Foods for Muladhara Chakra
Chakras are vital components of your spiritual journey, and knowing them can help you better connect your mind, body, and spirit. Both chakras and the foods you eat on a daily basis are fundamental to your life. Chakras are your inner energy centers, and food provides the energy you need to maintain a healthy flow of energy through your major eight ‘wheels of life.’ Food particles possess a particular frequency, which nourishes your chakras, and hence, your chakras are awakened when the vibration of food combines with your system vibration.
Feeding the chakras’ energetic layers will bring you to a new level of energy and vitality. Healthy chakras can provide you with the energy and strength you need to survive.
Muladhara (Root) Chakra is reinforced with family and ancestral connections. Enjoying a comforting meal with family members may have a profound stabilizing effect on the root chakra. Whenever possible try to pick up organic foods, which for Muladhara are divided into 4 main categories:
- Protein
- Minerals
- Red colored fruits and vegetables.
- Root vegetables.
Protein has a calming impact and helps to build the physical body: Vegan proteins may be found in lentils, tofu, black beans, quinoa, millet, soy milk, green peas, hemp, pumpkin and chia seeds, tempeh, hemp milk, soybean, spinach, black-eyed peas, broccoli, almonds, chlorella, tahini, chickpeas, and peanut butter.
Because the element of the root chakra is Earth, a mineral-rich diet produces stability — so a plant-based diet is also advised.
Red fruits and vegetables benefit the root chakra in a variety of ways. The color of the root chakra is red, and consuming red may well assist regulate it. The majority of red fruits and vegetables are high in vitamin C. The root chakra is linked to the bones, the skin, and the adrenals, all of which need Vitamin C to work properly. Red apples, strawberries, cranberries, cherries, tomatoes, red cabbage, beetroot, and various other fruits and vegetables are all helpful.
Root Vegetables are a vital resource because they are grown in Earth’s soil and contain the grounding and stabilizing energy of Earth. Potatoes, beets, carrots, onion, garlic, and parsnips can have a positive effect on the root chakra.
Because of their link to the earth, root vegetables are particularly effective in balancing the root chakra.
Depending on your personal preferences and lifestyle, there are numerous ways to consume the aforementioned foods and nutrients. To get the most out of these, renowned nutritionists recommend eating them raw, as the heat of cooking brings down some of their essential properties. Colorful salads and mixtures can be created in this manner, but if you are not used to eating raw food, smoothies are a delicious and convenient alternative that can combine both fruits and vegetables together. Chopping these foods over a hot stove and adding them to our meals in various blends as add-ons is the most common way to consume them in today’s fast-paced society and another healthy way to get them into our system. Whatever way you choose to consume them, the important takeaway is that you consume them to bring their healing energies into your Muladhara (Root) Chakra.
Eating naturally red foods is the easiest way to balance and heal your root chakra. Red foods that strengthen the root chakra include red apples, raspberries, sweet or tart cherries, strawberries, cranberries, pomegranates, watermelon or grapes. You can take them raw or in sweetened smoothies as drinks too.
It’s no coincidence that those foods that grow deep in the earth help us connect with the earth itself. Root vegetables and rhizomes instantly ground us and provide us with Earth’s healing qualities. These include carrots, parsnips, potatoes, ginger, turmeric and turnips. Dandelion Root Tea can be added as drink too.
Fiery and typically red, spicy peppers quickly draw us back into physical space and assist us in being aware of our physical body. Pepper spice offers us an energetic zap while grounding any surplus energy at the Root Chakra.
High-Protein Foods are particularly good for vegans (those who don’t eat meat and eggs) when balancing Muladhara. Tofu, edamame, peanuts and peanuts butter, cashews, beans, cacao nibs, sunflower seeds and walnuts.
Non-vegan foods include red meats because they are loaded with grounding iron and protein and provide us with additional energy to help us run. And eggs have the most comprehensive protein and vitamin profiles too.
Thinking red and root is the simplest way to find out foods and drinks to nourish your Muladhara Chakra. If you also feel inclined to a sattvic diet some of the above given traditional recommendations like garlic or onion (CNS stimulants) and non-veg foods could be best avoided for optimum results. Our whole chakra system entirely relies on our Central Nervous System from the base of the spine to the top of the head. When it comes to obtain the best long-term benefits and steadiness of our system is always preferable to opt for a sattvic diet or at least try to move on the way to it, thus preventing possible imbalances in our chakra system and speed up the healing of our life-supporting Muladhara (Root) Chakra.
