What is Root Chakra Healing – Foundational Spirituality

The question “What is root chakra healing” is the quest for feeling safe.  Root Chakra represents how you are embodied, or not so embodied, in this world of time and space and form. Root chakra healing is the 1^st Stage of the Journey of Yoga related to Personal Development.

The other Stages of Yoga are related to the Transitional (Heart Chakra) and the Transpersonal or Universal.(Higher Chakra Energy Centres)

Most of us have issues around learning how to heal the root chakra. We are not rooted or grounded in our sense of physicality.  This is because of our experiences during early childhood and the cultural obsession with the overthinking mind.

What is Root Chakra Healing – It is a focus on returning to and learning how to be present in the body. It is the practice of being rooted and grounded in physical form. It is the foundation for all chakra healing.

My focus is on inviting embodied spirituality. I do not invite transcendence beyond the physical form but through the physical form. Let me outline this blog post for you.

Menu for Root Chakra Healing and Embodied Spirituality

• Embodied Spirituality
• Recognizing Spiritual Dis-embodiment.
• Practicising Spiritual By-Passing.
• Releasing Body Armour
• Stages of Personal Development
• The Healing Has Begun
• Recommended Courses for Healing the Root Chakra

It has always struck this writer that in the Lord’s prayer there is the request: –

Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven – Matthew 6:10

Many spiritual teachings insist that you can only get to Heaven beyond some form of the body where in some magical way the body is resurrected.

This is a recipe for what is termed Spiritual By-passing.

It invites you to practice dis-embodiment. You can declare that the world is Maya or illusion and all that you are doing is parroting a truth you have no direct experience off.

As the modern mystic Eckhart Tolle, writing in The Power of Now – A Guide to Enlightenment states: –

Enlightenment is not away from the body but through the body – Eckhart Tolle.

Root Chakra Watercolour Painting Art Print – by Victoria

The healing of the Root Chakra begins when you make a commitment to embodiment. You learn to move the energy from the voice in the head into inner body awareness.   There are different ways of doing this.

I have found no better way than to practice Yoga Nidra.

For me, this is the premier practice for returning to live as a body in full Presence. It leads to alignment with the other major chakras and brings about personal integration.

This practice of Yoga Nidra  lays a firm foundation for the Yoga Journey of Life.

You are here on this planet of duality to learn to embody the Presence of the Divine. You are not created to try an escape embodiment into some transcendental realm of Bliss.

In yoga nidra, we restore our body, senses, and mind to their natural function and awaken a seventh sense that allows us to feel wholeness, tranquillity, and well-being – Richard Miller (Yoga teacher clinical psychologist and founder of iRest Yoga nidra).

The more embodied you become the more you relax into a direct knowing of the truth of All One. It is not something that you simply declare as part of a teaching you have no personal direct experience off.

Disembodied by Warren King

You begin to recognize that you and the Dance of Life are never apart.

However, you are here to be a dance of Life in the form of the body you are given. Creation does not create you to live like the character Mr. Duffy from the novel The Dubliners written by James Joyce.

In this novel is it is said of Mr. Duffy: –

Mr. Duffy lived some distance from his body – The Dubliners – James Joyce.

I have seen far too many dis-embodied spiritual seekers and teachers preaching the doctrine of Maya and illusion.

This includes the doctrine of detachment which the Western mind loves because it implies one need not engage with the challenging work of integrating emotional reactivity and different levels of personal trauma.

The result, as one of my teachers Sangharakshita, found out when he started teaching Westerners Buddhist meditation that students learned to detach from emotions they were already detached from. This he had not found to be the case while teaching meditation in India for over two decades.

The result was that many of the meditators experienced depression and became what I term ‘floaty.’ They were not all there. They were not embodied and were not practicing how to sense the inner body.

I see different people on YouTube and elsewhere inviting others to open their Third Eye (Sixth Chakra). In my personal experience, the opening of the Third Eye is a Grace experience and not one that you can push for.

It is a way of Seeing that will radically change your worldview. You and the Seeing become one.

Maybe you are searching among branches for what only appears in the roots. – Rumi

Far better to focus the mind’s eye on the breath in the body and bring the energy into developing inner body awareness rather than explore a state of consciousness that needs clear boundaries and personal integrity to invite the experience of Boundless Seeing.

Overthinking by Maarten Leon

Overthinking is another effective way to block the Root Chakra

Root chakra healing is learning to release what the German psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich referred to as body armor.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body. – Alexander Lowen

This is the challenging work of removing emotional blocks held in the body’s musculature. It is where we developed holding patterns of breathing and posture to protect ourselves from emotions that, as young children, we thought would overwhelm us.

Between the voice in our heads, that is the everyday normal insanity of the overthinking personal mind, and our holding back the free flow of emotional energy most of us have around 20% of our energy available to heal what needs healing.

This is a percentage that I have taken from a lecture given by the renowned medical intuitive and author Caroline Myss entitled, “Why people don’t Heal and How they Can.” This is not a scientifically proven statistic, but it points toward an energetic truth for many people.

Can you see why the phenomenon of spiritual bypassing and detachment from detachment is so attractive? You then have no need to feel in order to heal. You can pass Go and move into the transcendental realms of the higher chakras.

Sorry, but it just doesn’t work like that.

Shadow Integration by Phazed

Root chakra healing involves integrating the personal shadow

Your real work in Yoga Journey for Life is the integration of the personality. This is the integration of the lower three chakras: –

1. Root Chakra.
2. Sacral Chakra.
3. Solar Plexus Charka.

With this practice of personal integration, you begin to feel what it is like to move more deeply into the heart chakra (4^th chakra). The heart chakra opens you to the dimension of the transcendental. You become a channel for embodying what in Christian terms is called Heaven on Earth.

You begin to awaken and feel the unity of the human and Divine. This is is the reason you are embodied in time and space on this planet Earth.

You embody Love’s Purpose. You are not mouthing a belief in concepts such as Maya and illusion. You are becoming all too real.

Chakras are organizational centres for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth. – Anodea Judith

With a balanced root chakra you are more detached, but not from feelings. You are more detached from emotional over-reactivity and the overthinking personal mind that is, as you will recognize, the real Maya because it is only words and concepts masquerading as real life.

It is not groundedness and embodied spirituality. This is the experience of healing the root chakra.

If you want an image of someone with a root chakra that is balanced and flowing, look no further than at young children playing for no reason.

They have not yet learned to armor the body through ideas of right and wrong. They have not as yet, metaphorically, eaten of the Tree of Good and Evil and been thrown out of the Garden.

There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. -Elizabeth A. Behnke

Mini Art Print  Healing by DPicting

If root chakra healing and balance are of interest, then I recommend you look no further than checking out the section of this website related to the practice of Yoga Nidra. This practice will bring you back down to earth gently. It has many benefits.

I can’t really recommend the practice of Yoga Nidra highly enough. It is one of the best spiritual and grounding practices I have ever discovered.

Discover this for yourself. Learn to go to the base-camp of embodied spirituality and Presence and ascend the mountain of your glorious potential. This is while all the time being grounded and being present in the body.

This is root chakra healing.

This is where, in the words of the Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison declares “The Healing has Begun.” When I was a younger man and felt ungrounded I used to put on the headphones turn up the volume and dance to this song.

May you commit to creating healthy boundaries and an ability to ground yourself in the NOW.

This is root chakra healing. This is embodied spirituality where you can declare, “The Secret of Secrets is Inside Me Again.” Let it be so for you. Let it be so for all. Let the Healing begin.

When you hear the music ringin’ in your soul
And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows
And it came from the backstreet rock and roll and the healing has begun
That’s where we come from, man

You are not just here to “feel it in your heart.” Feel it in your feet. (Root Chakra)

At the end of each blog post I share with you recommendations that I think supports the question or the enquiry that you have made regarding the topic.  For this topic which is “healing the root chakra” I recommend that you explore the following online courses.

These courses are free introductions to the practice of embodied spirituality that leads to a life of real prosperity and flow.

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