08/06/2023
Throat Chakra Next Week! I'm feeling better now and look forward to seeing you. The throat chakra is the fifth chakra and the fifth element: ether. Ether is considered the most subtle of the five elements. The Sanskrit name for ether is akasha. Ether is sometimes referred to as space because it is the space that the other elements fill. Ether has the properties of lightness, airiness, and spirituality. It has also been equated by some with the concept of consciousness. Yoga practice can help increase one’s awareness of ether.
The Vishuddha deals with truth, and it is blocked by lies.
Location in the body: the throat
Colour: blue
Meaning: communication
The third chakra on the list, the throat chakra, is all about communication.
It’s the link between mind, body, emotions, and speech. How well are you able to express your needs or speak your truth? It also acts as a gateway between the human and the divine, between the ethereal higher chakras, and the grounded, earthly chakras below. Because it has a role to play in expression, the throat chakra is also vital for creativity.
Affirmations:
I listen to my own inner knowing.
I trust my conviction and act on my truth.
I live in the truth. I communicate my truth. I am the truth.
I speak with authenticity, grace, and courage.
I am expressing myself with clear intent.
I am learning, and I am growing. We are all learning and growing.
My voice matters.
I express myself creatively through speech, writing, and art.
Clothing
Wear blue when working on the throat chakra. Light blue, turquoise, electric blue. They’re all good. Dark blue is closer to the colour of the spiritual third eye chakra, though.
Nutrition
Blue food keeps our throat chakra energy fine tuned. But there are few blue foods and using food to heal the physical body becomes less prevalent as we move up the chakra system to the spiritual chakras. Here are some of the few blue foods which exist as edible flowers, seafood, fruit, and vegetables: bluefish, Atlantic lobster, blue crawfish, lingcod, blue cornflower, blue pansy, blue pea flower, starflower, indigo milk cap (mushroom,) blue potato, blue corn, blueberry, bilberry, plum, purple-blue grapes.
Hydration remains important for the brain, mind, throat, and purity, so keep up your uptake of water and organic herbal tea.
Music
Playing and listening to music is a wonderful method of balancing all the chakras. You can find plenty of free music, too.
These are the notes which resonate with the different chakras:
- Root Chakra: G
- Sacral Chakra: A
- Solar Plexus Chakra: B
- Heart Chakra: C
- Throat Chakra: D
- Third Eye Chakra: E
Something Else
Gargling saltwater, singing, and chanting are all good for the throat chakra. Also, it’s good to really listen to someone when they talk and not rushing in to give your opinion or to relate it to you.
Meditation
There are honestly so many fantastic meditations which you can do. I always listen to guided meditations on YouTube, while sitting in the cross-legged position, sitting with an erect spine on a chair, or lying down on my back. I’d like to take this time to invite you to open YouTube and type in the search bar either: guided meditation for the throat chakra/guided visualisation for the throat chakra/yoga nidra for the throat chakra. I have recommended yoga nidras and meditation to my yoga students before, which have worked well for me, but everyone’s different. Often with meditation, it’s best you explore what you feel comfortable with, especially with guided meditation. You may prefer one person’s voice over another’s.
Aromatherapy
You can take a bath with essential oils (only five to ten drops) massage (five drops per ten millilitres of carrier oil) rub on the radiator, or place a few drops in a diffuser or oil burner. If you’re interested in essential oils, it’s well worth studying them from a book or on the internet. I love using lavender oil. It’s the safest out there and can be applied neat, as a drop on the pulse point. I love sandalwood for grounding me, and I love geranium and frankincense, too. If an oil smells good to you, it means it is good for you at that point in time. If the smell is off-putting, then don’t use it.
These essential oils help with healthy communication and expression, as well as good listening skills, and speaking your truth well: chamomile, eucalyptus, basil, cypress, peppermint.
Crystal Healing
All blue crystals are great for helping to balance the throat chakra, as are turquoise crystals. You take a bath with them, place one on your throat when you lie on your back in savasana, put a clean one in your glass of water (don’t swallow it,) carry it in your pocket, or wear it as a bracelet, pendent, or necklace. But like people, crystals absorb energy from their surroundings, so it’s good to cleanse regularly. I don’t mean with soap and water. I mean, you can cleanse crystals with any of the elements. You can place the crystal on the earth outside, rinse with water, burn incense and let the smoke float around it, or place it in the garden during a full moon. You can then imagine white light streaming up your spine from the earth and out of your heart, then that white light targeting the crystal and surrounding it, cleansing it.
You can sit with the crystal and feel the energy from it, then stare at it, looking at the patterns and faces within its contours and planes. And don’t forget, you can sleep with it under your pillow.
These crystals are all great for healing and balancing the throat chakra and any emotions or physical ailments associated with it: aquamarine, turquoise, lapis lazuli, blue kyanite, angelite, azurite, blue lace agate, sodalite, and blue apatite.
