Solar Plexus Chakra - Positive and Negative Aspects

When addressing the seven main subtle energy centers of our body - the so called 7 chakras - we should not avoid dealing with the Solar Plexus area where the Third Energy Center, Manipura, is located. Manipura chakra is a term from the ancient Sanskrit language meaning jewel-city, while the more popular term in the new age community is Solar Plexus Chakra.

If we want to understand the meaning of this center, we should consider its position with respect to the other bodily energy vortexes first. Situated between the second Spleen Chakra and the fourth Heart Chakra, the Solar Plexus is a center of friendship and personal power. The second energy center is related to the subject of sexuality, it is the place where we are made what we are, male or female. On the other hand, it should come as no surprise that the fourth center is a place where our Higher Self resides - a focal and controlling point related to all things connected with love and higher emotions. Therefore, the Solar Plexus center can be understood as representing a link between the two. The color of this chakra is yellow with clear symbolic meaning of intellectual understanding and reasoning. It relates to the element of fire, clearly indicating its Solar nature. It has 10 petals (see the photo) which open toward the frontal part of our body. In its positive influences, this center provides inner fire, solace and ease from many self imposed troubles, but be sure to realize that on the negative side, fire means anger and rage.

It is the point where our "gut feelings" (related to various people and situations) originate. According to Swami Satyananda Saraswati, this chakra causes old age, physical and mental weakness, and decay because of burning up the so-called nectar of immortality from the Bindu chakra.

Bestowing a sort of awareness of our higher identity, the solar plexus is the place where our own personal force and strength dwells. If we think about strength, intuitive analysis, self-respect, and lofty emotions, we are close to what this center means in its positive aspects. If we want to improve our ability to make new and maintain old friends we should open the Solar Plexus. Then, we will be able to make new friends gracefully and effortlessly.

Manipura and the Adrenal Glands

The physical equivalent of the Manipura chakra are the adrenal glands. While the term "adrenal gland" might not mean anything for you, the expression "flight or flight" is very well known and represents the essence of these glands. Whenever you are in a stressful situation, these glands excrete adrenaline, which helps energize the body and prepare it for action.

Another interesting link is the connection between the adrenal glands and the pineal gland (equivalent of the third eye chakra). This indicated a strong link between the Ajna and Manipura chakras, as indeed is the case in many ways.

So the solar plexus, effectively via the adrenals, has a close relation with the immune system and is affected by stressful situations. Stress seems to have huge effect on the Manipura chakra, which can be sensed as a feeling of tightening in this area.

Signs of Blocked Manipura

If it is blocked, we will start to feel isolated and lonely, incapable of moving forward, stacked in our empty shell of despair and depression. If your third chakra is imbalanced or blocked, you may also encounter some of the following emotional, mental, and physical problems:

• affected self-esteem
• anxiety
• depression
• emotional insecurity
• little or no self-control
• blood sugar problems (diabetes)
• ulcers
• impaired digestion
• liver, spleen, and kidney problems
• weight problems

If this center is blocked for a longer period of time, you will start lacking on self esteem and natural self love. You will not be able to properly focus our efforts in business and personal matters. You will find yourself incapable of fulfilling your duties. You won't be able to make the right choices and take proper actions.

Unblocking the Solar Plexus

So, the question is how can we unblock the blocked solar plexus?

• One obvious choice is to work with a healer, or Reiki practitioner. If they are genuine and good in what they do, they should help by restoring your own energy flow through this center.
• My favorite way, however, is meditation. It is very effective, given that you know how to meditate properly. Any meditation technique can help, and if you are new, there is a simple one to get you going.
• What meditation will do is get your own healing energy circulating through the body. To make it more effective, a good idea is to utilize visualization. You can visualize golden yellow color, which is the color associated with this energy center. You can combine your meditation with deep, rhythmic breathe, visualizing the hurts and pains leaving the third chakra area with every breathing out.
• Yet another option is to use invocation. You can invoke the healing powers of the Ruby Ray and the Golden Ruby flame. This flame is super effective and when invoked the right way, it is able to help instantly.
• You can also surround yourself with objects related with the Manipura chakra. Select gold or yellow clothes, eat more yellow foods, wear gold jewelry, use yellow or gold gemstones (sunstone, citrine, amber, tiger's eye) can help balance and open your Solar plexus chakra.
• Practice inner fire meditation. It is a great exercise for cleansing and purification of your entire body and mind. This meditation can help you generate inner fire that rushes up the central channel and blows away any blockages in the chakras, including the the solar plexus chakra. You can also use the awakened energy to heal parts of your body that need healing.
• Spend more time in the sun. Expose the solar plexus area sunlight. As a side benefit, sunbathing will help improve your vitamin D levels.

Awakened Solar Plexus

If, however, this seat of consciousness is awakened, we can become truly conscious of our life and spiritual nature. In the practice of awakening the Kundalini Yoga Chakras, when the ability is reached to rise the Kundalini energy to the third chakra, a power of looking into the higher planes of existence emerges. Not only that -- the awakened third chakra center provides wisdom to understand the entire bodily system, to create defensive mechanisms against external influences if needed, and to gain freedom from all sort of diseases.

On the physical level, the solar plexus center influences, according to its position, the intestines, spleen, liver, and pancreas. Usually, our persistent emotional and mental blockages descend to the subtle etheric body and start to affect the physical plane after a period of time. Hence, this process brings diseases and disruptions in the material body. We can deal with our problems at the level of the solar plexus chakra, by accommodating friendship, and willingness to receive new ideas from the others, in contrast to arousing fear, rage, and other unpleasant emotions. Once our Solar Plexus Chakra is opened and healthy, there will hardly ever appear any gloomy feeling in our lives.

Comments:

Lyz says:
06-23-2013

Thank you... This information was very helpful... Moments ago I felt my solar plexus pop as I was texting a new friend... I have so wanted to open to this energy and had no idea where or what it was that I was opening to. In short, you helped bring clarity to something that feels important to me.

sunnyray says:
06-27-2013

Thanks Lyz. Indeed our navel chakra is what can help us all be better connected to each other (besides here is the location of the Hara as well). With love and light, sunny!

nicol says:
12-21-2013

Thanks for this text. Sometimes I feel anxiety and pressure in my 3rd chakra. How can I deal with that?

sunnyray says:
12-23-2013

Anxiety is something that arises from issues that cannot be rationally decided. The solar plexus area is related to all aspects of the personality, and anxiety belongs there. For example, if you have to choose between two seemingly equal options, you might have a problem that potentionally has no rational resolution. However, you can use your intuition and other more spiritual means of decision making to solve your problem. When seen in the light of the soul, there is no more uncertainty, anxiety, fear or confussion.

aray says:
01-20-2014

What are the foods that are beneficial for this chakra?

sunnyray says:
01-20-2014

As the name solar suggests, fruits and yellow-colored foods (lemon, banana, corn), integral grains and legumes should be most beneficial for balancing and proper functioning of the solar plexus chakra.

Anna says:
10-10-2015

What are the positive thought forms, patterns and behaviors that are associated with a balanced solar plexis?

sunnyray says:
10-11-2015

Balanced solar plexus brings well-being, stability, clarity, wisdom, and self-confidence. We feel happiness, friendship, and love. Here, our passions are being transformed into selfless love and understanding, and this love is further expanded in the heart center. If the solar plexus is balanced, we are well balanced too, and we have great personal strength and self-awareness.

Ingrid says:
03-11-2016

Thank you, I have only been using the Solar Plexus Chakra for about a week and I can feel the positive effects already. I feel so good, Thank you once again.

Ingrid

sunnyray says:
03-15-2016

Many thanks to you Ingrid. Your feedback means a lot to us. Keep up the good metaphysical work with your chakras. With love and light,
sunnyray

josephsunny says:
05-17-2016

Meditation time am getting yellow light in my thrideye .what is that yellow light.

sunnyray says:
05-18-2016

It could be the Yellow Light of the Second Light Ray.

Siddharth Tripathi says:
03-06-2017

Through my journey of meditation, I never had any problem with my solar plex, but today I felt some sort of pain and a hot sensation in that region, help!

Emma says:
04-26-2017

Hello. Just reading this is helping. My solar plexus feeling is so bad I just don't know what to do.I don't know what to ask or say. I'm exhausted.

sunnyray says:
04-28-2017

Give it some time for your energy levels to replenish. I know, it's not so easy to function in this world filled with stress and surrounded by so many negative vibrations. Do you do any meditations? If not, some kind of meditation is a must for everyone.

Rekha Nair says:
09-24-2017

I started recently meditation while doing my solar plex sudden start to vibrating and lightly pain .what is the meaning that

sunnyray says:
09-24-2017

Don't worry about it, it is more or less normal to sense vibrations and other sensations in different part of your body while meditating. It could be cleansing of blocked energy in that area, for example. Just continue meditating, as if nothing were happening.

Deb says:
12-22-2017

After attending shamanic drum circle about a month ago, my solar plexus feels as tender. Sometimes just a fluttering like butterflies, other times like the wind has been knocked out me. My psychic abilities are increasing. What is going on with me?

sunnyray says:
12-22-2017

The solar plexus chakra is being activated?

Mickey says:
04-26-2018

This has indeed been helpful, please i need books like this mailed to me. But just one question, what is the relationship between the Solar Plexus Chakra and the subconscious mind?

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