Sacral Chakra (Swadhisthana)

• The sacral chakra helps us experience life through our senses & developing flexibility in our life and how we relate to our emotions and the emotions of others. It also governs creativity, sexual energy, the relationship with the world and other people is centered around nurturing, pleasure, harmonious exchange. Those with a blocked sacral chakra could feel a lack of control in their lives, unemotional, uncertain, insecurity, inability to cope with life’s changes, feeling detached, and rigid in your routine becoming overwhelmed with life changes. Chakra imbalance can also contribute to finding one’s self in unhealthy, abusive relationships, lack of self-esteem or self-worth, co-dependency with other people or a substance that grants you easy access to pleasure, reactionary, anti-social behavior, follower tendencies. Can also feeling numb, out of touch with yourself and how you feel, overindulgence in fantasies, sexual obsessions, or lack of sexual desire or satisfaction, feeling stuck in a particular feeling or mood, overly proud, arrogant attitude

o Located: Lower abdomen, about 2 inches below the navel

o Behaviors it Controls: Your sense of abundance, well-being, pleasure, sexuality, emotions, feelings, relationships, relating, expression of sexuality, sensual pleasure, feeling the outer and inner worlds, creativity, fantasies

o Mantra: There are many mantra’s (Vam, I am inspired, I am creative, I feel, etc.….)

o Color: Orange

o Element: Water

o Stone: Tiger's Eye, Carnelian, Sunstone, Orange Calcite, etc.….

o When it develops: 8-14 years old