10 Ways to Clear Your Sacral Chakra and Open to Joy

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Are you working too hard, either temporarily or as a life-style? Does life feel like a grind? Have you lost your ability to feel joy, to play, to be creative? Perhaps you feel numb, or your mate complains that you never express your feelings. Maybe you've been feeling low-energy or unhappy with your erotic life.

Second of the seven chakras, it's the key to life energy, emotions, sexuality, and creativity. Called svadhisthana in Sankrit, it gives us the life energy for creation, recreation, and procreation.

Clearing, balancing, and opening your sacral chakra can help you regain your joie de vivre. It'll get your life juices and creative juices flowing, and that makes your life--juicier!

You don't have to be a trained energy healer to heal your own chakras. There are many down-to-earth, even fun, things that you can do to give them a "tune-up."

Read on to learn 10 ways to clear and balance your sacral chakra. But first:

What Are the Chakras?

There are seven primary chakras, located along the center line of the upper body, from the bottom of the spine to the top of the head. Each chakra is associated with different glands, organs, body areas, and elements of our life, personality, and spiritual development.

The chakras are critical to our physical health, the quality of our life, and our ability to develop spiritually.

The Healthy Chakra

It's very common to have one or more chakras that is blocked or out of balance to some degree. This can cause disruptions in a person’s body, mind, spirit, and life. These disruptions can range from a sense of unwellness and unease, to more serious problems--actual dis-ease in one's body or dysfunction in one's life. (To learn more about chakra blockages, go here.)

What is the Sacral Chakra?

Is Your Sacral Chakra Healthy?

Here you can find a test to give you an idea how open or closed each of your chakras is, and how they balance relative to each other.

10 Ways to Clear, Open, and Balance Your Sacral Chakra

1. spend time in moonlight and near open water (Obviously, open water in moonlight is doubly good!); allow yourself to feel a lovely sense of flow in your second chakra
2. surround yourself with beauty--art, flowers, music, color--whatever gives you that elevated feeling that beauty confers; give yourself a moment to savor it every time you encounter it
3. dance--don't be afraid to be sensual with it
4. enjoy flowers, especially roses, iris, and other beautiful-smelling blooms: you can bring a bouquet in, or just enjoy them in the garden
5. calendar therapy--free up your schedule to make more time for spontaneity (and then do some fun things on the spur of the moment)
6. enjoy fruit, chocolate or other sweet foods (in moderation)
7. swim (especially in the moonlight, if you can manage it)
8. use perfumes with musk, ylang ylang, or sandalwood; apply them with a sense of ritual
9. bring the color orange (whatever shade feels pleasing to you) into your life, either wearing it or decorating your spaces with it; allow the color to be a reminder, and every time you see it, repeat an affirmation reinforcing the health of your second chakra
10. repeat an affirmation such as:
    • "Pleasure is a sacred part of my life.
    • I give myself permission to fully enjoy my sexuality.
    • The universe is full of sweetness and beauty.
    • I am able to change with ease.
    • My life is graceful and pleasurable.
    • I allow my emotions to flow through me in a healthy way.
    • Rest and play are a regular part of my healthy life.
    • Creating (fill in the blank) nourishes my spirit and brings me joy.
    • My desires and appetites are balanced and harmonious.
    • I am joyful. I am spontaneous. I am creative."

Intention Matters!

Just make your purpose clear, perform the activity mindfully, and as you're doing it, occasionally take a moment to silently affirm that your actions are creating your intention. Using any of the activities above in conjunction with an affirmation is especially effective.

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I wish you joy, grace, creativity, pleasure, emotional healing--and fun!

More About Healing the Chakras

More Information About Chakras

For more specific information about individual chakras, go to the Chakra Chart page.

Learn More About The Individual Chakras and How to Clear Them

Learn how to clear and balance your root chakra (1st) and gain an unshakeable sense of security.

Discover specific ways to clear and balance your solar plexus chakra (3rd) and unlock your personal power.

Learn specific ways to clear and balance your heart chakra (4th) and open to the love that is all around you.

Learn specific ways to clear and balance your 5th chakra (throat), helping you to live and speak your truth.

Learn to cultivate your Third Eye chakra (sixth), helping you develop your capacities for clarity, intuition, and spiritual insight.

Learn to cultivate your crown chakra (seventh), helping you develop your capacities for spiritual growth.

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