CHAKRA WISDOM: Your Muladhara Chakra | The WISDOM podcast | S2 E72

<p style="text-align:center;">Chakra WISDOM: Your Muladhara Chakra</p> The WISDOM podcast  Season 2  Episode 72 <p> </p> Welcome to this special series and a journey through these sacred centers of wisdom called chakras. <p align="left">Our bodies are a complex configuration of energy. We also have 72,000 "nadis," or energy channels (think of them like highways) along which vital energy, or "prana," travels. When the nadis meet at different points in the body, they form a triangle. The Sanskrit word for this triangle is chakra and literally translates as "wheel" or “disk” referring to a spinning sphere of bioenergetic activity emanating from the major nerve ganglia branching forward from the spinal column. </p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left">There are seven of these wheels stacked in a column of energy that spans from the base of the spine to the top of the head. (image) There are also minor chakras in the hands, feet, fingertips, and shoulders for a total of 114 chakras throughout the body.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left">The chakra system according to one expert, Anodea Judith (and I will reference and also quote her work throughout) is a seven-leveled philosophical model of the universe. It is the seven major chakras that correlate with basic states of consciousness, and it is these that we will together examine here and in each of the next several episodes.</p> <p align="left"> </p> <p align="left"> </p> AFFIRMATIONS FOR THE ROOT CHAKRA: I am a beloved child of the universe and I deserve love, peace, and security. I open myself to receive the abundance of the universe. I love my body and trust its wisdom to keep me healthy. I am open to receive and accept love. I am open to receive and be nurtured by the powerful energy of the earth. I am a physical being and value my physical presence. I resolve to take care of my body and accept it as it is today. I value my body as the physical temple in which I live and I will aim to provide for its needs in terms of healthy food, rest, activit