Earth Energy Meditations

Awaken Your Root Chakra—The Foundation of Well-Being By Susan Shumsky, DD Practical insight and advice for working with the chakra that serves as the foundation for awakening well-being throughout our body and our life.“Meditators of all experience and skill level, metaphysical thinkers and seekers, and those who take issue with the distractions of media hype will find this collection of meditations to be both practical and inspiring.”—Library Journal  The energy center known in Sanskrit as muladhara is called the root chakra. It is located in a layer of our subtle body called pranamaya kosha, at the base of our spine in the tailbone area. The root chakra is our connection to the earth and to humanity at large. When this chakra is closed, muddied, and unhealthy, we experience fear, timidity, worry, doubt, anger, frustration, panic, self-loathing, survival mode, and defensiveness, and we manifest unhealthy habits, addictions, narcissism, aggressive behavior, bullying, and a sense of e