Root Chakra Healing

In Sanskrit it is called “muladhara”, but it is also known by the following names:

• First chakra
• Root chakra
• Red chakra
• Muladhara chakra

What is the Root Chakra responsible for?

Red chakra is linked to:

• Feelings of:
  • Safety
  • Security
  • Stability
• Instincts of:
  • Survival
  • Procreation 
• Hormones:
  • Testosterone
  • Estrogen

This energy center corresponds to the first seven years of life. Traumatic events that took place in these early years are recorded in this chakra.

Blocked Root Chakra Symptoms

When the first chakra becomes imbalanced various physical and emotional issues might occur.

Emotional issues:

• Feelings of scarcity, stress, anxiety, and lack.
• Feeling unprotected, alone, abandoned.
• Believing that the world owes you something.
• Self-centered and narcissistic behavior. Feeling that you are special.
• Cannot experience true love.
• Unable to put yourself in other’s shoes.
• Feeling motherless.

Spiritual issues:

• Unable to trust that Earth will nourish you.
• Disconnection from the feminine aspects of life.

Physical issues:

• Overeating or loss of appetite.
• Issues in legs, feet, lower back, hips, rectum.
• Chronic fatigue/Exhaustion.
• Insomnia or oversleeping.

How to Open Root Chakra?

Shamanic techniques can help you balance and open your first chakra by:

• Cleansing the toxic sludge/energy around it.
• Clearing the imprints of trauma from your Energy Field.
• Extracting toxic crystalized energies attached to it.
• Cutting energetic cords linked to it.

Emotional and Physical symptoms of Root Chakra Opening

• The fear disappears and you realize that you live in abundance.
• You start trusting life.
• You feel grounded and connected with both yourself and others.
• Stress and anxiety vanish.
• Body ailments such as lower back pain, legs or feet pain subside.
• You control your ego and stop overthinking.