Third Chakra

The third chakra, manipura, is located in your solar plexus, between your naval and heart. The color association is yellow and the elemental association is fire. The third chakra is where your second brain lives. Your second brain is known as your intuition. The wisest sage in the world is nothing without intuition to guide her in her choices on a daily basis. We are faced with choices and decisions hundreds of times each day. When we allow our intuition to make choices based on the need of the soul to experience love, rather than the need of the logical mind to order and control chaos, the quality of the choices we make are of the richest kind.

The third chakra houses your intuition, your self-esteem, and your sense of integrity. Your ability to endure suffering also lives here and as the Buddha said, we are all subject to a measure of suffering in this life.

Intuition, regardless of knowledge, is a divine presence in each and every one of our bodies. Kids have it. Animals have it. But somehow, through our processes of "education", intuition is slowly shut down, invalidated, disrespected...we are taught not to trust our instincts; we are taught to leave choices and decisions to adults who know better. Intuition is a God given gift that we are all born into. However, our western culture is not particularly interested in what it is to "know" that around the corner there's a snarling dog, western culture is more interested in selling us a gun to protect ourselves from the PROSPEST of a snarling dog. It's a tragedy of epic proportion in our culture and I'm telling you, if we let the kids make intuitive choices for this entire nation for just one day, we wouldn't recognize the beautiful world we woke into the next morning.

Issues of self-esteem and integrity are located in your third chakra. Why is that? Because without integrity, your self esteem is woefully left wanting. Integrity means "walking your talk", doing what you say you are going to do and then doing it. It's that simple, but we make excuses for ourselves every day and it chips away at our sense of who we are. How many times have you said, "I could feel it in my gut that this or that wasn't the right thing to do, but I didn't listen." START LISTENING! If you desire a closer connection to Divine Guidance, then find a way to pay attention and make choices based on what you are sensing from your third chakra.