First Three Chakras – Connection to the Physical Plane of Existence

In getting to know our chakras, it is important to understand that the first three chakras starting with the Root Chakra, moving up to the Sacral Chakra, then up to the Solar Plexus Chakra, are the chakras which have everything to do with how we handle everything in our normal day to day life on this earthly plane of existence. Before truly understanding yourself, the most important thing you can do is to get to know some of the reasons you do and feel the way you do. First, we need to cover a little information about each of the Chakras. Each has a specific energy purpose in your system.

In this blog I will cover the first three, starting with the red Root Chakra, which is your physical and instinctual connection to the inherent need to survive. The orange Sacral Chakra contains your source of emotional, creative, sensual and sexual energy. Finally the yellow Solar Plexus Chakra is the center of your power, motivations, and discerning intellect.

Become familiar with the placement and the colors to help with the final steps I will review in my blogs coming soon. There we will be reviewing how to clear the energy to get rid of all the stuff that has accumulated in your energy wheels, dragging you down, making you feel physically, emotionally, and spiritually drained.

ROOT CHAKRA

1^st ROOT CHAKRA (Vibrant Red) – Muladhara – Element: Earth – Located at the base of the spine, this is our connection with Mother Earth through our feet, legs, spinal column, bones, and lower body. The deepest reverence for the earth, nature, and all living creatures can be found through this energy center. This is where we are rooted and grounded to the earth, like a tree with its many roots feeding into the soil, wrapping around the stones and crystals beneath, feeding from the energy given by the very foundation of this place we call home.

This chakra’s low energy vibration is not of a spiritual nature. The prime importance originating from the root chakra is for health, vitality, and maintaining a true balance for you as a physical and spiritual being. This doesn’t make it any less important than the other chakras. In fact, without it the other chakras have no base to hold their energy from crumbling into a disruptive mess. Difficulties with feet, legs, tailbone, prostrate, blood, teeth, weight and elimination system indicate blockages in the root chakra.

Along with the sacral chakra, this chakra holds your deepest survival instincts, including the healthy desire for the basics of life, such as warmth, food, and shelter.  Base primitive emotions reside here, including an intense desire to procreate. Also, closely linked to the root chakra is the serpent power, chi, or kundalini energy which resides near the base of the spine.

Here the principles you stand on spiritually can be found. When determining what this means to you, listen to your gut feeling as to what rings true to you. Lessons which can be learned from this chakra deal with security, courage, mastery of body, grounding, balance and patience.

One of the key obstacles we find in this chakra are early imprints of the programming we learned as a child. How we think about ourselves, is one of the most harming programs, which can be difficult to see, until we start to delve into understanding the thoughts and actions we take. It can take decades to reprogram, but with acknowledgement of the source of these thoughts, and concerted effort we can become newly refreshed in how we see ourselves.

Another thing housed in this chakra are the buried fears we hold as being true, from past-life karma, energetic imprints from ancestors, and childhood conditioning. These fears can, , whether factual or not, actually hinder achievements, control our beliefs, distorting your awareness and hindering your ability to use your free will consciously.

As these stumbling blocks are subconsciously held, it is hard to see them for what they are, until you achieve the ability to discern the source of your actions by their impact on your life. Only then can you work with the beliefs and determine the change in thought patterns and future actions when they arise.

SACRAL CHAKRA

2^nd SACRAL CHAKRA (Powerful Orange) – Svadhisthana – Element: Water – Our connection to water through our reproductive glands, spleen, and bladder. The color orange represents sexuality, intimacy, and nourishment.

 This is the first of our three emotional centers, connecting with innate creativity and fertility. The energy from this chakra propels you into action and fuels your desire to experience the feelings of sexuality, and deriving enjoyment from the sensory world. Located one to three inches below the naval, it is connected to the desire to reproduce, and the attraction towards other individuals as well as the sense of self-protection to some degree.  Linked to the pancreas, this organ releases insulin and certain enzymes, which when properly balanced, regulates blood sugar levels and maintains sufficient energy usage.

Sometimes referred to as the sexual chakra, in its properly functioning state, initiates the release of sexual hormones into the body. As a human being, sexuality is part of our make-up. The release of proper amounts of these hormones can make us feel alive, happy, and contented.

It is also linked to your passions for life, and the things you are motivated to do.

Insufficient amounts will speed up the aging process and create a feeling of unhappiness and discontent within. If hormonal secretions are over abundant, the lower baser emotions of the ego, where lust and power are most important, will rule your life. In this state you will never attain true enlightenment or awakening. One may become embittered, without the ability to enjoy ones life by denying true emotions, experiencing difficulty in handling change. Resistant to change in emotions, this becomes a troublesome issue, not easily understood as a healthy flow of life’s energies. Problems manifest in many ways with health and relationships when looking outside of self for satisfaction of these missing energies. Without experiencing the ebb and flow of emotions of the cyclic nature of your second chakra, addictive behaviors can also result to take the place of the repressed, blocked and/or denied highs and lows of your natural energy flow.

When a proper balance is found in opening and balancing the sacral chakra, the result will be inner contentment, better personal relationships (both intimate and non-intimate relations), and a healthy and balanced digestive system. Along with the solar plexus chakra when fully awakened, the energy of this chakra is connected with the empathic skills and sensitivity to human emotions on a psychic and spiritual level. This ability can be very confusing if you are experiencing this for the first time. The feeling of not knowing why you feel the way you do, might be the result of carrying around the emotional baggage of someone you’ve come into contact with, loved ones, or emotional imprints left behind by others. Learning the ability to acknowledge the energy, blessing the source, and then releasing it into positive energy to be recycled for the greater good is an empowering feeling to recapturing your true self.

The creative function of the sacral chakra encourages self-expression in many ways. Creativity, although usually associated with the arts, music, composition and the like, can also be expressed in the way in which you do some of life’s more basic things. The little touches of joy which enlighten someone or your own life, the way in which you accomplish the tasks of your work life, finding beauty in people or the soft fragrance of a flower’s petals. Search out those things which bring you joyful creative expression. Be willing to be playful, and spontaneous. Creativity requires a mindset to accept the risk of making mistakes. Sometimes the result may turn out better than something that has been planned.

Lessons to learn with this chakra is in giving and receiving, raw desires, addictions, passion, and tolerance. Accepting the responsibility of your personal and emotional well-being is of utmost importance. If stuck in the blame game there is no moving out of the stuck and powerless feeling into which you’ve allowed yourself to be trapped. Once you accept you have the ability to change the life you have created, only then can you live the life that you want.

SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA

3^rd SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA (Sunshine Yellow) – Manipura – Element: Fire – The second of our three emotional centers, located in the stomach area, this chakra is our connection to fire, representing vitality and willpower.  This chakra puts you in touch with your personal power, helping to transform your hopes and aspirations into real possibilities. Located about one to three inches directly above the navel, this chakra is also attuned to the lower, base emotions of the physical world. Most individuals operate from this energy center, as well as the lower sacral and root chakras.

Gifted empaths and sensitives are finely attuned to others through this energy center. They have the ability to feel the environment around them, the people they come in contact with, and events about to happen. Acting like a radio transmitter, this center is where the seat of knowingness resides, when the “go with your gut feeling” kicks in. This is where the energy of what goes on outside of self comes into play with your discerning power. Information, feelings, emotions, and toxicity along with the psychological wounds and effects of our experiences and life are gathered here to digest within this intellectual discernment chakra. When balanced, we have all the tools necessary to make the assessment if what we feel, see, hear or experience is something for us to correct, or to be cleansed from our system to let go as energy that is not for our higher good. If our solar plexus is not in balance, then we will lack focus and motivation to accomplish our goals. Living in self-doubt and fear of failure, powerless with the will and fire in the heart of the third chakra.

Many hormonal secretions which directly influence how we feel are produced in an area of the adrenals called the cortex, sometimes referred to as “the mirror of our emotions.” In proven scientific methods, the adrenals create the “fight or flight” response. These glands or organs contain the inner medulla and the outer cortex. The inner medulla produces epinephrine and norepinephrine, which stimulate the heart, muscular strength, and endurance. In fact, epinephrine is commonly called adrenaline.  The outer cortex is known to create a type of hormone along with other steroid hormones, which have a tendency to make you feel good, happy, and balanced.

The adrenals, located at the top of each of the kidneys, are connected to the solar plexus chakra through the sympathetic nervous system, which acts like a bridge to the higher chakra energy.

By opening the solar plexus chakra, the sense of peace, well-being, and contentment may increase. You can also release and direct healing energy from this chakra to other areas of the body. Pent up anger and emotions can also be released in a healthy way as you work with energy of the solar plexus chakra.

Lessons associated with this chakra are ego, willpower, self-control, fear, humor, and immortality related. The silver cord that connects the physical body with the spiritual body is in this chakra. When we die this cord is disconnected, and we move into the spiritual dimensions.

Look for the next special blog about the Heart chakra, the one I consider the most life changing when fully activated. Thanks for joining in!

Updated from the originally posted blog called “New Year – New You” – Published September 2019