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