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7 Practices To Open Your Sacral Chakra

October 26, 2021

Overview

In this video, I explain 7 practices to open your sacral chakra for chakra healing. When your sacral chakra is blocked, you may feel disconnected from your creativity or even your divine feminine energy.

The chakras are part of your subtle energy system and they vibrate at specific frequencies, and the sacral chakra affects our experience of our creativity, our sexuality and our intimate relationships.



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Healing The Upper Chakras For Highly Sensitive People

November 14, 2020


This is Part 2 of the series on healing the chakras for Highly Sensitive People (HSP).  In Part 2 we discuss the upper chakras.  If you haven’t read part 1 yet, you might want to do that first.

I prefer to use the term upper chakras simply because higher chakras makes it sound as if the top chakras are better than the lower chakras.

Since the lower chakras are foundational to a healthy and well-balanced energy system, it is an important distinction to make.

The upper chakras that we’ll be discussing today then the heart chakra, throat chakra, third eye chakra and the crown chakra.

A note before we start: This information serves as a general guideline for you to find a point to start to work with the chakras and the energy system as a whole.

You can watch the video on healing the upper chakras for highly sensitive people on Youtube


The Heart Chakra

The heart chakra is in the center of the 7 chakras, and connects your upper chakras with your lower chakras.  It is also the center of who we are.

The theme of the heart chakra is love and connection.

The heart chakras of highly sensitive people (HSP) could be overactive.  HSPs often put others ahead of themselves and this could cause the heart chakra to become imbalanced.  

It could show up as problems with setting boundaries and neglecting of the self, where you neglect taking care of your own needs. 

If you are overactive in one chakra, you might find that the 2 neighboring chakras are underactive.

Perhaps you don’t speak up for yourself which relates to the throat chakra.

Or, you might suppress your stronger feelings such as anger, and avoid confrontation which relates to the solar plexus.

To heal the heart chakra, you have to strengthen and balance your root chakra, solar plexus chakra, and throat chakra.

When you bring the solar plexus and throat chakras into balance, it will strengthen and open your heart chakra.  The chakras never work in isolation as they are interconnected.

A closed heart chakra

Your HSP sensitivity to the responses of others can also lead to the heart chakra closing down.

If you’ve been hurt one time to many times, you may do this in an attempt to protect yourself

But, by shutting out the pain of the world and everyone in it, we also shut down our own feelings.

A closed heart chakra prevents you from feeling peace, joy and centeredness.

The first step  in opening your heart chakra is to practice forgiveness.

Forgive yourself and forgive others.   When we forgive someone we release the energetic attachment to that person or event.  You don’t condone what happened, and you gain freedom.

A second part of opening your heart is to make self-care a regular part of your life.  Through practicing self-care you begin to honor your needs.

And finally, and perhaps most importantly – when you do this inner work (as much of this content on my blog is about), you begin to heal and balance your energy centers.

Working on inner child healing and core wound healing is not easy to do on your own, and this is where working with a Coach or Practitioner is very helpful.

The Throat Chakra

The throat chakra is the center of our authentic expression.

This energy center is all about communication and about speaking our truth.

Imbalances in the throat chakra may show up in the form of thyroid problems, or any problems with the throat, the neck, and the shoulders.

Growing up there are many things that teach HSPs to be quiet and not speak up or stand up for themselves. 

HSPs are very conscientious about the feelings of others.

So, in avoiding hurting the feelings of others the HSP shuts their own communication down.  

Most HSPs I know have some struggles around people-pleasing.  

Because the HSP is so aware of the moods and the subtleties when engaging with other people, they are very aware of not rocking the boat too much.

To heal the throat chakra and step fully into your authenticity, you have to speak your truth.

Begin by voicing your opinions and standing up for yourself and the things you believe in. 

Connect to your purpose

The throat chakra is connected to our purpose.

I believe that our purpose unfolds within us when we are aligned with our own truth.

By doing the inner work, aligning with your essence, and doing the healing your life purpose begins to unfold organically as a result.

A practice that will begin to activate this upper chakra for the highly sensitive person is to be your word.

Being your word means that you do what you said you will do, and when you said you will do it.

It is a cornerstone of taking responsibility for your life and the choices you make.

When you become your word, you treat your word as sacred.

When we make a commitment to someone else,  or to ourselves, we honor that commitment and follow through on it.

You avoid telling white lies even if you are trying to make someone else feel better (A habit of HSPs is trying to make others feel better!)

Standing your personal power in this way, also strengthens the solar plexus.  

Often, HSPs tend to overcommit in their attempt to be helpful and nice.  This relates to weakness in both the solar plexus and throat chakras, and is another opportunity for doing deeper work.

The Third Eye Chakra and Crown Chakra

Now we are moving into the spiritual dimension when we look at these two upper chakras.

Your root chakra up to your throat chakra is more connected to the physical and the third eye chakra and the crown chakra are more connected to the spiritual dimension.

The third eye chakra which is located between the brows on your forehead is your connection to intuition.

HSPs are naturally more intuitive and sensing subtleties is one of the key traits of being a highly sensitive person. 

So, this ability to be more sensitive and the other HSP trait of overthinking and intellectualizing can cause the HSP to spend a lot of time in these upper chakras.

The crown chakra is our connection to the Divine.

This is where we remember that we are not separate but that we are one.  We are connected to each other and connected to the Divine.

As I said, HSPs can spend a lot of energy and time in these energy centers and the result is that you may feel ungrounded.

You might describe it as being spacey, flaky, ungrounded or even out of touch with reality.  You may feel a disconnect between yourself and the outside world.

If your upper chakras are overactive, the way to bring them back into balance is through working on the lower chakras.

Grounding exercises strengthen the root chakra and the root chakra is foundational to creating a well-balanced energy system.

Look at the lower chakras and upper chakras as a whole 

It’s important to look at the energy system as a whole.  All the chakras are interconnected.

Working with any one chakra and doing healing or clearing work will have an effect on the other chakras.

Everything is connected and interconnected with each other and the things that we do on one level are automatically going to flow through onto the other level.

This is why doing inner healing and inner work is fundamental to us creating happy and balanced lives, because when we work on healing different core wounds it gives a benefit to all areas of our life.


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Filed Under: Clearing and Balancing the Energy Body Tagged With: chakras, highly sensitive person

Healing The Lower Chakras For Highly Sensitive People (Hsp)

November 10, 2020


Highly sensitive people (HSP) can benefit especially from lower chakra healing.

We are so much more than our physical bodies. We also have energetic bodies. 

In the same way that our physical bodies can become sick due to stress, anxiety, a passive lifestyle or not eating the right types of food, our energy body also becomes unwell and imbalanced by some of the things that we experience in life.

This post is part 1 of a 2-part series on healing the chakra system, especially for HSPs.

In part 1 we are going to focus on the three lower chakras.


What chakras do

I will start by giving you an overview of the chakra system.

The chakras are energy centers.

Think of them centers in your body that organizes the movement of energy – how we receive energy and also how we transmit energy.

Throughout our body we have got energy pathways or nadis.

Where these energy pathways intersect with each other you find a chakra.

7 Main chakras

Starting at the bottom of your spine and moving upwards they are

  • Root – safety and security
  • Sacral – creativity and sensuality
  • Solar plexus – self-worth and personal power
  • Heart – love
  • Throat – self-expression and communication
  • Third eye – awareness
  •  Crown – Spirituality

Because of our sensitivity to energy and stimuli in our environment, lower chakra healing for the HSP is a useful practice to support healing.

I found it a useful tool in my toolbox or self-care and personal wellbeing.

If you want to watch this on Youtube, you can click here.

An imbalance in the chakra system

Generally speaking, when your chakras are unbalanced it means that the energy doesn’t flow through the body and through the energy pathways in the best way possible.

Our memories, beliefs and stories about our past can be stored in the chakras and these may cause blocks or imbalances.

It is possible to clear these blockages through inner healing, developing new supportive habits and creating new ways of thinking.

Affirmations are one of the tools that you can use to help balance your chakras and clear out some of the limiting beliefs that might be stuck in there. 

Healing the physical, emotional and spiritual body.

Our chakras don’t only relate to our emotional state.

There are also physical illnesses that can show up as a result of our chakras being out of balance.

Some of the most common examples are digestive issues, heart problems, sugar problems, problems with your feet, your legs and problems with your teeth.

All of these can be traced back to an energetic imbalance in the body.

So, not only are we beginning to heal our emotional and our spiritual body when we work with the chakras but also our physical body and some of the physical symptoms that we have.

Whether we identify as being highly sensitive or not we all are made up of energy.  We all have these energetic pathways and chakras, so really, everyone benefits from balancing and working with their energy centers.

Healing the Root chakra

The first chakra, or Root chakra is located at the base of your spine.

The root chakra is connected to the element of earth and this chakra has everything to do with physical and earthly matters.

This is our chakra center that is focused on matters of survival, our safety and our security.

Highly sensitive people are by nature of our trait overstimulated quite easily as we are sensitive to stimuli in our environment.

This can show up as not feeling secure or feeling unsafe,  which is directly related to the root chakra.

Our root chakra is also where we ground into the earth.

Now, HSPs tend to spend a lot of time in their heads.

We tend to overthink things, and so we spend much of our energy in our upper chakras, leading to feeling ungrounded.

Spending time in our heads means that we are not really connected into our bodies.  I’ve spoken before about how making time for grounding as part of our self-care ritual is so important to help reduce overthinking.

Some other things relating to our root chakra is our financial stability, our career,  and our sense of belonging. Lower chakra healing as an HSP will also benefit these areas of your life.

Being highly sensitive, we often feel different from everyone else.  We notice how others are so different to us in the way that they think and feel, and this can make us feel as if we don’t fit in anywhere.

This can contribute even more to not feeling safe and secure in our environment and relationships.

The things that you can do to bring some more balance to the root chakra is to practice grounding techniques and exercises that will connect you to your body and breath, like yoga.  

Any activity connecting the body to the earth is grounding.  Try stomping your feet, or mindful walking.

Healing the Sacral chakra

The Sacral chakra is located just below your navel.

It is our center for creativity, joy and for playfulness.

When this chakra is imbalanced you’re typically going to find very rigid thinking patterns.

Being stuck in repeating the same routine and being very inflexible in the things that you do are big signs of this chakra needing more balance.

Also, another sign that this chakra is out of balance is that you have a hard time relaxing, playing and taking down-time.

Highly sensitive people might often struggle with issues around self-trust and also with trusting others.

HSPs compare themselves to how the other 80% of the people in the world do things, and wrongly come to the conclusion that there must be something wrong with them because they are so different to the 80%.

They come to believe that they feel “too much” and respond “too intensely’ leading them to distrust their feelings.

Something that not many HSPs or empaths know, is that our sacral chakra feels the emotions of other people.

When this happens, we are often not  to tell our feelings from someone else’s.

A good activity to do is to learn how to create strong energy boundaries, an important part of lower chakra healing as an HSP.

Learn how to strengthen your energetic boundaries so that you don’t take on the feelings of other people!

Something else that you can do that’s going to help bring this sacral chakra into balance is to learn how to play more.

You want to learn to be more flexible and not be so strict with yourself.

This is our chakra center for joyful and creative expression, and learning how to play more is also such an important part of self-care.

Healing the Solar Plexus chakra

The solar plexus chakra is the seat of your personal power.

This chakra governs your personal power, your sense of self, your self-worth, your confidence and your right to be here and take action.

You might have often heard that you “shouldn’t be so sensitive” or “don’t cry so much” or “don’t overreact that way, 

Growing up, when you continue to hear these messages, you might begin to develop shame about who you are.

Shame is one of the things that brings the solar plexus chakra out of balance.

No-one likes feeling criticized but HSPs really take criticism to heart .

Because then we see it as a reflection of who we are as a person, it can lead to creating an imbalance in the solar plexus chakra.

As an HSP, lower chakra healing, especially of the solar plexus, can start by you giving yourself permission to be you.

It means that you accept all parts of yourself, even those sensitive parts because that is what makes you, you.

And secondly, in that acceptance you also take action.

The solar plexus is the center from which action happens, and you strengthen it by taking action.

Healing the lower chakras as a HSP

Our chakras are representative of our entire life,  so if you in your physical life find that you are struggling with limiting beliefs or habits and self-sabotaging behaviors, you will find that clearing the lower chakras will help you heal and create change.


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Filed Under: Clearing and Balancing the Energy Body Tagged With: chakras, highly sensitive person

Empath Meditation For Cleansing And Clearing Your Energy

June 23, 2020


This guided meditation for empaths will assist you in letting go of stuck energy.

Empaths are sensitive to the energy of others and we also absorb this energy, which can leave us feeling drained.

A chakra cleansing meditation will help heal your energy body.

You can do this 10 minute guided empath meditation every day to cleanse and clear your energy.


Filed Under: Meditations and Affirmations Tagged With: chakras, highly sensitive person

How To Use Chakras To Improve Your Wellbeing

April 10, 2020


Today we’re going to be talking about energy and specifically about your chakras and how you can balance your chakras using positive affirmations, to boost your sense of well-being.

We are energetic beings and in a time like this where collectively all of us are affected by world events and all of us are collectively experiencing great stress and uncertainty our energy bodies are also affected. 

When our sense of safety and belonging and the things that are familiar to us are threatened the foundation of our world is pulled out from underneath us.

In times like this, it is completely normal to feel frustrated and anxious but we don’t want that frustration, that sense of helplessness and overwhelm to become our overriding emotion because that leaves you in a place of disempowerment. We’re looking for things that can empower us and allow us to be creative and attract better things into our life and by using your energy body you can support yourself to do that.

The Chakra System

We are going to be looking at the chakras and I’ll just tell you a little bit about the chakras for anyone who’s not familiar with them.

The chakras system is a way for us to understand our bodies and it is a way for us to understand ourselves and our energy state.

So chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning wheel and it refers to energy centers that we have in our body.

There are hundreds of these but I’m just going to be talking about the seven main ones.

Now, if you imagine that you’ve got a meridian a highway running through the center of your body there are seven points along this meridian and they are called chakras. 

Your chakra moves life force energy through your body and when our chakras are balanced all parts of our body mind and spirit receives the life force that it needs.

I find an easy way to think about this is to imagine that all the meridians and energy lines that run through our bodies are like highways and they all come together in certain areas.

When Chakras Are Blocked

When there is a congestion or when there is a blockage then these certain areas or energy centers don’t get what they need and the result is that you have a chakra that is either blocked or overactive.

The problem with this is that it can cause all kinds of disruptions in our lives when our energy centers are blocked.

We can end up feeling victimized and uninspired. We can blame others for our situation.

You might feel hatred and anger towards your body, have feelings of being stuck, feeling aimless and without purpose and then also strong feelings of anxiety and worthlessness.

When your chakras are open then you experience more flow creativity and a greater sense of well-being.

I’ve looked at some of the things that we can do because there are practical things that you can do to help balance and open these energy centers, which I’ll share with you below.

We Are All Affected

I’m assuming that almost everyone in the world’s energy body or chakra system is in disarray because we are in a time of crisis.

We are facing a global pandemic and that does have an effect on us, so I’m not going to specifically go into what it looks like when a certain chakra is unbalanced because I think all of us will be experiencing these things anyway.

Balance Your Root Chakra

Your root chakra is foundational to your sense of safety and security. It’s connected to your lower body your feet and your legs.

Ways in which you can balance this is by connecting with the element of Earth so that means going for a walk outside, eating root vegetables, wearing the color red and then also stretching and strengthening your legs. 

Two affirmations that you can use for the root chakra are

  • I am safe
  • I am grounded. 

Balance Your Sacral Chakra

Your sacral chakra is connected to your sense of creativity, sexuality, and playfulness. It is linked to the sexual organs and sacrum.

Things that you can do, is to dance and to swing and to move your hips, connect to your feelings through journaling and wearing the color orange.  

The sacral chakra is connected to the element of Water so even things like going for a swim taking a shower or taking a bath will help you.

Two affirmations that you can use for your sacral chakra are 

  • I allow my creativity to flow through me
  • I honor my body and my needs

Balance Your Solar Plexus Chakra

Then we move onto the solar plexus chakra.  This is the seat of your personal power and growth and it’s connected to your abdomen your mid-back and your side body.

The element connected to this is the element of Fire and meditating while looking at a candle can be very supportive. Also to you go outside and get some sunshine on your skin and wearing the color yellow.

Two affirmations to use

  •  I release the need to control
  •  I have everything I need within 

Balance Your Heart Chakra

Moving up to the heart chakra, your heart chakra is connected to your heart and it is the seat for unconditional love and our sense of well-being.

Your heart chakra is associated with the air, getting fresh air will support you, also practicing self-love and self-care and really nurturing yourself.

Two affirmations that are helpful

  • I forgive myself for past mistakes
  • Today I choose joy

Balance Your Throat Chakra

Your throat chakra is located near your thyroid. The throat chakra is related to how we communicate, how we express ourselves, and how we show up in the world.

Ways to support your throat chakra is to listen to beautiful music, to wearing the color turquoise and to drink tea or lemon water

Use these two affirmations 

  • I express myself freely
  • I trust my voice and speak my truth

Balance Your Third Eye Chakra

Now we move on to the third eye chakra which is located literally between your two eyes, and it is related to our intuition and our connection to the Spiritual World.

The third eye chakra can be supported by wearing the color blue and by writing your dreams down in a journal. Something else to do which can support you is to listen to your body.

Listen to your intuition rest when you need to rest. Eat when you need to eat, take it easy and relax when you have to and push yourself when you have to. 

Two affirmations to use are

  • I trust my intuition
  •  I am calm and clear

Balance Your Third Eye Chakra

Now moving on to the crown chakra which is located on the top of your head and that is connected to your spiritual awakening.

You can support your crown chakra by wearing the color purple, by engaging in a meditation practice. You can do some inverted yoga poses like child’s pose or headstands as well as making it a habit to write in a gratitude journal. 

Two affirmations that you can use here are 

  • All is well in my world
  • I am at peace 

Use Your Energy Body To Support You

We are energetic beings and as much as we are experiencing physical and mental stress right now we can use our energy body to boost us and support us and give us a greater sense of well-being.

It’s going to help us feel calmer, which will enable us to better deal with the challenges that we’re facing.

That’s a much more powerful place to be, than coming from a mindset where we’re feeling completely out of control, anxious and overwhelmed by the state of the world which we can’t do anything about. 

The best thing that we can do is focus on how we respond and react to the things that are happening to us.

Filed Under: Clearing and Balancing the Energy Body Tagged With: chakras

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