How to Awaken the Chakras: Activate the Muladhara Root Chakra (Ep. 2)

Transcript

"Wake up mother Kundalini, thou whose nature is 
bliss, thou dwelling like a serpent asleep at the   lotus of Muladhara, sore, afflicted and distressed 
am I in body and mind, bless me and leave thy   place at the basic lotus, take thy upward course 
through the central canal, be united with God at   Sahasrara -- the thousand-petaled-lotus in the 
brain, be there freely O Mother, giver of bliss,   who is existence, knowledge, and the Absolute 
itself, wake up! Mother Kundalini! Wake up." Hello and welcome to the second episode in this 
series on 'Awakening the Chakras'! If you missed   the first introductory episode go back and watch 
that one to get a feel for how we're approaching   and understanding all of this ~ this episode will 
cover understanding the first chakra the Muladhara   chakra, or the Church of Ephesus, the Root chakra, 
which is the color red, the basic lotus located at   the coccyx at the base of the spine, or more deeply 
in the perineum, as you can see on the screen this   center is also known as one of the three Dan Tians' 
in Qigong and various other chinese systems   a quick note; quite a few of you requested subtitles 
in different languages, actually all languages are   available to do this simply turn on subtitles by 
clicking the CC icon as seen on the screen, then   click the cog, click subtitles, auto translate, and 
choose your language... and firstly a massive thank   you to everyone for your really positive comments 
on the first episode, so many open-minded people   I've been on youtube for almost a year now and 
I've never seen one of my videos get so much   attention in just a short amount of time, so it 
really goes to show how dispersed vague and how   complex this topic of the chakras and kundalini 
is - even though it's such a common topic people   still feel very much unempowered and unenlightened 
with it, so I'm grateful that I can be here with   you all and share what I've been studying and 
practicing for over 11 years, just to mention   this series is really made possible by the support 
I get through Patreon allowing me to invest more   time to create things like this for you; I have 
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discussions, the Patreon link is in the description   if you'd like to join, and since there's so many 
new subscribers here I understand that you may not   have been following my videos - a lot of my videos 
are about Astral projection but only as a path   to spiritual awakening as a whole so when we get 
to the practices at the end of this episode I'll   be recommending extra various resources 
to get you started on your spiritual path   and on that note please keep in mind that I 
may say some things that could conflict with   people's religious beliefs, for example if I tell 
you that in 'Gnostic' understanding 'The Holy Spirit'   is the same as 'Kundalini' I am not asking you to 
believe in anything - I am simply telling you one   system of understanding; I am just relaying 
information... you take from it what you will   using unbiased, objective, experiential deduction ~ 
we have to get over the sort of pettiness over   fighting over beliefs right? Beliefs are nothing 
in comparison to direct experience, there is   value and belief of course, but when it comes to 
direct experience this is something else: watch   my video on 'What is Gnosis?' if you're interested in 
that, so in this series I'm simply pointing to you   a location in some mountains far away right? You 
are free to walk over there and see what you find...   if you don't like it, you can simply walk into 
another location okay, so be sure to be subscribed   to keep up with the series and give the video a 
like to help it get out there a bit and so let's   begin by understanding what this root chakra is 
all about... this root chakra is what it sounds like   that is; the roots of a tree are buried into 
the soil and it drinks water, life essence,   in the same way this is where our spiritual energy 
enters into it is a center of intelligence which   guides us mostly through the intelligence of our 
physical body, that is our motor instinctive center   and it guides us with things relating to our basic 
survival process, hence why i said earlier and as   you saw in the prayer at the introduction of the 
video, it is the basic lotus one of seven lotuses   so in order to be efficiently aligned with this 
center and be able to listen to the intelligence   that it has for us we need to be in touch with 
our physical bodies directly, it's almost scary   how many of us are mostly out of touch with our 
physical bodies because we're always using our   intellectual center, our thinking, to solve our 
problems to say just one of hundreds of examples   everyone's always arguing about what diet is 
best and what you intellectually think superior   right? of course i respect a good diet okay but 
different people need to eat different things   in different periods of their life and according 
to their circumstances you know there's a lot of   different foods out there that are apparently 
healthy but also stimulating in different ways   'Ayurveda' is a great resource for this, so 
really the best diet is an intuitive and   instinctive one meaning we should be in touch with 
our bodies whether we are actually hungry and feel   what it actually needs it's not just food we do 
this to we do it to friendships career exercise   morality and many other dimensions of life, we like 
to to our lifestyle preferences and then   unconsciously live them out comfortably instead of 
living presently, so if you want to practice making   spontaneous decisions based on how you feel in 
the moment for example, simply ask yourself if   you are actually hungry and if so what you want 
to eat, you have to have a silent mind for that   and not answer yourself mechanically, egoically, 
this is an intelligence, but it seems strange   to the intellectual mind to just wait for 
silence to answer, but really it's a more   efficient way to live, listening to the guiding 
voice of silence, so the kind of bigger point here   is that when we receive this cosmic molodera 
energy that comes into the root chakra we   play around with it like children using 
egoic likes and dislikes and preferences   instead of listening to its guidance and let that 
energy manifest in our life in ways that it should...   if we did listen to it we would absolutely be able 
to live a better quality life this isn't so much   a very spiritual chakra actually it's very basic, 
you could say it's the chakra of common sense,   some are in touch with it naturally especially 
those who live a more sophisticated life eating   well, showering regularly, right taking care of 
themselves, eating good food, having healthy hobbies,   etc. so this chakra is about safety, security, 
health, stability, generally meaning you know   having the instinct to survive and provide a safe 
home for yourself and your family to thrive and   have a good life, but if this chakra is imbalanced 
you may feel anxious, fearful, restless, lazy, or even   a sort of compulsive drive to survive, kind of 
like the fight or flight response, if you've ever   been in that response in a scary situation in your 
life you will feel a massive surge of energy there   enabling you to make a quick decision, you know if 
a man is running at you with a weapon you don't   use your head do you? you don't say, "oh look at this 
fine gentleman what a nice weapon he has perhaps   I should strike a conversation with him!"... no, fight 
or flight triggers right? and you run for your life   your legs and your lower region of your body 
get this boost of energy, it doesn't matter even   if you're usually unfit person who can't run 
either this root chakra which is abundant with   our source of life force will give it to you if 
your spirit your kundalini allows it, the more will   you have to live the more it will help you, but 
perhaps if you're too much of an intellectual and   decide to speak to the man instead then perhaps 
your root chakra is really out of balance   or you're just so depressed so depleted that you 
can't even be bothered moving and he kills you   because of your sheer laziness imagine right um so 
this primal chakra okay is very simple very basic   and especially as we advance spiritually it's 
not really necessary to over complicate your   concentration on just this area a lot, with that 
said even though it is so basic we still need to   develop it and become aware of it, some people are 
so stuck in their heads they would really benefit   from connecting with their primal self like 
this, look at any animal in the wild you'll see   how they just know when to eat where to find 
food they don't panic about it they just know   if a storm is coming the birds are always the 
first to migrate too or when they are growing they   just know how to build a nest, many animals 
instinctively fast on certain days and eat   more and other days as well, we share all of that 
similar information too we are animals are we not   we can detect when there are certain forces on 
certain days when we should eat a lot and other   days when we shouldn't so this kind of trumps all 
rigid diets out there this is about living more   presently in tune with our energy and our bodies 
so accordingly this chakra is the only chakra   which is linked to the element of earth, if this 
chakra is overactive a person may also be in this   compulsive state of survival, a lot of people today 
I'd say most people in our world are stuck in this   root energy center, all of us including myself are 
stuck in some way we we have some challenges there   okay, but it's very common for most people to be 
really stuck in here especially people who are   sort of obsessed with watching the news that's 
a very good example - you know people who are   really emotionally strung with keeping up with 
government activity, economics, crime, consumeristic   lifestyles, you know our root chakra thrives off 
this, people find it exciting when world affairs   are happening because it gives them a reason to 
live, you see centuries ago when life was more   simple we grew vegetables in the earth, hunted 
animals, we were hunter-gatherers right with a   lot more simple lives all of our focus could stay 
on keeping alive in a healthy way but now since we   live in a time of convenience our primal selves 
have now been diverted to issues collectively   you see people watch the news with this sort of 
hunter-gatherer survivalist mindset, now i'm not   saying watching the news is bad but i'm saying if 
you want to have a certain level of advancement in   spirituality you should definitely limit that and 
also be mindful and detached when you do encounter   worldly information like that, these things are 
ultimately not important to you spiritually as   an individual, how many world issues have you been 
deeply egoically concerned about which actually   affected you directly? you might not agree with 
this but truly we are living in a time of great   insanity where people for example are walking 
in beautiful green parks on a lovely day but if   you watch them closely they are basically talking 
to themselves playing stories in their head about   such and such a crisis in the world and they're 
not paying attention to the real world around   them, but instead they're immersed in a world of, 
a mood of depression, and dreams in their head,   you know there's a time for that, if you want to 
be concerned about that, be concerned but don't   carry it around with you and make it who you are 
wherever you go in this world there's much more to   life than that all of these problems and crisis 
you know they're also just temporary they're   fleeting... we can take kovid as a good example 
here some people develop really major mental   difficulties with coping with covid right, but for 
many has it actually affected them directly? of   course it has affected us all myself included but 
i also don't personally see it as this thing where   i've been attacked or intruded in my life like a 
foreign enemy has done something to a person, to me,   i'm not victimizing myself on a personal level or 
wallowing in self-pity about my situation and the   limitations that have entered my life; these are 
important egoic traits to look out for because if   we don't look out for them our mental health and 
spiritual identity breaks down, you know forgetting   covid for a moment we should realize that any 
kind of circumstance could change our life at   any moment, we have to rise to being adaptable and 
not be attached to our daily life, it's only when   we are attached to things and our routines are 
broken that we feel threatened and then we seek   to blame things and make them into problems make 
them into a living war there's always a war right?   collectively; the war on drugs, the war on crime, 
the war with other countries, you know and then   the ego is in this survivalist state of: "I must win!" 
and you know to think of different situations   that could happen in your life that would 
overshadow all of the world crisis happening   you know something could happen to a family member 
something could happen to you, you know the most   ultimate situation is you could die at any moment 
and if we truly lived with death by our side so to   speak then our perspective of the world and our 
personal life would absolutely change, so this   is all part of that imbalanced root chakra mindset 
you see so like Bruce Lee famously said we need to   "be like water", we need to be adaptable and we need 
a certain level of passiveness or indifference   towards changes on the surface level of our lives 
much like the story about the Zen master who   when things would keep dramatically changing 
in his life he would neither react or add a   narrative to it in his head but instead he would 
just say, "Is that so?" even when someone gave him a   baby that wasn't even his, so i'll leave a link 
below if you want to listen to that nice story   so to start to awaken spiritually, to start 
to raise kundalini, to start to climb higher   within ourselves, is to also keep gaining a bigger 
picture of life; it's to always transcend in higher   perspectives, and from the point of view of a 
higher perspective the problems that existed when   we were in our lower perspectives suddenly make 
a lot more sense, and they certainly don't trouble   us psychologically anymore, and this is also how 
we can gain better karma for ourselves by doing   spiritual practices because when we raise our own 
consciousness we raise the consciousness of other   people too, simply by being ourselves we don't 
have to necessarily turn into a preacher or try to   convince people of things or change their beliefs, 
your own silence your own presence becomes enough...   so this is also how our root chakra controls our 
thoughts third eye and crown chakras by telling   our higher centers to only be concerned with 
primal survival and thus the root chakra sends   images into the mind's eye about all of these 
things, this is why studying the chakras is also   to study human nature and not just to study but 
to understand and in doing so you become a more   forgiving and compassionate person towards 
others, you'll start to do this naturally because   you recognize when a particular type of person is 
stuck in a certain type of energy level or limited   perspective, instead of judging them you suddenly 
understand what limitations they are living in   and suffering from because you transcended this 
yourself and are able to empathize ~ to empathize   means that you have processed a certain amount 
of suffering yourself right? it's not that you   ignore suffering but you accepted it and processed 
it; others who haven't transcended it are still in   resistance with it, so you can see now why i said 
in the previous episodes the lower chakras are   somewhat inferior, especially this root chakra 
which is essentially where materialism lives   within us, this root chakra without the combination 
of the higher chakras which transmutes the energy   higher, is extremely limited in its understanding 
of reality it can easily master physical life   processes become a great and respected employee 
in society with good morals but when it comes   to the spiritual people stuck in this chakra 
cannot begin to even try to understand spiritual   reality, nor can they sense it, why? because it's 
just not logical - spirituality is not logical   within the dimension of intelligence of the root 
chakra, so regardless of all this it's still an   important chakra but as i've been saying we abuse 
it and essentially it leaks and more implications   of imbalance here are basically that we don't 
like our physical life, we become unhealthy   have bad self-esteem, become depressed, low energy, 
eating dysfunctions, sexual dysfunctions and stuff   like that, so very basic tips for balancing 
it would be to go on long walks in nature,   walk barefoot, connect to the earth, get some fresh 
air and sunlight, eat healthy food, do some light   exercise; yoga stretches, all of this will ground 
you in your body and when we are grounded in the   body in our physical senses in our environments 
in the world around us fully accepting it fully   aligned with it not in resistance or conflict 
with it then we revitalize our vital energies   and our life suddenly becomes a great foundation 
for spiritual work, imbued with peaceful and   positive energy, almost all forms of pranayama 
are good for this chakra too i'll be teaching   a good one towards the end of this episode... so as 
explained in the first episode the root chakra   is where kundalini first enters whether you are an 
ordinary or spiritual person okay? just a tiny drop   a tiny ounce of this universal pranic life force, 
which is infinite, entering our body is enough to   let us feel happy, energized, focused, enlightened 
the problem is we're like greedy children who just   party like animals when we're just a little bit 
endowed with the happiness of this great energy   and we're not aware how we expend these 
energies through every type of behavior, so   maybe you can tell i'm saying these little 
tips very casually right making these basic   life improvements should be easy but unfortunately 
these simple things such as just having a shower,   cleaning your house, not overeating like a pig, 
i'm guilty of it too sometimes don't worry :)   but you know getting fresh air, going on a walk, 
looking after your basic mental health; all of   these things are very basic but unfortunately 
they are very difficult for a lot of us to do   "tomorrow i'm going to eat healthy", "tomorrow i'll 
do this and all that"... this is very simple to   look after ourselves sensibly as animals as 
we would look after our pets, we form conflicts   with these simple things making excuses as to why 
we don't do them etc. right? but my point is, and   sort of the solution to this is: when we aspire 
to divine energies above the lower chakras, all   of these simple physical animal level activities 
suddenly become very effortless, and we suddenly   have the energy to do it all and it all gets 
manifested because now you have a higher purpose   your purpose is to awaken kundalini or realize 
god or higher consciousness or to have a sort   of divine union with your partner or anything 
that you are devoted to in a deep way with your   soul, however you want to label your spiritual path 
okay? so ironically in this sense the way we become   complete and balanced in the root chakra is to 
not focus on it so much but to focus on the higher   dimensions of life, this conventional idea that we 
are a species just to survive is really mistaken   we are not created to merely survive if that were 
so we would be far better off just being reduced   to mere worms in the earth, we are destined for 
a purpose far greater than merely surviving like   an animal, we are destined to walk in the body 
of god the body of the divine consciousness and   realize all of its processes and enjoy the certain 
abilities and phenomena that come with all of that   okay so in a strong sense the chakras aren't 
actually materially part of the physical anatomy   because as we explored in the previous episode 
all prana descends from non-physical matter   to the physical and it's the route where it's 
first collected so there aren't actually spinning   discs in our physical body, the physical expression 
or the physical manifestation of these chakras   in physical form are the seven main endocrine 
glands as we saw in the previous episode   so accordingly the root chakra and all of the 
chakras are inside, or are energies, of our etheric   body the etheric body is also known as the vital 
body and it's responsible for keeping the physical   body healthy by delivering energy / prana to the 
physical body really imbalance in the root chakra   opens the doors to all sorts of illnesses it's 
sort of the first place where illness can enter   if you are not guarding that center by being 
present in your body, if you're in your house   thieves don't come right? but if you're not in 
your house then they start to break in and cause   disturbances illnesses right? the etheric body sort 
of co-exists as another layer another dimension   of energy it animates it vibrates the physical 
body and this etheric body is really where all   our chakras reside as well as being made up of 
our 72'000 'nadis' which are energy streams in the   etheric body but the main three nadis are called 
'Ida', 'Pingala' and 'Sushumna', ida is the feminine   lunar current and pingula is the masculine solar 
current, often depicted as the two snakes going   up the spinal column - the spinal column being shushumna the 
central pathway of kundalini when ida and pingala   meets in the head this is also known as the 
reunion of Shiva and Shakti often depicted as   one being which is half masculine half female 
because they have joined in sacred union which   is really the principle or essential teaching 
of almost all spiritual and religious teachings   so the reunion of shiva and shakti in our head, the 
reunion of masculine and feminine happens when the   energy of kundalini rises inwards and upwards, 
right now it's going downwards and outwards   you could say that our root chakra is basically 
leaking energetically, the universal currents of   life go into our bodies and then just go 
back into the great field of consciousness,   of conscious energy, leaving us to stay like uh 
children unconscious of this universal energy   so since this is the route where our biggest 
storehouse of energy is this is also about   our sexuality and our sexual energy and if that 
energy is abused especially by things such as   excess masturbation and things like that then we 
feel drained, tired, you know how most men are tired   or lose their passion and want to sleep after 
reaching climax right, well this goes into 'tantra'   and sexual transmutation if you're not familiar 
with this it is not to say sex is bad, quite the   opposite it can be a way to give you even more 
energy but the root chakra is simply the center   that collects this energy or expels this energy 
so we'll see more in the next episode about the   center which actually controls that energy more 
directly; the sacral chakra, which is located in the   endocrine glands of either the prostate gland in 
men or the uterus gland in women, in the meantime   it's very much recommended to watch my episode on 
the nature of sexual energy and transmutation and   if you're really interested definitely see all the 
links, book recommendations, and resources i left in   the description of that particular video, the link 
is on the screen now the practice taught at the   end of that episode is also designed to raise 
our kundalini inwards and upwards, you know all   spiritual practice ultimately leads to kundalini 
going upwards in some fashion, as we are making   spiritual efforts we are opening many doors inside 
our system which allow this union of consciousness   to merge with us, there's actually a gland at the 
base of the spine that shoots the cerebrospinal   fluid up the spine to purify the brain ~ so the root 
chakra is the foundation of the spiritual work   whenever you create an intention a new habit a new 
principle that you add to your spiritual practice   whether it's a mantra, pranayama, yoga, prayer, this 
is first put into action through the medium of   our physical-material body... some of you asked you 
know is physical life or the material a bad thing?   no it's essential this is why on the tree of life, 
also known as kabbalah, it is called our 'Foundation'   this is where we live, the physical body in the 
third dimension is a gift to access higher realms   from a safe, stable, and spiritually intelligent 
and strong home - look at an actual foundation of   a house if you have no spirituality you likely 
have a house without a foundation and are just   a fragmented consciousness blown by the wind in 
every direction, but if you have a deep foundation   steady, rooted in your being, you live peacefully 
like being in the center of the eye of the storm   instead of being in the storm, and if you're 
in the center you're able to watch experiences   go by, watch life go by, not clinging to anything... 
this is where permanent integrity can be born   and be anchored in the present moment and in our 
center of gravity as an individual, this is how we   grow as an actual individual, rather than being 
blown away by the currents of collective energy   and the conditioning that we've accumulated 
from the conditionings of that in our egos...   so through empowering this root chakra and 
getting in touch with it we begin to feel at home   within ourselves, a lot of people are always 
seeking to find a comfortable home externally   in this difficult life in the situation of this 
planet but no place outside of ourselves however   nice can ultimately be home, the only home you 
ever inhabit is your own body, your own source   of creation, and when you feel at home with that 
then home is anywhere so just before i get on   to the practices for those interested in biblical 
references to the root chakra like i talked about   in the first episode the root chakra is the church 
of Ephesus in Revelation, here's one part; it says   "to the angel of the church of ephesus, the one who 
holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh   in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, 
i know your deeds, your labor, your patience   i know you cannot tolerate evil, nevertheless i am 
somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy   first love, therefore always remember how far you 
have fallen and repent and do the first works,   or else i will come to thee and remove thy 
candlestick out of its place"... the angel is that   intelligence within this region of the church 
of ephesus, our root center, which holds or powers   the seven stars and seven golden candlesticks 
which of course refer to the seven sacred fires   of kundalini; it's acknowledging that yes this is 
such a pure and abundant center of intelligence   always producing life energies for us tirelessly 
even though we live in ignorance and abuse of it,   you know just how if you have a you know a good 
mother in your life a mother always gives to you   no matter what right? unconditional love, they 
just want to provide for you and help you in   whatever way and as long as you're happy they're 
happy right? and this is how our divine mother or   mother nature within us helps us too, it always 
gives us our energies, always picks us up, always   heals us naturally, no matter how bad or lost or 
how much we abuse those energies in various ways   and so this part in the bible continues to say, we 
'have left our first love' ~ the first chakra, and we   have to work on this chakra or else it will become 
unbalanced, our first love of course relates to the   first chakra but in a way that it is recognizing 
that it's love which is the feminine force; the   divine mother kundalini... okay so let's get on to 
a few practices for beginning to start generating   this energy the root chakra being a generator for 
all of the chakras, or better said; to RE-generate   this energy for to start to work with kundalini 
is to work with the snake, the serpent; which   represents rebirth through death, of course not 
physical death, but spiritual-psychological death   as a disclaimer all of the practices that will be 
given in this series are i would say one of the   most safest and natural out there okay nothing 
to do with trying to forcefully pull energy up   the spine or trying to force anything for that 
matter, a lot of the practices i will be teaching   were taught in my Gnostic group and none of the 
students ever experienced anything negative it was   organic, natural, and relaxed and remember that as 
a foundation to all of this ultimately kundalini   awakening is synonymous with the dissolvement 
of the ego and forcing to dissolve the ego is   impossible, it needs daily, mindful, mature, balanced, 
intelligent, you know committed and devoted   approach, i say this very firmly no progress can 
be made spiritually without the transcendence   of the ego if you're trying to forcefully move 
some energy up somewhere but you have blockages   well those blockages are there because there's 
a part of you that you need to know right?   "Temet Nosce" ~ "Know Thyself"; and if you know thyself then 
you will become enlightened and that block will   remove - you can't remove energy blockages just by 
thinking that you know in a material sense that oh   uh we'll just move this block by punching your 
stomach really hard or something okay the only way   to move blockages is by totally comprehending it 
and you totally comprehend it by using meditation   and using your total attention and applying it 
there with patience, compassion, and understanding...   some people in odd kundalini schools say that 
they experience pains or something uh sure   if you're forcing things then something like 
that could happen but we have to be gentle and   compassionate with ourselves and total relaxation 
is crucial before during and after any practice,   we're not trying to force anything here we 
just want to grow in awareness and that's it   by simply growing in awareness gradually 
everything else will happen as it should   or some people in these other systems say 
things like they feel crazy or something   you know do you think forcing or psyching yourself 
into craziness is anything to do with genuine   enlightenment? 'drunkenness' is ego... 'soberness' and 
'sobriety' is consciousness; awakening feels like   you've been submerged in dirty water for thousands 
of years and suddenly you rise out of the water to   breathe in the fresh air, it's a wonderful feeling, 
stop associating kundalini with all these negative   feelings of the ego, it's pure bliss for a lack 
of better words and sure in some kind of way for   some people they may feel a bit crazy if they have 
been extremely submerged in a big and strong ego   in darkness for so long, and then they might have 
a little shock because their egoic thoughts of the   world are breaking down and they're slowly 
realizing there's a whole other world they   never knew existed and if their ego is big 
still then their reaction will be just as big...   and instead of being at peace with awakening and 
accepting it they react to it with more ego and so   don't really come out of the surface of the water 
in the end, until they persist in their practice,   but this only usually happens when one forces 
themselves in some way; authentic awakening only   comes to those who are willing to surrender their 
ego, so what i'm really saying here is don't put   so much expectation that some wonderful things are 
gonna happen are you going to awaken clairvoyance   or clairaudience or have all these astral 
projections... just enjoy the practices in a balanced   way daily and just enjoy life happily in gratitude 
and appreciation for your existence, this is a   fundamental approach to all of spirituality, to all 
of this, and when you live in this sort of grace   of love and devotion and not expecting too much 
then experiences will come to you and you won't   cling to them, you won't call yourself a superman 
or something like that, because you earned it   through your own efforts, okay so i will be giving 
a lot of different practices over these episodes   so remember it doesn't mean you need to do all 
of them, practice what you like and see what's   right for you and incorporate it into your daily 
spiritual practice accordingly, i'll also be giving   a practice towards the end of the series which 
enables you to work with all of the chakras at   the same time in a powerful way, but since we're 
only on the first chakra let's focus on more   foundational practices, first i'll first give 
you a bunch of recommendations of where to start   everything i'm going to talk about from here on 
out will have the relevant links and resources   in the description below; so recommendation number 
one - for meditation, self-awareness, overcoming the   ego, with self-observation, and staying present and 
grounded in your body, i recommend 'The Power of   Now by Eckhart Tolle'; specifically the audiobook 
narrated by the author himself, that alone made   a huge impact on my own life, but it has to be 
listened with the heart it's not an intellectual   digest or something okay, number two another 
recommended resource for meditation is watching an   old Indian video called 'The Power of Meditation 
by Spiritual Reality' it's a really great hour-long   visual guide on how to meditate in a pure way, 
it really teaches you the process of the essence   of meditation and healing through the etheric 
body in a simple way it's a really great video   definitely check that out - number three, check out 
the main lessons and also the tantra lessons on   the 'AYP' website, or even better read basically any 
of Yogani's books; they are full of clear, concise   explanations and practices he has audiobooks as 
well, number four - strengthen your perineum so that   you can instinctively lock in your energies better 
there's a practice for this called 'Mulabanda'   which means 'Root Lock' in Sanskrit, this is sort 
of like kegel exercises where you strengthen your   pelvic floor, this perineum muscle, the same muscle 
as we use to hold in urine, is especially useful   during pranayama breathing exercises, as a simple 
daily exercise which can be done anytime is to do   a strong squeeze of the muscle, then release it, 
and do it 50 times, it can be done in 50 seconds   with 50 squeezes this will strengthen your root 
lock right, this will strengthen that muscle, for   more in-depth mullabanda exercises just check out 
the resources below number four follow the guided   'HAM SA' pranayama meditation which i have on my 
channel, if you don't like that one then we'll be   looking at another type of pranayama now before we 
get into pranayama, 'prana' meaning life energy and   'yama' meaning control, so pranayama is to control 
the breath, we should first understand how to   breathe correctly i'll leave a link down below for 
that as well but essentially only breathing into   your lungs, or worse into your neck and shoulders 
so when you inhale if your only your shoulders   are just raising, this is not good for your energy 
and especially your root chakra, when you inhale   make sure to breathe into your belly, your lower 
body should expand your stomach should come out   a little bit this expands and relaxes all sorts of 
nerves in the lower body, if you find you struggle   to do that because of years of constricted 
breathing and stressful energy then it may   take time for your nervous system to adjust but i 
promise you if you persist for a while trying to   deep breathe it's a small change that can 
make a massive impact on your life and state   of mind - i remember when i first realized i wasn't 
breathing properly uh it was difficult for me to   breathe downwards but now after a lot of time of 
practicing i always just naturally always breathe   from my belly and it's i can really tell you know 
how it's changed my uh physiology in terms of   just being a more relaxed person and having a 
more relaxed state of mind, okay so i'm going   to give you a good pranayama to begin with, when 
we reach the crown chakra episode i'm going to   give an even more powerful pranayama, but first 
let's start with this one which is called   'Spinal Breathing' you may have heard of it before; 
spinal breathing has its origins in scriptures   dating back to 4000 years ago, there's been a 
lot of schools since then which have sort of   diverted or modified it, one of the first systems 
using this practice is called 'Kriya Yoga', but even   since kriya yoga began there's been various 
branches of kriya yoga too, so one of the most   basic and grounded teachers for spinal breathing 
that i recommend is from an author i recommended   at the end of my own book; whose name is Yogani, 
the teacher on the AYP website i recommended   earlier, i will leave a link below so that 
you can read further into spinal breathing to   concrete this practice in your own mind so 
that you can practice it in your own time   i'll probably do a guided spinal breathing 
meditation video at some points but it is very   simple and you can easily do this yourself at your 
own leisure, so pranayama is to be done immediately   before meditation okay, the purpose of pranayama 
is to open up and purify the nervous system so   that it's in a raw state for deep meditation ~ it's 
sort of like digging a hole in the ground so that   we can sit down inside it otherwise if we just sit 
on the surface there's too much noise, so it's to   strengthen the connection between your body and 
mind through the control of prana in your body   meaning the breath, and all the ways in which prana 
manifests within us; thoughts or thought forms   also being powered by prana so be mindful of this... 
it's sort of like you know we have our internal   house that we live in and right now it's a 
mess so using pranayama is sort of like opening   all the windows and doors in your house and 
getting a really powerful vacuum cleaner and   moving all the dust around so that we can actually 
see and breathe and have a good space within us   to meditate, this is why it's called you know a 
sort of breath work, so if you've not been doing   in-depth breathing exercises like this before 
meditation you're about to open up a whole new   dimension of deeper meditation, a lot of more sort 
of conventional teachings in schools don't teach   pranayama or they will just tell you to do some 
very simple breathing practices which are good and   are essentially pranayama but it's a lot 
more effective if we do the more advanced   pranayama breathing practices like i'm 
teaching you here, it's very much considered   crucial for meditation in many hindu and buddhist 
schools, so in this way the steps of meditation are   first relaxation, then pranayama, then meditation, 
no physical movement is necessary throughout any   of this it's all internal okay so here's how you 
do spinal breathing pranayama, once you're relaxed   sitting upright, keeping your mouth and eyes closed 
for the whole practice, only breathing through our   nostrils, start by placing your awareness 
at your perineum, you may also start at the   coccyx as well if you prefer, then begin to inhale 
through your nose slowly and as you do follow your   spine upwards with your awareness, going first to 
the coccyx, then the back of the stomach, back of   the chest, just following the root of your 
spine, going to the back of the neck, back of the head   to the top of your head a little, and then when 
your inhalation is full you should reach between   and behind your eyebrows where your pineal 
gland and pituitary gland is, and then when you   exhale simply follow the same path back downwards 
until you reach your coccyx again stopping at the   perineum okay? and you simply repeat breathing 
deeply and slowly and relaxed in this way going   up the spine to the top of the head in the pineal 
gland, the sahasrara chakra ~ the crown chakra, and   then traveling back down to the root chakra again... 
to help you with this: you can visualize a small   ball of light going up the central canal of the 
spine okay, combining your imagination in this way   while placing attention on the spine can be very 
powerful, alternatively you can see a small thread,   like the spinal nerve, and follow it, or a small 
square like a lift traveling up a tall skyscraper,   anything like that will work, just naturally 
synchronize it with following your breath   and just let your awareness go up and down as 
you breathe like this, gentle and relaxed, you may   notice while going past certain parts of the spine 
it might be more challenging than other parts,   you may feel certain energies, it's important 
to not strain or force anything, just stay   detached and don't react mentally okay? 
just focus in a sort of zen-like state okay   if you feel any blockages or certain energies just 
see it as phenomena in your consciousness and stay   impartial and simply continue and resume wherever 
your awareness can continue its path up and down   okay don't stop anywhere and say "oh what's 
happening?" right just continue with the breath and   just carry on up and carry on back down -- with time 
you'll master a deeper awareness over this spinal   journey, this particular spinal breathing practice 
is sort of like an energy massage for the spine   or like an energy scan, we're not pulling any 
energies up or anything we're simply just using   the power of attention ~ we're using awareness 
to cleanse the pathways of kundalini within us   only by using awareness, not anything else 
that's strange okay how can your awareness   be dangerous right? you can place your attention on 
anything in your room wherever you are right now   it doesn't do anything dangerous, we're 
just looking, observing, and that observation   is being directed and traveling within us, 
so that's it - get into a comfortable position   relax inhale and travel up from the perineum 
and up the spine, to the back of the head, top   of the head, and into the pineal gland, and 
then exhale, traveling back down the head, to   the spine, back to the perineum, or just the 
whole you know lower chakra part, and repeat...   and it can be done for as long as you like in a 
relaxed way for a few minutes at the very minimum   and over many days, weeks or months if you 
enjoy this this practice can go so deep   that you feel the depths of yourself expand 
as you take this journey through the seven   different cosmic regions within you, it becomes 
like traveling into deep space and when   you're ready to stop just stop, you can stop at the 
head or you can stop at the root chakra it doesn't   matter, and there's no need for you to do anything 
physically as you transition into meditation   simply stay still and begin profound meditation 
immediately... now when you go into your meditation   you can do whatever meditation you already know as 
part of your practice but if you'd like to focus   on the Muladhara chakra, the root chakra, this can be 
also a type of meditation as well; you can simply   just focus on this part of your body, simply 
peacefully placing your awareness on it for long   periods of time and deeper meditation without 
losing focus or being distracted by thoughts, if   the thought comes in you remain impartial, and just 
place awareness back on the chakras, so simply just   focusing on the root chakra is a way to balance 
this chakra and it will also help you to sit in   meditation for longer periods of time effortlessly 
too because you learn to merge into and enjoy the   very act of just sitting, just being, this is 
why a lot of mainstream spiritual teachings   always first of course just focus on sitting, just 
breathing, just 'Being', it's so important to build   a foundation with our BEING, it allows you to sit 
for long periods because remember that this chakra   is a source of energy that revitalizes the body 
and in many ways it restores it in similar ways   regular sleep does; meditation in this way is also 
known as ;conscious sleep; so a little tip here as   well if you feel tired or your attention is all 
over the place and you're struggling to focus   simply squeeze your perineum muscle a little bit 
and sort of suck in energy inwards and upwards,   just a bit, you should naturally feel a surge or 
boost of energy just from a little inhale while   squeezing and inhaling upwards and inwards okay, 
now if you'd like to add an element to this   meditation you can choose from two mantras which 
are directly related to awakening the root chakra   the first one is the sound of 
the hiss of the snake which is "SSSSSS" okay? just repeat this while focusing 
on the perineum you can focus on the   coccyx at the same time too or just the 
general region of this lowest part of your   body and experiment with the energy 
it creates okay so just repeat "SSSSSS" and then inhale... "SSSSS" okay you just carry on, the other 
mantra is a set of three sounds:   "DIS DAS DOS", that's 'D-I-S then 'D-A-S' then 
'D-O-S', i'll recite it for you now... DIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSS DAAAAAAASSSSSSS DOOOOOOSSSSSS and repeat, with a deep breath 
each time before each one,   strike the "D" and let it ring out with the "SSSS" 
the "SSSS" sound can continue for longer for the   remainder of your entire exhalation okay, 
so striking the "DDDD" is like striking a bell   and then the gong is the "III", "AAA", "OOO" okay and then the 
remainder of it is the "SSSSS" and the whole time your   attention is focused on the root chakra, you can 
begin loud for some time and then when you feel   you go into a more profound and relaxed meditation 
you can slowly go quieter until you start doing   it mentally this kind of technique can be 
applied to any mantra so just to give you   an example i'll just say the mantras quickly 
so you'll say it loud and begin like this: "DIS DAS DOS" and then over time you'll start to sound like "~dis das dos~" almost like you're drunk or kind of going 
into a trance okay and then eventually when   it becomes very quiet, you just start 
doing it mentally, and then eventually   you stop reciting the mantra, either vocally or 
mentally, and you just sit "Being" again, feeling the   energies, you will absolutely feel a certain type 
of energy which your body has been now imbued and   endowed with and you just sit there in this 
celestial sensation, just observing, and you can   stay there for as long as you like and when you're 
ready you simply come out of meditation slowly in   a relaxed way, in a centered and grounded way, so of 
course you can just vocalize it vocally or you can   just do it mentally, it's up to you, if people are 
in your house then of course you can just do it   all mentally too, but doing it outwardly is also 
good because it generates more vibrations into   the body right? remember that the body is mostly 
water and the molecular structure of water can be   modified very easily through our vibrations 
and sensations and actions and emotions through   placing our attention on it, okay so to describe 
a little bit about this mantra "DIS" connects the   chakras of the head to your root and "DAS" and "DOS"
connect your chest and heart areas to your root   remember as i've been saying we need to develop 
these superior chakras in superior ways... for both   of these mantras and especially if you're a very 
visual person you can visualize a red circle or   a disc spinning clockwise at the base of your body 
so that's from left to right okay, and you can feel   it there you can see it there spinning in your 
mind's eye whilst you're doing the mantralization   interestingly, these mantras can also be used 
mentally during sexual union with your partner in   order to gain control over your sexual energy, so 
this is a useful tool if you're practicing semen   retention and things like that, again see the links 
in the description related to sexual transmutation,   especially in the video that i did of that there 
are a lot of useful resources and books there,   okay so i think that's enough for this episode 
it's ran a bit longer than i expected um questions   are always welcome as always ~ A shout out to Izzy, 
Magdalena, Kay, James, Tomas, Gregor, and Sebby who   all joined on Patreon this week, for extra support 
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below for more details, thank you everyone and   see you on the next episode which will cover 
the second chakra, Svadhisthana ~ the sacral chakra...