The Solar Plexus Speaks How to Hear Your Body's Wisdom in a World of Noise
The Importance of Self Check
It is vital to everything that you are and to everything that you 'be' that you are checking in with yourself to see what is true for you.
This means you must do your due diligence even if it looks 'ok' superficially, train yourself to look past the presentation—beyond the veneer of what's acceptable to the truth of what's resonant.
Read The Fine Print Of People, Places And Things: Research (Observe), Ask Questions And Run It By The Boss Otherwise Known As Your GUT.
Your solar plexus—that energetic center just below your rib cage—isn't just another body part. It's the seat of your sovereignty. The throne where your intuition sits when it's ready to guide you home.
Understanding Your Gut Feeling
This requires training your 'ears' to hear from your gut because we have been socialized to only rely on our brain/mind and throw away all else.
Contrary to this 'training,' I am asking you to turn up the volume of what you are feeling. To recognize that your body's wisdom isn't secondary—it's your primary spiritual technology.
Take care of yourself by asking yourself questions and awaiting the response to come from your gut or your heart—these two centers feel different than the response in the head.
It can feel subtler or softer. Like a whisper beneath the noise. But that whisper carries the vibration of your truth.
Listening Beyond the Mind
As you train yourself to listen, when it is coming from your mind, it is the loudest as you have given it the most audience.
This voice also is relatively more 'negative' and alienates you even in the recesses of your mind.
And often, it won't stop until what you feel inside matches outside and vice versa.
The story in the mind either is pulling from old stories from your life OR it creates scenarios to keep you from moving forward.
Be careful. It is quite tricky in an untrained mind.
This isn't just about avoiding mistakes. This is about returning to your Will—that sacred part of you that knows before your mind catches up.
The Power of Your Inner Knowing
Running it by the BOSS can be applied to everything and should be applied to everything: a job, a business venture, a romantic partner or a diagnosis.
No matter what your family says or what your girlfriends say (if you can block out what you think they are gonna think or say), your inner knowing—aka your gut or heart—will let you know what is a yes or a no for you.
Why? Because you have to live with the results of the direction you go in or don't go in.
It has to resonate for you, it has to feel as good as it can internally so that you have harmony.
No split energy means you have a directive. Your own.
This is your divine imagination at work—not just predicting what might happen, but intuitively co-creating with your highest path.
Personal Experience: A Cautionary Tale
Several years ago, I went to Mexico City on a business trip.
Everyone (including the Mexicans) says DO NOT DRINK THE WATER.
This wasn't my first business trip to Mexico City, so I knew the drill.
However, when I do travel, my digestive system requires some assistance, so what better than some ruffage.
So, I had a salad. What is salad typically cleaned with? That's right: water.
Very soon after lunch, my body let me know this was not the right decision.
I had meetings to attend and my calendar was full of presentations.
The purpose of my trip was to present.
I should have cancelled my schedule and came home.
This would have been caring of myself. But this didn't happen.
My best friends during the trip were: the bathroom, the pallet I made on the floor in the corner in my colleague's office and the hotel bed.
It took all the strength I could muster to give great presentations, answer questions, smile—then go lay down on the pallet in the fetal position until the next presentation.
It was awful!
I ignored the wisdom of both my intuition before eating the salad and the clear signals after. My body wasn't just uncomfortable—it was speaking a language I chose not to listen to.
Misdiagnosis and Non-Care
When I got 'stateside', I went to an internist who was in my healthcare network.
He listened to my story for 2 maybe 3 minutes and then informed me that I had IBS.
He went on to say that women in my age bracket and my ethnicity undergo stress (usually from their careers) and have IBS.
He didn't give me a test for IBS (not ONE), he didn't look at my tongue, he barely looked at me—never touched me and wrote a prescription for the condition, he said I had.
With crumbled prescription in hand, I left his office.
My very active gut sent me a message different than the messages it had been sending me over this course that something wasn't right.
It was different than my stomach cramps.
It wasn't exactly—physical.
I won't fill this in too much as it is different for everyone and it is vital that you tune in to what and how your messages 'come in'.
He didn't hear a word I said and told me to schedule a follow-up visit.
This wasn't just about authority versus intuition. This was about a system that prioritizes quick diagnosis over deep listening—and my body's wisdom that refused to be silenced.
Let's Do the Math
I was fine when I got to Mexico City, I had lunch then I wasn't fine.
How is this IBS?
Even though my gut was compromised, I paused, listened and I went to a colonist instead.
Because I was going 'alternative'—I had to pay out of pocket which would seem extreme to someone observing my situation.
Crazy even. I had 'excellent' health insurance, why spend more money?
Taking the drug felt more harmful than good.
In fact, nothing about it felt right to me.
My body should be able to calm itself and heal with a little help.
I had to trust that I was doing the right thing.
I was also willing to continue to listen and go find another doctor if the colonic wasn't effective.
In gratitude, my colon healed without the drug.
This wasn't just good fortune. This was energetic alignment—allowing my body's innate intelligence to guide me toward what would actually restore harmony.
The Risks of Blindly Following Advice
Remember the follow up visit I was instructed to make?
I did go back to see this doctor.
I wanted to see what would happen when I told him about my findings.
He was anything but happy for me.
He waved off the effectiveness of a colonic being able to heal my gut.
And yes, he still wanted me to take the prescription and to schedule a follow up.
My POV was to get out of his office never to return.
Months later, I heard a report that the drug he prescribed me, killed several people!!!
I couldn't believe my ears.
I thought about those people who thought they were doing what was best for their bodies. Dead?
This still makes me speechless!
In those moments, I wasn't just avoiding a medication. My energy body—the part of me connected to my highest knowing—was protecting my physical vessel from harm.
The Journey to Trusting Yourself
I implore you, do not do a thing blindly.
Run it past your Boss.
Wait for a response.
Remember it will feel different than what your mind says.
The feeling will come from a different place than usual.
Get really curious. Ask yourself questions.
Do your research, get support (yes this includes medical professionals, not all of them are like that guy), weigh your options and trust yourself.
Training yourself to hear your gut and your heart takes time to block out inner doubt and outside scrutiny, however it is doable.
This is your sacred technology—the inner compass that was calibrated long before external systems tried to redirect your path.
Take Your Seat in the Fire
The next time you feel that subtle, almost imperceptible sense that something isn't quite right—even when all logic suggests otherwise—I invite you to pause.
Place your hand on your solar plexus, that energy center where your power resides.
Breathe into it.
Ask yourself:
What does my body know that my mind hasn't caught up to?
Where am I abandoning myself to please someone else's system?
What would honoring my wisdom look like right now?
This is not selfishness. This is sovereignty. Your body's intelligence is not separate from your spirit—they are one conversation happening in multiple languages.
True self-care begins when you commit to becoming fluent in both.
Fonda shares: 'When I was a massage therapist, I noticed the common thread of physical pain that people expressed. It inspired me to pull on the 'why' of pain: No matter what walk of life, the disconnect (pain) is basically the same.
People are fearful that the love (they are seeking in all areas of their lives), they aren't worthy of it.
The fact IS unless and until you accept yourself, to remember your worthiness and love yourself in plain sight - no one else's love can full you up. This is the Wholeness journey + the cycle of pain can cease.'
Fonda Clayton Smith is the founder of Wholeness Lab, a sanctuary for high-achieving women who are ready to stop performing and start embodying their Sacred Wholeness.
When you're tired of seeking external validation, questioning your intuition, and feeling divided between who you are and who you're expected to be, Fonda's unique blend of sovereignty coaching creates the container for your return to center.
Fonda is a Certified Life Coach, Polarity Therapist, Licensed Massage Therapist, published author, podcaster, and guide for women reclaiming their energy and boundaries after years of putting everyone else first.
Through The Sovereign Seat™, she offers a sacred pathway back to the woman you've been editing out of your story.
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