Welcome to Week 3, babe!

This week is all about your Solar Plexus chakra. Here you will learn all about yours, gain some wisdom, and learn some cool tools that you can use to nourish yours.

How was this past week for you as you learned about your Sacral and how to nourish it? What things did you find yourself gravitating towards?

For me, I did a lot of womb energy work, used Sacral specific essential oils, ate lots of Sacral attuned foods, and danced (thank goodness this is one of my jobs!).

I truly hope you are enjoying this deep dive into each chakra and gaining some tools you can use in your life. I love to teach others tools and teachings that they can implement into their own life as a way to create healing rituals that nourish themselves on ALL levels.

So, let’s get into the the Solar Plexus Chakra, shall we?

Solar Plexus Chakra

This chakra honors the "life force". It creates a uniqueness and enables you to transform through YOUR will and personal power. Empowers you and fuels your actions in this world.

Power and balance in this chakra pave the way for your life of success/results and knowing WHO YOU ARE. It's all about our personal power in this chakra.

When balanced this chakra gives us the confidence to assert ourselves in this world. Also associated with this chakra are the feelings of "I AM ENOUGH!".

The main function of this energy center is to provide actual momentum to move forward and realize personal desires and intentions in the world. It plays a fundamental role in the development of personal power. It feeds one’s direction in life and the actions taken to reach your goals. It influences preoccupations about social status and self-image.

Location:
Just above the navel (belly button).
*about 2 fingers width ABOVE the navel area*

Developed:
4-5 years old

This is all about our self-esteem. During this age you begin to witness and feel your sense of personal power. You begin to feel stronger emotional responses and pulls.

And you also start to see how the emotions you may express affect the others in your ecosphere. You start to take notice of how when you express (give your emotion an energetic discharge) an emotion through action...how it brings about a response or reaction from your caretaker/environment. (yelling, spanking, etc.).

If your caregiver/environment allows for healthy expression, then we are in return filled up with a healthy expression and sense of confidence. IF it is the opposite, then we may shut down or feel guilty for expressing our emotions and expressing ourselves. Therefore, we bottle it all up.

What it governs:
Willpower, Energy, Metabolism, Self-Esteem, Social Identity, Happiness, Personal Power, Self-Worth, Confidence, Self-Assurance, Self-Discipline, Authencity, and Individuality.

Organ(s) it is associated with:
Pancreas

Elemental Sign:
Fire

Color of Solar Plexus:
Yellow

Signs of Imbalance or Block on PHYSICAL side:

· Eating Disorders
· Digestive Issues
· Low Blood Sugar
· Ulcers
· Diabetes
· Respiratory Issues
· Arthritis
· Hypoglycemia
· Addiction Issues
· Kidney Issues
· Liver Issues
· Fibromyalgia
· Issues with GAINING or LOSING weight

Signs on Imbalance or Block on EMOTIONAL side:

· Anxiety
· Loss of Control
· Excessive Control Issues
· Low Self-worth
· Lack of willpower
· Shame
· Anger
· Guilt
· Rage
· Short fused
· Helpless feelings
· Irresponsible
· Lack of purpose
· Little to no ambition
· Codependency and/or copying other people
· Depression
· Insecure

Excessive Energy (example):
Control Freak

Deficient (example):
Victimhood mentality. Does not speak up.

1. Earthing:
Bare feet to the Earth. 20-min a day/minimum. Earth is the BEST grounding source. Fills us up with her energy while allowing us to release and dump extra/un-serving energy.

2. Essential Oils:
Apply any of the following to your hands and rub onto the space ABOVE the navel: Lemon, Lemongrass, Acceptance*, or Harmony* (*Young Living Blend Oil)

Say this affirmation after applying while cupping hands to nose area while doing deep inhalations of the EO (do 3 times):

"I am enough."
OR
"I stand in my power and I love myself."
OR
“I am a sovereign being and I trust myself completely.
OR
“I am have an abundance of energy every single day.”
OR
“I am more than capable of making all of my dreams come true”

Do this as often as you feel the need to use the oil. Until you feel in harmony and those emotions/physical issues has subsided.

3. Crystal Therapy:
Wear, hold. or meditate with the any of the following crystals:
Amber, Citrine, gold jewelry, or Tigers Eye

Pick whichever you feel guided to. When meditating I like to place the stone right over chakra area on the front of my body and let the crystal go to work.

4. Color Therapy:
Wear this color (clothes, nail polish, jewelry, etc.) or decorate your space with this color to help balance this chakra. YELLOW is the color of the Solar Plexus Chakra. Even just envisioning yellow in your mind’s eye will help too.

5. Food Therapy:
Yellow Peppers, Bananas, Ginger, Lemons, Pineapple, Yellow Squash, Corn, Peaches, Yellow Tomatoes, Chamomile Tea, Lemongrass Tea, and Lemon water. All of these are nourishing to the Solar Plexus.

6. Physical Movement:
Yoga is great for this chakra. Especially poses such as: Sun Salutations and Warrior Poses.

Breath-work is another powerful cleansing tool of activation to use as well. (lots of free resources on YouTube) “Breath of Fire” is a great cleansing breath to use for your Solar Plexus.

7. Shower:
YES-water is SUCH a fucking great chakra cleanser. Works on ALL chakras.

Just envision the water being a beautiful golden light that is literally washing away all the energy that is not needed while filling you up with what you need. See the excess and un-serving energy flowing right on down the drain.

Make sure to thank the water spirits too after cleansing your energy. I have heard stories from others who worked with water spirits, didn’t properly give thanks, and then they had a plumbing issue shortly after.

8. Meditation:
I do not think I need to go into this in much detail. Meditation is helpful and key to keeping our energy/chakras in balance.

Meditate on the COLOR yellow as you do this. Set a timer for 5-minutes and visualize. That is it...simple. Mediation does NOT have to be LONG or drawn out. 5 minutes is a powerful amount.

9. Sun Therapy:
This chakra is fire-y and yellow like the sun. So, some time spend soaking up the sun rays is good for this energy center. 20-min of sun time is about all you need to drink up the energy and all the potent vitamin D it offers.

I do about 20 min of this with no sunscreen (totally safe, but if you do not want to do that....wear sunscreen. The sun is very charging and cleansing to this chakra. Look into Heliotherapy if you want to uncover the truth about the sun and it’s healing abilities. I am planning a podcast on this very soon. The sun has been demonized for far too long and I plan to speak the truth on this subject.

Your Solar Plexus is all about owning who you are, being who you are, and being comfortable with who you are. It connects us to our authenticity (along with connecting to its buddy the Heart Chakra).

Are you tapped into that?
Do you know who you are?

If you are unsure, I suggest you get to work with this chakra and tap into your own personal well of power.

As you begin to work with the Solar Plexus energy center you begin to feel MORE confident accessing and owning your inner power/gifts/voice and KNOW who you are. You trust that.

It is also important to note that for a free-flowing SP channel we also need to drop in and check the ROOT and SACRAL flow as well. EVERYTHING is interconnected and works together, everything. No one system works alone : ) This is why I teach energy work from the ROOT up…not the other way around. Your bottom 3 chakras are your base layers and your foundation. I healthy foundation is CRUCIAL for the mind, body, and soul expressions.

I hope you found this week’s chakra newsletter insightful, inspiring, wisdom filled, and full of action oriented insight and energy for you as you embark on your new week.

Please feel free to email me back to share how the first two weeks went for you or to ask/share any insights from Week 3 that you have had.

Enjoy your week long love affair with your Solar Plexus!

Hugs,
Nichol