The Power of the Chakras: Diaphragm

On this episode Ariel talks about issues with digestion, the top and bottom halves of your body feeling disconnected, issues with feeling humourless, social skills or relaxing & how these can be helped by your diaphragm chakra. A great book to do Shadow Work with to open the Diaphragm Chakra is Romancing the Shadow by Connie Zweig and Phillip Wolf. KEY TAKEAWAYS The diaphragm chakra deals with unprocessed emotional upset or trauma & deeply held family patterns. The sole lesson of this chakra is letting go of these things & its colour is burgundy.  Yoga teaches you to breath with all of your lungs, down to the diaphragm and back up. To do that you have to sit & pay attention to your breath which puts you in a situation where you have to present. When you’re being present you are put in touch with your feelings & what’s happening inside of you rather than being up inside your head with the chatter & thinking about a bunch of ‘stuff’. When you’re stressed you natural repress feelings, it’s part of the survival mechanism. When you’re running away from a lion you can’t be in touch with all your feelings because you wouldn’t be able to function the way you need to in order to survive. When you relax the feelings come back. The problem is that people are running around feeling stressed all the time & stress is a really big issue, it’s the source of a lot of health problems & affects our emotional state & our biochemistry. When you work with your diaphragm chakra to let yourself feel again it helps to release stress, increase cortisol, helps you get in touch with deeper things that you may have been shutting off. These are not always bad things either. It’s amazing that people can spend decades running away from emotions that are attached to a core wound. They have a feeling they’re afraid to feel again, so they wrap layers of other emotions around it. The deepest part of healing is removing those layers, getting in touch with them, feeling them & releasing them until you get to the core. Once you get to the core & release that, the dynamic of whatever that trauma/upset releases & you’re feed up & have more energy to do other things like be happy, be motivated to accomplish your goals. BEST MOMENTS “One way to know you have tension in your diaphragm is if you’re not taking deep breaths.” “This chakra helps us understand how we perceive reality & regulates how we process our deep unconscious emotions.” “Emotions are like layers of a cake/onion… when you get all the way to the core the emotion is released & the chakra clears.” “If you get in touch with your family patterns & the emotions behind them, the goal is not to continue to repeat them, it’s to transition out of those & to heal them so that your descendants & their descendants don’t have to repeat these patterns.” ABOUT THE HOST Ariel is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Empath & Psychic who has been involved in holistic healing since 1988. She is also an educator, speaker, author & mentor for empaths, spiritual seekers & medical professionals. To reach Ariel, go to www.arielhubbard.com, where you will be able to contact her directly.  Please let her know you heard her on the podcast & the assistance you need or question you have. Website Podcast: Woman Power Zone on all major platforms LinkedInIGFacebookYouTubeCH: @arielhubbard Pinterest   Pre-order form for Ariel's educational, hilarious and spicy dating book:  The Empowered Woman's Guide to Online Dating: Set Your BS Tolerance to Zero Access to the Mindset Reset Club