Svadhisthana - Water
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The Sacral Chakra is associated with the color orange or red-orange. I usually visualize the Sunkist orange that has been dyed to attract the produce buyer, or the orange red of an evening sunset when I'm focusing on spinning my second chakra. It deals mostly with sexuality and self-expression. This chakra often offers us the opportunity to lessen our "control issues" and find a balance in our lives, teaching us to recognize that acceptance and rejection are not the only options in our relationships. The process of making changes in our life stream through our personal choices is a product of second chakra energy. A well-functioning second chakra helps one to maintain a healthy yin-yang existence.
Chakra Two - Associations
Mental States
Chakra Two - Associations
- Color - orange
- Sanskrit Name - swadhisthana
- Physical Location - lower abdomen to the navel
- Purposes - emotional connection
- Spiritual Lesson - creativity, manifestation. honoring relationships, learning to "let go"
- Physical Dysfunctions- low back pain, sciatica, ob/gyn problems, pelvic pain, libido, urinary problems
- Mental and Emotional Issues - blame, guilt, money, sex, power, control, creativity, morality
- Information Stored Inside Sacral Chakra - duality, magnetism, controlling patterns, emotional feelings (joy, anger, fear)
- Area of Body Governed - sexual organs, stomach, upper intestines, liver, gallbladder, kidney, pancreas, adrenal glands, spleen, middle spine
Mental States
- Negative- Over-indulgent; materialistic, moody, possessive; lazy, jealous, envious
- Positive- Kind, receptive, tolerant, creative, respectful, tender and intimate, works positively
Meditations to help balance the Sacral Chakra (Libido and Self-expression)
Keeping the first chakra open, take a long deep breath in, and lift your awareness from your root center, up to the second chakra, the area of your sexual and reproductive organs. Take in more, letting the red energy from below heat up to a glowing orange surge... Now let the air rush out and begin to consciously relax your genital muscles, buttocks, abdomen, hips, and pelvis. Breathe the warm energy into the second chakra, deep inside your sexual center. Allow the power generated below to surge upwards and spread out at this second energy level, like warm, orange lava flowing out of a volcano.
As each breath washes through your sexual center, notice your desires awakening. Moisture softens the earth., it becomes fluid, and the energy of movement develops. Things smell juicy, and you want a taste.
This is the level of sensation, attraction, physical pleasure. It's also the center of regeneration and procreation. Sense the ovaries or testes, prostate, and spleen.. Feel into the very center of your sex. Imagine that each breath you take sensitizes and charges this second level energy center, your reproductive and sexual desire plexus.
Breathe freely through the second chakra as if drawing energy up from the earth, feeling the surge as you release any residual tightness from the genital muscles, anus, buttocks, thighs, and down your legs. Tune into any sense of warmth or vibration, and allow it to gradually grow, while breathing and centering on this sexual-pro-creative power within you, the most powerful biological force in the universe. At this time and place, give in to the urge to feel it totally. Feel the pleasure in your groin and glands.
The natural element is water; it is mutable and not easily contained. You are pulled by the moon, and swayed by emotional tides. You are in the ocean and you are of the ocean. The sea is all around you, as the blood stream permeates you within. Your internal sea of blood bathes the trillions of cells in your body. They swim in a rich warm primal soup of salt and floating nutrients.
Here, the human evolutionary stage is primitive. You are dominated by desire and the powerful urge for physical gratification, driven by the polarity of attraction and repulsion.
Your sexual powers can imprison or liberate. Sex can reinforce the small ego and the illusion of separation, or it can be a gateway to mystical union with the beloved. In the exquisite paradox of creation, your body both entraps and frees you. Accept your own physical needs and pleasures. You are a sexual being surrounded by sexual beings. All of creation is sexy. You can delight in the stimulation of energy, color, gorgeous forms.
Receive and celebrate the gift of your sensuality, and the irresistible vibrations and rhythms of life. Know yourself as a sexual being, with innate personal powers, and outer attractiveness. Open to your own animal magnetism, and the ingenious genetic desire system that keeps our species reproducing. Picture an upward facing, glowing orange crescent inside you, with the very center where you feel your procreative energy most concentrated and alive. Feel the live, vibrating magnetic energy pulsate in your sex center.
As you breathe more deeply through the second chakra, think of your need for others, and your potential for love within your animal form. Imagine yourself feeling healthy sexual stimulation. To be totally opened in your second chakra, embrace your object of desire with complete passion and abandonment. Make bodily love to your ideal lover. Make love to yourself. Ask for pleasure, then truly receive it, to your depths. Surrender to your exquisite orgasm utterly and completely.. Then fall into the profound contentment and gratitude that follows total physical release.
(Momentarily dip back down to the first chakra, and make sure it's open by relaxing your feet, legs, and buttocks on an exhalation. Breathing in, come back up and do the same at the second level, relaxing the genital and rectal muscles, and opening to the upward flow of your energy.)
As each breath washes through your sexual center, notice your desires awakening. Moisture softens the earth., it becomes fluid, and the energy of movement develops. Things smell juicy, and you want a taste.
This is the level of sensation, attraction, physical pleasure. It's also the center of regeneration and procreation. Sense the ovaries or testes, prostate, and spleen.. Feel into the very center of your sex. Imagine that each breath you take sensitizes and charges this second level energy center, your reproductive and sexual desire plexus.
Breathe freely through the second chakra as if drawing energy up from the earth, feeling the surge as you release any residual tightness from the genital muscles, anus, buttocks, thighs, and down your legs. Tune into any sense of warmth or vibration, and allow it to gradually grow, while breathing and centering on this sexual-pro-creative power within you, the most powerful biological force in the universe. At this time and place, give in to the urge to feel it totally. Feel the pleasure in your groin and glands.
The natural element is water; it is mutable and not easily contained. You are pulled by the moon, and swayed by emotional tides. You are in the ocean and you are of the ocean. The sea is all around you, as the blood stream permeates you within. Your internal sea of blood bathes the trillions of cells in your body. They swim in a rich warm primal soup of salt and floating nutrients.
Here, the human evolutionary stage is primitive. You are dominated by desire and the powerful urge for physical gratification, driven by the polarity of attraction and repulsion.
Your sexual powers can imprison or liberate. Sex can reinforce the small ego and the illusion of separation, or it can be a gateway to mystical union with the beloved. In the exquisite paradox of creation, your body both entraps and frees you. Accept your own physical needs and pleasures. You are a sexual being surrounded by sexual beings. All of creation is sexy. You can delight in the stimulation of energy, color, gorgeous forms.
Receive and celebrate the gift of your sensuality, and the irresistible vibrations and rhythms of life. Know yourself as a sexual being, with innate personal powers, and outer attractiveness. Open to your own animal magnetism, and the ingenious genetic desire system that keeps our species reproducing. Picture an upward facing, glowing orange crescent inside you, with the very center where you feel your procreative energy most concentrated and alive. Feel the live, vibrating magnetic energy pulsate in your sex center.
As you breathe more deeply through the second chakra, think of your need for others, and your potential for love within your animal form. Imagine yourself feeling healthy sexual stimulation. To be totally opened in your second chakra, embrace your object of desire with complete passion and abandonment. Make bodily love to your ideal lover. Make love to yourself. Ask for pleasure, then truly receive it, to your depths. Surrender to your exquisite orgasm utterly and completely.. Then fall into the profound contentment and gratitude that follows total physical release.
(Momentarily dip back down to the first chakra, and make sure it's open by relaxing your feet, legs, and buttocks on an exhalation. Breathing in, come back up and do the same at the second level, relaxing the genital and rectal muscles, and opening to the upward flow of your energy.)