From Tiger Woods to Charlie Sheen, we hear about sex addiction over and over again. At the same time, most married women were recently surveyed and reported lack of sexual activity. While there are many causes for sexual dysfunction, if you have too much or too little sex, you may want to consider balancing your chakras.

The first or Root Chakra is linked to sexual security and function in men: the penis is governed by the Root Chakra, which deals with basic instincts. This chakra is located at the base of the spine and its color is red. Its main function is to keep us grounded and alive and is associated with physical sensation.

In women, their genitals are in the sacral area, and the second or Sacral Chakra governs their love, passion, sexuality and creativity. This chakra is located in the pelvic area below the navel. Its color is orange and its main function is related to procreation and giving and receiving pleasure and sexual emotion.

If your energy is stuck in the Sacral Chakra, your sex and love life will be too. The accumulated stress in the body, whether emotional or physical, erects barriers to the natural flow of our vital energy. Therefore, too much stress can equate to no love or even no prospect of love.

Using yoga to balance the Sacral Chakra, you can practice Cobbler’s Pose to encourage life energy to flow throughout the pelvic area. Swimming, dancing, meditating, and anything else that encourages pleasure will also stimulate the Sacral Chakra, which is associated with the element of water, and the ebb and flow of bodily fluids, like the tides.

If you are a sex addict, your energy may be out of control in the Root or Sacral Chakra, wreaking havoc in your life. The lack of balance in these two chakras can be due to a need for attention and care that is never enough. Sometimes we learn to resort to unusual ways to get what we need. The sex addict seeks attention in an unhealthy, distorted and possibly destructive way, much like Charlie Sheen.

We all need love, care and support, but we must first find it within ourselves with a healthy and balanced Root Chakra. After we develop a sense of ourselves, we can continue into the Sacral Chakra to find our place within a healthy relationship.