The base chakra is often called the 1st chakra and is also known as the root chakra. It’s located at the very bottom of the spine and it includes hips, legs, and feet. This chakra’s focus is safety and security in all areas of life.
This is one of the 7 main chakras and if you are wondering if your base chakra is balanced, check here.
A quick reminder of the 7 Chakras
Base/Root- being safe and secure
Sacral/ Spleen- creating and sexuality
Solar Plexus- relating to the world around you
Heart – giving and receiving love
Throat- speaking your truth
Third Eye/ Brow- knowing and intuition
Crown- connecting to the all
If a chakra is blocked or the energy is stagnant, it can manifest emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually.
These are just some examples of how a blocked base chakra can manifest:
Physically:
- any illness related to blood and bones
- eating disorders
- leg, feet, and skin issues
Emotionally:
- substance abuse
- ambivalence toward life
- financial challenges
- depression
Crystals: The Silent Supporters
I refer to crystals as silent supporters. They can quietly help you without others knowing what you are doing. There are times when we don’t want people to know our business and what we are healing. That’s why crystals are ideal.
Think about this. If you are working in an office situation where you don’t feel safe to express yourself or be yourself, you can use a crystal as a support. All it looks like to your coworkers is a pretty rock.
Since we are made of minerals, it makes sense that we connect with crystals and our body recognizes their subtle energy. When you utilize them, you are connecting with the life force of mineral energy.
8 ways to use crystals for any chakra
The ways to use crystals for healing purposes are long so let me list a few favorites:
- Wearing as jewelry. Whether you use a necklace, bracelet, or ring, you’ll get the energy.
- Carrying them in your braket (bra pocket), pants pocket, amulet, etc.; on the body in some way. The key here is remembering before you put your clothes in the washing machine.
- Placing them under your pillow when appropriate. Make sure it’s a crystal that helps with sleep rather than energizing you.
- Using them in crystal grids. Crystal grids are powerful in helping you manifest. Perhaps you don’t feel safe and secure financially, you can create a grid to support you with that.
- Using them to infuse water (only the safe ones). I once used base chakra crystals to release energy stuck in my hips. I don’t remember all the details but it worked!
- Putting them around the tub while bathing. This is spiritual cleansing times two.
- Using them in a room to bring the energy you need. Whether manifesting or protecting or many other things, you can use the crystals for Feng Shui
- Meditating with them. Use the crystals with the energy you are seeking and allow them to be part of your mediation process.
Did you know each chakra is connected to all the other chakras?
Each chakra has support from and is connected to all the other chakras. This connection essentially means that there are 7 chakras within each chakra. I look at it as if each chakra has 7 sub-chakras. How does this play out?
- The base of the base chakra- is pure safety and security
- The sacral of the base chakra- is about creating safety in your world
- The solar plexus of the base chakra is about how you perceive the world as safe and how it perceives you as safe
- The heart of the base chakra is about feeling safe and secure in love
- The throat of the base chakra is about feeling safe in speaking
- The 3rd eye of the base chakra- is about feeling safe in your knowing
- The crown of the base chakra is about feeling safe in your connection to divine
7 Crystals that can support the base chakra
Hematite supports the base of the base chakra. Great for grounding and stabilizing, keeping tether during astral travel, relieving anxiety
Black Onyx supports the sacral of the base chakra of the base black onyx, freedom from bad habits, and assisting with life challenges helps
Snowflake obsidian supports the solar plexus of the base chakra. Helps bring things to the surface, balance during change
Garnet supports the heart of the base chakra. Regeneration, vitality, order, create for manifesting and grounding. One’s dreams, and access to ancient memories, help with abandonment issues.
Smoky Quartz supports the throat of the base chakra. Centering, and grounding, help remove negativity and transform it to positive relieving stress and jealousy.
Black tourmaline supports the third eye of the base chakra. protection, grounding, deflect, negative energy, deflect the electronic magnetic field
THIS CRYSTAL supports the crown of the base chakra. how light prepares to receive awareness, cuts cords of pain to the past and present,
