Chakra Focus 5 of 7: Throat Chakra

Throat Chakra

Color: Turquoise Blue
Element: Ether
Developmental Age: 25-40 years old
Spiritual Strength: Expression, Power to Manifest
Developmental Crisis: Generative versus Stagnation
from Susan J. Wright's The Chakra's in Shamanic Practice

I am so thankful for finally reaching this chakra. The Throat chakra was my whole reason for wanting to do monthly chakra focuses. I knew that before I could really do some work here, I would need to start from the bottom up, and for the last several months I have done just that.


The Throat Chakra is typically a turquoise or aqua color, and it regulates communication and creative expression. This is a very basic and generalized view of such an important chakra. This chakra communicates to the world who you are, how you express yourself, your creativity, and really it communicates all of the other information from your other chakras. How you think, how you express your feelings, body language, etc.


When the Throat Chakra is healthy you are able to communicate your truth, listen to others' truth, and live fully. While reading Susan J. Wright's The Chakra's in Shamanic Practice book, she says this is the chakra where we live our truth. In other words this is our most authentic expression of self, are we living someone else's dreams or expectations of us? Are we happy in where we are in life? Are we following an ideal that is not in alignment with our own? I feel that the answer for most people is NO.

I can only imagine and compare experiences from the work place, many people lose sight of why they chose the career they chose, was if because of a whim, your parents told you it was safe, or perhaps you truly wanted that profession...however when you finally landed that position, it was not quite what you hoped. The Throat Chakra begs us to find what can truly help you express your own unique happiness.


Moving from the Root Chakra all the way up to the Throat Chakra, I went on many self-discovery journeys, one of which was some Mirroring exercises. I needed to take a very deep look at people who I perceived to truly 'bug' me for no real reason. This is how I can tell when I have a 'Mirror'; when you have those people who really trigger something deep within you, and there is no real cause for it, it is most likely a mirror. During these discoveries, the trend that came up for me was the inability to trust what other people said, their behavior, and their mixed messages. On the surface they just bugged me, which in turn made me quite judgmental, but reflecting on what was truly gnawing at me was that I was seeing in myself the inability to clearly and effectively communicate. Working with my lower chakras, helped my Throat before I even got up there.


I am a very soft-spoken person by nature, I am always being asked to 'speak up'. I am most comfortable in my own mind and in the abstract world of intuitive feelings were a voice tone just does not matter. While living in a very physical world, too much of the Third Eye and Crown Chakras can cause an imbalance elsewhere. I was not speaking my truth for fear of ridicule, for fear of misinterpretation, and for fear of being too opinionated.



I'm not a huge fan of delving into my previous lives, but I do believe insight will find you and deliver it's message. Some years back I was offered a healing session with a Peruvian Sound Healer. It was a very nice experience, and then she began to tell me about a past life of mine. I was a Griot in an African Village, which was someone who was a charismatic public speaker, a poet, and a deliverer of the whatever the word happened to be. Apparently someone did not like my speaking at all, and had me hung. This stung to hear how I 'died', so much so that I dismissed her as mistaken. Of course I didn't want to accept this, but things made sense to me, having it pointed out in x-rays that my neck has 'very old injuries' that I know I never had in this life time....I was born soft spoken, I am beyond anxious when the spotlight is on me, though usually confidant in other ways, and in the last few year, I developed a cough I'm still seeking definitive medical answers for. I saw all this to say, it could have been a total fluke, she could have been pulling my leg, but I believe Spirit is always at work and answers are given to those who seek. However late, I received the message, and here I am with a blog, leading Reiki Circles, Guided Meditations and speaking to anyone who will listen to me explain Reiki, Astrology, or whatever other metaphysical topic I want to express.


We can heal this chakra through speaking our truth, listening to other's truth, expressing/creating/manifesting our dreams, and not denying our or other's truth. No lies, no mixed messages, just truth.