Empower Your Creativity
This chakra empowers you to radiate your creative light out into the world. It gives you the confidence to shine! Working with this chakra helps you to develop an ability to take up creative space in the world. It fires up your creativity and you find the will, the push, and the drive to get your creations out into the world.
Solar Plexus Chakra at-a-glance
Sanskrit name: Manipura (lustrous gem).
Physical location: between navel and base of sternum.
Element: Fire
Colour: Yellow
Yantra: upward-pointing triangle.
Seed Mantra: Ram (pronounced rum)
Affirmations: My inner sun empowers me. I radiate love and light.
Main creative concerns: Firing up creativity and building the confidence to get your creations out into the world.
Balanced: Self-aware, self-assured, self-confident, assertive, expressive, takes up space, stands their ground, bold, channels anger into creating change, courageous, sunny, optimistic, radiates light out into the world.
Excessive: Domineering, over-confident, bullying, disrespectful of others space, reckless, expresses anger destructively, poor self-awareness, blocks out the sun for others.
Deficient: shrinking violet, lack of confidence, fearful, reserved, easily swayed, push-over, timid, repressed, pushes down anger, stands in the shadow.
Life Issues: Self-empowerment, developing a sense of Self, assertiveness, right to take up space, building self-confidence, overcoming challenges, building physical, mental, and emotional strength, finding your place in the world.
Healing practices: strength-training exercises, Boxing Yoga, martial arts, power walking, running, assertiveness training, anger management, sunny days, psychic protection, acquiring skills and increasing confidence, taking calculated risks, positive self-talk.
Physical location: between navel and base of sternum.
Element: Fire
Colour: Yellow
Yantra: upward-pointing triangle.
Seed Mantra: Ram (pronounced rum)
Affirmations: My inner sun empowers me. I radiate love and light.
Main creative concerns: Firing up creativity and building the confidence to get your creations out into the world.
Balanced: Self-aware, self-assured, self-confident, assertive, expressive, takes up space, stands their ground, bold, channels anger into creating change, courageous, sunny, optimistic, radiates light out into the world.
Excessive: Domineering, over-confident, bullying, disrespectful of others space, reckless, expresses anger destructively, poor self-awareness, blocks out the sun for others.
Deficient: shrinking violet, lack of confidence, fearful, reserved, easily swayed, push-over, timid, repressed, pushes down anger, stands in the shadow.
Life Issues: Self-empowerment, developing a sense of Self, assertiveness, right to take up space, building self-confidence, overcoming challenges, building physical, mental, and emotional strength, finding your place in the world.
Healing practices: strength-training exercises, Boxing Yoga, martial arts, power walking, running, assertiveness training, anger management, sunny days, psychic protection, acquiring skills and increasing confidence, taking calculated risks, positive self-talk.
In the Chakras for Creativity book you will find a Solar Plexus Chakra inspired yoga practice, meditation, walking meditation, writing meditation, and meditation questions.