Name :=: Location :=: Body Parts it Supports :=: Issues It Powers

Muladhara / Base :=: Between genitals and anus :=: Feet and legs, bones, immune system, body support, spine base, etc :=: Family and social belonging, safety and order, basic survival, standing up for oneself, etc.

Being the energy center that is connected with family and social belonging, this chakra is involved with emotional grounding and stability, a sense of belonging. This center thrives on the universal law that we are all one. Any time you accept a belief contrary to this truth, or think, speak and act contrary to this truth, you block its proper functioning. Any time you embrace this truth in belief, thought, words, and actions, you boost its power to ever- higher levels.

This is the first center to develop in your life. Your first seven years of your life have this center as the major cycle chakra, and the first year of your life has it as the theme chakra. Therefore, you will find that your view of the world is generally formed by what you chose to accept as true from the relationship you had with your family, society and environment in your first seven years of life on earth. More often than not, people were taught both through experience and 'teaching' that the world is not safe and it requires struggle to survive. This is obviously totally contrary to the universal truth that we are all one, safe and abundant. You must therefore correct this base belief and heal this chakra. Those who buy into such a view of the world always experience this as their truth.

Remember also that this chakra is the center that empowers you to stand up for yourself. You cannot escape the ill effects of the first seven years of your life by just saying "it wasn't my fault, my parents and society made me fall into that false limiting belief". That was the only thing your parents and society knew at the time, with all their own fears that they harbored. As you will come to see, you selected your parents and environment very specifically, so that they may trigger in you the very essences you wished to come to earth to transform. You helped plan these possibilities before your own birth, even though you now have no memory of your pre-birth activities. Feeling victimized is only going to make it worse for you. This software will help you heal in the right way, but basically the way to do it is to accept responsibility, face your dark side and embrace it. Why? Because you have an inner child that you disowned a long time ago and this inner child must now be put in its rightful position of splendor. This inner child is what was 'victimized' in your first seven years. You came into this world full of innocence, faith, inner power and love, and slowly you were told "you are not good enough, you are doing this or that all wrong, and you are in danger, and so on" until you bought these false truths. You started seeing yourself, your inner child, as the cause of the harm you experienced, the cause of the rejection you were experiencing. Then your ego developed an inner critic that took the job of criticizing you so that you never again experience those first rejections. Hence you yourself ended up disowning and hiding your inner child. And to this day you criticize and disown your original inner child, the key to your peace and power.

Your inner child needs to come to the forefront and know that it was perfect all along, nothing was wrong with it. Yes, it is still there. And it is still perfect, created in the image and likeness of the First Force, the Creator! But you have forgotten all that; your inner child has been denied. And it has been rejected by your ego. You now identify with your ego and inner critic and hide away your inner child. You are split and this has made you weak. There is no way of getting back your inner child, your original perfect self, unless you forgive yourself, and all those you say harmed you, and embrace all your sides, dark and light. If you do not forgive, you merely enhance the idea in your mind that the transgression was real and justified, and so it will continue to harm you. That scary beast you hold in your mind in your past only looks big because you believe it is. Face it and you will see it is as thin as a veil, as light as smoke, and as harmless as a rubber duck. And as you may have heard from many famous and heroic people in the past, the dark (hidden, unexplored) side always holds a very powerful gift once you face it and embrace it.

In an interesting way, this chakra is about belonging but it is also about standing up for yourself. This raises some confusion among some people. Do they remain loyal to their social group at the expense of their own personal will, individuation and truth? Should loyalty through sacrifice be expected? The answer is simple. Love does not bind, it frees. Fear binds. They are exact opposites. As cruel as it may sound, we are all one, but each answerable to themselves and only themselves. Guilt is a thing made up by the ego mind to trap you and limit you. Nothing harms a person more than feeling guilty or imposing guilt on another.

Guilt robs of our God-given perfect worth and power. It calls for punishment. Punishment is never a good teacher, for how can you teach that violence is bad when you use violence to correct the violence? Consequence teaches, love heals, but punishment and guilt imprison the mind. Besides, we are one. Guilt can only happen as a reality if we had separate wills. But in a system of One, there is no separate will. When you fully understand the law of cause and effect, you will see that it is impossible for something to happen to someone unless the 'victim' has accepted the energy pattern of the 'crime' in his or her mind and now needs an event to lead to its experience and eventual healing. This mental error could have been done in this life or a previous one. This is where the big picture comes in. Guilt enforces the idea of victimization, which takes away responsibility and response-ability, and that never leads to true healing. It may dodge the issue temporarily, but it will not permanently wipe it out. And as long as you feel guilty, you will never feel deserving and hence you will never get ahead. And as long as you hold another person guilty, you will hold the belief in your mind that you were a victim and you will experience victimization in other forms. Your only way out is embracing, facing it, finding the lesson in both the positive and negative side of the issue, embracing both sides, and forgiving yourself and all parties involved.

Now, ultimately you will need to separate yourself from the group thought that is held by your society if you wish to grow faster. As you can now see, everyone has their own belief patterns that determines how their life turns out. And each group has its own group consciousness. When you are plugged into this group thought, you experience its effects and limitations. To grow further, you must unplug from it and have your own. Sometimes this may scare you, especially when it means that you physically separate from your group in order to disconnect. This chakra is what grounds us to the earth and gives us a sense of belonging. This is the upside. The downside is that as you grow and especially when you start developing your sixth and seventh chakras, you may need to unplug your loyalty to your group and its particular grounding, losing one belonging so that you may find another. You should not reject your group, but you may need to lovingly release it. You definitely have to let it go whenever its beliefs contradict your truth and call upon you to be loyal to what you hold as false at the expense of what you hold as true. At this point, if you do not release it, you are bound to face some health issues or life situation problems related to this chakra.