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Root Chakra by Deepak Chopra

The muladhara or root chakra is located at the base of the spine and is responsible for feelings of safety, security, and trust. An imbalance can result from financial stress, relocation, or difficulty with relationships and manifest as issues with physical or mental health. The document provides questions to assess a potential imbalance and recommends practices like yoga poses, mantras, colors and gems to help balance the root chakra.

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Root Chakra by Deepak Chopra

The muladhara or root chakra is located at the base of the spine and is responsible for feelings of safety, security, and trust. An imbalance can result from financial stress, relocation, or difficulty with relationships and manifest as issues with physical or mental health. The document provides questions to assess a potential imbalance and recommends practices like yoga poses, mantras, colors and gems to help balance the root chakra.

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The muladhara (root chakra) is the energy center for grounding, finding stability, and being able

to trust yourself and others.

An imbalance here can be the result of financial stress, relocation, or difficulty establishing
trusting relationships. Ask yourself the following questions:

 “Do I have trouble with my physical health?”


 “Does money result in stress and anxiety for me?”
 “Is fear a limitation?”
 “Is it hard to maintain a disciplined routine?”
 “Do I have trouble with concentration?”

Answering “YES” to 3 or more may indicate a blockage or imbalance in muladhara.

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The Root Chakra: Muladhara


By Michelle Fondin

Read More About The Other Chakras

Located at the base of the spine, the pelvic floor, and the first three vertebrae, the root chakra is
responsible for your sense of safety and security on this earthly journey. The word Muladhara
breaks down into two Sanskrit words: Mula meaning “root” and Adhara, which means “support”
or “base.”
This is the first of the chakras of matter. Balancing the root chakra creates the solid foundation
for opening the chakras above. Imagine that you’re laying the foundation for a house in which
you’re going to live for a long time. A solid foundation embedded in firm soil will provide the
stability you need to create a home filled with joy for years to come.

The root chakra is comprised of whatever grounds you to stability in your life. This includes
your basic needs such as food, water, shelter, and safety, as well as your more emotional needs
such as letting go of fear. When these needs are met, you feel grounded and safe, and you tend to
worry less day to day.

Whether or not you feel secure now often has less to do with
what you have at your disposal and more to do with how safe
you felt as a small child. When you consider psychologist Erik
Erickson’s stages of development, the first stage—trust versus
mistrust—is closely related to your root chakra development.
As infants, if your caregivers readily gave you what you needed to survive with consistency, you
felt secure in the world. You felt that the world was a place that could be trusted to provide your
basic needs. Yet, if your caregivers withheld or delayed in giving you what you needed, or if that
giving was inconsistent, you may find yourself with first chakra blockages.

Imbalances in the Root Chakra


If there is an imbalance in the root chakra you may experience anxiety disorders, fears, or
nightmares. Physical imbalances may manifest as problems in the colon, with the bladder, with
elimination, or with lower back, leg, or feet issues. In men, prostate problems may occur. Eating
disorders may also be a sign of a root chakra imbalance.

How to Balance Muladhara


While meditation does connect you to a higher spiritual plane, it also serves to ground you. You
may not always be able to trust that the world will give you what you need to survive, but
connection to your higher self and trust in a power higher than yourself will give you what you
need to feel safe.

It does not matter if you call that higher power Consciousness, Mother Nature, God, or Spirit.
Connection to universal energy will bring you a sense of peace and stability. The animals in the
forest have no idea if and when they will find food each day, yet somehow they trust in nature to
provide for them.

Try this: The sense organ that corresponds to the first chakra is smell. While meditating, focus
on the tip of your nose to help align the root and bring forth the qualities you need to balance
your root chakra.
Asanas, Sounds, Colors, and Gems
Other ways to open a blocked chakra include using yoga, mantras, colors, and gems.

Yoga Asanas that help to open and align Muladhara are…

 Pavanamuktasana, knee to chest pose


 Janu Sirsansana, head to knee Pose
 Padmasana, lotus flexion
 Malasana, squatting pose

Women can also practice Kegel exercises, and both men and women can do Bandha yoga—
where you lock or tighten certain areas of your body—to help bring strong energy and strength to
the area of the first chakra.

Chanting or toning sounds can also help bring you back to balance just like music brings people
together. Sounds create vibrations in the body, and these vibrations help the cells work together
in synchronistic harmony. The mantra sound that corresponds to the root chakra is LAM.

Finally, colors and gems can help bring a chakra into balance. The root chakra’s color is red.
Gemstones for the first chakra include garnet, red jasper, black tourmaline, and bloodstone. You
can place the gemstone on the area of the chakra while lying down to help open and align it.

Read More: Overview of the Chakras

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