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Muladhara Chakra

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Created on Wednesday, 07 December 2011 01:58

Mula (root) dhara(base) chakra is the lowest located chakra, the ball of red light at the base of our spine. From there we are lifting up to the sky as well as we root our legs into the ground.  This chakra is connected to our ancestry, our parents, beliefs which we have formed being brought up in a certain family, basic knowledge on how to survive and sustain our physical body.

Motivations that drive us from this chakra are connected with providing ourselves security and stability, sense of feeling at home. At this level we are very much influenced by our parental background.  For instance, kids that are born into the family of musicians, and who commenced on this profession as well, were driven by Muladhara when they took up this path. In yoga world, we can think of Sharath (Rangaswami) Jois, who was born into the family of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and who later became a great practitioner and a teacher of his own right.

Basically, this chakra is rather developed in most of us as this is the first thing we learn as we grow up. I guess that drifters / cardboard dwellers are the ones who have lost connection with their Muladhara as they have lost the sense of taking care of their body temple and of seeking a sweet warm shelter. The depletion of Muladhara energy can also cause feeling of being unwelcome and nervousness. On emotional level when this chakra is healthy, we are physically present, stable, and feel ourselves at home. The danger here is that many people in our society overwork this energy center in search of stability and security by turning into greedy and materialistic, security obsessed neurotics. Once this happens, we are very stiff in our beliefs and do not welcome any change into our lives.

Once Muladhara business is settled and we have found comfort in our body and have found food and shelter, we start ascending to the higher level of Swadistana chakra. Read on it in my next post in a week’s time. Be happy, healthy and strong!