The Seven Secrets to Living in Harmony — Secret #3 Answers The Question “What is my gut telling me?”
A Guide to Freeing You to Create Your Life by listening to the messages from your body
Have you ever been told to “Just trust your gut”?
What does it mean and more importantly, how do you do it?
Gut instinct, or intuition, is your immediate awareness of something. When it appears you have no need to think about it or go seeking another opinion — you just know.
Your Gut Instinct Is…
The awareness rises as a feeling within your body that only you experience. It is there for you alone to make the call. Meaning trusting your intuition is the ultimate act of trusting yourself.
Many throughout your life will have ideas about what they consider is best for you. Reflect on such suggestions and then listen to the advice of your own gut instinct, it will guide you to what is truly is in your highest good.
Fortunately, even if you have been out of touch with it for your entire life, your intuition is still there inside, waiting for you to call on its wisdom.
How are you supposed to trust your gut if you are not even sure if you can trust yourself?
Here are three clues:
1. Sometimes your intuition is so strong that you can physically feel the effects. Some might have a peaceful feeling within their heart. For others it might be they sense their gut is trying to communicate by creating a sinking feeling.
This might be a feeling in their chest or stomach. Often, coming as a tightness in those areas and the feeling that something is not quite right.
2. When your intuition speaks to you, and when you learn to tune into its messages, you will feel confidence and clarity when it speaks. Become aware of the contrast to when your fearful ego is speaking, notice the fear and uncertainty being experienced.
3. Intuition has many forms. Dreams are a major way Spirit communicates. Usually they do not draw a distinction between our past, present, and future. Hence the suggestion to make notes and journal about specific feelings, impressions, or senses you have.
Welcome To The Domain Of The Solar Plexus Chakra
That way you can then build your confidence as you notice any patterns which appear.
And where is your gut?
It is more than your digestive system. For your third chakra, the solar plexus, extends from the abdomen above the navel up to the breastbone.
In Sanskrit, the word for the solar plexus is Manipura, or ‘shining gem’. The solar plexus chakra provides your source of personal power and relates to self-esteem, warrior energy, and the power of transformation. Giving you the ability to rise to the occasion in times of need.
The chakra empowers you to follow and not be distracted from your true path. To be in your power, not that of others. It forms the core of your personality, your identity, of your ego.
Some suggest to be “enlightened” we need to be rid of our ego. This quote from Buddha suggests a more effective approach —
“Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.”
To me the key to being balanced between our, emotional, mental, physical and spiritual bodies is to be aware of the ego rather than ceding it control.
While the second chakra, our sacral seeks pleasure and enjoyment, the third chakra is all about the perception of who you are. How we accept and use our personal power. It therefore combines both the physical as well as feelings/insights.
Meaning there is often a close association to issues manifesting in our throat as well as the solar plexus.
Connecting Your Gut And Your Mind
Its gift is sensing your power, being confident, responsible, and reliable.
The energy of this chakra allows you to transform inertia into action and movement. It allows you to meet challenges and move forward in your life.
Its main challenge is to use your personal power in a balanced manner.
Candace Pert in her book Molecules of Emotion: Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine established that the “mind” was not focused in the head; rather it was distributed via the signal molecules to the whole body. The neuro-transmitters in the brain having the same configuration as those in the digestive system — hence the phrase “gut feeling.”
Medical science now knows the gut and the brain are in bi-directional communication. To quote from an August 2021 article in the IEEE Pulse:
“Dysregulation of the gut-brain axis (from things like stress, illness, or poor diet) is not only associated with digestion problems, but also increasingly linked to brain disorders. Over the last decade, thousands of papers have implicated the gut microbiome in disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), multiple sclerosis, depression and anxiety, and Parkinson’s disease (PD).”
Meaning, what we feel in our gut influences our brain and so our mood and mindset. This extensive range of signals from our digestive system and organs to the brain and vice versa is completed via the vagus nerve.
Governing your metabolism, the solar plexus is responsible for distributing energy around your body. Commonly associated with the pancreas, its main function is to provide the energy to create momentum in your life. To move forward and realise your personal desires and intentions.
As such the solar plexus plays a fundamental role in the development and exercise of our personal power. Influencing preoccupations about social status and self-image.
The third chakra has a connection with the sun, heat, the energy of light, all forms of power. Hence, it is coloured yellow and associated with the element of Fire.
Are You The Victim Of Your Life?
Those with a weak solar plexus chakra view themselves as victims. They walk with their heads down as there is nothing to excite them. Nothing to run toward, they put up with poor treatment, have low expectations and aspirations. Being shy they are unwilling to take a leadership role — though are quick to sarcastically put others down!
Perceptions of criticism and rejection are two of the biggest contributors to a blocked third chakra.
More Asta Time
I first came to know Asta, a workaholic single mother, when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She had almost been mentally, physically, and financially broken by the demands of one of her clients.
Asta went the extra mile to please her clients, though reluctant to stand up for herself. She was stressed, had a poor diet with too many stimulants and digestive issues.
Her lack of self-worth was linked to her childhood and an all-too-common perception of needing to overachieve to attract love.
Some months later Asta told me she had decided to close her office. Instead of spending time managing staff, she would focus her efforts on delivering the projects herself.
She had allowed more “Asta time” into her life, met her life partner and started letting more love into her life.
To help understand the power of your solar plexus and the message it is sending you, I have placed on YouTube a short video about Secret #3 — ready to free yourself?
Each of The Seven Secrets´ chapters can help you identify the nature of your message as well as the underlying emotions generating stress in your body.
Digestion and Your Weight
A lack of harmony in the solar plexus is likely to manifest in problems of
digestion and metabolism. Hence why in addition to issues of weight, problems from poor energy flow through this chakra in the centre of the body include:
- gas,
- náusea,
- ulcers,
- celiac disease,
- liver disease
- irritable bowel syndrome,
- food allergies,
- stomach ulcers,
- hypoglycemia,
- hypothyroidism,
- diabetes,
- muscle cramps,
- difficulty breathing,
- chronic fatigue and
- immune deficiencies.
Those with a blocked or deficient third chakra are passive and inactive — allowing life to pass by while they remain distracted and do nothing.
Your financial condition reflects the state of your solar plexus chakra.
When imbalanced you will face financial challenges such as finding it difficult to earn and also save money!
When your chakra is balanced and active, then you will easily become a money magnet. As an entrepreneur, customers are attracted to you as well as sales closed.
The state of this chakra indicates whether you become fabulously wealthy, or falter and fail.
For the message of the third chakra is: “You have the power to choose”.
A strong third chakra reflects the ability to move forward in life with confidence and power. Having the ability to make conscious choices to choose and to act.
When there is harmony in this chakra, a person exudes confidence (without being arrogant), feels self-motivated, and has a sense of purpose. Being proactive rather than reactive or inactive.
The 3 Key Lessons Of The Solar Plexus Chakra
The essential lessons of this third part of your energy system are:
1. Be Courageous and Confident — When you step fully into your third chakra, you naturally begin to embody courage and confidence.
Try it now. Stand up straighter, pull your shoulders back, push out your chest a bit, and then check into your psyche. Notice any subtle shifts, you will feel how these small actions have shifted your presence, others will too!
This Ted Talk video by Amy Cuddy shows how shifting into more powerful body languages changes how we perceive ourselves and how others see us.
Replay a moment when you felt really confident and/or courageous and notice your body´s subtle shifts in this moment.
2. Take Action — Should you not trust in your solar plexus chakra you will find it hard to make decisions. Instead feeling confused or apathetic. Perfection is not needed, just make a decision, no matter how small! Momentum will then be created.
3. Allow Yourself to SHINE — Each of us is unique. You owe it to yourself and to the rest of humanity, to be true to yourself and allow yourself to shine.
Often we hear as children we are not seen, or worse we are told to be quiet and not speak our truth. Your solar plexus chakra wants you to claim your bright and shiny self, and to support others in shining too!
To be the master of your life. Which may mean regularly pushing back on any messages from society that sway you into not following your gut instinct.
Asta is an example of how everyone´s health is very dependent on our unconscious memories and information. From the moment of conception our unconscious, our Lifeguard starts recording everything that goes on in our world.
Be The Energy You Want To Be
It cannot differentiate between the good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant, toxic or beneficial. If it did then it would not be able to complete its prime directive of guarding you.
Rather all this information goes into building who we are. Unfortunately, most is not true, it is just an interpretation. One which then directs our lives.
Which reminded me of this freeing quote from Marcus Aurelius:
“if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.”
This energy centre is found on Mother Earth at Uluru and Kata Tjuta rock formations, Australia.
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ABOUT GREGORY
aka the Shamanic CEO, I am a Creator, International Best-Selling Author and Shaman. My diverse background includes being the CEO of a public company and coaching fledgling businesses as well as international executive teams such as IKEA.
My passion is using my skills and wisdom to inspire those who have what the world deems as “success” and yet their life does not feel free or fulfilled. Using my awareness and connection as a Shaman to free their soul and values so they can accelerate their life and business.
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