This is a meditation for your solar plexus or manipura chakra.
Find a comfortable position,
A place where you can be relaxed but also alert in control of where your awareness lies.
Open the muscles in your face,
Relax your shoulders down away from your ears.
Soften your belly,
Don't hold it in or make it small.
Just let it relax.
Take a nice deep breath in through your nose.
Open the mouth and sigh it out.
Take another deep breath in,
Open your mouth and sigh it out.
Now seal the lips,
Begin to breathe in and out of your nose.
Keeping this deep slow breath,
Cultivating your ujjayi breath,
Restricting the muscles in the back of the throat,
Creating an oceanic whisper.
Sit to this breath for this entire meditation.
Breathe deep into your belly.
With every out breath,
Press the air down deep into your core.
Today we're focusing on the solar plexus,
The energy center that lies in your belly.
This center holds our personality,
Our passions,
Pleasures,
Our creativity.
Can you bring your awareness to this energy center?
Imagine you are radiating yellow light from this space.
This space holds our truest self.
Everything this world likes to try to take away from us.
Our true self.
Our true self can be messy.
Our passions and pleasures aren't always graceful or pretty,
But they are us.
Take a deep inhale.
As you exhale,
Begin to build fire in the belly.
Feel this heat radiate throughout your entire body.
Use your ujjayi breath to fuel this fire.
As you inhale,
Draw confidence up from the earth beneath you.
As you exhale,
Release any judgment that you hold onto.
As you inhale,
Call in abundance.
As you exhale,
Release shame in who you are.
The affirmation for our solar plexus is,
I am fire.
As you inhale,
Recite to yourself,
I am.
As you exhale,
Fire.
Exhale,
I am.
Exhale,
Fire.
Continue on your own,
Writing this into your narrative.
Now I want you to imagine your truest self.
Bring this image into your mind.
What does he or she look like?
What does your truest self look like?
What are you wearing?
What are you doing?
Where are you living?
How do you speak to others?
How do you speak to yourself?
Draw this image in your mind with glorious,
Beautiful detail.
Let the energy from your solar plexus fill you up,
Bringing this image to life.
Soften every single muscle in your body.
Notice if you're clenching your jaw or furrowing your brow in concentration.
I want you to take five deep breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth.
I want you to take five deep breaths in through your mouth and out through your mouth.
When you're done,
Begin to bring your awareness back into your body.
Allow your breath to become natural.
Begin to find some movement as you allow your eyes to open.
Let the energy from your solar plexus fill you up.
Let the energy from your solar plexus fill you up.
Let the energy from your solar plexus fill you up.
