April 22, 2026 • 44 mins
If you’ve been feeling a lack of agency, stuck in loops of scarcity, or like you’re constantly reacting to life rather than leading it… this episode is your recalibration point.
This week, we move from the fluid emotions of the sacral into the "fire" of the Solar Plexus. As we navigate this period of accelerated energy, this center acts as your internal level—the bridge between your lower instincts and your higher consciousness. What many experience as chronic inflammation, adrenal fatigue, or "foot-in-mouth" syndrome is often a Solar Plexus struggling to metabolize the world around it.
In this episode of Soul Sessions, Amanda explores the "Mighty I Am." Because when you master your seat of power, you stop outsourcing your resourcefulness to others and start magnetizing your reality from the inside out.
This episode explores:
--The Seat of Personal Power: Understanding the Solar Plexus as your calibration point for consciousness and manifestation.
--Metabolizing Life: How your gut isn’t just digesting food—it’s digesting your environment, your experiences, and your day-to-day interactions.
--Fear as a Distortion: Identifying the two primary fear programs—the fear of losing what you have and the fear of not getting what you want.
--The Gut-Brain Connection: The science of serotonin in the gut and how unconscious programming lives in your digestive center.
--Agency vs. Powerlessness: Reclaiming your ability to choose, change your mind, and take personal responsibility for your actions and attitudes.
--The Physical Toll: How Solar Plexus imbalances manifest as chronic inflammation, adrenal strain, and weight fluctuations.
--The Internal Broadcast: Auditing the "shadow" dialogue—what are you unconsciously broadcasting to the world through your fears?
WORK WITH THIS EPISODE
For the next 7 days, focus on your Solar Plexus to shift from reaction to agency:
--The Fear Audit: Ask yourself daily: "What am I afraid of right now?" and "Is scarcity shaping my decision-making?" Awareness is the first step to clearing the distortion.
--Check Your "Input": Be mindful of what you are ingesting—both nutritionally and energetically. Focus on balancing your gut and colon to boost your physical lifeforce.
--Monitor the Dialogue: When you catch yourself in an internal loop or a "foot-in-mouth" moment, pause. Choose a different response to reclaim your agency.
--Visualize Yellow: Envision a bright, steady golden-yellow light at your navel. See it as a level, finding its center and steadying your confidence and resourcefulness.
--Somatic Check-in: Notice where you feel "tight" in your midsection. --Practice deep belly breathing to soothe the interface between your nervous system and your physical body.
RESOURCES + NEXT STEPS
How to Metabolize Energy for Strong Energetic Boundaries (listen here)
April Energy Forecast (watch here)
Root Chakra & Nervous System Upgrade (watch here)
Sacral Chakra & Energy Leakage (watch here)
Ready to go deeper? Looking for a Conscious Community? Join The Frequency Field (April Membership)
IMPORTANT NOTE
If you are experiencing severe emotional distress, reproductive health issues, or chronic pain, please seek support from a qualified professional. Tending to your energetic body is a beautiful addition to—not a replacement for—professional medical or mental health care.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hi everyone, It's Amanda Reader Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions.
Thank you for joining me today. We're going to do
a dive into the solar plexus and the energy of
how we connect with our own personal power. And if
you have listened to the past couple of episodes, I've
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been doing a chakra series, and not in the traditional
way of the root chakra is you know, your safety,
your security, It is those things. The sacral chakra, you're desiring,
your creativity, it is those things. So we're moving more
into the energy of each energy center and how it
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is affecting us. Now in this new frequency, we're experiencing
a higher level of consciousness, accelerated energy. So we're building
on that and moving into the solar plexus. And of course,
traditionally the solar plexus is the seat of our personal power.
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I used to I don't know, maybe ten or so
years ago, I would there was this astrologer and she's
drifted off. She's not present on YouTube anymore. Her name
was Kelly Rosano, and she used to say, my Mighty,
I am presence, and she would say that all the time,
and I miss her, and I don't know, I don't
know if she's a practicing astrologer anymore, but I can't
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find her. So anyway, shout out to Kelly Rosano. She
used to have these great videos, but she would she
would talk about her mighty I Am presence, and essentially
she was connecting with that I am the solar plexus.
And I loved that because I resonated with it very
clearly at the time. And yes, that is on a fundamental,
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basic level, elementary one oh one. What is the solar plexus.
It is your im capital capital a capital M you're
mighty I am. But it is also your calibration point.
It's a space and a place of balance, and it
is it is consciousness in a way. I did an
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episode a Soul Sessions podcast on metabolizing energy. I did
that a while back, and we will post a link
to that episode in the show notes in the description here,
because that episode goes hand in hand with solar plexus
energy and a more advanced way of integrating the energy.
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One of the functions of the solar plexus is metabolizing
and digesting our life, digesting the experiences we have in life.
And so if you're thinking about your solar plexus, it's
how you engage with or interact with the day to
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day the life around you, your environment, the experiences you have,
and the metabolization is not getting stuck, plugged up or
backed up. And you all know I'm going to talk
about where does the solar plexus live. Yes, it's the gut.
So it's literally the digestive track and the colon. So
if you're constipated or you have diarrhea, think about how
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you're digesting or you can't you know, you can't get
a grip on your digestion with your solar plexus. And
I'm laughing about it because the solar plexus is really
it is the bridge between the lower energetic centers and
the higher energetic centers in the body. So it is
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a calibration point. It's also how we manifest and I mean, yes,
we manifest through our whole mind, body spirit connection, but
the solar plexus is where the wheels in the cog
are and it's it's where we find the energetic alignment
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to magnetize in energy. And that's one of the things
is with accelerated energy that we're experiencing right now and
all of these frequency shifts and consciousness shifts manifestation. That
word doesn't even cut it. It's about magnetizing, so metabolizing
energy and magnetizing energy in the solar plexus. That's that's
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your seat of empower and that's what this level of
energy is, and it the solar plexus also is this
place where fear distorts our perception and where scarcity can
be tilting our choices and what we're attracting in It's
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also where energy becomes misaligned with what we want consciousnes
or unconsciously. So again it is the solar plexus is
a calibration point and it's also it helps us translate instincts, desires,
even emotions into conscious direction of energy. So is there
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a lot going on in the solar plexus? Yeah, a
whole lot. You know what fascinates me and I always
not always, but I go too often these days. And
this is just on a purely physiological level, but it
absolutely relates to the solar plexus is where is saratonin
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made in the gut? So where is that happiness drug
made in our body? The gut that says I'm happy,
I want to live, I want to Oh my gosh,
this is exciting and engaging saratonin. It's made in the gut.
So the gut is the solar plexus is how we
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direct our consciousness and our energy. It also and this
is what And I'm gonna go into this and break
some of this down just so you have a frame
of reference and you have some go to So if
you're feeling like, oh my gosh, there's a lot going
on here, Amanda, yes there is a lot, and you
can go back and take some notes. You don't have
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to digest all of this in one episode or one sitting.
Just the frequency of it alone is recalibrating your solar plexus.
Us talking about it consciously, know that on almost an
energetic or an osmosis level, it's recalibrating it. But the
gut also is where unconscious programming lives and what's playing
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on repeat. And it's almost like a tape recorder. I
know I'm dating myself by saying tape recorder, but a
lot of you listening are like, yeah, like a tape recorder,
you got it, okay, But it's recording. It's like your
voice memo in your smartphone. Okay, if we need to
use that kind of language. So just as a little
bit of a review, and we will of course link
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these in the show notes. The last two podcast episodes
Soul Sessions Podcast. We're on the root chakra and the
sacral chakra. And I know I've mentioned this, but the
root chakra is this base, this stabilization where we move
and operate from in our physical body, skeletal system, our presence.
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It's where we find our center. The sacral chakra brings movement,
it brings emotion and desire. It's where I talk a
lot energetically at a more advanced level about not only
emotional intelligence, but emotional sovereignty, but life force starts to
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I keep wanting to say coagulate, and that's the wrong word.
I can't find it, but accumulate, build up, and the
sacral chakra and the solar plexus is what organizes that
energy into choice or discernment, energetic signal and action. It's
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like the funnel of where things start to come online
in an e like from inside to outside. Okay, lots
of stuff. So the solar plexus is this bridge. And
when we work with the root chakra, the sacred chakra
and the solar plexus, the upper chakras, the heart chakra,
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which we will bridge that and that will be a
whole weather episode. But the throat chakra, third eye, crown chakra,
and by the way, there's like lots more chakras, lots
more energy systems in the body. But I am dealing
with the you know, the big seven, the seven wonders
of the world, the seven wonders of your human body
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and energy system. But when you work with the bottom three,
the other stuff starts to click easier, differently and more
infinitely in a way, and you'll get it. If you
don't already get it, you'll get it the more you
know it, see it, recognize it, connect the dots, and
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practice it. So with the solar plexus, it's where fear
programs are living. And the simplest way for me to
look at fear, which usually it originates from one of
these two is I am afraid that I'm going to
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lose something I have or I'm afraid that I'm not
going to get what I want. Usually that is the
root cause of if I am operating from a place
of fear, it comes from being afraid that I'm going
to lose something I have or not get what I want.
So I want you to ask yourself right now, I
want you to pause and say, ask yourself what what
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fear programs are running for you right now? So simply put,
what are you afraid of? Just one thing? What are
you afraid of? Deep down? You know? Okay, Like if
you're driving, don't write that down, but if you are
sitting somewhere, like take a minute and write down what
are you afraid of? Okay? Next question, This is all
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solar plexus related. Is scarcity shaping your actions and decision making?
And I'm going to come back to each of these,
which is simple examples. All right. Next question, What internal
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dialogue is imprinting into your body? So this is like
the internal dialogue the voice in your head that is
always kind of in the back, and is it that
little Jiminy cricket at angel on your shoulder, devil on
your shoulder, But it is saying you're not enough, you
don't have what you need, you can't do this. You
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know what internal dialogue is imprinting into your body? On repeat?
You know this stuff? You know what is back there
running the recording machine. Here's here's another question. This keep
going on this stick stick with me, because this is
really helpful. In rebalancing your solar flexus and clarifying some things.
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And the solar flexus, by the way, is all about clarity. Ready,
What are you unconsciously broadcasting? That's a good one. What
are you unconsciously broadcasting? Okay? Last one, and I don't
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want you to spend much time on these because I
want you to just what's coming out? What's coming up
for you? Last question? Are you leading your life or
reacting to it? Are you leading your life or reacting
to it? Okay? You should have a lot of really
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good data right there on yourself, especially if you did
what came to mind first, you were rigorously honest. This
is not to share with anybody else. This is for
you because that's those questions right there. I put those
questions together because they sum up the shadow aspect, the
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imbalance aspect energetically of the solar plexus. And when we
start to recognize the answers to those questions, once we
have the clarity, the knowledge, you can't unknow. But now
you have data, you have the clearer information to take
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the reins back and rewrite all the scripts. The fear programming,
the scarcity, the internal dialogue, the unconscious broadcasting and how
you're funneling energy, are you leading it or reacting to it?
And I said I would give you some examples. I
think you all pretty much can figure out what fear
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programs might be running in the background. You know, what
are your primal fears? What are your deepest fears? Mine
a lot of times has to do with like my
primal fears. If I am very clear about those, it's
that I'm not going to live up to the standard
that my soul's set for me in this lifetime. I
know that sounds so philosophical and esoteric, but when I'm
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I'm super honest. I mean, what does that mean that
I'm not enough? I'm not gonna have enough? I'm not enough?
So it's scarcity related, absolutely, what scarcity is shaping my life.
That was the second question that I threw out to you.
One of the like the simplest example I can give
you is and this is a personal example of mine
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and scarcity programming. This was a few years ago. I
was in this little boutique when we lived in Wimberley
and they sold nothing but candles, and it was just
a small boutique and they were, you know, handcrafted high
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quality candles whatever, and they smelled really great and they
had cool names and stuff. But the candles were like
sixty five dollars apiece, and I was like a sixty
who spends sixty five dollars on a candle? WHOA like?
I just couldn't. I couldn't wrap my head around spending
sixty five dollars on a candle, no no matter how
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great it smelled, and I couldn't justify it buying it
for myself or a gift for anybody else. I was like,
why would I buy this when I could just go
to Home Goods or TJ Max and get one for
seven ninety nine? Like that was the immediately, That's what
I thought. And what was funny is I was with
my cousin and she didn't blink and when she picked
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one up and she goes, oh, my gosh, this smells
so good. My husband would love this. I gotta get
this for him. And I watched her like, go, oh,
he's got to have this. This smells so good. He
can put this. It was like he had just redone
like a man cave area or something. She's like, this
will be so great for like, you know, in his
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bar lounge area. She didn't blink, and then she bought
another one for somebody else, and then she looked at
me and she's like, do you want one? I'm like,
I kid you not, and she I know her, and
I like, I know who she is and I know
you all don't know her. But none of this was
coming from being frivolous or extravagant. It was literally she
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was not moving from scarcity. And yes, sixty five dollars
for a candle is a whole lot, I get it.
But that is just a simple example. And I was like, whoa,
And I watched myself freak out and say, I can't
even buy one of those. I can't even justify doing it.
That is scarcity shaping and running a program and my reality.
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And it's not about me being able to afford or
buy the candle or not. It's that immediate response, do
I want this? Does this align? Do I love it?
Can I get it? Can I afford it? Go for it?
Or oh my gosh, am I analyzing and discerning? Get it?
What scarcity is shaping your attitudes and actions? Okay? What
internal dialogue is imprinting into the body we all I
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don't need to go into any examples. You know what
is running in the background, whether it is coming from
a place of self criticism, self doubt, and a lot
of us. I can't tell you how many people I
talk to and I'll raise my hand. It's like, I
don't need any external critics. I'm my biggest critic. So
is the internal critic running the dialogue and imprinting into
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your physical body, health and well being. This is all
solar plexus. Next one, and this one is so important,
is what are you unconsciously broadcasting? Simple example on this one,
I was talking to a client recently and she and
I get it, like this is the simplest, easiest example.
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We were want love is one of the things, like
she's been divorced for a while, she's ready, she's really
ready to start dating and fine love and like it's
just been awkward, and you know, you all know the
whole story of dating and dating apps and dating as
an adult and it's not easy out there. It's a jungle.
But were I said to her it came up in
a session. I was like, oh my gosh, when you
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go to the gym, I can see you like I
could just energetically care Claire cognizantly like see her energy field.
I was like, you go to the gym and you're like,
get out of my business, Like, get out of my space.
You know, any guys that are looking at you, anybody
that's trying to engage You're like, you know, I would
like shoot the middle finger and say f off, you know,
like that, Like that's what she is broadcasting at the gym,
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like no, wait, don't talk to me, don't touch me.
This is my time, this is my space. And she's like,
oh my gosh, how did you know that. I was
like I can see it. It's like you're broadcasting it,
yet you are wanting love and partnership and reciprocity. And
I'm not talking about not having boundaries or you know,
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needing your own personal space at the gym. It's that
unconscious broadcasting. And sometimes it's even as simple as in
our posture and the way we hold ourselves. But literally,
what are you unconsciously broadcasting out into the world? And
it's does it align with what you're trying to magnetize
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or manifest in look at that stuff? And then this
last question I think is so pivotal for any of us.
Am I actually leading my life or am I reacting
to it? And I can raise my hand because I
know what it feels like to react to life and
be consumed by it and overwhelmed and almost at the
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mercy of or even enslaved, to entrapped by life, the
human condition, rather than living it leading it. And this
I am not talking about blocking out or overriding God,
the universe, our higher power. I'm talking about how we
direct our own energy, because that's what the other thing
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about the solar plexus. It's about personal responsibility. You all
know that. I don't know if it's like a parable
or joke or whatever. About the couple and there's a
hurricane and they're in Louisiana. I'm just stutting in Louisiana
because y'all know I'm from there originally. And there's a hurricane,
so gotta, you know, shape it this way. So there's
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this couple and there's a hurricane and it starts to flood,
and so the town starts to evacuate. So a sheriff
comes and knocks on the door and he says, hey, ma'am.
You know, sir, ma'am, can I help you all evacuate
this like we're gonna get some bad flooding and you're
in danger. And they're like, no, God's got this. No,
we prayed and God is gonna take care of us.
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And he's like, are you sure, okay, So he leaves
and the water starts rising in their house and so
they have to like go outside, and like they're like
up on the second floor and they've got a window
open and it's coming up on the second floor. They've
moved up and they've got their dog and their cat,
and then all of a sudden, somebody comes by in
like a rescue boat, and it's like get in. Do
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you want to get your dog and your cat in?
You know, hop in like we got you, and they're
like the water is still rising. It's getting really dangerous,
Like you all are gonna be in trouble. And then
they say, no, no, we prayed, like God's got this.
He's gonna totally take care of us. God's got it.
And then next thing you know, they're up on the
roof with the dog and the cat and they're both
there and the winds are howling and the lightning and
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all the water and I mean, it's like doomsday and
there comes a helicopter and they drop a ladder down
and they're like, climb on board, we got you, and
they're like no, we're all good, Thank you so much.
God's got this. And then next thing you know, like
they're dead. They all drowned and they're at the pearly
gates and they're standing there and there comes God and
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God and they're like, God, why didn't you save us?
And God was like, I sink you a sheriff, a boat,
and a helicopter. You know what gives. I tried three
times to save you, and you didn't take action. That's
the solar plexus is and I mean, as silly as
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that sounds, that's the energy of how we direct our power.
What is our role? What is our part? And listen,
if there was ever a time and energy a year
to really own our own actions side of the street power,
it's twenty twenty six. We're in a one year. Numerologically,
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we're in this massive surge of fiery areas, energy, primal energy, newness, energy, individuality, empowerment.
And again, it's not about blocking out our solar or
her consciousness o contraire. It's about bringing that in and
taking action from the human perspective in the physical body.
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And I want to jump to this for a little bit.
The physical body. Yes, the solar plexus does govern the
actual digestion system and the gut. So you got that.
And I talked about serotonin is made in the gut
and having a healthy gut. So the probiotics, the probiotics,
all the things that many of us are aware of
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in the food that we consume, our digestion, the bloating hormones.
There's so much on a physical and biological and physiological
level that we are affected by today. So the supplements
you take, pre and probiotics, your gut health affects your
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energy and your ability to direct it. And I will
tell you this as someone I'm a cancer rising so
I love to eat. I love food. Food is also
for me an old addiction or coping mechanism. I've struggled
with food, you know, all of the eating, disordered eating,
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all that stuff, like it's been a story of my life.
And gosh, I don't know, ten twelve years ago when
I really stood up and took charge of my life
and changed to begin to supplement and look at what
I ingested and how I felt after I ingested certain
foods and really track that it started to become a
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game changer. So it's not about drastic overnight overhauls. It's
more about making one decision with what you're feeding your body,
your biology and your gut to help with your actual digestion, bloating, constipation,
all of those things. So balancing the actual colon and
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the gut will change your power and your life force.
And I've seen those things happen. And I tell you
what else is. And this is not about being some
ideal skinny stick figure weight. This is when whatever your
body frame is and your comfort and confidence level and
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what is healthy if you're carrying extra weight and a
lot of that extra weight is in your middle, you know,
beer belly, gut, you know, and I know hormonially with
women and age, we get kind of weird stuff in
our gut with estrogen and I believe me, been there,
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get it. There's that, So it makes it even more complex.
But you know, if you're carrying excess weight, a lot
of it is in balance in those lower three chakras
and mostly the sacral and the solar plexus. So it's
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like when you start to lose some weight, shed some
weight energetically the cells. It's like your personal power starts
to change. And I've seen that, and I've somebody just
said to me, like really recently because a well two things.
One my mom said to me a long time ago,
and it's one of those Remember how I was talking
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about what's running the show, what's imprinted in the back
of your mind that is running the show? My mom
said this to me. This is one of those storylines
that imprinted. I don't know, probably as a teenager or
maybe like in my early twenties. She said, yeah, I mean,
you're just always going to gain and lose weight. She says,
You're never going to be a stable weight. You're always
going to gain and lose weight. And up until that
point she had been right, and it might be like
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five or ten pounds. I would always fluctuate. But it
was really weird the other day because somebody, like, I'm
not joking, somebody said to me, and I don't know
if it was like a passive aggressive thing, but somebody's like, yeah,
you're kind of like Oprah. You know, you go up
and down to your weight. I've known you for a
long time, and you know, it was really funny because
it struck like an old chord right and even healthy
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even the last twelve years when I am imbalanced energetically,
like when I was taking care of my mom when
she was sick and dying. When Dennis and I moved
back from Belize, I was the healthiest I had been
in my weight, my physical body, mind, body, spirit came back,
took care of my mom, and through the course of
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that year, y'all know that I mean I gained some weight.
My routines were off. I was stressed and where did
it all go? To? My belly? Some so sensitive energetically
when I am stressed it just yes, I know physiologically,
so sometimes weight can also be not only an indicator
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of things that may be imbalanced. And yes, life happens,
and there are times in life when I know when
I'm stressed. That is one of my achilles' heels. It's
where I'm sensitive and I have to be easy on
myself and kind to myself. So just think about that.
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A couple of more subtle places with the solar plexus
and the physical body. You might not make the link
or the connection between is inflammation, and many of you
may or may not know that the inflammation is the
longevity killer in the body. Chronic inflammation internally is what
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actually kills cells and the telomeres and the telmase on
the cells and all that. I mean biologically, I can't
explain it perfectly, but inflammation is a solar plexus function,
so feeling inflamed anger, like when your skin is irritated.
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I wouldn't necessarily always say the solar plexus is connected
to skin, but for me, a lot of times when
I have irritated skin stuff on the surface, it goes
right back to my solar plexus and my sacral chakra
because there's imbalances there and like a miscommunication between the
two a lot of times, and even with my root
chakra of feeling kind of a little bit out of
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control in my life. Another one is adrenal strain, so
stress the adrenal system connected to the solar plexus. That's another.
If there's imbalancing your adrenal system, it's an energetic solar
plexus connection. Nervous system responsiveness, so not so much the
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actual nervous system itself, it's how your nervous system is.
Your nervous system frayed, exhausted, shot, burnout, hypersensitive, dormant, raw
like nervous system responsiveness. So it's almost like the interface
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between the nervous system itself and how your physical body response,
which what we would call that is your somatic response.
Somatic means how the body is affected by energy. So yeah,
the solar flexus is a lot. It's big old chakra.
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With the solar plexus, this is where you we have agency,
the ability to choose, the ability to change our mind.
That's also some third eye and throat chakra. But choose differently,
respond differently because it has a lot to do with remember,
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leading the energy or reacting to the energy in life.
So the choice in how you respond, so that would
be perception. But it's the actual action, not the perception itself.
It's the action, hope that makes sense that I'm making
a delineation between the two. It's like you know, when
you put your foot in your mouth, you just react.
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Somebody says something and you're like, oh my gosh, no,
I wouldn't do that, Like that's me like just giving
you that example, that's how I know. And then it's
like God, Amanda, why did you have to say that
and react? And like just rather than respond. That's solar
plexus out of balance or being fine tuned in a way.
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Also powerlessness and knowing that while yes you've got an
oversoul and a higher self that you are working to
create cohesion between you, are not powerless over your actions, attitudes,
and behaviors. That's solar plexus and the sum that up
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is to me, solar plexus is a lot of our resourcefulness.
I think that is like, you know, if I were
to write something in sky letters, I would say, the
solar plexus is where we are resourceful, or we are
lacking our resourcefulness, or we're outsourcing our resourcefulness to other people.
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So just some reminders about the solar plexus and what
I've covered, because there's a lot of energy, and I
think those questions are a great place for you to
visit and revisit and find your own clarity. Because once
you find the polarity of what may be fear programming
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or scarcity programming and dialogue may be going on, are
you reacting to life or are you living your life?
That kind of clarity gives you the data you need
to start making some changes. And that's where the agency
lives in the solar plexus. So it's remembering that fear
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and scarcity, which we're human and we have a lot
of fear programming and conditioning happening in the world right
now and almost gosh, I heard somebody in this interview
the other day, this is quite interesting and it very
much relates to fear and the solar plexus. That with
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all the with certain propaganda and fake news and all
the things that we're bombarded with, is almost like these
fear frequencies. The dial is so low and we're so
used to it that we live in it. And I
believe that and I very much ascribe to that. That
goes through your solar plexus, and that's where your life forces.
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It's where a lot of our health lives, our power
of choice, and even our ability to want to wake
up and engage with life. So depression, you know, giving
up or holding the line, that's solar plexus energy. So
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I would definitely go back also and look at those
internal dialogue loops. Take one at a time too. If
you're going through those questions that I gave you in
the beginning of the podcast, you don't have to answer
them all and get them all like work out and
fixed for next week. Just take one at a time,
and what do you want to rewrite the script around
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it on and then play with it for one week. Yes,
I'm serious, play with it for a week. This doesn't
happen overnight. But the awareness is what is the initial shift,
and that's solar plexus is awareness. Oh my gosh, I
have a problem. That's like the first step. That's solar plexus.
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I think that. I think the twelve steps, like all
the twelve step programs, a lot of it starts with
solar plexus. Oh my gosh. It's the awareness of or
the admission of, I have a problem, you know, and
oh I have a fear. Oh scarcity is running the show.
Oh this is what is playing over and over in
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the background on my mind. Or I keep the news
on all the time and while I'm feeding my kids
and doing stuff and listen to this and even if
it's background noise. Again, I'm keeping the news on versus
just turning some good music on or having silence and
just having dialogue. Look at where you can start making
some minor tweaks that actually have major impacts. When I
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in the beginning of this episode, I talked about the
solar plexus as being like this bridge between the lower
energy centers and the upper energy centers. It's like a level,
you know, in construction, a level that has the water
and the bubble, and you're you know, if you're trying
to if you're building a wall or you're hanging a
picture and you're using a level. The solar plexus is
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kind of like the bubble in the level. It's going
to get out of whack all the darn time, like
the solar plexus is. I think all of our energy
centers need need and ask for our awareness and attention
and recalibration often, but I think where is your biggest
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bang for your buck is the solar plexus. In order
to affect and see change in your life and to
feel empowered and to see change in action to get results,
it lives in the solar plexus. And I know this
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because and I'll close and in sharing this, my best
example of solar plexis synergy. And it does go back
to some twelve step action and language and experience for me.
But when I got sober years ago, initially and I
was in a treatment center, they took us this is
such a funny story. They used to take us on
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like once I graduated beyond a certain level in my
treatment center, they would take us in what we called
the drug ey Buggy. It was this white van, you know,
on outings and so on Saturdays we got to go
like out into the world on an outing. One time
we went to the zoo like think like that, and
it was just like a lot of freedom, right like
feeling just kind of normal for a minute, except for
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that moment where you get out of the big white van,
you know, with all the crazy people. You know, I
was just short of a straight jacket right at that
time in my life. And I say this with I'm
laughing right now. And there's nothing funny about alcoholism and addiction.
And it's serious and it's real, and it's so insidious
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and pervasive in family. So I'm not making light and
I've been I've been through it and down on my knees.
But anyway, we went to this place. This was in Texas,
out in San Marcus, Texas. And it's called shoot I
can't it's called wonder World. But it's where the there
are two tectonic plates in San Marcus, Texas. It's where
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the coastal planes meets. I don't know what it's called,
I really I can't remember, okay, but it's where the
two tectonic plates meat from the coast into I don't know, okay,
but that's where wonder world is. So we went down
into these caverns and I remember and I was waking up.
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I had all this energy. Well, we go into the
gift shop. There was a gift shop after and y'all,
this was twenty thirteen. I'd never had a crystal. I
never knew crystals had energy, nothing about that. And we
were in this gift shop and there was a piece
of citrin on a necklace and it was a long
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necklace and this like this piece of citrin that was
about the size a little bit bigger than a quarter,
bigger than that, like in full dimensional space. But it
was hanging on this long necklace and I was like,
I have to have that. It just spoke to me,
like it yelled at me. I don't know how to
explain it. So I bought it. It was ten bucks.
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I mean, I will never forget this. And so I
put it around my neck and it hit me right
at my solar plexa like below my sternum, below my
heart shock or right at my solar plexus. And within
days of that, and if you've listened to this podcasting,
you've heard my story. It's the first time I higher self,
I ever spoke to my higherself, and my higher self
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spoke back that mighty I am presence that I started with,
and I went to bed and I said I am,
and before I could even articulate it, my soul spoke
back and said love, loving, love, worthy of love, giving
and receiving love. And there's so much more to that story.
But also, if you know me, my name is Amanda,
and the literal name meaning of the name Amanda is
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worthy of love. I know all these, but it's like, yes,
citrin is a great stone to work with if you're
working with your solar plexus. But that's when I took
agency over my life and my own addiction and alcoholism
and responsibility for my own behaviors and the fact that
I have a disease and a disease of you know, alcoholism,
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but that I was the only one that could make
the choice to do something about it. And something clicked
energetically there. And it is no mistake that the stone
I picked and the one that spoke to me and
where it hit me in my body was on my
solar plexus, and it was citrin, the most powerful stone
to work with with your solar plexus. The world is magical.
The universe is so magical. I'm so glad you're listening today.
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I know that's a lot of food for thought or
food for your gut, your solar plexus. There's so much here,
but I definitely want you to take some time, take
some notes, and really recognize where you have a healthy
solar plexus. You know where you've got a clear yes
and a clear no. You have grounded confidence. You are
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living life rather than reacting to it. You have the
ability to show up without over being overbearing or overforcing control.
You're embodying your discernment and your decisions. You're living in
the present moment. You're the way you hold yourself and
the energetic signal you send matches your insights. These are
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all signals of a healthy, regulated solar plexus. But if
you're feeling things like indecision, chronic self doubt, over explaining addiction,
alcoholism and controlling behavior, peck perfectionism, fear based decision making,
you know, digestive issues, gut tension, adrenal, out of control,
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scarcity thinking, feeling completely powerless and chronically reactive. Those could
all be dysregulated solar plexus. There's so much to work with.
And I hope that in just the awareness of the
impact of this energetic signature and center excuse me, in
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your body, that you feel some agency and calibrating and
directing your energy and beginning to really find a greater
sense of empowerment. And again, if there is ever a
time or a space energetically where the universe is rooting
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for you and respond double time, it's in this energy
center of the solar plexus. And then the next chakra episode,
of course, we'll be talking about the heart and when
you start to work with the solar plexus and the
coherence between the gut and the heart, the electromagnetic field
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of the heart, that's where the agency, the power of
the action you're taking steps into the place of infinite possibility.
Our energetic centers of the body are fascinating and how
they physically physiologically correlate with our physical body. And I
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was reminded today by someone the body doesn't lie, you
know that book, The body does The body keeps score.
But this is bigger because right now our physical body
is showing us where we've got some imbalances or energy
is stuck or clogged. And for a lot of us,
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that's in the solar box us because we've got all
this fear programming coming in and it's coagulating. I'm going
to use that word now because I didn't it didn't
fit earlier. But it's coagulating in the gut and in
the solar boxes, and it's blocking. Kind of that willpower
that agency, but from a healthy place, from that mighty
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I am so use your mighty. I am step out
of the fear and into your presence. I'm rooting for us.
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Hi everyone, It's Amanda Reader Green. Welcome to Soul Sessions.
Thank you for joining me today. We're going to do
a dive into the solar plexus and the energy of
how we connect with our own personal power. And if
you have listened to the past couple of episodes, I've
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been doing a chakra series, and not in the traditional
way of the root chakra is you know, your safety,
your security, It is those things. The sacral chakra, you're desiring,
your creativity, it is those things. So we're moving more
into the energy of each energy center and how it
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is affecting us. Now in this new frequency, we're experiencing
a higher level of consciousness, accelerated energy. So we're building
on that and moving into the solar plexus. And of course,
traditionally the solar plexus is the seat of our personal power.
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I used to I don't know, maybe ten or so
years ago, I would there was this astrologer and she's
drifted off. She's not present on YouTube anymore. Her name
was Kelly Rosano, and she used to say, my Mighty,
I am presence, and she would say that all the time,
and I miss her, and I don't know, I don't
know if she's a practicing astrologer anymore, but I can't
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find her. So anyway, shout out to Kelly Rosano. She
used to have these great videos, but she would she
would talk about her mighty I Am presence, and essentially
she was connecting with that I am the solar plexus.
And I loved that because I resonated with it very
clearly at the time. And yes, that is on a fundamental,
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basic level, elementary one oh one. What is the solar plexus.
It is your im capital capital a capital M you're
mighty I am. But it is also your calibration point.
It's a space and a place of balance, and it
is it is consciousness in a way. I did an
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episode a Soul Sessions podcast on metabolizing energy. I did
that a while back, and we will post a link
to that episode in the show notes in the description here,
because that episode goes hand in hand with solar plexus
energy and a more advanced way of integrating the energy.
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One of the functions of the solar plexus is metabolizing
and digesting our life, digesting the experiences we have in life.
And so if you're thinking about your solar plexus, it's
how you engage with or interact with the day to
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day the life around you, your environment, the experiences you have,
and the metabolization is not getting stuck, plugged up or
backed up. And you all know I'm going to talk
about where does the solar plexus live. Yes, it's the gut.
So it's literally the digestive track and the colon. So
if you're constipated or you have diarrhea, think about how
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you're digesting or you can't you know, you can't get
a grip on your digestion with your solar plexus. And
I'm laughing about it because the solar plexus is really
it is the bridge between the lower energetic centers and
the higher energetic centers in the body. So it is
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a calibration point. It's also how we manifest and I mean, yes,
we manifest through our whole mind, body spirit connection, but
the solar plexus is where the wheels in the cog
are and it's it's where we find the energetic alignment
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to magnetize in energy. And that's one of the things
is with accelerated energy that we're experiencing right now and
all of these frequency shifts and consciousness shifts manifestation. That
word doesn't even cut it. It's about magnetizing, so metabolizing
energy and magnetizing energy in the solar plexus. That's that's
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your seat of empower and that's what this level of
energy is, and it the solar plexus also is this
place where fear distorts our perception and where scarcity can
be tilting our choices and what we're attracting in It's
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also where energy becomes misaligned with what we want consciousnes
or unconsciously. So again it is the solar plexus is
a calibration point and it's also it helps us translate instincts, desires,
even emotions into conscious direction of energy. So is there
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a lot going on in the solar plexus? Yeah, a
whole lot. You know what fascinates me and I always
not always, but I go too often these days. And
this is just on a purely physiological level, but it
absolutely relates to the solar plexus is where is saratonin
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made in the gut? So where is that happiness drug
made in our body? The gut that says I'm happy,
I want to live, I want to Oh my gosh,
this is exciting and engaging saratonin. It's made in the gut.
So the gut is the solar plexus is how we
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direct our consciousness and our energy. It also and this
is what And I'm gonna go into this and break
some of this down just so you have a frame
of reference and you have some go to So if
you're feeling like, oh my gosh, there's a lot going
on here, Amanda, yes there is a lot, and you
can go back and take some notes. You don't have
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to digest all of this in one episode or one sitting.
Just the frequency of it alone is recalibrating your solar plexus.
Us talking about it consciously, know that on almost an
energetic or an osmosis level, it's recalibrating it. But the
gut also is where unconscious programming lives and what's playing
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on repeat. And it's almost like a tape recorder. I
know I'm dating myself by saying tape recorder, but a
lot of you listening are like, yeah, like a tape recorder,
you got it, okay, But it's recording. It's like your
voice memo in your smartphone. Okay, if we need to
use that kind of language. So just as a little
bit of a review, and we will of course link
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these in the show notes. The last two podcast episodes
Soul Sessions Podcast. We're on the root chakra and the
sacral chakra. And I know I've mentioned this, but the
root chakra is this base, this stabilization where we move
and operate from in our physical body, skeletal system, our presence.
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It's where we find our center. The sacral chakra brings movement,
it brings emotion and desire. It's where I talk a
lot energetically at a more advanced level about not only
emotional intelligence, but emotional sovereignty, but life force starts to
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I keep wanting to say coagulate, and that's the wrong word.
I can't find it, but accumulate, build up, and the
sacral chakra and the solar plexus is what organizes that
energy into choice or discernment, energetic signal and action. It's
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like the funnel of where things start to come online
in an e like from inside to outside. Okay, lots
of stuff. So the solar plexus is this bridge. And
when we work with the root chakra, the sacred chakra
and the solar plexus, the upper chakras, the heart chakra,
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which we will bridge that and that will be a
whole weather episode. But the throat chakra, third eye, crown chakra,
and by the way, there's like lots more chakras, lots
more energy systems in the body. But I am dealing
with the you know, the big seven, the seven wonders
of the world, the seven wonders of your human body
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and energy system. But when you work with the bottom three,
the other stuff starts to click easier, differently and more
infinitely in a way, and you'll get it. If you
don't already get it, you'll get it the more you
know it, see it, recognize it, connect the dots, and
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practice it. So with the solar plexus, it's where fear
programs are living. And the simplest way for me to
look at fear, which usually it originates from one of
these two is I am afraid that I'm going to
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lose something I have or I'm afraid that I'm not
going to get what I want. Usually that is the
root cause of if I am operating from a place
of fear, it comes from being afraid that I'm going
to lose something I have or not get what I want.
So I want you to ask yourself right now, I
want you to pause and say, ask yourself what what
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fear programs are running for you right now? So simply put,
what are you afraid of? Just one thing? What are
you afraid of? Deep down? You know? Okay, Like if
you're driving, don't write that down, but if you are
sitting somewhere, like take a minute and write down what
are you afraid of? Okay? Next question, This is all
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solar plexus related. Is scarcity shaping your actions and decision making?
And I'm going to come back to each of these,
which is simple examples. All right. Next question, What internal
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dialogue is imprinting into your body? So this is like
the internal dialogue the voice in your head that is
always kind of in the back, and is it that
little Jiminy cricket at angel on your shoulder, devil on
your shoulder, But it is saying you're not enough, you
don't have what you need, you can't do this. You
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know what internal dialogue is imprinting into your body? On repeat?
You know this stuff? You know what is back there
running the recording machine. Here's here's another question. This keep
going on this stick stick with me, because this is
really helpful. In rebalancing your solar flexus and clarifying some things.
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And the solar flexus, by the way, is all about clarity. Ready,
What are you unconsciously broadcasting? That's a good one. What
are you unconsciously broadcasting? Okay? Last one, and I don't
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want you to spend much time on these because I
want you to just what's coming out? What's coming up
for you? Last question? Are you leading your life or
reacting to it? Are you leading your life or reacting
to it? Okay? You should have a lot of really
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good data right there on yourself, especially if you did
what came to mind first, you were rigorously honest. This
is not to share with anybody else. This is for
you because that's those questions right there. I put those
questions together because they sum up the shadow aspect, the
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imbalance aspect energetically of the solar plexus. And when we
start to recognize the answers to those questions, once we
have the clarity, the knowledge, you can't unknow. But now
you have data, you have the clearer information to take
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the reins back and rewrite all the scripts. The fear programming,
the scarcity, the internal dialogue, the unconscious broadcasting and how
you're funneling energy, are you leading it or reacting to it?
And I said I would give you some examples. I
think you all pretty much can figure out what fear
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programs might be running in the background. You know, what
are your primal fears? What are your deepest fears? Mine
a lot of times has to do with like my
primal fears. If I am very clear about those, it's
that I'm not going to live up to the standard
that my soul's set for me in this lifetime. I
know that sounds so philosophical and esoteric, but when I'm
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I'm super honest. I mean, what does that mean that
I'm not enough? I'm not gonna have enough? I'm not enough?
So it's scarcity related, absolutely, what scarcity is shaping my life.
That was the second question that I threw out to you.
One of the like the simplest example I can give
you is and this is a personal example of mine
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and scarcity programming. This was a few years ago. I
was in this little boutique when we lived in Wimberley
and they sold nothing but candles, and it was just
a small boutique and they were, you know, handcrafted high
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quality candles whatever, and they smelled really great and they
had cool names and stuff. But the candles were like
sixty five dollars apiece, and I was like a sixty
who spends sixty five dollars on a candle? WHOA like?
I just couldn't. I couldn't wrap my head around spending
sixty five dollars on a candle, no no matter how
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great it smelled, and I couldn't justify it buying it
for myself or a gift for anybody else. I was like,
why would I buy this when I could just go
to Home Goods or TJ Max and get one for
seven ninety nine? Like that was the immediately, That's what
I thought. And what was funny is I was with
my cousin and she didn't blink and when she picked
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one up and she goes, oh, my gosh, this smells
so good. My husband would love this. I gotta get
this for him. And I watched her like, go, oh,
he's got to have this. This smells so good. He
can put this. It was like he had just redone
like a man cave area or something. She's like, this
will be so great for like, you know, in his
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bar lounge area. She didn't blink, and then she bought
another one for somebody else, and then she looked at
me and she's like, do you want one? I'm like,
I kid you not, and she I know her, and
I like, I know who she is and I know
you all don't know her. But none of this was
coming from being frivolous or extravagant. It was literally she
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was not moving from scarcity. And yes, sixty five dollars
for a candle is a whole lot, I get it.
But that is just a simple example. And I was like, whoa,
And I watched myself freak out and say, I can't
even buy one of those. I can't even justify doing it.
That is scarcity shaping and running a program and my reality.
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And it's not about me being able to afford or
buy the candle or not. It's that immediate response, do
I want this? Does this align? Do I love it?
Can I get it? Can I afford it? Go for it?
Or oh my gosh, am I analyzing and discerning? Get it?
What scarcity is shaping your attitudes and actions? Okay? What
internal dialogue is imprinting into the body we all I
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don't need to go into any examples. You know what
is running in the background, whether it is coming from
a place of self criticism, self doubt, and a lot
of us. I can't tell you how many people I
talk to and I'll raise my hand. It's like, I
don't need any external critics. I'm my biggest critic. So
is the internal critic running the dialogue and imprinting into
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your physical body, health and well being. This is all
solar plexus. Next one, and this one is so important,
is what are you unconsciously broadcasting? Simple example on this one,
I was talking to a client recently and she and
I get it, like this is the simplest, easiest example.
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We were want love is one of the things, like
she's been divorced for a while, she's ready, she's really
ready to start dating and fine love and like it's
just been awkward, and you know, you all know the
whole story of dating and dating apps and dating as
an adult and it's not easy out there. It's a jungle.
But were I said to her it came up in
a session. I was like, oh my gosh, when you
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go to the gym, I can see you like I
could just energetically care Claire cognizantly like see her energy field.
I was like, you go to the gym and you're like,
get out of my business, Like, get out of my space.
You know, any guys that are looking at you, anybody
that's trying to engage You're like, you know, I would
like shoot the middle finger and say f off, you know,
like that, Like that's what she is broadcasting at the gym,
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like no, wait, don't talk to me, don't touch me.
This is my time, this is my space. And she's like,
oh my gosh, how did you know that. I was
like I can see it. It's like you're broadcasting it,
yet you are wanting love and partnership and reciprocity. And
I'm not talking about not having boundaries or you know,
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needing your own personal space at the gym. It's that
unconscious broadcasting. And sometimes it's even as simple as in
our posture and the way we hold ourselves. But literally,
what are you unconsciously broadcasting out into the world? And
it's does it align with what you're trying to magnetize
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or manifest in look at that stuff? And then this
last question I think is so pivotal for any of us.
Am I actually leading my life or am I reacting
to it? And I can raise my hand because I
know what it feels like to react to life and
be consumed by it and overwhelmed and almost at the
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mercy of or even enslaved, to entrapped by life, the
human condition, rather than living it leading it. And this
I am not talking about blocking out or overriding God,
the universe, our higher power. I'm talking about how we
direct our own energy, because that's what the other thing
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about the solar plexus. It's about personal responsibility. You all
know that. I don't know if it's like a parable
or joke or whatever. About the couple and there's a
hurricane and they're in Louisiana. I'm just stutting in Louisiana
because y'all know I'm from there originally. And there's a hurricane,
so gotta, you know, shape it this way. So there's
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this couple and there's a hurricane and it starts to flood,
and so the town starts to evacuate. So a sheriff
comes and knocks on the door and he says, hey, ma'am.
You know, sir, ma'am, can I help you all evacuate
this like we're gonna get some bad flooding and you're
in danger. And they're like, no, God's got this. No,
we prayed and God is gonna take care of us.
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And he's like, are you sure, okay, So he leaves
and the water starts rising in their house and so
they have to like go outside, and like they're like
up on the second floor and they've got a window
open and it's coming up on the second floor. They've
moved up and they've got their dog and their cat,
and then all of a sudden, somebody comes by in
like a rescue boat, and it's like get in. Do
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you want to get your dog and your cat in?
You know, hop in like we got you, and they're
like the water is still rising. It's getting really dangerous,
Like you all are gonna be in trouble. And then
they say, no, no, we prayed, like God's got this.
He's gonna totally take care of us. God's got it.
And then next thing you know, they're up on the
roof with the dog and the cat and they're both
there and the winds are howling and the lightning and
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all the water and I mean, it's like doomsday and
there comes a helicopter and they drop a ladder down
and they're like, climb on board, we got you, and
they're like no, we're all good, Thank you so much.
God's got this. And then next thing you know, like
they're dead. They all drowned and they're at the pearly
gates and they're standing there and there comes God and
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God and they're like, God, why didn't you save us?
And God was like, I sink you a sheriff, a boat,
and a helicopter. You know what gives. I tried three
times to save you, and you didn't take action. That's
the solar plexus is and I mean, as silly as
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that sounds, that's the energy of how we direct our power.
What is our role? What is our part? And listen,
if there was ever a time and energy a year
to really own our own actions side of the street power,
it's twenty twenty six. We're in a one year. Numerologically,
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we're in this massive surge of fiery areas, energy, primal energy, newness, energy, individuality, empowerment.
And again, it's not about blocking out our solar or
her consciousness o contraire. It's about bringing that in and
taking action from the human perspective in the physical body.
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And I want to jump to this for a little bit.
The physical body. Yes, the solar plexus does govern the
actual digestion system and the gut. So you got that.
And I talked about serotonin is made in the gut
and having a healthy gut. So the probiotics, the probiotics,
all the things that many of us are aware of
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in the food that we consume, our digestion, the bloating hormones.
There's so much on a physical and biological and physiological
level that we are affected by today. So the supplements
you take, pre and probiotics, your gut health affects your
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energy and your ability to direct it. And I will
tell you this as someone I'm a cancer rising so
I love to eat. I love food. Food is also
for me an old addiction or coping mechanism. I've struggled
with food, you know, all of the eating, disordered eating,
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all that stuff, like it's been a story of my life.
And gosh, I don't know, ten twelve years ago when
I really stood up and took charge of my life
and changed to begin to supplement and look at what
I ingested and how I felt after I ingested certain
foods and really track that it started to become a
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game changer. So it's not about drastic overnight overhauls. It's
more about making one decision with what you're feeding your body,
your biology and your gut to help with your actual digestion, bloating, constipation,
all of those things. So balancing the actual colon and
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the gut will change your power and your life force.
And I've seen those things happen. And I tell you
what else is. And this is not about being some
ideal skinny stick figure weight. This is when whatever your
body frame is and your comfort and confidence level and
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what is healthy if you're carrying extra weight and a
lot of that extra weight is in your middle, you know,
beer belly, gut, you know, and I know hormonially with
women and age, we get kind of weird stuff in
our gut with estrogen and I believe me, been there,
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get it. There's that, So it makes it even more complex.
But you know, if you're carrying excess weight, a lot
of it is in balance in those lower three chakras
and mostly the sacral and the solar plexus. So it's
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like when you start to lose some weight, shed some
weight energetically the cells. It's like your personal power starts
to change. And I've seen that, and I've somebody just
said to me, like really recently because a well two things.
One my mom said to me a long time ago,
and it's one of those Remember how I was talking
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about what's running the show, what's imprinted in the back
of your mind that is running the show? My mom
said this to me. This is one of those storylines
that imprinted. I don't know, probably as a teenager or
maybe like in my early twenties. She said, yeah, I mean,
you're just always going to gain and lose weight. She says,
You're never going to be a stable weight. You're always
going to gain and lose weight. And up until that
point she had been right, and it might be like
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five or ten pounds. I would always fluctuate. But it
was really weird the other day because somebody, like, I'm
not joking, somebody said to me, and I don't know
if it was like a passive aggressive thing, but somebody's like, yeah,
you're kind of like Oprah. You know, you go up
and down to your weight. I've known you for a
long time, and you know, it was really funny because
it struck like an old chord right and even healthy
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even the last twelve years when I am imbalanced energetically,
like when I was taking care of my mom when
she was sick and dying. When Dennis and I moved
back from Belize, I was the healthiest I had been
in my weight, my physical body, mind, body, spirit came back,
took care of my mom, and through the course of
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that year, y'all know that I mean I gained some weight.
My routines were off. I was stressed and where did
it all go? To? My belly? Some so sensitive energetically
when I am stressed it just yes, I know physiologically,
so sometimes weight can also be not only an indicator
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of things that may be imbalanced. And yes, life happens,
and there are times in life when I know when
I'm stressed. That is one of my achilles' heels. It's
where I'm sensitive and I have to be easy on
myself and kind to myself. So just think about that.
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A couple of more subtle places with the solar plexus
and the physical body. You might not make the link
or the connection between is inflammation, and many of you
may or may not know that the inflammation is the
longevity killer in the body. Chronic inflammation internally is what
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actually kills cells and the telomeres and the telmase on
the cells and all that. I mean biologically, I can't
explain it perfectly, but inflammation is a solar plexus function,
so feeling inflamed anger, like when your skin is irritated.
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I wouldn't necessarily always say the solar plexus is connected
to skin, but for me, a lot of times when
I have irritated skin stuff on the surface, it goes
right back to my solar plexus and my sacral chakra
because there's imbalances there and like a miscommunication between the
two a lot of times, and even with my root
chakra of feeling kind of a little bit out of
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control in my life. Another one is adrenal strain, so
stress the adrenal system connected to the solar plexus. That's another.
If there's imbalancing your adrenal system, it's an energetic solar
plexus connection. Nervous system responsiveness, so not so much the
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actual nervous system itself, it's how your nervous system is.
Your nervous system frayed, exhausted, shot, burnout, hypersensitive, dormant, raw
like nervous system responsiveness. So it's almost like the interface
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between the nervous system itself and how your physical body response,
which what we would call that is your somatic response.
Somatic means how the body is affected by energy. So yeah,
the solar flexus is a lot. It's big old chakra.
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With the solar plexus, this is where you we have agency,
the ability to choose, the ability to change our mind.
That's also some third eye and throat chakra. But choose differently,
respond differently because it has a lot to do with remember,
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leading the energy or reacting to the energy in life.
So the choice in how you respond, so that would
be perception. But it's the actual action, not the perception itself.
It's the action, hope that makes sense that I'm making
a delineation between the two. It's like you know, when
you put your foot in your mouth, you just react.
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Somebody says something and you're like, oh my gosh, no,
I wouldn't do that, Like that's me like just giving
you that example, that's how I know. And then it's
like God, Amanda, why did you have to say that
and react? And like just rather than respond. That's solar
plexus out of balance or being fine tuned in a way.
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Also powerlessness and knowing that while yes you've got an
oversoul and a higher self that you are working to
create cohesion between you, are not powerless over your actions, attitudes,
and behaviors. That's solar plexus and the sum that up
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is to me, solar plexus is a lot of our resourcefulness.
I think that is like, you know, if I were
to write something in sky letters, I would say, the
solar plexus is where we are resourceful, or we are
lacking our resourcefulness, or we're outsourcing our resourcefulness to other people.
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So just some reminders about the solar plexus and what
I've covered, because there's a lot of energy, and I
think those questions are a great place for you to
visit and revisit and find your own clarity. Because once
you find the polarity of what may be fear programming
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or scarcity programming and dialogue may be going on, are
you reacting to life or are you living your life?
That kind of clarity gives you the data you need
to start making some changes. And that's where the agency
lives in the solar plexus. So it's remembering that fear
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and scarcity, which we're human and we have a lot
of fear programming and conditioning happening in the world right
now and almost gosh, I heard somebody in this interview
the other day, this is quite interesting and it very
much relates to fear and the solar plexus. That with
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all the with certain propaganda and fake news and all
the things that we're bombarded with, is almost like these
fear frequencies. The dial is so low and we're so
used to it that we live in it. And I
believe that and I very much ascribe to that. That
goes through your solar plexus, and that's where your life forces.
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It's where a lot of our health lives, our power
of choice, and even our ability to want to wake
up and engage with life. So depression, you know, giving
up or holding the line, that's solar plexus energy. So
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I would definitely go back also and look at those
internal dialogue loops. Take one at a time too. If
you're going through those questions that I gave you in
the beginning of the podcast, you don't have to answer
them all and get them all like work out and
fixed for next week. Just take one at a time,
and what do you want to rewrite the script around
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it on and then play with it for one week. Yes,
I'm serious, play with it for a week. This doesn't
happen overnight. But the awareness is what is the initial shift,
and that's solar plexus is awareness. Oh my gosh, I
have a problem. That's like the first step. That's solar plexus.
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I think that. I think the twelve steps, like all
the twelve step programs, a lot of it starts with
solar plexus. Oh my gosh. It's the awareness of or
the admission of, I have a problem, you know, and
oh I have a fear. Oh scarcity is running the show.
Oh this is what is playing over and over in
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the background on my mind. Or I keep the news
on all the time and while I'm feeding my kids
and doing stuff and listen to this and even if
it's background noise. Again, I'm keeping the news on versus
just turning some good music on or having silence and
just having dialogue. Look at where you can start making
some minor tweaks that actually have major impacts. When I
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in the beginning of this episode, I talked about the
solar plexus as being like this bridge between the lower
energy centers and the upper energy centers. It's like a level,
you know, in construction, a level that has the water
and the bubble, and you're you know, if you're trying
to if you're building a wall or you're hanging a
picture and you're using a level. The solar plexus is
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kind of like the bubble in the level. It's going
to get out of whack all the darn time, like
the solar plexus is. I think all of our energy
centers need need and ask for our awareness and attention
and recalibration often, but I think where is your biggest
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bang for your buck is the solar plexus. In order
to affect and see change in your life and to
feel empowered and to see change in action to get results,
it lives in the solar plexus. And I know this
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because and I'll close and in sharing this, my best
example of solar plexis synergy. And it does go back
to some twelve step action and language and experience for me.
But when I got sober years ago, initially and I
was in a treatment center, they took us this is
such a funny story. They used to take us on
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like once I graduated beyond a certain level in my
treatment center, they would take us in what we called
the drug ey Buggy. It was this white van, you know,
on outings and so on Saturdays we got to go
like out into the world on an outing. One time
we went to the zoo like think like that, and
it was just like a lot of freedom, right like
feeling just kind of normal for a minute, except for
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that moment where you get out of the big white van,
you know, with all the crazy people. You know, I
was just short of a straight jacket right at that
time in my life. And I say this with I'm
laughing right now. And there's nothing funny about alcoholism and addiction.
And it's serious and it's real, and it's so insidious
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and pervasive in family. So I'm not making light and
I've been I've been through it and down on my knees.
But anyway, we went to this place. This was in Texas,
out in San Marcus, Texas. And it's called shoot I
can't it's called wonder World. But it's where the there
are two tectonic plates in San Marcus, Texas. It's where
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the coastal planes meets. I don't know what it's called,
I really I can't remember, okay, but it's where the
two tectonic plates meat from the coast into I don't know, okay,
but that's where wonder world is. So we went down
into these caverns and I remember and I was waking up.
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I had all this energy. Well, we go into the
gift shop. There was a gift shop after and y'all,
this was twenty thirteen. I'd never had a crystal. I
never knew crystals had energy, nothing about that. And we
were in this gift shop and there was a piece
of citrin on a necklace and it was a long
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necklace and this like this piece of citrin that was
about the size a little bit bigger than a quarter,
bigger than that, like in full dimensional space. But it
was hanging on this long necklace and I was like,
I have to have that. It just spoke to me,
like it yelled at me. I don't know how to
explain it. So I bought it. It was ten bucks.
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I mean, I will never forget this. And so I
put it around my neck and it hit me right
at my solar plexa like below my sternum, below my
heart shock or right at my solar plexus. And within
days of that, and if you've listened to this podcasting,
you've heard my story. It's the first time I higher self,
I ever spoke to my higherself, and my higher self
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spoke back that mighty I am presence that I started with,
and I went to bed and I said I am,
and before I could even articulate it, my soul spoke
back and said love, loving, love, worthy of love, giving
and receiving love. And there's so much more to that story.
But also, if you know me, my name is Amanda,
and the literal name meaning of the name Amanda is
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worthy of love. I know all these, but it's like, yes,
citrin is a great stone to work with if you're
working with your solar plexus. But that's when I took
agency over my life and my own addiction and alcoholism
and responsibility for my own behaviors and the fact that
I have a disease and a disease of you know, alcoholism,
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but that I was the only one that could make
the choice to do something about it. And something clicked
energetically there. And it is no mistake that the stone
I picked and the one that spoke to me and
where it hit me in my body was on my
solar plexus, and it was citrin, the most powerful stone
to work with with your solar plexus. The world is magical.
The universe is so magical. I'm so glad you're listening today.
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I know that's a lot of food for thought or
food for your gut, your solar plexus. There's so much here,
but I definitely want you to take some time, take
some notes, and really recognize where you have a healthy
solar plexus. You know where you've got a clear yes
and a clear no. You have grounded confidence. You are
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living life rather than reacting to it. You have the
ability to show up without over being overbearing or overforcing control.
You're embodying your discernment and your decisions. You're living in
the present moment. You're the way you hold yourself and
the energetic signal you send matches your insights. These are
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all signals of a healthy, regulated solar plexus. But if
you're feeling things like indecision, chronic self doubt, over explaining addiction,
alcoholism and controlling behavior, peck perfectionism, fear based decision making,
you know, digestive issues, gut tension, adrenal, out of control,
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scarcity thinking, feeling completely powerless and chronically reactive. Those could
all be dysregulated solar plexus. There's so much to work with.
And I hope that in just the awareness of the
impact of this energetic signature and center excuse me, in
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your body, that you feel some agency and calibrating and
directing your energy and beginning to really find a greater
sense of empowerment. And again, if there is ever a
time or a space energetically where the universe is rooting
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for you and respond double time, it's in this energy
center of the solar plexus. And then the next chakra episode,
of course, we'll be talking about the heart and when
you start to work with the solar plexus and the
coherence between the gut and the heart, the electromagnetic field
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of the heart, that's where the agency, the power of
the action you're taking steps into the place of infinite possibility.
Our energetic centers of the body are fascinating and how
they physically physiologically correlate with our physical body. And I
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was reminded today by someone the body doesn't lie, you
know that book, The body does The body keeps score.
But this is bigger because right now our physical body
is showing us where we've got some imbalances or energy
is stuck or clogged. And for a lot of us,
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that's in the solar box us because we've got all
this fear programming coming in and it's coagulating. I'm going
to use that word now because I didn't it didn't
fit earlier. But it's coagulating in the gut and in
the solar boxes, and it's blocking. Kind of that willpower
that agency, but from a healthy place, from that mighty
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I am so use your mighty. I am step out
of the fear and into your presence. I'm rooting for us.
Take care everyone, Thanks for joining me. Thank you so
much for listening to Soul Sessions. If you've got questions,
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