What Is Your Root Chakra Really Teaching You? | Chakra Healing

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Today we'll start talking about chakras, the major chakras in our body.

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Our body has seven major chakras and there are so many other minor chakras.

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So what are these chakras anyway?

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Chakras are energy centers.

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Chakras are where a lot of energy flow is happening.

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If you are trying to picture an energy chakra, you could think of

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it like a ball, but almost think of this as having that spiral energy as

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well, because the energy is really flowing very much in a spiral form.

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I'll try and explain more as we go along with each of the chakras.

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But starting with the root chakra, this is where you are born.

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That's why it's called the Root Chakra.

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This is where you get your roots.

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And why?

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Because this is where you are born from.

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So, as a spirit, you got into the body, you got into your mother's

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womb, when you are coming out, you come out through the Root Chakra.

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The element for Root Chakra is Earth because this is the ground that

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you need to stand on to survive on.

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And hence root chakra very much has the energies of survival.

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That means that all the survival fears or all the survival opportunities, all of

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that is connected with the root chakra.

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If you wanted to physically imagine where the root chakra is before I started

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explaining the concepts, just so that you can have your energy there and you can

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really feel it in your body while you are listening to this, your root chakra is

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very much at the base of your tailbone.

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A healthy root chakra or basically any healthy chakra will be very

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much along your spinal cord.

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If they are a little bit in front, or if they're a little bit at the

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back, that just means that the chakra is disaligned somewhere.

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And that could be because of various reasons.

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So whenever you are practicing in your meditation space, it's

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really good to imagine them very much along your spinal cord.

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Okay, so now let's get back to understanding the root chakra.

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So root chakra as I was explaining is around feeling safe.

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It's very much the survival energy.

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This is where you've entered on earth and you're wondering what's going

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on and am I going to fit in or not?

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Guess what?

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That is the theme of the root chakra pretty much all along your life.

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Now, if you think of early men, they had to fend for themselves,

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even in terms of food, in terms of a place to live, and so on.

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We've evolved from that.

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But then we've also had wars, so at times when people have been born,

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they've had to fight for their lives.

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We still continue fighting.

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There are places where wars are still going on.

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And even if we don't have wars going on, we have a modern form of all of this.

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Countries will impose some trade sanctions or they'll put on some import duties, etc.

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But there's always this sort of battle of survival.

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There's the fear of lack, that somehow the world's not enough.

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So in an imbalanced chakra, that's what's really coming through,

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that the world's not enough.

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So root chakra is really defining your ability to be as you are.

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It's your identity chakra, if you will.

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It's pretty much the foundation, right?

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We're calling it the root.

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So this is the foundation.

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This is how you stand.

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This is how you walk.

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Root chakra is connected very much to how much are you earning?

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Do you have a comfortable house?

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How are you feeling about yourself?

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What is your identity?

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Now let's look at a few questions to understand whether your

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root chakra is balanced or not.

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Root chakra is very much around you feeling safe.

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It's feeling safe in the body and it's also feeling safe to be as you are.

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So especially, let's say, people who've had trouble coming out, that is just a

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reflection that their root chakra might have taken that impact as well because

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they've really suffered in their identity.

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If you're hiding a part of who you are, especially with your loved

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ones, then that can mean that your root chakra is imbalanced.

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Another question to look at could be, do you like your work?

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Do you like your study?

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And even if you don't, at least can you talk about it?

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That again shows you how safe you feel.

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So essentially what the root chakra is looking at is can you be yourself?

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Can you do what you like?

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Can you talk about what you don't like?

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These are the questions that your root chakra is trying to answer.

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I imagine that a lot of you, while you're hearing this, you're thinking,

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Oh my God, my root chakra is imbalanced.

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What you would be feeling if your root chakra is imbalanced is maybe

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you would have loss of sleep or you're feeling fatigued and at the

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very least you feel very demotivated.

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But it's not all doom if you're feeling like that.

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The reason why you're listening to this right now is because you're

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very much on your journey to heal and you want to evolve and grow.

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So, bringing your awareness here, just understanding that this is the disbalance,

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that's pretty much the first step.

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Anyway, so congratulations, you've done that.

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And the second thing is you can start working on it.

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You can start taking the baby steps wherever you feel that

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you're not owning your identity.

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And sometimes we can get a little bit far in life and we really lose our

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identity, maybe in a relationship, maybe just with the people we are with.

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We can really become unaware of who we are.

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So start exploring those things.

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Make a very honest list.

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What do I like?

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Do I really like talking to that person?

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How do I like to dress up?

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How do I like to eat?

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And try and keep people away or anyone else in the picture away.

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Just think about yourself.

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What is it that you like to do?

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What is your identity?

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That pretty much is what your root chakra is trying to define.

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If you further wanted to improve your relationship with your root chakra

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, then you can simply start saying this affirmation as well, I'm safe.

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Every time you do that, you're just telling your body that I

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am safe and it learns to relax.

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Now what's happening with the root chakra?

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This is where we sit.

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This is where we stand up and walk.

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It's supporting you all the time.

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So root chakra is really supporting you in every single

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thing that you're trying to do.

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Sometimes there is a misconception in our world that you need to work the

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upper chakras if you need to evolve.

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But guess what?

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You have a body and you really need to have all your chakras in

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the body really working as well.

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Root chakra is supporting your survival.

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It's supporting how much money you have.

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It's supporting your comfort.

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It's supporting your life on earth.

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So, especially if you wanted to be wealthy, if you just wanted to have

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a comfortable life, having a healthy root chakra is very important.

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Your practice could be to just start saying again and again I'm

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safe and connecting with the earth because it has the earth element.

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So as you're walking or as you're sitting down to have a nice

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silent connection with yourself.

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Whenever you do that just imagine that you have a cord connected with the

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center of the earth and she will just help you release a lot of the stress

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that you're carrying because that's pretty much what the roots job is.

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Think of the foundation of a house.

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The foundation supports the house, right?

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You might not see the foundation as much but a very solid

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foundation is required for the house to really stand and function.

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That's pretty much what your root chakra is doing.

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It's really critical and fundamental.

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And it's also workable.

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If you did not feel very well after answering those questions, I can tell you

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that when I looked at these questions, they were very hard for me as well.

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I started to from a place where my root chakra was really flaming red.

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And it really spoke to how I was feeling very disbalanced in my life as well.

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So it's pretty okay.

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If I can move on, you can move on as well.

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With the affirmation, I'm safe at first, you might feel a lot of

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resistance, but you just have to remind yourself that you are safe.

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And why are you safe?

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Right?

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You might ask, , you have people around you who are probably judging you or

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who have some expectations of you.

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So how are you safe if you cannot even express yourself?

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You are safe because when you're connecting with the

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Earth, Earth is not judging you.

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She is there every day, every night, every single moment when

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you're connecting with her.

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Or even if you're not connecting with her, she is not judging how you look.

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She's not judging the size of your paycheck.

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She is simply there.

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So you are safe.

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A lot of the inner work and balancing your chakras is really about

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understanding you versus others.

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Just understanding who it is that you are and celebrating a lot more of that, not

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worrying or thinking about people as much.

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And root chakra encourages you to start doing the very same thing.

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What you're doing with the root chakra is you're really owning that

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feeling of safety regardless of how people think about you, you're

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really bringing it back to yourself.

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Question is really valid.

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People are judging you.

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How do you still feel safe?

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You feel safe because you tell yourself that it's okay.

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They can judge you.

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as much as they want, they can have their expectations, but you are

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supposed to hold your own space.

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You can just bat for yourself and you can go, I am okay as I am.

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The more you say that, the more you say I'm safe as I am, I'm okay as I am, the

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more you start healing your root chakra.

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Now, if you really wanted to expedite, your chakra balancing,

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then I run a moon meditation circle.

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We gather together two times every month and do some amazing meditations that

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are filled with art, that are filled with laughter and a lot of creativity.

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And the whole idea is to just start balancing ourselves.

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So if you are feeling some stress and anxiety, or if you're feeling

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fatigued, then these circles really help you get your motivation back.

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You start waking up ready to win and conquer because your energy, not

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just in the root chakra, but in all the chakras start getting balanced.

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So you start really experiencing a life of inner peace and abundance.

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If you wanted to join my Moon Meditation Circle, just reach me at artoflifecenter.

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com slash moon meditations.

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I will see you there very soon.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode.

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Do leave me a review and let me know how you found this episode.

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well as I definitely consider that when I'm planning my next episodes.

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Lots and lots of love.

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You are awesome.

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I'll see you next time with another episode.

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Bye.