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Nurturing Our Own First Chakra: Growing Adult and Finding Safety in Times of Threat

Nurturing Our Own First Chakra: Growing Adult and Finding Safety in Times of Threat



 The recent global challenges of a pandemic are certainly testing each of us in unique ways. As a collective human unit, we may all be feeling the effects on our first chakra, whether we are aware of it or not. Signs there are energy blockages, deficiencies or stagnancy in the first chakra include depression, anxiety over survival issues and feeling unsafe, as well as problems with lower parts of the body such as legs, feet, hips, sciatica, or elimination problems. More specifically, deficiency in energy flow through this center can cause feelings of being insecure, disconnected, restless and listless. Signs of being overactive and having built up or stored energy can cause materialism, greed, competitiveness, overeating and anger. We may also notice an ebb and flow between deficiency and build-up of energy in this center of our bodies as the state of the pandemic changes for the world and individually on a daily basis.

What does the pandemic have to do with our root chakra? Our root chakra (Mūlādhāra) is a center for the energetic frequencies of stability, grounding, nurturing, safety and support. This energy center is representative of our basic starting point in life which allows us to expand into higher levels of awareness and productivity. From the very beginning of our being, hopefully and ideally, we were surrounded by a nurturing and supportive unit dedicated to our well-being and safety, preparing us with a solid foundation for further individual development of personal potential. On a daily basis, as we have grown, our first chakra is our source for actualization of our full range of possibilities as a person. This is also the basis of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which at the lower fundamental level, proposes that we must first feel safe and provided for with basic needs of food, love and support- physically, mentally and emotionally, in order to continually grow and sustain self-actualization. Our very root has been shaken and threatened by this pandemic. On a global and personal scale we have been threatened in different degrees with safety, uncertainty and lack of basic needs. Areas where we have perhaps felt uncertain before may now be amplified, that sense of lack of safety may now be even more eminently threatened or questioned.

Our energy center representative of a nurturing family unit or base from which supportive safety comes is earth energy, Mother Earth, GIA. We are connected, like an umbilical cord from a baby to its mother, from our root chakra to this universal collective wise and compassionate energy center. You may have drawn a sense of grounding and safety from this Mother Earth through practices such as hugging a tree, gazing awestruck into an amazing nature setting, or using grounding techniques. One such grounding technique that many utilize is a visualized grounding cord through which energy is sent to the earth to cleanse as an energetic equivalent of letting ‘mommy take care of the problem’. This Mother Earth energy center is incredibly efficient at taking our unneeded and unhealthy energy and transmuting it into loving energy that is healthy and useful for ourselves and the planet.
The problems that we currently have with the pandemic have multiple sources proposed. No matter what theory you subscribe to, it still causes an unsettling feeling of being unsafe, and being abandoned by that which should be nurturing us and keeping us safe. Perhaps you feel the earth is turning against us due to all the hurtful things we are continuing to do. Perhaps you feel the government is not doing a good enough job keeping us safe. Perhaps you feel you have not been provided for enough in monetary areas of life, and so you are now in a further compromised position. The bottom line is, more so than ever perhaps we are feeling threatened, unsafe, uncertain and unsupported.

What can we do to help support ourselves physically, mentally and emotionally and actualize ourselves in a higher energetic frequency? As adults we have choices on how to deal with these feelings of lack of support, as well as how to handle our energetic frequencies in response to the situation. We can choose to surrender or take charge. Both choices are enacting responsibility for our health and well-being. Both choices are equally beneficial. Both choices will depend on each person and each circumstance. Neither choice is better, more advanced, nor of higher frequency than the other. Both choices are also possible at the same time. Life is a choose-your-own-adventure, you get to choose what is right for you.

Choice to Surrender: As mentioned, Mother Earth is excellent and proficient at handling our baggage. When we surrender and allow our Mother Earth to nurture us with loving energy, and release the energy within that is stuck or limiting us, we become balanced with flowing healthy, helpful energy throughout our being. Practices such as grounding, meditation, visualizing energy flow, and Reiki can help to both release unblock energy that is causing stagnancy or a build-up of worry, fear and anger, as well as help to increase and invite energy flow where there is none, causing a decrease in the feelings of lack and helplessness. These practices can help re-connect us with our source energy, and the energy of Mother Earth in order to truly feel the sense of being loved, cared for and supported. This sense of nurturing safety and abundance can then come from the inside filling us up with connection, love, and support.

Choice to take charge: At a certain point within different areas of our lives, we may choose to take over our own healing in a more active role. This may also be true of our root chakra health. Though the root chakra is representative of a collective unit providing our safety net, we may also provide this to ourselves. We may be the source of our own safety, stability and basic needs of security and love. Ideally, we come to a point where we realize it is sometimes necessary and very healthy to not lean on others for constant support, to realize that we have been given the tools and knowledge, or can create or discover the tools and knowledge, to be our own source of support. This may not be the best mode to live within all areas of our life, nor at all times, because this self-sufficiency can create a lot of distance and lack of flow between ourselves and others. However, if utilized mindfully, taking charge of our own safety can create a strong sense of self confidence and stability. Practices that can help develop a sense of support can include evaluating our lives and choices we have personally made to bring us to a position where we feel unsafe. There may have been a lot of outside factors that brought us to this point, however, setting those aside momentarily, and realizing what we might choose to do in the future can be empowering. For instance, we can clean up our house, perhaps rid our surroundings of things we may be hoarding in order to cling to a sense of abundance, or clean up things within our house that may be threatening our safety or sense of well-being. We can finally tackle our financial situation and realize new choices that we can make in the future for spending wisely. We can also reach beyond our own personal situation globally to take charge by evaluating how we can take action for our planetary sense of safety, such as becoming more politically active, joining clean-up efforts, or getting serious about living more sustainably in a truly supported way. These are just some examples, which may not apply to you, and you inevitably have even better ideas which you know will fit your life and help bring true grounding, stability and safety, even in small areas of life, which will make a large overall impact.

We all are feeling the impact of the pandemic in different ways, but undoubtedly one of the best ways to help ourselves and others is with self-love and self-care. These acts are the path to being the fully actualized and healthy adult we envision for ourselves. We can get to the root of why we may be feeling distressed by evaluating how our sense of safety is perhaps being threatened and choosing to surrender our safety to a higher power and/or take action by bringing in energy vibrations of security and stability. Whichever you choose for yourself I commend you for choosing to be nurturing with yourself.


Nicole Wilson, B.S., Reiki Practitioner-True Self Wellness and Healing
April 14, 2020
www.TrueSelfWellnessAndHealing.com

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