Root Chakra: A Comprehensive Guide to The Muladhara Chakra

In this blog, we will try to explore and deep dive into the profound significance of the Root Chakra, also known as the Muladhara Chakra or Base Chakra. You will be able to understand the connection between the physical and energetic bodies, the chakra system, all the body energy centers, signs of a blocked Root Chakra, remedies for unblocking and balancing it, the role of Reiki, crystal healing, and how chanting “Lam” for 21 days supports healing. We will also share how Aura Nest Healing assists individuals in restoring emotional balance, stability, and inner peace through reiki and other holistic therapies.

Understanding the Physical and Energetic Body

Our existence is multidimensional. We have a physical body, which is made up with five elements that is Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Sky and through this body we can see and touch composed of organs, tissues, bones, and blood. Alongside this exists our super powerful energetic or subtle body, which cannot be seen with the naked eye but can be felt through our emotions, mood shifts, intuition, and life force energy. It is due to our energetic body we exist.

The important point is these are not separate in fact both the bodies are interconnected. When the life force energy flows smoothly, we experience vitality, clarity, confidence, and emotional balance. This life force energy is same which flows through every living being and due to this energy, the flowers bloom, rivers flow and your heart beat.

However, when energy becomes blocked or stagnant, it manifests as stress, insecurity, anxiety, and physical discomfort.

Energy Centers: The Chakra System

Our body has seven main chakras, and each one is like an energy center that influences different aspects of our physical health, emotions, mental patterns, and spiritual growth. When these chakras are balanced, divine energy flows freely and we feel emotionally stable, physically healthy, mentally clear, and spiritually aligned. When they are blocked, we experience stress, anxiety, confusion, illness, or emotional imbalance. These are:

1. Root Chakra (Muladhara) Its located at the base of the spine and has red colour. The Root Chakra’s element is Earth.

2. Sacral Chakra (Swadhisthana) Its location is at the lower abdomen below the navel, orange colour and associated with water element.

3. Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura) Its place is at upper abdomen, at the stomach area yellow coloured and related to fire element.

4. Heart Chakra (Anahata) This chakra is placed at the center of the chest with green colour and associated with air element.

5. Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) This chakra houses at the throat and in light blue colour. Ether or space is associated with this Throat Chakra

6. Third Eye Chakra (Ajna) This chakra is found between both the eyebrows. Its colour is indigo and its related to the light.

7. Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) The last chakra is at the top of the head, beaming with violet or white colour. This is associated with our super consciousness.

These chakras regulate emotions, physical health, mental patterns, and spiritual well-being.

What Is the Root Chakra?

The first chakra is Root Chakra, also known as the Muladhara Chakra or Base Chakra, is located at the base of the spine, near the pelvic floor. It is the foundation of the entire energy system, representing security, safety, grounding, stability, survival instincts, and our connection to the Earth.

Importance and Function:

• Grounding & Stability:
  It keeps your connection firmly to your physical body and the present moment, helping you stay steady, physically energetic, grounded and centered in life.

• Sense of Safety & Security:
  It governs and fulfils the basic survival needs without them the survival of your life is not possible like home, money, food, and emotional safety, thus it this chakra helps you to feel safe, secure, protected and supported.

• Physical Strength & Vitality:
  It influences your bones, legs, feet, and lower spine, providing physical stamina, strength, endurance, and grounding energy. It keeps your body energetic and at high vibration frequency.

• Emotional Stability & Confidence:
  A balanced root chakra builds robust inner confidence, reduces stress, fear, and anxiety to a greater extent and helps you to trust yourself and others in life.

• Connection to Earth & Reality:
  It helps you stay practical, disciplined, focused, and rooted in reality while handling responsibilities calmly.

What are the Symptoms of a Blocked Root Chakra

There are couple of emotions signs which show the blocked root chakra:

Emotional Symptoms of a Blocked Root Chakra:

• Constant Worry or Fear:
  When you always feel unsafe, insecure, or anxious and like a threat to your life, even when nothing is actually wrong. Life may feel unstable or overwhelming. It shows the blockage of your root chakra.

• Lack of Confidence:
  You have difficulty in trusting yourself, doubting your decisions, low self-esteem and self-worth and feeling uncertain or directionless in life. It means the Muladhara Chakra is not aligned.

• Feeling Disconnected or “Ungrounded”:
  Trouble staying in the present moment; the mind wanders either in past or in future excessively. You may feel “lost”, numb, or detached, out of the balance from your body and life.

• Overthinking and Stress:
  The mind is constantly busy, restless, and filled with negative thinking, leading to emotional exhaustion and tension. It’s a clear sign that your root chakra is not functioning properly.

• Feeling Unsupported or Alone:
  You may feel like you have no foundation, no sense of belonging, or always struggle to feel emotionally secure in relationships.

Physical Symptoms of a Blocked Root Chakra:

• Lower Back Pain and Stiffness:
  Tension, pain, or discomfort in the lower spine, hips, and pelvic area due to lack of grounding energy is the biggest physical symptom of a blocked first energy center of the body.

• Leg, Knee, or Foot Issues:
  Weakness, heaviness, sciatica pain or discomfort in legs and feet as they carry the grounding function and the entire weight of the body. It seems you are forcing yourself to do every daily routine work.

• Low Energy and Fatigue:
  Always feeling tired, unmotivated, sluggish, or drained easily, as the body struggles to draw stable life force energy. Its due the blockage in the Root Chakra.

• Digestion and Elimination Problems:
  Health issues like constipation, bloating, or digestive discomfort due to anxiety and stored survival stress in the gut.

• Blood and Bone Health Concerns:
  Since the Root Chakra governs physical foundation, weakness in immunity, bones, and circulation can arise drastically.

How to Unblock and Balance the Root Chakra

Balancing the Muladhara Chakra is about re-grounding yourself in every aspect like physically, mentally, and energetically. Following are the practices which will help you to reconnect with the Earth and restore inner safety, strength, and stability. In other words, if follow sincerely, these practices will unblock your root chakra:

1. Muladhara Chakra Meditation

Sit comfortably or lie down and bring your awareness to the base of your spine. Visualize a warm, glowing red-light ball is expanding with your breath at that point. Now imagine that your whole-body cells are being covered by this red light. Do it for 15 to 20 minutes while playing a soothing meditation music along with. You will experience that after some minutes this practice strengths your energetic foundation, calms down fear and anxiety, insecurity and reconnects you with your physical body.

2. LAM Chanting (21 Days)

The beej mantra or seed mantra of Muladhara chakra is “LAM”. When you Chant the seed mantra “LAM”, while placing your attention at the base of the spine, the location of the root chakra, it vibrates the frequency of the Root Chakra. Chant it aloud or silently for 20–30 minutes daily for 21 days. This continuous vibration dissolves fear, stabilizes emotions, and restores grounding from within. You may also chant the super powerful Gayatri Mantra along with this seed mantra to get faster results

3. Earthing or Walking Barefoot

Walking barefoot on grass, soil, sand, or natural ground helps release negative energy and absorb Earth’s stabilizing frequency. This simple daily practice reduces anxiety, reconnects you with your body, aligns your energy and promotes a deep sense of calm.

4. Breathwork & Yoga

Yoga is a very powerful practice to balance all the body chakras. This is being followed by our gurus and sages since centuries. Some yoga poses like Mountain Pose, Tree Pose, and Warrior Pose strengthen your legs and foundation, promoting stability. Deep belly breathing, Anulom Vilom, Kapalbhati signal safety to your nervous system, grounding the mind and balancing the Root Chakra naturally and effectively.

5. Conscious Mindfulness

Doing mindfulness meditation is very simple technique to connect yourself with your highest powers. This practice does not require you to sit in silence for hours. Just practice being fully present and focus on your breaths in whatever you’re doing, eating, walking, breathing, or speaking. Mindfulness slows overthinking, quiets inner stress, and keeps your awareness gently rooted in the here and now, where grounding happens.

Using Crystals for Base Chakra Healing

Another effective way to charge your Root chakra is the usage of crystals. Crystals vibrate at natural frequencies that help align chakra energy patterns.

Best Crystals for Root Chakra Activation:

· Red Jasper – It helps to enhance emotional strength & focus

· Black Tourmaline – this crystal protects you from negative and dark energy, as a result it promotes grounding.

· Bloodstone – It boosts vitality and courage of a physical body.

· Garnet –It assists to restores the lost passion and life force energy.

How to Wear and Charge Them :

Wear these crystals as bracelets, pendants, or rings to keep grounding energy within your auric field.

Healing power of Reiki is the best to cleanse and charge the crystals. But you are not attuned with this healing technique then you may do these simple steps to energize:

· Place crystals in salt water for 6–8 hours to remove absorbed energies

· Keep under sunlight for 1–2 hours to recharge their natural frequencies

Consistent use strengthens emotional stability, courage, and inner balance. You will definitely get the positive results when you start using these crystals. But they will work along with the above mentioned spiritual practices.

Red Jasper

Black Tourmaline

Bloodstone

Garnet

Role of Reiki in Root Chakra Healing

Reiki is a gentle yet powerful energy healing technique that channels universal life force energy to restore balance and alignment in the energetic body. The Root Chakra can be unblocked through the power of Reiki.

• Clearing Stagnant and Trapped Energy :

Reiki works by gently dissolving blocked or stagnant energy stored in the Root Chakra. When life experiences, stress, or emotional wounds accumulate, the energy becomes heavy and stuck. Reiki opens and clears this space so life force divine energy can flow freely and naturally again, restoring the inner balance.

• Releasing Fear, Insecurity, and Survival Stress :

The Root Chakra holds the deep rooted emotional memories of fear, instability, or feeling unsupported. Reiki helps soften these imprints, allowing the nervous system to relax. As emotional heaviness is released, a sense of inner safety and trust begins to return.

• Restoring a Sense of Safety, Grounding, and Emotional Support :

Reiki infuses the Root Chakra with stable, nourishing, and grounding vibrations and frequencies. This creates a deep, subtle feeling of being held, supported, secured and rooted. Over time, this energetic support translates into emotional strength, confidence, and a stronger connection with one’s physical presence and life path.

It is advisable strongly to learn the healing power of Reiki and transform your life.

Heartfelt Gratitude

Your journey of healing the Root Chakra is truly a journey of returning home that is back to your body, your breath, and your own inner sense of safety. It is a process of remembering that you belong to this place that you are supported, and that the Earth holds, supports and loves you always. As you reconnect and realign with your foundation, you begin to release old fears, anxieties, worries and survival pressures that were never meant to be carried alone. Gradually, your presence becomes steadier, your heart becomes calmer, and your steps become more certain. The more grounded you are, the more confidently and peacefully you walk through the world, knowing that you are rooted, secure, and deeply connected to life itself.

Thank you for taking the time to read this blog and connect with this healing journey. Your presence here shows a deep willingness to understand yourself, to grow, and to return to your natural state of balance and peace. I honor the courage within you, the courage to heal, to feel, and to begin again.

May you always remember that you are supported, you are guided, and you are never alone on this path. Your light matters you matter, Your energy matters. And your healing matters to you, to your loved ones, and to the world.

From my heart to yours,
Thank you.

About the Author

Gaurav Sharma is a Reiki Healer, Past Life Regression Therapist, Tarot Card Reader and Ho'oponopono Practitioner and the founder of Aura Nest Healing and top Reiki Healer in Delhi and NCR. With years of experience supporting emotional and energetic well-being, he blends intuitive healing with grounded spiritual practices to help individuals reconnect with themselves and rediscover inner peace.