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Log In Create an account. Michelle Fondin. This results in feeling grounded and secure. An imbalance in Root Chakra can cause a variety of mental illnesses and stress which can also affect overall physical wellness.
The Root Chakra is believed to be a survival center, making it the most instinctual of all chakras. Stabilizing the foundation of the body is important to sense completeness. The symptoms of a Muladhara Chakra imbalance are:. Identifying and working on your chakras allows quick healing. There are several ways to unblock your Root Chakra. One of the ways is a meditation that focuses on grounding. Practicing yoga regularly also encourages physical and mental strength to the body. The practice of yoga asana helps connect the body, mind, and spirit.
This helps in unifying the circulating energy centers of the body. Specific yoga asana helps release excess chakra energy which is just as important as stimulating chakras to gain energy. The poses below are aimed at restoring balance through both stimulating and releasing energy from the Muladhara in order to allow for true transformation and personal growth.
Let yourself be fully supported by the earth beneath you and let go of all tension in your body. Sun Salutations help you tap into that sense of inner strength and connection with the earth. You will feel a slow, steady heat building from within. A sense of power and focus as you connect with each inhale and exhale. You will eventually notice how the mind surrenders to the current moment as you work your way deeper into your moving meditation.
Close your eyes if you feel comfortable doing so. Let your whole body relax. Notice how it feels to be completely supported by the ground beneath you. Welcome this balance of surrender and support to carry you through your practice. This pose allows your feet to be firmly rooted in the earth. At the same time, the spine releases excess root chakra energy as well as stimulates the throat and heart chakra. This pose creates an intense stretch for the psoas and quad muscles.
Once you become like a rock, once you identify yourself with the physical reality, you will always think in comparison — who or what is bigger or smaller, superior or inferior, better or worse. You will be comparing yourself, because that is the nature of physical reality. Only if you transcend the physical reality, can you be free from this comparison.
But this amrita or secretion of the pineal gland can also enhance your perception. Only a human being is able to realize that just existing is not good enough. None of the other creatures, from an amoeba to an elephant, have realized this, because that is not in their nature. They think their existing is good enough. Only a human being can know — not that everyone actually does — that just existing is not good enough, that something else needs to happen.
For this, the muladhara and the sadhana on it are very important for your existence. If Grace has to transmit itself, you need to have an appropriate body.
If you do not have an appropriate body and Grace descends on you big time, you will fuse out. Many people want big experiences but they are not willing to transform their body to be able to conduct those experiences. Unfortunately, many in the world have lost their minds or broken their bodies because they went experience-hunting. In yoga, you do not chase experience, you only prepare. The yogic systems always focused on the muladhara chakra. This high and low business is too entrenched in book-reading minds but that is not how life works.
Some years ago, I used to conduct two or three-day programs in Hatha Yoga. Just doing asanas, people would burst out in ecstacy. Most yogis just use a few simple postures to break the limitations of who they are. That is how Hatha Yoga is. Hatha Yoga means balance. Balance does not mean sanity. If you want your life to be exuberant, you need to have some madness in you.
But if you become compulsively insane, you lost it. When we talk about balance, we are not talking about sanity, we are talking about finding that perch between sanity and insanity where you can venture and adventure. Madness is an adventure. It is a most wonderful thing as long as it is in control.
If you lose control it will become ugly. Similarly, sanity is a beautiful thing but if you become perfectly sane, you are as good as dead. This ability to venture and adventure into whatever you want at any moment will come to you if your muladhara is well-established.
When do you feel calm and stable? When your root chakra is blocked, you might experience some of the following:. Stress about your sense of place and belonging will dissipate. To start bringing your root chakra into alignment, try this Root Chakra Tune-Up Practice to cultivate a sense of grounding in your feet, legs and pelvic floor.
This practice includes intense stretches, deep squats and seated poses to connect you to the earth. Recenter your root chakra through Ujjayi or victorious breath—a pranayama technique that is both energizing and calming.
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