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In addition to supporting our energetic structure, this slow, assured vibration provides the instinctual, primal template for who we are as physical human beings. It is responsible for the energy of body systems that provide us with physical structure, allowing us to make tangible, meaningful contact with the Earth. These anatomical parts include the joints, bones, muscle, legs, and feet. The root chakra also provides us with an internal and external defense system, including the immune system (internal “defense” strategy) and skin (external physical barrier between us and others), as a physical barrier to separate us as individuals from the environmental influences, or self from non-self. This defense system provides us with healthy boundaries.

Adding to boundaries and defending the self are the adrenal glands. They are like the internal armor that provides us with the ability to “flee” or “fight” if we are in a situation that our life depends on. The adrenals give us that instinctual, primal urge to live no matter the cost and to make that decision instantaneously, as it is hardwired within us on the DNA level to survive. On a microcosm level, the grounded earthly vibration is embedded into the red and white blood cells, products of the bone marrow, and its essence is carried within every cell in the form of the double-stranded DNA that contains our genetic code.

Our DNA and immune system allow us to know who we are and are not. When we give up our need to connect to the Earth, we leave ourselves open to other influences. We become whatever flows into our physical, emotional, and mental space. The result is that we can feel disjointed, fragmented, and spread thin, similar to Larry. We exhaust our physical body resources because they are used up in guarding against invading influences that are not “self.”

This grounded vibration solidifies in the genital area, where the legs meet. Therefore, it would govern the energy distributed to those parts of the anatomy residing in that terrain, including the prostate gland, male reproductive organs, and rectum. The vibrations of this center are particularly important for men, and are in part why some men connect their livelihood with their identity as potent beings, both financially and sexually. Some might say that a man's societal obligations and inherent masculinity reside in this vibration.