The Solar Plexus Chakra
(The Place of the Sun)

Complementing the throat, below the heart, is the solar-plexus chakra. It is located at the navel and corresponds to the nerve center there. It has ten petals and its colors are a combination of rich purple and metallic gold. When you become agitated and feel that familiar discomfort "in the pit of your stomach," you know that it is your solar plexus that has been affected.

This energy is usually released through the throat in the form of disruptive verbiage. The solar plexus and the throat are corresponding chakras, and when in harmony, the energies of both converge in the heart for peaceful and loving communication. When one or the other is in disharmony, both chakras are involved.

Many of our emotions are expressed through these two chakras. You will notice that under normal circumstances, when people are expressing feelings of love, kindness, or any other positive emotion, they usually speak in a quiet and resonant tone of voice. As soon as the solar plexus is agitated, however, the pitch and the volume go up. This is most noticeable when the person is in a state of anger or anxiety.

Mastering the solar plexus requires the mastery of our emotions by harnessing ourselves to the divine will-by the sacred fire of the heart. When they are controlled, we can begin the purification of this chakra through meditation and dynamic decrees.

While visualizing the chakra as shown, give "The Balm of Gilead." This prayer will help calm your emotions (vour energies in motion) whenever you feel agitated or ill at ease.

0 love of God, immortal love,
Enfold all in thy ray;
Send compassion from above
To raise them all today!
In the fullness of thy power,
Shed thy glorious beams
Upon the earth and all thereon Where life in shadow seems!
Let the light of God blaze forth
To cut men free from pain:
Raise them up and clothe them, God,
With thy mighty I AM name!

The solar plexus is very much linked to the soul. Therefore, if this chakra is kept pure, you will be more in touch with your true feelings and self. Our emotions, magnifying the pure desire of the Higher Self, are intended to amplify the soul and the potential of the soul.