A person with a balanced 1st Chakra feels safe and secure, protected and trusting. Self-worth, self-confidence, stability, and a quiet strength shine through in a calm, easygoing manner that affirms feelings of belonging in family, work, and community. Physical needs are expected to be met, and they are with grace and ease. A sense of always having enough fosters a willingness to contribute and to share.

Imbalances in our 1st Chakra can show up as "less than" feelings, such as insecurity, anxiety, nervousness, worry, suspicion, self-consciousness, isolation, and greed. And in the process of trying to overcompensate for or underplay these feelings, a person may: overeat or under eat; be over stimulated or lack energy; be careless and sloppy or meticulously neat; be egotistic and domineering or weak in character and passive; or be extravagant and wasteful with money or a money miser.

The important role that the 1st Chakra plays in supporting you cannot be emphasized enough. Imagine the Chakramid with an underdeveloped or overdeveloped base. A small, puny foundation would be perilously unstable, and an over inflated, excessively large foundation would skew the proportion and shape of the rest of the structure on top. Either way results in an unsettling, unnerving feeling at your very core.

© 2009-2010 Mary Jo Shaffer
Excerpt from the book, Rainbow Eyes: CHAKRAMID Reflections. In this tale of one woman's journey to chakra energy awakening, you will learn about your Chakras in an entertaining, informative fantasy format. In contrast to Alice going down a rabbit hole, our tale follows Jessica as she journeys up the CHAKRAMID…in an elevator! Read more...