Thank you so much for your reply, Robert. I really appreciate you taking the time to do so. I'll take your advice and continue asking for guidance. Diet really affects the energy, so I'll continue to experiment with that.

I should add, for anyone who is confused, that I only recently learned that some people use "root chakra" to describe a chakra below the feet. When I was learning about chakra, root and base chakra were interchangeable terms. Here, I'm talking about the base chakra in the perineum, not the one below the feet.