Solar plexus: its location and its meaning
The solar plexus is a name to define the third chakra: it is located between the abdominal area and the navel. Its functioning has an important influence on emotions. Unblocking it means strengthening one's self-esteem and increasing one's awareness by managing emotions in a manner Self-esteem can be strengthened with simple exercises: watch the video and let yourself be guided towards a new state of well-being and inner balance!
Blocked solar plexus: a punch to the stomach
The solar plexus, in addition to emotions and will, also regulates nutrition, autonomy and metabolism. Its dominating element is Fire, a symbol of light and heat and spiritual illumination. This area often freezes, even for repressed emotions and reactions, due to dissatisfaction with one's life, with one's sentimental and emotional relationships in general, but it is very important to ensure that energy flows freely in it. In addition to the gastrointestinal tract, the mucous membranes, the rhythm of sleep can also be affected. , the heart. The production of adrenaline, which stimulates your reaction to a shock, pain or a moment of panic, occurs thanks to the adrenal glands. In each individual there are 7 chakras (Chakra in Sanskrit means wheel, a circle that absorbs the universal Energy and releases energy to the outside): the solar plexus is the third, counting from below, and is identified with an energy that it goes through all seven stages to the stage of self-aware consciousness. Each chakra is associated with a color, a musical note, a mantra, a natural element or a planet and a zodiac sign. If your solar plexus is blocked, it can cause you physical weakness, inability to be in control of your emotions; you may show excessive consumption of food, intolerance towards others, lack of vitality, insecurity, anxiety, gastric and digestive disorders. To make the gastrointestinal system work well and breathe fully, you need to unblock the third chakra. As your solar plexus begins to open, you will regain more rational control over emotions, which will not affect your will. Doubts will vanish, self-esteem will increase, at the expense of feelings of guilt, and also the sensation of pleasure. This area of the body between the navel and the diaphragm receives nerve stimuli that affect your mood and your behavior with the outside world.
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The solar plexus: the chakra that guides the stomach!
"A punch in the stomach", "I have a closed stomach", "I have butterflies in my stomach" are expressions that indicate exaggerated emotion, emotional malaise and anguish. Changes in mood, psychological pains such as anxiety, panic and apathy are received by the solar plexus. Stress, agitation, fear are always discharged in the solar plexus area, also called celiac, together with anger, resentment, resentment and fear, giving rise to inappetence, dysentery, insatiable hunger or spastic colitis. To relax the third chakra and regain physical well-being as soon as possible, it is necessary to take hot drinks or heat the area with the water bag. The heat relaxes and has a beneficial effect on your suffering organism, restoring it quickly. From the solar plexus they depart. all energies, which involve intestines, stomach, liver, gall bladder, nervous system, eyes, teeth and nails. If the solar plexus works well, your body will enjoy good health. The emotional part greatly affects the health of the body: for this reason you suffer from psychosomatic disorders. Fears, panic, anxiety hinder breathing, shortening it. In this situation you are unable to expel carbon dioxide well from the lungs and therefore not even mental toxins, such as negative thoughts and stress , which in addition to slowing your breath, make your muscles tense, damage blood circulation and tissue oxygenation. To completely expel toxins, you must practice non-contracted breathing, otherwise good detoxification is not achieved.
Meditation: a valid means to detoxify the mind-body system.
Meditation is one of the best tools to detoxify the mind-body system, as it relaxes your muscles, calms the restless mind, changes negative emotions, transforming them into positive sensations and giving rise to biochemical chain reactions that benefit the functioning of all your internal organs. Even physical activity, if moderate, has beneficial effects on mood and body, oxygenating the skin and brain and stimulating the production of endorphins. You have to learn to breathe, to command the breath. Yoga breathing helps you master the solar plexus and cancel the negative, including through the visualization of a yellow flower or sun. In times of need, this chakra, connected to the golden yellow, symbol of the sun of vitality and knowledge, will give you wisdom and self-confidence. Each chakra is associated with a color, a musical note, a mantra, a natural element, a planet and a zodiac sign.
Foot reflexology can also help, as the solar plexus point is located under the third toe, which is pressed according to the rhythm of breathing. You can also by yourself / or rotate the two big toes counterclockwise for a few minutes.
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The third chakra: characteristics and peculiarities.
The sense of smell has a great influence on the third chakra; in fact, the pleasantly scented essential oils, such as that of lemon which is energizing, that of anti-anxiety ginger, that of peppermint, which promotes determination, that of rosemary, which helps digest , that of bergamot, which relaxes, can promote your beneficial meditation, to relax and soothe you, if burned in room diffusers. Used for massages, they help to unblock the solar plexus. We advise you to mix a dl of linseed oil a few drops of lemon oil, mint and ginger to massage on the solar plexus, breathing slowly. It is also important to consume yellow foods, typical of this chakra: cheeses, chamomile, bananas, yellow peppers and cedar. The third chakra, the site of all emotions, for the famous dancer Isadora Duncan it was the source of the movements of the dance projected from the inside out. If you compare yourself to a tree, think that the solar or celiac plexus represents your roots. Everything you produce and externally, your fruits, your metaphorical leaves come from there. Starting from the bottom, the first Chakra is Muladhara, the center of the coccyx, located at the base of the spine: it represents the Earth element, our survival instinct and rationality.The second is Svadhistana, Sacral or Center of the Cross, located in the abdominal area, but further down, behind the reproductive system: it connects with the Water element, with desire and sexuality. The Third is precisely that of the solar plexus. The Fourth is that of the heart, Anahata: it is the center of the system and is connected to deep love, piety and peace. The Fifth is Vishuddha: the center of the neck, throat, communication and creativity, sound and self-expression. The sixth is Ajna: the center of command, of wisdom, of knowledge, the Third Eye, which nourishes the ability to understand and your psychic faculties. The Seventh is Sahasrara, the center of the Vortex: it connects to consciousness in the sense of complete self-awareness, it is the 1000 petalled lotus, the universal identity.
Their main function is to absorb Universal Energy, metabolize it and then release energy to the outside. Each center refers to certain organs of the body and has its own psychic and spiritual functions. The blockage or lack of energy of a chakra upsets the mind, body and spirit.
Anti-stress tips, yoga and perfect breathing.
When you experience a shock, an unpleasant sensation, a pain, a negative emotion, your intestinal gastric system reacts immediately, that is, it somatises these sensations on a physical level. Sometimes your organs don't work well, because they are compromised by everyday stress, busy life, fear, which can cause various ailments. Some people feel tension in the diaphragm area, underneath the lower, floating ribs, a muscle that is involved in good breathing. Negative emotions block breathing, both as inhalation and as exhalation with consequences on oxygenation and toxins. You must be able to manage stress, not to live in a hectic way, not to be enslaved by negative emotions, not to pour all kinds of negativity on the solar plexus, with devastating consequences on your state of physical and mental well-being, for example, insomnia, depression, anxiety or panic, gastrointestinal problems, frequent headaches. Thanks to Yoga, all the chakras are discharged and therefore also the third, the center that distributes energy. To free it and eliminate all kinds of stress you have to learn to breathe. Then unlock the blocked and blocked energies and you will be able to overcome the problems of the gastrointestinal area. of the other ailments. To rebalance your solar plexus, try to often expose yourself to the sun, admire others, be proud and take better care of yourself, accept new challenges, complete projects left unfinished and dedicated to pleasant activities. Decorate your desk with golden yellow items. Pathologies always originate from energy blocks! Become mistress of your breath, learn to command it, so you will know how to dominate your moods, your mood and you will be able to change every emotion into positivity, even the very negative ones. By breathing well, you are able to exert useful work on your mind and make all kinds of physical and spiritual pain bearable.
