Sacral Chakra Healing

The sacral chakra, or Svadhisthana, is located in the pelvic region and is associated with passion, pleasure, emotions, creativity and sensuality. The color of this chakra is orange which is connected to inspiration, happiness, joy and creativity. This chakra helps you to feel inspired and connected with yourself and those around you. 

Held within the sacral chakra is the womb which is the seat of creation. It’s deeply connected to your emotions and feeling centers which helps to inspire creativity. Expressing your emotions in healthy ways is very important for healing this chakra and for healing in general.

The sacral chakra helps to get you in touch with that primal, fertile force within yourself. Where the root chakra grounds and stabilizes you, the sacral chakra opens you up to feeling pleasure and joy. This chakra is associated with feminine energy as well as the element of water.

Imbalanced Sacral Chakra

When the sacral chakra is out of balance, you may lack inspiration, feel emotionally unbalanced and overall feel numb. There may also be struggles connecting with others or the opposite can be true and you can experience codependency. An unbalanced sacral chakra can also lead to addictions of various kinds. This chakra determines how we relate to each other and also how we relate to ourselves. So if this chakra is blocked you may struggle with emotional intimacy issues within your relationships.

Balanced Sacral Chakra

When the sacral chakra is balanced you will feel more inspired, creative and in flow with your emotions. You may feel a greater desire to create more balance between work and play in your life and to do things which bring you pleasure and joy. When this chakra is balanced you will be more in touch with your self-worth and value and this will help you to know that you deserve good things in your life. That you deserve happiness and joy, as these emotions are what motivates and inspires you to keep going. 

Healing Your Sacral Chakra

A good way to work on healing the sacral chakra is to work on healing your emotions through creative self-expression. When you express your creative self, you invariably also connect with your true self. This connects you directly to your soul and as such, your creation will be a direct expression of who you really are.

Creativity is supposed to be a fun experience which will help you to heal and connect with your inner child. The point is to have fun so the end result of the creation itself is not necessarily important for this exercise to work out positively. It’s more about the act and experience of the creation itself. It’s about what happens to the connections between your heart, mind and soul when you’re creating something from a place of childlike innocence.

Another way to work on healing the sacral chakra is to express or release your suppressed emotions. Suppressed emotions don’t just go away, as they get stored in the body and usually manifest themselves in various different ways. Physically releasing these emotions through things like crying or physical exercise can break up stuck or stagnant energy and get the flow of energy moving again. Working up a good sweat will also help you to release toxins from the body and it helps with depression and anxiety.

Journaling or talking about your unhealed emotional wounds will also help you to release these things which will make room for new, inspired emotions to take root. Cathartic release will help to cleanse your emotional and physical body which will bring about inner healing leading to greater inner well-being and peace. Engaging in things like self-love, self-care and self-acceptance will also help to heal this chakra and open you up to new, inspiring possibilities in your life.

For more info about the Sacral Chakra, check out my downloadable guide sheets on Chakra Healing. If you’d like to do a Chakra Healing, book a Reiki session with me.