Think Orange: Creativity and the Sacral Chakra
By Louise Pool
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could just
flick a switch and turn on your creativity? Sadly, at times, tapping
into your creativity can feel like trying to squeeze water from a
stone.
The good news is, there are ways of encouraging creativity
and one of these ways is through balancing your sacral chakra.
Chakra is the Sanskrit word for moving wheel; the
chakras are vortexes of energy present in the ethereal body and in
corresponding locations of the physical body. There are seven major
chakras and they function as pathways for energy to be taken in.
The sacral chakra, sometimes called the spleen or
navel chakra, is located in the lower abdomen, approximately two inches
below the navel.
It governs sexuality, self-worth and creativity and
is also associated with desire, pleasure, emotional balance and the
abundance that you allow into your life for the fulfillment of your
desires.
If this chakra is functioning well, you will experience
enriched creativity, enhanced emotional gratification and courage,
sexual vitality and positive self-esteem. If this chakra is blocked,
however, both sexual and creative frustration occurs.
You may have difficulties tapping into your creativity.
Or you may have brilliantly creative ideas, but problems with manifesting
your projects.
A blockage can also manifest physically with lower
back pain, sciatica, problems of the reproductive system, lowered
libido and urinary problems.
Luckily, there are many tools to help balance the
chakras. I’ve listed some of the correspondences for the sacral chakra
together with guidelines on how to use these tools to balance this
chakra and hence enhance your creativity.
COLOR: Orange.
Surround yourself with orange. Wear it, eat it (preferably
in the form of food) or paint your studio or workspace with it. If
you meditate, visualize orange around the area of this chakra.
MUSIC: sensual flowing music with passionate rhythms
(think Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing”)
Dance, using your hips. Gyrate, baby, gyrate!
GEMSTONES: any orange stone - carnelian, orange jasper,
fire opal, moonstone
You can wear these stones as jewelry or carry them
in your pocket or purse.
ESSENTIAL OILS: sandalwood, jasmine, ylang ylang,
clary sage, bergamot, orange blossom
Burn oils in an oil burner. Combine 10 drops or use
singly in a bath. (This is particularly effective as water is the
element governed by the sacral chakra.).
Put some drops on a handkerchief and sniff it when
you need inspiration. Make yourself a massage oil by adding a few
drops of essential oil to almond oil.
Now you know what to do to get your creative juices
flowing; go take a bath whilst eating a mango, come out and drape
yourself in orange clothes and jewels and start swaying those hips
to a cool groove.
Then, go create!
Louise Pool is a self-taught artist and workshop
facilitator who is passionate about life, the universe and everything.
Visit her website to see her art, read her musings and pick up a tip
or two on creativity. http://www.samarkand-dezignz.com
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