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Your personal power, willpower, and trust in yourself lie in your navel center. It is the place where your Manipura chakra, or solar plexus, is located. In this post, you will learn to recognize the imbalanced and balanced states of your Manipura chakra. And find the ability to tap into your inner power at all times. And to find your personal power and self-esteem.
Manipura Chakra: Find your personal power and self-esteem
The name Manipura is Sanskrit. Mani means “brilliant or jewel,” and Pura means “house or city.” It represents our sun, our own inner power, and the foundation of our personality. It, indeed, is a fiery location as it houses our ego and the way we present ourselves to the world. If Manipura chakra is overactive, you can spot the “ego-maniac” type of behavior in the person in question.
Manipura chakra, the lustrous gem, hides or covers something that, if hiding, affects our life very significantly. And until the inner pearls within us are discovered, we live in fear – fear of not be loved, failure, becoming ill, or dying. Yes, many of our worries are produced in the Manipura chakra due to blockages or imbalance.
When Manipura chakra is balanced, it makes you feel confident, intelligent, energetic, and you have a desire to be productive. The balanced state radiates to your surroundings.
The element of the Manipura chakra is fire, and it rules your digestive fire and organs of digestion. When it is in good balance, you experience good physical energy and good digestion.
The yellow color of this chakra represents intellectual thinking. “The ability to tap into the light of a thousand suns that exist within you.” The mantra of Manipura is RAM.
Imbalanced Manipura Chakra
Feelings of imbalance can be low self-esteem or lack of personal power. You may engage in negative self-talk easier because your inner critic is alive and well. An imbalance may result in being critical of self and others. You may also feel stressed out, tired, exhausted, and feeling run down.
An imbalanced Manipura chakra may cause you to blame others for your failures or bad luck. Being stubborn, dominant, and manipulative are also signs of imbalance.
You might also like this: What are the Chakras and why they matter?
Bringing back the Balance
There are many ways to balance Manipura chakra. These include, for example, meditation, asana practice, music, and crystals.
Remember the post about crystals? They can help balance chakras by activating, stimulating, or slowing down the overactive chakra. How? You can simply place the crystal directly on the center of the chakra you are looking to balance. Calm yourself down and relax, focus on breathing. Also, working with the yellow color is one way to bring back the balance; just adding yellow into your life. Or do meditation focusing on the yellow color on your navel center.
Good crystals for Manipura are Citrine (preferred), gold, amber, calcite, yellow jasper, and/or yellow jade.
You can also use herbs, like Milk Thistle (preferred), Parsley, Dandelion, Ginger, Lemon Balm, and Yarrow. Or try out essential oils such as lemon, fennel, or juniper.
Yoga asanas also affect the area of your Manipura chakra. It means you could include asanas like plank, side plank, boat, supine spinal twist in your practice. Yes, you guessed it, core strength and self-confidence go hand-in-hand.
Feeling Confident and Intelligent
Balanced Manipura chakra makes you feel confident and intelligent. It influences a sense of belonging and how well you “blend in” the situations you enter. Furthermore, it also affects your stamina, sense of thought, and willingness to move forward.
When in balance, Manipura chakra makes you value yourself and your work. You accept yourself and have the freedom to be yourself and direct your own life.
Here is how you find your personal power and self-esteem in your Manipura Chakra. In your opinion, is your Manipura chakra more in balance or imbalanced?
Sharon, Shalia, Baginski, Bodo J: The Chakra Handbook
Rohit, Sahu: Chakras for beginners
Kaivalya, Alanna: Chakra Yoga A beginner’s guide to Chakra healing
https://www.chakras.net/energy-centers/manipura
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