Explore the root chakra as the foundation of your identity and sense of safety. 

00:57 Introduction to Chakras

01:40 Understanding the Root Chakra

03:18 Root Chakra and Survival

05:01 Balancing Your Root Chakra

07:49 Affirmations and Practices

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Welcome to the Art of Life podcast.

I'm Kanika.

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Today we'll start talking about chakras, the major chakras in our body.

Our body has seven major chakras and there are so many other minor chakras.

So what are these chakras anyway?

Chakras are energy centers.

Chakras are where a lot of energy flow is happening.

If you are trying to picture an energy chakra, you could think of

it like a ball, but almost think of this as having that spiral energy as

well, because the energy is really flowing very much in a spiral form.

I'll try and explain more as we go along with each of the chakras.

But starting with the root chakra, this is where you are born.

That's why it's called the Root Chakra.

This is where you get your roots.

And why?

Because this is where you are born from.

So, as a spirit, you got into the body, you got into your mother's

womb, when you are coming out, you come out through the Root Chakra.

The element for Root Chakra is Earth because this is the ground that

you need to stand on to survive on.

And hence root chakra very much has the energies of survival.

That means that all the survival fears or all the survival opportunities, all of

that is connected with the root chakra.

If you wanted to physically imagine where the root chakra is before I started

explaining the concepts, just so that you can have your energy there and you can

really feel it in your body while you are listening to this, your root chakra is

very much at the base of your tailbone.

A healthy root chakra or basically any healthy chakra will be very

much along your spinal cord.

If they are a little bit in front, or if they're a little bit at the

back, that just means that the chakra is disaligned somewhere.

And that could be because of various reasons.

So whenever you are practicing in your meditation space, it's

really good to imagine them very much along your spinal cord.

Okay, so now let's get back to understanding the root chakra.

So root chakra as I was explaining is around feeling safe.

It's very much the survival energy.

This is where you've entered on earth and you're wondering what's going

on and am I going to fit in or not?

Guess what?

That is the theme of the root chakra pretty much all along your life.

Now, if you think of early men, they had to fend for themselves,

even in terms of food, in terms of a place to live, and so on.

We've evolved from that.

But then we've also had wars, so at times when people have been born,

they've had to fight for their lives.

We still continue fighting.

There are places where wars are still going on.

And even if we don't have wars going on, we have a modern form of all of this.

Countries will impose some trade sanctions or they'll put on some import duties, etc.

But there's always this sort of battle of survival.

There's the fear of lack, that somehow the world's not enough.

So in an imbalanced chakra, that's what's really coming through,

that the world's not enough.

So root chakra is really defining your ability to be as you are.

It's your identity chakra, if you will.

It's pretty much the foundation, right?

We're calling it the root.

So this is the foundation.

This is how you stand.

This is how you walk.

Root chakra is connected very much to how much are you earning?

Do you have a comfortable house?

How are you feeling about yourself?

What is your identity?

Now let's look at a few questions to understand whether your

root chakra is balanced or not.

Root chakra is very much around you feeling safe.

It's feeling safe in the body and it's also feeling safe to be as you are.

So especially, let's say, people who've had trouble coming out, that is just a

reflection that their root chakra might have taken that impact as well because

they've really suffered in their identity.

If you're hiding a part of who you are, especially with your loved

ones, then that can mean that your root chakra is imbalanced.

Another question to look at could be, do you like your work?

Do you like your study?

And even if you don't, at least can you talk about it?

That again shows you how safe you feel.

So essentially what the root chakra is looking at is can you be yourself?

Can you do what you like?

Can you talk about what you don't like?

These are the questions that your root chakra is trying to answer.

I imagine that a lot of you, while you're hearing this, you're thinking,

Oh my God, my root chakra is imbalanced.

What you would be feeling if your root chakra is imbalanced is maybe

you would have loss of sleep or you're feeling fatigued and at the

very least you feel very demotivated.

But it's not all doom if you're feeling like that.

The reason why you're listening to this right now is because you're

very much on your journey to heal and you want to evolve and grow.

So, bringing your awareness here, just understanding that this is the disbalance,

that's pretty much the first step.

Anyway, so congratulations, you've done that.

And the second thing is you can start working on it.

You can start taking the baby steps wherever you feel that

you're not owning your identity.

And sometimes we can get a little bit far in life and we really lose our

identity, maybe in a relationship, maybe just with the people we are with.

We can really become unaware of who we are.

So start exploring those things.

Make a very honest list.

What do I like?

Do I really like talking to that person?

How do I like to dress up?

How do I like to eat?

And try and keep people away or anyone else in the picture away.

Just think about yourself.

What is it that you like to do?

What is your identity?

That pretty much is what your root chakra is trying to define.

If you further wanted to improve your relationship with your root chakra

, then you can simply start saying this affirmation as well, I'm safe.

Every time you do that, you're just telling your body that I

am safe and it learns to relax.

Now what's happening with the root chakra?

This is where we sit.

This is where we stand up and walk.

It's supporting you all the time.

So root chakra is really supporting you in every single

thing that you're trying to do.

Sometimes there is a misconception in our world that you need to work the

upper chakras if you need to evolve.

But guess what?

You have a body and you really need to have all your chakras in

the body really working as well.

Root chakra is supporting your survival.

It's supporting how much money you have.

It's supporting your comfort.

It's supporting your life on earth.

So, especially if you wanted to be wealthy, if you just wanted to have

a comfortable life, having a healthy root chakra is very important.

Your practice could be to just start saying again and again I'm

safe and connecting with the earth because it has the earth element.

So as you're walking or as you're sitting down to have a nice

silent connection with yourself.

Whenever you do that just imagine that you have a cord connected with the

center of the earth and she will just help you release a lot of the stress

that you're carrying because that's pretty much what the roots job is.

Think of the foundation of a house.

The foundation supports the house, right?

You might not see the foundation as much but a very solid

foundation is required for the house to really stand and function.

That's pretty much what your root chakra is doing.

It's really critical and fundamental.

And it's also workable.

If you did not feel very well after answering those questions, I can tell you

that when I looked at these questions, they were very hard for me as well.

I started to from a place where my root chakra was really flaming red.

And it really spoke to how I was feeling very disbalanced in my life as well.

So it's pretty okay.

If I can move on, you can move on as well.

With the affirmation, I'm safe at first, you might feel a lot of

resistance, but you just have to remind yourself that you are safe.

And why are you safe?

Right?

You might ask, , you have people around you who are probably judging you or

who have some expectations of you.

So how are you safe if you cannot even express yourself?

You are safe because when you're connecting with the

Earth, Earth is not judging you.

She is there every day, every night, every single moment when

you're connecting with her.

Or even if you're not connecting with her, she is not judging how you look.

She's not judging the size of your paycheck.

She is simply there.

So you are safe.

A lot of the inner work and balancing your chakras is really about

understanding you versus others.

Just understanding who it is that you are and celebrating a lot more of that, not

worrying or thinking about people as much.

And root chakra encourages you to start doing the very same thing.

What you're doing with the root chakra is you're really owning that

feeling of safety regardless of how people think about you, you're

really bringing it back to yourself.

Question is really valid.

People are judging you.

How do you still feel safe?

You feel safe because you tell yourself that it's okay.

They can judge you.

as much as they want, they can have their expectations, but you are

supposed to hold your own space.

You can just bat for yourself and you can go, I am okay as I am.

The more you say that, the more you say I'm safe as I am, I'm okay as I am, the

more you start healing your root chakra.

Now, if you really wanted to expedite, your chakra balancing,

then I run a moon meditation circle.

We gather together two times every month and do some amazing meditations that

are filled with art, that are filled with laughter and a lot of creativity.

And the whole idea is to just start balancing ourselves.

So if you are feeling some stress and anxiety, or if you're feeling

fatigued, then these circles really help you get your motivation back.

You start waking up ready to win and conquer because your energy, not

just in the root chakra, but in all the chakras start getting balanced.

So you start really experiencing a life of inner peace and abundance.

If you wanted to join my Moon Meditation Circle, just reach me at artoflifecenter.

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I will see you there very soon.

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Lots and lots of love.

You are awesome.

I'll see you next time with another episode.

Bye.