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:

Crystal Healing

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!

When we forgive others, we are letting go of that anger and resentment we harbor. We are not excusing or condoning the behavior of the person. Forgiving someone is for you not the other person. By forgiving someone, you are giving yourself the power and ending your role as the victim.

You don’t have control over the actions of anybody else, but your own. Take the first step of controlling your thoughts and your life. You only become hurt when you silently allow yourself to be hurt. Words themselves have no power so don’t give them any.

Take Your Power Back

Do a burial ceremony. Write down a declaration to release the emotional pain caused by the person from your life. Write all the reasons you’re moving forward and taking back your power. Put all your angry thoughts and painful memories on this piece of paper. Fold it up and bury it. This is symbolic of you removing the pain from your body. Release him or her from interfering in your happiness. You are no longer a house of pain. If burying it isn’t feasible, then burn it. From this point on, you’re free!

Give the pain a shape and see it leave your body. Sometimes it’s difficult to pinpoint emotional pain, but if you’re able to gather the emotion and visualize it as a concrete form, it’s easier to release. For example: see it as a ball and send it down your body through your feet into the center of the earth. Or give it a specific color and breathe it out. Don’t worry you’re not polluting the Earth! The energy is cleared and recycled.

Continue by replacing that space in your body with a healing white light. See a loving light come down from beyond the universe and flow into the top of your head and spread throughout your body.

Say out loud that you forgive the other person. Hearing it spoken out loud and as if it’s already true has a huge impact. Whenever you are reminded of the pain, visualize yourself releasing it, then say you forgive the person for wronging you out loud.

It takes time. You’re breaking old patterns and forming newer healthier ones. You’re choosing to live in power. It’s going to take time, but it’s well worth the effort.

As each of us creates peace inside of ourselves, we emanate feelings of happiness and love causing a rippling effect.

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Has there been a time when you’ve been upset with somebody and held back your feelings? Do you not manage your stress well? Did it result in illness like a cold or possibly laryngitis? In the western world, we forget the union of the body and mind.

How to know if you need emotional healing

Each time you become hurt is an opportunity to look deeper at the root cause. Why did that bother you? Where could it have originated?

Scenario 1: Take a look at the woman who was broken up with by a man she wasn’t fully interested in. All of a sudden she’s having a hard time letting go of him and she’s extremely hurt. Perhaps it’s a bigger issue than the break-up. She may have a fear of never getting married and this rejection has become her self-fulfilling prophecy. Now she must dig deeper to find out where that fear originated.

Scenario 2: A man takes offense when a friend jokingly calls him a “dummy.” Why would this man put such value and tie such strong emotion to a word? It could be that as a young growing boy his parents called him “dummy” and told him he would never amount to anything. That word carries a lot of meaning to him.

Our influences and experiences mold our lives, but we can make a conscious decision to change our reactions and beliefs. We don’t have control over other people and the way they treat us, but we have control over ourselves.

How do you begin to heal?

Forgive. Forgiving someone for wronging you doesn’t mean you’re accepting what they did as right. When you forgive, you release the poisonous emotions that have been harboring inside you. The other person doesn’t need to know! It won’t affect him or her either way. You’re simply releasing that person from your life and letting go of the negativity you’ve kept inside which has been hurting you.

Replace. Imagine a bowl filled with water and a tall candle sits in the center. When you remove the candle from the bowl, the space it once occupied is replaced with the surrounding water. The same is true for you. When you release the anger from your body, replace it with love and light. Visualize a bright light coming from beyond the universe and entering the top of your head. Ask the Universe, or Source, or God, that you be filled with light and love.

Decide to let go. You’re forming your future so decide to live the life you want. You’ve overcome the obstacles from the past and you’ll definitely continue to overcome them in the future. Holding on to the anger and resentment is counter-productive for the life you want to lead.

Be aware. Emotional healing takes different time according to how deep or recent the wound is. Deeper wounds usually elicit habitual reactions. Pay attention to your feelings and the way you react to situations. Don’t fall back into old patterns. Instead replace them with new ones. Change takes time and effort.

Accept and love yourself. You’re here in this lifetime and in this body so make the most of it! Move forward and design your life for the better

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