be like a cat to heal your root chakra #muladhara

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If there is one thing I have learnt about chakra one, muladhara or root chakra, it is about being like a cat. Why am I saying so? As you can understand from its title root chakra is about grounding somewhere. In our case, this “somewhere” can be though the world at first. If we approach this concept with a more microcosmical level, it gets smaller and smaller till we reach our houses then our bodies. What is groundinag? It is actually everything we do in our daily lives. Eating, drinking, watching TV, dancing, cleaning, having a shower, preparing some delicious and healthy meal, reading, walking, communicating etc. Grounding somewhere is enjoying your life while you are also meeting your basic needs properly such as eating and sleeping. We do all of these things without setting the intention of opening our root chakras.

Why cats? Because cats ground themselves where they live. They find their safe place and then own those. This can be a tiny secret corner, a room, a cushion, or anywhere. They adapt themselves in accordance with their surroundings. Then they live their best lives…

That’s why, do not let your house be messy. A messy environment will not help you to ground. It will turn you into a grumpy cat instead. Our aim is to be like Jiji, though. Jiji is my female cat whose photo you can see above. She likes eating and sleeping soooo much. She gets extremely happy if you pat her tummy (unlike so many cats). She likes to sleep during her leisure time, which means all the time. Oh, she also loves watching outside from the windows or balcony. She simply enjoys her life, I can tell, because she purrs so much.

Start with something easier. For example next time when you prepare dinner, try to open a beautiful song to ground yourself in your kitchen. Then with that beautiful meal you will prepare, ground your body into the world. Feed your energy through your choices of living. It is a continuous process, not something you can start or stop. If you have some modern life concerns such as your 9-5 job, school life, or conditions you are displeased with, thenaa Anodea Judith has powerful answers:

In today's urban world, there are few people who are naturally grounded. Our language and cultural values reflect the superiority of the high at the expense of the low, i.e., to be highly regarded, to hold one thing above another, to get high, to have things look up. Socially and economically, intellectual work is better rewarded than physical labor. Our natural bodily processes such as waste elimination, sexuality, birth, breastfeeding, or nudity are considered dirty, to be done only in private and often with much guilt. Control of our health is put in the hands of an elite class, denying us the sense of our own innate healing potential. Our power structures in business, government, and organized religion flow hierarchically, from the top down, controlling and often trampling that which is below in order to serve the "higher cause" of that which is above. By losing touch with our ground we have lost the sense of our intricate connection with all life. We become ruled by a part instead of the whole-and, furthermore, a part that is isolated, fragmented, and out of touch. Ignoring our ground, it is no wonder that we face a health care crisis and ecological destruction.In an alienated and "ungrounded" culture, where most values do not favor the body or its pleasures, we develop pain. Our bodies hurt after a day at the computer or a day of driving. The stress of competition and fast living do not give us a chance to rest and renew, or to process that hurt, to release it. As we develop pain, we become, ironically, more resistant to grounding, for to ground is to be "in touch." Getting in touch means feeling that pain. Yet this is the first step in making ourselves whole so that we begin to heal.*

*: Judith, Anodea. “Chakra One.” Wheels of Life: a User's Guide to the Chakra System, by Anodea Judith, Llewellyn Publications, 2012, pp. 116–117.