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Do you know that the first three chakras, the Root Chakra, Sacral Chakra, and the Solar Plexus Chakra, enormously impact your physical health? The lower chakras are primarily undervalued compared to the higher chakras for their role. However, if you are aiming to lead a healthy and optimal physical, emotional, and mental life, you must focus on harmonizing the three critical chakras. In this article, we will cover everything you need to know about Solar Plexus Chakra healing.
The Solar Plexus Chakra, also known as the power chakra or the Manipura Chakra, corresponds to your self-esteem and the sense of worth. Driven by the fire element, the solar plexus chakra represents energy and power, which can be either empowering or destroying. Placed two inches above the navel, this chakra is where your ego, or the sense of self dwells.
Solar Plexus is the third chakra, which comes after the Root Chakra and Sacral Chakra and is followed by the Heart Chakra, Throat Chakra, Third Eye Chakra, and Crown Chakra.
Understanding the Solar Plexus Chakra
Element: Fire
Color: Yellow
Role of the Chakra: The Chakra delves into who we are and explores the sense of empowerment and the purpose of life.
Body parts related to the Chakra: Abdomen, upper intestines, gall bladder, liver, spleen, middle spine, and pancreas.
What happens when the Solar Plexus Chakra is balanced?
A balanced Solar Plexus Chakra will help you realize your self-worth and cultivate inner peace. With the solar plexus chakra in harmony, you can enjoy a healthy balance of the spiritual and material world, and build tolerance for yourself and others around you.
What happens when the Solar Plexus Chakra is imbalanced?
On the other hand, an unbalanced solar plexus chakra may evoke you to look for greater control over things and relationships and live with a false ego. You would project an overrated or a made-up appearance of yourself to the larger world. You would have a lack of self-worth, operate from the space of inadequacy or limitations, and may even manifest self-hatred.
Health Issues
- Gastrointestinal issues
- Chronic indigestion
- Liver dysfunction
- Diabetes
- Arthritis
Emotional Challenges
- You have multiple fears.
- It is difficult for you to trust others.
- You have a lot of self-doubt or lack confidence. On the other hand, you can be too self-centered or would want to control everything.
- You may find it hard to make decisions or take time to make decisions.
- You cannot face criticism easily.
- You tend to believe you aren’t good enough.
Solar Plexus Chakra Healing
1. Meditate for Chakra Healing
Like all other chakras, you can choose between practicing light meditation or mantra meditation. Here is a detailed description of how to meditate for solar plexus chakra healing. Read the simple instructions and try it with meditative music.
Find a comfortable space to sit down, away from distractions. You can sit down in the dhyana mudra or whatever feels comfortable to you. Don’t forget to put your phone on silent or flight mode.
Yellow Light Meditation
- Take a long, deep breath and exhale slowly.
- Allow your body to feel the breath entering your nostrils, throat, lungs, hands, stomach, hips, and legs. With each breath, imagine your body filling in with positive energy, and exhaling out all the negative emotions, including anger, ego, and hatred.
- Once you are in a deep, relaxed state, imagine a glorious, beautiful yellow light entering the crown of your head and reaching the solar plexus chakra. Let the light cleanse your chakra, empower it, and make it grow bigger and brighter with every breath. With every exhale, release any fear or pain you may be holding in that area. Remain with the yellow light and deep breathing for at least 10 min.
- As you practice light meditation, imagine your solar plexus chakra being healed of all blockages. You can also try simple affirmations like ‘I am a powerful soul.’
- Come back to a regular breathing pattern and open your eyes gently.
White Light Meditation for an Overactive Solar Plexus Chakra
White light meditation is widely practiced for its healing capabilities. In fact, you can try white light meditation to bring all chakras in harmony by strengthening the weak chakras and harmonizing the overactive chakras.
In this meditation, you can try similar steps as mentioned in the yellow light meditation above. Simply replace the yellow light with the purifying powers of the bright white light to remove the unwanted stored energy in any chakra, including the solar plexus chakra.
Mantra Meditation
There is a bija (seed) mantra for all chakras, which can be used to balance them. The bija mantra for solar plexus chakra is RAM.
- In this meditation, start with taking deep breaths and shifting your focus to the solar plexus chakra. Inhale deeply, and exhale from your mouth while chanting a long RAMMMM mantra (with an emphasis on the M sound).
- Visualize the solar plexus chakra vibrating and getting energized with the bija mantra.
- With every RAMMMM sound, imagine the solar plexus chakra healing radiating brighter with yellow color.
2. Try Yoga
Yoga poses that move the middle spine or poses that can stimulate a lot of energy can help balance the solar plexus chakra. Try some of these yoga postures.
- Cobra Pose
- Sun Salutation
- Boat Pose
- Bow Pose
- Breath of fire or Kapalbhati Pranayama
3. Some Daily Habits for Healing Solar Plexus
Any healing process can be driven either physically or emotionally. While meditation and yoga are a great way to balance chakras, a mindful response to everyday situations can also help initiate and sustain the healing process.
Move Out of Your Comfort Zone
Move out of the comfort zone of the known to become more confident and strengthen your solar plexus chakra. Try out learning a new musical instrument, learn a new skill at work, or undertake things that scare you. And while doing that, don’t forget to keep a check on your thoughts, remain positive, feel courageous to have acted on difficult things, stop procrastinating, and take up one small step every day.
Raise Your Consciousness
Move from the victim mode of consciousness to taking control of life situations. Take responsibility by getting into action instead of focusing on problems or loopholes. Chart your plan of action in any problematic situation and surround yourself with confident, supporting people.
Pause, Reflect, Respond
When you want to bring a shift in your self-esteem, keep a closer look at how you respond to people or yourself. The next time you find yourself thinking about all the things you did not accomplish a day before, shift to “What did I do right.” This can bring you back to the thoughts you should focus on. Building confidence also comes with taking action despite your fears. Imagine you already have the capability and confidence you aspire to have and then respond. If you succeed, you come out being more confident. If you don’t, acknowledge that it was worth the effort.
Practice Self-love
Even if you don’t feel powerful or confident, remember how far you have come and all your accomplishments. Stop comparing yourself with others, practice gratitude, give yourself some compliments, and celebrate your every small success.
Protect Your Energy
Before you plan to deal with a conflict, interact with a negative person, or meet a large group of people, protect your energy by imagining a yellow-golden light surrounding you. Golden light is considered as the universal shield that will ensure that you do not let go of your power and safeguard your energy body from any negativity.
Invite Yellow Color
Solar plexus chakra can be healing by inviting more yellow in your life. Add a few yellow dresses to your wardrobe, or redo your room with pale yellow curtains or pillows.
Mindful Consumption
Try mindful consumption of yellow-colored food like bananas, pineapple, lemons, and corn. Mindful consumption entails removing all distractions while relishing food. Pay gratitude to everything on your plate and know that every bite is nourishing the solar plexus chakra.
4. Explore Martial Arts
What is better than practicing martial arts to evoke a sense of personal power within yourself? Martial arts is a fantastic way to build confidence, deal with life challenges, and grow stronger.
5. Tune into the Right Frequency
Your body and chakras operate at a specific vibration, and thus a certain external sound frequency can transform your energies. Be it the sound of mantras, gongs, singing bowls, or music, you must identify the frequency that would fit your requirements. Every chakra is correlated to a frequency as well. Tune into 528 Hz frequency to tap into your personal energy and heal the solar plexus chakra. As per some reports, the frequency of 528 Hz is known to reduce stress and fears, and can even repair your DNA.
6. Affirmations
Affirmations play a significant role in balancing the Solar Plexus chakra due to their ability to influence thoughts and energy patterns. Try these affirmations to shift your negative beliefs and boost your self-esteem.
- I am a powerful and confident soul
- I can attain any goal that I set up for myself
- I respect myself and others
- I believe in my abilities
- I am enough
- I make empowered choices
7. Adorn Crystals
Another way for solar plexus chakra healing is wearing crystals in the form of rings, bracelets, or pendants. Yellow crystals or stones can remove negative energy and fears, and bring in self-confidence or aid digestion. You can also hold a crystal while meditating.
- Yellow topaz
- Amber
- Yellow Citrine
- Yellow Tiger’s Eye
- Rutilated Quartz
- Yellow Agate
8. Essential Oils
Essential oils play a supportive role in healing solar plexus chakra, not just through their fragrance but also due to the energetic resonance of the plants and herbs involved in their making. Try one or a combination of these oils:
- Lemongrass
- Roman Chamomile
- Lavender
- Rosewood
- Rosemary
- Myrrh
When using essential oils for Solar Plexus chakra healing, consider diluting them with a carrier oil and applying them to the area above the navel (where the chakra is located), using them in massage, adding them to a diffuser, or incorporating them into other relaxation and self-care practices.
Conclusion
Solar Plexus Chakra is your energy center both for your physical and astral body. You can adopt numerous ways to fire up the power of solar plexus chakra. Begin the healing by empowering your physical body through yoga, food, essential oils, crystals, and colors, or transforming your mental and emotional state with meditation, affirmations, and daily practices. It doesn’t matter which method you take up; what matters is how consistently you practice it for complete healing.
You can heal your chakras, and our intent to share this information is to facilitate your healing process. However, if you face any pain or emotional upheaval in the process of healing, please consult a chakra healer or a medical professional.
