Addiction is powerful — and often, it feels good. Whether it’s a substance or behavior, certain addictions can create an intense rush, elevate confidence, reduce inhibitions or boost energy. However, this rush doesn’t last long. Shortly afterward, it all comes crashing down, leaving you with an intense low feeling.
Addiction can negatively affect your body’s chakras, which are known as your energy centers. Healing these energy centers can help you restore balance, peace and health as you recover.
How Addiction Upsets Our Energy System
When addiction takes hold of a person, it disrupts the body’s energy system, often in ways you can’t immediately see. Your body is its own energy field, and your life force flows through a series of energy centers or chakras interspersed throughout it. Addiction and energy centers are connected because engaging in addictive behaviors and substances has a profound effect on your entire energy system.
Naturally, as spiritual beings, our bodies, minds, souls and spirits desire to stay in balance. When they’re not — when there’s toxicity and obstruction in our energy system — it makes us feel bad. Too often, we think of addiction as a shortcut to feeling better again. However, this quick-fix approach makes us feel worse and harms us on a deep, energetic level that puts us even more out of touch with our true, best selves.
Because all of our systems are interconnected, what hurts one hurts the other. Damage to your energetic system can show up in all other forms of physical and mental ailments. To better understand your energy system, let’s learn about chakras.
Understanding Your Chakras
Chakras are your body’s energy centers, and they help regulate parts of yourself, such as your emotions, organ functions, immune system, creativity and overall well-being. Your body has seven chakras, starting at the base of your spine and ending at the crown of your head. Ancient and spiritual texts associate each chakra with a specific color, vibrational frequency and function that it affects.
Addiction impacts these energy centers, disrupting our energetic connectivity and flow, creating a broken state in which we’re vulnerable to all kinds of harm and more likely to seek comfort in behavioral addictions or substances. All kinds of addictions can upset the chakra system, and substances such as cocaine can impact it more intensely. Healing from substance addiction involves restoring these energetic pathways and strengthening our connection to our higher selves.
Root Chakra
People believe that the root chakra is an individual’s foundation. It’s where your health and empowerment stem from, allowing your overall well-being to grow. This energy center is the source of your commitment, stability and routines. When it’s healthy, it provides the following benefits:
- Presence and focus
- A sense of security
- Responsibility and reliability
- Feeling connected to the self and others
- A strong survival instinct
- The ability to care for oneself
When the root chakra is out of balance, it can sink you deeper into unhealthy habits, making you feel stuck. Some symptoms of an imbalanced root chakra are the following:
- Anxiety or stress
- Depression
- Constipation
- Exhaustion or lethargy
- Rushing between tasks or an inability to start a task
- Distractibility
- Difficulty sleeping
- Low motivation
Addiction is often connected to an overactive root chakra, which is associated with an unhealthy need for things. People tend to feel overly fearful or jittery when this chakra is imbalanced. It can also manifest as overeating, gaining excessive weight, feeling lethargic and worrying about change. An overactive root chakra can make someone feel like holding on longer to situations or people, which can be more detrimental than beneficial to your well-being.
Solar Plexus Chakra
The solar plexus chakra is the source of your spiritually guided willpower, or the part of you that puts you in greater control of your life. It’s related to your adrenaline and metabolism, as well as your fears and anxieties — all areas that are heavily impacted by cocaine use. A balanced solar plexus chakra typically makes you feel:
- Confident
- Empowered
- Worthy
- Purposeful
- Ready to face challenges
When your solar plexus chakra is imbalanced, you most likely experience the following negative feelings:
- Lack of purpose or control
- Powerlessness
- Self-doubt
Sacral Chakra
According to ancient texts, the sacral chakra represents and regulates our creativity, pleasure and sexuality. A balanced sacral chakra makes you feel the following moods and emotions:
- Passion
- Playfulness
- Friendliness
- Sexual fulfillment
- Optimistic mood
- Natural flirtatiousness
- Greater intimacy
- Increased intuition
An imbalanced sacral chakra causes the following:
- Emotional isolation or numbness: With an imbalanced sacral chakra, you may feel emotionally drained or numb. This can cause you to lose touch with your emotions and turn to unhealthy distractions such as substance use, social media scrolling, excessive online gaming or a poor diet.
- Repressed creativity: Since an imbalanced sacral chakra can make you distract yourself with empty activities, it also hinders your creativity. When you’re watching television or scrolling through an app, you neglect the part of your energy that wants to create, play with new ideas and have fun.
- Sexual dysfunction: When the sacral chakra is imbalanced, you may find it challenging to experience sexual intimacy.
If you have an overactive sacral chakra, you may crave power or act with manipulation. Conversely, an underactive sacral chakra can make you feel shy, guilty or lost. You may fear social interaction or worry excessively about what others think about you.
Chakra Healing and Addiction
Chakra healing can help you develop a healthier foundation for your recovery. This can help restore physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological imbalances caused by engaging in types of addictive behavior, such as excessive shopping, gambling or taking addictive substances like cocaine.
You can heal the following chakras with various healthy habits and activities:
Healing Your Root Chakra
Balancing the root chakra is primarily about grounding yourself and building a sense of stability. A person can feel secure and rooted in life when this energy center is aligned. You can heal your root chakra with the following practices:
- Meditations
- Breathwork
- Movement
- Ritual
- Sound
- Touch
- Affirmations
These practices can help establish a strong foundation for emotional and physical stability, allowing you to feel more capable of facing life’s challenges without relying on addictive habits for comfort.
Balancing the Solar Plexus Chakra
Healing practices for the solar plexus chakra are similar to the root chakra’s healing practices. However, they are slightly different because the solar plexus is related to the sun and the navel. Because of this, you can balance your solar plexus with activities and practices related to the sun, the color yellow and the torso.
To restore balance in this chakra, you can engage in activities that invoke energy and confidence, such as the following:
- Yoga poses with twisting motions, such as a supine spinal twist or a seated spinal twist
- The sun salutation yoga pose
- Meditative candle glazing
- Short meditations in the sun while wearing high-SPF sunscreen
- Cardio exercise
- Nourishing food
These practices help empower your inner strength, allowing you to feel more responsible and motivated to reach your goals. In terms of chakra healing for addiction recovery, these practices can help you embrace self-confidence and resist unhealthy urges to help you stay in control.
How to Heal Your Sacral Chakra
Engaging in a creative hobby or activity can help you heal your sacral chakra. The creative activity should be something you enjoy, and it’s important to avoid perfectionism. You don’t need to be an artist or good at what you do — the only goal is to activate the creative part of yourself. You can heal the sacral chakra by doing these practices:
- Painting
- Sketching
- Singing
- Taking a dance class
- Cooking a new recipe
- Writing a short story
When it comes to chakra healing for addiction recovery, engaging in creative practices helps you feel a sense of happiness about other things in life before addiction. They help you appreciate the little things, which allows you to feel grateful despite going through ups and downs in life.
Partake in anything that you’re passionate about. Allow yourself to make mistakes and engage in creative activities without judgment or expectations. Soothing sounds and chanting mantras can also activate, energize and restore harmony in the sacral chakra.
Holistic and Complete Chakra Healing for Addiction Recovery
Addiction can stem from energetic blockages in the chakras, such as in the root and sacral chakras, which can make us feel insecure, unworthy or emotionally disconnected. Chakra healing and addiction recovery go hand in hand, as healing these energy centers helps reduce the emotional causes that may drive addictive behavior and unhealthy use of substances.
While many people commonly experience periods of sobriety between addiction, you might return to addiction if you don’t heal energetically. Once you address the energetic disruptions caused by addiction, intense cravings to engage in unhealthy behaviors may begin to fall away. Activities such as meditation and yoga are holistic approaches that support the journey to recovery, allowing you to build lasting inner peace. Chakra healing helps you focus on self-awareness and spiritual balance, which is also comforting to those who prefer a nonreligious approach to recovery.
This holistic approach fosters resilience, inner peace and emotional balance, which are necessary to maintain long-term recovery. When practiced consistently, chakra healing and addiction recovery can create a profound and lasting transformation that helps you become a healthier and happier being.
Heal From Addiction Holistically at The Sanctuary at Sedona
Addiction recovery involves addressing the whole person — mind, body and spirit. Healing your chakras can help you return to your true self and restore your overall well-being. The Sanctuary offers integrative, holistic addiction recovery treatments that include healing the chakras. Our approach combines various healing practices such as yoga, movement, sound healing, meditation, nutritious food and expressive art therapy.
At The Sanctuary, our non-12 step approach rejects self-defeating beliefs that perpetuate victimhood and lead to self-fulfilling lifelong addiction. We understand the powerful connection between our thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and we use this knowledge to influence our lives positively. By challenging our beliefs and learning true self-love and self-empowerment, we can fully recover and create our own destinies. Consider chakra healing for addiction recovery with us. You can contact us online or call us at (877) 710 3385 to learn more about integrative addiction recovery and how you can heal.
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