Working with your Solar Plexus Chakra: Manipura

Manipura, your Solar Plexus Chakra, is located just above your navel and extends through to your central spine.

The Solar Plexus Chakra is the first emotional chakra, rather than being instinctive. This is the chakra of intelligence, technology, and science. It is associated with ideas, goals, ambitions and on having the resolve, bravery, and confidence to strive for those ideas and goals.

The Solar Plexus Chakra is also about self-confidence and the feeling of self-worth. The Solar Plexus Chakra gives you the energy and confidence to see new ideas through to the end.

Those with a strong, balanced Solar Plexus Chakra may make excellent spiritual healers, or accountants or lawyers.

Overactive Solar Plexus Chakra

When your Solar Plexus Chakra is overactive, or exaggerated, you may find yourself arguing with or frequently freezing out your loved ones. And while you may fear the thought of being alone, you will often bully, use sarcasm, express anger and irritability, and be hurtful with those you hold closest. **

You may resign yourselves to situations with limited human interaction, leaning towards the logical and analytical while removing the emotional component.

Underactive Solar Plexus Chakra

When your Solar Plexus Chakra is underactive, or deficient, you may feel desperate for the approval of those around you. You will put on your people-pleaser hat in an attempt to attain acceptance and love. Your insecurities and lack of confidence will make it difficult to achieve your goals, often giving up on yourself too soon. You may feel overwhelmed by your emotions, leading to indecisiveness. Your low vibrational energy and desire to please may allow others to take advantage of you.

Solar Plexus Chakra and Your Health

The Solar Plexus Chakra is said to rule over digestion, as it is in the middle of the body. If this chakra is unbalanced, there may be difficulty digesting food or converting that food to energy. This could result in malnutrition, fatigue, and poor internal healing abilities.

Here are a few of the common Solar Plexus Chakra health complaints: stomach ulcers, gastric blockages, liver problems, gallstones, hypoglycemia, weight gain, kidney problems, malaria, skin problems and eye problems.

Healing Your Solar Plexus Chakra

There are many ways to heal your Chakras. Working with an energy healer is an excellent way to jumpstart the healing process for you. Energy healing is a noninvasive therapy where the healer uses their connection to the Universe to channel energy through themselves and direct that energy, through their hands, to your Chakras.

If you wish to work on your Chakras alone, you can always develop your connection to the Universe and channel your own healing energy. White light with blue flecks for health, pale green flecks for emotional healing, or pale lavender flecks for spiritual healing.

Physical objects may aid in your Chakra healing, such as crystals, things of certain colors, or essential oils.

Use cleansed and charged crystals for Chakra healing, hold them in your hands and envision the crystal directing its energy into your Chakra. Crystals that are linked to your Solar Plexus Chakra are:

• Yellow Amber

• Amethyst

• Calcite

• Citrine

• Tiger’s Eye

• Sodalite

• Yellow Jasper

• Topaz

• Yellow Fluorite

• Honey Calcite

Essential Oils may also be used to heal and align your Chakras, though it is best to speak with a qualified aromatherapist before you use essential oils because they can have an effect on the entire body. Make sure to use a carrier oil if you are applying the oil directly to your skin, or, to be safer, add a few drops into your bath or a diffuser.

Essential Oils for the Solar Plexus Chakra are:

• Bergamot

• Grapefruit

• Juniper

• Lemon

• Peppermint

• Geranium

• Ginger

• Rosemary

Color Healing is another interesting way to heal your Chakras. Color healing is a way of introducing color to the chakras to produce a specific outcome. Anything will work, a piece of ribbon, large buttons, marbles, or a scrap of material. As long as the color is bright and clear. Plain color is better than patterned.

Place the colored item either next to the chakra or on top of the chakra, visualize a white energy coming from the Universe, as it passes through the item, it takes on the color of that item and directs itself to the chakra being healed.

The Solar Plexus Chakra is associated with the color Yellow. Yellow is related to your willpower, your self-motivation and action. It can give you clarity when you are confused.

Lastly, another way to use Color Healing is to eat fruits and vegetables in the color associated with the Chakra for a day or two.

Fruits and vegetables including:

• Bananas

• Parsnips

• Yellow Peppers

• Lemons

• Sweet Corn

I hope you find this information helpful when working with your Solar Plexus Chakra.

Reference: Chakra Healing: Your Personal Guide by Roberta Vernon