Social Anxiety I

What is social anxiety?

 In this article I`ll observe shortly about the term Social anxiety, what common imbalances stay behind it and what are the root causes of it. 1. part. 

    This is phenomenon, closely related to human subconscious pattern and mind, connected with society, environment and cultural behaviour. Anxiety, as well as most destructive emotions (negative) have their primal imprint in the supressed feelings, emotions. There are many reasons for social anxiety, but the main pieces of puzzle, that show something is likely to become wrong, are connected with:

-       Supressed feelings and emotions

-      Being unable to express your desires and needs

-      Beings unable to figure out the reasons for your mistakes/ failures

-      Supressed or unwanted communication with others

-      Being exposed to too much criticism from others

-      Being exposed to harsh environment

-      Living long time in unhealthy relationships (habits)

…and many more. Almost all things and psychological imbalances can turn to anxiety, if they are long enough hidden.

      The key here is to reveal the hidden issue or situation that is reason for your imbalance. There is always a reason, but anxiety has roots exactly in hidden aspects of Self. Hidden negative aspects and emotions that the Self has supressed, in order to escape from a painful experience.

      That’s why the topic of social anxiety can be viewed in very wide perimeter. All things related to imbalance in organism of society can be connected with it. Society is a structure that is changeable and fixed in the same time. It includes component like social values, laws, behaviour, communications, restrictions, rules. It contains all that components on level of family relationships (family as a singular structure of particular society), religious and cultural aspects (religion or culture as regulating some social values), and wide social connections (including work environment, people, country laws, effective institutions). All of these circles are related to the bigger Sphere of social organism.

     Just individual alone is in status “free”, if he viewes only himself, separately from society. He has status “separateness” , singularity, individuality. In this way all individuals in one society are: 1. From one side determined as “separate” free individual elements, that have complete form (of the Soul -Body-mind). 2. From another side they are also little pieces from the bigger puzzles of social components – Family, work, society, country, culture -religion. That’s how each individual in this world is in fact “not free”, but can seek for his freedom a priory. His freedom is inner value of individual, but he is never free in reality -out of his personal values and desires.

Now as this article is dedicated to Social anxiety, I want to observe that condition, in light of that state of not-freedom, or restricted state of individual.

As I mentioned, society is big organism with many components, but it`s made up of millions pieces of individual souls (body-mind). So everyone, each soul put his stamp in the bigger picture of Society. People made family, companies, houses, institutions, laws, countries, environment, planet. So all of that components are connected all together like net. That is quite important.

     Individuals are living between each other, they are here in order to connect, to have effective/ or not effective communication, and to learn from each other.

     All systems that we live in, are based on principle of Society and Groups of people. That means individuals are chained as elements of that Societies since their early age – family, kinder garden, school, university, work, institutions, traveling. All kind of activities we make and intend are always -related to others. Even when we just buy things from market, shop we have to connect with the seller or owner. Its another question if this connection will be effective, positive or opposite. But it is there, we need to face others.

That is so, because in these social existence and connection is one of the main purpose of human life and meaning. Even people who are with special status – and accepted as “out of society” souls, like monks, nuns, hermits, or people that are on different spiritual practices, are also not away from society. They are connected together, also they are more or less connected with social religious values, rules, with obligations, and living necessities.

 People or individuals are like chain – everyone`s feelings, intentions, mindset, values, obligations, desires, actions, non-actions – affect others on that chain. Immediately. So that is in fact creating non-freedom. As freedom is a concept related more to Mind and soul, but cant be related to earth life, so its concept of illusion. Your mind can be free to imagine that you travel to many places, but for making that travel work in reality, you need to put more efforts and go through many social procedures.

That means also the non-freedom is not only created, but it`s here (earth plane) by purpose.

Social anxiety is closely related to that non-freedom existence. We are all free as individual souls, and in the same time we are not free or specially restricted as social elements. The existence of society as whole organism suggests the stamp of restrictions. That doesn’t mean we are not free still – as that is given to our soul essence a priory. But our freedom is also restricted from being in this body, and more from participating in social circles, social obligations, country.

    Some of the things that one country impose on all citizens are regulations, laws, and restrictions. They are related to all aspects of life without exception – for going to school, paying taxes, taking care of environment, having a flat, living under rent, having a car, using transportation….all these aspects are related with social regulations. They are also part of the individual non-freedom, even if they look like they are creating freedom.

The truth is a freedom created by someone (government, or institutions), is illusionary one. That is not the freedom as birth right. The country may aim to contribute to improvement of all aspects of life, but in reality that will happen only with more regulations and laws, more restrictions. Because that’s how society works.

Thank you for tuning in! This is the first part of my text on Social Anxiety, feel free to share it, like or post a comment below!

Nina* Lea-nour 

angel`s medium 

© Copyrighted material

Heart chakra - relationships, illnesses -I

 This is the most special chakra in human body – as literary maintain the life and moving of energy on ethereal level. Heart chakra is spinning with higher intensity (with the rhythm of the physical pulse), in sparkling emerald green light and white core. This is a “electricity” central spreading energy and life to all other chakras. If you body is ill, or your emotions are out of balance, the first place to look is Heart. For convenience I`ll review aspects of other warm chakras below the heart, in order to understand better the relationship of Anahata.

As we said until now, lower chakras relationships are:

Root – to the family blood line, the father, grandfather, brothers

Sacral – to the Karmic relationships (past lives), mother, sisters, divine Feminine, intimate partners

Solar Plexus – to children (your own and others), to friends, colleagues and soul mates (social status)

    I will give now basic outlines about Heart chakra and what it is related to. As we can imagine, this chakra is the that connects  humanity with love. Even without to fully realize what is meaning of love, when we listen the word “heart” we make fast association with “love”. This concept is not so wrong, but it is misleading. That’s because the feeling of Love relates in reality to ALL chakras and it is a form of engine pushing the wheel to move and spin. That’s why the truth is that without feeling of love all our chakras will be imbalanced in different degree. Anahata is related to love, but this is very different from our understanding about human love. This love is: the unconditional love TO divine source (God, Goddess); 2. this is the love for our INNER child and connection to it. 3. This is the unconditional love TO humanity (all humans without exception).

    So these are the kind of love related to Heart chakra. You can see that this is not the “emotions” and individual feelings of heart (that can be seen in the Sacral center obviously). This is the love for all – divine source, humanity, higher Self. The feeling of what we call “love” on earth, or the thrill, attraction, friendship, love to individual is actually related with the Sacral center (orange) –as it moves our emotional body for the special “time being”. The strange thing of this process is that the changeable feelings of Second chakra that we call “love” can not last longer time, than a specific period, that is always restricted in time frame. That means this kind of human “love” we can feel for one, two, four, five, nine, eleven years…but finally it will finish as it started. That means the kind of “emotional attraction” of human love does not last forever (and didn’t mean to last forever). Moreover the humans are made to have transition to the “other side and state” of spirit after the physical death of body. That’s why so many and many relationships start, like fire, burn shortly or long, but then they just seize and their flame is extinguished. This is so obviously because of the human nature. We are made to grow and transform, to change and move, that’s why we sub consciously apply this status to our relationships.

    I want to underline something – In the feeling of this changeable emotional “love” that grab us at once, the energy from the Sacral chakra connects with upper chakras –specially the Solar Plexus and Heart. By connecting with stream of golden or pink light, the individual may feel amazing feeling of love “out of time” or constant feeling of love, that could last “forever”. This is of course just a feeling, but not happening in reality. In reality this love lasts “forever” but only until it stays in status of love “out of time” and beyond the physical reality. That’s how we can feel that the object of our love will last “forever” and our love is eternal. In some sense it really can be viewed as eternal (without end), exactly because of the complicated mechanism of opening of this love from the Love karmic mirror (read the article…). The most important to understand is that this love will seem as “out of time” as we experience exactly in this time frame “shifting and expansion of time”. When person is in love” he doesn’t feel the time as linear, but as connected with his feeling – very slow motion, or very fast. This explains all why we feel that.

About Heart center in this time – when we connect our Sacral chakra with the Solar Plexus, we let the feeling of acceptance, appreciation and friendship come inside it, and let also the feeling of TRUST come inside this energy. In this way it happens exchange of energy – or we can let the object of our love to “take from our energy” and to connect our body in place of the three chakras with “cords”; These chakras are Sacral, Solar Plexus and Heart. These are the main centers that we can let another to form “cords” from attachments. These cords are very thin energy cords, that are very strong, and not always are bad. They can be negative specially after the end of our relationship with the person, as they continue to exist.

   What happens in the feeling of human “love”? Sacral chakra connects with Heart too and forms cord, letting “in” the energy of the person we love. This letting is cold “trust” and faith; in heart center the human “emotion” from changeable and moving becomes “constant” or fixed in time, the status of “attachment” changes to be “love” unconditional. No matter what the person makes for us, as we already have open center of unconditional love, we are easy to forgive him. That’s how the love feeling works until another important process is activated. I`ll speak about that now.

    How it happens that so many people that are together for long time, suddenly separate? How it happens that very “strange” or not logical relationships move forward and until the end people are together? As I said too many (almost 80%) from the humans in planet have compromised relationships. That means they are not “fully happy” together, nor they feel “unconditional love” together! This is very big number to be by chance. I wont explain now why they stay together and so on. The main reason is “attachment” (cords from Sacral and Solar Plexus), or comfortable zone (people are afraid of change or moving out of comfort zone) and benefits (they receive something else from their partner –not love, it may be material means and so on).

    But I want to explain how it happens people who are “in love forever” or so similar, suddenly separate? And why some others stay together for long time even without change? The answer to this question is simple, yet may be amazing for you: Inner child. All relationships/ relations in world are connected with INNER child. Our inner child is power inside the heart center. It connects with our Higher Self (or astral body as some may see it), and it`s responsible for feeling of Purity of our love and emotions; and for realizing and accepting the truth (about world and our selves); and for the amazing feeling of Forgiveness. 

If you are interested in this topic, please read the next part about Heart :
Heart chakra -relationships, illnesses -II

nina Lea-nour *

Solar Plexus chakra -relationships, illnesses -II

  - part II -

     As Manipura is strongly related to social issues, I have to underline that bringing up children is to big extend complicated family, and social phenomena. Society and institutions play critical role, the same as family relations. That’s why I wont give here particular solutions to the above problems and child behavior, but I want to say some warnings. All of the list shows aspects of harming the energy of manipura, of imbalance in this chakra. In order to prevent yourself from such relationships about children I can give you the advices: 1. don not let your child to control you, manipulate you and rule above you; ( that happens mainly by spoiling your child since early age, giving him all what he needs without any restrictions and without showing him mistakes; this is extremely harmful for the future of the child). 2. try to connect and speak with your child in open and honest way, saying to him/ her the truth. Many parents continue to have wrong image of what child “knows” and what he can understand”. Even children are not able to understand so much as grown people, they have better intuition and feelings in any situation. That’s because in some ages, before they to be deformed by social programs in schools, they have ability to listen with their heart. They see people in their real faces and light of higher self. That’s why child can actually understand better than you many things. Speak with him about things and areas in your life. Say to him even how you feel, why you feel so. Say to him if you don’t have good relationship with another parent (mother, father); share with him personal issues about divorce or about illness! Remember, child can feel you even before you speak. Be open and honest, then you will have the same as a result: your child will come to you and share with you his deepest desires, his problems and need. Sharing is half way solving of problem. 3. Make good friends with your child. Never underestimate your child and his human value. Don’t say to him – you are bad in this, you are too bad in all, I`m disappointed from you always, you are no one…Many parents still have this approach of humiliation. Instead see and notice his positive sides and ENCOURAGE him in all things he strives (of course if they are positive for him and his surroundings). Encourage his interests, hobbies, affections, like his friends. Let child to feel loved, appreciated, cherished. Put restrictions and boundaries of what he is allowed to do and what he isn’t. No one can have total freedom, and everyone has responsibilities. That your child need to understand since he become 9. not older, or it will be too late! Go with him/ her to different places and show him how to love and respect animals, nature and plants. Let him to feel your ideas, not “by long tiring speech”. Just by feeling, children can do that. Be benevolent to his wishes, but also be strict enough to not let him to manipulate you.

In regard to topic of friendship, and soul mates, I write much in all details in these articles: “on friendship”. One of the basic things for any friendship is “sharing” (of feelings, ideas, love) and care about your friends. This relationship the same as any intimate relationship is like flower that needs to grow. No matter of distance, always remember birthday of your friends, send him messages, cards and little gifts for any occasion and holiday. This is little part from the real friendship. Friendship is different kind of love – to someone who is your soul mate and so close to you. Someone who will understand you and support you in hard times and someone who will be near to you to share your happiness. To be friend is also “responsibility” but one of love. Just label “friend” without any action and prove to deserve that name, without sharing or sending love to another…is an empty shell. Its nothing. That’s why have one or 2 real friends than 33 fake.

I continue on endless topic of Manipura imbalances. They appear very well in the so wide spread “belly fat” of people all around. That means every one and half person on planet has problem with diet? Not only. That means there are many broken relationships of parent-child, mistreatment of children in general (children slavery and early age labor), and many broken or fake “friendship” relationships. This belly fat (stomach) corresponds to many more emotional and psychological details. They are related to: 1. misuse or misunderstanding of power (person want to control and manipulate others –(if he is in higher position, or in political power), or 2. person cant have self-control (over his negative emotions –anger, aggression); - 3. person has extremely harmful eating habits and eating disorder;

The home space related to Solar Plexus is: The right corner of the room from opposite side of the door. All lamps and lights are also Manipura. Put in this corner yellow crystals (citrine or amber).

I ll clarify now the third one: harmful eating habits in Manipura:

They appear as strong dark spots of unhealthy energy that stays in the chakra making it dull and ill; you may experience this if:

-         you don’t have a healthy diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables;

-        if you have harmful habits like mania for caffeine (more than 2 cups a day), cigarettes and alcohol

-        if you eat excessively harmful (toxic) foods: white sugar, white flour; bread; pizza from shops, fast food;

-        if you don’t drink enough water and don’t care of your water intake

-        if you share the same eating habits with your children and give them (allow them) many artificial sweeteners, chocolate (not real), biscuits; artificial fats

-        if you feel “too tired” or not “having enough time” for things you like or for exercises.

    All this long list is again related to illnesses of Manipura. Amazingly you can see this chakra has even more harmful sides than Root chakra. This is because it is beginning of activated power of Consciousness.

The angel often related to Manipura (because of yellow color) is Uriel. But I can say Michael is also perfect angel for any issues with Manipura, as he works with quality of courage and self-esteem.

Quality of third chakra is acceptance – or accept and value yourself in the same way as you accept and value others.

Accept and appreciate your children.

Be present now, feel the moment.

Leave the past and future to melt on the time-space.

Be kind and generous with others.

Have your boundaries and don’t allow people to take your energy.

Make positive healthy relationships and value your friends.

Make positive, open and honest relationship with your children.

Take care of orphan children, or ones with disabilities; participate in cause. Give love.

Have the courage to know what you want and make your profession part of your mission in life. Work with devotion, or don’t work.

Write down qualities that you don’t like in yourself, and try to improve them in positive way. Write the qualities you like in yourself.

Write down qualities you like in your friends (and children) and then qualities you don’t like. Compare them – how many are the positive qualities? You will understand the meaning and impact that your friends have on you.

This is all for manipura chakra, that has so vast ocean of information! Thank you for tuning in my analysis and work! 
If you are interested in topic of chakras, you can continue reading the next article: 
Heart chakra -relationships, illnesses I 

nina Lea-nour *

Solar Plexus chakra -relationships, illnesses I

   Solar Plexus chakra – relationship – friends, colleagues, social performance; far relatives; soul mates (not intimate)

-         relation with element – body nutrition – fruits and vegetable (organic)

-         damaging relations of Manipura – sugar, flour, oil

-         animals of Manipura – Bear, Koala; hedgehog

-      power of receiving social significance (profession of your desires); fame; qualities of friendship;

-        damaging energy in M. –bad use of power to harm and humiliate others.

-        Relationship with your children. To them – what you are able to give them, mindful receiving from children – mindful giving (fulfilling desires or very spoiled children). Parents without connections. Children and syndrome of obesity. How children become fat? ( teaching of ego – total receiving for self, self-satisfaction and weight).

-        Children and receiving their signs of needs (childhood behavior). Children manipulation on parents. Are we under control or “controlling”?

-        Boys and girls reactions and understanding;

-        Manipura zone – refrigerator, table for food; how the mindful eating affect us. Should we give all what a child wants? Does a child knows best what is good for him? Difference between growing free and growing without values (control)?

-        Should we control our child and how much? In which areas?

-        How to make a conversation with the child?

    I ll observe here the Manipura chakra and its relationships. Manipura is very special center (as all in human body), related to first appearance of Self in form of active powerful Self and Ego; This is the place swirling in shining yellow color (sometimes with golden outlines). Manipura is higher on the spiritual ladder, but still maintains the power of Receiving goods in the physical world. Mindful receiving is the core of all warm chakras. How we can receive in balanced way, without to fall in “greed”, longing for more (feelings, safety) or money. Manipura connects us with our inner power to act in order to fulfill our desires.

Some of the important instruments and aspects of Third chakra are:

-   Professional independence; achieving the profession (work) that corresponds to your desire, needs and knowledge;

-       Personal power and ways to affect others (here you reveal how you can affect on other people or “manipulate” them which has negative outline

-         Power over your feelings (self-control); feeling emotional body of others (some people say they actually “feel” with this chakra.

-         Feeling of victory and success from your achievements

-       Feeling of pride and need others to accept you and appreciate you as your true Self;

Some of the important aspects of Manipura are:

Quality: acceptance, self-control, generosity (to accept your success or your failure in equal manner)

Feeling: desire for change (desire to act for fulfillment) to be present in social areas, with others

Desire: self-improvement; add and improve personal qualities (positive), eliminate the negative ones, overcome fears;

Relationship: with friends, colleagues, and children (your own or others)

Elements: fruits, vegetables and nuts (organic healthy food)

Achievement on earth: mindful eating, healthy nutrition, positive relationship with children; transformation of life path;

Now I`ll start by observation and analysis of some very important aspects of Manipura balancing – namely relationships. First relationship as always is with your Self – in this yellow center this is active self-power; Self-esteem and courage to do things. The following are some signs and behaviors to show you imbalanced Manipura.

As Manipura is related to the way you behave, react and view your children (and all children in general), the imbalances can be visible with your relationship with children: 

-        if you experience bad or harmful relationship with your child (children) no matter girl or boy (for example aggressive behavior and offensive language of your child in family);

-       if you are afraid about your children more than normal way – for example have sleepless nights or feel threatened;

-       if your child has the leading role in family (you fulfill all your desires and needs) and has role of manipulator;

-       if you feel exhausted and bringing up children don’t give you joy or strong feeling of love.

-        If you don’t feel attached to your child(ren) for some reason and you react indifferently or cold to his love, sharing

-        If you cant manage the time you spend with your children and never feel to have enough time together

-       If you don’t know how to behave with your child and are too emotional to him, allowing him freedom to do what he wants.

-       If you feel you lost control on your child and have feeling he/ she is not going in the right direction, or he has wrong values;

-        If you are aggressor or abuse your child – emotionally or physically, or want to show him he is worthless and without human value;

-     If you don’t encourage the abilities and talents of your child (and his interests) regardless of fact if you are interested in the same or not;

-         If you are sharp and intolerant to your child expressions in young age (for example hair style, the way he wear clothes), and you have conflict on that;

-         If your child don’t feel loved from you, or you don’t feel loved from him; and if he feels not comfortable sharing personal things with you;

-         If you feel all of these above” points are related to your close “friends” and soul mate, specially if you don’t feel comfortable sharing with your friend, and when you feel he/ she doesn’t share with you all, or hiding from you;

-       If you don’t appreciate, love and express love to your friends and soul mates frequently;

-         If you feel you are alone and without friends and no one appreciate you;

-      If you see only the negative side of people around you without any good quality;

-         If you feel away and not accepted in social group of your co-workers;

-         If you cant find similar “lines” with anyone of your co-workers;

This so long list refers to only things that reveal relationships – with your child and with friends and co-workers. I want to clarify that just one of this aspects is enough to lead to illness or imbalance in third chakra with the time. The process always takes time to unfold.

If you are interested in this topic, you can continue reading the next part here: 
Solar Plexus chakra -relationships, illnesses II

Thank you for tuning in!

nina Lea-nour * 

Sacral chakra - relationships, illnesses I

   Sacral chakra is related strongly to feminine energy, Moon and Venus.

This is very special center of love, sharing, joy and balanced sexuality. I ll start analysis now on this glowing orange chakra. It is connected with our sense of self-respect, non attachment, feeling of joy from simple things, powerful imagination, peaceful relationship at home… and many more areas. First of all I want to underline the Sacral chakra is quite important for:

-      learning our Karmic lessons from unbalanced relationships (from past lives)

-      learning Karmic lessons from intimate partners and from realizing what personalities we are attached to, what attract us?

-         Sense of self-respect, self-love and personal hygiene

-         Relationship with the mother, is it healthy or if we feel loved?

-         Relationship with the mother in our childhood, what are our memories, if we felt loved and cherished? How your mother took care of you in your early childhood (until 9); how she deal with you now?

-   Relationship with your sister (s) aunts (from both sides of father and mother), with your grandmother (specially from mothers side), with your female cousins (from mothers side). Ask the same questions – if you felt loved and cherished from childhood and now?

-     very special for Sacral center is relationship to your inner Goddess, your higher self as a Female (no matter if you are man or woman), everyone has divine feminine within in different proportions.

-       Angel of Sacral is Haniel (the amazing Moon cycles angel that is taking care of fairy and elementals kingdom)

     You can imagine how big is the significance of this chakra. Look around and see how many people are affected by the strong divine Feminine energy! How many people wear the consequences of bad or abusive relationships with their family females – and specially mother. Every culture and society in world has very special taboos, ethics and restrictions regarding “mother” relation. Always there are so many songs for the beloved mother, festivals (mothers day) and all that shows the energy of mother (Moon goddess) is very strong here. Have in mind that Svadhishtana is also connected with feelings TO your mother, as well as your view and acceptance of Yourself as Mother (for all women ofc). If you are man, than this energy translates as care and love To your mother, grandmother, sister(s) and daughter(s) – and how your life is affected by them. This can be shown quite well in relationship to your own wife too, as a Karmic relationship (karma balancing, removing, or karma collecting partner).

Sacral center is glowing beautiful orange sphere with little white core. It represents the principle of sharing love, joy and all spectrum of feelings with others –people who are most close to us. Symbol of this energy is water (lake, sea, river, rain, snow) in all transformations. Other symbols are: butterfly, snowflake; if the first chakra shows our relations and care to animal world, Sacral chakra reveals our attitude, love and care to world of plants, flowers and herbs. That is quite important in the steps of mindful living. Sacral chakra imbalances appear specially our family relationships like:

-         bad or harmful relationship (in childhood or now) with your mother;

-    bad or harmful relationship (from both sides) with your aunts, sisters, female cousins, grandmother (of your mother);

-      cold and indifferent without showing affection or care relationship with your mother, (her mother), sisters, female cousins (first)

-      cold and without compassion (or aggressive) relationship with your mother, grandmother, sisters, aunts (when are were older).

-      Any incest (taboo) relationship within your family (sexual connection) with your close family members, or thought about that. (this shows specially the Karmic experiences from past lives).

-     Bad, harmful or aggressive behavior that you were witnessing when you were child (until 13) from your father to your mother; (including offensive language, shouting, fear and pain, that your mother has experienced) 

If you are interested in this topic, you can continue reading next part here: 
Sacral chakra -relationships, illnesses -II

Thank you for tuning in!

nina Lea-nour *

Root chakra - Relationships, illnesses

I wrote many articles on the topic about chakras observing them in details in all aspects. I want to make here separate analysis on each chakra “weak points” in correspondence to relationships. 

    What are chakras?

   Chakras are energy wheels that are so important for our physical life existence, that the sooner we realize it, the better our life will become. Each chakra has special vibration (frequency), special tune (note), moreover each chakra has specific color and patterns (interlace geometric shapes and figures) with each different individual. Chakras system correspond to special part of humans body and to special gland (for example thyroid). The correct understanding of chakras and how they work, how they are internally connected with each other and with each physical organ, will help us immensely for healing and discovering illnesses. Here I`ll make short observation on each chakra, and what kind of illnesses may occur if it appears imbalanced or dull”.

    As I stated in other articles, all the down chakras (below the Heart center) are related to human power of receiving. They imply the mastering of Receiving or how individuals can receive mindfully. That means not to take more than anyone needs in each sphere of life. These are so called “warm” chakras, because they are turning spheres of warm colors light – Ruby red (Root chakra), vivid orange (Sacral), Sparkling yellow (Solar Plexus). All these chakras are related to left hand (receiving), and to the ability of grounding, connecting our “roots” to the core of the Earth. Connection with the earth as the source of human biology and beginning of all life, is quite important and amazing. It shows also that in order to be in good physical (mental, emotional) health, we need to take of the earth and all its rich resources, nature, animals, and use them wisely.

   The mindful use of environment can be achieved only if we are awaken and aware in our spiritual path. And not before that. I can say that even humanity have made great steps of improvement, still the percentage of people on earth, who really act upon saving environment is quite little. Part of the awakening process is hidden in our relations with nature, animals, and other human beings. Each chakra shows special aspect of that relation, and its good to be aware.

The Root chakra: 

   Situated in the base of the spine (tale bone), Root is one of the most important chakra in the body, responsible for grounding (connection to core of Earth, or natural magnetism) and our feeling of safety, stability. You can see this information in almost all spiritual sites and books on chakras. What is very special about this chakra is much more. Root sphere is related to:

-         our Karmic relationships (with all partners from previous life times)

-         relationship to the family group that we belong (Family tree)

-   relationship with the father, grandfather (of father), brothers, cousins  (specially on site of your father)

-        relationship with most male family members

   Muladhara is ruby red and that symbolizes the “blood” color, or the blood line that we have on this planet. It symbolizes most of our Karmic experiences with other people. Actually most of the humans on earth have problems or imbalances in the Root chakra. This is totally normal and obvious, having in mind its power on “past life” lessons, family blood line, father relationship, and our past generations. Who could have control on this events? We cant change the history and the past. But what we can do is act to erase some of the Karma we made, or act to totally remove the karmic imprints, which can happen only in the high spiritual way. Sings of imbalances, or ill Root chakra (you can watch for them if you have one or more of these signs!):

-         bad or harmful (ill) relationship with your father

-         aggressive behavior or physical abuse from/ to your father

-         bad or harmful (ill) relationship with your brothers or cousins

-         aggressive behavior from your brothers, cousins

-        cold and relation without “care” or without warm connection between you and your father (cousins, brothers)

-        cold, indifferent and relation without interest, or with feeling of discomfort and inability to show love and affection with your father (grandfather, cousins, brothers)

The relationship of Muladhara is even deeper than we can imagine. It is related to care for home, house and space where you live. But also can be related to house that you your parents had before (specially if this house was build by them), which is left then without care. Then imbalances in Muladhara will appear in the following cases:

-         if you don’t have home, or your home space is not enough for your family (that surely is related to Karmic lessons)

-         if you don’t take care of your fathers home (house) in village

-         if you don’t take care or don’t maintain your own home space (for example things that need to be change are unchanged for years)

-       if you don’t take care of your father (or his father), in time when he needs your help or in older age

-       if you have bad feelings (or disgust) from your father (grandfather, cousins) when they are in old age or ill.

   So the home area in Muladhara is connected strongly with your feeling of safety and stability. That comes from home, the place you live, the place that is like “safe” harbor from outside energies. Many people think that Muladhara is related to money and abundance. That can be partly true, because we cant maintain good home, without finances. In the same time the source of money is not related to Muladhara, but to Solar Plexus chakra (that will be observed later). Other aspects important for balanced Muladhara are relation and care for animals; This first red chakra is strongly tied not just to family and home ground, but to all animals on the planet. Our relationship and feeling to them, shows much about our state of Root chakra. To have balanced relation with the animals we need to:

-        participate or care for animal rights causes; homeless or abused domestic animals;

-     to show care and respect for all animals on earth, including wild ones (causes for animal protection in special areas)

-     to be not afraid and spend money on animal welfare, to spread idea of animal help (specially in city areas, that depend on humans – like dogs and cats)

-     to have no fear from animals in the street and supposed to panic attacks from dogs for example;

-    to be ready for vegetarian or vegan diet in order to reduce animal meat exploitation on earth and animal abuse (or at least take care where the meat is brought from, which place and how)

These are some of the basic aspects of Muladhara areas, that are quite important for the planet. Other easy ways to see if you have imbalanced Root are physical illnesses; if you see the following problems that are repeating in different periods of your life, that is sure sign of Root imbalance:

-         back pain, bones and tendons pain or illnesses;

-         teeth illnesses, often damage of teeth, cavities, problems

-     nails illnesses and often damage of nails – easy to broken or prone to bacteria

-         dull or damaged hair illness, weak hair easy to fall; problems with hair loss, baldness

-        problems with red blood cells and blood pressure – very high or very low;

-        problems with specially low blood pressure and cold feet;

-        problems and illnesses of legs, knees, ankles and tendons (easy to broken or any illness connected with legs and feet)

-      problems with heart diseases – and arrhythmia heart attack; (these diseases are related to closed Root chakra and imbalanced Heart chakra)

   Qualities that you need to master, in order to bring health and balance to your Muladhara are: feeling of safety, removing fear around situations or people; having courage and motivation; act upon your ideas and principles; eliminating prejudice and intolerance; eliminating harmful and aggressive thoughts; raising your self-respect; raising your human value; feeling comfortable and loving your home; raising the love to your family and father; being generous with others, overcoming egoism.

   From that is obvious, everyone who has problems with these qualities or is in the opposite side – has imbalances in the Root chakra. Have in mind that many more illnesses are related with Muladhara, that could not be realized as such. For example severe headache and migraine (which real cause was not found until now) is related to Root center; (also varicose veins, problems with digestion and large intestine)

   From that you can conclude that most physical illnesses are result of bad relations, Karmic lessons and ungrounded. Such people will need specially things like nature walk, spend longer time in nature or village, take care of animals, or have home pet; stop harmful eating habits or attachments, increase their physical activities –sport, exercises.

This chakra represents mindful receiving of love, joy, care and support from your family and specially your father. Also represents mindful receiving of material goods – home property, money (as inheritance), money from parents and family, objects or property that is inherited, ancestral memory and honor.

That’s how so many people suffer from Muldhara illnesses due to family conflicts and misunderstanding about property division or inherited money, gold, jewelry. The animal totems of Root are Tiger and lion, elephant. Domestic animal that symbolizes it is dog. 

If you are interested in the topic of chakras, you can continue reading about  Sacral chakra -relationships, illnesses I

Thank you for tuning in!

nina Lea-nour *