Sacral Chakra

This chakra is also known as the water, passion or sex chakra; Here lies your feelings, emotions and your creation power. Everyone is born with great creative potential, but not everyone gets to nurture those abilities in order to flourish and become the greatest version of themselves. The affirmations to use with this chakra would begin with "I feel" which symbolizes your current emotional state and/or vibrational frequency.

Awakening:

This chakra has a strong connection to your emotions and the way you feel. Acknowledge how everything is energy and your emotions is simply energy that is in motion. One major key in the awakening of this chakra relies heavily upon how well you can feel your emotions without directly identifying as them. Emotions are to be experienced rather than dwelling or holding onto them long after the circumstances already passed in "real time". Once awakened you will experience more intense emotions, experience more intimate relationships and your overall creative potential will increase.

Traits When Blocked:

You will have a fear of judgment, getting into trouble, or being “discovered” that may cause you to worry way more often than necessary. It would be difficult to genuinely experience emotional or sexual intimacy. You may also constantly have nightmares and not be able to remember or even innerstand them, along with regular dreams.

Health issues when blocked:

Any issues related to the sexual and reproductive organs can be a sign of a blocked sacral chakra. Infertility and sexual arousal disorder with either sex, as well as skipped menstrual periods in women may be a result.  

Certain feelings and emotional reactions that you experience in certain circumstances such as nervous stomach, stiffness, kidney stones, and lower back pain can all be related.

Psychological issues when blocked:

You will less likely grow up knowing how to be emotionally open as a result of experiencing an environment where emotional expression and attention seeking is discouraged. On the other hand, too much emotional energy may lead to you  becoming emotionally overwhelmed. Both results from having a parent or two who lacks internal emotional balance themselves. This can result in you withdrawing your own emotions to protect yourself, which can eventually affect your intimate relationships and general creativity in the long run.  Some children withdraw and gain a communication problem as a result of. Parents who have an overemotional attachment to them.  

Blockages can also occur later on in your adult life as well. A painful relationship or breakup can also affect the health of your sacral negatively in situations where emotional support wasn't available nor expression was offered. Sexual rejection or exploitation can also result to temporary sacral blockages.

You would have a fear of relationships, experience commitment issues, and generally be resistant to change. These individuals may come off as very cold/unemotional and only have shallow relationships without ever getting into true intimate depths. As a result of this you may grow to believe that you aren't able or even worthy of experiencing certain forms of pleasure, which is Never truly the case.

You will tend to be addicted to certain emotions and feelings, mistaking them for a part of who you are rather than just a part of your experience. A sign of sacral chakra blockages in parents can show through their inability or unwillingness to communicate or bond with their children.

Some temporary blockages can also occur from painful emotional experiences such as breakups, a disappointment connected with your creativity, or even a loss of a loved one.

Healing when blocked:

A good way to release and express yourself would be to talk about your emotions and feelings with a close friend, family member, or confidant. A general goal to keep in mind during your healing process would be to get in touch with your emotions. Taking the time for self reflection with the intention of feeling more comfortable and confident in your body will also contribute to your healing.

It would be helpful to have less boundaries in attempt to avoid making it more difficult to have close relationships. Working with a psychologist, therapist, or trained counselor can be the key to learning how to trust and truly express while connecting with others.

It is important to acknowledge that your parents are victims from their parents and that the answer will always be to acknowledge and grow rather than to blame and point fingers.

Some physical actions you can take that'll also contribute to your healing would be by surrounding yourself with the color orange in your environment, the clothing your wear and also even the foods you eat.

Traits when overloaded:

A sacral overload can present itself through an excessive sex drive, compulsive behaviors, a bipolar disorder, being too emotional, or an individual having any type of emotional dependency towards anything outside of themselves.

In some cases a sacral overload can be a temporary response to an emotional situation or simply having a poor sense of how to regulate the quest for pleasure.

Parents who have an overemotional attachment to their children can naturally cause their children to withdraw and in turn lead into a communication problem.

Health issues when Overloaded:

Some health issues can manifest through frequent urination, addictions to sex, drugs, alcohol, caffeine, or even emotional eating. Some people eat compulsively in attempt to dull strong emotions.

With women, this can lead to severe mood swings, irritability, bloating, abdominal cramps and heavy menstrual pain caused by endometriosis. With men, this can lead to a lack of focus and drive to get things done. You will tend to choose pleasure over any type of more important task related to things like keeping up with your wealth and making sure your body is healthy.

Psychological issues when overloaded:

Some signs may include Bipolar disorder, panic attacks, excessive emotionality, mood swings, and emotional dependency. When overloaded you will most likely deal with some type of addiction towards anything that'll feed into your pleasure/ease which inevitably can lead you out of balance.

A common example can be an addiction with dating apps or even pornography that is so easily accessible nowadays, making it difficult for experiencing real-life sexual partnerships and misleading by presenting different expectations to how sexual experiences should be. You might even find yourselves over indulging in casual hookups or may even be addicted to sexual experiences. High sexual arousals with little control over sexual conduct can be a strong indication of an overloaded sacral chakra.  

An overloaded sacral has the ability to consistently hinder your general progress due to addictions through your attachments to pleasure. This can result in you running into constant detours and backtracking with your mental, emotional and spiritual growth.

It will feed into your addictions and can lead to the destruction of relationships, loss of jobs, and even the loss of your health. At times, you'd engage in these addictions in order to mask or cover up a situation that may be difficult for you to face or accept when you will only overcome those situations when you face them and accept.  

Healing when overloaded:

You can try counseling for addictions, emotions, relationships, and sexual issues. It is important to balance your activities that deal with pleasure, either increasing or decreasing them. You can also drink more fluids for additional help, being that this is also known as the water chakra.

The main intention to keep in mind would be to drain out some of the excessive passionate, emotional, creative energy and make room for other kinds of energies such as grounding and spiritual energy. Although creative energy is important, it is also very essential to have the balance rather than overindulging too much on one side.