S1 BONUS Ep: What are Chakras?!

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Introduction to chakras. Get my course here: https://www.rachelbrady.com/chakras-mini-course-private-podcast

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Conscious but Grounded is a podcast about spirituality, high vibe living in the real world. I ask questions like, how do we connect to the magic? The spirit, the source, the universe, but with our feet firmly planted on the ground. How do we show up in a conscious way and harness that to make big, paradigm busting change in the day to day of our lives? I'm Rachel Brady, mum of three, yoga teacher and embodiment coach. This is the place where I'll be reflecting and exploring big, deep questions, all with a pinch of self deprecation, a few proper lols, and a lot of real life. Join me.

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Hello. Welcome back to Conscious But Grounded. Today's episode is a bonus episode and it is all about the chakras. And at the end of the episode, I'm gonna give you an offer to my Chakras Mini Masterclass audio course. It's a really cute, uh, seven part private podcast, so I know I'm a multitasker. I'm recording this, driving to the gym. As you know, I often record when I'm driving. Um, I like to kill two birds with one stone. I, maybe it's a neurodivergent thing. Uh, I like to walk the dog and consume something at the same time, whether it's an audio book or a podcast. And, uh, I like to do two things at once, so I, that's why I recorded the mini masterclass as a private podcast audio, so you can cook. I mean, if you don't feel into. Doing two things at once. It's also really nice to lie on the sofa and just listen to it. Like really take it in because there is a lot of instances in there where, um, I'm gonna ask you to take a pause, pause the recording and, and journal or even mentally journal, if you're out and about. It's like, just, just think about those things in your mind. Um, so I wanted to talk to you today. It, it occurs to me often when I talk about my mini masterclass course. That people don't know what chakras are like. They don't know. Uh, and so I guess my audience for this podcast is the spiritually curious, uh, you know, been on the path for a year or two, maybe, maybe longer, but sometimes I think I come across people who are so drawn to this. Work, but they're like beginners and they're like, wait, start, what's this? What's that? And I forget sometimes, um, people don't know what things are. So I wanted to do, I can't believe I've not done this episode before, um, an episode about what are chakras. Okay, so there are much bigger chakras, experts out there in the world. Uh, some authors I like to recommend are Anna. Dear Judith. Um, oh, I've forgotten the name of the woman whose book I read first on chakras, but I'm gonna put it in the show notes. Um, but I, the way I consume information about chakras is at the level at which it can be utilized. And for now, where I'm at and where you are at, this is exactly what you need to know. So I'm not gonna give. You any information that you don't need to know. So in that sense, I'm perfectly paired with you right now. Okay. You could study for years about chakras. So they are energy centers. You will sometimes hear them described as vortexes or spirals or wheels, wheels of life. And so I like to imagine them or orbs spinning orbs. There are seven main centers throughout the body, but there are many more chakras. There are chakras that go. Above us. There are chakras that go deep into the earth, but we focus mainly on the seven chakras. And as I was about to say, they are often described as, uh, you can think of them as wheels, vortexes, orbs of energy. Wheels of light. Uh, I like to think of them as wheels are all the same time pulsing and pulsating, but also spinning. But whatever they are in your mind's eye is just fine because you can even think of them as metaphors if you are listening. Into this, and you are into this spiritual work, but you are much more from a scientific, western modern background. That's not wrong. It's not right. It's just it is what it is. And I think it's also this work is not wasted on you because it's actually thinking about these things as metaphors. It's just as helpful as imagining that they are physically there or knowing that they're physically there. So one thing people always say is, well, what are chakras? If you cut somebody open, could you see their. Chakras. No. Well, no, but can you see wifi? No. It is energetic center. So if that makes sense to you. That's the first thing. That's the first thing I want you to understand. These are core energetic centers in our body and about our body, and they are uh oh, I know what that is. There's a pinging and it's'cause my big gym bag is on the seats and it's saying, put a seatbelt on me. No, but it's not a person, so I've just moved it. Okay. So yes, they're energy centered. And we're gonna go, we're gonna start at the bottom, go to the top. Um, I'm gonna list them all first, and then I'm gonna tell you a bit about them all and what they pertain to. But first, let's, let's keep within the overview. First, I want you to think of the chakras. As your body map, as your mind, body and spirit map, every single chakra relates to an area of your life, gimme an area of your life and I will tell you what, which chakra that pertains to, and this information at the highest level can go, can, might feel a bit like, whoa. That's a lot of information, but I'm gonna reiterate the most important things throughout again and again and again. Okay? So we're gonna go straight in with the root chakra. Okay? And also just to mention, you will come across chakra work when you come across things like reiki. When you come across things like yoga, they are an ancient, uh, modality, an ancient system that that is represented across many different ancient traditions and they all pick up on the same ancient wisdom. And bearing in mind, there didn't used to be in mass communication. This gives you an indication of how inherent and intuitive and how ancient this wisdom is and its body. Wisdom that many traditions, many civilizations have shared, even though there was mass, no mass communication between them. Okay, let's go back to what we were just about to do. So, root chakra, uh, the root chakra is at the base of your spine. That's the polite way to put it. The more raw way to put it is it's at your perineum. So ladies listening will know where your perineum is, especially if you've had a baby. Uh, so your perineum is the place. Between. Uh, your vagina and your anus. So that bit of muscle, that bit there, um, you know, it can tear and you have a baby. It's the root of your system. It's the deep rooted part of you. It's your psyche, it's your emotional psyche. It's your place of trust. It's your place of. Sexuality on the physical plane, the root chakra. Okay? Muara is the Sanskrit name. Don't worry about that. You're gonna forget that. Okay? It's the root chakra. Remember this root? It's red. The color is red. That is important. So when you visualize your root chakra, I want you to imagine deep red, and it can pulse. It can spin. Just imagine. Send your energy there now send your breath there. Now squeeze the air in. Are now It's the center. Sorry, it's not the center. We're gonna go to the center later. It's the basis, it's the foundation. So if you've ever done like a level psychology, you might have heard of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. It's really interesting how the chakra system directly correlates to more modern, you know, in the last couple of centuries, modes of thought around things like psychology. So Maslow's hierarchy needs the bottom of the triangle is a bit like the root chakra. It's about your security, your. Absolute foundations in life. Um, your shelter, your food, your water, your income, or lack of income, right? Uh, so it can speak to things like abundance. It can speak to things like trust. It can speak to things like, uh, if you are in an abusive relationship, it can speak to things like your sex life or lack of, you know, it can speak to parts of us that have experienced sexual trauma or any trauma, and specifically familial trauma. Uh, so anything that relates to the tribe, you know, way back when we were parts of tribes and if we were ostracized from the tribe, it meant death. So no wonder we're frightened of, uh, insulting people or putting our boundaries or our family members because our body, our lizard brain still operates from, you know, a thousand years ago when, or more, you know, a couple thousand years ago when we would've been ostracized from the tribe before speaking out. So the root sha. The sense of belonging, the sense of being money, sexuality, basic foundation. That's what we're gonna talk about today. That's it. We're not gonna go any deeper. It's red, it's the ruby chakra. And after I've gone through each chakra and what they mean, we'll touch on a few little examples of how to balance them and how to manage them. And that really is what the course covers though. Uh, and then we're gonna go up to the next chakra. So remember there's seven main chakras. Uh, the next chakra is a sacral chakra. So this is like. I just think of this as the one work that most women need help in, right? So it's orange. Okay? It's faa, you won't remember that. Don't worry. Uh, orange, orange, orange, orange. Think about that. Sacral chakra sacral. So it's, it's a few inches below your navel. It's the womb space. So even if you've had a hysterectomy, you've still got a sacral chakra. It's in that area. Okay? So this part of us speaks to the next level up. So if our root chakra is kind of, so. Ordered and okay. And we've got our foundations and we kind of feel pretty safe in our homes. And we've got, you know, we're not worried about where the next meal comes from. We have people in our lives who are there and we trust them. Um, we have a healthy level of sexuality to some degree. You know, not everything needs to be off the chart to balance the chakra. It just needs to be fairly healthy.'cause we we're all human at the end of the day. Remember that? And so the sacral chakra is the next one up. Think of them in levels, but they also all work together. So the sacral chakra is orange and it's. About creativity, it's also about sexuality, but more in an energetic and emotional sense. It's about imagination. It's about going with the flow. So whereas the root chakra is all about earth, the sagal chakra is all about water and it's going with the flow. Uh, so I go with the flow is like a very so chakra energy. So when, when you think about people who are creative and imaginative and playful, that is flow. Low energy, like look at how children play. They don't plan, they just play. This is creativity. This is so chakra energy. Okay, we're gonna go to the next one. Or else, if I spend this long on every single one, you, they won't need, you won't need to listen to the course. Uh, okay, so we're gonna go to the next one, which is the solar plexus manipu. So solar plexus is the core. Think stoic, crunches core fire. Sunshine fire is the energy element. Of this chakra. It's yellow, yellow, yellow. So think this is an area where, this is the chakra that I often struggle in. Um, I have oh, terrible core strength. I shouldn't say that about myself. I'm getting better, but I, um, I struggle in this area. If I put weight on, it's around this area. It relates to self-worth, it relates to self-esteem, power. Uh, I am enough type of energy. I am worthy type of energy. So we're leveling up again. So we've got. Our root chakra, we, our foundation, we've got ours. Chakra, we'll, playful, imaginative. The next one is like, yeah, I'm gonna go get it. I'm gonna go get it. It's motivation, it's work, it's fire energy, solar plexus energy, and that is the core. It's a few inches above the navel. I'm gonna go up next one to the heart chakra. Very easy to remember where the heart chakra is and what it's about. The easiest one, it's everyone's favorite. Um, the heart chakra and a harter chakra, it's green. Or sometimes people, I'd say it's pink, but really it's green. Uh, and the heart chakra is exactly what you would think it is. It's compassion, it's relationships. And it's also, we'll talk more about this, uh, at the end, if I remember, but the harsh chakra is the chakra that connects the lower chakras to the upper chakras. So the lower chakras root sacral solar are chakras of the earthly plain, the. Heart chakra is the great connector. Okay, so it's the Anna Harter chakra. It's green. It's all about compassion. It's about love. It's about oneness. It's about do we see ourselves in each other? It's about how do I show up in this relationship? And the heart chakra, Anna Harter Green, think about that. It's exactly where you think it was. It's in the heart. But rather than going to the left where your heart actually is, it's, it's the tapping point in the middle of your breast, in the middle of the nipples, that chest area there. Okay, the next one, now we're going up into the spiritual chakras. Okay. The higher chakras doesn't mean they're better like the name of this podcast, conscious but Grounded. The conscious is the higher three, and the grounded is the bottom three, and we need both, right? So we're going up to the next group of chakras. The next one after the heart. Is the throat. So the throat chakra, very, very important chakra. It's all about, as you'd imagine, speaking your truth, expressing yourself in the world, having boundaries, expressing confidently, being clear, concise, not peeking too much either. You know, you can be overactive in these chakras. You can be too fricking compassionate. You can be too, um, expressive. You can talk too much. All these things. So it's about. Balanced, right? Not too much, not too little. That is the throat chakra, and it is blue as well. Okay, so we're gonna go up to to the next one, the third eye chakra. In between the brows, obviously, where the pla, obviously where the placement is, right in between the brows. You can tap there a little bit now, just. To awaken it. This is all about intuition, okay? And it's indigo. The color is indigo. It's indigo, it's indigo. So intuition, and also very much on a spiritual plane of intuition. I'm drinking coffee, please, excuse me. Um, so really important chakra, one of my favorites. It's about inner vision. And so for years I didn't trust my inner vision. I won't go too much into this, but I talk about the. It's a lot on the course. Um, I think listening to this podcast and embracing this part of yourself is an example of working on that kind of third eye chakra area, knowing that there's more, so seeing beyond what's physically in front of us, right? Uh, that type of thing. And then we're going up from the third eye chakra to the final chakra for the purposes of what we're doing here. The crown chakra beautiful. And it's purple. Violet. Some people also say white. Some people say gold, but really it's violet. And if you struggle to remember the colors, it's the colors of the rainbow. So it's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. I think I got that right. Uh, Roy de Biff. Um, yes, the crown chakra. It's all about the connection to the divine, the connection, and if you're not religious or spiritual in that sense, connection to nature. Connection to energy, connection to the unseen. Connection to awe. So standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon, connecting with the magic of the land that is crown chakra energy. But also you might have already noticed if you're very astute, uh, so crown chakra connection to the bigger picture, connection to God, whatever that means to you. Uh, so you may have already noticed, and this is the thing I want us to talk about, just to, just to bring this to. Your attention.'cause this starts to really land the chakras for me. Each chakra. So the heart is the middle, right? And if we span outwards or go from top to bottom, the crown chakra relates very much to the root chakra. Okay? Con foot grounded the, and let's go down and up. So the third eye chakra relates very much to the sacral chakra. Yeah. Trust your gut intuition. And then let us go down and up. One more. So the, where are we at? The throat chakra relates very much to the solar plexus chakra. Yeah, I feel worthy and I can speak up. And then they all meet at the heart chakra, so that starts to land the connection. So we need our feet on the ground in these earthly chakras, but we also need to be looking up at the sky and appreciating the consciousness and the divine. So that is my little intro to chakras. Um, I will post two books below that I love on the chakras. Um, and my offer to you today is my chakra. Chris Healing Private Podcast. It sold originally when I did it live on a weekly release basis with a WhatsApp group for 66 pounds. It's been on the site for a while, for 22 pounds. I don't promote it enough. I don't sell it enough. It's a really lovely introduction to spiritual work. It's a lovely way to kind of get to know me and how I work. Um, it's. Got the biggest thing it's got in there that I would say is very practical ways for you to balance each of these chakras, like very grounded ways, including the food to eat, the mantra, to say the, it is got a meditation on each one. It's got journal notes on each one. It's got a cheat sheet to download, so you can save that to your phone and just be like, wait, which chakra is this again? Uh, it's got, it's everything you need to know to move forward. It's got crystal recommendations, essential oils also at the start of the recording, uh, in the back end of the program. There's a link to buy chakra oils as well, which you are. I would love that if you did that, you'd be my customer in the oils, and I could advise you over WhatsApp voice notes whenever and whatever you need to know about the oils. That also comes with an essential oils for the chakras PDF Guide as well. Uh, and I am selling this at seven pounds, which is ridiculous, but I just want to get this work out into the world. So go on to the Goddess Codes, uh, which, which the mini course is called. Page and enter in the Code Goddess seven. So Goddess All uppercase, no gaps. The number seven. And that will get you, I think it's the 15 pounds, 20 pounds, 22. Pounds off, um, the current pricing on that, and that will mean that you can get the whole thing for seven pounds. So go ahead and enjoy the Goddess Codes course. This is a bonus episode at the end of season one, just to wrap it up. Uh, and I will see you back here for season two when I'm gonna be talking all about the midlife portal and emergence. Okay? The emergence of your next iteration, your next best self, spiritually. Spiritually connected and the work that I'm doing and the offerings that I have around that. I love you. Please leave a comment below. Bye.