In this post, we go over how to heal and unblock Manipura chakra in the context of kundalini awakening.

What is Kundalini & the Chakras?

Kundalini and the Chakras: Kundalini is symbolized as latent energy coiled at the base of the spine in Eastern spiritual traditions. The Chakras are seven energy centers along the spine, channeling life force energy. They play a crucial role in spiritual practices, representing different levels of consciousness.

Kundalini Awakening: A Kundalini Awakening is a transformative experience where dormant Kundalini energy rises through the Chakras. It can be triggered by meditation or spontaneously. This process leads to heightened consciousness, expanded awareness, and a connection with the universal consciousness. It involves intense physical and emotional sensations, fostering personal transformation and spiritual growth.

Check out Everything About Kundalini & the Chakras.

How To Heal Manipura Chakra

Healing the Manipura Chakra, or the third chakra, involves a deep understanding of its symbolism and the transformation it represents in one's spiritual journey. Here are some steps and practices to help heal and balance the Manipura Chakra:

Self-Reflection: Start by examining your own life and journey. The Manipura Chakra is associated with accepting the Call to Adventure and being reborn into a new existence. Reflect on your past experiences and identify moments when you were called to a new path or purpose.

Acceptance of Change: Embrace change and transformation in your life. Understand that when you accept the Call to Adventure, your old self may need to be left behind. Be open to the idea of putting on a new "mask" or ego that aligns with your evolving understanding of your life's purpose.

Identification with the Ideal: Recognize the ideal or divine aspect of your being that you are striving to become. This identification is a key aspect of Manipura. Understand that you are not just living for yourself but are symbolizing a higher purpose.

Emotional Exploration: The Manipura Chakra is associated with emotions, and it's located in the solar plexus. Explore your emotions and delve into any repressed or unprocessed feelings. This process can help you release emotional energy that has built up over time.

Release Repressed Emotions: Understand that by coming in contact with your passions, instincts, and desires, you may encounter undigested emotions from the past. Allow yourself to process and release these emotions. Seek therapy or counseling if needed to help with emotional healing.

Oneness and Interconnectedness: Embrace the idea of oneness and interconnectedness with others. Realize that you are not separate but part of a larger existence. This can help foster empathy and compassion for others.

Psychical Experiences: As you progress from Manipura to Anahata (the heart chakra), you'll begin to experience a shift in your emotional and thought processes. Your emotions, values, thoughts, and convictions become interwoven with the facts and objects in your life. Embrace this interconnection.

What Blocks Manipura Chakra?

Based on the information provided, it's possible to identify several potential blocks or issues that can affect the Manipura Chakra:

Fear of Change: The Manipura Chakra represents transformation and being reborn into a new existence. A significant block can be a fear of change or an attachment to the old self, preventing one from accepting the Call to Adventure and embracing a new identity.

Ego-Attachment: If one is strongly attached to their existing ego and self-identity, they may struggle to let go and put on a new mask or ego, hindering the process of individuation and personal growth.

Failure to Identify with the Ideal: If you are not in alignment with the ideal or divine image that Kundalini is guiding you toward, it can create a blockage. This chakra is the center of identification with the ideal, so not embodying this ideal can lead to imbalance.

Emotional Repression: Emotional repression and the inability to express one's passions, instincts, and desires can create a blockage in Manipura. These emotions can become trapped and unprocessed, affecting overall well-being.

Unresolved Trauma: As you transition from Swadhisthana (the second chakra) to Manipura, it may be necessary to confront and process past trauma, including repressed emotions and undigested experiences. Failure to do so can lead to a blockage.

Resistance to Oneness and Interconnectedness: Manipura represents the idea of oneness and interconnectedness with others. If you resist this concept and continue to see yourself as separate from the world, it can create a blockage in this chakra.

Lack of Awareness of the Unconscious: Not taking the unconscious mind seriously and failing to acknowledge and address hidden desires, passions, and inner demons can hinder the progression through Manipura.

Fear of Exploring the Unconscious: The unconscious mind can be intimidating, and fear of confronting hidden demons or repressed desires may block the transition to Manipura.

Ineffective Communication: Using abstract language or euphemisms to avoid addressing sensitive or difficult topics can hinder your progress in Manipura, as it may prevent open and honest communication.

Conflict with the Unconscious: The unconscious mind's self-moving nature and its vastness may be challenging to navigate. It's essential to recognize that you are not the master of your own mind and that the unconscious is genuine, even if it conflicts with your ego or conscious self.

Imbalance of the Solar Plexus: Physical and emotional imbalances in the solar plexus area, located in the abdomen, can create a blockage in Manipura. This imbalance may manifest as disturbances in the stomach and emotional issues.

Inability to Accept Change and Transformation: Fearing or resisting the idea of being reborn into a new existence, and holding onto your old self, can act as a significant blockage in Manipura.

How To Heal & Unblock Manipura Chakra

Third Chakra (Manipura) - Represents fire and the “Fullness of Jewels” and is reached when you answer Kundalini’s Call To Adventure and pass through the danger of the unconscious underworld, Swadhisthana (Second Chakra)

Manipura represents fire and the sun rising. Here is where you are born into a new existence. In stories, this means you become a different being with a different name.

An example this is when Jesus receives his mission in the Spirit of God, and has His baptism in Jordan. He becomes a Christ after baptism because Christ means the anointed one. The transition to Jesus Christ means that he is twice-born.

As the “chosen one” he becomes a symbolic personality. No longer belonging to a mere family, but now belonging to the whole world—his life becoming much more important than if he were just the son of Mary and Joseph.

What Happens When Manipura Chakra Opens

Manipura is the center of identification with the ideal, divine, immortal soul. You are not just living in the moment, you are now a symbol that will exist eternally.

This means escaping from your own selfish personal existence because you stand for more than just yourself. You hold a higher meaning for your life that gives you a sense of abundance.

When you are reborn, you could say that your old world has burnt down. But although the worldly philosophy in your personal ego has changed, there is no proof that you have reached Manipura.

When you finally accept the Call to Adventure, you're thrown into a new land—and to survive this new land, you have to be born again.

Emerging into a new world demands you to put on a new mask, a new ego, that furthers your individuation and maturity.

This ego is based on the ideal that Kundalini is guiding you towards—the God (ideal image) that you are admiring and pursuing.

How To Move Manipura Chakra in the Body

This third chakra is the center of emotions and is located in the solar plexus, the center of the abdomen. The abdomen is where we have our first psychic manifestations in our living experience.

The earliest human animals only had a conscious capacity to be aware of disturbances in the stomach. In other words, humans thought with their stomachs. If the early human wasn’t bothered by their stomach, then they had no reason to care.

This is why early tribes would inflict pain and wounds during their initiation rituals. These initiations included cutting, starving, and depriving their initiates of any sleep.

After the initiate passed their test, they would be bestowed their tribe’s secrets. This was done because people tend not to learn lessons unless they are hurting. In primitive times, this meant physically—in modern times, this can mean emotionally, mentally, etc.

The next center is the heart. In our modern times, we give significance to the relationship between the heart and head.

When people become aware of their unconscious mind, and hold it in their recognition, they often go into an emotional state where they explode lots of emotional energy that has built up or been buried. They will weep about events that happened years ago.

At the time they endured their trauma, forming their samskara, they were repressed their feelings to be held in the unconscious. When they get in touch with their lower centers, they tap back into that frozen moment in time that is embedded in their psyche (samskara). Only to find that the undigested emotions are still there and they are still surprisingly strong.

In manipura, you’ve reached a higher layer where things can change in the heart. When you come in contact with your passions, instincts, and desires, an impersonal opposite will be constellated. You will no longer identify with your desires.