Throat Chakra - Communication

Communication

The throat chakra (Vishuddha) gives voice to the heart chakra and controls our ability to communicate. 5th Chakra Symbol: 16-petal Blue Flower with a Circle Within a Triangle Pointing Downwards.

Location: You will find the chakra Located at the throat (quelle surprise!), where it has control over your throat muscles and voice is all about communication, creativity, truth and reliability.

It will affect your decision-making skills and your honesty.

It represents the part of our consciousness concerned with self-expression of feelings and beliefs.

It is affected by our ability to freely communicate our needs, and the spirit of truth.

The throat and mouth.as well as the hypothalamus and lungs and thyroid gland also the upper digestive tract can be affected by imbalance in this area.

When your throat chakra has balance, you will have fewer cavities in your teeth along with healthy gums.

Another physical benefit to balancing this chakra is that you may not experience throat disease. When it's functioning at full capacity, it allows us to express ourselves truly and clearly.

When it’s working as it should, you are able to speak your truth without fear, you are a good communicator who can hold any crowd’s attention, and you are tactful, inspiring, adventurous and loyal.

Associated Themes & Emotions: Communication, self-expression, and truth.

The chakra’s symbol is sound. You may encourage balance in your throat chakra by listening to the musical note G.

Developmental age: 15- 21 years old

You should also drink plenty of water when you arefocusing on the balance of this chakra.

Meaning & Function: communication.

Sings of Imbalance or Blockage: If this chakra is blocked, your thoughts and feelings cannot be verbalized. Your truth cannot be expressed.

Also, what other people think and feel can cause you difficulties.

Negative feeling: mendacity.

Positive feeling: truthful self-expression.

Typical conditions: a sore throat, inflammation of trachea, constant colds and viral infections, ear infections, jaw pain and gum disease, tooth problems, thyroid imbalances, high blood pressure, speech impediment, psychosomatic diseases such as irritable bowel, ADHT, autism.

Every word has a sound; in fact everything has its own ‘note’. Some scientists are beginning to believe that sound created the basic pattern that enabled the Universe to come into being. Sound is vibration, an invisible energy; which creates form. Everything then, was created from a certain sound that created that particular form.

Every individual has a unique fingerprint, DNA structure and also their own unique sound or note. The Throat centre is concerned with the expression of that note and how it is communicated. It also has a direct link with the second chakra – Sacral centre – which deals with relationships. The Sacral chakra is about the relationship we have with other people on the physical plane. The Throat chakra is about a different relationship – the relationship between our personality / ego self and our soul.

Honest communication is speaking with the voice that is not ruled by the dictates of the ego. The ego continually needs to have its existence confirmed and supported, and will go to any lengths to achieve this end. If you are an inflated bag of nothing - which to a certain extent is all that the ego is – you, too, might need to have your existence validated! The soul, however, simply needs to express its truth. This centre gets out of balance when the ego/personality insists on voicing its own plans and beliefs in preference to listening to and expressing statements from the soul.

This chakra is also linked to our hearing. Our ears allow us to hear what we are saying and to check, at a deeper level, whether what we express is true to the impulse of the soul. If there are problems with your hearing, is there something, an inner voice, which you are choosing not to listen to? It is not always easy to speak up and speak out, but honest communication always has a positive outcome.

It’s not what you say, but the way that you say it. Blurting things out or shouting at someone will probably not have the desired effect. There is always another way to say it, and if the statement comes from the heart, it will be heard at that level too. The other side of this coin is always keeping quiet. It might feel safer to do that, but it ends in repressed, depressed feelings and a sense of being ‘choked’ by life.

Toning and chanting, (as religious sects have known for centuries), affect the whole vibration of our being. Like having an auric workout, they clear the airwaves and allow us to become more in tune with our own individual note.

Try this…

Close your eyes and bring up an image of a situation where you want to say something, but have not as yet been able to … now imagine your self-saying what it is you want to say in this situation… or do you need to say something else that lies behind this?

You might like to reflect on the following questions that are concerns of the Throat chakra..

Question for the Throat Chakra

If I say what I think, will people still like me?

If I speak my mind, will I be understood?

If I let people know who I really am, will I be accepted?

If I say what I want, will people think I’m selfish?

If I say what I feel, will I hurt others?

Does this stop me from speaking up and speaking out?

Now just close your eyes and make this affirmation:

I express my deepest thoughts and feelings with clarity.

Crystals that are associated with this Chakra are: Angelite, Aquamarine, Blue Moss Agate.

The herbs that are associated with this Chakra are: Laurel, Wintergreen, Peppermint.

If you are ready to go a bit deeper into chakra work then here is the link to grab your meditation. There are obviously 7 to choose from or you can get all seven. the choice is yours.