Solar Plexus Chakra

There is a great series of workshops in progress for the chakras. Every 2 weeks, will be an information session on a chakra. Those who are following the entire series will spend the days in between working on that chakra. A couple weeks ago the class for the Solar Plexus Chakra was given with an excellent group of 5 participants. Here is some information about the Solar Plexus Chakra:

SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA
The solar plexus chakra is located in the upper abdoment between the navel and the base of the sternum. It is sometimes called the stomach chakra as it involves the digestive organs and the diaphram. Other organs associated with this chakra are the liver, pancreas, and the middle back.

This is the chakra of FIRE and of ACTION. Its colors are shades of yellow. The gemstones for this chakra are citrine, tiger's eye, yellow topaz, amber, brass, and gold. The herbs and oils for this chakra are clove, cinnamon, ginger, hot pepper, horse radish, cardamom, saffron, curry.

If you wish to ingest substances to help connect with this chakra, eat foods that are spicy. For those who like teas, we recommend an chai or a lemon/ginger tea.

This chakra is associated with active or doing energy, power, self-control, courage, self-awareness, self-knowledge, will, personal strength, and the ego. You know you have problems or blocks with your navel chakra if you have sexual digestive problems or nausea with anxiety. This chakra is also associated with anger and anger management. SHAME blocks this chakra. Work through the things you feel ashame of or dissappointed about to clear out and open this chakra. Stop self-denial and be more accepting of yourself. You will feel balanced and more able to do what you want to do.

Some things you can do to meditate and connect with this chakra are to do exercises to work out the stomach muscles (like crunches), breathing from the diaphram, deep yelling (find a field or some place no one will care about and yell AAAAAAAAA in adeep tone from the diaphram as loudly and for as long as you can).

This chakra is also about the RIGHT TO ACT. You have the right to do what you feel like doing. This is a chakra where you are working on your own personal power and trying not to hand that power to someone else. This is the chakra of CHOICE. You do not HAVE TO DO anything, you CHOOSE TO DO what you do.

As an exercise, try not using the words SHOULD HAVE, COULD HAVE, WOULD HAVE, HAVE TO, and OUGHT TO. Instead use CHOOSE TO. When something is your choice, you maintain control over your own power.