Welcome to the third of your seven chakra meditations in rewiring your nervous system.
You'll be feeling into your solar plexus located in the pit of your stomach in the area above the navel where the diaphragm resides.
And before you begin,
Find a comfortable seated position.
Relax your hips and shoulders.
Soften the abdomen and feel into the area below the lower ribs where the diaphragm moves down into the abdomen on the inhalation and softens back up into the ribcage on the exhalation.
Let your breath expand into the back of the ribs,
Sides of the ribs,
Down into the abdomen and let the breath soften this area at your diaphragm.
Release any tightness or tension in this area and with a soft awareness of your breath,
Allow the information that you receive on the solar plexus to quite literally settle into your stomach,
Into your nervous system,
Connecting to the feeling in your gut.
The solar plexus is associated with fire,
The sun and the color yellow or even gold.
It governs the stomach,
Liver,
Gallbladder,
Your kidneys,
Large intestine and much of the muscular system.
It governs your adrenal glands,
Pancreas,
Diaphragm and the skin.
Any ailments involving the parts of the body governed by the solar plexus points out to the fact that this chakra is out of alignment.
It is your center of personal power,
Personal identity,
Your willpower,
Your sense of personal freedom,
Self-confidence,
Responsibility,
Reliability,
Self-esteem,
Authenticity,
Personal honor and integrity,
Your personal values and ethics,
Your personal sense of control and personal choice.
And this energy in the solar plexus has the ability to move and convert inertia into movement,
Stagnation into movement.
And any aspect that it concerns itself with that is true in its open expression would also be true in its opposite when the solar plexus is out of alignment.
Therefore,
It also concerns itself with feelings of anxiety,
Low self-esteem,
Jealousy,
Behavioral control,
Lack of confidence,
Insecurities,
Feeling trapped,
Not feeling free,
Lack of integrity,
Inauthenticity,
And inertia,
Stagnation,
Even shame and guilt.
And allowing this information that you receive about the solar plexus to settle into your body,
Settle into your nervous system,
Allow it to communicate with your sense of self,
Your identified self.
What brings the solar plexus out of alignment is our relationships.
In that aspect,
It is something that we can reflect on where we might be living out of integrity,
Not in our authenticity,
Where we don't honor our boundaries or where our boundaries may be violated by others.
The solar plexus will quite clearly show and make you feel when you're out of alignment with it,
When you're out of alignment with your personal power,
Your personal confidence,
Your values,
And the responsibility and reliability you take towards yourself.
Connecting to people and relationships that feel good,
That give you that happy feeling,
Connected feeling in the belly,
Are the relationships that nurture the solar plexus.
And you can learn to listen to this feeling in your gut,
This feeling throughout your nervous system in any situation,
In any environment,
In any groups of people or one-on-one encounters.
And taking note of how your body responds to any given situation.
Tuning in to this feeling in the pit of the stomach.
To bring the solar plexus into alignment,
We need to allow ourselves to feel fully seen,
Fully heard and understood,
And felt in the presence of others.
Just allowing this information to integrate.
Again,
Allow it to settle into your body,
Into your mind,
Into your nervous system.
Contemplating this visceral sensation,
This visceral intuition and knowing that can be experienced as a gut feeling.
And just tuning into that.
Allowing the breath to be completely natural.
Let it flow in and out of the area of your diaphragm.
And feeling into our gut.
You may feel an invitation to live authentically and to be completely honest with yourself.
To live according to your authentic truth.
To make the life choices that serve you.
To act with integrity.
And to integrate all parts of you.
Your solar plexus is your center of the power of choice,
Of personal worth and personal empowerment.
And it concerns itself with the practice of mastering relationships,
With mastering connection to yourself and others.
In the most honest and authentic ways.
There's nothing in the universe that is not a part of you.
And by taking everything as a part of you,
You cannot harm,
You cannot not acknowledge,
Without that having a direct effect on yourself.
You cannot honor anything in existence without honoring yourself.
And you cannot harm anything in existence without harming yourself.
If your best interests meet the interests of others,
Then there is a foundation of integral relationships that is set as a basis for the well-being of all.
Feeling into your breath,
Into your body,
Integrating this contemplation.
By taking something as a part of you,
You cannot harm that thing.
You cannot not acknowledge that thing without also harming or honoring yourself.
What you do upon another is what you do to yourself.
And if you can meet and merge your best interests with another's best interest,
This creates the foundation of integrity in relationships.
Allow yourself to settle completely.
Your whole body is completely relaxed.
Your belly is soft.
Allow yourself to connect deeply.
And then taking another gentle moment or so to close this contemplative practice.
Take your time.
And when you feel ready,
Step back into the world.
Thank you for your practice.
Namaste.
