Working with Your Throat Chakra: Vishuddha

Vishuddha, your Throat Chakra, is located at the throat through to the nape of the neck.

The Throat Chakra is the chakra of intellect. It is not instinctual or emotional but logical and concerned with reason and common sense.

The Throat Chakra is about learning, teaching, and communication. The Throat Chakra is all about listening, talking, writing, and connecting with others. This chakra also rules artistic interests, education through reading, and the development of character.

Overactive Throat Chakra

When your Throat Chakra is overactive, or exaggerated, you may find it difficult to take responsibility for your own short-comings, often blaming others for your mistakes. You may understand or even empathize with others but you lack concern or care for them.

Or when the Throat Chakra is exaggerated, you may avoid putting effort into tasks, but take the benefits of those tasks for yourself. You may be jealous or spiteful towards others, and enjoy pushing others around.

Underactive Throat Chakra

When your Throat Chakra is underactive, or deficient, you may find you harbor grudges or blame other people for what you perceive went "wrong" in your life. You may find it difficult to stick up for yourself, giving in to others to make them happy and avoid any confrontation. You may find yourself in a bad relationship situation, unable to speak out on your behalf, it may take years for you to break away in search of what makes you happy.

Throat Chakra and Your Health

The Throat Chakra is said to rule over the throat, cervical spine, shoulders, and upper part of the body.

Here are a few of the common Throat Chakra health complaints: Bronchitis, asthma, laryngitis, tonsillitis, allergies, mouth ulcers, dental problems, anorexia, and bulimia.

Healing Your Throat Chakra

There are many ways to heal your Chakras. Working with an energy healer is an excellent way to jumpstart the healing process for you. Energy healing is a noninvasive therapy where the healer uses their connection to the Universe to channel energy through themselves and direct that energy, through their hands, to your Chakras.

If you wish to work on your Chakras alone, you can always develop your connection to the Universe and channel your own healing energy. White light with blue flecks for health, pale green flecks for emotional healing, or pale lavender flecks for spiritual healing.

Physical objects may aid in your Chakra healing, such as crystals, things of certain colors, or essential oils.

Use cleansed and charged crystals for Chakra healing, hold them in your hands and envision the crystal directing its energy into your Chakra. Crystals that are linked to your Throat Chakra are:

• Amazonite

• Aquamarine

• Blue Lace Agate

• Celestine

• Chrysocolla

• Fluorite

• Lapis Lazuli

• Sapphire

• Sodalite

• Turquoise

Essential Oils may also be used to heal and align your Chakras, though it is best to speak with a qualified aromatherapist before you use essential oils because they can have an effect on the entire body. Make sure to use a carrier oil if you are applying the oil directly to your skin, or, to be safer, add a few drops into your bath or a diffuser.

Essential Oils for the Throat Chakra are:

• Aniseed

• Basil

• Chamomile

• Clary Sage

• Frankincense

• Geranium

• Lavender

• Rosemary

• Sandalwood

Color Healing is another interesting way to heal your Chakras. Color healing is a way of introducing color to the chakras to produce a specific outcome. Anything will work, a piece of ribbon, large buttons, marbles, or a scrap of material. As long as the color is bright and clear. Plain color is better than patterned.

Place the colored item either next to the chakra or on top of the chakra, visualize a white energy coming from the Universe, as it passes through the item, it takes on the color of that item and directs itself to the chakra being healed.

The Throat Chakra is associated with the color Light Blue. Light Blue is related to listening, talking, communication and learning.

Lastly, another way to use Color Healing is to eat fruits and vegetables in the color associated with the Chakra for a day or two.

Fruits and vegetables including:

• Plums

• Passion fruit

• Blueberries

I hope you find this information helpful when working with your Throat Chakra.

Reference: Chakra Healing: Your Personal Guide by Roberta Vernon