Anxiety at the solar plexus

[Bat]

Lately i have been feeling some issues or rather anxiety at the point just below the heart or the solar plexus. At its peek it almost threw me into a panic attack but luckily i was able to let go through breath awareness.

I did a little research on this emotion at this energy center and found this interesting text.

It seems that if one puts to much energy into the idea of polarity it can indeed have negative effects. Ultimately all is one, i would rather focus on the unity rather than on polarity.

When you begin to become aware of your energy system (aura, chakras, your awareness itself) then you have much more control and awareness of what is going on emotionally with you. In this article, I want to address that upset feeling we all get occasionally in which a problem is viewed as "either/or", "good/bad", "on/off", etc. When you are caught in a dichotomy such as this, your awareness is sure to be stuck in the THIRD CHAKRA, or SOLAR PLEXUS chakra, located just below your sternum, above your navel (if you have ever had butterflies before a talk or a meeting, or your stomach got tight when talking to a threatening person, you certainly know where the 3rd chakra is). The big problem with a situation like this is that there is no solution to the dichotomy. If, for example, you are in a relationship and you are wondering whether he is the right person for you or not, there is no solving that worry. Similarly with anxiety issues, there is no resolution because all anxiety is prompted by polarizing oppositions. Here is another example: "What if this is a mistake to go forward?" Your choice is either to go or not to go, which is a dichotomy or polarity. No decision you make will give you peace in this polarized situation! If you do make a decision, you will worry later if you made the right choice!

The 3rd chakra is our power chakra that helps us manage life on earth. It is very helpful and we need it! However, it is not our only chakra and has limited usefulness. When we try to do everything with this chakra, we get caught in anxiety and fear. Most personality problems are centered in this chakra because it has to do with defending oneself and polarizing judgments (good/bad, white/black, etc.). When you are stuck here, you are stuck in your sympathetic nervous system and fight or flight response and cannot see beyond your polarized thinking. This chakra is involved with your voluntary muscular control, or those activities with analytical thought and effort.

We have chakras that focus on issues of higher consciousness that are not stuck in polarities. One that is very useful in solving 3rd chakra anxieties is the 6th chakra, located just over the bridge of your nose between your eyebrows, often called the Brow Chakra or the 3rd Eye. It is actually located in the center of your head and opens to the front and back of your head. You may or may not have felt this before. Have you ever furrowed your brow in trying to solve a problem? You were using this chakra to figure out your problem, along with some 3rd chakra effort. You might also feel a pulsing or pressure here when you are using it. I am most aware of it when someone tries to block it....sometimes I feel a big hand push at my face when someone does not want me to see something. This chakra functions best when you are operating primarily with your parasympathetic nervous system, or involuntary part of your activities, those that are involved with allowing things rather than forcing things.

The great thing about the 6th chakra is that it sees TRUTH and nothing else. It is not concerned with your emotional well being or hampered by your judgments. It is also just great at solving 3rd chakra standoffs. It is so simple and you don't really need to be experienced or knowledgable to take advantage of this great service!

Here is a good intervention I have used in my own self awareness and with clients. This gets you into the parasympathetic side:
* Bring yourself into the moment by being aware of the room you are in, the noises around you, the temperature of the air, the feeling of your body sitting in the chair or couch or standing, etc.
*Turn your attention inward to yourself, even if you don't know what that is supposed to feel like
*Ask for your chakras to be aligned vertically and horizontally (they will obey even if you have never felt or seen a chakra)
*Ask for the "problem" in your 3rd or Solar Plexus chakra to move up to the 6th chakra. It will do so just with your command, whether you are aware of anything or not. It takes no effort.

You will most likely feel the problem evaporate even without seeing a resolution. You may, however, find that you understand the problem in a completely different way.

You are now in control of your energy system and not the victim of life and its circumstances! CONGRATULATIONS!

[Unbound]

In term of raw energetic reaction I find that this happens when I do not properly ground the energy coming in to my solar plexus, or when my solar plexus energies are not moving up in to my heart. It is like a wire with too powerful of an electrical charge going through it so it "fries" or becomes overwhelmed.

For me, I believe that the solar plexus energies must be able to travel freely in to the heart. I feel that this is done by making circulations between the solar plexus and heart, the solar plexus and the environment, and the heart and the environment. By creating circulations you alleviate the pressure by allowing energy to move through the center instead of being caught up.

In terms of mental activity and beliefs, I would say it is not just a matter of thinking in a polarized way but also identifying oneself with one polarity or the other. Some inner conflict may come because one may identify with opposite polarities of different things so you may be on one side of the fence for some things, and on the other for others. This creates a split that I believe creates the gulf or vaccuum which allows energy to be caught and blocked in the solar plexus, manifesting as anxiety and other such feelings.

[Bat]

I guess working on the heart center will create an opening for the energy to move upwards. I always thought you needed to balance one center first before moving onto the next center.

[reeay]

The vagus nerve runs down from brain, stems thru to the nerves in the stomach region, and is thought to have connections to emotional experiences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve

Anxiety/fear, esp fear, comes from a very primitive part of our brain structure that is responsible for flight, fight, or freeze function (dealing w/ survival). So possible red ray is involved... survival can mean emotional survival, esp if the issue that is emerging from unconscious can totally flip your understanding of self to point of crisis.

Anxiety tends to be an 'instrumental emotion', meaning it is an emotion that tends to be used to interrupt the flow of more core emotional experience that may overwhelm us if we were to access that. Balancing chakras may work but to get deeper into 'what's bothering us', one would have to attend to the anxiety, understand what it's trying to tell us, then one can go deeper into understanding & accepting catalyst. So for me, balancing chakra is kind of in-the-moment grounding tool so that further work can be done. The best way to use emotions & bodily sensations (that correspond to whatever catalyst being worked on), would be to investigate what those emotions or bodily sensations are telling us. Maybe you're going too deep too fast to something very overwhelming; maybe the issue being brought up into conscious awareness is bit too much to handle... many reasons why anxiety/panic attack happens.

[xise]

Balanced beliefs necessarily lead to balanced energy and balanced emotions.

Balanced energy can temporarily lead to balanced emotions, and can give the potential for balanced beliefs to arise. However, unless that potential is exercised, you're back to square one.

[reeay]

We have many beliefs to access according to situation. The emotional energy directs what you access. Beliefs are complex bc we are fragmented and each aspect of self have pretty diverse beliefs, sometimes contradictory. Some beliefs more covert than others. If we want to work on beliefs we would have to work on emotional charge and slew of other things. You don't accept emotions tho, you're accepting part of self that reacts to that emotion. Emotions are merely markers.

[Unbound]

I guess working on the heart center will create an opening for the energy to move upwards. I always thought you needed to balance one center first before moving onto the next center.

Consider the tuning of the guitar. The balance of harmonies between the strings is meant to create chords which are the result of tones/notes interacting. The context of each string being tuned to a particular note is meaningful because of the overall tuning structure of the guitar.

What I feel for your system is that you have achieved a "minimum balance", which is like roughly tuning all the strings of a guitar to work in a tuning, and now you are more refining the balances between the centers which is actually what leads to the overall balance of the individual.

[zenmaster]

What I feel for your system is that you have achieved a "minimum balance", which is like roughly tuning all the strings of a guitar to work in a tuning, and now you are more refining the balances between the centers which is actually what leads to the overall balance of the individual.

What does this mean, because "overall balance" is obviously something one already has currently, as well as in the future, regardless of effort. So that's kind of like saying something leads to a temperature reading.

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We have many beliefs to access according to situation. The emotional energy directs what you access. Beliefs are complex bc we are fragmented and each aspect of self have pretty diverse beliefs, sometimes contradictory. Some beliefs more covert than others. If we want to work on beliefs we would have to work on emotional charge and slew of other things. You don't accept emotions tho, you're accepting part of self that reacts to that emotion. Emotions are merely markers.

The thing is that emotional catalyst is only one step above physical, so apparently spiritual and mental catalyst had to first be ignored which really highlights how unconscious people really are.

[Unbound]

Yeah, maybe I didn't put that across right, I didn't mean that the overall balance exists that way, I meant that the overall balance is "worked on" and fine-tuned in that way. My bad! Aha

[reeay]

Emotional schema, which is part of the complexes, is significant tho. When you compare modalities that target beliefs and more cognitive schema and those that target emotional schema, the latter has more long term effectiveness. This thought/belief meme comes from the popular cognitive psychology bc it's the most popular form of psychology on the market. Emotions may be above body but emotional schema is of the mind. Masters talks a lot of this in his book tho he does not use the same vocabulary. You don't change emotions, you accept the part of self that reacts to emotions. Schemas are organized set of beliefs around emotions. Big difference.

[zenmaster]

Emotional schema, which is part of the complexes, is significant tho. When you compare modalities that target beliefs and more cognitive schema and those that target emotional schema, the latter has more long term effectiveness. This thought/belief meme comes from the popular cognitive psychology bc it's the most popular form of psychology on the market. Emotions may be above body but emotional schema is of the mind. Masters talks a lot of this in his book tho he does not use the same vocabulary. You don't change emotions, you accept the part of self that reacts to emotions. Schemas are organized set of beliefs around emotions. Big difference.

Yes, agreed. Ra had said the following "The thoughts of an entity, its feelings or emotions, and least of all its behavior are the signposts for the teaching/learning of self by self. In the analysis of one’s experiences of a diurnal cycle an entity may assess what it considers to be inappropriate thoughts, behaviors, feelings, and emotions."

[reeay]

Yep emotions themselves are signposts... i called it marker.

Btw beliefs can be many things:

emotional schema (beliefs about emotions & how you consistently react to emotions based on past experiences like shame, guilt, anger, pain, anxiety, confusion, self-critical etc.,).

cognitive schema (how you view self e.g., unworthy, unlovable, etc.,)

biases/assumptions (could be epistemological, ontological etc.,) and so forth

world views (global beliefs)

E.g., I feel angry but I shouldn't feel angry bc that's not nice thing to do... My spiritual teachings taught me that feeling angry is not compassionate so I am just gonna sit on it... I am going to feel anxious and ashamed at myself instead of becoming angry.

There's no acceptance of self yet and there's no honesty yet... the anger is pushed away (denied) so it is repressed and expressed via more comfortable/accessible emotions like anxiety and shame. If one were to comfortably access the anger and work thru all the emotional scheme related to it, the other beliefs like how one views self, more global beliefs etc., will change.

42.9 'The repression of emotions depolarizes the entity in so far as it then chooses not to use the catalytic action of the space/time present in a spontaneous manner, thus dimming the energy centers. There is, however, some polarization towards positive if the cause of this repression is consideration for other-selves.'

[Bat]

Thanks for the information guys. I personally believe it was caused because i felt i was losing control and felt i had almost for a moment forgot who i was so i freaked out. I think the energy on the day (happened on the 21st) may have also played some part in it. I will keep searching for the heart of the self.