Healing into Wholeness Using Chakras – Day 18
Healing Into Wholeness Using Chakras Day 18
“…real childhood scars heal, but not when Band-Aids replace self-reflection.” ? Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
The throat chakra is located in the neck, and operates from an awareness of others and the development of love and compassion. This is the place where your authentic voice is expressed. The throat is a meeting place where you assimilate what is brought in from the outside and a departure point for your thoughts and feelings. This chakra may also be linked to addictive behavior. If you suppress your true feeling or ignore deeper pain issues you will need a coping mechanism to self-sooth. The throat chakra is also a bridge between body and head. When it is open there is clear communication between mind and heart. There it balances compassion, wisdom and thought, feeling and giving and receiving. If open this chakra can transform negative to positive and heal your inner wounds. The archetypes for this chakra are silent child and communicator.
Silent child suppress its emotions and feelings. The unexpressed feelings include frustration, anger and violence. It chooses to hold on to feelings rather than to express them and does not want to expose its hurt, pain, anger and possibly abuse. Sometimes these emotions can be channeled to a creative outlet. It is also possible that they may remain unexpressed and stagnate and fester. It may try to cope with its pain by using drugs, nicotine, food and alcohol to lessen its feelings. It learns to feel safe by locking away and hiding feelings or masking them with humor. Locking these feelings away rather than expressing, weakens the energy of this chakra. It fears experiencing the pain as well as opening the possibility of rejection and further hurt. Swallowing away words and feelings the silent child closes its energy center and weakens its life force. This archetype struggles to make itself heard and to feel it matters. It finds outlets for expression in creative arts, such as dancing, acting or music. Feeling less important than those around it, makes it difficult to communicate needs and feelings. Those feelings can turn to rage and grief. These feelings along with frustration from never being heard, sinks down into its consciousness. It is in mourning the loss of self that the silent child begins to heal. It learns to speak up and be heard. Because feelings have been held back for so long the first sounds silent child makes may be grunts, groans and tantrums. They reflect the original wounding of not feeling seen, heard and loved. Creative expression may be to easiest first steps towards authentic expression of self. This would allow silent child to open the door and express the energy that has been held and suppressed. There it has the opportunity to express its individuality, inner truth and find the freedom to communicate while releasing and transforming pain.
