Your Sacral Chakra vs. Social Media: How to Disconnect From the Drama
Your Sacral Chakra vs. Social Media: How to Disconnect From the Drama
Let's get ready to Rumble, or Facebook, or YouTube, or Instagram, or Pinterest, or TikTok, or Snapchat, or whatever!
Is social media your go-to when you're bored?
Have you ever thought about the types of things you feel compelled to click on, read, and react to?
Do you end up feeling overloaded and fatigued with exposure to all the drama?
You're not alone.
In this article you'll learn why you might be attracted to the drama, and steps you can take using the energy of your Sacral Chakra to move away from it and into more feelings of peace, joy, and contentment.
To have a balanced Sacral Chakra is to know yourself.
A major sign that your Sacral Chakra is imbalanced is a lack of self-awareness.
What does a lack of self-awareness look like?
- You are unaware of your traits, behaviors, and feelings
- You don't know what makes you happy or what you are searching for
- You're not capable of choosing proper ways of engaging with the world (as on Social Media)
Not surprisingly, a lack of self-awareness leads to anxiety - feelings of tension, worry, apprehension, fear, and expecting negative things to happen.
This anxiety, together with the uncertainty of self-awareness leads to boredom.
The Duality of Boredom
Boredom is defined as being unable to focus your attention without distraction for an unlimited amount of time.
There are two sides of boredom, one positive, and the other negative.
Not only does boredom cause us to daydream which stirs up our creative thinking (which is a good thing), but boredom can also be viewed as a crisis of desire, when too much of the "same old thing" and too little stimulation cause the eventual absence of desire and feeling of being stuck in a rut (which is a bad thing).
Did you know there are 5 different ways to be bored?
A study done in Germany concluded that the 5 types of boredom should be called: Indifferent, Calibrating, Searching, Reactant, and Apathetic.
The one that really illustrates the point I'm trying to make about the attraction to the drama on social media is Searching boredom.
The "Searching" type is the one where your brain says to do something. It is looking for a distraction from the nothingness of boredom.
Searching boredom is what happens when you start to get really fed up with being bored. It goes beyond just feeling like you want to withdraw and relax for a little while, or simply having your thoughts wander, as in Indifferent or Calibrating boredom.
People experiencing Searching boredom are more emotionally aroused and feel more negative than the first two types.
In addition, it's at this stage of boredom that people begin to actively look for something to do. (I don't think it's a coincidence that everywhere online has a "search" bar or box.)
So, where do a good portion of emotionally charged, negative people go for something to do?
You guessed it.
Social media fills in this need not only for distraction, but also for stimulation.
However, drama is the kind of stimulating content that dominates this type of online space.
And it's easy to get hooked on social. Why?
Psychologically speaking, once a place (for instance, a social media platform) becomes familiar, whether that place is dangerous to our mental and emotional health or not, people feel they can relax there.
In short, you simply become used to it, and that feels good.
Whether you say you're actively seeking out drama or not, the truth is that if you're on a social platform, it's practically unavoidable.
What does seeking drama look like on social media?
- Reading news of failed relationships that have nothing to do with you (think Hollywood couples)
- Reading comment threads to search out conflict (think political posts)
- Engaging in gossip (rumors and misinformation - ugh!)
- Complaining (what about that little dislike button?)
- Clicking on victim stories or portraying yourself as one in order to get a response (the train wrecks we just can't look away from - and the sympathy we crave)
- Presenting yourself with an exaggerated sense of importance (Influencers I'm looking at you!)
- Needing to know everything and FOMO (are you a compulsive phone checker and slave to the notification bell?)
I'm sure we've all done some of these things at least once. We all get bored. And we've all turned to social media to fill that need to do something.
The drama keeps us there, and once we're there for a while it becomes familiar and we relax into it. But if we don't know when to stop, it can lead to overload and fatigue.
Why are some people attracted to drama more than others?
There are several mental and emotional reasons, including:
- Feeling never good enough
- Feeling angry
- Feeing unhappy with circumstances and failed relationships
- Being easily offended
- Embracing a victim mentality
- Being so familiar with drama that it seems normal
Hopefully, you don't identify with any of those reasons.
But if you do...
Let me tell you a little bit about your Sacral Chakra.
Your Sacral Chakra is the energy center located just below your navel.
The Sanskrit word for this chakra is swadhisthana, which translated means "the sacred home of the self".
It is the center of your emotions, self-awareness, your need for variety, and your creativity.
Not knowing what makes us happy or what we are searching for is a manifestation of unbalanced Sacral Chakra energy.
And as we have already learned, it is this lack of self-awareness that draws us to drama.
When you're bored your Sacral Chakra's need for variety kicks in.
Attempts at fulfilling this need for variety can take on positive or negative aspects.
For example, engaging in the drama of social media is negative. Alternatively, creativity and trying new things is positive.
Only by engaging in new and varied experiences can you learn about your likes and dislikes, what brings you happiness, why you act the way you do, and how to choose healthy ways of engaging with the world.
Learning ways to balance your Sacral Chakra can help you disconnect from the drama of social media and connect to the positive creative energy of Divine power.
Working with Universal energy through the Sacral Chakra can help bring us peace, joy, contentment, agreeableness, and self-esteem.
Below are 9 ways to clear and recharge the "Sacred Home of Your Self", your Sacral Chakra.
- Meditating with a focus on the Sacral Chakra
- Inhaling aromatherapy Sacral Chakra essential oils such as Clary Sage or Jasmine
- Wearing or holding orange crystals such as Carnelian or Orange Calcite
- Practicing yoga
- Listen to sounds that vibrate at the same frequency as the Sacral Chakra such as a singing bowl
- Wearing or surrounding yourself with the color Orange
- Eating orange foods such as carrots, oranges, and sweet potatoes
- Working on a creative project
- Spending less time on social media!
I hope you found this blog post helpful. If so, why don't you be a blessing and share it with a friend? And believe me....the irony doesn't escape me that you'll be sharing it on social media :)