The Solar Plexus Chakra

This week we're stepping into the next chakra, the Solar Plexus. This chakra is greatly about individuation, and our invest the world. When we are balanced in this chakra, this manifests to be linked to others, without losing ourselves in another, and remaining aware of our ultimate aloneness. The Solar Plexus chakra is situated just underneath the ribs, and is related to the organs regarding digestion - the liver, the stomach, and the pancreas. Conditions which are often related to a third chakra imbalance are digestive issues, allergies, crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome and diabetes. When we are imbalanced in this chakra, we can often feel like we are victims in our own lives, powerless to improve our situation and stuck. (I think this emotional stuckness is often reflected in the physical stuckness of elimination that may result in the diseases mentioned earlier to do with digestion.) The basis emotion below all this is usually unexpressed anger. Along with manifesting when it comes to powerlessness (which is of a deficiency in this chakra) it can also manifest as an excess: being power-hungry, aggressive and controlling others Solar Plexus chakra. The balanced position in this chakra is one where we have a wholesome, balanced sense of our personal worth, we're confident in ourselves and our abilities, we are disciplined, without it veering into over control, and we are able to be spontaneous and playful. When it comes to healing this chakra, it's often my sense it is about bringing movement to the stagnant, stuck energy. Shaking and free form dancing are great for this; other exercise such as for instance running or swimming can also be good, but there's something about the unpredictability and spontaneity of shaking and free-form dancing that I feel is particularly good here. A physical cleanse may also be good. I remember doing a 5 day herbs cleanse, which involved drinking herbal "shakes" 4 or 5 times per day, and not eating. I felt afterwards physically lighter - as although the cleanse had allowed me to produce a "layer" of negativity that I have been carrying round with me. (If you're enthusiastic about this, it's good to consult with the suppliers of this sort of products before with them, particularly if you have a preexisting health condition.) Energy healing and the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) can be helpful here. Sound healing, chakra balancing and colour healing can help balance the Solar Plexus chakra. More specifically, an inner child healing or a connection cord healing will help anyone heal the function or events which generated the imbalance in this chakra. Often, this will be the time from 18 months to 4 years (including the terrible twos!) - when the child is starting to feel separate from the mother, and yet needs the assurance that she is still there. Often, the kid can appear that the parents will impose on him; this can lead to unexpressed anger. An inner child healing could be a safe place expressing what it wasn't possible expressing at the time. Similarly, EFT is very useful for going back again to a youth event that remains in the vitality field, and is influencing our behaviour still, and letting go of it. Finally, much like another chakras, chakra balancing mediations are helpful. The balanced colour of the Solar Plexus chakra is really a bright yellow. And the balanced sound is "OOOH." So, the following post will transfer to the territory of the heart chakra - the bridge between the reduced three chakras we've already looked over, and the higher three chakras (throat, third eye and crown.)