Solar Plexus Manipura Chakra: Awaken Your Inner Fire
Just above your navel burns a golden sun – your Solar Plexus Manipura Chakra. This is your powerhouse. The yellow sacred fire where willpower meets courage. The place from which you act, decide, transform. It’s the fire that digests not just your food, but also your emotions, your fears, and your doubts. Your solar plexus energy center fuels your sense of purpose, personal power, and self-worth. It gives you the strength to take aligned action, make empowered choices, and standing firmly in your truth.
When it is balanced, you feel clear, confident, courageous and unstoppable. When imbalanced or blocked, you may feel indecisive, small, filled with self-doubt, or like life is just happening to you. You may struggle with anger, control, or even digestive issues. as your internal fire either dims or rages.
Blockage of the Manipura energy center often arises from childhood criticism, shaming, controlling authority figures, or environments where your will was suppressed. Balancing the solar plexus chakra is essential to restore your inner fire and your ability to act from a place of self-trust, clarity, and radiant strength.
How it manifests
Unbalanced Traits:
- Low self-worth or overinflated ego
- Indecision or controlling tendencies
- Procrastination, passivity or blaming others
- Digestive issues, ulcers, or fatigue
- Arrogance, anger outbursts or fear of being seen
- People-pleasing or dominance to mask insecurity
Balanced Traits:
- Healthy self-esteem and confidence
- Clear decision-making and willpower
- Courage to take action and own responsibility
- Strong digestion and healthy metabolism
- Inner fire with humility – knowing your worth, quietly
- Empowered, assertive without aggression
Qualities
- Colour: Golden Yellow
- Beeja Mantra: Rum
- Element (Mahābhūta): 🔥 Agni – Fire
- Location: Just above the navel
- Nature: Feminine
- Sense (Indriya): Sight
- Symbolic animal: Ram – bold and charging forward
- Quality: Power, self-worth, clarity, transformation
Deities:
Rudra – the fierce will, destroyer of inertia
Lakini – the guardian of inner fire
Behind The Navel
Behind your navel burns
a golden sun,
bold and unflinching.
Here is your power —
the lion’s roar, the warrior’s will,
the fierce knowing of your own worth.
It fuels your choices,
kindles your courage,
and stands tall in the face of doubt.
It reminds you: you are strong enough
to shine in your fullness.
I act. I choose. I am powerful.
Invocation:
I place the flame in my belly,
the sun at my center,
the spark of transformation in my will.
I am the fire,
and the fire is me.
Strength and power blaze through me.
how to heal Solar Plexus chakra
Chakra healing is the process of cleansing and energising one or more than one chakra, this can be done by using certain modalities. Other things such as foods, sounds, smells, yoga practices and healing crystals can also help. Follow it up by balancing the solar plexus chakra for a more centered result.
Balancing the solar plexus chakra or Manipura energy center empowers you with a deep sense of confidence, purpose, and direction. When this fiery center is aligned, you no longer second-guess yourself or shrink to fit into someone else’s frame. Instead, you act from clarity, courage, and personal truth.
Balancing the Solar Plexus chakra dissolves deep-seated fears of failure or rejection and burns away the fog of self-doubt. You begin to stand tall in your choices, own your voice, and take aligned action without aggression. Life feels driven — not by ego, but by a clear inner compass.
Nyāsa
Nyāsa (न्यास) literally means ‘placing’ . It is the act of mentally (and often physically) placing mantras, elements, deities, or energies into specific parts of the body to consecrate it as a temple of the divine.
Sit in a comfortable meditative posture.
Take a few deep breaths to center yourself.
Touch or simply focus your awareness on the Solar Plexus Manipura Chakra area.
Recite the mantra(s):
“Om agnaye svāhā”. (Element Fire, I bow to you)
“Om agnim sthāpaya nābhau me tejas.”(please place the Fire in my navel as radiance.)
“Om Rudrāya ca Lākinyai ca namah, sthāpaya nābhau me tejas.” (I bow to Rudra and Lakini, please place radiance and strength in my solar plexus.)
Visualize the element and/ or deity, and feel the quality of that chakra awaken within you.
At each step, you can lightly touch the spot (or just hover your palm there if preferred), visualising the sound and energy.
Disclaimer: The mantras given here are modern Sanskrit constructions, intended as poetic, nyāsa-style invocations for meditation. These are not scripturally attested Vedic or Tantric mantras. These have been constructed to fit the spirit of nyāsa for an English-speaking audience who might not be versed in bīja or more cryptic Tantric syllables.
Balancing the Solar Plexus Chakra
Having gone through a period of unbalanced (distorted) Solar Plexus Chakra, I know that it can be tough. But shadow work and balancing the chakras did help a lot. So, till the time you find your balance.. hang in there!
I can recommend the following practices (pick and choose as per your disposition) for balancing the solar plexus chakra:
Yoga for balancing the solar plexus chakra
Practice breath of fire (Kapalabhati) and asanas (Poses) for the core:
- Phalakasana, also known as Plank Pose
- Matsyasana, also known as Fish Pose
- Ushtrasana, also known as Camel Pose
- Anjaneyasana, also known as the Low lunge Pose
- Utkatasana, also known as Chair Pose.
Burn Bright, Stand Tall
You are fire. You are the sun at your centre. Let your inner flame rise, your will awaken, and your spirit remember its strength.
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