Understanding The Svadhishthana Chakra

Understanding The Svadhishthana Chakra Svadhishthana chakra is otherwise called the sacral chakra. Svadhishthana simply means “dwelling place of the self.” It is the second energy center recognized as the seat of your emotions. This chakra is in your lower abdomen near the root chakra. The chakra relates to creativity, personal expansion, sexuality, and sexual desires. Understanding how the svadhishthana chakra functions will help you realize a lot of things about yourself. For instance, your sexual orientation, personal transformation, and some physical components of your body are all related to this second chakra.

Here, we will discuss the chakra’s characteristics, what happens where there is an imbalance of energies, and how you can align and balance the chakra. As you will see, the sacral chakra has a lot of physical and emotional impacts.

Components Of This Chakra Like all other chakras, this chakra has its own peculiar characteristics. They are: • The Element Of Water The sacral chakra relates to the water inside you – everything that is fluid. This is the center of energy responsible for freedom, pleasure, creativity, sex, money, and flexibility. Many people believe this chakra is the basis of human emotions.

That may be true as the balance of this chakra improves your emotional wellbeing.

• The Orange Color This symbolizes the sunrise and can be interpreted as rising consciousness. It depicts purity, joy, self-confidence, faith, and activity.

• Emotional And Sexual Components This chakra helps you build a positive and healthy personal identity in things relating to sex and sexuality. It helps you know how to experience the pleasure of s creativity and seduction healthily. When the chakra is unbalanced, you will be emotionally disturbed and lack creativity and a healthy sexual orientation.

• The Physical Body The chakra also touches the physical composition of your body. It relates to your reproductive organs, kidneys, bladder, lower back, and adrenals.

Imbalanced Sacral Chakra An imbalanced sacral chakra will lead to emotional, and physical weakness.

Depression and chronic anxiety are likely to set in. you will experience oversensitivity, lack of control, obsessive or compulsive behavior, etc. which, in turn, will affect your engagements with physical things like family, relationships, and work. The health problems associated with this include arthritis, hip problems, anemia, joint issues, sexual and kidney problems, and low energy.

This will undoubtedly cost you your mental, emotional, and physical health.

Balancing The Chakra • Meditation This is one of the best methods to balance the sacral chakra. Chakra meditation practices help you remove the negative thought patterns and declutter your mind.

• Water Since the chakra possesses the element of water, it will be an effective way to open and balance the chakra by connecting with the water and the flow. You can sit near a river or a lake to help you balance and regulate your emotions.

You can also drink water and shower. It all works with the svadhishthana chakra.

• Positive affirmations You cannot remove the place of affirmations. It helps build self-confidence and strength that can heal the negativities that surround your conscious and subconscious self.

• Yoga poses You can also practice poses like upavista konasana, Sufi grind, kundalini lotus, kakasana, and trikonasana to balance your energies.

Other ways you can balance the sacral chakra include toning sounds or chanting, hip dancing, and the use of orange or anything with orange color during your yoga practice.