Welcome to Demystify Magic with Molly and Madison. I'm Molly, a former skeptic turned full time energy healer and teacher. And I'm Madison, a born and raised witch running my family's crystal shop. And we're here to explore all things woo through the lens of both science and spirituality, so that you can find the moments of magic in your everyday life and create an intentional spiritual practice.
So if that's what you're in to find a cozy spot. Take a deep breath and let's demystify some magic. How do you do today? Howdy doody friends. Madison has a suitcase behind her and a plant that looks like it's seen better days. Listen, we're not allowed to comment on the state of the Union with the plants. How is your mental health?
You know, it's actually really good. The state of the plants also actually has to do with my magic moment. So. Okay, great. We'll get there. We'll get there. And we're going to get some explanation. Today we are continuing our Chuck Grassley Aries with the sacral chakra. One of my favorites definitely in the top seven. But I'm very excited to talk about this one because I think it's a really important one and one that can bring a lot of clarity.
So before we dive into it, oh, I have one announcement before we dive into magic moments. And that is registration for Reiki Training. Reiki one the Science of Self-healing opens to the waitlist on August 2nd, 2024. So if you have been listening to the pod for a while, you know, last time I opened registration, it sold out in less than a half an hour to the waitlist.
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You should do it. I highly recommend highly recommend. What was your magic moment? Okay, so baseline magic moment. A huge manifestation came to fruition for me this week in that I got the keys to my new house. I live in Saint Petersburg now. this is something that I've wanted for a really long time. I'm very excited. It's like the best.
That's why my plants. That's what I'm saying. This is why my plants are in a bit of a disarray. Is because I've been moving. And so they mean they haven't gotten, like, the most attention. Also, I've had to shut my office door because drew now lives with me. And his cat is she's a truffle pig for things that will kill her, like loves to eat plastic, loves to nibble on plants.
And so I have to shut the door. And I don't know if you know anything about ADHD, but if I can't see it, it's not there. Yeah, yeah, I want a t shirt that says I'm a truffle pig for things that will kill me. That would make such a good shirt. I'll get right on that. And it's just a picture of her.
Yeah. but the fun story that I actually very specifically did not tell you when this happened yesterday, because I wanted to tell you on the podcast because it was so spooky and weird. So I got the keys to this house two days ago yesterday. Anthony, friend of the podcast, if you haven't listened to his episode, you should go listen to it.
you've probably heard him mentioned about 150 times, but he came over to the house because now he lives like just a couple minutes away from me, which is so fun, dude. And we our task yesterday was like cleaning out the garage. So I had, like, touched every nook and cranny of this garage, like, just getting, you know, shit out that was left behind by the people who used to live there.
So it's like empty, right? Anthony takes one step into the garage. It's like the end of our little tour and finds a cabinet that we had not opened. because there's like shelving, whatever. And there's these cabinets on top of the garage and they, like, just blend in. he goes, oh my God, did you notice that these open opens it up?
There's a box filled with whoever used to live there before me. Like all of her sentimental items, every high school year, like every year, but from every school she's ever been to. Oh, her diplomas. Oh, my God. And some, like, jewelry from, like, it seems like just from, like, other family members. Whatever. So I was able to get in contact with her and, like, get it to her.
Yay! But isn't that so wild that my. I invite my psychic friend over to my house and he is a truffle pig? Yeah, for stuff with energy surrounding it. Like stuff with sentimental value of like, you know, energetic. It doesn't shock me at all. I want Anthony to come to my house and do that, because I have lost things in this house that I feel like he'd be able to find.
I'm sure he would. That's a new service unlocked for him. Yeah. Anthony, help me find my favorite blue lace agate I lost four years ago somewhere in my house. It's the size of my pinky fingernail. He would love to do it. I know, just him walking around with the pendulum. What he's like. Why do you have a dead mouse?
All right. What was your magic moment this week? Okay, I just texted you before this because I feel like all of my magic moments have had to do with my dog or books lately, and I, unfortunately. And I'm not going to change that. It is what it is. You know what it is? It is what it is.
Yeah. This has been like your magic. Six months. My magic six months. And I have a Hercules update. We've been going to training every other week. We go to this place in, in our area, and he basically, like, practices meeting dogs at this place. Like, his trainer Mike will, like, walk out with the dog and we'll, like, practice walking, you know, in opposite ends of the parking lot, and then we'll get closer.
Herc will get a little butt sniff. The first couple times we did this, he was like, going for the jugular. He's like, I don't even want to sniff the. But I just want to hug, go for blood. And so we've been working really hard on teaching him that dogs are not a threat, but he still he really, really struggles when dogs are aggressive at him.
Like, if we go, go for a walk and a dog like starts barking at him or lunging at him, he will just like he'll go in a fight or flight mode. And yeah, we have to just like drag him out of there. And so we were at training last week. I'm so proud of him. We walked him with three different dogs.
The first dog was being Stinky and Herc was not having it like this little dog was like just being kind of a jerk. And they'd met before. He was just like the dog was just like, tired, had a long day or whatever. And so he, like, lunged at Herc and Herc instead of responding, just like, put his ear ears back and walked back towards me.
Shay didn't fight a dog. And then he met two more dogs. And the third dog he, like, was buddies with. Like, they were just like, we weren't even, like, tight leash holding them. They were just like, walking around, sniffing stuff together. Like, there is totally, totally relaxed. Was like how he is with buddy. I was like, I love him.
So I could have cried. It was so. It was so huge. It was like such a big win. If you if you listen to the pod for the last six months, Hercules, he's really, really struggled with dog aggression and got into a bit of a, a tussle in January that resulted in a court case. And it's just been a long, long, long road to get here.
And so we're so proud of him. And I love my little special needs boys so much. I'm proud of him. And I'm proud of you because you've put in a lot of work. Oh my God, have I. And that's very much a testament to how much you have, like, taken care of him and been the best owner that he deserves.
So proud of you, bestie. You know, he's like sometimes I feel like I have a toddler. I've never had a toddler, so I'm sure there's, parents rolling their eyes at that. But it's it's been. Yeah, it's I literally feel like a soccer mom some weeks because I'm, like, dragging him from like that appointments to. Oh, yeah, training to get his toenails on to, you know, taking him on his training walks.
I'm very appreciative of your journey with Herc because it gives me so much needed perspective on why I should not get a dog. See? Okay, I thought Woody with special needs when we first got him because he's just, like, nervous. He's a nervous boy. He's a nervous Nellie. He's scared of trash cans. So that level of nervousness, yeah.
But, What? He's like a little angel compared to Herc. I love. I love Herc to pieces. I love him, but I think the reason he came into my life is because I have the time and the energy to deal with this, so. Yeah. So I'm feeling really good about his progress. He's still going to be in training.
We're going to be practicing with some barky dogs, to see if we can get him to stop pulling on the leash when we walk by. Dogs that bark. So I'm excited. So fun. I love that this is, the adult idea of fun. Now. Yeah. I'm like, I'm so excited to take my dog to test him with barking dogs.
I know, but it's just so cute because I'm just so proud of him. He's just like, he just looks at me. He's like, mom, why is that dog barking at me? You really are a solid, I really am, I really am, I? If you ever run into me in the street, just ask me for pictures of my kids.
I will show you all of her videos and pictures. All right. Ready to dive into the sacral chakra? I guess if we must. Are you sure you don't want to have a dog in moving podcast? I mean, we could. I feel like people would listen to it. It's the interesting part. So sacral Chakra, one of my favorites. This is located around the hips.
So last week we talked about the root base the spine. If you skipped that episode I swear to God, go back and listen to it. I think this was like the most riled up I've seen. Molly in a while. I if you skip the root, I will come and find you. Just know that will sense it. We'll know if you skip that episode.
You'll know. We'll know. We'll be able to look at the downloads and see there's a spike in this one. And we'll go, no. And then we'll just take it away until you all listen to the root. We'll hold it hostage. Yeah, we will, because it's for your own good. Okay. But assuming that if you're still listening, you have done your root work, you.
You're stable. Your foundation, it's solid. Now we can move up the house. Okay, so the sacral chakra is right around your hips in a lot of people say it's like, you know, they get very specific, you know, it's two inches below your belly button, but I'm just like, it's your hips, it's your hips. It's like the sacral bone, which is like the flat triangular bone at the base, your spine that essentially connects your hips to your spine.
That's your sacral. That's the region where your sacral chakra is. And we we know that this chakra is connected to, at least through the endocrine gland to your sexual organs, which have two functions, right? Pleasure and procreation. And a lot of times people think of this as like fertility, which yeah, that can be, you know, an aspect of it.
But I also think of procreation as like creation of ideas, giving birth to, you know, what you want your life to look like. What are you passionate about? What are you excited about? What lights you up? What brings you joy? This is also the center of intimacy and trust, right? If we think about this region of the body, you know, when I when I use teach body safety to kids, we call it your private area.
Right. And as adults, the only people that get access to that are people that we're intimate with or we trust. And so because of that, this region can kind of come out of balance energetically when our trust is broken, when we are betrayed, when we experience some sort of emotional trauma that leads to kind of like, I kind of think of it as like a Saran wrapping of the hips.
So when I was, when I was teaching yoga, it's so interesting because we, we always see like yoga classes. People are like, stretch your hips, stretch your hips, open your hips. But, I actually find that a lot of people, their hips are too open, their too loosey goosey. And that can lead to actually, you know, low back pain and, and pain in the hips and things like that.
So I always thought like a balance of strength and length when it comes to the hips, but it kind of can show up in two different ways. So the saran wrapping of the hips sort of like, if you imagine the hips are really, really tight energetically, that can make it difficult to move forward, move in the direction of things that you want.
It can show up as like creative blocks or sort of like feeling stuck in life, like I don't know how to move forward. I don't know which path to take. I don't know what the next step is or if they're too loose, right? If they're if there's too much energy there, that can show up as like a lack of boundaries, right?
Just like trusting too easily. you know, this is this is the kind of thing where I see, people who have really creative ideas and they tell all their friends, and then they never go through with it because they get that dopamine of, like, talking about it. And so the hips also are the home of like our emotional resilience.
It's the element of water. So thinking about if you were in the ocean, can you flow with the waves or are you so stuck that you get knocked over by them? Are you so rigid that you get knocked over by those waves? And so another sign of imbalance is like, sort of like, temper tantrums is the best way I can describe it.
Like, you know how a little kid, it's like every little thing, they're like, oh, we can kind of get that way in our system as well. So it kind of looking at your your ability to flow, go with the flow essentially, and, and be with your emotions and ride those waves rather than getting really like locked into one emotion or another or really acting out, certain emotions without much thought behind them.
That's interesting. Like I hadn't even thought about the element of water in that. Like, I love that ocean analogy of that rigidity and how that can knock you over. It's like very easy to get in the mindset of like, oh, if I'm strong. I can, you know, like I'll make the waves crash around me and really getting in the mindset of being in the ebb and flow.
Yeah. I have a theory about the sacral chakra, which is that I think that a lot of imbalance. I thought of this when you said the word private parts, and I don't know if like, I don't know if will have different experiences here because I grew up in the South. But I think that a lot of imbalance is kind of cause for people very early on in life, at least for me.
I think it was because we don't talk about our bodies. Oh yeah. And the way that sex is very taboo, at least in like American culture and very specifically like, in my experience, Southern American culture, that even like learning about the sacral chakra as like an energy center in that part of my body. I remember learning about it for the first time and feeling like a sense of discomfort.
Yeah, yeah. And even like us talking about doing this episode and planning this episode out and like talking about sexual organs, my first thought is like, oh God, my mom is going to hear this episode. Yeah. You know, and like that instant retraction and like, even when I think about it now, like the tightening in my hips. Yeah, that feeling of retraction is, so interesting.
I feel like it's not even blocked. Is even the right word for it. For me, it feels like almost like turned off completely. Like gone dark. Yeah. I think in our country especially, especially there is, a stigma around pleasure in general. Right. Like I used to talk about this when I was like, women's studies minor, but the clitoris is the only organ in the human body designed solely for pleasure.
Right. Like and so thinking about, like how taboo talking about that is. Right. Like just all of you notice your reaction when I said clitoris in your ears. Right. Like and so we have this taboo around pleasure. Right. Pleasure needs to be productive in our society. And we very rarely allow ourselves to have pleasure for the sake of pleasure.
Right. Think about how many of your hobbies that you loved became side hustles. This is something my mom and I like actually had a really long talk about very recently, because she's having kind of like a I'm sorry, mom, if I'm not supposed to talk about this, I don't know. But like really getting into hobbies and we have a lot of hobbies in this family and we always I know we always start getting into them with like, oh, we could have this in the store.
And it's almost like that's how we give ourselves permission to have fun. Yeah. And my mom looked at me the other day and she goes, I don't know if this is who I am or if I just didn't have. I never gave myself permission to do something for fun. And I wonder if all of this, like all of this effort that we've put into all of these things, could have been saved if I had just done the things that I want, like all I wanted to do was craft.
And now suddenly we have two stores. And like, if I had just started crafting, like, would we have even ended up here? And like not being able to separate that desire for productivity from that desire for pleasure. Yeah, yeah. And I think that's that's what ends up keeping us stuck. Right. Like your hips physically speaking, your hips are the center of mobility in your body, right?
Like they they are what propels you forward. They are also what keeps you stuck. Okay. And so when we have this kind of like this shame around pleasure or this inability to go with the flow, with our emotions, we lose the zest for life, right? We we we feel unmotivated, we feel blah. We don't know which way we're going because we don't feel allowed to walk forward in the path of pleasure.
And it's so interesting because like, I mean, I see this, I see this show up in my clients all the time. It shows up as like hip pain, or it can show up as like painful periods. Or for some people it's infertility. Erectile dysfunction. Right? Like, anything kind of going on in those, in those organs, cysts things, things like that where like obviously like when it, you know, if you listen to this pod, you know, that we don't just believe that energy is the only reason that you have, you know, a medical condition come through.
But, what I do find is that with those people, they also struggle with being allowing themselves that pleasure, of any kind. And I think especially like I see a lot of, childhood trauma kind of like show up as, as hip pain later on in life. And I think for, for a lot of us, if you've experienced trauma in childhood, there's like this loss of the ability to find pleasure, right.
There's that that kind of like childhood joy of just being able to go with the flow and be present is broken down, and you lose that, that ability to just, like, be free and have fun. So it's for a lot of people who have that. It's like finding your way back to joy. It's like finding your way back to pleasure without making it something that needs to be productive, without making it something that needs to be shared, without making it something that needs to be monetized.
It's like, how can you create parts of your life that just make you happy, that allow you to go with that flow? Yeah. If you were one of those kids who was told by their family members that you had to grow up really fast, or if you felt like you had to grow up really fast, or if you were one of those kids that was like, oh, you're so mature for your age, you might want to look into some sacral chakra work.
Yeah. And like, energetically speaking, this, this choker develops between the age of eight and 14. So like the age that we go through puberty. So if you had a, I mean, we all had a weird time in puberty, but if you, if you, if you had the really unique experience of having a weird time from the ages of 8 to 14, but I mean, like, if you like, if you have some sacral chakra stuff going on, maybe look back at those years and look at how your parents talked to you about puberty, or were you even allowed to talk about it?
Like, I very much remember, it was not a thing we talked about. It was not it was like a it was a nobody talk about it. And, you know, that was something that I had to work through as an adult was like, oh my God. Like I went from like never talking about sex or puberty to like talking about sexual assault and like, there was no in between there.
Yeah. Anyways, before we digress into a full sex ed lesson, which we are not qualified to give you, let's talk about some ways that you can find balance through the sacral chakra, or begin to find balance. When you kick us, kick us off. Let's do it! So the color associated with the sacral chakra is orange. So if you want to wear orange, paint your nails orange.
Like I said last week, eat an orange, eat an orange. A delicious way to work on your sacral chakra. eat it very sensually. Like really smell the flavors, feel the texture. Do a little wiggle while you do it. And also, if you are following on my sound healing part of this podcast, the sacral chakra is aligned with.
I don't even know the right way to put that, but it's, 417Hz is what you're going to want to Google or the seed sound is vam VM bam bam bam one more time. Sing the song. Know you want to hear the song again. You go listen to the root episode. If you skip that episode, I'm not giving you the pleasure of singing for you.
No songs, no silly little songs until you listen to the root episode. Okay, but but seriously, if I could just go on a soapbox here, I think you might have already. I'm just saying, if you want to work on your third eye, but your sacral chakra is unbalanced, you are going to have a difficult time trusting your intuition snaps.
You're going to have a difficult time working on your heart, connecting with other people, right? If you lack that ability to trust, if you lack that emotional resilience, you're going to have a hard time finding clear communication in the throat. If you lack that zest for life, you're going to have a difficult time finding confidence in the solar plexus.
Are you picking up what we're putting down here? We are building that pyramid started from the bottom. Now we're here. I thought you weren't going to sing until, well, I will desert. Okay. Some other things that you can do to bring, bring a little bit more balance into the sacral chakra. Again, eating orange foods or just foods that bring you joy and stop counting calories.
Stop restricting yourself. Don't tell yourself that you have to work off the the 4th of July hot dogs that you had, like let yourself enjoy food, find pleasure in food. I think that is another area of life where like productivity culture has leaked in, in like a like productivity culture and diet culture are like this, like their buddies.
It's like monkeys making even the things that you consume as productive, quote unquote, as they can be for you. Yeah, is in direct opposition to that idea of pleasure. I'm not going to go on a big soapbox about this, because we're going to go on a soapbox when we get to the solar plexus, and it's a much more exciting soapbox.
So just to say, if you are someone who struggles to find joy with food, maybe work on that. That could be connected to that sacral chakra. Another one a favorite of mine is to just do a little dance, do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight. You're not good at your nose Singing you're not singing.
they know, they know I sing every episode. We can't, we can't take away the singing. Something that I realized recently is that like. And I've seen a lot of people on TikTok put it in much more eloquent words than I can, but this idea of, like, performance, even when you're by yourself of like, trying to look good or cool, even when no one is looking at you, is something that kept me from so much dancing by myself in my house.
And so this is something that I've put a lot of effort into recently in my life is when I am home alone, listening to music. And dancing, even if it looks really stupid doing a little jig and I don't know what it is like when that even got, when that was even like put into me. I don't even know where it came from.
This idea of like looking perfect and put together when I'm by myself, but even like letting go of that, wearing the things that feel good. I'll tell you something that really healed my sacral chakra. I you remember when you were a kid and you would watch your favorite performers and you would learn the choreography in your bedroom.
And then one day you just stopped doing that. Start doing that again. Yeah I got, I got down, you know if somebody, if somebody I saw a TikTok video recently of Joey Fatone performing, in sings Bye Bye Bye, I think it was. And he pulled some like, you know, millennial woman up on the stage and she had the moves down.
They were crisp. And I was like, that is what I'm preparing for. This is what I'm manifesting. It's like a trend right now on TikTok. I guess there is a documentary or something out about the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Okay, but people on TikTok have been learning their routine to the song Thunder. and it looks like so much fun.
There you go. Learn a TikTok dance. It looks like they're living their best lives. Like, I love that. And my first interesting thought is like, oh, I'm never going to be a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. That's not in my that's not my journey. And so I don't need to learn that. But they look like they're having so much fun and they're like, oh, wait, I don't know.
You can just learn it. I can just learn it and do it by myself. You can you can just put the cotton ijo on and just dip. Dabble for your apartment can be fun. The other thing that, is really powerful for sacral chakra work is hip hip mobility, hip strengthening, and hip stretching. we've talked about this before, but I do have an Intro to truckers course.
There is a discount code in the description of this episode. And, my friend Chris and I had we made it four years ago. We are somewhere back then, yoga teachers. And so there are hip strengthening and hip lengthening, exercises in there. There's one for each of the truckers. There's like some movement practices that are pretty, pretty mild, easy to get into.
Even if you're like, I, I've never worked with my hips, ever. but I mean, again, like I said, a lot of times the focus is on like hip stretching. Get a deep stretch into your hips to release the sacral. But I think so many of us, we need that strength too, right? If you think about just if we take the metaphor of the sacral chakra and the emotional resilience piece of it, right, like that fluid like water with our emotions, we can't just go right into, you know, trusting and being fluid with the emotions, trusting our emotions.
We need to know that we have our own back, right? We need to have that strength, that fortitude, that courage. And that's what I see hip strengthening as if we try to jump right into lengthening. And this is how the body works too, right? If you try to just go into a split and you've never done it before, all of your muscles tense up.
And if you continue to push past that, you create injury energetically. It's no different. You need that strength so that you can find that length. And next on our list, if you have been listening to this podcast for more than 45 seconds, you will not be surprised to hear is to read some smut. I will take it one step further and say, read your romance novels and talk about them with your friends.
Like, yeah, have a little, have a little smutty book club and talk about your smut and talk about sex. Yeah, yeah, I literally I didn't even think of this. I wore my I joined I joined a book club recently. It's called the Probably Smut Book Club. I'm wearing my t shirt right now. One of my friends told me about it, and a bunch of us, like, she brought it up in, like, her two minute session and all of us were like, all right, we're doing it right now.
Here I go. But I think it's so interesting because, like, I, I made a bunch of like, smutty book club Facebook groups and everyone's like, how do you hide what books you're reading? And that has never crossed my mind. Like, I feel like I'm at this point in my life where I have such a solid sacral chakra that I'm like, yeah, I'm reading smut and look at me with my smut t shirt, with my smut stickers.
so just noticing if you are someone who's like, oh my God, I can never, I can never read that, where does that come from? We're feeling the need to hide it. Where does that come from? Right. Like, who told you that? Who taught you that? And maybe, like, allowing yourself to read it in public. It could be fun.
I don't know, that was something that I had to work through a lot when I lived in New York is like what I was reading on the train. And like I found myself very often choosing books based on like what would happen if somebody looked over my shoulder and saw me reading it. Yeah. Stop doing that. Yeah.
Who gives a who? Nobody cares. Nobody cares, nobody cares. So find find a smart book you love. And maybe you'll make a friend. You know you will. Maybe someone to see you on the train and be like, oh my God, I loved that book. What do you think? And then. Yeah. And then you'll see. There you go.
That's your summary book club. How many of you listening feel like we're besties? Because you all read the book. I've been nonstop talking about a court this cruel and lovely. How many of you in my DMs. I know there's at least 50 of you that I reached out to me, and I've talked about this book with me. Okay, that would have never happened if I was like, I read a book about fairy smut and I can't tell anyone, especially not thousands of strangers on the internet.
Okay, so let yourself read this, but also talking about things that we are told not to do, do a little dance, make a little love to yourself. I'm talking about masturbation here. Jerk or jerk. Ladies and gentlemen jerk cook. Buy yourself a new toy. Right. Like allow yourself to have that that time of pleasure with yourself and and just notice, like, if it's uncomfortable, if there is like some shame that comes up with that, if there is some, you know, feeling like, well, I could never do that or I'm even uncomfortable hearing you talk about it on the podcast like that is okay.
That's okay. That's just information. That's just information for you to look at and be like, where did this idea get planted in me? Why, why, why should I be ashamed of that? Like maybe doing some journaling around that? Or if you have a therapist talking to your therapist about that and finding ways to kind of explore and tease out where those messages came from so that they don't keep you stuck.
Yeah. And I think that this is an important thing to bring up for anything in this series that does bring you a level of discomfort or shame. Don't let us talking about it in like a casual, maybe more flippant way make you think that there's something wrong with you, that you don't see it that way. This is energy that comes from like a lot of work surrounding the topic.
And don't let that add any other like any extra level of shame to your reactions that you might have to the things that we talk about through any chucker in the series. Yeah. And I think especially the sacral chakra is one to be really gentle with yourself, give yourself grace. It's a very, very difficult chakra to work with.
If you do have any kind of history of trauma, especially sexual trauma, childhood trauma. And so giving yourself grace. And again, like we said in the root chakra, if something is very, very, very uncomfortable, don't push through it. Yeah. Don't try to push through it. Like be really gentle with yourself. Again. This is a chalker about pleasure.
So while there is some work to be done in this chakra to find balance, you don't want to overload your system. You want to flood your system to the point where you go into a trauma response, right? Like tread really lightly with yourself. Be really gentle with yourself. If if finding pleasure for you is literally just like watching SpongeBob SquarePants, let yourself do that.
You don't have to like, you know, do do the stuff that feels really heavy. Yeah, big time, big time. Speaking of that, speaking of watching someone, Bob SquarePants, I know I saw I was going, I got first of all, I got a lot of DMs after saying I finally watch Bridgerton in last week's episode, so I had to put it on this list, watch Bridgerton or any other like, quote unquote guilty pleasure show.
I hate that term. Yeah, none of your pleasure should feel guilty. That's that's such an interesting one. That's a soap box. We could go on. And I know, for another podcast, but I watched all three seasons of Bridgerton and then the spinoff Queen Charlotte within the span of a week. Highly recommend. It is sexy, but in a way that feels less, for some reason, the fact that it's like produced by Netflix makes it feel, like, okay, this is socially acceptable.
This is a show like a socially acceptable amount of sex, even though it like, really is it's it's pornographic. Yeah. But if you if you are a person who, like, is in a place where you feel like you maybe need some, like permission, Netflix has given you permission, you know, take it and run. Yeah. Or like any other guilty pleasure show that you're like I feel like someone would make fun of me for watching this.
But I really like it. Like SpongeBob SquarePants. I'm rewatching Pretty Little Liars right now. That is a shitty show. That's not a good show. It's not good. It has not aged well. It has not age fun. I never watched away. Oh it's bad. Don't don't don't don't worry. Yeah. It's just like the social themes of just Ezra and Aria alone make me sick to my stomach.
But anyways, I can't look away. And so here we are. All right, next on our list, we looked up some popular aphrodisiacs. Aphrodisiacs? So eat some chocolate. I won't be doing this, but have an oyster. Not my vibe. I I'm I'm a texture person. But if you're, you know, if that's the texture that speaks to you, they are an aphrodisiac.
have some pistachios. Love a pistachio or a pomegranate, as she put it, Molly has a bag of pistachios that she does slowly pans into the frame. Oh, so you get the shelled ones? yeah. Food that's also a task. Oh, no no no no no no, I will straight up not eat it. I love to peel a pistachio.
It's so satisfying. Oh no no no no. Can't relate, can't relate okay. The next thing on our list is to create something for the sake of creating something. Like we said, everything you create doesn't have to be monetized or shared or, you know, put in a trophy cabinet or, you know, whatever. Just like create something just to keep your hands busy and you're allowed to be bad at it.
It doesn't. You know, I, I am so guilty of this, I will quit as soon as I am not flawless. But then the next one on our list actually kind of goes into this. Doing an active meditation is a great way to blend those in. You know anything like crochet, pottery, painting something where you need to use your hands.
Yeah. To create that kind of mind. Body connection is a really powerful meditation and can help balance that sacral chakra. Yeah, yeah. And if you're like, the fuck is an active meditation, go listen to our episode from last year that was all about, meditation hacks for the ADHD brain. I think it was what it's called. I believe so something like that.
You've got a great memory only for our podcast. I can't remember what I ate for lunch yesterday. Okay. And next is to work with the element of water. So watching water waves, ponds, whether that's IRL in real life or pulling up pictures of water, YouTube videos of water, taking a bath, sticking your feet in the ocean, letting yourself daydream right while you're in that bath or while you're in water.
Befriend someone with the pool. It's summertime. Go for a little swim. Drink some water. an excellent one. Thank you for the reminder. Yeah. Here we go. Let's all hydrate. Let's all take a five second break to drink some water. Hydrate or die. Great. All right. And we're back. the next one is a practice I really love.
I don't think you and I have talked about this, but I, I often teach it like when I teach in, in person events. So this is it is an online exclusive. but it is a journaling practice of just letting yourself create for the sake of creation. So it's journaling from your sacral chakra. So essentially you have a piece of paper and you have a pen and you just let yourself doodle.
But don't think about where the doodle is going. And it's harder than it looks because we're so used to being like, what am I making? What am I drawing, what am I drawing? But it's a practice of just like letting yourself create without an outcome. Yeah. I actually recorded a YouTube tutorial that will walk you through it.
that will be out in a couple of days. So if you're not subscribed to my YouTube you should go, especially if you want to see what I doodled for you. another way to do this, if you don't love to doodle, is like a form of automatic writing. Or, if you enjoy writing, like from a fiction standpoint, this is something that I have really, really had to put work into doing is writing without knowing where the plot is going.
Yeah, like if you catch yourself, this is maybe a niche for people who enjoy writing, but whatever. If you find yourself writing and then immediately editing out of fear of that, it's not going to make sense 200 pages later. Yeah, yeah, just write like it's all fine, you know? And it doesn't have to. I've really gotten myself out of the practice of writing, because every time I have an idea or a scene comes into my head, I'm like, oh, well, this isn't my great American novel.
And so I shouldn't even, you know, whatever. I shouldn't even try. And yeah, just writing for the sake of writing, creating for the sake of creating. And this, I think, applies to any creative practice, is not editing while you create. Creation is a process and then refining is a process. And in my opinion, they do not need to meld.
Actually, your brain can't do both at the same time. Yeah, yeah. So it uses two different parts of your brain. So that's why you find it difficult to do both. And you get stuck because it's like trying to shift a moving train on a track. Yeah. It's like trying to change gears while you're already going forward. Yeah, yeah.
The other practice that came to mind, it actually came up yesterday. I was doing a full body energy reading with someone, and, this practice came through and I was like, oh, that'll be really good. One for the sacral chakra. but if you are someone who finds sitting still to be difficult and expressing your feelings is difficult, I know that those things intertwine with sacral, right.
The hips that move you forward sometimes times slowing down feels scary for the hips that have been going, going, going, going, going. so practice that. I've been recommending to my clients that I've kind of been in that boat with the sacral chakra is to take yourself on a walk where you are walking just out of the comfort, comfortable, like pace.
So you have to like you have to breathe deep into your abdomen. Ooh. And at the same time open up your voice notes and just vent. just verbally process. Yeah. You don't even have to listen back to it. I don't even want you to listen back to it, but just like get it out, get that energy out that's going to force you to breathe down into your pelvic floor and loosen up the hips and strengthen the muscles around the hips.
And also because you're going to be like sweating and breathing deep, you're like clearing that energy while you're jostling it up. So it's a little bit more comfortable in a way than like sitting still and processing your feelings. If you're someone that like the idea of doing that just sounds like torture. Yeah, I love that. Especially. I love the the visual of like, jostling it up, get it all loosey goosey before you let it out, you know, like, it's like, you know, shaking a jar when something's like it's something stuck to the inside.
Yeah. We're banging on the pipes, banging on the pipes. And so, yeah, doing a doing a practice like that, like, that's one of the reasons why in the intro course, we have movement practices at the end of each video, because if you're, if you're moving this stuff around, even just like becoming aware of like, oh, I think I do have a block or some energy stuck in the sacral chakra that that energy needs to go somewhere, right?
If you loosen it up in some movement, it's one of those powerful practices. Movement and breath are powerful practices to just, like release it so that it doesn't just, you know, it's kind of like like you said, if something stuck to the side of the jar and you shake it up and then you just like, leave it there, it's going to get stuck again.
So clear it out. Keep removing. All right. Yep. And then last on our list we have some crystals and herbs that are aligned with the sacral chakra. So if you want to make a crystal grid or a tea or a ritual bath, lay with some crystals on your hips. we recommend carnelian, orange, calcite and sunstone. And then for herbs, hibiscus, cinnamon and turmeric, turmeric.
I don't know why I sang that, but I did so it's my little song of the day. And that is the sacral chakra, my friends. Yeah. Hope you're hope you're enjoying this series. Let us know. Send it to a friend. Maybe if you're if you're feeling spicy, leave us a review. I don't know, could be fun.
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