In our continuing series on the seven main chakras, our bodies energy centers, called Sanskrit which means disk or wheel. These energy wheels begin at the base of the spine and continue up the spine to the top of your head. These marvelous chakras allow prana, or life force if you will, to flow through your energetic and physical body. You can’t see these spinning wheels of energy, yet, you can feel them energetically and can know intuitively.
We began our journey with the first chakra, called the Root, described as I am, the survival chakra, which sits at the base of the spine. Next the Sacral chakra, described as the identity of self. Now we embark on the third lower chakra, the Solar Plexus, better known as Manipura. Manipura means mani or gem, pura meaning city, City of Gems. The Solar Plexus is identified as yellow in color, Ram is the sound, element is fire, sense is sight. The symbol for this chakra is the Lotus flower with ten petals. Each of the ten pedals having a specific meaning.
The Solar Plexus is associated with the central nervous system, skin and digestive health, organs are the liver and pancreas. The chakra sits right below the breast bone, above the Sacral chakra. A diet which includes yellow fruits and vegetables are healing, and helps keeps the chakra in check. Some of the healing stones include sunstone, yellow tourmaline, and tigers eye.
This energy center is about balance, it signifies a sense of accomplishment, confidence, good self-esteem. Equally, if out of balance, brings forth, depression, unhappiness, unsatisfied, unaccomplished. Solar Plexus represents the will of freedom, free to make choices, decisions, all of which leads to one’s self identity. Yes, the Sacral chakra speaks of identity, but more along the lines of emotions, and feelings. The Solar Plexus helps process thoughts, feelings and sensory impressions from those around us.
Free will is a beautiful thing, along with the ability to live your life as you see fit. To develop from a young age to adulthood learning how to harness your freedom of choice. No matter if good, bad or ugly, it sets the path in motion, the soul’s path. Ultimately, your authentic self, knowing who you are and where you are going. That inner drive to achieve whatever you set your sites upon, and see them all the way through.
The flow of all the chakras working in unison is ideal. Much like a river rushing down between the mountains, at either side of the river, bearing witness to all the visual aspects that cover the landscape. Bringing peace, tranquility, happiness, to one’s being. A foundation that can bring good health, positive and wholeness.
When the storms of life come through, this can indeed redirect the once flowing river. It can bring a new direction, one that doesn’t flow the way the river once did. Depression, sadness, feeling lost, battling the current of indecisiveness, can leave you worn out and tired.
If your inner power has lost it’s flow, like the river, get back to balance, bring back your natural stream. Seek the richness of a diet containing yellow fruits and vegetables, use healing stones, and most importantly begin the motion of redirecting the runaway current that has left you not yourself. Meditation can be an important first step in this process, mindfulness meditations, the affirmations of positive speaking, can eventually rewire the brain, thus derail the body from expressing negative emotions, thoughts and feelings.
Heal the Solar Plexus, bring back alignment to your precious energy centers, the true essence of you…
Next the all important Heart Chakra… Until then….
