The 1st chakra: safety, stability, belonging

Your first chakra contains  information about being secure, stable, protected, and grounded.

Located against your spine at the tailbone, this is also the chakra you create grounding from. Having permission to ground yourself gives you the freedom to be who you are, live how you want to live, have health on every level of being, and feel like you belong, no matter where on earth you are.

This information is extremely important, because in order to create your life, you need to feel secure and safe enough to do so. It’s hard to grow and change if you are constantly feeling unsafe – you’ll have a difficult time taking chances, trying new things, and having your other abilities on and working for you.

It is the first chakra part of you that makes it possible for you to be safe enough to turn on your psychic abilities as well. It’s easier to be psychic and turn on those sensitive higher parts of yourself if your body feels safe and comfortable. If you don’t have access to your own 1st chakra, your abilities may be difficult for you to have for your own use. You might find it hard to control them – for example, many people are very psychic but are frightened of being so because it feels out of control to them. If you can ground yourself, it’s easier to let go of that fear and enjoy your own energy.

When the information in your first chakra is yours, it’s much easier to create your life your way. If you’ve got information in your first chakra that doesn’t belong to you, you may find it difficult and frustrating to manifest what you want, or to feel good in your own body. You might pick up other people’s fears, unconsciousness, or pain and without meaning to, carry it around in your first chakra. Grounding can help you to release those energies that aren’t yours, making it easier to have more of what is.

Your first chakra helps you to create the grounding in your life: shelter, food, career/job, finances, and so on. If you’ve had difficulty creating comfortably on this level, it’s not because your first chakra is flawed. You may be holding onto some energies that have gotten in the way of you accessing your own abilities. By learning more about your own energy, you can begin to release those energies that aren’t yours, and start to have your first chakra working well for you.

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How can meditation help you to be psychic?

The word Psychic is traditionally defined as ‘of or pertaining to, the human soul’.

A modern definition of psychic would add: ‘Being psychic means being sensitive to and aware of, energy’. Psychics read the energy of a person, place, event, or situation.

What is energy? Energy is the stuff we are all made of. It’s in everyone and everything. Every place has its own energy, as does every single human being. We are each unique, and it’s our spirit, our energy, that makes that so.

Since everything is made of energy, and everything begins as energy, this also means that everything you have or create begins with energy too. Included in this list would be your health, self image, relationships, money, career, creativity, level of happiness, and so on.

If you can learn how to become more conscious of the energy around and inside of you, you can have more of an awareness of yourself, and create your own life to be how you’d like it to be.

Being psychic is natural and human. Each human being possesses this ability, though not everyone is aware of having it, or even wants it. If you have a sensitivity to energy, you might feel what others are feeling, or you have gut feelings about people and events that come true. Perhaps you know what others are thinking or what they need before they tell you.

You may even feel so overly sensitive to other people’s energies that it’s difficult to fully live your life. When your sensitivity to energy is so pronounced that it’s uncomfortable to be you, it’s because you don’t have control of your own abilities. You can learn to protect yourself, to make yourself safe, and to gain control over your abilities.

Psychic abilities include intuition, clairaudience, clairvoyance, telepathy, mediumship, knowingness, and more. Each person will have access to their own abilities in a unique way, and when you embrace having psychic abilities as being normal and fun, a part of life, you open up to having more of you. You make it easier to effortlessly create what it is you want to have in your life.

How does meditation help you to be psychic?

Meditation is a way to know more about yourself, and find out who you are. It’s having a conversation within, and finding stillness and peace there. We are constantly driven outside of ourselves, often without stopping for a break from the maelstrom that is modern life. It can feel like one is swimming upstream against the current on those days when there is a lot of energy to handle in the world.

When you take time to meditate regularly, and in particular practice grounding and awareness of energy, you give yourself more space as a result. When you are moving non stop through your life, you will easily lose your space, and your energy along with it.

Learning the difference between your energy, and the energies you’ve taken on that aren’t yours, is priceless. Once you begin to let go of foreign energy that has been sitting in your space, you will lighten your load, heal your body and spirit, let go of pain, free yourself up to create what it is you do want. Once you become conscious of what you’ve agreed to let yourself have or take on, you can decide to change the rules you live by, in order to make it easier for you to be you.

Grounding yourself, replenishing with your own energy, finding neutrality within, letting go of energies you’ve taken on that aren’t yours, knowing where your own energy is and defining your boundaries, moving the blocks out of your way, and effortlessly manifesting – are all things you can learn to do easily. These tools and techniques – and more – are taught in the Psychic Meditation Class, which you can learn more about here.

Back to meditation and being psychic. Once you become more conscious of energy, and in particular your own energy, it becomes easier for you to safely turn on and have access to your own psychic abilities. Everything begins with grounding and being safe, including having your own abilities working for you. It’s difficult to open up to those sensitive levels of being psychic if you’re afraid you’ll take on energy that might hurt you. Learn to ground, define, and protect your space first, and the rest will easily follow.

I welcome your questions and comments, and will do my best to answer your questions about the information in this article.

©Kris Cahill

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What is grounding, and what can it do for you?

Grounding is a technique you can use to make yourself feel safe and real.

When you ground yourself to something stable and neutral like the earth itself, you create a sense of peace and wellness throughout your entire being. The earth is healing for you; you come from the earth, and it is your birthright to work with the earth to heal yourself.

Because grounding makes things real, it can also make your body real. Especially when you’re going through times of great stress and anxiety, being able to ground your body has a profound effect on everything you feel, experience, have, and create for yourself. When you or your body are feeling unwell or unsafe, it’s hard to know where you are. Your energy gets scattered, you might feel completely unable to manifest or create anything you want, instead attracting uncomfortable energies that feel harmful to you.

Grounding protects you. If you’re connected to the earth by grounding yourself to it, you have a way to safely release any energies you might have picked up in your day to day life. The tool you can use to ground yourself with is called a grounding cord. This is simply a line of energy you create to connect your lower body deep into the earth.

Working with earth energy is another way to connect yourself to the earth. Being outside in nature, under the sun and standing on the earth, can help you come back to yourself and remember who you are.

Learning how to ground yourself, and practicing the technique every day, will go far towards helping you to achieve the goals you have for yourself. Grounding can help you to know who you are and be safe enough to be that, create your new creations, let go of the past, forgive and move on from old hurts.

Here’s a few suggestions on how you can learn this technique: visit my other blog, Psychic Everyday and read the many posts there about meditation and grounding. Find a grounded meditation teacher and take a meditation class that focuses on grounding. Read about the Psychic Meditation Class here.

Recorded guided meditations are now available here: Recorded Meditations.

©Kris Cahill

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Grounding is the miracle

This post was originally published at Psychic Everyday

Grounding is a way of connecting your body to the earth. By using this technique, you create more space within yourself, and open up a myriad of possibilities. Grounding is a technique that continues to grow for you, the more you practice it.

Some of what you can create for yourself includes the following:

1. Protect yourself from unwanted energies. When you consciously ground yourself, you can also release any energies you take on from others, just in the normal course of living your life. This is especially helpful if you happen to be sensitive to energy, if you work with people in a healing capacity, or work with the public a lot.

2. Peace within yourself. Agitation, stress, depression, fatigue, and anxiety do not come from your own true energy. Your own true energy, when in health within you, creates a sense of calm and peace. Grounding can help you have this within you.

3. Have access to your own abilities. When you ground yourself, you are safe enough to have your own natural abilities working for you. Your abilities include your intuition, clairvoyance, telepathy, communication, creativity, and many others.

4. Be certain about your next move. Grounding can help you clear out doubt or confusion about taking a step. Sometimes that doubt is not even yours, it comes through other people and may have nothing to do with you. By releasing that energy, you can have your own natural certainty.

5. Have permission to change. Grounding makes it safer for you to change. Even while going through times of great upheaval and change, grounding can make it easier for you to be safe while doing so.

6. Stop being a pushover. Literally, stand your ground. When you ground, it’s harder to push you in directions you don’t want to go in. It is harder to control you when you have your own grounding.

7. Heal yourself. You can use grounding to release energies that create illness, disease, fatigue. Your own true energy does not create those things. You can let go of the energies that do.

8. Trust yourself. Grounding makes it easier to know who you are, and to trust yourself. You can let go of any invalidation in the way of you having trust for yourself, when you are able to ground.

9. Sleep more soundly. Release the energy of your day before retiring for the night; you will sleep better, and wake more relaxed.

10. Know your own energy. Grounding yourself regularly will help you begin to know the difference between what is truly your energy, and what isn’t. When you have this awareness, it makes it easier for you to discern between which are your problems to solve, and which aren’t.

You can learn how to work with energy and be psychic. See my latest class schedule here.

©Kris Cahill

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