Is Your Base Chakra Showing Any Of These 5 Signs Of Imbalance?

Each of the seven main chakras has the potential to affect your physical body. The subtle flow of energy permeates your entire system. The weaker energy centers or Chakra centers are the areas where you would notice any physical signs of imbalance first.

The Base or Root Chakra is a very important Chakra center. It has direct associations to your physical body, to your sense of survival and your basic needs and instincts. It encompasses your legs, feet, external sexual organs, as well as your blood.

To my mind it also includes the entire skeleton as it is about how you stand in this world, the form you take: the way you express that form in a physical manner in this world.

A lot of the physical symptoms of the Root Chakra therefore will affect the human frame, the blood, as well as the specific regions and organs of the body directly associated to it.

It's not just the color of the blood that links it to the Base Chakra but it is the vital life source, keeping you alive, transporting necessary nutrients around your body. It is an integral, core part of your survival and existence.

1. Hypertension - High Blood Pressure - this could indicate that regardless of the outward signals you may be showing, inwardly your body is finding it hard to rest and relax. There is a part of you 'on the lookout'. For whatver reason, your inner self cannot let go and relax, subsequently the pressure is building up.

2. Low Blood Pressure (Hypotension)- Your blood is the flow of life force in this world, a low blood pressure reading may indicate a time in your life when you feel unable or unwilling to apply yourself and your energy to life and living fully. This is not to suggest this is the cause of your symptom but it can certainly accompany it.

Many illnesses or conditions can often be traced back to a psychological or emotional cause or trigger. It is believed that left long enough such triggers can make you more susceptible to particular diseases or symptoms. I do believe that we are the sum of our thoughts - regardless of whether we consciously know that or not.

3. Anaemia - As already stated, the blood flow signifies the flow of life force and your acceptance and experience of that flow. Are you are strong and joyous, abundant in your outlook and perceptions or do you have underlying insecurity or a low sense of self worth?

Although such things can become self fulfilling prophecies, it is always worthwhile alongside any treatment ensuring that the emotional and psychological aspects of the individual be respected and valued too.

4. Crohn's Disease - This disease is an inflammatory bowel disease. Although a specific cause may not be evident, it is thought that there are possible triggers. These can be imbalances in the immune system itself or certain allergies and intolerances to foods.

On the psycho - spiritual level there may be an attitude of the 'need to get things right' about the individual. They may be perfectionists or particularly focused and determined to achieve their goals.

This is not to say that is a bad thing but there may be a lot less focus on the enjoyment of the goals and achievements rather than the act of achieving itself.

5. Constipation - This condition requires no explanation but it can often be linked to issues of control: whether that be control of the body or of extreme control of the emotions. An attempt to try to 'keep things in, not letting go, and keeping them under control. There may be a strong element of perfectionism , sometimes they may be trying to control things to keep the peace - so that the people and situations around them may not be annoyed or affected.

The common theme here - the Root Chakra deals with our elimination processes - letting go of the things we no longer need. This is not just on the physical level, but on every level. Trying to stop the natural flow for whatever good intentions or purposes usually results in a blockage.

The Base Chakra is about acknowledging and accepting your basic needs and wants, getting what you need and then letting go. It encompasses your need to feel safe and secure. No matter how you may try and rationalize things and present an outward calm image to the world, if that is not how you truly feel inside then your body and energy will show the tell tale signs.