How can I open my root chakra?

[Dragon's Daughter]

Should anyone use any kind of caution in working with chakras? What's people's feeling on this? Could there be side effects they need to watch for?

DD

[BigTings]

well if you raise to much energy to the bass for too long its starts to hurt painfully and i felt like something could come out of it maybe the kundalini spike? this is how Rob raised kundalini he spent hours raising energy to the bass chakra, something like 8 hours a day for weeks i think, i only spended at the most around a hour and a half and thats how i got my bass really active..
also i sensed some craziness one time madness, you need a lot of mental concentration, calmness, and also develop eradicating your ego, your desires etc, but this is just for excessive bass chakra raising. other ones spleen chakra (sub navel) and others i think you can raise a lot of energy to them without being worried too much but im not completly sure.

protection from god i would imagine too and fasting before if you plan on spending ages raising energy to root, cause i felt like my bowls could eventually go,

fasted a lot in the past mainly water fasting it tests your perseverance and is a great way for purification, its very spiritual too so i imagine a long water fast would be best..

[Dragon's Daughter]

I was curious because I've seen 'warnings' in the past about messing with your chakras actively but no one was mentioning that.

Thanks!

DD

[stargazer]

DD,

Here's my two cents for the pile.

I've really enjoyed the NEW system.. it's given me more results than I've had with working with visualization techniques. I think RB gives some very good advice in advising that secondary systems should be strengthened and developed before venturing into chakra work, at least a few months' worth of work, with close attention paid to the energy resistance experienced in those secondary pathways.

I learned from a pretty good mistake... trying to stimulate brow chakra before doing any other kind of preliminary work with the supporting paths and chakras. I guess I wanted to know what it felt like, and it seemed so easy to stimulate. Boy did I run into a heap of trouble... I had headaches, reality disassociation, and went through about four days of "mental fog." It got so bad that one night as I was driving home THROUGH a fog, I was seriously concerned that I had made up the fog and had to double check with someone else that there had been fog.

But it was a valuable mistake in that I learned a) the consequences of overstimulating a chakra that was not ready, and b) what it felt like to overstimulate it. I guess I liken the energy body to being much like exercising the physical body in that you have to pay close attention to what your muscles and body are telling you. Are you sore? Aching? Tired? Trembly? Should you be spacing out your exercise a day apart to give your muscle fibers a chance to heal? Should you be limiting your daily work to say, an hour of cardio, and hour of weight training?
AD says to only stimulate a chakra for a few minutes and to move on after the first signs of activity. (And to move on, regardless of any signs of activity.) I think that's a fairly safe way to approach it...

After that I didn't touch chakras at all and spent 3-4 months working with the secondary system ONLY. The reward was that when I started with the chakra work, I had none of those problems when stimulating the brow center. This is quite a boon, as when previously I opened up reiki energy I'd feel too much energy going through brow chakra and have to divert it or risk a headache.

Hey guys,

Today I tried yoga, it was my second time trying it and I noticed when I got out of the class i felt so grounded. I still do right now but its sort of fading.

[BigTings]

i think you should keep sticking at the yoga i plan on starting some too soon, as they say no pain no gain! good luck with everything brett

[sash]

NEW energy-work is just a by-product of core feeling, so in truth both are applicable in this case. Feelings of being grounded are a good sign in progress towards working on the root chakra. I have found yoga style positions to actually be very effective in stimulation of the root chakra.

Like with all chakras, just by focusing on it should be enough to activate it - so focusing on it while in a relaxed state or during yoga should prove quite useful.

While root requires grounding and physical sense Crown is quite the opposite, if you wish to activate it an awareness of oneness and completeness is required - the resonance of AUM. Btw this can be worked upon at will, there is no *need* for root chakra to be active before working on crown, and conversely.

Good luck.