Vishuddha

Visuddha: Fifth Chakra

Blue is the colour of this Chakra, and it is the gateway between our head and our heart, the bridge between the tangible elements of our world and the intangible.  This is the realm of the ethers, of sound, our authentic voice dwells here, we find our voice to speak our inner truth. Communication, not only speaking our truth, but listening is the cornerstone of the Throat chakra.

This is the center of transformation and change, it is from a balanced fifth chakra we can manifest our ideas, our creativity.

When the Visuddha is out of balance we feel frustration, timidity, shyness.  Our self-esteem becomes low, or we can be overly opinionated.  We struggle with our ability to verbalize our needs, our ideas, or we talk excessively.  We become to be overly critical of ourselves, and others.

Physical imbalance manifests in the neck, shoulders, mouth and ears.

The Demon of this chakra is Denial – not speaking our truth.

Denial stems from our inability to be honest with ourselves long before it affects our ability to be honest with others.  Not speaking our truth is often a coping, or a survival mechanism.

No one wants to lie, but sometimes the state of denial has become so deeply entrenched, so unconscious we are unable to connect with the truth, or really know what the truth is.  We become unable to tell the truth, even if we want to, the dishonesty is not intentional.

The Unaligned Visuddha

  • Emotions: Pride, fear, powerlessness
  • Mental:  afraid of communicating, inability to express self, enlist a mentally inflated sense of superiority
  • Physical: stress, unable to relax, hyper-active 
  • Social: others cannot or do not want to hear what you have to say
  • Beliefs: what you have to say is not worth saying, other do not want to hear you, will be rejected or shamed

Behaviour: untruthful, indirect, self-importance, hesitant in interactions.

The Balanced Visuddha

  • Emotions: Confidence, courage, fearlessness.
  • Mental: Clear, can speak one’s truth, openly communicate without fear.
  • Physical:  relaxed
  • Social: other hear what you have to say, words are a source of inspiration
  • Beliefs: understand simplicity of universal truth, and natural laws that you observe and experience.
  • Behaviour: Direct, honest, self confident in interactions.

Sound – Vibration

The modern world bombards us with dissonance – vibrations we can tune out of our conscious mind, while our nervous system continues to endure.  The result: a series of little stresses become a big stress, which in time can break down our whole system.

We also experience the dissonance in mass communication; junk sounds of advertising, the disembodied communication from news reports rattling facts with very little feeling.

We ourselves suppress truth, hiding behind politeness, only saying what we really think behind the person’s back.

How do we express our truth and still find acceptance in polite conversation?

There is a subtlety here.  We speak from integrity, humbly, and from a place of compassion.  We are able to listen to the truth.  We find resonance.

The 5th and the 2nd chakra

Self-expression of the 5th chakra is the counterpart to the sensate reception coming through the second chakra.  The second chakra is the gate that allowed the world in, the 5th chakra allows us to release our inner-self to the world.

The voice is the living expression of our basic vibration.  The voice is a touchstone for the health and the balance of this chakra.

When the 5th chakra is balanced the voice is resonant, rhythmic, speech is truthful, clear and concise.

The voice becomes affected when the other charkas are out of balance.

  • 1st – restricts the voices
  • 2nd – lack of feeling, the voice becomes mechanical
  • 3rd –  too little, the voice becomes pinched and whinny; too much, it is domineering.
  • 4th – the breath is affected so the voice is constricted and uneven.
  • 6th & 7th – the conscious is closed and the voice is repetitive and dull.

Try this

You are what you say.  Words carry tremendous power; notice how you use your negative talk to yourself.  See what would happen if you consciously removed it, or every time you said something negative you immediately smiled to yourself and said the opposite.

A little experiment:

  • Say: I WANT – listen to the sound of your voice.

  • Say: I AM – you are more likely relaxed.

Cruel words spoken or heard affect us on a cellular level; it is damage that can be repaired, but it takes a conscious effort.  Understanding the affect of I am and I want on the body is the beginning.

  • I AM – self-acceptance.

  • I WANT – I am not enough the way I am.

Chanting for just 3 to 5 minutes each day can help open the Throat Chakra.

 

kelly edwards