7 Chakras

Belly fat leading to obesity, lower back pain, and breathing problems including asthma symptoms are the lifestyle solar plexus diseases that a closed solar plexus chakra aka Manipura chakra is responsible for. As far as obesity and belly fat among all the solar plexus diseases are concerned; opening the solar plexus chakra just works wonders. Same is true of the breathing problems including asthma symptoms. But, of course, in the case of lower back pain, the results are not so straight forward. It rather takes a circuitous path to its cure. First the maneuver tends to strengthen the muscles of the lower back. It’s because they acquire a state of perennial contraction for all the 24 hours. This keeps the solar thoracic diaphragm up and back. Keep reading further…

The raised thoracic diaphragm started moving back now. It was the third chakra, the solar plexus chakra called Manipura chakra in Sanskrit; that was ready to dissolve itself with its backward motion taking the thoracic diaphragm horizontally back while maintaining its vertical height that it had gained while dissolving the sacral chakra just below it. Again in this maneuver too, the care was to be taken that the hips would not push them forward; or else the entire maneuver would have gone distorted. It wasn’t easy. The muscles supporting the lower back contracted to their maximum in order to stretch the thoracic diaphragm. And it was not only in its center which it had done while dissolving the sacral chakra; but in the middle of its sides, both left and right. It was really not easy. The abdomen would really be tucked tight at the Hara. The stomach area above the belly button would protrude outside. Thus it made room for the lungs to expand freely as much as they could. Continue...