Svadhisthana (Sanskrit) Meaning: Sweetness Celestial body: Moon Located about two fingers below the naval ( stemming from the sacrum area of the spine), the sacral chakra governs the abdomen, genitals, lower back and the hips. Sexuality, emotions and creativity are the main issues pertaining to the sacral-how we handle emotional states, our desires, pleasure, movement, our sexual consciousness and preferences, and how we choose to express ourselves creatively. The right enforcing the second chakra is the right to feel. A society that looks down upon the expression of emotions and sensitivity invades this basic right. If we have difficulty expressing how we feel, how can we truly know our desires? To create is to bring into being out of nothing by force of imagination. In order to feel creative, one must feel empowered to be so by allowing their potential and capabilities to flow freely without fear or judgment. When there has been “good enough” grounding and nurturing for the root chakra, one of its gifts to the sacral chakra is security. However, if the foundations of security have not been laid at the root, imbalances and blockages may occur such as stiffness in the hip area, sexual problems, isolation, emotional instability or numbness. The element of the sacral chakra is water which means that it is linked to all bodily fluids such as the life force of blood, the hydration of the body and the fluid process of cleansing and elimination. If you have any difficulty with any Sacral issues, color visualization is a powerful aid to self-healing. Meditation is also quite a powerful healer – to visualize a flowing pool of water glowing with an amber-golden light…you are drawn to the warmth and the magic of the water… you soak it in and know that you can come here anytime. When working with a particular chakra you can try wearing clothes of its color range, or putting appropriately colored objects into your living environment.return