Your chakras are spinning wheels of energy located at various points of your body that energy flows through. When properly maintained, they can go a long way to helping our overall health and well-being. The root chakra is one of the most important chakras for staying grounded in your day-to-day life. When this chakra is out of balance, you can experience issues with feeling secure, worrying, anxiety, self-confidence, hyperactivity, carelessness, and trusting those around us. It can also make you feel exhausted all the time and can significantly impact your emotions. When our root chakra is balanced, you will feel healthy and fit, grounded, centered, and confident in who you are.
The root chakra, or Muladhara, is located at the base of your spine and is the foundation for your energy flow. It’s one of the reasons that this particular chakra is so important to take care of. The Root Chakra is associated with the color Red and the element Earth. It’s responsible for our heart and circulatory system. Spiritually this chakra helps us maintain our connection with our Mother Earth.
When working with Chakra healing, I often find that the root chakra almost always needs maintenance. I have others that come up a lot as well, but I often find that if the root chakra is off in its energy, it can cause problems with the flow of energy in the other chakras. In myself, I can tell right away when it needs attention as I will start worrying about everything and bustling about not getting anything done. As the foundation for our energy, it’s really important to always make sure this chakra is doing well.
How many of you will go on a cleaning spree when you are worried or nervous? Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always noticed that I do that, and I usually feel better after. The reason is that cleaning your house is a great physical activity, but also just clearing clutter is an activity that helps you ground your energy. This activity helps to balance your root chakra. Other activities that will help balance your root chakra include grounding, yoga, meditation, gardening, and any type of physical exercise.
There are also a lot of foods that can be helpful. Most root-based vegetables like carrots, potatoes, parsnips, radishes, beets, etc., will help, as will protein-rich foods like eggs, meats, beans, tofu, and peanut butter. Are you one that likes spicy things? Bring on the cayenne pepper, hot sauce, horseradish, chives, and anything else spicy because those all will help as well. If you find yourself craving hot sauce all of a sudden, you may find your root chakra needs some extra attention. If I am getting sick, this chakra will need attention as well.
For gemstones, you want to work with stones that are good for grounding, like hematite and onyx. You can also use red stones such as red jasper, rose quartz, etc. Below I put an affirmation to help you work with this chakra.
Affirmation: I am grounded, and it is safe for me to be who I am.
I hope that you have a magickal day!
Much Love and Many Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
Your Root Chakra
