The Root Chakra Day
August 31st, 2009
I’ve started my chakra meditations today.
I’m finding myself very excited about committing to doing this for the next month. I’ve decided to go from today, Monday August 31, 2009 until Sunday September 27, 2009. That’s a 28 day round. One main chakra focus each day and each chakra will end up being the daily focus four separate times.
(Root Chakra Lotus)
My main references for this little experiment are 3 books.
I have:
The Complete Guide to Crystal Chakra Healing: Energy Medicine for Mind, Body and Spirit
The Crystal Chakra Healing book is by Philip Permutt and came with a deck of chakra cards. There’s one card for each chakra that lists the associated crystals, incense, colors and a meditation. I’ll be doing the meditations on each card without using crystals for the first week. I may decide to incorporate the crystals later.
Energy Medicine: Balancing Your Body’s Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and VitalityUpdated and Expanded
This one is by Donna Eden whom I LOVE! You can search for her on youtube and see videos of her energy exercises. It’s a little unconventional, but hey… so am I :)
The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy
This last book is by Cyndi Dale. It goes WAY WAY deeper than the first two. This one is more for someone very interested in the human body’s energetic systems. It covers chakras and pressure points and meridians and so much more I can’t even BEGIN to list it all here. It’s a very large, 500 page reference manual.
I really love all three of these books and am reading the relevant chakra section out of each of them on the appropriate day. My intention over the next 28 days is to not only stimulate and heal my chakras but also to learn and retain the information I read and write about.
Today I started with the root or base chakra. This is the chakra associated with the base of the spine and most commonly, the color red. It can appear, to individuals who can physically SEE energy, in gold tones and purple hues also.
As I walked around all day, I kept my root chakra in the back of my mind. Any time I found myself immobile, I would focus my consciousness into it and allow myself to feel it spinning. I suppose I must have focused directly on it 5 or 6 times throughout the day for maybe 2-3 minutes each time.
I also did a formal meditation. The card said basically to take the standard deep breaths to relax and then visualize a red light glowing from within and growing in intensity. Then see and feel it sink down through your body into your root chakra at the base of your spine…then down your legs and through your feet into the ground and then see it spreading out like red roots. I also took note of the spinning sensation. I love that part.
Tomorrow, I think I’m going to start with my root chakra and move into my sacral chakra. It is said that energy moves into your body through the root chakra and networks up through the others. I figure starting at the bottom and moving upward each day should keep things stimulated and moving.
Hope you all have a great night. See ya tomorrow!
