The Chakra's: The Solar Plexus
Just above the navel is the Solar Plexus chakra. It is the center of inner fire. Heat and all its attributes live in this chakra. Our strength and personal will find their power source here.
The element of the Solar Plexus is fire, its colour is yellow and its sense is sight. The Solar Plexus is the inner battery, when it is strong and charged we have courage, confidence and the drive to follow our dreams.
Our metabolism is healthy and we have a hearty appetite for food and living. We have energy and excitement for all areas in our lives.
A blocked or weakened Solar Plexus shows up as sluggish digestion, low metabolism, weakened liver function, which can lead to bigger problems such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure. A lowered immune system and all manner of intestinal problems surface when the Solar Plexus is not strong, as does obesity, anorexia, bulimia, and other issues with food and diet.
A blocked Solar Plexus weakens our courage, our confidence in our abilities, and our vital life force. We can become lethargic and lazy. Our motivation to do anything drops.
The Root, Sacral and Solar Plexus chakras are considered in some writings as the ‘primal’ or ‘primary’ chakras. They deal with our most basic needs and functions as humans. Survival, procreation and strength are the very essence of all beings needs. When we move on to the Heart and ‘high’ chakras we begin to deal more with emotions, desires and wants. We move beyond mere survival to the issues that make life worth living. However without the three lower chakras we have no legs to stand on, so to speak. Without our basic needs taken care of there is neither time nor energy to strive for higher goals. Therefore working with these three lower chakras starts on the path to enlightment.
There are many things one can do to strengthen and work with the Solar Plexus. Dietary and herbal cleanses are a good way to make a fresh start and clean out our physical body and our mind. Simple to complex cleanses can be found in books and on the Internet. Health food stores often carry a wide range of “kit’s” for liver cleanses, colon cleanses and Candida cleanses (over abundance of yeast/fungus in the body). My sister recently embarked on an extreme candida cleanse using the ‘yeast busters kit’ . She has had excellent results, not only is she feeling more energetic than she has in years, she’s also losing weight because she is eating very health food.
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