The Root Chakra is located at the base of the spine and is associated with the earth element. If we were ever sensient beings on four legs with tails, the site where the tail meets the body is where the root chakra is located. Imagine an invisible root extended into the earth from the base of your spine...this is the place that connects us to our earth home and all the survival issues inherent in our presence here. Your needs for food, shelter and clothing, warmth and community and nurturing are all located here. Any issues you have with those basic needs for survival are located in the root chakra.
For instance, the survivors of Hurricane Katrina are dealing with very extreme root chakra issues. The conflict and fear created by their experience of hunger, thirst, and depravation will be stored or "recorded" in the first chakra. It's possible that if those conflicts and fears aren't resolved, then disease may be created in the body. Knee, feet and leg problems and all many of illness relating to the elimination system might manifest themselves as symptoms of a blocked root chakra.
On the emotional level, the root chakra is where the power of fear and courage, anger and anxiety are located. For the Katrina victims, a natural outcome to the emotional crisis of being betrayed by a "tribe" or nation that failed them in their basic human rights for survival is going to have a profound affect on their collective and individuals root chakras. The black people of our nation will all experience that betrayal to some extent or other, or so it seems to me, and that betrayal is experienced physically by the first chakra.
A very cool and important aspect of the root chakra is the energy of Kundalini. Just as our earth home is considered a mother, so is our first chakra considered a female energy. Kundalini Shakti (sanskrit for "energy"), in Hindu mythology, is represented as a serpent goddess coiled three and a half times around the root chakra and contains the energizing potential of life itself, a living goddess who enlivens all things. Kundalini lies dormant and sleeping in many people. There is no mistaking the force of Kundalini when and if it wakes up in the human body. Kundalini animates and energizes all the chakras, undulating upward, piercing the chakras and releasing all kinds of powerful and stored energy. Therefore, the experience of Kundalini can be very intense, very uncomfortable and may look like full blown life crisis to some.
In my own experience, while attending a GOMEZ concert in Washington, D.C. Kundalini woke up in my own first chakra and took over my physical body in a way I simply don't have the words to describe. It was like being plugged into 220 volts after years of 20. My whole energy field shifted to such a great extent and suddently I could FEEL how energized and intensely connected to the entire univeral life force I was and in a way I'd never experienced before. I started to dance and move in a manner completely unfamiliar to me: ecstatically, blissfully, and unbelievably ALIVE! Kundalini ignited a tremendous passion and great love of life in me. When you are around people with awakened Kundalini you may experience them as animated, intense and very exciting. However, depending on where you are in your own journey, you might find them frightening or draining. Ultimately though, Kundalini is a force that accelerates healing and when the heart chakra is on board with the first, that healing can be experienced as miraculous.
And in the name of miraculous healing, I send you my blessings of love for your own healing.
You are loved,
Connie
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