What are chakras and how will understanding them improve your life?

In this series, we are exploring the significance and power of the 7 major chakras, one at a time.

Everyone has chakras. Chakras represent different energy centers throughout our body. Each chakra are associated with specific colors and energies. Though there are separate chakras, all chakras work together to create a balance of energies that affect your everyday life on a mental, physical, and energetic level (your mind, body, and spirit).

Gaining an understanding of each chakra helps you to become attuned with yourself. This strengthens your inner voice and allows you to be able to recognize whether you are emotionally on or off track so that you can rebalance yourself and make adjustments as needed.

Spirituality and astrology are interrelated. This series will detail how they connect so that you can more easily understand and incorporate these elements into your life and experience the positive changes it can bring!

In part 3, we are diving into the 3rd chakra called the SOLAR PLEXUS!

This is the third of the seven chakras and is located below your ribcage.

This chakra is represented by the color YELLOW and is connected to the SUN.

Your SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA is your INDIVIDUALITY and SENSE OF SELF.

This chakra is connected to all things that represent your personal power, willpower, and ego.

Your SOLAR PLEXUS chakra needs to be nourished if you experience:

• poor digestion

• low self esteem

• lack of sensitivity

• exercise addiction

• anger issues

• lack of willpower or follow through

• being unreliable

• arrogance

• chronic fatigue

• lack of appetite

• control issues

Your SOLAR PLEXUS chakra is kept balanced by:

• Carrying stones such as: Pyrite, Tigers Eye, and Sunstone

• Core strengthening exercises such as: planks, sit ups, and Pilates

• Eating yellow foods such as pineapples, squash, and bananas

• Creating new experiences by trying new activities

• Chanting the seed sound to activate this chakra: “RANG” (rhymes with song)