Maṇipūra ☥ The Solar Plexus Chakra
Maṇipūra means "place of the shining gem." It is the third chakra and governs our metabolism, pancreas, liver, bladder, stomach action, intestines, colon and the sense of touch. The location of the solar plexus resides from our navel → the area under our ribcage. It is the embodiment of the fire element and is symbolized by the color yellow. It cultivates discernment through our intellect, how we make decisions, our sense of power, collecting information, assimilating ideas and our joy.
When our solar plexus chakra is in balance, we possess a strong will, sense of power, healthy boundaries, decisiveness and our inner wisdom drives outer actions. When out of balance, we may experience diabetes, anorexia, IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), skin rashes, liver problems, hypoglycemia, bulimia, allergies, indigestion, obesity, fatigue, digestive problems or overbearing behaviors. A blockage of the solar plexus chakra could result in an array of disorders such as a lack of trust, feeling overprotective, closed off, shut down emotionally, a lack of focus or stomach problems.
A Double Down Digression On The Cultivation Of Discernment
You may have guessed that I'll soon be talking about yellow foods as a solar plexus balancing strategy, but since we are at the beginning of a series of deep dive digressions, you may want to get some healthy snacks and an extra comfortable reading space. I had a client who was struggling with diabetes. He had changed his diet, but couldn't seem to regulate his sugar levels without medication. When I became Holistic Health Practitioner, I cracked a code that was almost impossible for me to disseminate to my clients because I couldn't get past their belief system. When we are working on a health issue, and we've taken all of the known outside actions but still haven't experienced progress, it is because we have neglected to look inside of ourselves.
I believe that most people have been so programmed to run from themselves, that they can't even hear me when I assert this truth.
As I attempted to figure out how to share this insight with my client, I realized that I would have to go directly to the source, so I asked him: "Where do you find your joy?" He became silent and instantly started to cry. That question led us to the root cause of the diabetes. Once he felt safe to express himself, he was able to admit that he had:
☥ Allowed the actions of other people to siphon joy away from him
☥ Suppressed his sense of will and power in order to "walk on eggshells" around other
people, particularly in personal relationships
☥ Forgotten what gave him joy in his life
☥ Placed hobbies and self-care on the back-burner of his life
It took me a while to convince him that these issues were fueling the diabetes. I told him that joy is like the sweetness of life. Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant People crave sugar because colonization has taken the sweetness out of life, and it is a cheap, quick fix way to get it back on a daily basis. This type of passive/aggressive behavior has led to an epidemic of diabetes in Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant communities. If the solar plexus chakra were a coin, one side would be our joy and the other side would be our power. When we reclaim our personal power in the midst of oppression, we invite the sweetness back into our lives and lose the obsessive craving for sugar. He was amazed to witness his body regulating blood sugar on its own as he worked to reverse the behaviors that robbed him of his personal power.
A mantra is a word or series of words that is repeated continuously to achieve a higher state of consciousness or to imprint an idea.
The Missed Opportunity Of The Mantra
Mantras have been mocked to the point of sheer buffoonery in multimedia so it is understandable that those of us who grew up in the Western world would shy away from investigating its purpose. However, mantras are widely used in the Western world to imprint ideas, such as the repetitive use of phrases in jingles or commercials to sell a product. To this end, the mantra can yield either a positive effect that serves the highest good, or a negative/manipulative effect. Mantras that have a negative/manipulative effect could include:
☥ Negative self-talk, self-shaming and self-deprecation
☥ Repetition designed to give the appearance of a truth or to shift public perception
towards a specific narrative
Let's explore a few examples of negative effects, which will help us to understand the missed opportunity of mantras that yield positive effects. Negative self-talk could run laps around our minds all day such as that was really stupid; I can't believe I just said that; I don't even know why I'm trying to do this; why can't I get my shit together? Negative self-talk can also run in the background of our minds like "white noise" which is especially harmful because it becomes accepted as a part of our identity. Self-shaming and self-deprecation can occur inside our minds or show up repeatedly in conversations with others. Sometimes, we engage in this behavior because we want to make other people comfortable around us who may not be at our socioeconomic status or intellectual understanding. We may also use it to garner affirmation, motivation or support from other people.
Mantras that are designed to give the appearance of a truth or to shift public perception towards a specific narrative often show up in commercials and in popular music. I was tracking a series of commercials that continually promoted fiber as tasting like cardboard. Foods such as dates, mangoes and pineapples are sweet and high in fiber, but they certainly do not taste like cardboard. Several versions of these commercials ran ad nauseam in an attempt to trend the concept in the minds of the general public. This type of mantra is both deceptive and manipulative. A balanced root chakra enables the flow through our solar plexus so that we can discern and extract the truth.
Mantras in popular music could be either negative or positive. Negative mantras are quite damaging and can have life-long effects. In the Fall Back Into Self-Care blog, we learn about the impact of corporate hip hop music that denigrates women. The wisdom of discernment causes us to question who stands to gain from hip hop music that depreciates Black women. One of the school administrators that I collaborated with reported that by the time young Black females entered high school, they had heard the words "bitch" and "ho" repeated to the point that their behavior reflected a subconscious internalization of those terms. It would often take the young Black males at least two years of diligent positive reinforcement before Black female students could accept receiving honor and respect from the Black males, who were being taught how to behave like Kings and treat females like Queens.
Now let's dive into positive mantras as a missed opportunity, particularly in the Black community, where the spiritual purpose of mantras have been demonized. In 2004, Jill Scott released her song Golden, which is a prime example of a positive mantra. We're going to double down on the lyrics of this song, because I've noticed that we tend to enjoy the good feeling of the song, but miss the opportunity to transform our lives by meditating on and taking actions that catalyze positive change.
I'm taking my freedom Pulling it off the shelf Putting it on my chain Wearing it around my neck ... ☥ ☥ Jill Scott ☥
What does "I'm taking my freedom" mean to Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant People? Social programming is effective as a tool that facilitates psychological manipulation because it is so insidious that we may not realize to what extent we have allowed our freedom to be taken from us. So "taking our freedom" becomes a conscious choice, and it often occurs after a realization that we have lost it in some way. It is a powerful statement to say, I'm "pulling it off the shelf, putting it on my chain, wearing it around my neck." We know that a central action of slavery included some form of yoke placed around the enslaveds' neck. We could stop right here and meditate for the next year on how many ways we can take our freedom back. When we are ready to do so, we can move on to the next stanza and take the suggested actions:
I'm taking my freedom Putting it in my car Wherever I choose to go It will take me far ... ☥ ☥ Jill Scott ☥
These statements affirm that freedom is a state of mind. It also implies that we can feel free under some circumstances (i.e. at home) and feel imprisoned under other conditions (i.e. on the job, in a relationship, etc.). The conscious choice to be free wherever we go becomes an affirmation of power which makes this song an ideal balancer for the solar plexus chakra. Now comes the repetitive part of the mantra:
I'm livin' my life like it's golden Livin' my life like it's golden Livin' my life like it's golden Livin' my life like it's golden Livin' my life like it's golden, golden Livin' my life like it's golden Livin' my life like it's golden Livin' my life like it's golden Livin' my life like it's golden Livin' my life like it's golden, golden ☥ ☥ Jill Scott ☥
Because of social programming, we think that mantras can only show up in one form. Whenever we have this feeling, question it and consider why we believe that "one way" is the only way. Our culture, including our intellectual property, has been dismantled, appropriated and infused with other people's ideas of "refinement." In order for us to find our way back to our true selves, we will need to defer to our innate wisdom and not the programming that is forced upon us on a daily basis. This programming includes Aryan influences that have been in place and refined for many centuries. In case we are still unsure about how to make these affirmations come alive in our lives, Jill offers additional wisdom:
I'm taking my freedom Putting it in my song Singing loud and strong Grooving all day long I'm taking my freedom Putting it in my stroll I'll be high-steppin' y'all Letting the joy unfold ... ☥ ☥ Jill Scott ☥
I highly suggest reading ☥ experiencing ☥ re-reading the How To Demystify ☥ Heal Our Emotions blog to revisit the concept and power of "grooving" in order to raise our consciousness to the level of the solutions to challenges we face in life. It's also important for us to remember that when colonizers work diligently to shame something about our culture, they are planning to appropriate, water down and sell it back to us ... in a way that profits them. With this realization, we can understand why it is so important for us to "take our freedom" and reintegrate every aspect of it into our lives, mind ☥ body ☥ emotions. As I share my favorite part of the song, I hope that Jill will forgive me for making a few adjustments in order to include our gender non-conforming family:
I'm holding on to my freedom Can't take it from me I was born into it It comes naturally I'm strumming my own freedom Playing the God in me Representing [their] glory Hope [they're] proud of me ... ☥ ☥ Jill Scott ☥
From Knowledge To Action
In How To Demystify ☥ Heal Our Emotions, we explore the will of a Navy Seal. A Navy Seal has to develop a certain level of will in order to hold their breath underwater for at least two minutes. I'm sure there are days when they don't feel like doing the practice drills, but they realize that too much is at stake. If they are in a situation where they need to hold their breath while trapped in a tight spot or if an unknown element arises that requires 10 more seconds than anticipated, they'll have to move beyond their emotions and into their will. The will represents the truest aspect of ourselves and it is often suppressed by the ego which loudly cries, "but I don't feel like it." To "take our freedom" means that we will need to pull up our will and transcend our inner saboteur. But how?
The first step is to pay attention to our thoughts and behaviors. I was watching an episode of the Cosby Show where the eldest daughter, Sondra, was having an argument with her boyfriend and she was playing a song over and over again. I didn't see the brilliance of this behavior at the time, but later realized that she was listening to the song to acknowledge and move through the emotions that she was feeling at the time. If she were to pivot slightly and play an affirmative song repeatedly until she felt better, she would have been using her discernment to lift her consciousness to the level of the solution which would have cultivated her joy ☥ inner power and provided her with the appropriate actions to take in order to solve her challenge. In this way, the positive song would have served as a healing mantra. Other strategies that can help us lift our consciousness to the level of the solutions we need can include:
☥ Taking a walk in nature
☥ Watching an inspiring movie that brings us to tears (the tears help us to cleanse
ourselves so that we can move forward)
☥ Boxing or some other cardiovascular physical activity that helps us to release anger,
frustration and angst
When we follow up these actions with meditation ☥ contemplation in silence, we recognize solutions coming to us from our innate wisdom. Qigong and Yoga allow us to simultaneously release ☥ heal the emotions while connecting us to our innate wisdom. When we don't follow through with these actions, we are left with unresolved trauma which makes us vulnerable to dis-ease and susceptible to social programming and psychological manipulation.
A vital issue that can keep Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant People stuck in the lower chakras is the lack of preparation, particularly when it comes to overcoming racial fatigue. One of the reasons why SNCC was so successful as a coordinated Civil Rights movement is because they prepped their volunteers by putting them through rehearsals where they would have to sit still and be non-reactive while the trainers would throw objects at them, yell at them (calling them "nigger" and other derogatory terms) spit on them, etc.
People often think that they would be non-reactive without practice, but this is definitely not the case.
When I was working in Boston, I had a difficult time finding a good assistant. There were very few Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant People who applied for the position, despite my active recruitment, and the white applicants were both unprofessional and incompetent. I couldn’t believe their entitled behavior, based on their poor interview skills, simply because they were a graduate from a high level institution. I interviewed white graduates from Wellesley, Brown, Harvard, Yale - and their interview skills were deplorable. Many would not introduce themselves properly or maintain eye contact throughout the interview. I remember one of my managers saying to me “Phyllis, they are like street cars, don’t get attached because another will be coming through soon.” This manager was the gatekeeper, so anyone I interviewed had to get past his unwavering standards to get hired. It took me a long time, but I finally found a white assistant from Northwestern University who was excellent. She later told me that I was the best boss she ever had, and she created my very first logo as a gift when I started my business. This situation truly haunted me. If the white students were this incompetent, how were the Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant students faring without access to the same type of mentorship ☥ opportunities? I became so frustrated with this conundrum that I created a series of workshops entitled: “How To Ace The Job Interview” and “I’m Qualified, Why Can’t I Get The Job?” I felt like if I could get to these students first, they would have a shot at getting those highly competitive entry level positions. I focused on Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant students and did workshops whenever I could. During a workshop at an African American Library in Florida, the audience gave me a hard time about my role play exercises. However, I insisted that they practice asking and answering interview questions. I noticed that the people critiquing the person in the “hot seat” would offer a great deal of feedback. But, when the people who were most critical got in the “hot seat,” they would often repeat the same mistakes, get flustered, etc. When the role play was over, no one complained.
They realized that 'thinking' you are prepared is not the same as being prepared. Consistent, continual practice is required.
One student stands out to me because he was so brilliant. He was a Black 18-year-old male who wanted to be an engineer. He had excellent grades and a good resume, but he had undeveloped social skills. He tried to avoid me, but of course that was not an option during my session. As I walked up to him during a group breakout to check on his progress, he started shaking. This is why breathing exercises are such an important part of my work. I told him that he is a prime example of a great candidate on paper who will not get the job without practice. I gave him many drills to practice and meticulous instructions on what to do if he feels anxious while waiting to be interviewed as well as during and after the interview. I cannot stress this point strongly enough. Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant candidates (BIIC) are not less able than white applicants, but racism and oppression makes it very difficult for BIIC to get their foot in the door without strong interview skills to back up their qualifications. I also noticed that some resumes were loaded with errors. This was common for both the white and the Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant applicants. It is as if they never looked at the resume after printing it. At the time, I worked with a publishing company, and we would have to throw the resume in the trash if it had just one typo. These are just a few examples of what happens when Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant People do not stand in the truth of their personal power, which includes continually rehearsing, planning and refining their work. I consistently revisit my work, and I constantly find typos that astound me and keep me humbly committed to sharpening my skills.
The Instant Gratification + Knee Jerk Reaction Webs Of Deception
If you haven’t read the Is He A Knight, King or Emperor? and Journey To Radiance Black Panther blogs, I would recommend them as your next reads for additional clarity and context. Children learn how to mock and ridicule each other from adults. Adults often engage in mockery, ridicule, ego games, jealousy and competition because as children they:
☥ didn’t know how to heal their trauma and
☥ were not taught how to cultivate self-love.
As the great poet Sunni Patterson said during our Journey To The End Of The Year Health ☥ Healing Strategies podcast, “Do you realize that you are using the same [coping] mechanisms at 45 that you used at 5 [years old]?”
The Instant Gratification + Knee Jerk Reaction Webs Of Deception are coping mechanisms that deflect pain and perpetuate harm.
To help us unpack these webs of deception, I’m going to share a few stories from middle school. Hilton (the alias I’m giving him) was a dark skinned, overweight Black male. I didn’t like or dislike him, but his behavior was so annoying that I soon joined the “dislike” him camp. Let’s first dive into the “overweight issue.” Many people who are overweight are suffering from deep trauma that they cope with by eating junk food or overeating in general. What we often do not understand is that the excess weight is also a protective barrier, which means that some of these people may have experienced violence, sexual trauma or other abuses that they are attempting to protect themselves from because they don’t know how to heal and they may be in a vulnerable position that prevents them from defending themselves. In other words, “If I am fat, you may make fun of me, but at least you will keep your distance and leave me alone.” Please sit with this information for a while and contemplate how you treat overweight people. Hilton was also dark skinned during a time when Black children were making fun of dark skinned children as a coping mechanism against the all-assault attack on their psyche. One day, Hilton said something in class and our white male teacher responded, “You look like a Black Pillsbury Doughboy.” Even though Hilton annoyed me, this teacher crossed a serious line. Many kids in the class laughed loudly, but most of the Black kids, including myself, were incensed. I cannot describe the look on Hilton’s face. My middle school was mostly white, with no Black teachers or personnel that I can recall except for a few custodians. This white male teacher respected me and saw the look that I gave him which caused him to attempt to clean up his mess, but he didn’t apologize or stop the kids from running with the insult. I didn’t know how to respond and my relationship with that teacher was never the same.
Why is it so hard to transcend instant gratification and knee-jerk reactions? It is a short term escape route that boomerangs, yet we continually use it deflect our own pain as if repetition of the same behavior will somehow magically make our pain go away.
There were a few things about boys that confused me. It took me a long time to realize that boys who taunted, teased or annoyed me were doing so because they liked me or were trying to get my attention. This made no sense to me because the things that they would do caused me to not want to be around them at all. If they liked me, then why do something that irritates me? I didn’t realize that they were addicted to the instant gratification of getting my attention for a few seconds, and because they didn’t know how to heal, unpack their emotions or connect with me in any other way, they kept repeating the same actions. How can we identify and correct childrens' developing addiction to instant gratification immediately ☥ repeatedly until it stops if we haven’t yet identified ☥ corrected this behavior within ourselves? When I started dating, I would tell men what I want in an attempt to bypass this annoyance and they would still succumb to the addiction while claiming that I didn’t actually know what I wanted - SMH! I wasn’t sure if I would ever understand the species of the male gender.
However, there were a few actions that I was clear about not liking. One of those actions was being smacked on my rear end. Perhaps it was because I was spanked as a child, but there is something about that action that is incredibly disrespectful to me. During track and field day, we spent the entire morning outside learning different physical activities. Hilton was especially annoying this day and would not leave me alone. While I was practicing at the shot put station, Hilton runs by me and smacks me so hard on my behind that it stung like a basketball to the face. He runs away but, because I didn’t know how to control my emotions, I threw the shot put at him. To this day, I am so grateful that I didn’t have the upper body strength to throw the ball very far, but it hit him in the back of his calf and he fell to the ground. The teacher saw the whole thing and said “Ha ha! She got you!” The teacher and all of the kids in the surrounding area started laughing, but I was terrified. I couldn’t believe that I threw an eight-pound ball at another person, and I was afraid that I really hurt him. I went running to him to see if he was OK. Hilton was terrified and in great pain, and I was the only person who cared. I had to call another teacher over to get him to the nurse because the first teacher was laughing so hard. I was in tears because I felt like I could have killed him if I hit him in the head. The event haunted me for a long time, and was the second reason why The Incredible Hulk was such an important TV show for me. Hilton had a huge bruise on the back of his calf for weeks which was
a constant reminder of the price I paid for my knee-jerk reaction.
Like Dr. David Banner, I was desperate to figure out how to control my anger before I caused any more harm. And, I needed to figure out how to deal with the rage brewing within me caused by the ongoing torment of the white kids. To make matters worse, I couldn’t talk to anyone about the Hilton incident, because everyone thought it was hilarious. I felt like I was trapped in some sort of sick nightmare. Although I was glad that Hilton never bothered me again, I was terribly ashamed of the reason why.
After lunch that same day, we were in science class and a different Black boy, that I’ll call Charles, was making fun of a Black girl that he liked. Charles said something to her which made everyone in the class laugh. She was so mad that she slapped his face while he was laughing and dislocated his jaw which made everyone, including the white female science teacher laugh even louder. I was still in deep thought about Hilton, so I again found myself urging the teacher to stop laughing and help him. Charles was terrified and in pain, but the teacher let him stay that way until she finished laughing - a choice that needed to lead to her dismissal. I was so stressed at this point that I was almost nonreactive. She finally walked over to him, relocated his jaw and sent him to the nurse’s office, but made sure to let him know that he deserved exactly what he got. All of these children were being socially programmed by irresponsible adults who were supposed to model interpersonal skills, excellence, professionalism and humanitarianism.
A 2009 analysis of three large-scale studies of female perpetrators found that the mean age of perpetration was late 20s to early 30s, the mean age of victims was approximately 12, and 75–80% of perpetrators were white (Sandler & Freeman, 2009). ☥ From The Research Article, ‘Sexual victimization perpetrated by women: Federal data reveal surprising prevalence.' By Lara Stemple, Andrew Flores and Ilan H Meyer ’
The Mary Kay Letourneau case triggered another memory from middle school of an incident that occurred with that same white female science teacher. We were doing a really cool experiment where a few kids were blindfolded to see if they could guess what food they were eating. One of the blindfolded kids was an Indigenous male that I’ll call Kane. The blindfolded kids had their hands near the bowl so that they could just reach in and grab the food. They would describe what they felt with their fingers and then taste it to guess what it was. Kane's bowl had an onion in it. When it was Kane’s turn, the science teacher picked up the onion and placed it in his mouth. I was shocked. The way she smiled and the way she let her finger linger in his mouth was disgusting. After Kane took off the blindfold, they exchanged looks that were beyond inappropriate, and the teacher blushed. It was difficult for me to process what I saw because I was so naïve. I couldn’t imagine that a teacher would have any sexual interest in a student.
Because boys are not taught how to heal, recognize or process emotions, this type of sexual abuse often leads to what has become known as 'trauma bonding,' often leading to a lifetime of relationship problems, including the troubling dynamic of dating/marrying the type of people who abused them and/or the development of secret sexual perversions. This often happens because they are so full of shame that they don't believe they deserve to be loved, so they continually punish themselves through self-sabotage and unhealthy relationships. We don't lose our value because of what happened to us, but if we don't learn how to heal, we will spend the rest of our lives psychologically enslaved by our abuser. This is also an important reason for not dating a person in the Page or Knight stage of development. Sexual abuse is 100% healable and when we transcend sexual trauma, we cultivate empowerment that leads to true, lasting love and fulfillment.
One of the best definitions of trauma bonding that I found came from the United States Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons:
the most common meaning of trauma bonding is when a trafficker uses rewards and punishments within cycles of abuse to foster a powerful emotional connection with the victim.
I gravitated towards this definition because abusers of young boys often use the “rewards and punishment” cycle to confuse, manipulate and control them because the abuser has learned how to spot boys who struggle to make the emotional connection within themselves. When the abuser is an adult female, the "rewards" can also include placating the boy's ego and creating delusions of status based on having "attracted" an older woman, which is especially effective if the child also struggles with self-esteem or peer pressure issues at school. When boys are overwhelmed with emotions, they often implode and act out to deflect pain. How can we be extra diligent about helping boys learn how to heal and process emotions as they occur?
Whether the child is male, female or gender non-conforming, trauma bonding results from an abuse that affects the root chakra → an imbalance of the sacral chakra → a blockage in the solar plexus chakra. We can protect our children by celebrating ☥ affirming their identity ☥ ancestry ☥ culture, teaching them how to say out loud what they are feeling inside ☥ continually coaching them to utilize the process of healing as their first response to pain. Our consistent training will help them to cultivate a strong sense of self ☥ the courage to speak up for themselves.
It may seem laborious to maintain consistency throughout early childhood, but our compassionate vigilance is their best defense against manipulation and abuse. It is important for us to carefully vett the adults that we allow around our children (including family members). Trauma bonding is not limited to sexual abuse. It could also occur with co-dependent, emotionally manipulative or overbearing people. It was in high school that I decided I would not ever send my children to school because the structure makes no sense to me and my benchmarks for trust seem to be unattainable for white teachers. We are just barely understanding the psychological damages caused by segregation in schools. Until we learn how to heal, home and world schooling seem to be the best options for effectively educating and empowering Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant children. The Instant Gratification + Knee Jerk Reaction Webs Of Deception are caused by imbalances in the lower chakras that do not get corrected, and our behaviors are repeatedly reinforced through social programming in early childhood.
By the time we become adults, many of these behaviors are subconscious and hard-wired within our internal operation system. We heal through the cultivation of self-love ☥ connection to our identity + ancestry + culture, self-awareness and a disciplined commitment to monitor and consciously choose our responses to outside stimuli. The discipline is vital because we will need to be mentally and emotionally stronger than the pull of the herd in social situations.
The Instant Gratification + Knee Jerk Reaction Webs Of Deception represent a tremendous threat to humanity, but social programming minimizes its danger and continually glamorizes its perpetuation. Nothing changes until we change. Will we continue to succumb to coping mechanisms to deflect our pain or will we heal through the embodiment of excellence in our thoughts and actions?
We had to double down on the solar plexus chakra and repeat some concepts, because this is where colonization, and the social programming it spawns, can keep Black ☥ Indigenous ☥ Immigrant People trapped. How can we keep the flow of energy moving up to and through our crown chakra in order to heal our relationships and transcend the evils of colonization?
Balancing Strategies For The Solar Plexus Chakra
Yellow is the color of the brilliance ☥ illumination that fuels our personal power. We catalyze balanced movement of our solar plexus chakra by:
☥ Wearing the color yellow
☥ Building a beautiful yellow altar with yellow candles ☥ healing gemstones such as
citrine and moonstone
Yellow fruits and vegetables are very nourishing and balancing to our solar plexus chakra. Enjoy foods such as lemons ☥ citrus fruits, figs, pineapple, peaches, nectarines, papaya, yellow sapote (canistel/eggfruit), ackee, cabbage, turnips, squash, parsnips and jackfruit. Essential oils ☥ herbs that heal the solar plexus chakra include ginger, chamomile, anise, fennel, lavender, lemongrass, rosemary, oregano, marjoram, peppermint, coriander, basil and orange. Kapalabhati and power breathing bring much needed oxygenated blood and energy to the area. Investigate and emulate specific Gods ☥ Goddesses such as Ra ☥ Sun God ☥ God Of Fire ☥ Ọlọrun ☥ Ruler Of The Heavens ☥ Xiuhtecuhtli ☥ God Of Fire ॐ Surya ॐ God Of The Sun. Mantras that heal and balance our solar plexus chakra include:
☥ Rum
☥ Om Rum Namaha
☥ Om Lakini Namaha
☥ Om Swaha
Discernment ☥ Wisdom Of Our Chakras ☥ Part III offers balancing strategies for the heart → crown chakras. Deep dive into the wisdom of our third eye chakra, including counterstrategies for psychological manipulation, and garner practical tools for self-empowerment.
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