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322 ~ Chakra Series 2025: Solar Plexus Chakra (The Identity)
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episode overview:
• located between the ribcage and navel, the Solar Plexus chakra appears yellow due to its frequency
• balanced Solar Plexus creates healthy decision-making, discipline, and appropriate boundaries
• journal prompts focus on exploring personal power, confidence, and healthy relationship with ego
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Hello Magical Human and welcome back to Madison Mindset the podcast. Join me for the third episode in our Chakra series. This series was originally recorded for Held the podcast and online women's circle I co-host with my beautiful friend Molly. All details about that podcast and connecting with Molly are below in the show notes. Please enjoy this episode. Remember there were two previous episodes for this chakra series. I highly recommend you go and listen to them as well. If you would like to go a little bit deeper and join me for a solar plexus chakra practice, you can join me on Patreon, where we'll go through that together this week. Enjoy the episode.
Speaker 2:Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of Held. We are coming to you today with our chakra series and we are exploring the solar plexus. Is that correct, maddie? Correct, molly, couldn't have said it better.
Speaker 3:Can you tell her my follicular face? I can. I literally. She's like sorted all my business stuff in like five seconds this morning on the phone.
Speaker 2:It was so good, was like oh, thanks girl, my, my energy is like you know, like last week my I was on the train tracks and it was really slow, and this week I'm like full. I have been noticing this is a good segue into our cycle check-in lesson and blessing, hey, um. So cycle check-in I don't know exactly what day, maybe I'm on day seven or something um, and I've definitely noticed my energy increasing and I what I've become aware of is the fact that in this phase I quite often start to think, oh, I feel anxious, but I don't. It's not actually anxiety, it's just my energy is really picking up and I can mistake that for anxious energy in my body. So, just making sure that I'm channeling the energy in the right places and making sure I'm moving my body enough and things my lesson and blessing I've actually been feeling a little bit insecure about my skin because I've been having some breakout.
Speaker 2:It makes me feel really insecure because it brings back these feelings of like I'm not enough, I'm gross, I'm yucky and it's really uncomfortable to sit with. So my lesson in that is learning to love myself at any point in whatever struggle that I'm experiencing, at any point in whatever struggle that I'm experiencing, and then I guess that can go into my blessing of like. Have you heard that song? And it's like I have been a thousand different women.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yes, I listened to that this morning and I was thinking about all the past versions of myself, like even the past versions of myself that maybe I've shamed or, yeah, turned my nose up at, or just be like, ew, why did I do that? And it's like they all served me to get to the point where I am today. And without every version of those, those versions of Molly, I wouldn't be me. So just learning to love myself fully is a blessing at the moment. So it's like I've got the challenge of feeling a bit insecure about my skin, but I'm seeing it as a blessing because it's teaching me to love myself more. So, yes, that's me, that's beautiful, thank you, and you are beautiful, thank you.
Speaker 2:I just anyone who has skin issues I don't know if you've ever struggled with like acne or breakouts or whatever, but yeah, it can be really like. Oh, it just makes it can make you feel really yucky and dirty and just gross. Is is what I can say. And it's because it's right on your face, like it's like I woke up this morning and I hoped that I'd look in the mirror and it was gone, but obviously it's not, and it's just this constant thing at the back of your mind and like I've healed my skin so much and I've just noticed that at a particular time of my cycle. At the moment it keeps popping back up, but it really takes me back to when I was really struggling with it.
Speaker 3:It brings all those feelings back, yeah, of course, yeah, I can see that I have never struggled with acne myself. I'm more of a, I've been very blessed with skin. But I usually just get the one horrific pimple once a month and I am always really insecure about that and I often think, wow, it would be so much better to have a few more, because my face is perfect.
Speaker 3:There's just this one, disgusting, and I'm talking like the best quality pimple. You know I'm talking size, I'm talking it comes out of your face, so when your face is sideways it's like sticking out with your nose. I'm talking like discolored and like the whole thing, like that's me every month and I hate it. I really hate it. So I haven't struggled with acne, but I can. I can understand how that it might be. Um, just such a horrible thing. Like you'd rather it anywhere else. Like people look at your face. Yeah, you know, like, put it on my elbow, put it anywhere else.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, I've actually been going to my book a lot recently, um, the Secret Language of your Body Me too, and I was yeah, I love it, and I was reading a lot about endometriosis, like menstrual cycle problems, pimples, acne, like all those different topics in there, and a lot of what comes up is like suppressed anger, a lot to do with perfectionism, control, not feeling like you're good enough, like all these different things, and I'm like, wow, I really resonate with a lot of those. So I'm trying to go back to that and like do the practices in there. But then, because I never actually really understood how to use that book and so, with the individual, like topics, you then go and look at like the emotions associated, and you can and do it that way and you can work between all the different areas and it's really good, it's really beneficial. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's so, it's so, so good. I've actually just gone back to that book and started reading it from the front, like the foreword, and the introduction is like how to actually use the book. So, yeah, because I feel like I just kind of threw myself straight into oh, what's this mean, what's that?
Speaker 3:mean, I think, it's important to understand what they wanted you to do with the book and I have been like stopping at reading it and like that's interesting, and then I close it and they're like use the practices in it in it, yeah. I'm like oh yeah, I have not been doing that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's like well, that's the thing, right, we've got to take the action too, because I'm exactly the same. But the other day I actually did have a bit of a um, my lower back was a bit sore and the practice in there was to massage your foot from the toe to the heel on the inside, and I did that and my back's been feeling good and it was telling me to imagine the color green. So if anyone has any health issues going on, this is a really great book to understand on a more like mind, body, soul level, like seeing how your emotions can link to the body, which is great for this chakra series as well, right, because it all sort of ties in together and it uses color to heal. It uses different practices. So, yeah, if you're someone who is struggling with some health conditions, definitely recommend this book. It's the Secret Language of your Body.
Speaker 3:Yeah, We'll put the link down below. I suppose Absolutely. Sorry, molly will put the link down below. I won't be putting links anywhere. All right, my turn. I am on day 23. So, luteal phase and, yeah, the last week or so, I've been like unbelievably like turned on all the time, which is crazy. Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love it.
Speaker 3:I've been like I, I know, but like the last few months I haven't really felt that like I get to ovulation I'm like meh, meh, yeah, you know whatever not meh, meh, yeah. And I was actually starting to think I was like maybe I'm just one of those women like I've read some really good books about you know women and you know different. You know how some women want a lot of sex and some women don't. And I was like maybe I'm just, you know, maybe, as I get older, I'm just one of those women who just doesn't want a lot of sex. Like maybe that's where I'm at, I don't know. Like, like I, I do because I enjoy the closeness with my partner. But I was like what, you know what's going on?
Speaker 2:But this it's like I just had a couple of months of like chill and now this one's like bang and I think it's interesting, like with the season change and stuff too, like there's so much that can be at play to this sort of thing. Right, yeah, and it just is a reminder that, as women, we go through seasons.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you don't have to be in a constant state of wanting sex, like I think for men anyway. Not that I know what it's like to be a man, but think for men anyway. Not that I know what it's like to be a man, but from what I've read and understand, the difference between men and women is men tend to have a little bit more of a consistent drive for wanting sex, and that's because of their 24-hour hormone cycle. So if that was happening, if we had a 24-hour hormone cycle, we'd be ovulating at 3 pm every day and we just want sex every day, or whatever it is you know yeah so we're so much more complicated than that.
Speaker 3:Like, yeah, it's just, it's hard.
Speaker 2:Like men might get like super horny once a day, yeah, whereas you might get horny, really horny, only 12 times a year yeah, exactly, and like it's like how, it's like the thing of you know, with a man's hormonal cycle, they wake up with morning wood because they're like, woohoo, I'm ready to go, you know, whereas, yeah, as women we are so much more complex, but in the most beautiful way possible.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's so good. It's so good, so that's been fun. So, yeah, that's been fun.
Speaker 2:So Maddie has been on a joyride for this past week.
Speaker 3:She's fucking loving life, she's getting it, getting it, she's getting it. Yeah, so my blessing at the moment is 100%. My partner, like I, have been through the absolute works the last few weeks. Molly knows all the details. I'm not going to go into it, but basically think of health trouble, several different car trouble work trouble, financial trouble. That's what we thought. I was like. Bad things come in threes.
Speaker 2:Yours is like 30.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like bad things come in thirties, no just tap, fucking six zeros on the end of that three.
Speaker 2:Oh my God yeah. Just tap, just tap, fucking six zeros on the end of that three. Oh my god yeah it's.
Speaker 3:It's been unbelievable, but the majority of it my partner and I have been going through together and like we went through like a horrific Sunday night, you know, with cars and being stranded, and it's just the most stressful of situations. You know it's getting dark, you know you have to be somewhere tomorrow, you know all this stuff. You've got no phone signal. You know the most stressful situation you can think of and we're just together and there's several different things that both of us could have done differently to avoid the situation we ended up in. It's just one of those things that you look back and you're like why didn't we do that?
Speaker 2:Because you're a human.
Speaker 3:Exactly so. It's one of those situations where you could have just blamed each other and yelled at each other and got super stressed, but we just fell into more love and we were just like all these situations. I only want to go through them with you like it was just so good. So the whole week we've been getting closer as each challenge hit us and basically it just made me feel like you know what.
Speaker 3:He's definitely the right person for me, Cause if you can go through life's struggles, with love and even some laughter, then I think you found a great person Like I often like. It was advice I gave to my brother years ago, but now I give it on the podcast all the time and I don't know if my brother's listening to me, but I hope other people do.
Speaker 3:Like, instead of focusing on, like having someone around for the good times, like, look at your partner as someone, as a teammate for going through the hell of it Like you know the hell of life, the struggles, the illnesses, the issues, all of it until you eventually die at the end, right? So there's going to be a heap of shit thrown at you, a lot of beautiful blessings, but I think for me, the most important thing is having someone there who has got your back, who can support you, who shows up for you and you them in the hardest of situations. So that's been a huge blessing because I've never, ever felt that before in a partner. So it just feels good to have that support. And my lesson I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'm still trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3:I think I'm trust. Trust like there's just so much in life you have no control over and you don't know how you're going to resolve it or what the outcome's going to be or what's going to happen, and it it's scary and it's overwhelming, it's all those things. But you just have to lean back and trust. Because if you try and control the situation and push it further or it's kind of like trying to, you know, control where a car goes with your hands, you know or like trying to control a train that's already on tracks and you're trying to push it to the left, but the tracks go that way, you know. It's just you just hurt yourself in the process. It's just not going to work. So, yeah, literally you just have to. Sometimes you've just got to sit back and trust that it'll all work out and go well.
Speaker 3:We'll just see how this, where this, ends up, where we're going to end up at the end of this road, but yeah, so I think that's really what I've been leaning into is trust beautiful.
Speaker 2:Oh, we've got so much to talk about. I've really, before we get into this solar plexus stuff, like I've really felt the spark come back for the podcast.
Speaker 3:Me too, like I'm just like sitting here like this is why we do what we do yeah, well, that message this morning as well, I mean, I know, I mean great, great, great Go, I know Great segue.
Speaker 2:Who knows where we'll be in five years Anyway read the freaking thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we received. I opened my phone to this beautiful message this morning and it's just yeah, as as Maddie and I've just said, it's really um, probably recording the last episode and receiving a couple of messages has really brought our spark back. It's not that we lost the spark, but, you know, with things in life sometimes they just feel a little bit stale, and it's not that we were ever wanting to quit or anything like that. It was just, I don't know, we've got our sparkle back and it feels fresh. It feels like we've just, you know, shined things up a little bit. So super grateful for you, maddie, and super grateful for Held and everyone listening.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we received this beautiful message this morning in regards to our chakra series. So it says thank you so much for the work you do. I found you girls doing a sacral chakra search on my podcast app and, yay, you gave me the lowdown and additional tips I'm adding to my chakra psychology master's learnings. I am a mum author, attorney, turned kundalini yoga teacher, soon to be a chakra healing coach, and currently a podcast host. This lady's podcast focuses on helping others, particularly mothers, in trauma and or addiction recovery, transforming shame into healing power. It means the world to us and we're super grateful.
Speaker 2:It means all the world. It means all the world, literally all the world. So, yeah, that was a beautiful message to receive and, yeah, it's just so nice. It's just so nice to know that what we're saying is reaching the people, that it needs to, and we know, that it needs to reach more people, and we trust that it will as well.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, Thank you, Nadia.
Speaker 2:And her podcast is Home is Within you, beautiful, so we'll check it out, and you guys should too. Yeah, it sounds great.
Speaker 3:Share the love. Yes, okay, let's jump into solar plexus.
Speaker 2:Solar plexus. Hey, sorry, but is it fucking weird that you're wearing that jumper today? Is it weird? Isn't there literally a sun on your solar plexus?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Babe, you wouldn't read about it you wouldn't read about it.
Speaker 3:You wouldn't't read about it. You wouldn't read about it. You wouldn't bloody read about it also you'd be happy to know.
Speaker 2:I've got the laptop off my lap now.
Speaker 3:Thank you, it's not my pleasure it says laptop, but it does not mean put it on your lap okay, wow, I've never.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, okay, my my skin. I said I was feeling insecure, but right now in this sun, I'm like well, girl, yeah and there's nothing like a bit of sun rays in the right lighting.
Speaker 3:You know Exactly. Hashtag glow hour. Sorry Okay let's get in. I have to mute the follicular queen over there. Yes, just mute me.
Speaker 2:Let's get into the solar plexus Go. Take us away, nadia, go on. Let's get into the solar plexus, go. Take us away, nadia, go on.
Speaker 3:All right, so we have gone through root and sacral. As I said last time, if you have not listened to those episodes first, sorry, we wait to the very end, like halfway through this podcast episode, before I tell you it's probably better to listen to root and sacral first. But yeah, it would be better to get your grounding and then jump into this one. Unless you are super keen on solar plexus and you know a bit about them, then that's fine. But quick rundown. You've got root chakra down the bottom tailbone. It is a beautiful red, is the lowest frequency chakra and it is all about your physical body safety, security, all those kinds of things, your food, connection to nature. Your sacral is sitting in the center of your pelvis, it is orange and is all about emotions. It's connected to the water element, so it's very much about your sensuality, how you express yourself emotionally and, yeah, sexuality, all of those things. So a lot of inner child traumas and different things can be kept down here. Your solar plexus is just underneath the rib cage but above the belly button, so that upper belly region, but not on the rib cage, right Slightly below it, and it is yellow. Remember, the chakras change color due to their frequency and the way they are spinning. They are spinning horizontally around in a circle, as if a plate was spinning in a circle with something sitting on top, so not round like a ball, but more sideways around in a circle. So this chakra is spinning a little bit faster than the bottom two, making it a yellow right, similar to how rainbows work.
Speaker 3:Very cool, this chakra, we're getting into the home of the ego. Okay, so if you have your root chakra balanced and you're feeling safe, secure at home in your body, you're secure on your, you know in on the planet and in your place on the planet, then you can move to emotions, creativity, sensuality. You know kind the planet and in your place on the planet. Then you can move to emotions, creativity, sensuality. You know kind of creating and being a human in this world, feeling and all those things because you're safe to do so. Once you can do that, you start to develop an ego or an identity. So solar plexus doesn't actually start to develop until you are four plus sometimes three, it's not exact, but around this time and I would always notice when I was working in childcare, I would always notice when solar plexus chakra was igniting in kids because that's when they start going that's my toy, that's mine.
Speaker 3:Give it here like oh, they took my toy. It's not fair, that's mine toy, that's mine. Give it here Like, oh, they took my toy. It's not fair, that's mine, it's part of my identity.
Speaker 3:And when they took my toy, mine, it's like they took a piece of me. I'm heartbroken, I'm going to scream and yell until I get it back. And then it would be things like she said she's my best friend and now she's not anymore, and now she's her best friend. And it all, like all this identity and who my friends are my best friend, my toy, my jumper, my parents, my sister, my brother, all of this, my, my, my starts to come in and they start having tantrums about this stuff. Oh, my god, wow, fascinating, because this is, you know, their parents and the people around the what it's like to have an ego or an identity. So you've got to be really careful when you say to kids like you know, don't touch that, that's mine. Or you know, don't break that, that's mine. Or you know, that's my this or my that. You want to be very careful with ours and mine and yours.
Speaker 3:And you know all this stuff, because you start to build up their little ego and suddenly their ego consists of their belongings, their clothes, their toys. You know their family, their friends, their school or whatever else that they've got. You know it starts to really impact them on an external level and we all know, with ego and identity. The whole point of spiritual awakening or of yoga is to realize you are not all of those things. You are deeper than that. You are consciousness, awareness and ultimately, all of the things that you think you have, such as the perfect body or the perfect clothes, or a certain dog or a certain partner, or you know, whatever it is that you've got in your life or belongings all of that will eventually be taken away from you. You know it's all impermanent. One way or another, everything that you are from the physical body outwards is going to go.
Speaker 2:Can I share something on this? I love how I put my hand up. Yeah, she's like excuse me, miss, I can relate to it in a sense. Probably since I discovered breathwork and went to my breathwork retreat, we worked a lot with the ego and from that I took away that a lot of people wear jewelry and get their nails done and all this sort of stuff, because it's sort of like an identity slash ego thing. And from there I stopped getting my nails done, I've stopped wearing as much makeup, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2:But what I've learned now is that I've gone that period of time without that because I I think, listening to you now it's like I was stripping back those layers to come back to who I truly was at my core. But now I'm at this empowered point right where I'm like but I like jewelry and I like getting my nails done and maybe I want to do those things. So I think it's important sometimes to strip back all those things so we can find who we truly are and then we can make like an empowered decision moving forward If we want to wear all the jewellery, if we want to get our nails done, if we want said item. You know what I mean. That was coming up for me in that, so I thought I'd just share that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, 100%, like you've got to live your life, you know. It doesn't mean that you know, but then again that's why monks and nuns do what they do. They get rid of all personal belongings, pretty much all relationships, and they're literally just left with their bodies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, themselves and their body, that's it. Wow.
Speaker 3:So that's why they do it, because all of these things can be a hindrance in your journey towards enlightening. Yeah, basically, it gets in the way. So it's not that you can't have these things, it's that you've got to be really careful as to what you're defining as you, because that's where little ones start to get in a lot of pain, because they think that that car or their clothes is part of them. So when you take it away from them, it's like you've taken their arm from them. Yeah, it's like you've taken you know who they are from them, which is heartbreaking.
Speaker 3:But when you realize that everything that you need is on the inside and it's not about that, it's not about that that's when you're free of those things and you can have a healthy ego, someone who is very self-conscious, and their ego is literally thriving on being the victim or staying small, or whatever it is. They will round at their solar plexus centre. So right at the upper belly they're going to be rounded. That's why they look quite hunched People who are very shy, or whatever it is. They're really rounded and they're very inward. Can you repeat that? Why is that? Because they're self-conscious. They're getting smaller physically.
Speaker 1:You can see it.
Speaker 3:And someone who is overconfident, egotistical you might call them very too much. You know very into themselves. They stick their freaking chest out and they're really tall like a peacock. You know they're like up, you can see it. You can see someone who loves themselves in not a healthy way from down the street You're like, oh God. Either way, it's compensating for an out of balance. Solar plexus chakra.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 3:Solar plexus when it's balanced. You've got a healthy sense of personal power. You've got a healthy, balanced ego. You've got a healthy relationship with your belongings and the things outside of you and the people and everything that is outside of you. You are strong in making decisions. You know you are disciplined. You know solar plexus is connected to the fire element, so you've got a healthy amount of inner flame. You know you're not burning the house down and getting burnt out but it's not cold. You know you've got a little burn of like this personal power and this is what I need and this is what I'm going to do and you show up for yourself and others. You've got discipline. You can take action in life and do hard things. You know you need this. If you feel like you cannot do anything in life and do hard things, you know you need this. If you feel like you cannot do anything, you need more. You've got it. You've got to get more, and a great, a great way to build your solar plexus is to eat spicy food or to work out.
Speaker 3:You know, when you go and work out you just feel so good after like yeah, like I can keep going would like breathwork practices like breath of fire be good for that. Yeah, it literally ignites the whole inner furnace.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it's great. So you've got to get a bit of a, you've got to light the fire, you know.
Speaker 3:but if you're getting burnt out and you can't relax and you're doing nothing but working. This is where burnout came from. You are literally burning down your house and it's your and it's your inside. So you've got to put some water on that. You've got to cool it down. You've got to get back into sacral and root ground, feet on the earth, be still relax a little bit.
Speaker 3:If you're out of balance here, you will have either low self-esteem you'll be in fear, way too much self-esteem not in a healthy way, right, it's got to be balanced. You'll have a lot of trouble with confidence. You'll struggle to make decisions that are good for you, you'll feel overwhelmed and you'll just basically be in a state of inaction or absolutely incapable of stopping. So it's interesting. And the physical ailments that can come digestive trouble, which often stirs up when you're in fear, or anxious, right, Ulcers, diabetes this can even go into heart rate as well, like palpitations and things, and even liver disease has been linked to solar plexus.
Speaker 3:So all of the things about the self, can you let yourself be as you are with a healthy grounding? Yeah, this is solar plexus, you know. Having good posture and alignment shows healthy, a healthy solar plexus, you know. So, yeah, you can pick people very easily with solar plexus and where they're at. But basically, if you're out of balance, sacral and root, you're going to either fall into the I'm making myself small, or I'm making myself way too big to prove that I'm allowed to be here, you know, or I'm just going to hide away so no one can see me. I'm not here.
Speaker 2:You know it really.
Speaker 3:It really does depend on the bottom two as to where you get, but yeah, solar plexus is a huge deal. And again, like practices that can help you um spicy foods, foods, eating things that are yellow, wearing yellow, working out, moving your body, get a sweat on um affirmations do wonders, you know. Positive, confident affirmations, yeah. Um, there are heaps on matters of mindset, the podcast. Go and check it out.
Speaker 3:Um, I guess listening to like more that like, more like empowering music as well, that like yeah empowering, stuff that gets you going, but then you just want to be mindful because people go too far and there's definitely like an epidemic at the moment of people being like I don't need anyone, I'm strong and independent and they're way they've lost sight of reality. We do need people, you do need help sometimes.
Speaker 3:You're not supposed to be alone. You're a human. You know we're meant to be in community. So have your personal power, without trying to outshine anyone or get away from everyone because you're the best, and put yourself up on a pedestal because it's lonely up there, really lonely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's important to remember that everyone else has a solar plexus chakra as well, and they are. They have their own personal power too. There's enough space for everyone in that. What about? Is there any sort of like yoga postures specifically, that are helpful for solar plexus chakra?
Speaker 3:yep, any twisting. When you twist, it's right from there yeah, any kind of twisting works beautifully, yeah, and then these are not really specific. But forward folds are great because you're kind of twisting works beautifully, and then these are not really specific. But forward folds are great because you're kind of rounding here and then heart openers as well, because you're opening the space and closing the space, but without sticking to one.
Speaker 2:I find heart openers very uncomfortable for me. So interesting, interesting.
Speaker 3:You can also tap the upper belly, so just above the belly button and below the rib cage, a little tap around that area just with your fingers, very lightly. This is really good for the nerves that are around here, like the plexus right here, really really good and actually will balance your um nervous system. If you tap here for long enough you'll find that you, um, you end up with this kind of breath like you know, like after a good cry, like that kind of thing. That is your nervous system going ah, balance.
Speaker 3:So, you can literally tap here and it will literally calm it down.
Speaker 2:That's called the physiological sigh, and you will notice that babies do that when they are calming themselves down, which is amazing. Kids as well, like you can hear them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly, notice that babies do that when they are calming themselves down, which is amazing, and I just remember you can hear them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, okay, all right. Well, should we get into the journal prompts for this? All yes, alexis, all right. The first theme is personal power and confidence. Do I trust myself to make decisions that are right for me? Where in my life do I feel strong and confident and where do I tend to doubt myself? What would it look like to fully stand in my personal power, ego and identity? How do I see myself, and how much of that is shaped by others' expectations or past experiences? In what ways does my ego support me and where does it hold me back? How can I create space to meet myself, beyond roles, labels or needing to prove my worth?
Speaker 2:I love that bit about like proving your worth. Where can you sort of let go of that Motivation and willpower? What fuels my motivation and sense of drive? Are there goals or desires I've been holding back on pursuing? What small steps can I take to reconnect with my inner fire and move forward with purpose? There you go, so take some time out to journal on each of those and enjoy igniting that inner fire and that inner personal power. I love that. I feel like it's really. It's a nice empowering one, exciting and driven and motivating.
Speaker 3:Yeah, this is also the last of the physical, like strictly physical, chakras, like from heart. Heart is a hybrid. You remember in the beginning I kind of gave you a bit of a rundown um, heart is physical and spiritual. So, yeah, this is the last of the physical based chakras, which is really cool. So, working with these bottom three, really good for the body really good for your daily existence, so cool.
Speaker 2:and I have a quick question as well before we finish this episode. Do you think, like on a daily basis, in an ideal world, would you do something for each chakra on a daily basis?
Speaker 3:Well, not necessarily, not specifically but your life should be doing that anyway. You know how I said like when you do a yoga class, you balance all the chakras and that's why you walk out going oh yeah, good, like through the through your days, you should be living in a way that balances the chakras you know, so when you go through different experiences, different emotions, the chakras will move and shift in their in their state.
Speaker 3:yeah, but your life should support balancing chakras will move and shift in their in their state. Yeah, but your life should support balancing chakras. But if you're sedentary, meaning you're not moving, if you're eating shit, if you're not getting any time to have your bare feet on the ground, you know, if you're not connecting with people, if you're not practicing expressing your truth, if you're having trouble you know creating, or if you don't have, like, something that you want to bring into this world.
Speaker 1:You know if you're not meditating.
Speaker 3:If you're not, you know doing these things and you will feel like shit and the chakras will be out of balanced. And then you need to work on bringing you know things in to balance them. But if you are getting feet on the ground, if you're creating every day, if you're beautiful yoga postures or if you're working out, if you're meditating, if you're listening to how you feel and expressing your boundaries and what you need and you're speaking your truth, then you're living in alignment with the chakras. You don't have to make it hard. You just have to be living in a way that supports it. And the reality is many of us are not.
Speaker 2:That's the trouble. I love this. Yeah, I just love this series. I think it's so helpful and I'm so excited to keep returning back to it again and again and again. It's so cool, love it, amazing, thank you. Thank you for your knowledge and your wisdom and super keen, because next one is heart chakra, isn't it? Yes, next week, heart chakra. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. All right, well, should I wrap it up, or do you want to?
Speaker 3:No, you wrap it up. I have enough talking.
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