Remembering to breathe

I learned today that our fifth Chakra is the throat Chakra.  It controls our communication and our healing.  I've been aware over the last seven years that when grief overwhelms me, I feel like I'm choking and I cannot speak or think of what I might say.

In Louise Hay's book "You Can Heal Your Life", she talks about the neck and the throat.  The neck represents our ability to be flexible in our thinking...to hear an other's point of view.  If your neck is stiff and won't turn it usually means that we are only open to our viewpoint or concept of a situation.

The throat represents our ability to "speak up" for ourselves, to have our voice heard, to ask for what we need, for the ability to say "I am".  When our throat closes up we are really saying to ourselves and to each other that we do not have a right to be heard and we feel inadequate.

Sore throats are really unexpressed anger.  When we are so angry we cannot speak, it can take on a literal form of laryngitis; and if not literally certainly a spiritual/emotional laryngitis. 

The throat represents the creative flow in our body.  When we are not honoring our creative self we are in a sense only trying to please others; only doing what others would want us to do. 

Louise Hay states, "The energy center in the throat, the fifth Chakra, is the place in the body where change takes place.  When we are resisting change or are in the middle of change or trying to change, we often have a lot of activity in our throats." 

So as you go throughout your day, be conscious of your thoughts and your throat's reaction to your thoughts. Notice when you cough or clear your throat.  What was just said, what were you thinking.  Is it resistance to change or is it the process of change.

You can not change what you are not aware of...today when you are aware of your throat being sore, tight or full, say to yourself, "I am willing to change" or "I am changing".  Have a thought of gratitude for the change happening and how sacred that change is.

Blessing you on your journey toward change,
Delain