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Foods for Swadhisthana Chakra
Food is an important source for ensuring human has the required energy level to perform a certain task. When it comes to energy, every human has eight energy centers in his or her body known as chakras. Balancing these chakras ensures that your performance in accomplishing each task is optimal. In other words, if your chakras are balanced, you have a lower chance of failing in the deed you are performing.
So, monitoring as well as balancing chakras is essential. There are many factors that can affect the balancing of your chakra, one of them is food. The particles of the dish that we eat, inherently possess a particular frequency that has the potential to nourish your chakra. Systematic monitoring of a particular chakra leads to the knowledge of whether it is balanced or not. In case it has some sort of unbalance, you can balance it by eating specific food that awakens the chakra.
Swadhisthana (Sacral) chakra is located at the navel and is represented using hues of orange. It is deeply rooted in the things that are related to emotions and creativity. For balancing your Sacral chakra, it is advisable to eat foods that are rich in Omega 3 such as Salmon and also, nuts, seeds like flax, almonds, walnuts, and sesame. These kinds of food provide additional fatty Omega 3 that also aid in cardiovascular health and the reduction of inflammation.
In particular foods such as:
- Carrots
- Mangoes
- Oranges
- Orange Peppers
- Peaches
- Apricots
- Sweet Potatoes
Consumption of coconut and spices like cinnamon are also considered to be very beneficial in balancing the Sacral chakra. Recipes made from coconut, orange, and mangoes such as smoothies, orange sesame tofu stir-fry, herb, and ghee roasted sweet potatoes, and coconut milk salmon chowder support the Swadhisthana.
Additionally, feeding the sacral chakra with sweet fruits such as melons, mangoes, strawberries, passion fruit, oranges, coconut assists you in recovering the power of sacral chakra back.
Consumption of any food, in general, happens to take into consideration many factors, the first one being your routine. Now that you know the foods that can be eaten for activating the correct potential of Swadhisthana, it’s important to know how experts recommend consuming them raw. That is because when you heat to cook any particular food, not only decreases the number of nutrients inside it but also brings down some of their vital benefits.
Generally, the amount of food that you consume affects the energy that your body has during the entire day. And the amount of energy should be in a balanced proportion to carry out all the tasks in an effective manner. So, take utmost care of the amount of food that you are taking in, to ensure you do not end up disturbing your routine with the aim of activating your Swadhisthana.
Swadhisthana Chakra is associated with orange color so eating orange-colored foods is a very obvious and simple way to heal your sacral chakra. Remember that the sacral chakra is our pleasure and passion center. It governs many aspects of the human body as well as the soul such as emotions, senses, intimacy, creativity as well as connection.
Having a balanced sacral chakra is having the freedom to express our inner creativity, the formation of in-depth intimate relationships, and the energy that we need for pursuing our passions.
Swadhisthana chakra’s element is water. Experts recommend being near flowing water to optimize the healing of this chakra. In terms of drinks, staying hydrated throughout the day by drinking plenty of water, coconut water, or herbal teas is one way to speedily activate one’s sacral chakra.
Moist foods that have abundant seeds such as passion fruit as well as strawberries which are good for activating the sacral chakra. Orange-colored foods such as pumpkin, and butternut squash offers sustained and creative energy assisting to stabilize the sacral chakra.
The Chandogya Upanishad emphasizes sattvic foods for purifying the mind and becoming a part of the pure consciousness. Sattvic food is known to generate a sattva mind i.e. balanced and pure. From eating the items mentioned above, fruits such as mangoes, peaches, apricots, oranges, honey, vegetables like carrots, sweet potatoes, and nuts. Also, note that our entire chakra system is dependent on our central nervous system which is very much affected by the sattvic diet so, the more you consume the sattvic diet and raw food, the more balanced your chakras would remain.
