Deepen Your Relationship with the Sun: Light, the Solar Plexus & Photosynthesis

You’ve probably heard of photosynthesis, the process whereby plants use sunlight to make food from carbon dioxide and water. Usually, we then get our nutrition from ingesting plants rather than photosynthesizing ourselves. But we have the option to interact with sunlight in a more direct way: human photosynthesis. 

There are a series of simple steps to this process. First, we expand the outerbody membranes and initiate contact with the sun. The we proceed through several stages to absorb, distribute and store the energy. The solar plexus region is an important part of this process - there’s no mistake that it is called this! There is also a chakra related to the solar plexus chakra that you may not have worked with before called the spleen chakra (also known as the ‘little sun’); this lies near the lower left corner of your ribcage. These energy centers help us to gather and densify the energy of the sun into our bodies.

When you do photosynthesis, you’re ingesting the energy of the sun, the light of the sun, and using it to create. Your solar plexus and spleen chakra are the keys to this process. The solar plexus region of the body supports us in transferring energy into the third dimensional plane. It helps us create in the physical world. This can be done not only with food that we eat, but with sunlight itself.

Here are basic directions for doing photosynthesis:

    1. Do some proprioceptive exercise/movement to expand and sensitize

    2. Expand your outerbody and increase permeability

    3. Activate your crown chakra and initiate contact with the sun

    4. Absorb sunlight into your etheric body

    5. Funnel it into your physical body with your spleen chakra, or ‘little sun’

    6. Press this into your solar plexus; use your mind to make the energy more dense

    7. If you like, distribute some of this wherever you like in your body

    8. Make the energy even more dense, almost a liquid form, and transfer some over to your liver to be stored for future use

      Make sure to condense your frequencies and make your membranes less permeable before re-entering more physical activities

Click here to download a copy of these directions.

If you find yourself thinking about photosynthesis, pay attention to that. Your inner guidance is giving you a cue that it’s a good time for it. You can also use the process to generate energy if you’re feeling washed out. Or, if you’re feeling depressed and ‘dark,’ it can literally lighten your whole system. Notice how you feel in the hours afterwards. Bringing attention to your experience will amplify the affects that the process has on your body. The process will generate energy, strength, endurance and patience. 

This process of photosynthesis can be done for a few seconds up to several minutes at a time. You may notice that this practice creates more than chemical changes; absorbing and distributing sunlight in your physical body causes changes in your consciousness. Just like the energy of the light initiates fusion reactions at the physical level, it stimulates new compounds, new combinations, emotionally and mentally. And as your relationship with the sun deepens, you will each expand into new expressions of life. Perhaps the sun itself benefits from this new contact with you in ways you can’t even begin to imagine. 


Listen to a guided meditation of this process to experience it firsthand:


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