A Letter from your Solar Plexus

Atma namaste!

I sat to write this blog for the first time last month. After multiple trials, I realised there was something missing. It was as though I just couldn't bring myself to express what I wanted to, to a point of desperation. And as always, clarity followed that. I was trying to tell you about a chakra who wanted to speak for itself. So here is a letter, to you, from your solar plexus. 

Hello. It's me, your solar plexus. I think it's time we get acquainted.

I'll start with my job. It's important, and it is large.

I govern your digestive fire. The stomach, liver, pancreas— they all report to me. I also oversee the lungs, the diaphragm, the quality of your blood. I am, in the most literal sense, responsible for how you metabolise — food, yes, but also experiences.

I sit at the centre of your chakral system. Every bit of energy moving upward from your lower chakra passes through me first, and I cleanse it before sending it on to your heart. Everything moving downward does the same.

I am the relay. The filter.

The one in the middle who makes sure the whole system runs cleanly.

I am also, at my best, the source of everything you'd call your fire.

Your confidence — that's me. Your ambition, your decisiveness, the clarity that arrives when you know exactly what you want and exactly how to go get it — all me. When you stood your ground that time, when you made the call everyone else was avoiding, when you felt that deep settled sense of I've got this — you were feeling me, working as I'm meant to work.

I process your emotions as well. But I also process the emotions you absorb from everyone around you.

And I ask myself this often: how do we tell the difference?

When you walked out of that meeting feeling inexplicably heavy — was that yours? When you feel a surge of irritation that seems larger than the moment warrants — where did it begin? I receive it all. I don't have a border policy. I take in your joy and your grief and your hunger and your unspoken anger, and I also take in the anxiety of the person sitting next to you on the train, the moods floating in a room.

This isn't something to solve, rather let's  be curious about it together. Because the question of what belongs to you and what you're simply carrying for the world — that's one of the more interesting questions a human being can sit with.

And then, how do we process it? Do we let it go or do we live it through? I think the answer is both, and in that order. You live it just enough to understand it. Then you let it move. But sometimes you live it too deep, too long, to a point that letting it go seems difficult. The problem isn't feeling things deeply. I was built for depth. The problem is when things stop moving and start accumulating.

When I'm overloaded and under-tended, you'll recognise it. The self-doubt that has no clear origin. The decisions that feel suddenly harder than they should. The digestive system that won't quite settle. The breathlessness that has nothing to do with your lungs. Don't take these as failures. They're signals. I am telling you something needs active attention.

I told you the job was large, and I am built for it.

And with a little attention and regular love, you feel it everywhere. The confidence gets quieter and deeper. The digestion settles. The decisions come faster. The anger, when it arrives, is clean and purposeful rather than reactive. You move through your day with a quality of self-possession that is comfortable.

That's what I'm capable of. That's what I'm always orienting toward, even when the load is heavy.

I don't need much. I need space, time and conversation. And it's okay if they all are given at the same time.

Sit without distractions and stimuli, breathe for me, and talk to me about your day and experiences.

Let’s live it together, and then let it go as well. 

You've got this.

Your solar plexus

If you feel you need help in your journey of processing and letting go,  a focused pranic healing session on the solar plexus alone produces a noticeable shift — in digestion, in decision-making, in that persistent background noise of not-enoughness.

It doesn't demand much. It just needs to be tended to regularly.

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Love,

Arundhati.