What Happens When The Sacral Chakra Opens?

What happens when the sacral chakra opens? We experience sensations, sensuousness, and all the pleasures of physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of life. It brings out creativity by reaching the vast depths of our subconscious minds. How does this happen? Let’s find out.

Your sacral chakra is responsible for your existence. It is how the quality of aliveness comes about. It is associated with fluidity and movement. If you carefully observe, there are many types of movements happening within us: some are gross (breath), while others are subtle (thoughts). But they’re happening, and at the same time.

When you sit silently, you can hear your heartbeat, and you can feel the flow of breath in and out of your body. The cold air enters your nostrils, flows into the lungs, enters the diaphragm, and reaches below the belly to provide life-force to the orange-colored-pulsating energy center.

In addition to the above, our mind keeps producing thoughts, creating a never-ending cycle of feelings, emotions, and more thoughts. Your creativity depends on the quality of the thoughts you create.

When you create positive and uplifting thoughts, your creative potential increases manifolds, whereas when you create negative and degrading thoughts, you not only reduce your creativity but also create an imbalance in the sacral energy.

During childhood, our sacral chakra energy is heightened. Have you noticed the excitement and curiosity in children? They are always willing to explore.

The energy forces them to move and create. You give them toys; they’ll create a story out of the blocks. Give them a piece of cloth; they’ll make clothing for their toy figures.

But what happens to us? Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we lose our passion for exploring and creating. It’s because we’re conditioned to seek false security. Fear is the primary mechanism by which society manipulates a child and destroys their natural tendencies to be creative.

These fears get trapped deep within our subconscious and unconscious mind, further creating blockages in the energy system, including our creative part. People who rise above their fears and venture out into the unknown with courage are the ones with balanced creative energy.

When your sacral chakra opens, you let go of the fears and the past conditioning and become more fluid and adaptable, just like water.

In an interview with Bruce Lee that I’m sure most of you must have seen, he says, “Be like water, my friend” – the water is flexible, unbreakable, and becomes the thing that contains it. If you put water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. You cannot burn water with heat. You can cut it with a knife.

People who achieve incredible feats in life are flexible. They embrace change. Though it might not seem so, they are not rigid with their techniques.

They try out new ways, explore new ideas, and make changes where required. They are not afraid to seek help when needed. They know their strengths and weaknesses and keep their ego from interfering in pursuing their goals.

While the root chakra represents solidity and stillness, the sacral chakra is associated with fluidity and movement. At this point, we transition from a dense (solid) form to a subtle (liquid) form. The energy of the sacral chakra is higher in frequency than the root chakra. But with the introduction of a new dimension comes additional complexity that needs to be understood.

Open Sacral Chakra Helps In Sexual Healing

Entering the realm of duality, the mind starts creating desires, leading to new feelings and emotions. One such strong sense is sexuality which provides for the source of creation. Your sexuality is sacred. It is the mechanism by which we create awareness of the other.

A blocked sacral chakra causes sexual dysfunctions, creating further physical and psychological issues. Sexual suppression often leads to an imbalance in the sacral chakra.

This suppression usually results from cultural and religious beliefs. It is one of the major causes of pathological behavior in humans.

Sexual energy is highly potent, and it should not be contained. It has to flow. It can cause severe problems in the areas it accumulates. Therefore, maintaining the flow of this energy is crucial.

The practice of Tantra in yoga has techniques that can help maintain the optimal flow of this energy. However, practicing meditation causes an upward energy flow.

A healed sacral chakra liberates us sexually. You allow and enjoy new sensations and build healthy relationships. People who deny themselves sensual pleasures create trauma for their mind-body complex. Such people frequently experience anger, sadness, irritation, and restlessness.

You Experience The Real Pleasures of Life

By nature, humans seek pleasure and avoid pain (Freudian pleasure principle). However, when the sacral chakra is blocked, the pain can be mistaken for pleasure.

For example, addictive behavior, like consuming drugs, drinking alcohol, playing video games, craving attention on social media, eating junk food, overindulging in sex, compulsive spending, etc., give temporary pleasure but creates problems later.

These addictions damage the body and mind and also create a financial mess. Therefore, you should not seek pleasures that rob you of the vitality of life. Engaging in creative work requires effort, and delay in gratification is the best way to channel energy. 

Experienced meditators use sexual energy as the catalyst to expedite the fulfillment of their goals. Instead of engaging in sexual acts, they use this energy in their work, spiritual progress, or whatever they are trying to achieve.

This process is also called transmutation. However, this is an advanced concept, and I would not ask you to indulge in it unless your sacral chakra is fully functional.

A functioning sacral chakra will help you identify things that provide the real pleasures gained by performing rigorous action.

For example, you feel much better after a thorough workout than sitting and watching a movie on television. While watching television may feel better “in the moment,” it leaves you with a bad feeling afterward.

Sacral Chakra Help In Regulating Emotions

Emotions are the way consciousness creates an experience. Therefore, pleasures and sensations are all extensions of emotions. When we emote, there is a movement of energy. An unobstructed movement creates the sensations of pleasantness, whereas an obstructed flow creates unpleasant experiences.

Emotions are not bad. They are there for a reason. They allow us to understand our inner state. When the chakras are blocked, we experience symptoms such as anxiety, depression, sadness, grief, and more. However, when the chakras are open, we experience joy, happiness, fulfillment, abundance, and bliss.

When we suppress or repress emotions, we restrict the flow of energy upwards to higher chakras. Repressed emotions get accumulated into our unconscious as a part of the shadow and wreak havoc on our lives. Therefore, opening up the sacral chakra helps to release trapped emotions.

How to Open The Sacral Chakra?

Some of the ways to heal the sacral chakra are as follows:

• Practicing visualization meditation, where you imagine a bring orange glow in the genitals area (the location of sacral chakra) and take deep breaths allowing the radiant energy to expand and fill the entire body.
• Consuming foods orange in color, like oranges, carrots, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, tangerines, nuts, seeds, etc. Check out the complete guide to Sattvic Foods.
• Keep yourself hydrated with liquids, mostly water. Additionally, you can practice meditation near water bodies such as lakes and rivers. Simply meditating on the sound of flowing water will release tension.
• Practicing sacral chakra yoga postures such as butterfly pose, goddess pose, bow pose, or practicing free body movements.
• Journaling your thoughts, sensations, and emotions and practicing sacral chakra affirmations.
• Using essential oils like Patchouli, Lavender, Neroli, Sandalwood, and Ylang Ylang.
• Using stones like Orange Calcite, Tiger’s Eye, Sunstone, Amber, and Carnelian.

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