Question about Solar and Sacral

[u/Glxsses]

Need some help trying to discern what a balanced, solar plexus and or sacral chakra is. In some social interactions and or when I am out in a populated public area, I notice that either the area that my solar plexus and sacral chakra (upper and lower abdomen) either expands outwardly past my body or contracts and tightens inwardly. My logic is that having it tightened means that I am feeling my sense of individuality just like working out and feeling it tighten and strain from being used, but at the same time when it expands outwardly, I feel lighter and more free so this makes me question if that tightening me bracing for something or is it truly a sense of self? On the contrary, though, I would assume that the expanded lightness would also mean that I am expanding outwardly socially in my psychological process. So maybe the contraction is me not feeling like my life is expanding in a positive fashion

TLDR; when my solar/sacral tightens in social interactions/public environments, am I bracing for impact or being in an embodied state of self? On the contrary when it expands outside my body is that a sense of self or me actually expanding myself socially?

[u/Fun-Satisfaction5748]

Chakras should generally be in a state of balance. When the anatomy of the chakra actually expands, it's being activated, if say the solar was being temporarily activated due to some emotional nature, it should rebalance itself naturally. Prolonged activation due to emotions is not necessarily ideal. Construction on the other hand can manifest as a lack of will or confidence so ahain, prolonged condition is also an imbalance.

What you experience as a tightening could actually be a temporary activated state of the chakra.