Your solar plexus is your third chakra and is located between your ribcage and navel. The sound associated with it is “MA”

Ties to the Third Chakra

Your solar plexus is tied to digestion, nervous system and the immune system. The organs it affects is the gallbladder, pancreas, duodenum, liver, and small intestine. This chakra is put under a lot of pressure these days because of our diets. In order for the digestive system to work properly, we must eat a well balanced diet. Because the physical and emotional bodies are tied, one affects the other. When we continue to eat poorly, we’re affecting the energetic level of the solar plexus as well.

Personal Power

Your sense of self originates in the solar plexus. Your confidence, the way you perceive yourself and others depends on the health of the solar plexus. For example, if you feel inferior or superior to others, the third chakra isn’t balanced. If you were constantly around authoritative figures who made you feel dumb, clumsy, or worthless, then your relationship with the world will reflect this. Your level of personal power isn’t as strong as it could be. If you always listen to other when making decisions in your life, your solar plexus becomes blocked and you lose your personal power.

Wisdom

The solar plexus is often called the “Wisdom Body” because here is where intuitive intelligence is stored. I read in a book that when Japanese kids are asked where thinking comes from, they point to their bellies. The Western world points to their heads. That “gut feeling’ comes from your solar plexus. When this chakra is in balance, you’ll be more aware of nudges received from your gut. And when your gut talks, and you listen, life is good.

Emotional Imbalance

When the solar plexus is balanced, you experience happiness and appreciate it in the simplest forms. The sun is a symbol of the solar plexus. A good meditation is to visualize the healing and loving light of the sun. Imagine yourself surrounded in a warm caccoon of this energy. Sit there for as long as you wish.

Have you noticed that when you’re in an uncomfortable situation, you cross your arms? You’re subconsciously protecting your solar plexus. When you feel confident, you walk with your arms to your sides with your solar plexus exposed. If you find yourself crossing your arms, ask yourself why you feel uncomfortable.

Activities to bring the chakra into balance

Yoga Pose: Lord of Fishes

Kneel down on a blanket and rest on your heels. Slide your buttocks to the right of your feet and rest on the ground. Then lift your left leg and cross it over your right knee to the other side. Shuffle around until you’re comfortable.

Then twist your body by bringing your left arm behind you resting it on the ground. Your right arm will rest on the outside knee of your left leg. Hold your arm up at a 90 degree angle. Keep your back as straight as possible to promote a good twist.

When you feel ready to release, breathe in, then exhale as you unwind. First bring your left arm around then follow the movement with your head and rest of body. Repeat the steps on the other side.

Besides Reiki healing to bring balance to the chakras, here are the stones and colors to use:

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Look for yellow stones like amber, citrine. Place the stone over the solar plexus while you lie on your back and imagine the energy from the stone entering and balancing your body.

Essential Oils

Amber is the scent that brings the solar plexus into balance. Wear it whenever you feel you need to bring this chakra into balance. I even rub a little bit of the oil around the rim of a yellow candle during meditation since yellow is the color of this chakra.

Use these methods to bring balance to the third chakra!

Chakras are seven major energy centers in our bodies beginning from the base of the spine to the top of the head. When they are aligned the energy in the body is flowing properly. Blocks in the chakras may result in physical consequences. For example, a person who has an inability to communicate freely and express himself may create a block in the throat chakra which can result in a sore throat.

The chakras spin outward from the front and the back of the body.

Tip to test the chakras: Hold a pendulum over each chakra and watch for a spin. A healthy chakra will move clockwise. A blocked chakra will not move. Find someone to hold the pendulum over your chakras since it will be difficult to test your own. You can buy a pendulum or easily make one by tying a key to the end of a string of yarn.

Each chakra vibrates at a different rate from slowest to fastest. Each is a different color and correlates to different emotions and physical aspects of the body. Look over more details of the seven chakras.

Sit in a quiet and comfortable place for the chakra meditation. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Relax your body beginning with the feet and move up until you soften your eyelids.

Start with the first chakra at the base of the spine. Imagine energy coming up from the earth and filling your root chakra with a bright and brilliant red light. Feel the energy growing and becoming stronger. This is the chakra related to your ability to ground with the physical world. Meditate on this color and feel its richness. Allow the red light to fill your body and surround you. Exhale any negative energy. The negative energy is recycled back into the universe. You don’t have to worry about polluting the world with negativity!

Bring your attention to the second chakra. This is the sacral chakra and is tied to sexuality. See the orange light growing and swirling around right below the belly button. Watch and feel as it fills your body and wraps around you like a blanket. Meditate on this color for a while then exhale any negative energy associated with this chakra.

Focus on your third chakra. This is behind the solar plexus and is tied to our confidence and sense of self. Imagine the bright yellow light filling your middle, then your entire body and shine outward encircling you. Feel the energy as it builds up then exhale any negative energy tied to this chakra.

Move up to your fourth chakra, the heart. Feel the pink light fill your heart chakra. See the energy swirling about and filling your body then outward like a cocoon of pink around you. This is the chakra associated with compassion and love. Meditate on this loving light for a while. Exhale any negative energies you may have accumulated.

For an added meditation, see the color pink surround the universe to send love and compassion to all.

Bring your attention to your fifth chakra. This is in the throat chakra and is associated with communication. Watch as the bright blue light fills your throat and moves throughout the rest of the body. Stay here for a while meditating on the blue light. Feel as this color encompasses you. Exhale any negative energy from this chakra.

Now focus on the sixth chakra. This chakra is above the brow and is referred to as the third eye. An open chakra heightens intuition and inner awareness. Watch as a violet light fills your brow and your entire body. Feel the color violet around you. Exhale any negative energy from this chakra.

Finally, see a brilliant bright white light come up through the top of your head. This is the crown chakra and correlates to wisdom and universal consciousness. Watch as the bright light releases up out of your head and goes farther and farther beyond the universe and space. To close the chakra meditation, surround your body with white light of protection.

Use the chakra meditation daily for feelings of wellbeing!

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Chakra is a Sanskrit term which means wheel or circle and were first classified in Ancient India. The seven major chakras begin with the first which is located at the base of the spine up to the seventh which is located at the top of the head. The first chakra vibrates at the slowest speed and the last vibrates the fastest. All the chakras are represented by different colors.

Crystals have healing properties and can be used for chakra healing if worn close to the body or if used during an energy healing session.

Tools for chakra healing

To keep the chakras open it’s best to live a balanced lifestyle. Become more aware of physical or emotional changes in the body. Do you feel less confident than before? Have you stopped using your creativity? Read this ebook on unleashing your creativity.

Intuitively see if your chakras are imbalanced. Visualize each color of the chakras flow through the body. Begin with the first chakra which is red. Imagine a red light coming from the Earth through the bottom of the feet up through the top of the head. See how it feels. Is the light moving slowly? Are you having a difficult time visualizing it? Is it stagnant? Then continue the same procedure with orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Slow moving energy may indicate a blocked chakra.

Base: Red. Associated with survival. If you find yourself very attached to money or feel out of place in society, you may have an imbalanced first chakra. Practice grounding exercises. Visualize a strong cord or light attaching to your root chakra down to the center of the earth. Make sure you have a strong connection. Meditate on this for a while until you feel well grounded.

Sacral: Orange. Associated with sexuality and creativity. Many have stifled their creativity and work in jobs which bring them unhappiness. To bring this chakra into balance, begin a new project, garden, or draw.

Solar Plexus: Yellow. Associated with confidence and sense of self. A lack of self-esteem or motivation could mean a blockage. For balancing, write a list of your positive traits. Tape the list next to your mirror and remind yourself each morning and night of your beauty.

Heart: Pink or Green. Associated with love and compassion. A blocked heart chakra may result in a lack of love for oneself, low self esteem, depression, or cynicism. For balance wear a rose quartz and practice seeing the world through the heart. Imagine your heart is your eyes and pretend your head is no longer there. You’ll see the world with more compassion.

Throat: Blue. Associated with communication. An inability to express your thoughts or ideas is a sign of a blocked chakra. Make a habit of writing in a journal. If you have difficulty expressing yourself to a particular person, a boss, or someone from your past with whom you need to forgive, write a letter to that person. Conduct a ceremony to release those feelings. Burn the letter and intend your negative energies associated with it to be burned away as well. Don’t conduct the ceremony where you may cause a bigger fire!

Third eye: Indigo. Associated with intuitive and psychic ability. Are you having trouble listening to your inner voice? Practice becoming more intuitive with a deck of playing cards. Hold the cards face down. Try sensing which card is at the top of the deck. First start of by sensing whether it’s black or red, then as you progress begin to psychically figure out the symbol and number.

Crown: Violet. Associated with oneness and the connection with spirit. Feelings of loneliness or disconnection with the universe means the crown chakra could use balancing. Visualize a brilliant white light coming from Source and entering through the top of your head, through your body to the center of the earth. Feel the energy for a while. You may begin to sway a bit. This is because the universal life-force is flowing through you!

Utilize these methods for chakra healing as a part of a healthy lifestyle!

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