Anxiety at the solar plexus

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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.