When your root chakra is open and balanced, you can develop confidence in life and your own abilities.
The approaches listed below will help you to open, strengthen and balance it. With their help, you will be able to realise the root chakra’s diverse potential for growth.
Here’s how you can strengthen your root chakra and find your place in life with ease and serenity.
In this post below, you’ll find, amongst other things, recommendations, remedies and aspects, as well as correspondences to other areas that strengthen the root chakra. These will help you to correct an imbalance in the root chakra and have access to greater vitality and life force.
If you haven’t yet read our introductory article on the root chakra and its significance, we recommend that you read that first and then come back here.
Table of contents
Recommendations to strengthen and activate the root chakra
Remedies and aspects that strengthen the root chakra
Pink Mulla Mulla -> 10 drops twice daily for 6 weeks
Correspondences of the root chakra
Sensory function of the root chakra
The nerve plexus of the root chakra
Psychological and physical associations with the five elements
Recommendations to strengthen and activate the root chakra
- Strengthen your basic trust in life and surround yourself with people who value you and enrich your life. Foster your independence in relationships and avoid people on whom you might become dependent.
- Boost your self-confidence. Get to know your body and take the time to explore its needs.
- Find time to relax and enjoy your sexuality, cuddles and tender moments.
- Spend time in nature or in your garden. Take in the energy of nature with all your senses and let it sink in.
- You can strengthen and support your root chakra with the power of gemstones, aromas, incense rituals or healthy, fresh food.
- Make time for gentle forms of movement that release patterns of tension, such as yoga, craniosacral bodywork, qigong or tai chi.
- Come to terms with your existential and survival fears. Seek professional help if necessary to cope with your psychological stress and work through any childhood trauma.
Remedies and aspects that strengthen the root chakra
Medicinal plants
Apple
Valerian root
Linden blossoms
Elderberries
Ginseng
Pomegranate
Jiaogulan
Red roses
Yarrow
Cinnamon
Bach flowers
Mix:
Sweet Chestnut
Chestnut Bud
Red Chestnut
Olive
Clematis
Oak
-> 10 drops twice a day for 6 weeks
Australian Bush flowers
Mix:
Banksia Robur
Crowea
Pink Mulla Mulla
-> 10 drops twice a day for 6 weeks
Precious stones
Agate
Garnet
Ruby
Haematite
Red jasper
Obsidian
Snowflake obsidian
Tiger’s eye
Essential oils / aromatherapy
Clove
Patchouli
Swiss stone pine
Rosemary
Cedar
Cinnamon
Sandalwood
Vetiver
Cypress
Incense burning
Angelica root
Siam Benzoin
Labdanum
Nutrition / Food
Grounding root vegetables: carrots, beetroot, potatoes, parsnips, daikon radish, radishes, burdock root, turnips, kohlrabi
Proteins that promote strength: pulses, nuts, milk and dairy products, tofu and soya products
Strengthening seeds: pumpkin seeds (prostate!), pine nuts, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds
Physical activities
Yoga
any form of exercise that engages the legs and feet
any activity that grounds you, is physical and requires focus or mental presence can strengthen your root chakra
Correspondences in nature
Sunrise and sunset
red earth
Places on Earth
Native American reservations and their sacred land
the sacred land of all indigenous peoples
Correspondences of the root chakra
The following information and associations relating to the root chakra will give you a clear overview of the diversity and healing potential of this chakra – and how you can strengthen your root chakra by consciously connecting with it.
Symbol
four-petalled lotus
Sensory function of the root chakra
Smell
Sense organ
Nose
Organ of action
Feet
Element
Earth, the solid, the sustaining element
Resonance age
from conception to the age of 7
The nerve plexus of the root chakra
Sacral plexus
Endocrine gland
Adrenal gland
Hormones
Adrenaline
Noradrenaline
Aldosterone
Cortisone
Psychological and physical associations with the five elements
Psychological classification:
– The element of water, as the basic emotion of basic trust is associated with this chakra
– The Earth element, as – like the root chakra – it enables a strong connection to the earth, a sense of reality and access to one’s own strength
Physical classification:
– The element of water, as the root chakra is also associated with the bones
Mental level
Will to live
Spiritual level
Basic trust
Symbol form
Square (four-petalled lotus)
Form in space
large cube
Colour
Red
Musical note
C
Mantric syllable
LAM
Vocal vibration
U
Musical instrument
Drum
Mythological animal
White elephant
Indian deities
Brahma
Dakini
Planets
Earth
Saturn
Numerology
Life numbers 4 and 22/4
Runes
Kenaz
Fehu
Othala
Hagalaz
Zodiac signs
Capricorn
Moon phases
Full moon
Trees
Oak
I’d be delighted if you could leave a comment and share your experiences of strengthening the root chakra and the remedies listed here.
Do you perhaps have a few tips to help other readers stay well-grounded in life? What do you like doing best to ground yourself?
???? If you’d like to strengthen your root chakra with meditations, yoga exercises, affirmations, a gemstone, mudras and much more, then join us for our third article on opening the root chakra.
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