Achieve emotional freedom to receive more pleasure

Keywords: sacral chakra healing, feminine energy, emotional healing, creativity, sexual energy, pleasure, boundaries, chakra balance, emotional intelligence

🌿 Introduction: The Energy of Healing & Wholeness

     We are more than our thoughts and emotions; we are energy. Every experience, every memory, and every unspoken truth leaves an imprint in the body. Over time, these energetic imprints shape how we feel, think, and relate to the world.

     The chakra system is an ancient map of seven main energy centers, and it offers a profound lens to understand where we hold tension, trauma, or disconnection. When a chakra is blocked or imbalanced, it manifests as emotional patterns, relational struggles, or even physical symptoms.

     Through awareness and gentle healing, we can bring these energy centers back into alignment, reconnecting to our authentic power, purpose, and inner peace.

     Each blog in this series will guide you through one chakra at a time, helping you understand what it governs, how imbalance shows up, and how to restore harmony through self-awareness, embodiment, and emotional healing. If you'd like to start at the beginning, go here: https://www.martajustyna.com/post/does-your-home-life-wallet-need-extra-care-if-so-let-s-focus-on-the-root

The Energy of the Sacral Chakra

The Sacral Chakra, or Svadhisthana in Sanskrit, is the second chakra, located just below your navel in the lower abdomen. It’s the energetic center of emotion, creativity, sensuality, and relational flow.

While the Root Chakra grounds you in safety and survival, the Sacral Chakra invites you to experience life fully, to feel, express, and create. It’s where your inner artist, lover, and intuitive self live.

When this chakra is balanced, you feel emotionally open, creatively inspired, and connected to joy. When it’s blocked, you might feel disconnected, uninspired, or even guilty for wanting pleasure and rest.

Signs of a Blocked or Imbalanced Sacral Chakra

This chakra becomes blocked when emotional expression or sensuality were shamed, repressed, or deemed unsafe earlier in life. For many, this happens through trauma, heartbreak, or environments where vulnerability wasn’t welcomed.

Common signs of imbalance include:

• Emotional numbness or mood swings

• Difficulty accessing joy or creativity

• Shame or guilt around pleasure or sexuality

• Codependency or fear of abandonment

• Over-giving in relationships

• Addictions or emotional eating to soothe emptiness

If your inner world feels grey or disconnected, your sacral energy might be asking for warmth, softness, and permission to feel again.

How Trauma Impacts the Sacral Chakra

The sacral chakra holds the emotional residue of past relationships, romantic, familial, and even creative ones. It’s often where suppressed feelings live: grief, disappointment, shame, and unspoken desires.

When trauma occurs, the body learns that “feeling is dangerous.”You may shut down emotionally to stay safe. But this also closes off joy, play, creativity, and sensuality - the very energies that help you thrive.

Healing this chakra means reclaiming your right to feel, to enjoy your body, and to express your emotions without judgment or fear.

How to Heal the Sacral Chakra

Healing the sacral chakra is about returning to flow; emotionally, creatively, and relationally. Here are practical and energetic ways to begin:

1. Reconnect With Your Body Through Movement

Your body is the gateway to sacral healing. Gentle movement — like hip circles, yoga, dance, or walking helps release stagnant emotional energy. As you move, breathe into your pelvis and imagine orange light swirling around your hips. Say to yourself: “It’s safe to feel. It’s safe to move. It’s safe to be in my body."

2. Allow Emotional Expression

Create space to feel your feelings without fixing them. Cry, write, paint, scream into a pillow if needed; expression clears energy. Emotions are meant to move through you, not live within you.

Journal prompts:

• What emotions have I been suppressing?

• When do I feel emotionally free or alive?

• What would I express if I wasn’t afraid of being judged?

3. Heal Shame Around Pleasure

Pleasure is sacred, not selfish. Whether it’s enjoying good food, sensual touch, rest, or creative flow, pleasure recharges your life force. Start by inviting small moments of pleasure into your day: a warm bath, a slow meal, music that moves your soul.

Affirm: “Pleasure is my birthright. I allow myself to receive joy without guilt.”

4. Reignite Creative Energy

Creativity is a natural extension of your sacral chakra. You don’t have to be an artist — creativity lives in cooking, decorating, problem-solving, and the way you express yourself. Do something just for the joy of it, not for productivity. Colour, write poetry, plant flowers — whatever makes your inner child light up.

5. Strengthen Boundaries & Emotional Flow

A balanced sacral chakra allows you to connect deeply without losing yourself. Practice noticing where your energy ends and another’s begins. When you say yes, ensure it’s aligned — not from guilt or fear of rejection.

Affirm: “It’s safe to connect and remain true to myself.”

Healing Through Relationships

The sacral chakra governs emotional intimacy. Healing here means learning to be open and connected — but not enmeshed.

In relationships, this looks like:

• Communicating your needs with honesty and softness

• Allowing vulnerability, but also self-trust

• Releasing people-pleasing and guilt-based connection

• Choosing relationships that feel mutual, peaceful, and alive

Remember: emotional connection thrives when both partners feel safe to be fully themselves.

The Gift of a Balanced Sacral Chakra

When your sacral chakra heals, you begin to feel more magnetic, inspired, and emotionally alive. Your creativity flows naturally, your relationships become more fulfilling, and your sense of pleasure expands.

You stop apologizing for being “too much” and start embodying your authentic expression with confidence and grace.

A balanced sacral chakra restores your natural rhythm: flow, connection, joy, and creation. 🧡

Ready to Awaken Your Creative & Emotional Flow?

If you’re ready to reconnect with your body, emotions, and creative essence, I can help guide you back into your flow.

Inside my trauma-informed healing programs, we blend nervous system work, energy healing, and inner reprogramming to release emotional blocks and restore balance to your mind, body, and spirit.

✨ Work with Marta Justyna, Clinical Trauma Therapist turned Intuitive Energy Healer🌿

Learn more: www.martajustyna.com💌

Book a clarity/consult call to begin your journey back into emotional flow and authentic self-expression.

Love & Light,

Marta Justyna