Sacral Chakra – Svadhistana
This Chakra is related to sensuality, sexuality, and desire for pleasure and is the center of sensuality and emotion.
Absorb information from your feelings. Instead, embrace and celebrate your sexuality.
Life is pleasurable, and you deserve pleasure in your life.
When balanced, it brings emotional health, sexual fulfillment, and adaptability.
When the Sacral Chakra is Blocked
When there’s a problem with the Sacral Chakra, you’ll likely feel bored, listless, and uninspired.
When you’re feeling uninspired creatively or have some emotional instability, your Sacral Chakra may be misaligned.
You may have a low sex drive and possibly fear (or resist) change.
Physical symptoms associated with a blocked Sacral Chakra include urinary discomfort, increased allergies, and an attraction to addictive behaviors.
These need not be related to drug or alcohol use.
For example, shopping addiction, gambling, and eating issues can all be linked to problems with the Sacral Chakra.
Likewise, this can also be associated with physical and sexual dysfunction while potentially experiencing fear of change, depression, or addiction-like behaviors.
Some of the most common Sacral Chakra problems and symptoms include the items on this list:
- Boredom
- Feeling easily offended
- Lack of creative inspiration
- Fear of change
- Guilt about the past
- Low self-worth
- Jealousy
- Addictive behaviors (including the unhealthy use of drugs or alcohol, but also extending to excessive spending, sexual compulsions, gambling problems, and overeating).
Physical manifestations of a troubled Sacral Chakra include the following:
- Low energy
- Reduced libido
- Bladder discomfort
- Worsened allergy symptoms
Balancing the Sacral Chakra
When the Sacral Chakra is out of balance, symptoms include—but aren’t limited to—attachment issues, sexually-related guilt, timidity, emotional volatility, hypersensitivity, and trust issues.
A person can act both completely disconnected and cold towards others if this Chakra is under-active or needy and emotionally dependent if the Chakra is over-active.
This Chakra is your most important emotional center, and because of this, at one time or another, most of us will experience an imbalance here.
Here are ways to balance your Sacral Chakra.
- Dance like no one’s watching.
- Dancing is one of the best—and easiest—ways to open your Sacral Chakra.
- For double the cleansing effects, get out with friends as you move your hips to your favorite rhythm.
- Taking care of your body and keeping your muscles strong and healthy is also essential.
Visualize orange
- Orange is the Sacral Chakra’s color.
- Imagine a bright, healing orange glow filling your lower abdomen—remember, we’re three-dimensional.
Balance your other Chakras
- A severe imbalance in one Chakra almost always means imbalances in other Chakras.
- Your throat Chakra, particularly, has strong connections to your Sacral Chakra.
- You can also try working a pose-like bridge that allows you to connect with many of your Chakras simultaneously, flowing slowly in and out of the posture as you connect your breath and movement.
- Learning to let go—of unhealthy emotions, people, and memories—is so important.
Sacral Chakra Advice
Comforting textures/sensations such as soft fabrics, baths, massage, acupuncture... dance, swimming, orgasm, yoga, creating art, creating your life experience, focusing on intention more than the outcome.How to Open the Sacral Chakra
- Put your hands in your lap, palms up, on top of each other.
- Left hand underneath, its palm is touching the back of the fingers of the right hand.
- The tips of the thumbs touch gently.
- Concentrate on the Sacral chakra (on the lower back) at the sacral bone.
- Chant the sound VAM.