Hey this is Ish and today I wanted to talk to you about the fifth chakra,
Vishuddha chakra,
Or the throat chakra.
So this chakra is associated with the color blue and it's also associated with creative expression and also communication as well.
So this chakra allows us to create things and also speak openly and honestly.
And when this chakra is blocked we have symptoms of losing the ability to express ourselves and also having feelings of inadequacy and frustration.
And this is because if you're not properly able to voice your opinions you tend to hold it inside and become very resentful and also feel that you're not enough.
Conversely when someone is overactive in this chakra they tend to feel burnt out and exhausted.
So this is typically common in many artists and musicians just because the energy of creativity is very powerful and strong.
It almost feels like you're over caffeinated once you really get in the flow and in the creative juices of things.
And if you're not well equipped to handle it or don't have enough time to rest and recharge you tend to get burnt out and feel exhausted.
Just my personal experience dealing with this chakra is that up until a couple of years ago I was pretty blocked in this chakra.
So I tended to follow a lot of things around me without expressing my personal opinions and views.
So if friends told me to go to a certain bar or listen to a certain type of music I would just go along with it without doing what I wanted to do personally and what I individually like to do.
And this caused me to be blocked in this area and it was only up until recently where I was able to just voice my own opinions and do what I felt that was right and what I needed to do.
Even if it wasn't popular and I started to follow my own path that I was able to bring this chakra back into balance for me personally.
And I actually went the other way and became overactive in this chakra because once I found my true voice I started to go all out.
So I started creating a lot of yoga videos and going to different places that I liked and I started to do it all and that kind of was a bit overwhelming and I became a little burnt out.
Just because I wanted to express and do as much as I could as soon as possible.
So then I was able to find some common ground and find some space where I was able to balance my self-expression along with some pears of rest involved as well.
Now as far as the chants and vowel sounds.
So typically if you were to perform a couple of yoga poses and you really wanted to activate this chakra you would chant hum so that's spelled H-A-M.
And you would do it typically in poses that are throat openers and expansion poses such as fish pose that's the best pose.
And you would do fish pose and chant hum hum hum and this would activate the energy of the fifth chakra.
Conversely if you wanted to release excess energy in this area you would say E so that's E-E.
So you go E-E while you do certain poses such as fish.
Other yoga poses you can do are cobra,
Bow,
Bridge and also shoulder stand.
Notice how they either open up the neck and chest area as well or they apply some kind of pressure.
So this can help work on this area of the body.
And other things you can do is use color theory so when you're meditating since the throat chakra is associated with the color blue you can visualize a blue light.
You can also start journaling make it a daily habit where you write down different things that are going on in your life and authentically expressing who you are and what's going on in your life.
Another technique I really recommend is called scripting.
So this is a very popular law of attraction technique and what you would do is you would write in a preferred reality as if it's already come true.
So kind of like a day in the life of a reality already manifested.
So for example if you wanted to have a vision of living in a mansion in a really nice house somewhere you would write as if you have already accomplished that and what a typical day would look like.
So for example you can say hey you can write down I woke up today and I looked outside my mansion my window which is overlooking the ocean and I was served food by different caterers for breakfast and had dinner in bed as well.
And there's different things I own a couple of cars and you can write the experiences of actually driving those cars so you kind of get the idea of that.
And another thing would just be tapping more into your right brain activities so things like poetry or drawing or painting or making videos or art.
Different activities that engage the right side of the brain and self expression can help tap into this chakra.
I hope this helps.
