The Root Route

Do you feel like you may have root chakra (Muladhara) damage? I would argue that we all experience issues with the Muladhara throughout our lives.

Indicators of Root Chakra damage

• Instability – physical, materialistic, emotional.
• Financial problems
• Poor physical health
• Having a lack mentality
• Fatigue
• Physical issues, body aches and pains, in particular back pain and leg pain.
• Issues with reproductive organs 
• Bowel issues like IBS
• Insomnia or hypersomnia.

The above indicators are just some of the ways Muladhara issues can present. Read on to discover how this impacts our life and what we can do about it.

Why is healing the Root so important?

All paths toward healing (and ascension toward higher consciousness if that is a personal goal) must start with the root chakra (Muladhara). All energy flows up and down through the chakras, if the root chakra is too closed down due to lack of grounding and damage (from trauma) the energy cannot flow upward to the other chakras, leaving a depleted energy field (please see ‘the energy field and the chakras’ for more on this). In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs the root chakra is responsible for the two bottom most tiers. The root chakra is our sense of safety, security (financially and physically), the meeting of our physical needs, having and being enough, and our ability to be connected and grounded, deeply rooted with our mother earth (Gaia).

I would argue that we all have root chakra damage, even the most nurturing conscious parenting cannot eliminate outside sources affecting our sense of safety. War, pandemics, economic crisis and violence disturb us all, this is compounded by the damage we are born with (ancestral traumas). Understanding how fundamental the root chakra is to our health and well-being, and that a significant amount of trauma primarily affects the root chakra, explains why such a significant amount of us experience blockages, challenges and lack in the areas governed by the root chakra.

Hence, if a healthy balanced and harmonious life is your intended path, we need to continually work on ourselves, the areas the root chakra sustains, and work on healing the damage to our root chakra.

There are many ways we can heal our Muladhara, and the exercises below will all be beneficial (especially in maintenance), nothing however, and I really emphasise this point, NOTHING will heal profound damage to the root chakra like spending time on your groundwork and healing your trauma (please see ‘the groundwork’ for further understanding on this). 

Exercises to support the Muladhara and aid healing a damaged root.

There are many ways to improve the health our our root chakra; many of them are as simple as eating and wearing red, empowering yourself, and caring for your vessel.

• Eat naturally red foods, beetroot is a food particularly attuned to the root chakra, it is a deep red in colour, earthy flavour and is grown in the ground. During the years that I worked on my very damaged root I made fresh borscht (a soup originating from the Ukraine made with fresh beetroot) and consumed it at least 3 times a week, after I received a message from my guidance team around how healing an aid it is.
• Wear red- under wear, socks and shoes are the most beneficial ways to wear red.
• The use of specific crystals can not only accelerate healing but also act as protection from further damage (particularly the severity of the impact) my personal favourites are hematite, red jasper, smoky quartz and red tigers eye. Hematite is very iron rich and has a red imprint even though the stone itself will look black to silver. My advice on choosing what crystal to work with is allow yourself to be called to the crystals, go with what you are drawn to.
• Empowerment – society is always so concerned with the right and wrong, disempowering our own guidance system with overpowering archaic patriarchal ideals, the healing journey is about undoing that and allowing yourself to be drawn, guided and inspired. Allowing the fear of getting things wrong to dissipate in small ways initially will result in empowerment of the self and your own guidance system to become stronger.
• Nurturing and caring for the physical body through exercise especially walking in nature and practices like yoga (where connection with the physical body is the emphasis) are imperative, especially for chain breakers experiencing chronic health issues. A daily grounding practice like sitting on the ground, being barefoot on the ground, grounding meditation (where you connect downward with Gaia rather than upward to source) is an excellent self healing tool, as is meditating, or sleeping listening to the solfeggio frequency of 396 Htz.