As you process your way through four weeks of solar plexus chakra work, replenishment and assistance will help you heal to your fullest potential. This site is your healing center to return to as often as needed to gain supplemental meditations and healing concepts to support your journey.

Chakra work can be challenging. You may experience seemingly inexplicable emotional shifts, depressed moods, and even profoundly positive states of being working their way through you, throughout the week. You also may feel not much of anything. These states are normal and all a result of moving negative energy out and positive energy in while resolving complex traumas created during the domestication experienced in this and previous human incarnations. Please commit, and recommit, to the work no matter how painful it may become at times. Remember to rely on your coach to provide emotional support through video messages and chats whenever possible, when needed.

The benefits of resolving these negative, stuck rules, beliefs, and energies can be profound. Undoing these programs running within you now means creating the opportunity for a better future aligned with your soul’s greatest purposes manifest. So strap in, hold on, and enjoy the ride!

HARNESSING YOUR CHAKRA POWER

There are a number of different methods we can use at home to help heal our chakras, including visualizations and meditations, changing old habits, practicing yoga, using crystals and essential oils, and getting the most out of our food. Because different people feel drawn to different healing techniques, a range of methods are offered here. I recommend you choose healing techniques that you feel most drawn to, since one technique is not necessarily better than another for you. That being said, if you’re experiencing physical problems, it may help to begin with dietary changes (energy vitality plan), yoga, massage, acupuncture, and other bodywork first. If your struggles relate to the mind or heart (emotions), meditation, crystal work, or essential oils might be a good starting point.

But before we go there, let’s get acquainted with the Solar Plexus Chakra.

If our solar plexus chakra is out of balance, we have a need to dominate and control, have a great need for prestige and keeping up appearances, and we function through the world with deep feelings of inadequacy. In short, we do not respect ourselves, and may even manifest self-hatred. We may give away our power to others, leaving us with no sense of self.

The solar plexus chakra is all about standing in your power, getting in touch with your inner warrior fire, and self-esteem. The following meditations, crystal recommendations, essential oil applications, and yoga postures will help you connect with what you may be holding in this chakra, and, most importantly, initiate connection with this energy vortex within you, so you may open into the wisdom it holds.

The solar plexus is your center for vitality and strength and your connection to purpose. When you are strong in this area, you feel motivated and energized and thus capable of manifesting what you desire on the physical plane. On the flip side, if your solar plexus is blocked, you likely feel drained. Your internal battery may have less power than it usually does, and it’s possible that you feel anxiety and confusion about your path. At the very least, you feel unable to make decisions. You could also experience issues related to your digestion, adrenal glands, or kidneys.

Element

Fire

COLOR

Yellow

PURPOSE

Transformation

ISSUES

Energy, activity, autonomy, authority, individuation, will, self-esteem, proactivity, self-esteem, shame, power

ORIENTATION

Self-definition

IDENTITY

Ego identity

BASIC RIGHTS

To act and be an individual

CORE AFFIRMATION

“I can”

DEMON

Shame

GLANDS

Pancreas, gallbladder, adrenals

PHYSICAL BODY PARTS

Abdomen, stomach, liver, small intestine, middle spine, metabolism

LIFE LESSON

To experience the depth of who we are with self-empowerment and self-esteem, to live our life task or soul’s life purpose.

BALANCED CHARACTERISTICS

Responsible, reliable. Balanced, effective will. Good self-esteem, balanced ego-strength. Warmth in personality. Confidence. Spontaneity, playfulness, sense of humor. Appropriate self-discipline. Sense of one’s personal power. Able to meet challenges.

TRAUMAS AND ABUSES

Shaming. Authoritarianism. Volatile situations. Domination of will. Physical abuse, dangerous environment, fear of punishment. Enmeshment. Age inappropriate responsibilities (parentified child). Inherited shame from parents.

PHYSICAL DYSFUNCTION

Arthritis. Eating disorders. Digestive disorders, ulcers. Hypoglycemia, diabetes. Muscle spasms, muscular disorders. Chronic fatigue. Hypertension. Disorders of the stomach, pancreas, gallbladder, liver. Colon/intestinal problems, pancreatitis/diabetes, chronic acute indigestion, anorexia or bulimia.

DEFICIENCY

Low energy. Weak will, easily manipulated. Poor self-discipline and follow-through. Low self-esteem. Cold, emotionally and/or physically. Poor digestion. Attraction to stimulants. Victim mentality, blaming of others. Passive, unreliable.

EXCESS

Overly aggressive, dominating, controlling. Need to be right, and have the last word. Manipulative, power hungry, deceitful. Attraction to sedatives. Temper tantrums, violent outbursts. Stubbornness. Driving ambition (type A personality). Competitive, arrogant, hyperactive.

HEALING PRACTICES

Risk taking (deficiency). Grounding and emotional contact. Deep relaxation, stress control (excess). Vigorous exercise (running, aerobics, etc.). Martial arts. Sit-ups. Psychotherapy: ego development; release or contain anger; work on shame issues; strengthen the will; encourage autonomy.

POSSIBLE CAUSES OF CURRENT ENERGY BLOCKS

Stuffed or repressed anger, issues of control especially in areas related to power.

CRYSTALS FOR HEALING

Amber calcite, citrine, sun stone, tiger’s eye, yellow topaz, rutilated quartz

ESSENTIAL OILS

Cardamom, roman chamomile, lemon, lemongrass, marjoram, peppermint, rosewood, rosemary

AFFIRMATIONS

• I can do whatever I will to do

• The fire within me burns through all blocks and fears

• I honor the power within me

• I accomplish tasks easily and effortlessly 

Manipura Mantras

(pick a mantra from this list or the Sanskrit list to use during your chakra meditations)  

• I am strong and powerful  

• I radiate light as the central sun of my universe  

• I am enough  

• I manifest my reality 

Sanskrit Manipura Mantras 

• OM SWAHA [aum swah-hah] (Om and salutations to the solar region/third chakra) 

• OM SURYAYA NAMAHA [aum soor-yah-yah nah-mah-hah] (Ode to the sun/solar power inside you) 

Rudra Mudra for meditation

As an optional flair to use during your solar plexus chakra meditations, draw the tips of your ring and index fingers in toward the thumb and lightly press. Your middle and pinky fingers will remain lengthened and extend comfortably.

As your coach works with you through the chakra work process, you will want to provide yourself with opportunities to dig deeper into the energy that’s often only available to you when you are completely alone. It is in the space of solitude, silence, and stillness the the veil between our True Essence and our ego-self is thin and we can access the subtle realms or our energy body wisdom. Taking time to be with yourself and these meditations throughout the week will add to their total cleansing and healing capacity.

Use your essential oils in a diffuser or hold your chosen crystal during meditations to deepen into the experience.

Choose from the four options below, depending on your available time and desired supportive work throughout the four weeks we will be working with the solar plexus chakra.

This process seeks to resolve known and unknown energies that have become the limiting rules of your character and releasing them will take you through a characterological transformation. This kind of transformation involves resolving your unresolved self-sabotaging tendencies, such as where you: hold yourself back, take action and then shut yourself down, say you’re interested and then never follow up, betray yourself, and a myriad of other ways you sabotage yourself from achieving your big Soul Goals. But it won’t be easy, and it won’t necessarily feel good.

In this work, we are attempting to open up lots of stored grief, anger, negativity, etc. and what we open up during the session will continue to release outside the session. This is why it’s important to support yourself throughout the week with the aforementioned concepts and therapeutic methods in this Chakra Healing Center page. You may feel sick, dizzy, or otherwise disoriented after a session—this is normal when moving energy, though if this sensation persists for more than a day or two, let me know asap and plan an energy healer visit.

WHAT BLOCKS YOUR CHAKRAS?

Throughout our lives we experience different degrees of negative traumatic experiences that overwhelm our ability to process them. Our way of coping with these events stores that energy so that it becomes hardwired into our physical/energy body system and lies beyond our conscious awareness. When this happens, illnesses manifest, chakras are blocked, and we tend to compensate by defending/avoiding these tender places within us—which makes us feel and act in ways uncharacteristic of our higher-selves.

These traumatic experiences aren’t just stories, they change the brain and nervous system and standard cognitive behavioral therapies aren’t effective at resolving them. Energy work such as chakra process work and movement practices such as yoga, Qigong, meditation, group singing, dance, chanting are more effective at resolving these traumas by moving energy and giving us back our ownership of our bodies. These therapies promote the recall of disassociated aspects of ourselves and invite them back into safe embodiment. If you would like to learn more about trauma, please review these and any works by Peter A. Levine, founder of the Somatic Experiencing method or Bessel van der Kolk:

• Peter A. Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute

• A 6 minute summary of Trauma and Somatic Experiencing from Peter A. Levine

• On Being interview with Bessel van der Kolk

• Dr. Bessel van der Kolk 80-minute presentation – “The Body Keeps the Score: How Trauma Is Lodged in Embodied Experience”

• Brain Picking’s exploration of The Body Keeps The Score

These stored traumas are your blind spots—a part of your shadow that operates in your most fundamental code and affects your every moment. The negative energy of stored traumas makes you feel, do, and say things that aren’t truly you, yet you’ve become identified with them over time and thus can’t really see them anymore. With every trauma, you’ve left a little of your Whole-Self behind and your energy has become more tired, fearful, and heavy as a consequence. The more you can integrate these disassociated aspects of yourself through giving them feeling and forgiveness, the more of your power you take back, which makes you feel more: focused, grounded, energized, secure, and clear.

Chakra 3: Enthusiasm, Action, & the Miracle Flow

Your third chakra is your seat of self-esteem, identity, action, enthusiasm. It where you find the energy that brings total respect and reverence for yourself as a true and sacred miracle.

limiting Rules stored IN OUR 3rD CHAKRA

The 3rd Chakra limiting rule: Protect myself from exposure. Therefore I will speak and act in ways to stay safe and earn acceptance/love/value.

If the shadow rule is active, here are the resulting 3rd Chakra “Truths.”

• I am only accepted/safe if I am “good”

• Don’t rock boat, make others unhappy

• Only want things that are sensible and appropriate

• Don’t be someone who is selfish, angry, needed, etc.

• Better to stay invisible/I will hide who I really am

• Always please, others so they will love me

• I will never be selfish and put myself last

• I will silently resist/resent but smile on the outside

The 3rd Chakra shadow energetic “rule in action” I won’t speak or act outside my rule because if I try…my system will flood with paralyzing, debilitating, fear, self-doubt and guilt…

Healing Processes you’ll experience

• Process 7: The shadow of the third Chakra — Honoring the Sacred Self.

• Process 8: Relinquishing the Vow to be Invisible — Permission to live as the True Self.

• Process 9: Being the Miracle in Action — Owning Your Real Value

See what is Hidden, Uncover, Heal

3rd Chakra blindspot:

It’s the key to all inertia, procrastination, and your playing small. Unaware of how powerfully stubborn and entrenched these energies are.

HEALING ISSUES CAUSED BY A WEAKENED third CHAKRA

• Struggle with feeling stuck in aspects of your life.

• Fear and avoidance of really stepping up and being seen or “commanding attention.”

• Spinning in head instead of getting into action.

• Running on anxiety.

• Feeling shame or guilt whenever you try to self-advocate or ask for more.

• Believing and acting on a vow to self-sacrifice, always give and never be selfish.

• Anger gets stuck and stews as resentment, but to take action on it seems like a no-win situation.

• Extreme difficulty saying “No” or setting boundaries, unless there are concrete external reasons that can justify or force it.

BENEFITS OF A STRONG third CHAKRA

• The massive energy of the second chakra flows up to the third chakra where you embody the true, powerful You and take action from your real power, desire, and needs.

• Access to bolder, rockstar quality of charisma and presence whenever needed—dynamically bringing it up or pulling it back to match the circumstance.

• Be enthusiastically willing to be seen and declare yourself as valuable.

• Bigger charge of energy and action that is more clear and focused on the most important things (even action you have avoided for years).

• Stand in your truth, ask more boldly, and take action with passion and charisma to own your desires/boundaries.

• Experience the startling freedom and gift of being delighted, being you.

• New ability to easily set personal boundaries that honor yourself and others, without confrontation, battle, or trauma.

After the guided work, we will unpack your experience a bit with the remaining time. Do prioritize giving yourself time for reflection and integration after each session—at least 10 - 20 minutes. If you want to participate in additional coaching, just let me know before the next call and we can book an additional 15 -30 minutes per your desire.

Regarding the Meditation Path Practices

By now, if you’ve been keeping up with the Awakening Presence Meditation Path practices, you will likely be on or near Practice 15 - Releasing Expectations. These meditations are designed to accompany your chakra process work as you navigate the entire 16 weeks of the Heart Phase by being the true healing center for all the chakra work. Though we are focusing healing on each of the first four chakras, we are using the heart chakra through the whole process, through each chakra level.

All healing is done through the heart chakra. It’s the most powerful one as it’s responsible for integrating the lower and upper three. It is a part of every other chakra healing and integration because it offers your process wisdom (seeing the big picture), compassion, understanding, patience, love and other qualities while you work through these important reckonings.

The Meditation Path offers a variety of heart chakra and Love focused practices that will enrich and lighten your integration experience while allowing you to express a greater field of love, so please do keep up with your Meditation Path Practices.

The last section has additional supplementary information you may find useful during the next four weeks of solar plexus chakra focus.