Food, Energy and your Solar Plexus
The Solar Plexus Chakra
Whether you know it or not, we all have an energetic connection with food.
The Solar Plexus is your fire chakra located in the part of the vertebral column behind the stomach area. Its effect radiates seven centimeters above and below the naval. More commonly known, its location is easily found above the belly button and below the heart. The Manipura, its Sanskrit name, is yellow, representing wisdom and intellect.
Think of it as the fire in your belly! Its purpose is personal power, mental activity, self-esteem, and willpower.
The Solar Plexus and digestion
In addition to personal power, it is ALSO the Chakra that is responsible for the digestion and metabolism of transforming food into ENERGY. If the energy of your food is not fully absorbed by your Solar Plexus chakra, energy will not be available to distribute to the rest of the body. As a result, you will feel tired with little drive and lack of mental clarity.
As you awaken to your spiritual fire within, you will find it easier to “burn” the energy of the food you digest and distribute it among your other chakras. Our food choices, however, have an impact on how the digestive fire burns the food, which would allow for clear thinking. In other words, when your digestive system is unable to effectively utilize the fuel it is given because of poor diet choices and neglecting to bless the food, you will feel unmotivated and listless. If you give your Solar Plexus the right food and change its vibration through prayer, you will have the necessary energy to thrive.
Food has an energy
What I’ve come to understand as I evolve and develop in my energy practice and awareness is that EVERYTHING has an energetic frequency. It is within us and around us. Your food is no exception to this rule. The food itself has an energy pattern.
It has a certain amount of available physical energy for you to absorb.
They say, “you are what you eat.” A notion that means to be fit and healthy you need to eat good food. When you are working and understanding energy, the saying changes to, “you will have the energy frequency of the food you eat.”
How foods vibration changes from its original form
All things, including food, have an original energy vibration. A pure natural state. When these foods come into contact with intention, people, and machines, their energy is altered. In other words, those who handle our food transfer their subtle vibrations.
The energetic vibration of those who prepared and handled the food leaves a subtle energy imprint on the food and therefore is ingested by you.
The Farmers, Harvesters, and Shippers all affect its subtle vibration.
Animal meat carries the energy of their emotions. Fruits and vegetables may have been grown using harmful chemicals.
Then there are the foods that are made “of the light” and carry the energy of the sun. Organic fruits and vegetables, for example. These foods are “of the light” because they grow from the support of the sun’s energy and are void of chemicals.
Imagine eating more foods that absorb the non-emotional supercharged energy of our sun!
Type of energy transfer
Examples of some of the subtle energy transfers affecting your food:
- Emotions of the animal during and before his/her death
- Facilities that process food
- All food handlers at the facilities
- Buyers and sellers of the food
- Delivery trucks and drivers
- Food handlers at the grocery store
- Restaurant cooks and water.
- The intention of that food has energy as well. (Is it meant for mass production with little thought of the individual consumer or is it made for a small mom and pop country kitchen?)
Let’s take an apple, for instance. From the farm to the grocery store, it will pick up subtle energetic vibrations from every single person, machine, and facility it encounters. Whether it is organic with loving intentions or full of pesticides with little thought of the individual consumer, it will change its energy as well.
Eating out
Eating out at a restaurant adds on another layer of energy because you have another human, besides yourself or a family member, cooking for you.
Imagine if that cook is going through a divorce, fighting with their children, not feeling well or ill.
This energy will be transferred to the food itself and served to you.
Blessings and your Solar Plexus
When you give thanks and blessings to the food you eat, it will provide the Solar Plexus with the positive energy it needs to fuel your personal will. Providing stamina, willpower, and determination. It allows for the flame inside your belly to burn brighter. Which in turn, helps it burn the everyday doubts and mental confusion away.
This is especially helpful when you eat in a public restaurant!
My Experience
My family was Catholic. We were not hard-core churchgoers, but it did come in spurts. We, like many families, sat at the family table whenever my mom felt the urge to cook dinner. They were very busy people with their machine shop responsibilities, so there were many nights when cereal was the main course. When we sat down together, my mom was always the instigator of the family’s traditional Catholic prayer. Every meal we had a designated Chaplain. She would look at us and give us that look of GO, then off we went. We would say:
Bless us, O Lord, and these, thy gifts, which we are about to receive from thy bounty. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
That was it! At every meal. No variation. The only variation was when one of us slipped up and, slurred words together, to which all three of us kids would laugh.
Evolution of prayer’s purpose:
Needless to say, when I had my boys, I raised them with this prayer. They have it memorized and occasionally mess up the words, too. For us, not much thought went into the meaning of the prayer, and not much thought went into what the prayer did for the food itself.
We didn’t think about the energy of the food, who may have touched it before us, how many machines it had to go through, how many trucks and stores it had to travel in and out of, or the emotions of the animals we were about to ingest.
Prayers affect over food
Now the food you will eat today and from here on in, let’s say a prayer over it.
Intention is ALWAYS the most important element in any prayer. Your intention is what will change the energetic vibration of that food. When you personally cook it, you can simply say “THANK YOU” while you are cutting it, stirring it or preparing it.
Much like the water experiment done by Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese author and scientist Dr Masaru Emoto’s Water Experiments He physically demonstrated how exposing glasses of water to various words and music then freezing the water and examining the frozen crystals under a microscope changed the physical appearance of the water, the same can be true for food.
First, how to do it
How to perform this prayer is completely up to you. I put both hands around the plate or bowl while resting my arms on the table. I leave my eyes open and silently say my prayer as I bow my head.
Noticeable health improvement
Since I’ve been doing this, I have seen a significant change in my digestive health.
Before this, I suffered from over 95 different food sensitivities. It was no fun at all to eat anything, it seemed! My bowls did not like me at all! So when I created the prayer that resonated with me, I added, “May this food easily and effortlessly digest in my body.”
Energy Prayers
When I first became dedicated to honoring the food I ate, I wrote out a few prayers I would like to share. With a filter on your Heart Chakra, take and use what resonates with you and leave the rest.
- Thank you for this food. May it be blessed. May it nourish my body and support my highest good. May this food easily and effortlessly digest in my body
- Thank you for this meal before me. May it nourish my body. Thank you to all those involved in preparing and bringing this food to me.
- May this food be blessed. It is a gift from the Divine. I ask that it support my highest and greatest good.
- May this food restore my strength, giving new energy to tired limbs, new thoughts to weary minds.
- May this food nourish my body and every cell in it and easily and effortlessly digest in my body.
Weight Loss:
- May this food provide me with perfect health. I am always eating right. I am getting healthier and reaching my perfect weight by what I eat.
I already ingested yucky energy! Now what?
What about the energy of the food that I have already ingested??!!
It is important to understand that all the energy that you have already ingested, can be released with one simple step.
INTEND FOR IT TO RELEASE!
Intend for it to dissolve and be transmuted into the Earth! Ask your guides or your higher self to release the accumulated energy from your Solar Plexus into the Earth. Visualize the energy being released to Gaia (Mother Earth) or the Universe for transmutation. Feel this happening. Believe it has happened, and release yourself of any worry or fear.
Forgot to pray before you ate?
Forgot to pray before you ate! No worries! You are working with energy where time and space do not exist! The food is in your belly, so simply place your hands on it and say your prayer. Your hands will transmit the energy of your prayer to the food. I do it all the time! We all get a little too excited about my meals. It happens!
Don’t change where you eat and shop!
Now, I’m not saying stop going to the grocery store and stop eating out! What I’m saying is that you have the power within you to change the frequency and energy of that food by simply BLESSING IT!
A meaningful, from your Heart Chakra, blessing.
Empath?
If you are an EMPATH or just sensitive to energy, it is especially important for you to bless your food! You may have noticed indigestion and an unsettled tummy after you eat out somewhere. Thinking back, you may even recognize restaurants that are worse than others.
Unless the food is grown in your personal garden, the subtle energy ingested by that food will be stored in the Solar Plexus. It is up to the Solar Plexus to digest and metabolize the food into energy. An imbalanced Solar Plexus Chakra will have a harder time doing this because the energy absorbed does not serve you.
Unblessed food and its subtle energy will accumulate and over time create imbalances.
Please Consider Organic
Something to consider when eating out are Farm to Table restaurants. There is still potential for some negative energy exchange but the intention behind the farmers and restaurant owners is one of love and well-being for the earth; so the energy intention is positive. There is some truth to the saying, “made with love.”
Organic foods are excellent options. Organic farmers use conscious awareness as a way of blessing the food.
Conclusion
Blessing your food and giving your attention and intention to it, automatically changes it’s vibration. Our Solar Plexus is here to serve you. It will convert this blessed food to a higher vibrational energy that will serve you, guide you, and enable you to think clearly.
With awareness of our intention, we can reverse the effects of those negative vibrations and alter the energy to love, blessings, and health.
NAMASTE
Traditional Grace Prayers
For a list of traditional grace prayers see link.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_(prayer)
These come from Christianity traditions. Prayers that most of us grew up on but later evolved into our own words that spoke to us through our Heart and Throat Chakras.
