The throat chakra manages the neck, throat, ears, mouth, and thyroid gland. It is important for self expression, communication and creativity. If it is unbalanced, it can have a physical and an emotional impact on the body. It can create negativity within talks such as bickering and gossiping, and poor listening skills.
A balanced throat chakra can:
Improve communication with others
Create ability to listen better to others and have a stronger understanding
Increase self confidence
Help express yourself through both talking and listening more openly
Improve creative energy
Maintain a healthy throat, mouth, neck, ear and thyroid gland
So, how are you feeling?
Sometimes, I feel flawed, and then there’s a breakthrough when I’m ready to get rid of those underlying feelings and anxieties, specifically after a full moon. Even though I feel really tired I can feel a massive difference, though it doesn’t mean I’m going to push myself I'm just going to go with it. I have been very grateful for recent sunshine, which has been encouraging my philosophical thoughts.
So, as I've been working through my heart chakra this year through many different things personally, this time it's been about setting my boundaries professionally. I’m doing that from making really strong choices that feel right in my heart and not ignoring the gut feelings. I've opened my throat chakra and people might think that chakra is about being confident and expressive when talking. It's also about listening and it's about something deeper than that which is speaking your truth and honoring your heart.
This year I've gone through a lot of heart faith stuff, from lots of different levels and it's deeper than that in the way that it's about following your joy and listening to what your mission is. It's really kind of the layers of who you feel you should be that make you feel empowered. Individually, I've made some really difficult choices this year in all areas of my life, and I've sat with that pain, and this is something that a previous therapist of mine told me to do and I've said it a couple of times recently, to stick with discomfort instead of trying to always move through it or instead of trying to brush it under the carpet. It's being able to sit and go through what you’re feeling, so “I feel really shocked” or “I feel a lot of pain”. Now I'm in the pain and that is something I've been doing this year and it's really helped because it's made me make decisions in a different way.
There have been lots of situations where I had to make stronger decisions in my life, and it was really hard because when it's a life lesson and it doesn't come easy to you, it can do to someone else, they might say “I'll just cancel” or just change it or just say no when it's really difficult for you because it's a life lesson.
It might look like nothing in your cognitive thinking brain but actually everything in your body physiologically is shouting at you going “you can't”. It gets into your skin, it stops you sleeping when things like this are occurring, you've just got to sit with it and move through it and just very gently encourage yourself to take the right action.
It's not something that you can make a quick decision on, such as saying “I’m just going to do it”, it's this whole process and there's a process because you're kind of unveiling all these inner things that are going on inside subconsciously and energetically, so no, it is not easy but what I can tell you is that when something is niggling you in your gut and in your heart and you finally do make that decision or you do speak up in whatever way, the energy around your heart and the energy in yourself helps to increase self-belief massively. Then you're on a different frequency, it's like an upgrade in terms of your whole being and that's why they say, do the work, because the work is the hard bit but the rewards are just stunning.
How it can impact your life daily and how to overcome it
Recently, I have been thinking about a certain situation that's occurring in my life at the moment and in a specific situation where I needed to say something to someone, I felt that I couldn’t breathe, my throat chakra started to block, and I’ve come to realise how sensitive I am to that energy now and knowing when it doesn’t feel right especially in situations where I feel a lot of pressure. I, myself, am the type of person who can see the pain in people and feel very drawn to that, and like to help, however I also have really strong boundaries for myself. Though sometimes there is the subtle, more gentle pressure.
An instance would be if you send somebody a message and see the blue tick, notifying you they have received it, but they don’t reply, it can cause conflict in thinking they’re ignoring you. Some are not as bothered by others that they have received no reply while others get really hung up on the fact.
This happened to me recently and I had to think that there are possibly many factors as to why they haven’t replied straight away, they could be in a meeting, on a plane or on a business trip or delivering training. This causes some of us to feel panicked into replying straight away, even if we are in a situation that we cannot reply and are busy doing something else. Just remembering that people can be busy and not to get worked up about it and to calm yourself if someone’s not replied but also trust your instincts if you feel there's something else. It can be difficult to understand.
I already knew that they were feeling like this before they told me because this is just what I picked up on but I was already feeling a very subtle pressure, maybe it was in the way that something was said, maybe it was the speed of the reply. I don't know, but I knew inside this person was getting annoyed that I wasn't replying so I was thinking I need to say something because I'm starting to honour my heart and honour my truth and that is really good for my self-empowerment and my self-esteem and I'm getting better now at deciding I’m going to say it in the kindest possible way, with calmness and assertiveness.
I'm shrouded with kindness but it’s not too much, because that's the energy you want to be giving out, so I said right I do need to say something because I can feel myself getting pressure in the chest, which is your heart shouting at you about anxiety, and in the shoulders and in the throat. It's all this physical stuff around your heart and your throat and they work together.
The thoughts just started to creep back into my head again and then it's almost like the niggles get louder until you listen but also you get more sensitive to them before it gets too far. In the past I would kind of let things go and then I would realise it was what I was thinking, but now I just cut that down because I’m getting stronger. I got into bed, and I couldn't sleep because I was thinking about it all and it was late and it really knocked me out for the week, all this was during a full moon when the seasons change, but I don't mind because it's a lesson and it's a good one and it's a rewiring so everything that you do has a positive outcome.
I could feel it all down my throat here so I decided to get it out and I just got it out on a voicemail that I knew I would be sending, and it was important for me to share this. There are some things we don't need to share and some things we do and that is also about the thought chakra and that's for you to check with yourself and do trial and error and everything else. So, I put it all out, I let my throat relax completely and I fell asleep. The very next day I said done, and my energies changed almost straight away. So, no matter what your head is thinking and analysing and trying to say, listen to your gut and the physical part of your body and see which chakra it's relating to, see if you can figure it out.
Remember to look at the positives!
“We'll rewire that”
“This is what is good”
“This works”
I think that we all struggle with boundaries and it’s just having that confidence to say it and sit with the discomfort and the awkwardness of being okay with not being liked all of the time, reminding yourself that you’re a good person and that people around you know that too. Even your close ones will challenge you but remember sometimes they will challenge you because of what is going on in their world and their life because of their courage or lack of it, so you're constantly showing them that it's okay because sometimes they need that leader.