Day 1 Root
This day of the Root is all about grounding, feeling safe and secure, and maintaining a sturdy base. Your innate knowledge, your bodily wisdom, this amazing vehicle serving as the magic carpet for riding through this life has all the answers you seek. Trust, respect, and listen to your organism.
We must root to rise. Everything has a foundation, from building a house to setting up a yoga posture. We must plug into the power source that is Earth in order to turn on and glow! Sit in a chair with your feet planted firmly on the ground, hands resting on your knees with palms facing up. Keep your spine straight for the spine is the line to the divine.
Take everything in, be an aware observer, learner, and lover of your process and life. You are on a curative pathway. First beautify your soul’s home, then your block, community, city, country, world, and universe. One by one, tended soul gardens spread and inspire.
Visualize sending red taproots down into the earth, cracking through the floor, the carpet, rug, wood, cement, plumbing, Earth’s crust, tectonic plates, and molten lava until your root tendrils wrap around the core of the planet. Be truly present in your body.
Now stand on your two feet. Stability and strength come natural to you. Find your center by pressing the soles of your feet into the earth as you press the palms of your hands together at your navel. Sway a little to experience being off center, and then find your way back home. Now bend and leap, run in place, feel your muscles and bones working together to move you as you draw sustenance from your deep roots.
Giant trees must have strong and secure root systems in order to grow tall, branch out, and flourish. The sturdy trunk structure provides the container for nutrients to flow from root to fruit and back. This is also true of our own bodies, skin and bones serving as the fleshly boundary so that the inner workings and energy within may be limitless.
Break out the potting soil and plant root vegetables, lettuces, herbs, flowers, or succulents. Take note there is a season for every plant, emotion, action, and reaction. Play in the dirt by making mud pies or go to the beach and build sand castles! Engage with nature by lying on a huge sun soaked boulder or the grass in a yard or park. Acknowledging the connectivity of humans and our Mother Earth is integral to our thriving. A healthy planet translates to happy people.
Bathe in nature! Combat confusion with countrysides, tackle tension with trees, and dump depression in the desert. Take a hike or walk and dedicate a portion of your journey to picking up any garbage that may be in your pathway. Not only will you be beautifying your neighborhood and honoring your home but probably saving a bird from having a belly full of styrofoam or plastic.
Experience this as a meditation of cleaning up your life which is exactly what you’re doing by embarking upon this cleanse—taking care of your body and the planet. No more carbonated sugar water filled plastic bottles or empty calorie laden chip bag wrappers in your way. You are sweeping your side of the street and starting a ChakWave of good in the world!
Once back home, clean and organize your physical desk or perhaps your computer desktop. Trash, recycle, and attend to tasks that have previously been pushed aside. As the Root Chakra deals with our earthly situations, take the time to tidy up your home. With every object you dust, remove, or repair, visualize yourself clearing a block within. A person’s space can be a reflection of their life. Many times where there is cluttered chaos on the outside, this is the case inside as well.
Even if it’s just one cupboard that is focused on today, take the time to scrub and scour and carefully place only items that are useful, beautiful, or sentimental in this newly grounded area. You may also want to rearrange your furniture or add artwork which truly expresses the real you. Move energy, shed the old, and reinvent yourself by setting aside possessions for a yard or online sale. Organize your home to organize your life, and Feng shui your future!
Balancing the root chakra asks you to face your fears in order to step into the life you are meant to live. If not residing in a place of happiness and truth, changing your circumstances, situation, and point of view is vital. Consider and recognize situations of physical, mental, verbal, or systemic violence or abuse present in your life, and take action in removing yourself from these unhealthy scenarios.
Allow yourself to be free. So many times we keep ourselves in bondage and burden ourselves and others with limiting beliefs. We can all live abundantly, but sometimes a false sense of limitation dulls our potential as individuals and humanity as a whole. Shed rigid dogmas that smother your soul, and go in the direction of your heart, passion, love, and bliss.
The evolution of your soul is occurring, like it or not. You’re gathering information and experiences all the time, further molding who you are. This can be scary stuff if you don’t invite change in a healthy manner. Take it step by step, and don’t be afraid to ask for assistance. You are amazing and remind the rest of us we are as well.
Release the rut. Yes, when in a rut, you know where you are going, but what if you peeked outside the trench and the view was glorious? What if you decided to climb out and choose your own pathway? Magic may ensue!
Some believe the higher chakras are somehow more important than the lower ones, that a job done with the mind is more worthy than one done with the physical body, or that the heavens are more pure than the earth. But the sacred IS present on earth, in nature, in YOU. When you till the soil you till your soul.
