Body energies, about yoga, Benthe Ploug

Mooladhara chakra

Mooladhara chakra is the first of the psychic centers, also called root chakra. The first chakra is located above the perineum, with a radiation at the bottom of the spine corresponding to plexus sacralis.

Psykisk refererer centret til overlevelsesprincippet, hvor hovedmotivet i overlevelse er at beskytte sig selv som et selvstændigt individ, bl.a. ved at udvikle en stærk sikkerheds- eller jegfølelse.

Psychic the centre refers to the survival principle, where the main motive is to protect itself as an autonomous individual, including by developing a strong feeling of safety.

Unbalanced energy concentration in the first Chakra will therefore respond to uncertainty about the identity feeling, problems with planning ones daily life and life in general - you have difficulty finding meaning in life.

The energy flow related to the first Chakra shows how we relate to everyday duties and responsibilities. Therefore, the related body parts are our legs and feet, the way we stand or walk on the ground, our grounding. The energy has to do with our past, our genus, our sex and race.

Everyday life and the earth are feminine forces and here the feminine aspects are reflected - as symbolized by the oriental symbol of Yoni - a red triangle pointing downwards, surrounded by a square, corresponding to the four temperaments: choleric / sanguine / melancholic / phlegmatic, to the four corners of the world and the four elements: earth / air / water / fire.

This center also symbolizes blood and circulation. The basic life force and energy is centered here, the center of life's pulsation. Through a harmonization of the first Chakra the life force is awakened. We can feel we are alive, if we are in our body, if we are mentally present here and now.

If the life force is weakened, ie. we do not live our own lives but through other people. In such situations we transfer our dreams, desires and hopes, but also our fear, pain and suffering on others. They are deities or scapegoats. Life Force is transferred from one's own center, from the experience of feeling oneself as an independent entity, outward towards others.

This can occur in low or moderately severe degree, so that a parasitic attitude towards others' thoughts occur, for example by referring to them as our own thoughts or experiences. But it may also occur much more severe, as can be seen in relation to a guru or therapist, whereby one's own discernment is dissolved. It may just as well happen that one denies reality in a way that "the world" becomes the scapegoat.

You experience that you have noble qualities like: good, loving, helpful, etc. - while others are regarded with fear, contempt, rejection. I (and the group / family that I belong to) are good - all the others (people of different religious or political opinion) are evil. Due to the poor contact one has with oneself and reality, the need for self-protection gets correspondingly large. Therefore unbalance in the first chakras would correspond to being mentally focused on being harmed by others: "it is because of my bad childhood, my work mates, youth, community."

As many imbalances are rooted in our early childhood experiences, working with our memory and regain awareness of repressions could straigten out an unbalanced root center. Sense of smell is the sense associated with the first center, and there is hardly any sense, that so quickly can release memories. Think of a smell you met when you first came into an apartment - and that smell reminds you of the home of a schoolmate. Without preparation pictures of this home, the furnishings, the schoolmate's parents, the play and conversations from that period remain in your mind.

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