Your body sometimes speaks through color
Chakras and our emotions go hand in hand, as do sometimes our physical symptoms/sensations. If we aren't paying close attention we can miss the signs, which is exactly what happened to me over the weekend.
All weekend I was unknowingly gravitating towards anything and everything fully yellow, a color a bit out of character for me. I was adamant about finding yellow on yellow sunflowers at the farmer’s market even though I’m not really a sunflower person. I bought only yellow sweet peppers when I usually buy a variety of colors. I sent someone a yellow bouquet of flowers. I wore my rarely worn yellow handbag. I drank ginger tea and devoured the most delicious mangos.
I was also dealing with severe 24/7 nausea and stomach pains, and every time I did reiki on myself my hands went directly to the area above my navel.
After receiving a traditional reflexology session on Sunday, I had a mini AHA moment when my masseuse pointed out how blocked my solar plexus chakra felt. [The color of the SP is, you guessed it, yellow!]. The solar plexus, the yellow energy center which sits right above the navel, is the chakra where self-confidence and self power manifests. It's also correlated with our digestion and diaphragm. The nausea, the tightness, the emotional feelings I was experiencing, and the desire for yellow everything finally all made sense.
Chakras are associated with specific colors because each color has a unique vibration and each chakra, or energy center, has a unique frequency, wavelength, and pulse. These chakras can influence your mental, emotional, spiritual, and even physical health.
In chromology, the study of how different colors affect how you think, yellow is seen as a mood and confidence booster, anxiety reducer, and thought clearer. This correlates with the solar plexus because that particular chakra is associated with power, confidence, and self-worth. Unconsciously, my body was speaking to me, screaming both physically and energetically to pay attention to this chakra which clearly needed attention.
I went home, put on the one-of-three yellow items I own, tapped into the vibration of the SP and did a kundalini solar plexus kriya followed by a conscious breathing meditation. Not only could I literally feel the SP area expand more and more, but I felt more connected to my power. Even my nausea subsided.
We are all energy, as is everything around us, and energy communicates in different ways. The bigger message here isn’t to wear more color, though it might be helpful, but to really pay attention to what our physical and emotional bodies are telling us. Intuition is something we all have and though it’s stronger in some, we all have the ability to tune in, to pause, to really listen.
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