Solar Plexus Problems

There is a point in your body, exactly between the sternum and the navel, where a feeling can take hold that is difficult to describe. A tightness. A pulling. A cramp that does not quite breathe. Sometimes it feels as though someone has drawn a belt around your upper abdomen and is slowly tightening it. Sometimes like an invisible punch that will not go away.

This point is the solar plexus — medically the Plexus solaris. A nerve node so dense and complex that it is sometimes called your second brain. Here your autonomic nervous system processes what is happening in the body. Here butterflies in the stomach arise, here sits the nervousness before a performance, here your system registers whether you are truly safe or not. When you say you have a queasy gut feeling — this is the place that speaks.