All About The Sacral Chakra
What are Chakras? I have written an overview of chakras as part 1 of this series: https://www.swatinigam.com/friday-spiritiual-psychic-development-what-are-chakras/
And here is the article on the Root Chakra: https://www.swatinigam.com/friday-spiritualpsychic-development-all-about-the-root-chakra/
Where is the Sacral chakra located? Between the belly button, and the root chakra, in the lower abdomen.
What is the color of the Sacral chakra? The color of the Sacral chakra is Orange.
What does the Sacral chakra do? The Sacral chakra is called the “Swadhisthana” chakra in Sanskrit. Its functions are:
1. It is the center of feelings, pleasure, desire, sexuality.
2. Love, respect, and value for one’s body.
3. Creativity.
4. Passion.
5. Fertility.
6. Eating healthy.
7. Taking good care of one’s body, because of love and respect for one’s body.
8. It governs how people express their emotions.
9. Acceptance & love of self.
10. It is the seat of manifestation through emotions. Whatever your emotions are, it attracts similar experiences for you (so be careful about your emotions).
11. Healthy relationships.
12. Helps people accept and adjust to changes.
13. Recreation, ability to have fun.
What problems might an imbalanced & blocked Sacral chakra cause? Depending on under-activity or overactivity:
1. Additions to food, drugs, alcohol etc.
2. Unhealthy relations with others.
3. Unmet need for love or physical desire.
4. Unwillingness to engage in sexual activities because of emotional or physical discomfort. Frigidity, Impotence.
5. Blocks to creativity.
6. Social awkwardness.
7. Problems in expressing emotions properly.
8. For women – menstrual problems, PMS, hormonal imbalance, uterine cancer, endometriosis, fibroids, ovarian cysts.
9. Co-dependence.
10. Promiscuity.
11. Envy.
12. Mood swings.
13. Overly helpful, overly generous, overspending.
14. Emotional imbalance.
15. Liver issues.
16. Kidney problems.
17. Diabetes.
18. STD.
19. Lower back pain.
20. Constipation.
21. Testicular issues, Prostrate issues in men.
What body parts are associated with the Sacral chakra? Hips, lower back, genitals, bladder, kidneys, large intestine, appendix, pelvis.
How do you balance, unblock, heal & clear the Sacral chakra? There are several things you can do to balance, unblock & heal your sacral chakra.
1. Making it a priority to have fun everyday.
2. Spending time in moonlight, swimming, being in water, spending time at the beach.
3. Aromatherapy: Ylang-ylang, Orange, Musk, Sandalwood, Rose, Jasmine, .
4. Stones like Carnelian, Orange Calcite, Bloodstone, Tigers Eye, and Moonstone help heal, open, and balance the sacral chakra. Place the stone directly on the chakra, wear jewelry made with them, or just carry them in your purse, pocket etc.
5. Saying affirmations like: “I love my body”, “My sexuality is sacred”, “I am passionate”, “I respect my body”, “I value my body”, “I eat healthy food to take good care of my body”, “I express myself creatively”, “I release all my desires and appetites to the Light”, “All my desires are perfectly balanced” and other affirmations around pleasure, creativity, sexuality, body, and feelings.
6. Doing the yoga poses series called the “Sun Salutation” or “Surya Namaskar”, “The Cobra” or “Bhujangasana”.
7. Focus and meditate on a Sacral chakra mandala like this one below:
8. Breathe in Orange light into your sacral chakra. This is how you do it: Close your eyes, and when you breathe in, imagine a bright and beautiful Orange light entering your sacral chakra, and brightening and clearing your sacral chakra.
9. I find visualization most effective for this purpose. Close your eyes, and imagine an Orange circle/disc where your Sacral chakra is. You can imagine it to be of a diameter of about 5″. Focus on it for a few seconds, and then start enlarging and brightening this Orange circle. Enlarge it to extend out of your body and around it to a diameter of about 2 feet. Say in your mind, “My sacral chakra is now balanced, opened, and healed”. However, this needs to be done for all the 7 chakras, so they are all balanced. Doing this once or twice a day for all your 7 chakras keeps your chakras balanced, opened, unblocked, and helps you be physically, emotionally, energetically, and spiritually healthy. It also improves your psychic senses.
Next Friday I will write about the Solar Plexus Chakra.
Meanwhile here is the 1st article in the chakra series: Overview on Chakras: https://www.swatinigam.com/friday-spiritiual-psychic-development-what-are-chakras/
And here is the article on the Root Chakra: https://www.swatinigam.com/friday-spiritualpsychic-development-all-about-the-root-chakra/
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I think that this chakra is the seat of my miseries. Using your visualizations, the cobra pose and prayer, long open and specific prayers to leave my issues in the shadow of the cross. Feeling lighter and less burdened already. The resentment and u forgiveness package that I felt wasn’t nearly large enough to contain my resentments over the separation and divorce however and my ex-husband continues to invade my sleep in dreams where he imposes himself into otherwise normal occasions where he is unwelcome. I am haunted by a past more real than my present. I cry often about this. My tears are hot and burn my face with shame.
Teresa, did you cut cords with your husband, and did you check out my “re-write your past” blog post and meditation?
Our daughter (26 years old) is the only actual connection between my ex and myself. I am going to revisit your rewrite your past blog and visualize cutting whatever ties me to our past other than our adult child. For the life of me, I cannot understand why he haunts me at night while I am asleep. I imagine it is related to my very real resentment that I feel about my post divorce living conditions (not satisfactory, but my Mom has housed and fed me while I work through this MS disability thing.
Yes, cut cords, forgive, and re-write the past. Then let me know how it goes.
What an EXCELLENT article. I am learning so much. Thank you for making it so easy to read (lists). You get right to the point! Thanks Swati.
Yes, I love lists, step by step instructions…to the point stuff. LOL!
I really love your articles and i know tht some of my charka are inbalanced i tooktht carol tuttle charka test and it said alot are weak and some are closed but felt not true on some of the 3 min test they give my problem is withthis sle lupus icant be out in sun hardly no more its took so much of my lifeaway for example i cant even go swimming with daughtr n gbabies and i get brain fog so i cant remember all the colors whenWe do our charkas so swati as long as i meditate will it still help me if i cant remember colors? Its almost 2 yrs on my husband passing on july 4 however im expericing bad money problems on thisfixed income….butnow i have juggled each minth where its to the point this month has hit me hard imtrying to rid myself of certain ppl alsotht comes into my house as theifs but where ive got big heart somehow they get me busy only to steal theres alot of areasto work with in my life and its lonely just me n dog my grown childreb barely evenstop by neways i love your blogs there for awhile i suffered huge depression and didn check emails and didn even get on fb so imcatching up on alot godbless you love and light<3
I hope all this information helps you Teresa. Hugs 🙂
this is very new t me. i am learning so much much from your article.
i havent really sit and tried applying , but i believe it will be a turning point and a change for me. keep writing. looking forward to ur articles. love them as it is very knwledgeable.
Thank you so much Luiza! :-)))
Its amazing. Its really tosses over your thinking. The knowledge of chakara is amazIng. Just got d subscription done and I am really finding it very useful and important aspect which needs brushing.
Thankx .Looking forward for your mails.
Thank you so much Sakshi! :-)))))
Dankeschön,Merci beaucoup,Muchas gracias,Arigato gozaimasu,Bahut Shukriya
LOL! You’re welcome (in every language)
This is one of the chakras that I’m dealing with. Huge imbalance and I have a lot of the symptoms you listed. I did a Shamanic Breathwork a few months ago and she told me this was one area that I had blockage in, which didn’t surprise me at all. I know one thing that happened with an ex bf that still haunts me every once in a while. I think I’ve dealt with it but then it comes back, so I guess I still have work to do!
Amy, you must have cut cords with the ex-boyfriend already. Try seeing if there are some emotions within you that you still feel attached to him. Do cord cutting again, or try EFT tapping to let go of him completely.