Resonance
XXIX — Root Chakra Practices
In order to achieve a more balanced energy flow between ourselves and the Earth, we must practise often particular routines which will help our Chakra become one again with the Earth.
The first rule is to begin to feel comfortable with your present surroundings, whether it be at home, play, or work. Even if you don't like your present place and abode, it will not be forever, and circumstances and fortunes will change with spiritual effort and focus, and then you will have a new place for your spirit, mind and body. Everything is in our perception and allowance. We can either accept it as temporary and move with determination to the next hurdle, or we can fall and accept without hope there is nothing else, and only unhappiness and illness will be our accomplices. It is better to take life on, be spirited and filled with the hope of success because these are the true virtues of happiness. Allowing the Root Chakra to reconnect with the Earth is the first step on this journey and it will make you feel better with a few simple practices.
The first, and perhaps the most important is to begin to feel the Earth with your feet, with every fibre of your feet. This is quite easy. Find a comfortable spot – preferably a quiet spot – and remove any footwear. Place your feet firmly flat on the ground; close your eyes and concentrate your attachment with the Earth. The first thing that will happen is that you will lose awareness of your historical reality; a reality that pushes at every opportunity all the worries and anxieties you have of life. They will all disappear in the fleeting glance of a second. At the resonant level, and as hitherto discussed, the neuroplasticity of the mind, finding this sudden calm, will begin to forge new connections of energy, and in so doing, previously held anxieties will eventually become banished and lost forever.
As you lose your historical self, another sensation will come to pass: you will feel the energy of the Earth rising up through your feet, beginning at the base of the foot and the toes, and rising like a wave through the bones of the ankles and up through the legs to base of backbone and the home of the Root Chakra. With a mind empty of the historical self, let the energy flow to this seat of natural energy. The energy will begin to invigorate you, heighten your sense of what is the true reality: the Earth and its energy, as opposed to false reality: the anxieties and fears we have allowed abode.
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