Do you ever feel like you’re holding back some part of yourself, the part where the words you want to say just don’t come out right? When it comes to the chakras, our voice chakra is all about expression, yet it’s often overlooked. We all have an inner voice that wants to express itself clearly and confidently. It makes each and everyone of us unique. But oftentimes, we bury this voice under layers of stress, obligations, and fear of being judged or ridiculed. With a little practice, you can learn to express yourself in a way that feels true for you. And when you do, you’ll find that your voice can be powerful and liberating. Clearing the throat chakra can help you express your authentic self and connect more with others. Here are 11 easy ways on how to do this.
What does the throat chakra do?
So what does the throat chakra do? Our throat chakra is the fifth energy center located at the base of the throat, also called the voice chakra and, in Sanskrit, the Vishuddha chakra.
This energy center channels our internal and external dialogue, finding truth amongst the mind clutter and seeing whether we are strong enough to express our authentic selves. When balanced, it’s like a beautiful river that allows our expressive words and creative ideas to flow freely and manifest our desires.
- Color- Blue, being the color of communication and self-expression.
- Element - the element of ether (space) is considered the center of purification and communication.
- Symbol - Sixteen-Petals surround the lotus connected to the Sanskrit language's sixteen vowels. The vowels are easy to pronounce, representing lightness of communication. When this center is blocked, it can be challenging to express our authentic selves.
- The upside down triangle - symbolizes the bridge between our soul and consciousness, connecting to the expression of our higher self.
- The circle - the circle inside the triangle, symbolizing the moon representing a purified, peaceful mind.
- Balanced Throat Chakra - meaning you can speak up for yourself, expressing your ideas confidently, listening to others with kindness.
- Unbalanced Throat Chakra - do you struggle to find the words you need or afraid to speak your mind?
What emotions block the throat chakra?
The fifth chakra is connected with its own unique emotions. When we’re anxious, angry, or sad, the throat chakra is normally blocked because heightened emotions deplete our energy sources that normally flow throughout this energy center.
This can cause difficulty in communicating our thoughts and feelings. We might have trouble expressing ourselves and may be more likely to say something we don’t mean. Accepting our emotions and working through them is one of the best ways to release them.
However, we can also help release these emotions by using a quick visualization to unblock our throat Chakra.
Here is a short visualization exercise:
- Take a few deep breaths.....
- Close your eyes…..
- Imagine visualizing a crystal clear, beautiful blue river flowing throughout the throat chakra or white healing light that expands throughout the energy center allowing your emotions to flow freely.
Some common emotions that can block the throat chakra are:
- Shame - feeling like you’re not good enough or not living up to your standards.
- Guilt - feeling like you’ve done something wrong or that something you’ve done has hurt others.
- Fear - feeling like you’re not capable of handling a situation or fear of failure.
- Anger - feeling like you’ve been wronged or like you’ve been treated poorly by others or even by yourself.
- Words - feeling like you lack the right words to express yourself, so you use the wrong words instead. Words that give more grief to a situation. Difficulty expressing yourself - whether in words, tone of voice, or even non-verbally.
- Staying quiet or not speaking up when you should.
- Feeling too shy to speak to anyone - even loved ones.
Do any of these sound familiar?
How to clear the throat chakra
When trying to clear the throat chakra, it’s important to identify what’s causing it to get choked up. Once you’ve identified the emotion or thoughts you’re experiencing, there are a few ways you can clear you voice chakra. This helps you to release this energy center from building up those emotions over and over again.
Once you’ve done the work of identifying what blocked it and then cleared the chakra, all you need to do is gently balance its subtle energy on a regular basis. This can help to keep it open and flowing smoothly with communication.
Here are some easy methods to clear throat chakra.
- Write it out
A great way to release held emotions is to write them out. Get your journal or laptop, and write as though you’re talking to another person. This way, you can get all your emotions out and release them once and for all!
P.P.S. Handwriting, according to experts, is more therapeutic than using a mobile or laptop. Although if you still prefer to use your mobile or laptop, you are still releasing negative emotions out into the cosmos and away from your body. This is better than choking your mind, body and spirit with outdated thoughts and feelings!
- Talking to someone
A loved one, therapist, or friend can be an excellent way to process and express your emotions , so you can air them out. The key is to ensure you’re not bottling them up to manifest inside you.
Although if you’re having a hard time identifying what’s really causing your fifth chakra to get blocked, ask for outside help. Sometimes we can’t see what is happening because we’re too close to the situation, since we’ve been carrying it around for some time.
Depending on the angle you want to approach it from, a coach, therapist, or Reiki healing master can help in determining what’s going on and assist in clearing up old clutter.
- Bach flower essences and the chakras
Bach flower essences and the chakras compliment each other, as the bach flower remedies are a natural way to gently heal and balance the energy centers. Each bach flower remedy has a specific vibration that helps with different areas of mind, body, and spirit.
Here is a link if you would like to know more indepth information about how crystal, gem and flower essences work on our energy centers.
How to balance your throat chakra
Here are 11 ways on how to balance your throat chakra, empowering it, using a holistic approach:
1. Talk to yourself like someone you love!
One empowering way to balance your voice chakra is to talk to yourself like someone you love! You might think you are being a little ridiculous. This can be a very effective way to help you release emotions gently, otherwise this energy center can become clogged up over time, creating hesitancy to speak up clearly. This can prevent one from achieving desires, blocking Divine creative self expression.
Talk to yourself in the mirror or out loud when you’re alone. Say positive things to yourself and talk about things you’re proud of. You might be surprised at how unkindly you talk to yourself without realizing it?
Words have a powerful effect, they can be empowering or disempowering. This can create self-doubt energy inside the mind -body mechanism.
2. Healing Power Of Breath
Before you say anything, use the healing power of breath and ensure you are intuitively connecting with your authentic voice from a place of calm through breathwork. This can help with opening up the fifth chakra and make your voice heard confidently and clearly.
If you feel anxious, like you might lash out, take a few deep breaths to calm down first. It helps with feeling more grounded, before speaking. That way, you have more control over your emotions and say what you want to say in a way that is helpful for all concerned (you included!)
3. Meditate for a comfortable connection with your voice
A clearing meditation can help comfortably connect with your voice chakra. Doing this on a regular basis for just a few minutes a day, can help with the feeling of freedom and empowerment about self expression. Visualizing yourself on how everything is flowing easily and effortlessly with kindness and love.
During your meditation, first, focus on your breathing as a way to press pause on the rest of the world. When focusing on your breath, visualize your voice intuitively connecting with this energy center on a deeper level.
Imagine your breath as a path of bright, vibrant colors of blue hues as you inhale and exhale. You can also use an affirmation to embed positive energy suggestions throughout this area.
Give yourself the gift of time to enjoy this chakra meditation. This video is for balancing all 7 chakras.
Meditation Tips
Meditating is a great way to clear the mind and find calmness in an otherwise hectic world. When you meditate, you’re training the brain to let go and be in the present, connecting with the authentic you.
Here are some quick meditation tips to get the most out of your session:
- Environment - Find a quiet place where you know you won’t be disturbed; all electronics and mobiles off so you can fully immerse yourself in the experience.
- Sit - On a chair or the ground whichever feels comfortable. The body requires open airways for breath to flow as slouching places limitations on deeper breath inflows and outflows.
- Eyes - Can be open or closed while focusing on the body's gentle movements with breath work.
- Visualization - Picture yourself in a peaceful place surrounded by calm. It can be one of your favorite spots, or an imaginary scene.
- Mantra Meditation - You can choose a positive and uplifting mantra to help you feel good. Keep it short, sweet, and easy to remember. You can even sing it to the tune of your deep breath, which will help you focus on the breathwork.
4. Throat chakra affirmations
Throat chakra affirmations can help you work with this energy center. They are positive statements that encourage you to let go of negative self-talk. Negative self-talk can only hold you back. If you’re struggling with self doubt or emotions that weigh you down, it might be hard to believe or express your true self.
Using affirmations helps you focus on what you want in life and slowly eliminates the old negative stuff that isn’t serving any purpose. The repetition of words through voice has the ability to build and strengthen confidence.
5. Chakra sound healing
Chakra sound healing is an alternative therapy that uses sound to align the body’s energy centers. This energy therapy is based on the belief that each chakra is associated with a different frequency. By using specific sounds, one can align with the attunement of music. While no scientific evidence supports these claims, many people believe in the power of music to soothe the mind, body and spirit.
There are many different techniques for music healing. For example, you can meditate, listen to chakra music, or use solfeggio frequency healing.
You can also try a chakra sound bath, which uses instruments like singing bowls to help with balancing the throat chakra. Take part in the whole soundwaves healing experience!
There are couple of ways when your thinking of purchasing singing bowls.
You can either buy one singular bowl or a whole kit of 7 chakra singing bowls like these ones for example. Each bowl is said to emit a different frequency, which can be used to target each energy center.
Some are made from quartz crystal, and others are made from various types of metal, like brass, copper, etc.
Many like the idea of focusing on one chakra at a time by using these spiritual tools for balancing and alignment.
7 Crystal Chakra Singing Bowls with Heavy Duty Carrying Cases and Singing Bowl Mallet Suede Strikers
6. Light incense to clear the fifth chakra
Light incense to clear the fifth chakra, intuitively letting go of emotions that are weighing you down. Try lighting a stick of Nag Champa, which is known for promoting self-expression and clarity of thought. Let the gentle smoke waft about; imagining any pent-up emotions being released from this energy center.
You can also try lighting a stick of palo santo or frankincense known for purifying negative energy and helping to release emotions that are weighing you down.
Chakra Incense Kits For All 7 Chakras
7. Throat chakra healing foods
Some throat chakra healing foods are excellent for clearing and balancing this energy center. Here are a few healing foods that are great to incorporate into the diet:
- Blueberries and blackberries: Berries are great for healing the voice chakra as they are very high in antioxidants.
- Plums: Also high in Vitamin C, this antioxidant does a great job of defending the cells from the harmful effects of free radicals.
- Water: It’s essential to stay hydrated when healing any chakra, try to drink plenty of water throughout the day.
- Chamomile tea: Chamomile tea is known to be soothing and helps calm nerves.
- Oats: Oats are full of fiber and are said to help relieve the throat area.
- Cherry Juice: This fruit is excellent for clearing and overall health.
- Papaya: This tropical fruit is another excellent choice for soothing the voice.
8. Flower essences for chakras
Using flower essences for chakras can be an excellent and natural way to help re-align our vital energy centers. These natural plant essences work on more profound levels of subtle energy patterns for any of our chakra centers; with unresolved issues from the past or present. As we all know, unresolved issues can impact our current emotional and intuitive wellbeing.
There are two options for purchasing Chakra Essences.
You can either get the single bottle for one chakra or purchase the 10-chakra flower gem and crystal essence combination kit.
The kit includes 10 bottles of vibrational essences. This makes it convenient, having each essence handy when working on any one chakra.
- Throat Chakra Essence: Self Expression
- Supports: You speak from the authentic self, being honest, kind, and truthful in your words.
Having a balanced Throat Chakra is essential for both inner and outer communication.
When To Use:
If the Throat Chakra is not working well, we can have difficulty knowing or expressing our truth or accessing our intuition and inner knowing.
This essence helps to release old patterns that no longer serve you. It also dissolves any energetic blockages from the voice chakra that might be preventing you from expressing yourself authentically with kindness and love.
Key points for throat chakra
- Self‐Expression
- Communication
- Soul guidance
- Divine will
9. Best crystals for throat chakra
Crystals are a wonderful, energetic instrument that, like color therapy and other methods, help to intuitively activate the throat chakra.
Some of the best crystals for throat chakra can be either in raw or polished forms, others as pieces of jewelry.
Wearing healing crystals as jewelry, helps to intuitively remind us of our focus on our energy centers.
Here are some handpicked crystals and stones for the throat chakra, you can check out below :
Turquoise
- A soothing stone that helps heighten self-expression and encourages creativity.
Here is a symbolic tree of life pendant, a turquoise stone-throat chakra necklace.
Handmade tree of life blue turquoise necklace
- Used throughout centuries as a stone of truth, used for speaking confidently.
Lapis Lazuli jewelry, throat chakra bracelet.
Lapis Lazuli bracelet rhodium plated
- An excellent stone to use when connecting with your intuition, helping with trusting gut feelings and speaking your truth.
- A soothing blue stone that helps with anxiety and releases feelings of guilt and shame.
10. Practice self care
Practice self-care, a nurturing way to clear your throat chakra and keep it balanced. Self-care is an activity that makes you feel happy, relaxed, and better about your true self.
It allows you to take a step back from life and let go of the stress, emotions, and daily grind that gets in the way of happiness and blocks you from your authentic expression of who you are.
Some tips to practice self-care are:
- Take a break - reconnect with your inner self as you are a part of this universe, discover the strength within you to express yourself.
- Sleep - your voice also needs rest. Relaxation and self-repair can all be done by getting quality sleep.
- Healthier eating options - respecting your chakra centers with healthier options.
- Singing - Sing from your heart and allow your emotions and creativity to flow freely. Let your voice chakra be heard as you connect with it.
- Nature - spending time outside getting fresh air and sunlight, some natural vitamin D to support your chakras.
- Learn how to express yourself- in safe and supportive environments until you feel true confidence in front of others.
- Self-reflection - look at your unique self from an outside lens to see the qualities you do have!
11. Throat chakra yoga poses
Before you begin, consider preparing this chakra by performing some light head and neck rolls and stretches to activate it.
Always perform stretches and exercises that are comfortable for your body, or join a yoga class where you are supervised by a qualified teacher to get the most out of your sessions.
Here are some helpful throat chakra yoga poses. Each yoga pose helps with different aspects of energetic healing and balancing.
Fish pose (Matsyasana) This pose helps to open up and stimulates the throat area, expands the chest, allows for better breathing, and strengthens the neck and upper back area.
Camel pose (Ustrasana) This pose helps open up the throat area by stretching the entire front section of the body, specifically the throat, neck, and chest, and strengthening back muscles while stimulating specific organs.
Plow pose (Halasana) This pose helps to stretch the muscles in the throat, alleviates tightness in the neck region, helping with stress and anxiety, blood circulation, and digestive issues.
Downward dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana) Relieving tension, great for stretching the whole body, improving blood circulation
Seated Forward Bend (Paschimottanasana) Helps to stretch the muscles in the throat, neck, and shoulders. It can also help to calm the mind and nervous system.
Instructional Yoga Mat with Poses Printed On It & Carrying Strap
Various Yoga Mats With Different Thickness Comfort Levels
Final Take
Thank you for being here. We hope you’ve found some valuable tips that will come in handy to find your true voice, when clearing the throat chakra so you can express your authentic self.
Here is more helpful information about chakras. Until next time… Namaste !
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