Your sacral chakra is the energy centre that is associated with your passion and creativity. It supports your ability to feel joyful, creative, energetic and to move through life with pleasure and grace.

Colour: Orange
Action: ‘I feel’ ‘I want’
Issue: Sexuality
Goal: Desire
Sense: Taste
Location: Lower abdomen, below the navel
Function: Desires, appetites, pleasures, sexuality, procreation
Associated Gland: Ovaries, testes
Body Parts: Reproductive organs, kidneys, bladder, lumbar spine, circulatory system, lymphatic system

Do you find it hard to socially interact with others? Are you finding it tricky to conceive or be to be sexually active? Do you behave like a martyr or a bully? If you’re struggling creatively or find it hard to express your emotions in a healthy manner your sacral chakra might need to be balanced.

The sacral chakra is the chakra of sweetness, pleasure, sexuality, nurture, movement and change.

A healthy and open sacral chakra means you are friendly and open with yourself, others and nature. You possess great vitality and can express empathy for others. Creativity and emotions flow with enthusiasm and you are naturally joyful and innately intuitive. You are in touch with your sexuality and have a healthy sexual union with your partner, which makes your body and spirit healthy.

Physical connection: Sensual drive and the reproductive system.

Psychological functions: This chakra is associated with your quantity
of sexual energy and your amount of love, passion and creativity.
A balanced sacral chakra means you:

• move gracefully, have emotional intelligence, the ability to experience pleasure and are able to nurture yourself and others
• are able to change and have healthy boundaries
• are trusting, expressive, creative, friendly, empathetic, have a sense of connection with others.

A deficient chakra means you have weakness or avoidance around the issues of the chakra. When our sacral chakra is deficient, we may be rigid in body or mind, exhibit poor social skills, or experience a general lack of desire.

If the sacral chakra is deficient, a person may find it hard to know what they are feeling. His or her body may be physically stiff or rigid, and will find it difficult to soften and let go. Sex may feel like a chore, or be emotionally meaningless.

Physical touch may be devoid of pleasure. Boundaries will be strong and hardened, and there may be a real fear of intimacy and change. It can be hard for a person with a deficient second chakra to feel passion, and connection with themselves or others.

Symptoms of Deficiency

• rigid in body and attitudes
• frigidity fear of sex
• poor social skills
• denial of pleasure
• excessive boundaries
• fear of change
• lack of desire, passion and excitement.

If a chakra is excessive, you overcompensate with actions to try to heal that chakra. An excessive sacral chakra can result in extreme emotions, an addiction to pleasure or sex, over-sensitivity, or a propensity for creating drama.

If the sacral chakra is excessive, we find poor or non- existent emotional and sexual boundaries, with a strong tendency to give to the point of self-depreciation. Emotions tend to be extremely strong and change quickly. With an excessive second chakra, the individual feels most alive in intense emotional states and therefore often creates dramatic highs and lows for themselves. An excess in this area can often lead to co- dependence.

Excessive Symptoms

• sexual acting out, sexual addiction
• pleasure addiction
• excessively strong emotions, ruled by emotions (hysteria, bipolar mood swings crisis junkies)
• oversensitive
• poor boundaries, invasion of others
• seductive manipulation
• emotional dependency
• obsessive attachment.

Absolutely! In fact, you can be deficient, excessive and balanced all in one day. After all, we’re all only as balanced as our last trigger, right? Check out some videos below where I’ve interviewed some amazing female entrepreneurs that share their tips to overcoming any imbalances that come up for them in their sacral chakra.

You might be out of balance if you struggle to have clear boundaries with people or if you’re prone to excessive emotional outbursts. Another characteristic is when you find it hard to overcome addictions or heal from past sexual encounters.