How can you relax your solar plexus? | Solar plexus

How can you relax your solar plexus?

Since the solar plexus is not a muscle, it cannot be relaxed in this sense. However, it is largely made up of autonomous nerve fibers that are responsible for relaxing the abdomen and promoting digestive activity. Relaxing the solar plexus therefore means stimulating the part of the nervous system that causes relaxation.

This can be achieved, for example, through targeted breathing exercises, which have a calming effect. Slow inhalation and exhalation, whereby the phase of exhalation should be twice as long as that of inhalation, can help to calm the body and mind and slow down the heartbeat. Sitting upright has a supportive effect and takes pressure off the solar plexus. Yoga is also excellent for opening the chest and abdomen, strengthening and relaxing the muscles. QiGong and other Far Eastern relaxation and meditation techniques are also often designed to relax and strengthen the center of the body, thus creating a free solar plexus in everyday life.

Tattoo on the solar plexus

The skin over the region of the solar plexus is supplied less by the nerves of the solar plexus, but mainly by the sensitive skin nerves of the spinal cord. At the level of each vertebral or spinal cord segment, nerves emerge that supply a certain belt-shaped area of the skin, a so-called dermatome. The area above the solar plexus is supplied by the nerves Th8-9 (“Th” for thorax = chest).

A tattoo on the solar plexus is just as painful as anywhere else on the abdomen, because the different dermatomes don’t care much about pain sensitivity. Since the area is not on the ribs, it is possibly even less painful than directly on the ribs, where the bone underneath offers little cushion. The slimmer you are and the less subcutaneous fatty tissue lies between the skin and the abdominal organs, the more likely it is that the latter will be irritated and make you feel sick when tattooing.

A good indication of whether it is a pain-sensitive area is the question of how well the body part is supplied with nerves. In feet and hands, for example, an extremely large number of nerves converge, because these body parts must also feel particularly well in order to function. When tattooing the abdomen, there can be differences in pain sensitivity from person to person.

The more ticklish and sensitive you are on your belly, the higher the probability that a tattoo will be painful there. The solar plexus is a nerve fiber network of sympathetic and parasympathetic fibers and is located in the abdomen near the aorta. It is used for the interconnection and transmission of important information and thus for the regulation of intestinal peristalsis and glandular secretion in the abdomen.

Strong irritation of the solar pelxus can cause massive vasodilatation via the vagus nerve, resulting in reduced blood flow to the brain. Dizziness or unconsciousness can be the result.