Sacral (Swadhisthana) Chakra
Voice of Sacral (Swadhisthana) Chakra: “You are special and unique. You build your self-esteem by honouring your identity.”
Introduction: Sacral (Swadhisthana) Chakra holds the ‘chi’, or energy of creation, around the area of the spleen. The Sacral chakra serves as the seat of your identity consciousness, igniting your creativity, expression, passion, emotional wellbeing and sensitivity, fearlessness, joyful experiences, pleasure, taste, sensuality, and sexual energy, all of which contribute to your unique identity.
Location: Sacral (Swadhisthana) Chakra is located between the navel and the base of the spinal cord.
- Color: Orange
- Element: Water
- Location: At the lower belly about 2 inches below the Navel
- Musical Note: D
- Glandular Connection: Reproductive glands
- Frequency: 417 Hz
- Objective: Creativity, the nature of your relationships, freedom from guilt, pleasure and nurturance, sensation and sexuality.
Description: The Sacral (Swadhisthana) Chakra controls the sexual organs and manifests joy, compassion, sensuality and creativity. The Sacral (Swadhisthana) Chakra can also affect the lower back, lower digestive organs and urinary system. It is a strong link to our mother’s womb. If unbalanced, it produces fear of living, worthlessness and resentment. If balanced, it expands our desire to form relationships and live with sensitivity. The spiritual lessons from this Chakra is to learn how to emotionally surf through the different scenes of the movie of life and play the multiple characters assigned to us thorough it. The sacral chakra is the seat of creativity and holds the energy of transactions we make with others whether financial or social, hence it’s crucial in how we manage money and engage in relationships with others. Furthermore, this is our emotional hub and when it is out of balance, you may have problems moving forward in life due to fears to surrender our beliefs in right or wrong and making judgments about.
Also Read: Attributes of Swadhisthana Chakra
A blocked sacral chakra can cause you to feel disconnected from your own emotions as well as those of others around you. You might feel isolated and frightened of being alone and lonely. It’s a vicious cycle that prevents you from moving with the tides of life and keeps you stuck without the ability to emotionally integrate experiences and progress through life’s stages. It interferes with the normal emotional maturation that should occur during childhood, by keeping you emotionally unstable. This is why many adults with a blocked Swadhisthana carry many traumas and emotionally painful memories from their childhood. As a result of this blockage, constant and recurring money and relationship problems arise, which eventually manifest physically as lower back problems.
As it governs your ability to relate to others and the world around you, the sacral chakra also helps you maintain a balanced emotional state and life-management skills. When sacral energy flow is obstructed, you may experience a lack of emotion, insecurity, uncertainty and an inability to deal with life’s changes.
Also Read: Diseases of Swadhisthana Chakra
The Swadhisthana Chakra allows us to shape our desires. As the center of creativity, awakens the energy of both creation and manifestation. This enables an individual to discover the freedom of choice and form intimate relationships. This energy center when in balance fosters pleasure, promotes emotional well-being and it plays an active role in the expression of our sexuality and emotional needs and desires. Hence, a person with a balanced sacral chakra have the ability to allow pleasure into their lives; they are usually very creative and expressive. This balance is often found in people who have a high level of integrity, are very ethical and honour relationships; they also are very much attuned to their own feelings and have a sympathetic and trusting nature.
You will experience a healthy balance of being present when you stop chasing pleasure and denying pain. You’ll learn to appreciate what you have rather than seeking instant gratification. Instead of being afraid of adversity, you will be able to learn from it and then let it go. It allows you to do things without becoming emotionally invested in the outcome. Then you’ll be able to feel at ease in any situation and go with the flow, resulting in a healthier sacral chakra.
The Swadhisthana chakra is concerned with personal identity and how it reacts to the alluring forces of the physical world. As a result of its balanced emotional self-regulation and integrated self-esteem, a balanced sacral chakra encourages the capacity to take risks and experience positivity and joy.
A balanced sacral chakra teaches us that every connection we have, from the most casual to the most personal, has a purpose, regardless of how painful, to help us become more self-aware and conscious of our karma.
It inspires us to interact with others in a fun and friendly manner. We can sail our relationships using the energy of the sacral chakra. Both eroticism and love begin to flow from this energy center.
Overactivity in the Sacral (Swadhisthana) Chakra can lead to becoming emotionally imbalanced with the tendency to fantasize. There will be many issues around channelizing money and opportunities that give more money, such as money spending, and also sexual issues, even issues related to power and control such as manipulative behaviour. There is a sensation of being over flooded of emotions that escape to our control which also may turn into dread and incomprehensible fears from unknown origin that seem to come and run without our intention and what is worst, you may well feel unable to do something to bring these to clarity but rather they become overwhelming for you. An overactive Sacral chakra may well also cause strong waves of erratic emotions and a lack of attention deriving in lack of productivity and focus. Disorganized emotions come and go as time passes by, without can constrain and explain what we are feeling about in an accurate way.
A blocked or underactive Sacral (Swadhisthana) Chakra will lead to emotional instability but this is mainly focusing on the over-sensitive, insecure type of emotions. A person who has a blocked Sacral (Swadhisthana) Chakra is usually very hard on themselves, feeling guilty and blame for no reason, which can lead to feelings of isolation and withdrawal from life. With your energetic emotional hub inactivated or suppressed, or not activated enough, you feel detached from your own feelings as well as detached from the feelings of others around you. Wrong relationships of all kinds including jobs are taken up, leading to income issues and loss of real opportunities as they come but they always seem to slip by. This energy center craves for happy relationships and joy around, but when repressed you can feel the pain of not being able to relate to yourself and others as you wish.
When blocked it could lead to low back pain, female problems, pelvic pain, urinary problems, emotional issues including a tendency to blaming others, lack of extra money, sexual problems, kidney weakness, constipation, muscle cramps, lack of energy, repression and inhibition, loss of weight, imbalances in the endocrine system, muscle tension, poor vitamin C absorption and depression. Social withdrawal. Our reproductive organs, ovaries, womb and genitals, as well as our kidneys, bladder, and circulatory system are affected. One may experience sexual impotency, pregnancy and child birth issues, or menstrual difficulties, uterine, kidney, and spleen or bladder problems.
When you enter into any union, make sure you understand every aspect of the transaction. Do not ignore or avoid delving deeply into details. Most people have relationship problems which are caused by misunderstandings or improper interpretation of what others are trying to convey, usually because their different backgrounds. A proper flow of open and free communication between you and others plays a key role to positively flow through your relationships.
Set your boundaries. You need to do what makes you joyful and what is in accordance with your identity. Don’t cross it for the interest of others to make them happy. Don’t compromise your values to please others. When conflict of any kind arises, remember to look for solutions inside, not outside, by using your creative intelligence and surrender to the Self. Look at incidents or situations as learning lessons, release negativity arising from them and move on to enjoy newer unions with time. Let the past not define what you are going to receive in the present.
Specific Rudraksha and gemstones when worn as per RRST give the required frequency and color to the Swadhisthana chakra to balance it. Once the chakra is balanced, physical and emotional symptoms disappear and the wearer is empowered to find his life purpose and face life with renewed energy and vigor. symptoms disappear and the wearer is empowered to find his life purpose and face life with renewed energy and vigor.
Primary Purpose: It is our center for passion, creativity and sexuality. It is a link to the world and center of universal energy.
Indriyas (Senses): Taste, Creation
When your Swadhisthana Chakra is closed: Fears and insecurities plague you. You feel abused, hurt and confused and don’t trust that you can be loved for being you. You are afraid to take risks in life and often end up debts.
When your Swadhisthana Chakra is opened: You are fearless by nature and know you are safe and protected. You are creative and have a trusting nature. You have a strong sense of your sexuality and recognize it as one of your most powerful creative energies.
Swadhisthana Chakra is Blocked by: Fears, insecurities, guilt and feeling not appreciated/less worthy. Holding resentment/anger for a long time.
Swadhisthana Chakra is Unlocked when
You get established in your being and live a life free of fears and guilt. You feel cherished, precious and special.
Emotions: Emotions, Desire
Associations: Debts, Losses, Enemies, Court cases
Physical Symptoms: Impotence, Frigidity, Uterine Problems, Candida, Eating Disorders, Drug Use, Alcoholism, Polarity Imbalances, Fertility Issues, Endometriosis and PCOS, Lower back pain and Muscle pain, Emotional Instability and Depression
Psychological Functions: Feelings, Emotions, Intimacy, Procreation, Polarity, Sensuality, Confidence, Sociability, Freedom, Movement
Emotional Symptoms: Lack of motivation, isolation, frustration and blocked creativity
Endocrine Glands: Gonads
Associated Body Parts: Ovaries, Testes, Womb, Kidneys, Urinary Tract, Skin, Spleen, Gallbladder
- Put your hands in your lap, palms up, on top of each other.
- Left hand underneath, its palm touching the back of the fingers of the right hand.
- The tips of the thumbs touch gently.
- Concentrate on the sacral chakra two inches below Navel. Chant the sound VAM.
Do it for 20 minutes and feel the sensation of awakening of the Swadhisthana chakra.
Facing a fear in meditation, brings it into the light of awareness and releases it. So in this technique, a person enters into meditation through use of a meditation music and then brings up the fears to surface and then releases them. You can meditate on one limiting belief at a time for 40 minutes or say the limiting beliefs that apply to you daily for 40 days.
- I release belief that I am the wrong sex
- I release belief that I should have been the opposite sex
- I release belief that relationships are painful
- I release belief that relationships are controlling
- I release belief that life is hard
- I release belief that love is hard
- I release belief that I hate my body
- I release belief that I hate being a male/female
- I release belief that sex is bad
- I release fear of loneliness
- I release fear of being rejected
- I release fear of being unappreciated
- I release fear of being unmotivated
- I release fear of being disrespected
- I release fear of being damaged
- I release belief that my needs are not met
- I release belief that relationships are unsafe
- I release fear of being unsupported in life
- I release fear of being unprotected in life
- I release fear of being victimized
- I release belief that I lack personal identity
- I release belief that I am not cherished
- I release low self-esteem
- I release fear of repeating poor relationships patterns
- I release all guilt from every cell of my body
- I release fear that I don’t deserve a better life
- I release belief that I don’t deserve love
- I release belief that I don’t deserve happiness
- I release fear that nobody wants me
- I release fear that nobody is there for me
- I release fear that I don’t know who I really am
- I release belief that I don’t want to know my real self
- I release belief that it is scary to be real….
- I release belief that I am never good enough
- I release being guilty if things go my way
- I release belief that I have to have struggle somewhere in my life
- I release belief that who am I to make difference
- I release belief that women are weak
- I release belief that men are controlling
- I release the feeling that I am stupid
- I release the feeling that I am stuck
- I release the fear that there is no love for me
- I release the belief that I have nothing to offer…
Thank you God,
I am worthy of love/I am grateful to be a woman or man/I am the right one/my life is right and good/I am deserving of all of life’s blessings/I am receiving them now/this child is wanted, welcomed, and deeply loved/it’s my birthright to have my needs met/I am noticed/I am totally me in relationships/relationships are safe…
Thank you God,
Sex is spiritual and sacred/I am grateful for this body as it is now/I am comfortable in my body/I am allowing nurturing and comfort/I am nurturing myself with loving words and feelings.
Thank you God,
I am wanted/I am chosen/I am receiving my good now/I am rich in all areas of life/ I am noticed for the good I contribute/I am welcomed here/I am experiencing heaven within me/I am experiencing a positive connection to God/I am anchored in the light.
Balanced Chakras allow the Universal energy or the prana to flow freely through the body from one energy center to another. Not only does this promotes optimal physical health, but it also allows reconnection with consciousness and fosters a state of spiritual awakening. There are multiple healing methods that one can adopt to balance your chakras.
You can browse through the links below to find out more about how to balance Swadhisthana chakra:
- Affirmations
- Aromatherapy
- Color Therapy
- Crystal Healing
- Sound Therapy
- Yoga Asanas
- Mudras
- Deities
- Planets
- Foods
Of all the methods to balance the Chakras, usage of appropriate combination of Rudraksha beads and Gemstones is the most efficient and potent.
Rudraksha Ratna Science Therapy (RRST) is an alternative healing therapy which balances the 7 Chakras by not only using a unique combination of Rudraksha and Gemstones and a specific methodology of wearing them as bracelets and pendants as per chakra science. RRST combinations empower individuals with physical and mental wellbeing, spiritual progress, success and help them tune with the natural laws of life through opening of the chakras.