Throat.....baring your soul

Yogis,

This week we drew from deep within, allowed the energy to rise, and then toned, screamed, roared and sent our vibration out.  And it felt very freeing! Expressing our true selves.  Finding our authentic voice.

We all have many voices we use – our parent voice, our spouse voice, our friend voice, our board member voice, our work voice…..and they go on and on.  Usually each one slightly different in words used, body movements, facial expression and sometimes even the pitch of our voice.    Each one tuned to what we feel is “expected” or “accepted”.   We build these voices based on life experiences and how we were responded to when we “spoke up”. 

As social creatures we want to belong and be acknowledged.  We want to please.  We learn at a very young age what is “ok” to say at home, in school and on the playground, and we slowly develop voices around it.  Often at the expense of our one true voice. 

So here we are on this spiritual journey.  We find the stillness and see the pure potential.  We begin to feel and awaken desire to sense what it is that will make this life fulfilling.  We visualize it in detail and send it out to the universe fueling the inner passion, and believing we can do it.  Then at the heart we start to sense there is a benevolent energy much bigger than us that we can  surrender to with utter trust to support us…………  But then we must begin to express it.  It has to make its way passed the throat and out into the Universe to make it real.  I have to begin to speak as ME. 

The throat is a very narrow channel and it is easy to  get in the habit of “swallowing our words”, becoming choked up, or having a lump in the throat.   The archetype of the closed throat is the silent child, and it is often the cause of throat issues, TMJ and tension in the neck.  Our radiant inner energy, our truth, expanding and yearning  to get out and be heard, but trapped.  It is often said – that which you cannot communicate will control you. 

What this isn’t – telling people what you think.    That is the flow from the brain out the mouth.  No throat really involved there.    Vishuddha is our place of purification and free will.  Here we are communicating from the soul.  The flow is from the tailbone through your very core and out the mouth.  Speaking from the heart.  These words are honest, meaningful and pure and resonate perfectly with what is on the inside.  Letting ourselves be seen.

So this week as you are speaking, begin to notice where the words are coming from.   And if you find they are just a pouring out of the mind’s inner dialog, take a pause.  Drop your awareness to your tailbone and slowly draw an inhale up along the spine, through a wide open throat and send an expressive exhale out the mouth.  Changing the flow.  Sending you out!

My soul speaking to yours,

SARAH