Throat Chakra Basics

Please remember there are many different ways and things to do to activate and balance your chakras. This is very basic information and I welcome more input here. I am learning, too! Please give yourself the opportunity to investigate online, or find a book, as this information here is very, very basic. But please don't be afraid of this! This could be invaluable to your physical and spiritual well-being.
 
This image was made with the intention to help your Throat Chakra, which is located at the throat, neck and shoulders. This is the first of the chakras traveling up your spine that deal with spiritual aspects of your person.

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts. - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts. - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf So imagine the color orange over this area extending through your body to your back. It could be orange light, an orange flower or lotus, this orange image, or whatever you come up with, just get the orange color there.

Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) has everything to do with finding the truth, being authentic, being creative, speaking your truth with kindness, listening... Physically, it governs the throat, thyroid, neck, mouth, tongue and other anatomical components in the neck region. Imbalances here show up as negative thought patterns, difficulties with saying no, self doubt, pain in the area, thyroid trouble...

This is one way of working and maintaining balance with your chakras, by closing your eyes, taking deep breaths in a relaxed, meditative state, and imagining specific colors placed over or in your body along the specific main chakras.Whether you imagine blue light, blue swirling vortex, put the blue color over the Throat Chakra while taking deep breaths, for as long as you feel you can or is necessary. Of course this depends on your time or environment constraints.

There are two more main chakras.
Best Wishes
~Leslie

Heart Chakra Basics

Heart Chakra


This image was made with the intention to help your heart chakra, which is located at the center of the chest, including heart, lungs, breasts, thymus gland. Up to this point, the three chakras (Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus) govern the physical aspects of your person. The three chakras above the Heart Chakra (Throat, Brow, and Crown) deal with spiritual aspects of your person. The Heart Chakra connects the three above with the three below.

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts. - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts. - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf

located at the center of the chest and includes the heart, cardiac plexus, thymus gland, lungs, and breasts - See more at: http://www.chopra.com/ccl/open-yourself-to-love-with-the-fourth-chakra#sthash.Vp6kHwkv.dpuf So imagine the color orange over this area extending through your body to your back. It could be orange light, an orange flower or lotus, this orange image, or whatever you come up with, just get the orange color there.

Heart Chakra (Anahata) has everything to do with love, compassion, joy, forgiveness, and acceptance, and thus the affirmation, "I love." Imbalances here show up as unresolved grief, holding grievances, jealousy, anger, negativity, betrayal, and hatred.

This is one way of working and maintaining balance with your chakras, by closing your eyes, taking deep breaths and imagining specific colors placed over or in your body along the specific main chakras.Whether you imagine a green light, a green whirligig, a green flower, put the green over your Heart Chakra while taking deep breaths, for as long as you feel you can. Of course this depends on your time or environment constraints.

Please remember there are many different ways and things to do to activate and balance your chakras. This is very basic information and I welcome more input here. I am learning, too! Please give yourself the opportunity to investigate online, or find a book, as this information here is very, very basic. But please don't be afraid of this! This could be invaluable to your physical and spiritual health.


Best Wishes!
~Mama Trep

Chakras Overview: What is a chakra, anyway?

Please note: There are numerous online valid resources for information about the chakras (613,000 results with a search on google.com for "basic overview of chakras." I encourage you to question and search as you see fit. This is not an indepth description, but I thought it might be useful to people who follow this blog for me to briefly explain about the chakras. I am not trying to rewrite the book. I will list a few key articles at the end of this post.
I plan on making this a series, as I do my own chakra work, including different tips and techniques as I go along. Please feel free to share about your own discoveries, what helps, what doesn't, and maybe we can all learn.

The word chakra means disc or wheel (Sanskrit, I believe). The idea is that there are seven discs of energy, seven main chakras, that align along the spine, from the base of your spine to the top of the head. This energy is the life spirit, life energy, or prana. Prana follows along meridians through the body (but that may be another discussion). Chakras can be envisioned as swirling wheels of energy at those different spots along the spine and body.

There are seven main chakras, and reportedly hundreds of chakras along the meridians on the human body. They have corresponding energies, and each are associated with specific colors, sounds, vibrations. (If you want, you can follow my Color Therapy Board on Pinterest.) Each chakra directs this life energy to specific parts of your body and being, including emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual aspects, and each chakra interacts with the world around you.


The reason the chakras are significant, is that the life energy in your body, your prana, needs to move and flow, in order for the whole of your body or self to function properly. Prana can get blocked at various levels, at these chakras, because of all kinds of influences. When your chakras are not functioning properly, there are blockages, energy is not flowing freely, the chakras are not balanced, and problems arise because of these blockages and imbalances. A blockage in one chakra can cause another chakra to overwork. When your chakras are open, unblocked, and balanced, then there is health and freely flowing life energy, in all aspects of self, your body, your being, including emotional, mental, physical and spiritual.

What causes blockages of prana? What causes the chakras to be blocked? The simple answer is just about anything. Remember, that chakras on your body interact with the world around you. Toxins in our environment, in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the food we eat, anything you put into your body; physical, emotional, spiritual damages or injuries, anything that happens to your self; overusing or over-doing in one aspect of our lives... anything that causes a disturbance in our daily lives. The importance in all of this is in achieving balance. The importance is in your intent to achieve a balance, your intent to pay attention to all the things going on with your self, to become aware of, and pay attention to, your chakras and energy system, and applying your attention to your inner self and prana.

Chakra names, locations, corresponding emotional, mental, and spiritual influences

The next blog post will focus on how to pay attention to your chakras, tests for chakra health, and depending on length, how to positively influence your chakras.

ONLINE RESOURCES:

http://www.chopra.com/ccl/what-is-a-chakra

http://chakraenergy.com/intro.html

http://www.eclecticenergies.com/chakras/introduction.php

http://www.the-energy-healing-site.com/chakra-blockages.html

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-13433/warning-signs-your-chakras-are-out-of-balance.html

Thanks for reading here!
Best Wishes!
~~Mama Trep
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