Welcome,
I'm Truly Eleanor,
A writer and healer with almost two decades of experience and a Reiki teacher since 2010.
Today we'll be working with the archetype of Persephone to activate and align your throat chakra to help you find and trust your authentic voice.
So we're going to start by closing our eyes.
Getting into our body.
Feeling the presence.
Of our physical body in space.
And settling in.
Feeling comfortable in our skin.
The more comfortable we can become in our own skin,
The more easy it will be to bring through your authentic expression of yourself.
It's like feeling safe within the vessel,
Feeling safe to relax and let go and express.
You need to feel safe within your environment,
Which is your physical body.
And although you are more than your physical body.
Things manifest through the body.
The body is the vessel.
You are an infinite being and yet,
All things come through the body while you live on this earth.
And live your life as this person who you are.
So even though you will express an infinite part of yourself,
Your infinite beingness,
The specific things that you express from your personality.
Combined and married with your own infinite expression of yourself,
Is a beautiful collaboration.
And we will feel the different nuances of this as we go through the activation today.
So feeling your feet on the ground,
Feeling the presence of Mother Earth beneath your feet,
And feeling a sense of your wholeness.
You may take a moment to scan your awareness and gentle observation of yourself,
Your body.
Starting from the bottom of the feet and gently caressing your body with your awareness,
Like a light feather touch.
Up through the legs,
Over the knees.
This is loving care.
This is loving presence.
If you've heard the words gentle presence or loving observation,
This is what we are doing now.
Lovingly observing yourself.
Who you are and all the parts of who you are,
The observer,
The body,
Your energy,
Your essence.
The Infinite Source,
God Universe,
Creator.
All having their parts of awareness.
As you scan up through the body,
The hips.
The torso,
Down the arms.
Across the shoulders and out through the hands.
This gentle,
Relaxing observation helps your body to feel more at home.
To feel more relaxed,
To bring through.
And channel this beautiful expression of yourself that Persephone will help us with today.
Up into the throat,
Observing the head,
The jaw,
The neck,
The skull,
The top of the head.
We are connecting to your authentic self,
Your true self.
There are many words for this.
There is no right way to say this.
Just as there is no one way to express yourself.
Expressing yourself authentically means.
.
.
You may have different ways that you want to express yourself through your life.
You may have different creative ideas that come through.
You may change your values.
You may change your opinions.
You may change what you want to say and how you say it.
This is all part of your evolution.
There is no one static way to express yourself.
So letting Persephone guide us through this release,
This first release,
As you focus on the throat area.
The front and the back of the neck.
The entire throat.
The throat chakra.
As we observe this area,
The first release is around perfectionism.
Of having to speak or be or express or write or message in a way that is perfect.
And the more you put it out into the world,
If you receive any criticism or any doubts from others.
You immediately want to crawl back into your skin.
You want to push the message back in.
And pretend that you didn't put it out in the world,
Because now you are immediately doubting yourself.
Doubting the authenticity of it,
Because someone didn't understand you,
Or because someone doesn't agree with you.
Or because you feel misunderstood.
This is the first release of the perfectionism.
The anxiety.
The worry.
The tense anxiety that comes up.
In the throat,
In the body,
In the mind.
That says this is not right.
I am not saying it right.
I'm not explaining it well enough.
I'm not saying it kindly enough.
I'm not saying it loud enough.
I'm not expressing it in the right way.
You may be feeling a release in the area of the neck,
The throat,
The jaw.
The shoulders even.
I'm seeing a blue waterfall.
Running through the throat,
Cleansing and clearing and releasing and dropping away.
Anywhere you felt you had to be perfect to say anything at all.
To express any part of you.
Releasing the prison walls,
The prison door.
That has kept you in this jail cell for so long.
Desperately wanting to burst through the gate,
Burst through the door,
And express yourself with relief.
To exhale,
To let go,
To explore,
To emit.
And yet,
You have been in a prison of perfectionism,
Of feeling like you are misunderstood,
And that it is your fault.
Persephone is reminding you that you have said it right.
If there were a right and wrong,
You have done all you were supposed to do.
The key to this is understanding that when you express yourself with authenticity,
With purity,
With innocence,
With rawness,
With realness.
It is like a jarring splash of cold water for those who have been asleep.
For those who have quieted their voice,
Who are not even sure or aware or able to find that authentic expression within themselves.
And so they automatically turn off,
They automatically become.
A wall that is impossible to pass,
And they immediately say,
I don't understand.
You are wrong.
This is not the way things are.
Or some other criticism.
That is their automatic response to this cold splash of water.
And as you continue to feel and see and express this beautiful flowing of the waterfall within your throat,
Allowing things to loosen,
Allowing your whole throat to open and become this soft flowing,
Infinite supply of energy,
Which is this sparkly blue waterfall.
As you allow the waterfall to flow and flow out the front and back of your throat.
You become more relaxed,
More soothed.
In understanding that it is the expression itself that is the important piece.
It is the act of letting it out that is the important piece.
How it is received is not up to you.
How the world takes it is not up to you.
And yet,
When you do this authentically,
Expressing yourself,
Those who understand you will be drawn to you,
Will gather around you and say,
Yes,
I understand.
Yes,
I feel this.
I feel what you are saying to be true.
And they will also understand that what you are saying,
And what feels to be true to you,
May not be true to them,
But they don't care.
They know the difference between hearing something that feels right to you and saying or expressing something that feels right to them.
There is room for both.
There is room for it all.
They understand the nuance and the difference between.
What you are saying and doing and expressing as your own authentic right to do so.
And whether they agree,
In quotes,
With you or not.
This is high-level understanding.
This is high-level expression.
This is high-level,
Authentic,
True self-expression.
And the more clear,
The stronger the waterfall flows.
The more freedom you have to do this,
And the more you will be around those who will understand that their flowing waterfall is just as important as your flowing waterfall.
And that you can all express and flow this energy out into the world and it will create this beautiful tapestry.
Of harmonious frequencies that may or may not combine together,
But they create a beautiful kaleidoscope of energies in the world where all of the unique expressions are wanted and add a beautiful value to the world.
Each unique expression adds another level and layer of artistic creativity of loving energy into the world that is needed.
So you may feel.
A release,
You may see a vision of Persephone.
She is the goddess of the underworld which means that she also reigns over subconscious thoughts and subconscious shadow expression.
So you may be realizing some things about what you have said or parts of you that you are afraid of.
Allow her strong and powerful presence to help guide you towards these shadow impressions of yourself.
And to allow her to shine the light on these shadows.
And when they reveal themselves to you,
They become these beautiful gems of wisdom.
Waiting in the shadows to be seen.
Waiting to be invited and included and combined and harmonized with your conscious expression of yourself.
There is shadow and there is light and she is here to show you that both are the same.
And when you combine your shadow with your light,
You become more whole.
You become more authentic and your beautiful offerings into the world,
Your expressions become so powerful and filled with love because they contain every nuance of this kaleidoscope of life.
Of life and death,
All of the cycles,
All of the whole,
The yin and the yang.
The yin and the yang.
The black and the white,
The dark and the light.
All of the opposites.
Become one.
And you are a powerful whole.
So looking into this shadow that she may be trying to show you,
Maybe you are illuminating a part of yourself you didn't realize you had.
And it's okay because all parts of yourself are invited to the table.
All are welcome and she is here to show you.
How to overcome or navigate through these scary feelings of the shadow.
She reigns over the underworld,
And she knows herself above the world,
So she is very powerful and filled with light.
The shadow is just what wants to come forward to be in the light and you may integrate it with yourself now.
So whatever is being shown to you,
Be brave and look.
Allow her to shine the light.
It could be a part of you that you haven't wanted to admit to.
It could be the part of you that becomes jealous.
The part of you that wants to be selfish.
The part of you that gets angry and filled with rage?
The part of you that doesn't want to be happy with other people's success?
The part of you that doesn't want to forgive?
These are all valid parts of you.
And as she shines the light and continues to flow the waterfall through your throat.
She is clearing the way for you to express yourself in all ways.
To have an unhindered flow of life,
The life force coming through you,
There is no There is no blockages or barriers.
There are no half-truths,
It's only your truthful self-expression.
That may include what others do not want to hear,
And that's okay.
This is why we're here today.
And this is a process and Persephone is here to help you so you can call upon her at any moment in time.
When you feel afraid,
When you suspect that there is a shadow aspect of something that you want to express,
That you want to put out into the world,
Even for yourself to see.
And you're afraid to do so,
You can call upon her.
So we'll continue to feel this beautiful opening in the throat,
The waterfall coming through,
Seeing if there's any messages that she has for you today.
Feeling her presence of freedom,
Finding her voice,
And finally speaking it.
Which goes beyond all literal verbal communication to the very essence of you.
We thank Persephone for being here today and we thank her beautiful and brave presence for helping us to come into our wholeness and find our true authentic voice.
Thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you.
And coming back into the room feeling light-hearted and joyful for that beautiful introduction to the self in a new way,
For that beautiful invitation to be yourself and to express it in whatever way that you want to do so in the world.
And I thank you so much for being with me today.
