Are you ready to become empowered and seize the day? The solar plexus chakra governs confidence, ego, and willpower. However, when this chakra becomes blocked, often we lose our confidence and self-esteem. Consequently, we can become “people-pleasers” that constantly need the validation of others. Worse, we can lose our ability to take control of own lives. While there are many ways to open, align, and balance your solar plexus chakra, using essential oils is one of the quickest, simplest, and most effective methods. We have created a comprehensive guide based on the recommendations of the world’s leading experts and aromatherapists. Take your power back today! Learn the best essential oils for a balanced, aligned, and opened solar plexus chakra here!
The 5 most highly recommended essential oils to help unblock, balance and open the solar plexus chakra:
- Black Pepper
- Lemongrass
- Ginger
- Rosemary
- Sandalwood
Balance the Solar Plexus Chakra With Energizing and Harmonizing Essential Oils With Calming Digestive Benefits
The solar plexus chakra is the third of the seven main chakras. It is associated with our confidence, will, and self-esteem. It also commonly referred to as the source or center of personal power. This chakra is located just above the belly button and around the abdominal area. It governs our will and sense of self. When blocked, we can feel powerless and without purpose. Additionally, we can also lack confidence and self-esteem. On a physical level, a solar plexus chakra blockage can also create or exacerbate digestive issues, diarrhea, bloating, and nausea. Even worse, an untreated blockage is also linked to ulcers and diabetes over time!
Open and balance your solar plexus chakra today! Become a confident master of your will and the manifestation of your authentic self with energizing and harmonizing essential oils! Aromatherapists and other experts agree that uplifting and energizing essential oils with calming digestive benefits work best. This gives us the spark and stamina necessary for personal growth, movement, and lasting change. Since the most common physical symptoms of a blocked solar plexus chakra are digestive issues, many of these recommended oils also have properties that calm and balance the stomach and digestive system.
How Do You Use Solar Plexus Chakra Essential Oils?
Aromatherapists generally recommend diffusing essential oils or applying them topically on the skin. Specifically, it is often recommended to apply these oils near the chakra you are trying to open and balance.
To understand more about other techniques to open each chakra, check this article.
The solar plexus chakra is located around the abdomen and just above the belly button. Massage any of the recommended essential oils on this area for best results. This is best done during or after practicing specific yoga poses to maintain and balance the solar plexus chakra!
However, there is no right or wrong way to use essential oils. Similar to the root chakra, you can also massage essential oils directly on the bottom of your feet.
To learn more about the most efficient essential oils for opening the root chakra, check this post.
As mentioned, you can also use an aromatherapy diffuser to create a mist throughout your home or workplace.
Try what works best for you! Massage solar plexus chakra recommended essential oils near the solar plexus chakra in your stomach area, the bottom of your feet, or mist in your home with an aromatherapy diffuser.
Combine Solar Plexus Essential Oils With Relevant Core and Stomach Focused Yoga Poses
For best results, combine with relevant solar plexus chakra yoga poses. We wrote more about these in our article on developing healthy self-esteem, which is another aspect of a balanced third chakra. Apply solar plexus chakra essential oils right before practicing relevant yoga poses for this chakra. These poses help energize, inspire and strengthen us physically, mentally, and spiritually and are important for unblocking and opening the solar plexus chakra.
Since the solar plexus chakra is located near the navel and belly, it is best to focus on yoga poses that focus on the stomach and core areas. This is especially helpful for persistent digestive issues such as nausea, constipation, diarrhea, or stomach pain. The three mostly highly recommended poses are Boat Pose – Navasana, Plank Pose – Phalakasana, and Bow Pose – Dhanurasana.
Other Yoga Poses to Help Open the Solar Plexus Chakra:
- Reverse Plank Pose – Purvottanasana
- Warrior III Pose – Virabhadrasana III
- Classical Forward Bend – Paschimottanasana
- Half Spinal Twist – Ardha Matsyendrasana
- Cobra Pose – Bhujangasana
- Corpse Pose – Shavasana
- Sun Salutations
All of these yoga poses are great for the solar plexus chakra! They will help strengthen your core and stomach area. When combined with recommended essential oils, this will help give you the “activation” energy needed to really step out of your comfort zone, become empowered, and pursue and achieve your goals. Massage your favorite solar plexus chakra essential oils on your stomach area or use an aromatherapy diffuser. Try these poses today!
Combine Recommended Solar Plexus Essential Oils With Other Effective Techniques for Best Results
As mentioned above, yoga paired with our suggested essential oils are an effective combination to balance the solar plexus chakra. However, there are other great techniques and methods, too!
As discussed in a previous post, “Too Busy People Pleasing? How To Open Your Solar Plexus Chakra,” there are many techniques to open, balance and align the solar plexus chakra. This post provides a complete summary of solar plexus chakra as well as ALL the best ways to open your third chakra. In this post, we will specifically focus on the best essential oils to open the solar plexus chakra. However, for best results, combine essential oils with some of the practices below!
In addition to essential oils, other methods include:
- Yoga Poses – Focus on Stomach
- Affirmations
- Chants – “RAM”
- Mudras
- Diet – Go Yellow!
- Healing Stones And Crystals
- Step Out of Your Comfort Zone
- Make Your Own Decisions
- Heal From Past Traumas
Black Pepper
Although black pepper is one of the most popular and widely used spices in the world, black pepper essential oil is far less known. Even some of those who already use essential oils regularly know little about it, or even that it exists at all. However, there are so many proven benefits for the body and mind that we highly recommend adding it to your collection of essential oils if you haven’t already!
Made from high pressure steam distillation of its flowering vines, Black pepper essential oil is one of the best and most highly recommended essential oils to open and balance the solar plexus chakra. Since this chakra is located around the belly area, the most common physical symptoms of a blocked solar plexus chakra are digestive problems. Black pepper essential oil has a carminative effect that reduces gas and bloating and helps stimulate the digestive system and reduce stomach pain. It also helps you maintain healthy cholesterol levels.
Black pepper essential oil also promotes and improves circulation through. It has a warming sensation when apply topically on the skin that can also help sore muscles. This essential oil is also great for memory and cognition! It contains piperine which is linked to lower memory and cognition impairment. This increased mental clarity is important for a balanced solar plexus chakra and helps us better visualize and set our goals clearly and aids us our path of personal development and empowerment.
Lemongrass
Similar to black pepper essential oil, lemongrass essential oil is made through a steam distillation process. It is extracted from the lemongrass plant. Lemongrass has been used for centuries in soups, curries, and teas in East India and Sri Lanka for stomach and digestive issues as well as irregular menstruation and skin infections. As an essential oil, it has many health benefits. For example, it can treat digestive issues and lower blood pressure. Its citrus scent is quite powerful and its warming and invigorating fragrance will energize you and help you find your own personal power – an excellent choice to open and balance your solar plexus chakra!
A blocked solar plexus chakra can cause a lack of confidence and self-esteem, and this is often accompanied with increased stress and anxiety. (To learn what breathing techniques can help you with anxiety, check this post.) Fortunately, lemongrass essential oil lowers stress and anxiety. On a physical level, it also lowers blood pressure which often spikes during periods of prolonged and heightened stress. There are other great physical benefits for the body, too! It has anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties that protect the body from infections and a wide range of illnesses and diseases. Take your power back with confidence and vigor and balance your solar plexus chakra today with lemongrass essential oil!
Ginger
Ginger essential oil is also known as the “oil of empowerment” and its ability to inspire confidence makes it a top choice to balance and open the solar plexus chakra! It is made through a steam distillation process and extracted from the underground stem of the ginger plant known as a rhizome. Its history is almost as rich as its scent! For thousands of years, the ginger plant is a prized spice in China and India. Ginger is mentioned in early Sanskrit literature in India, and also was a favorite of Confucius in China as early as 500 B.C.E.
Ginger essential oil is generally pale yellow to light amber in color. It is native to China and India and has a strong fragrance that is warm, spicy, woody, and rich. Similar to lemongrass essential oil, it also reduces stress and anxiety and has calming and soothing properties. High stress levels can often immobilize us and lead to inaction. As a solar plexus chakra blockage is especially linked to lower energy and a lack of personal development, it’s important to minimize our stress and anxiety levels as much as possible.
Finally, ginger essential oil is also spicy and warming, and these properties help energize and invigorate us to take action and empower us to make positive changes in our lives. Empowering, inspiring, warming, and invigorating – ginger essential oil is highly recommended for opening and balancing the solar plexus chakra. Try it today!
Rosemary
Similar to black pepper, Rosemary is best known as a cooking spice. However, rosemary essential oil is also one of the most popular of all essential oils. As a herb and spice, Rosemary has been used for thousands of years and was prized by ancient civilizations such as the Egyptians and Romans for its protective properties as well as improved cognitive function. Rosemary has also been used an essential oil for centuries. Most notably, Rosemary essential oil was one of the key ingredients in the infamous “Vinegar of Four Thieves” that grave robbers and thieves used to ransack homes and graves of those that perished in the great European plague in the 15th century.
Rosemary essential oil smells woodsy, powerful, herbal, and refreshing with an appearance similar to clear water. It is one of the top choices to balance and open the solar plexus chakra because it is great for memory, alertness, energy, and reducing stress and anxiety. Also known as “the oil of remembrance” it is perhaps the most important essential oil for memory. Even today, we place rosemary on graves at funerals to remember our loved ones.
Backed By Science: Rosemary Essential Oil Makes You Feel More Active And Alert
It is also great to perk you up and make you alert and attentive. Science can even back this claim. One study titled, “Effects of Inhaled Rosemary Oil on Subjective Feelings and Activities of the Nervous System, “shows that after inhalation of rosemary essential oil, subjects became more active and alert, and reported feeling “mentally fresher. EEG brain scans showed a change in brain wave activity that reduced lower frequency Alpha brainwaves and an increase in higher frequency beta waves associated with high alertness and attentiveness. A lack of energy and sluggishness is one of the main symptoms of a blocked solar plexus chakra, and it’s important to have the activation energy, stamina, and focus necessary to rediscover your personal power and achieve your dreams!
Sandalwood
Sandalwood is sacred in many religious and spiritual traditions, especially in Eastern cultures and traditions. Buddhists as well as traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine practitioners have used it for centuries.
If you wish to understand more about the connection between Buddhism and Yoga – devotion, karma and dharma – click on this post.
Sandalwood’s smell is woody and rich. It is made by steam distillation of billet and chips from sandalwood trees. These trees are mainly from India and Australia. You can often find sandalwood in perfumes, soaps, and cosmetics. In addition to woody and earthy, sandalwood’s scent is also exotic, soft, sweet, and floral. You can even find it in food-grade oil in chocolates!
Sandalwood is an earthy oil that helps center and calm the mind. It is a great choice for opening and balancing the solar plexus chakra. Interestingly, sandalwood has the dual properties of promoting calmness while also increasing mental alertness. A bit like coffee, but without the jitters!
Additionally, sandalwood also reduces anxiety which is a common symptoms of a blocked solar plexus chakra. Similarly, this gentle calming of the nervous system also reduces insomnia and helps promote better sleep. It can also help with physical problems, too. Sandalwood oil is an effective natural treatment for bronchitis, diarrhea, fatigue, fever, gallbladder problems, high blood pressure, indigestion, liver problems, low libido, sore throat, and urinary tract infections in Ayurvedic medicine.
Sandalwood essential oil’s properties that promote mental alertness and energy while also reducing stress and anxiety make it a top choice to open and balance the solar plexus chakra!
Conclusion
Essential oils have so many health benefits! They have proven scientific benefits for the body and mind. They are among the safest, simplest, and most effective technique to open and balance all chakras, including your solar plexus chakra!
According to aromatherapists and experts, black pepper, lemongrass, ginger, rosemary, and sandalwood are the 5 best essential oils to balance your solar plexus chakra. They contain properties that increase energy, alertness, memory, focus, while also reducing stress and anxiety. This will give you the energy and focus you need to become confident, empowered, and ready to embrace life’s challenges and chase your dreams!
We highly recommend combining these oils with many of the other techniques listed above, especially other solar plexus chakra yoga poses like the Boat Pose – Navasana, Plank Pose – Phalakasana, and Bow Pose – Dhanurasana.
Although there are many ways to use these oils such as through the air with a diffuser or adding to your bath water, we also recommend massaging them around the belly and stomach area near the location of the solar plexus chakra for best results.
If you are feeling powerless or suffering from a lack of confidence or willpower, -try these essential oils to open and balance your solar plexus chakra today!
Sources
Effects of Inhaled Rosemary Oil on Subjective Feelings and Activities of the Nervous System
The Health Potential of Sandalwood
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