The Solar Plexus

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William Walker Atkinson. The Solar Plexus

The Solar Plexus

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Table of Contents

I. The Four Brains of Man

II. The Emotional Centre

III. Emotional Control

IV. Vitality and Health

V. Awakening the Solar Plexus

VI. Using the Solar Plexus

VII. Solar Plexus Breathing-Exercises

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William Walker Atkinson

II The Emotional Centre

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Its name, "solar," was bestowed upon it by reason of (1) its central position; (2) the fact that its filaments extend in all directions to the important abdominal organs, like the rays of the sun; and (3) the fact that it is recognized as being the power-house, and great reservoir of "life force," just as the sun is the great power-house and reservoir of material energy of our solar system.

The Sympathetic Nervous System, over which it presides, is that great division of the nervous system which regulates and energizes the important functions of the organs upon which physical life depends, and by which it is sustained. Bichet terms this division of the nervous system, "the nervous system of organic life," because, as he pointed out, "it seems to regulate—almost or quite independently of the will—the due performance of the functions of the organs of respiration, circulation, and digestion."

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