The Work of the Base Chakra — Spotify from the CEC Library

Anyone interested in spirituality, astral projection, reincarnation, aura, and laying on of hands needs to know that energy is the foundation of everything; and when we speak of energy, we speak of chakras. The chakra is therefore fundamental.

Some call them "chakras," using the Eastern pronunciation; here, we will refer to them as chakras. Chakras are centers of force, vortices distributed throughout our bodies, in our vehicles of manifestation. You have a physical body and an etheric double; this double has the same shape as the physical body and possesses chakras, which are the vitalizers of the physical body. If you observe the spiritual body—the psychosoma—you will also see chakras, whose function is to charge and vitalize that body; otherwise, it would degenerate and be lost. These chakras absorb energy from the environment or immanent energy from the universe and thus revitalize themselves.

Chakras are present in every vehicle. They are present in the golden double, which is the body that connects the astral body to the mental body, and in the mental body, which is also a vehicle and possesses chakras. But we will discuss the chakra of the etheric double—which, incidentally, is the one most often addressed. When we pick up a magazine at a newsstand, the illustrations show the chakras of the etheric double because they are the most visible to people with a lower degree of clairvoyance.

To see the chakras of the spirit, for example, a high degree of clairvoyance is required; the chakras of the mental body require even greater clairvoyance. As one moves upward along the scale of vehicles, the subtler level of energy requires a greater capacity for perception: that which is more rarefied becomes much more difficult to perceive, and the mental body is the most rarefied vehicle of manifestation.

Let us therefore discuss the chakras of the etheric double. We will consider seven principal chakras here, although some philosophies, religions, and sects recognize six major chakras and others recognize nine. They are: the base chakra, which is the sexual chakra; the spleen chakra, which is located in the region of the spleen; the navel chakra; the heart chakra; the laryngeal chakra, in the region of the larynx in the neck; the frontal chakra, between the eyebrows; and the crown chakra, above the head.

These chakras are considered major, meaning those with the greatest capacity for capture of energy, but they have a counterpart. For example, when working with the heart chakra, people usually show the frontal part, although another chakra is located at the back and complements it. In the case of the laryngeal chakra, there is also a nuchal chakra situated behind it. The posterior part of the body thus contains the chakras that complement the frontal ones. But we will discuss the ones most often cited, beginning with the base chakra.

Each chakra works with a certain number of energies from the environment or immanent energies. When we speak of the base chakra, we are referring to the sexual chakra, which places us in contact with the Earth, birth, life, physical contact, and reproduction. You may wonder why people say that this is connected with life and reproduction. I will explain it in the simplest possible way. If you are having sexual intercourse, the base chakra accelerates to the point of orgasm—that is, it reaches maximum acceleration according to its capacity and vitality. Thus, the densest energy that a human being can produce is the energy of the base chakra, which corresponds to the energy of the Earth and to material and physical things.

Imagine that when you embrace someone, the base chakra is what becomes most active. Why? Otherwise, you would not even feel the embrace. It is contact. When you kiss someone, you may also be working with other chakras, because one does not work with only one while excluding the others. Nevertheless, the base chakra is certainly active, without necessarily implying a sexual level. The frequencies at which it can work include physical contact, affection, and fraternity. As you increase this contact and draw closer to the other person at a more intense level of exchange, a physical act, a sexual act, then occurs. It can therefore be understood that the chakra works at several levels.

If you move away from a person—and this is interesting for those listening to us—if you have that tendency to escape from the environment and become unable to deal with certain people, the base chakra completely rejects the environment's energies: it does not absorb them and refuses to do so. This refusal does not occur because the chakra has individual consciousness or chooses on its own; it occurs because you, through your emotional processes and your internal process, cause it to assume a level of activity at which it does not want to absorb the environment's energies. You then have to leave the environment. This is called escape from the environment.

Psychology uses the concept of escape from the environment: the person feels out of place, like a fish out of water, or cannot deal with a certain situation or another person, and a desperate desire to leave the place arises. The base chakra rejects all of the environment's energies; the person feels great discomfort and compelled to move away. You will also come to understand your energetic processes. The base chakra also works in the realm of fantasy, daydreaming, erotic daydreaming, and sexual daydreaming. Because it follows our evolutionary processes, if you are more evolved, your base chakra works in one way; if you are less evolved, it wanders through a space without direction or a plan for your instinctive desires and needs. That space is immense.

As a result, your life also becomes filled with energies from everything around you, and you begin to enter a process of conflict, feel uncomfortable, and experience many pains in your body—because you are working with energies that you cannot distinguish and, above all, cannot define. When a person has a more advanced level of energy work, they ultimately filter the energies they receive through the base chakra, manage those energies, their sexual life, and their emotional life; everything becomes well balanced within them, and they do not make mistakes arising from neediness—because neediness leads to an endless path, a path of unending mistakes.

I am speaking about the major chakras, the principal ones, and specifically about the activity of the base chakra, the root chakra. This chakra places us in contact with the Earth, allows relationships with others and touch; if it does not function, touching others will not exist, and we will not feel it.

If the base chakra does not function properly, the person does not taste food and may lose weight because they stop experiencing pleasure in eating; food seems like unsalted chayote mousse, and they simply feel nothing. Fátima asks whether, when someone has the flu and undergoes this process of not perceiving the taste of food, it may also be caused by the chakra. In some cases, yes, but not always; at other times, it is an inhibition of the sensory system itself. In certain situations, a person's base chakra may enter a process of imbalance while the other chakras try to perform energy work, leaving this part disabled. However, this does not always occur.

This occurs more readily in people who have reached a certain level of evolution and whose base chakras function only enough to maintain contact with the Earth. Over time, they lose some functions that become unnecessary; for example, tasting becomes dispensable. Gandhi did not taste food: he ate out of necessity, without the pleasure of savoring it. In reality, he consumed the same baby food every day and remained very thin.

It is possible to teach people to partially deactivate the base chakra, causing them to lose weight naturally. Other important figures also did not experience taste. Giordano Bruno, for example, never knew the taste of pizza or Italian foods such as salami and the like. Saint Francis of Assisi is another figure who never experienced taste. We thus follow the trail of people who ascended above the heart chakra.

This knowledge comes from research in the mental body. Through this research, we work, discover, and record. When an occurrence like this is perceived, we begin to analyze people around us who have some kind of difficulty. Even when considering another context, as in the case of a person with depression, when analyzing a group of individuals under study, one perceives that the functioning of the base chakra is very similar. A person with depression loses a great deal of energy through the base chakra, which prevents sexual pleasure because the person cannot retain or accumulate energies. It is essential to accumulate one's own energies and then use them as needed. Energy is dispersed through fear and emotional difficulties.

The emotional dimension is a decisive factor in the work of the chakras. A person with any emotional difficulty also impedes work at the energetic frequencies and the capture and exteriorization of each chakra. The base chakra, which places us in contact with the Earth, is vitally important to the physical body, allowing a person to feel their body, remain strong, and deal with different situations; it is fundamental. Working with this chakra properly is therefore essential. Imagine that an emotional difficulty causes the energy of the base chakra to be lost: the person will always be weak, very lazy, and unwilling to do things.

It is the case of women who say, "Goodness, I cannot experience sexual pleasure; I do not want anything to do with it," or of men who cannot experience it either. These are not people who are stressed and tired from excessive work, although that is also a problem to consider. Life causes us stress, but I am referring to those whose routine involves only the most basic amount of work, who work little or not at all and still cannot do anything. In this case, there is a genuine problem involving energy depletion through the base chakra.

This is interesting because if you learn how each chakra works, you also begin to improve your life. We have an unhappy life because we do not have enough energy even to talk with others, we have difficulties in relationships—such as playing, telling a joke, or being in a good mood—and we lose energy without knowing how or why, because we also lack knowledge. We do lack knowledge; that is true. Therefore, this is important.

Have you ever seen people who, when approaching others, cannot give them a happy embrace? Wagner Borges usually arrives and embraces people, as does Irineu. I am referring to those who are close to us, such as Evaldo, who always organizes parties and transmits the energy of contact, embraces, and affection, something essential for us. Sometimes, however, we do not have even the slightest desire to approach someone. Imagine the situation of lack and devitalization: depression, for example, is the devitalization of the base chakra.

You need to reflect: to balance this, it is often necessary to invest in therapy that addresses the emotional aspect, resolves that part, and allows you to begin functioning. It is also possible to follow the path of energies or knowledge, although the latter may be longer. There is always a way for us to be balanced, happy, healthy, and able to live fully.