BALANCING PRACTICE
Remedy: Honor Your Feet
To really stabilize and harmonize your psychic and emotional energy, massage and care for your feet. Among lovers, it’s a beautiful exchange of care. In antiquity, washing and oiling feet someone's feet was one of the highest forms of honor. Mary Magdalene washed Jesus' feet with her hair. For yourself, massage your feet by starting at the ball of your foot and working toward the heel, and then concentrate on your toes. As an added bonus, schedule a monthly pedicure. And this goes for men as well as women!
Remedy: Keep Living Things In Your Home
One of the loveliest ways to begin to create a sound foundation is to introduce live things into your home. These can be birds and fish, cats and dogs, and other small animals, as well as plants. Live things create an alive, welcoming and joyous environment to come home to. They can brighten even the bleakest day. In addition, the routines required to keep plants and animals alive and well have a grounding effect on you.
Ritual: Salt Your home
Because rituals speak directly to the subconscious mind, here’s an ancient one for grounding your home that I learned from my eastern European friends. When they want to clear away negativity, they simply throw a little salt throughout the house, including every entrance, every window, all the corners and closets. When you do this, you needn’t be excessive. A little pinch will do the trick. This ritual may seem a bit "out there," but if you try it, you may be surprised at how effective it is. Salt properties are grounding. Don't we use the expression “salt of the earth” for meaning someone solid?
RESTORATION
When you are Slightly Imbalanced In Your Foundation Chakra
Organize your drawers
Thoroughly clean your house
Sleep with a hot water bottle
Wear good socks
Wear well-made, solid shoes
Take off your shoes when entering your home
Take a kick-boxing or aerobic dance class or rent a kick-boxing or aerobic dance
video and follow along
Carry a bloodstone (found at a local rock shop) in your pocket and hold it when
you feel shaky
Rub Vicks Vaporub on your feet and then put on warm socks
Lay on the ground or roll down a hill
Go to bed earlier
Eat one balanced, home cooked meal a day
Wear something red (red is the color of the first chakra)
When You Are Moderately Imbalanced
Cook; baking bread and peeling potatoes are especially grounding
Work in the garden
Keep live things in your home; fish, plants, pets, nice people
Set the breakfast table for yourself before bed
Go for a long walk in nature at least once a week
Have a picnic
Tell the truth
Honor your agreements and commitments
Eat beets, turnips, potatoes, carrots and other root vegetables
When you have a Major Imbalance --
Join a support group such as AA, Al-Anon, or Mankind Project (a men's mentoring
group)
Get regular massages with a certified massage therapist for two to three months,
or go to the local massage therapy training school and volunteer for free
massages by one of the students
Take a workshop in self-love and self-care such as The Avatar, or The Hoffman
Process
See a therapist on a regular basis
Join an inspiring church
Take a class on healthy cooking
Get a pet
Make amends to those you've cheated
Take a gardening course
Get to know your neighbors
Remodel your home
Spend time with your family
Establish comforting routines
PRAYER
I am grounded and calm. I am rooted to the earth. I am welcome, wanted and completely supported by the Universe.
From Sonia Choquette s work on Chakra balancing
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