Daily Prompt

Suggested meditation 30 minutes

Today we will begin to focus on our chakras. If you are new to chakras, chakras are our energy centers that keep us balanced. As we experience life, we become unbalanced in different areas of our life. There are hundreds of chakras, but mostly we hear about 7 chakras, namely, root, sacral, solar plexus, heart, throat, third eye, and crown.

Each has a function and each is associated with a particular colour. I invite you to focus on the colour of each as we move through each chakra.

Over the next 5 days, we will be reinforcing and strengthening our root chakra. 

Located at the base of the spine, this chakra is the foundation of our entire chakra system and contains patterns passed down from our families – both our bloodline and our soul-line, making this a powerful chakra to connect with our heritage.

This chakra is associated with the colour red. I invite you to observe the colour red over the next few days. Embody this throughout this week.

I invite you to listen to a 30-minute yoga nidra. Add within your intention to connect to your instincts, if this feels right for you.

You are welcome to share it inside the group. 

Root Chakra 

When you are having trouble with your family, when you have lost your strength to go on, when you feel disconnected, dizzy, experience low blood pressure and lack an appetite, and when you feel that your feet aren’t even close to touching the ground, it’s very likely that you’re experiencing an imbalance in your base chakra. 

Our base chakra connects us to our instincts. The Sanskrit name for the base chakra is Muladhara, which means root support, which is why this chakra is often referred to as the root chakra. 

Located at the base of the spine, this chakra is the foundation of our entire chakra system and contains patterns passed down from our families – both our bloodline and our soul-line, making this a powerful chakra to connect with our heritage. 

Without a strong base chakra, our other chakras lack a strong foundation, and so our entire chakra system can be compromised. By strengthening our base, our other chakras can begin to flow with health, vibrance, and energy, too. If you have a deficient amount of energy in your base chakra, your strategy for survival may be to dissociate from your physical body and live predominantly in a fantasy world. 

By building the energy, strength, and health of the base chakra, you will strengthen your survival instincts and enhance your ability to deal with reality. Many people who are deficient in the energy of this chakra may find they are underweight – chronic disorganization and a severe lack of boundaries are other side-effects.  Of course, excessive amounts of energy in the base chakra can create a different set of challenges. 

Security and safety can become over-emphasized, preventing us from moving forward in life, and instead of being able to ‘push through’ we become more stuck. 

This excessive energy can manifest as rigidity in ideas and attitudes, and as material greed. It can also manifest in too much bodyweight and /or extreme feelings of tiredness. Releasing stuck energy in this chakra can lead to learning how to ‘let go’ and to become more active, more motivated, and able to move forward.

When we balance our base chakra, we can develop a deep trust in our place in the world, and a strong sense of personal safety and security underlies every step we take in life.