Welcome,
Everybody.
You are Friday morning.
Session.
Today we're going to talk about the fifth chakra,
The throat chakra.
And.
.
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We'll do something a little bit different.
Using color.
As our visual.
So if anything that I do doesn't really resonate or You can't really jive with it.
Just breathe.
So let's get comfortable and Feel yourself in the space where you are at,
In the position.
In which you are.
In which you are sitting.
Or lying down.
And we'll start by awakening our senses.
Noticing something.
In your space visually that you haven't paid attention to.
Closing your eyes and noticing what visual images are there.
Not to judge.
Just to notice,
Observe.
If your eyes are closed.
Notice if there's colors or shapes or lights.
If your eyes are open,
Just noticing.
Colors,
Shapes.
And when you've had your fill of this sense,
You may move on to another sense.
So what are you hearing?
Are you hearing noises?
From the outside,
Are you hearing noises from inside your body?
Are you hearing silence?
Are you smelling anything?
Are you tasting anything?
And now to the sense of touch.
What are your hands touching?
Are they touching your lap?
Are they touching each other?
Are they touching air?
And what does the air feel like?
On your skin.
And where are your feet?
Are your feet touching the floor?
Do they have socks on them?
And bring your awareness.
To your skin.
As a whole.
Parts of your skin covered with clothing.
Parts of your skin covered with hair.
Touching air.
This one magical sack.
That we have.
Allows us to move.
Allows us to breathe.
So bring your awareness to the parts of your skin.
That need to move when you take a breath in.
And when you breathe out.
Expanding on the in-breath.
Relaxing on the out-breath.
So right now,
This is what we're doing.
Nothing else is important at this moment.
You can set it all aside.
And pay attention to.
The skin on your abdomen and chest expanding as you breathe in.
And as you breathe out.
Relaxing.
And when your mind wanders.
To that other thing that you feel like you have got to be thinking about,
You can just politely nod to it.
Say thank you very much.
I'm doing this now.
For these 15 more minutes.
And go back to your breath.
Ooh.
And as you continue to breathe,
See if you can.
Focus in on how your throat feels as the air.
That your breathing comes in,
Not to force anything,
But just to.
Observe if you can feel the air coming in through your throat and out.
Through the throat.
And if this feels right for you.
Put your hand or a few fingers over your throat.
Just bringing awareness.
To this fifth chakra.
5th Chakra is about communication.
And it's about truth.
Personal truth.
So not forcing anything,
Just noticing.
The warmth.
Of your hand.
Or of your attention.
Taking a breath in.
And as you breathe out,
Trying to relax the back of your throat.
And the back of your neck.
Letting your tongue fall onto the bottom.
Of your mouth.
And try a few more breaths like that.
Relaxing your jaw.
And then to stimulate.
The throat a little bit.
Let's try a very low volume.
Personal hum or sigh,
Something where you are making a little bit of noise on your exhale.
Just the vibration itself.
Is a way of waking up.
That energy center.
So taking a breath in.
And breathing out.
And two more times,
We'll do that.
Breathing in.
In,
Out.
And one more in.
And out.
So the color that corresponds to the fifth chakra is blue.
And so.
I'll ask you to.
Imagine.
The palest,
Softest blue.
Like early morning light before sunrise.
Almost translucent.
And see if you can fill your throat with that color blue.
Breathe it in.
As you inhale this cool,
Light blue.
Feel that.
Expansiveness.
And as you exhale,
Try to let even more tension dissolve from your tongue and your throat and your neck.
And again,
If this is not accessible to you or comfortable.
For you,
Just.
.
.
Just breathe.
Now see if you can.
Allow that blue to deepen a little bit like like a clear sky.
In the middle of the day.
And see if you can breathe that color.
Into your throat.
And feel it open up.
Nothing's stuck.
Now imagine that blue.
Like the turquoise.
Shallow water with sunlight coming through it.
Imagine that sparkling.
Beautiful blue.
Color of the water.
You can even.
.
.
Begin to sway a little bit as if you're on a boat.
Or raft.
Move your neck around just a little bit as if you're being pulled.
Rocked by little gentle waves.
And now that blue darkens.
Into more of a midnight like an indigo rich and.
Quiet.
And instead of expanding outward,
It draws inward.
So imagine feeling that blue fill up your throat.
And going deep.
Now imagine that there's this line,
This electric blue line.
Coming from your head.
Where all of your thoughts form.
And making this line down right through the middle of your throat.
This very precise current.
Of clarity and truth.
And now your throat,
Expansive.
With all of these different colors there.
Can allow them to all co-mingle with each other.
That pale blue.
Gentleness of the morning sky.
That bright.
Blue.
Open.
Sky of daylight.
The turquoise water.
The indigo.
Midnight.
And that electric.
Clarity.
And just let it settle into whatever blue.
Wants to be there.
And as we come back to awareness to our seated presence.
You can wiggle your fingers and toes.
Take a final big breath,
Stretch if you need to.
And when you're ready,
You can open your eyes.
Thank you all so much for being with me on this Friday morning.
That is not blue.
But I leave you with this,
May you hold on to the truth that the blue expanse of sky is always there despite the cloud cover,
The rain,
Or the snow.
