First Chakra
Muladhara "Foundation"

The first chakra is your foundation, the root of your mind, spirit and body. It is the location of the source of individual consciousness. It contains tribal survival guidelines, culture, superstitions and fears. It includes the values of honor, loyalty and justice that form your basic personality. This chakra is the strongest attachment point for your spirit to this world. This crucial connection is a source of spiritual power and the home of Kundalini. In the path to full consciousness this is the beginning, the material base. The sacred truth is All is One.

Organs and Glands:

• Body support: legs, feet, bones
• Base of spine, coccyx
• Rectum and anal sphincter.
• Reproductive organs of the male
• adrenals

Mental/Emotional Issues:

• Physical family safety and security
• Emotional and psychological stability
• Ability to provide for life's necessities, success
• Ability to stand up for self
• Feeling at home
• Social and familial law and order
• Honor, loyalty, justice and the basis of personality, patience

Description - "Root Support" from mula (root) adhara (support)

Location - between the coccyx and the genitals

Depiction - a deep red, four-petaled lotus

Element - Earth, matter

Sense - Smell

Food - protein in meat, soy beans, beans and nuts

Mantra - Lam

Color - Red

Other - seat of the dormant kundalini-shakti, issue-place of the sushumna