How Energies In The Lower Chakras Can Shape Who We Are

On this episode, I talk about the three main lower chakras: root, sacral, and solar plexus. I explain how neglecting these can hinder personal growth and enlightenment. I explain how the narrative that achieving spiritual growth and enlightenment is via some super secret on the upper chakras that you need to achieve or have is not correct and can even be detrimental.

Whilst we do need the upper chakras for that, how much we can achieve is dependent on what may be happening on our lower chakras, and what type of human beings we are, independently of any psychic powers that come through via the upper chakras. Accordingly, I also talk about why it is important to pay attention to the energy and resonance of a person when receiving psychic information. I give an overview of how some energies stored in each chakra affect us, our lives, and who we are in this world. I hope that my sharing this helps you understand yourself and your life, your family, and your ancestral energies better.

Transcript

Hello friends,

This is Philippa speaking to you from Norway.

I hope you're well and thanks for tuning in today.

I want to talk to you about our three lower chakras.

Specifically,

I want to give you an overview and explain how the energies and experiences that are stored on each of these chakras play out in our lives and have an impact on us and who we are.

I hope that my sharing this with you can bring you awareness and insights which then can empower you on your journey of self-growth and self-understanding.

Let's dive into today's topic,

The three main lower chakras of the body.

As you probably well know,

I'm talking about the root or base chakra,

The sacral chakra and the solar plexus chakra.

Let's understand the terminology.

Why are they called lower chakras?

In part,

It is because of their anatomical location,

So from the mid-torso downwards.

On another level,

It's because these chakras are very connected to our primal human aspects,

Connected to survival,

To sexual energy.

They carry strong ancestral energies,

So very earthly realm type of energies.

I'd like to mention that they're not called lower because they are inferior or less than the other chakras.

I've heard this directly and indirectly and even in a subliminal message type of rhetoric.

Many people are incorrectly perceiving these chakras as actually being less than the other higher chakras.

When in fact,

One of the take-home messages that I would like you to take from today is that enlightenment and spiritual and personal growth are really dependent on these chakras in my experience.

It's not that you achieve enlightenment through them,

But it is related in terms of how you process your past and your potential to live in a healthy and balanced way has a lot to do with the energies in these chakras.

They are often very underlooked by a lot of people,

Particularly those who say that they are seeking spiritual enlightenment and awakening and who focus a lot on upper chakras,

On whatever issue or deficiency that they perceive they have on the third eye or something like that.

But this is a lot because of this very mainstream but at the same time very solid narrative going on for quite a while that the upper chakras are your secret to enlightenment.

Now,

They are necessary for enlightenment,

But it's not that you achieve enlightenment exclusively through some magic up there.

My experience on many levels has truly shown me that we're not only a system and the butterfly effect happens within us as much as outside of us,

But also if you don't take care of the energies in these chakras and forms of negativity and darker energies stored on these chakras,

Your psychic abilities are not going to save you that much and your capacity and potential for enlightenment in this life is going to be very limited.

Since this is the topic of today,

Just very briefly about these chakras and what I mean with this,

Perhaps a bit of an explanation makes sense here.

Your personal and human growth is extremely connected to the way the energies from these chakras flow and what are the energies that we carry there and your humanity,

Your personality and your level of personal development are key things that dictate the extent and how much you ultimately can evolve spiritually,

Because we are humans.

We really view all chakras as all equally important,

But of course today I'm kind of having the talk of how important these are,

Exactly because it seems that many people have been brainwashed to neglect them and we really have to be humble and do our own personal work and today of this topic a lot of the personal work is around our three lower chakras and I hope that by the end you really understand how important they are in our spiritual and personal development.

So these three main lower chakras are the foundation of the human pyramid,

Especially with the energies of giving,

Receiving and creation,

Creativity.

These are our animal type of energies as well,

To which of course we have added on our complexity of the human soul and we can add layers of complexity through the level of evolution of the soul and also what we carry in other chakras and also a lot of things.

So the energies on these chakras tend to be very determinate of the ego in terms of what are the wounds that we carry and of our personality as well.

I think I've probably made this clear indirectly with what I've said already and on this topic let's look at very quickly what happens when people live exclusively through the energies of these three chakras,

Especially with lower energies that can be stored on those chakras.

So many people basically only live almost exclusively through the lower vibration energies that can be stored on the chakras that translates then into a shut heart,

Low empathy,

Highly egoistical,

Lacking humanity,

Consciousness and awareness.

And of course,

This is a spectrum.

We've all met semi,

Mildly say egoistic people and I hope you've never met,

But to the level of people who are extremely cruel and psychopathic.

So they are in the dark triad type of personalities.

And I'm saying this to point out,

This is how it looks like when someone lives through lower energies from these chakras,

But also within these people,

The spectrum of people,

Even if you don't know,

You have met some people who actually have spiritual capacities,

They have psychic powers,

But the way that they use these psychic capacities are completely the opposite of someone who is compassionate and is kind and has an open heart and a good heart.

And I'm kind of going in this direction just to also mention another general misconception that I find all the time is that people think that just because someone has psychic abilities and even some information that they deliver makes sense to them,

It means that they are nice people and that they mean well and wish to use and develop those capacities to do good.

This is not true.

It's quite the contrary.

Many people use their highly sense of intuition to go straight to the weak points,

To hurt people,

To manipulate them into doing what they want,

And others then also use to enhance their dark magic and witchcraft.

So the summary of this,

Take home messages of this,

Is that always check if the energy that the person carries resonates with you.

Independently of what they say,

Even if they have this really nice speech and some of the information is accurate and makes sense,

Do check with yourself internally,

Is this person someone that I can trust?

Do I feel uncomfortable?

Do I feel comfortable?

And remember that sometimes it can change with any relationship.

Sometimes we first get a good vibe from someone and then afterwards we really don't get.

So yeah,

Don't be very strict.

But this is something that is really important,

I think,

To put out there.

Trust your gut.

Now let me just give a brief overview of each of these chakras.

This is going to be brief because to go into detail I'd need at least one episode for each chakra and then afterwards we will go into the healing transmission with Lady Natho.

Just before I move on,

It's kind of a disclaimer slash explanation.

To understand chakras and their energies,

It's really important,

In my opinion,

To understand that when I say an energy or whatever is associated with chakra x,

It doesn't mean that it only affects that chakra.

For example,

Say that you were giving a speech in class and your teacher belittled you and humiliated you,

Criticized you in front of your peers,

The whole classroom.

You were a child,

This negative experience got stuck on you,

So you absorb this negative energy your teacher created,

And then furthermore,

With a snowball effect of the things from the classroom and your peers and all of that.

So let's see.

This experience affected the root chakra since it induced fear and you were abused.

It created blockages on the throat chakra because the abused was through speech,

Through words,

Through action of expression where you were the center of attention.

It affected the sacral chakra because of the embarrassment,

The shame,

And then later on,

The psychological,

The self-induced by this negativity will come the guilt.

Especially as a child,

You will then blame yourself that you did something very wrong.

And especially because of this,

Then you will have the problems in the solar plexus chakra because of the embarrassment of the guilt and so on,

Which change the way that you perceive yourself and how you perceive that others perceive yourself when you speak,

When you act as you are.

Okay,

This is just an example.

It will have then some other issues on the heart chakra and even on third eyes and all,

But yeah,

You get the point.

Okay,

Let's move on.

The root or base chakra is located at the base of the spine.

Many of the energies that impact this chakra come from childhood experiences,

Family lineages,

Energies that have been created through experiences.

So whether you created those experiences yourself or they were created by others.

And speaking of others,

This chakra is very sensitive to external energies as well.

A huge impact on this chakra are wounds of betrayal,

Rejection,

Neglect,

And abandonment.

And in part,

This happens exactly because of its function as a survival center here on earth.

So any experience that creates fear and is absorbed.

So if the experience of fear is lived and is not absorbed,

Then it doesn't create that.

But if it is absorbed,

Then it will impact this chakra in some way.

And then of course you can have symptoms in the others as well.

Experiences and symptoms of imbalances in the root chakra,

They can also create several types of distortions.

For example,

One is at the level of sexual energy,

Either through the abuse of or the repression of this energy in an unhealthy way,

Of course.

Being unable to relax,

Always being tense,

Even if there's no reason for it,

Is a symptom of an imbalance in this chakra.

More symptoms are struggling with money and finances,

A sense of confusion,

Not knowing what to do,

Like feeling lost in the world or feeling lost in specific situations or a specific situation that is kind of a pattern,

Not knowing where to turn to.

So these are just a few examples.

So how does it look like when this chakra is healthy and working well?

It provides protection from any form of negativity.

It really helps us with a feeling of being well-grounded and strong here on earth,

Like the feeling that you are in the right place at the right time.

And it's really empowering to be here on earth.

And it's this feeling that when this chakra is working well,

That gives us,

That then offers us that inner sense that we can create,

That we are good enough,

That we can achieve our things and put us in the state of being the givers and the receptors of abundance.

Now,

The sacral chakra to me has many overlaps with the root chakra.

When I mean to me,

It's more on a practical level,

Even if on a theoretical conceptual level,

You can split them into nice drawers.

So what's important for you to know about this chakra is that it carries many,

Many energies from your ancestors and from your past lives.

Also,

And because of that,

The past lives,

Things that we have not processed are stored here.

Both that we have experienced in this life and in our past lives,

Not processed yet,

They're stored in the sacral chakra.

Basically,

I kind of see it as a channel of very old energies,

Kind of everything gets stored there,

Waiting for us to truly be ready to process emotionally charged events and energies.

The way it works is that it stores the energies there,

So that we process things at our own pace,

At the right time,

When we are ready.

This also allows us to go into deeper levels of understanding of situations from the past as we process things at the right time,

In our own pace.

For example,

Say that you divorced and you did move on and you actually did a healthy,

Normal way of processing grief at the time and you're in a good place now.

Still,

Whatever you went through from the relationships or from your marriage up to the divorce that you have not fully processed because it was not the right time or because you were not emotionally resolved yet to have a certain level of understanding about certain situations around the divorce.

So the sacral chakra stores those half-unpacked energies and experiences and when you are in a place in life that you can look back and you can achieve a higher level of understanding,

That it will really give you a huge personal empowerment and growth,

Somehow life or someone or you feeling that memory or something starts coming up,

However it happens,

It will come to the surface.

This is why resolving energies in the sacral chakra of this emotional charged nature really contributes to personal development.

Resolving things stored in this chakra contributes to higher levels of self-understanding,

Empathy and sympathy for others,

Contributes to a more open heart chakra as well and it shapes a lot who we are on a deeper level regarding our humanity,

The nature of being human.

What else is important here?

It's connected to emotions as i've said and it stores a lot of energy.

This is one of the reasons why the sacral contributes and it's very connected to our sense of self and to our own way of being and perceiving things,

Of how we see what's right and what's wrong and it also plays a part in instincts and intuition as well.

If you have problems being grounded,

Also look at this chakra,

It's like the root chakra,

It helps when it's working well,

It helps us to be grounded.

It also helps us to have a good sense of what is good for us,

What are our needs,

It's one of the chakras that contributes to that capacity.

Symptoms of imbalances are,

For example,

Having a lot of difficulty in life,

Having a lot of struggles to get things,

Struggles to receive things,

Struggles to find people who are nice or kind.

These are all ways that tell us that the sacral is really carrying energies that are affecting our capacity to be in flow with life and to receive.

Another thing is if you have difficulty in reading the room well,

It's also another sign that there's things in the sacral to sort out.

Having a little sense of accurately being aware of what's happening around you and making wrong decisions as a life pattern.

It's not like making a mistake here or there as a wrong decision,

But it's really when you look at someone or your life,

If you make a lot of wrong decisions,

Also indicates some blockage in the sacral.

Issues with sexuality and intimacy,

Shame,

Guilt,

Self-loathe,

Self-criticism,

Feelings of being unworthy.

If you have any of these very strongly in you,

Also check your sacral.

Probably know it does need attention.

Okay,

And let's move on to the solar plexus chakra.

I see a lot of overlap between the sacral and the solar plexus chakra.

The solar plexus chakra is very related to emotions as well,

And desires,

And wants.

And instead of being more about the inner energies,

This chakra is more about the external world and how that impacts our sense of self and also how we put ourselves out there as much as how others perceive us.

Very similar to the sacral chakra,

When the solar plexus is working well,

It really helps you to read the room.

You have this really good sense of what's happening around you and particularly at helping you make right decisions in the moment.

For example,

Not overeating,

Just eating until you are satisfied and it is good enough,

But also when you are with someone having a conversation or when you're somewhere and you have this feeling,

Okay,

It's time to end this conversation,

Or okay,

It's time to go.

It's just the right time to leave.

And you don't even know why sometimes,

It's just a feeling.

The solar plexus is also very associated to our level of self-confidence,

How we act and decide to do things out in the world.

The energies that we carry in this chakra can also be very determinant as to how other people perceive us on an instinctual level.

The sense of self,

Our personal power,

Being able to be in our own energy,

The level of wisdom we can achieve about ourselves,

About people,

About the world,

Are all things that are related to the function of the solar plexus.

Things that affect a lot this chakra are feelings of shame.

Blockages tend to manifest as overgiving or under-receiving,

Not knowing exactly what you want from life,

So not knowing what to do with your life path.

But very importantly,

I'm talking about this in general.

It's not a situation that it's because you are still deciding things,

You are still trying to have a feeling of what it is right for you,

So you're still waiting for some energies to play out.

No,

This is really when you really don't know as a pattern of behavior or when you suddenly don't know.

It may not be that,

But it could show that something happened that suddenly started affecting your solar plexus in a way that it manifests as not knowing what to do with life.

Other things typical of blockages in this chakra is to feel a lot of fatigue and have a lot of energy crashes,

Provided that it's not due to medication or to lack of sleep or the usual physiological or biological things that can affect.

Also,

Holding on to negative feelings and to negative things,

Being too attached and dependent on people or things that are not good for you,

And having difficulty or simply being unable to have boundaries,

To put boundaries,

This is another symptom of energies in the solar plexus that need to be cleared.

And I think this is it.

I'll end here today so that this doesn't become too long.

I hope this information is helpful to you and that it helps you to gain insights and understanding.

If you are interested in clearing and healing transmissions for chakras,

But not only,

Check out my meditations and content here at Insight Timer.

I always try to bring things forth in a way that helps you to feel lighter and better,

Which then also helps you to release what you no longer need and what is not serving you,

At the same time that helps you to connect with your higher self,

With your guides and with beings of light.

Stay well,

Much love and until next time.