Your emotions and sexuality come into balance as you heal and own your sacral chakra.

The sacral or second chakra, just below the belly button, governs emotions, clairsentience (gut feeling) and sexuality. This energy center is where we hold our beliefs, messages and information about these aspects of our lives. It’s the place where we suppress or allow our emotions to flow, tune into our gut instincts about situations and people, and run or shut down our sexual energy.

Many of us have sacral chakra imbalances due to family, cultural and societal conditioning and programming. Some people have been raised to let their emotions run wild while others have been warned it’s not safe to have feelings. Some have learned to live in their heads, not trusting their gut instincts and others have their clairsentience turned on so high they pick up emotions from everyone around them. And then there’s sexuality – what a bag of mixed messages.

When we balance our second chakra we feel comfortable expressing our own emotions while not taking on other people’s, we trust our gut but don’t use it to sift through everyone else’s experiences, and we allow our sexual energy to flow, adding vitality and life force to our body. Play with each of these aspects as a way to heal sacral imbalances.

Balance Your Emotions

What emotions are you comfortable feeling and expressing? Is sadness okay but not anger? Can you be amused but not joyful? Can you vibrate as high as enthusiasm? Can you handle boredom or do you stuff it down with drama or busyness?

What were the messages you received about acknowledging and expressing feelings as you grew up? “Feelings are for wimps,” is what some boys were told. “Take care of everyone else’s feelings,” is what some girls interpreted. As you bring awareness to the beliefs you adopted, you can begin to sort the lies from the truth.

Emotions are the body’s way of communicating to us. As you process emotions, they lighten and are easy to manage. Each day, take a few moments of inner silence to check in with your body. Ask your body what it’s feeling and let the emotions rise to the surface. As you do this, you’ll notice that each emotion has it’s own vibration. Like the keys on a piano, each emotion has a higher or lower tone than another. Apathy is at the bottom of the scale, then boredom, sadness, anger, amusement, joy and enthusiasm. Play with allowing each of these to flow freely in your body. Feel the vibration of each and notice it become clearer as you release everyone else’s emotions along with the misguided rules governing them.

Doing this helped me to discover that my anger isn’t so daunting, and my sadness isn’t so painful. This also freed up space for me to have more joy and enthusiasm.

Own your Clairsentience

Clairsentience is the ability to sense clearly what is going on in and around you. You walk into a room and you instinctively feel that it would be best to turn around and walk out. Sure enough, within seconds, a loud argument turns into a fist fight. Your friend tells you she is fine, but a deep well of sadness bubbles up within you. After warming up in conversation, she tells you her husband is leaving her.

Being able to sense what’s going on with others can be a useful tool, but when over-used or left wide open, it can become emotionally exhausting and lead to co-dependant relationships. A client of mine would start our sessions with tears erupting for no apparent reason. She had a happy life and no charged memories from childhood. It wasn’t her sadness she was feeling; she was carrying the pain of the world. Our sessions were a safe place for her to unearth this, and explore new ways of relating to others.

If you can relate to this or consider yourself an empath, play with turning down this aspect of your second chakra while using your clear seeing (6th chakra) abilities to discern what is going on around you. This way you will be less likely to take on other people’s emotions and problems.

Heal Sexuality Issues

Just mentioning the word “sex” can trigger an array of reactions from embarrassment to anxiety in many people. With all of the taboos and rules around sex, many people have shut down their natural sexual energy or act it out inappropriately. And of course, many people have experienced sexual abuse, which adds further pain to the topic.

One aspect of healing sacral chakra imbalances involves healing sexual issues and releasing rigid rules and regulations around having your sexual energy flowing whenever you want. This energy is not just for having sex; it’s a form of vital life force energy which enlivens the body. Play with consciously allowing this energy to flow and notice how it feels as you clear out old, limiting messages. Tune into your second chakra and imagine turning on your sexual energy. Feel the essence of this vibration and allow it to flow through your whole body. Trust yourself to have healthy energetic boundaries as you let your sexuality expand.

For steps on clearing your chakra as well as a short guided audio meditation, read the article on how to Clear the Root Chakra - just adapt the information to the second chakra.

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