fetishes or sexual positions you’d both like to try out together to spice up the bedroom. If you’re single, explore different creative forms of self-pleasure. I f blockages such as guilt or shame arise, question them.
13. Cleanse the sacral chakra with aromatherapy oils
Best suited to: deficient and excessive sacral chakra blockages
Use oils such as ginger, orange, jasmine, neroli, rosewood, and bergamot.
14. Clear blocks with yoga
Best suited to: deficient and excessive blockages
Yoga is an amazing way to open up blocked constrictions of energy in the body. Try the cobra, butterfly, camel, goddess, reverse warrior, and pigeon poses.
15. Say daily affirmations
Best suited to: deficient and excessive sacral chakra blockages.
What you think is what you manifest. Support your sacral chakra healing by repeating the following affirmations with sincerity and open-heartedness, “I allow myself to feel my emotions,” “I create healthy boundaries,” “I embrace my inner passion,” “I value and respect my body,” “My sexuality is sacred,” “I release my inner emotions creatively. ” Conscious Life Magazine
This sound matches the vibration of the sacral chakra. Try drawing out the letters into sounds, such as “vaaaaaammmmmmmmm. ” You might also like to listen to binaural beats (a form of music healing therapy) which helps to activate and clear all the chakras through alternating sound waves. Try thesechakra healing songs.
You can also try to incorporate more humor into your life. Try watching funny movies or surrounding yourself with lighthearted people who are in touch with the sacral chakra. You might also like to explore belly dancing which is a wonderful stimulator of the sacral chakra.
Final Advice After reading all this information, you might be wondering what you should do next.
I recommend picking a handful of activities from the list above that you’re naturally drawn to. Make sure you identify whether you have a deficient or excessive chakra blockage (or a mixture), and choose accordingly. Experiment with each healing modality for a couple of weeks and observehow you feel.
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CBD is closely related to THC, which is psychoactive (can make you high). THC has many uses and works synergistically with CBD. They both have significant therapeutic properties, but they act in different ways on different receptors in the body.
CBD and THC interact with our bodies in a variety of ways. One of the main ways is by mimicking and enhancing the effects of the compounds already in our bodies called “endogenous cannabinoids” - so named because of their similarity to compounds found in the cannabis plant.
These “endocannabinoids” are part of what scientists refer to as the “endocannabinoid system. ” The endocannabinoid system gets damaged after we are born. First off, many years ago the animals were fed hemp or cannabis and that came through in the products that we ate. Since around 1937 hemp and cannabis were banned, so animals never got it anymore and neither did we. Then vaccinations were brought in to protect us for some of the horrible illness around, which in turn damaged our cells and bodies in unseen ways. That is how our life starts and we wonder why we all end up with arthritis, depression and cancers.
CBD is easily able to heal diseases. It offers anti-inflammatory action, immediate pain relief and regulates blood pressure and cholesterol. It doesn’t just treat the symptoms.
The CB1 And CB2 receptors are situated throughout our body so CBD wont just heal one issue in your body but everything that it comes across that is out of kilter. And it’s not just for us, the young middle aged and elderly, any animal that has a skeleton can benefit from this.
There is growing evidence that many diseases can be successfully treated with CBD, from any inflammationand stress relateddiseases, cancers, arthritis, epilepsy, Alzheimer ’s etc.
CBD does not work on Hormones and Testosterone, but it can help with the side effects. CBD can be taken as an oil, capsule, balm, tincture etc. As with most products it is best to speak to a professional and ensure that the product is safe to use for your particular ailments.
Our beloved friend and Hay House founder Louise Hay transitioned peacefully in her sleep on August 30, 2017 at age 90. Louise was an incre dible visionary and advocate. Everyone w ho had t he privilege to meet her, either in person, or through her words, felt her passion for serving others.
“I have come to this planet to learn to love myself more, and to share that love with all those around me,” Louise wrote.
To celebrate her incredible life, we’ve selected 101 of our favorite Louise Hay Affirmations
Louise Hay dedicated her life to teaching people how to life a positive and empowered life, often with the aid of positive statements and beliefs, which she called affirmations.
Louise taught that your point of power is always in the present moment, where you plant the mental seeds for creating new experiences. You’re never stuck, for you can choose new thoughts and new ways of thinking.
Your future can always be more positive, more loving and more prosperous. Think about how you’d like to live and what you’d like to accomplish as you read affirmations out loud.
We hope these positive affirmations by Louise Hay bring you comfort, prosperity, healing, and love in your life as they have in all of ours.