标题: How to Influence Your Solar Plexus Chakra [打印本页] 作者: 金刚得 时间: 2016-7-8 15:22 标题: How to Influence Your Solar Plexus Chakra
How to Influence Your Solar Plexus Chakra
Improve your confidence by supporting your solar plexus chakra.Your solar plexus chakra is the ‘seat’ of your self-confidence and personal power. If you’re having any trouble asking for what you’re worth at work, or standing up for yourself, or confidently following your passions and goals, then your solar plexus chakra is weak or blocked.
You can heal and balance this life-enhancing chakra with some simple physical exercises. These exercises work along the lines of “fake it ‘til you make it.”
It’s been scientifically proven that if you smile at yourself in the mirror for 2 minutes, your brain picks up on the positive emotion of the smile, and your mood improves – and when your mood improves, you feel stronger and more confident! You get the same result with adopting the following power poses that will trigger a physiological response and increase your confidence.
You can do these poses anywhere, whenever you need a confidence or self-esteem boost. They only take a few minutes, and the results are lasting!
1. Start by smiling at yourself in the mirror. You don’t have to start off with a genuine smile, if you don’t feel like it. A Mona Lisa smile, or a fake social smile, is okay to start with (sure, force it!) – the key is to HOLD the smile, until it becomes genuine. Look into those beautiful eyes of yours, and let your smile express the love you feel! Keep holding it until your smile is big and sunny, and keep holding it for two minutes or more. You can’t help but feel better… and if you burst out laughing, even better! Laughter is a great release of tension and helps you feel more confident right away.
2. Next, stand with your feet slightly wider than shoulder width; arms up and outstretched to the sky; chin up; chest out; stomach in, still smiling. Raise your eyes so that you are boldly looking at the whole world, eye to eye! Now lengthen your abdomen – imagine your chest lifting away from your belly button, stretching the area that is normally compressed… your solar plexus. When you’re feeling insecure, you instinctively protect your solar plexus in a modified fetal position (aka slouching!). This exercise helps you stop hiding and start putting yourself out there. Your firm and balanced stance, outstretched arms and exposed “underbelly” confidently say to the world, “Here I am! Let’s play!”
3. While you’re holding your power pose, imagine the sun warming the solar plexus area, filling every cell with warmth and “solar power.” Consciously invite the sun into your solar plexus. Smile into this area of personal power!
4. Say to yourself, “I love myself” several times. Love yourself as is, unconditionally, even if you suspend self-judgment for just a few minutes.
If you do this every day – or anytime you are feeling unworthy or scared, you’ll prime yourself for a better response or better performance. A great time to do this is before interviews, dates, exams, presentations or when you’re faced with doing something new that scares you.
