This blog post addresses the fifth energetic centre, the Throat Chakra. The fifth chakra is involved in numerous emotional and mental struggles to do with choice, expression, responsibility, communication, attitude, faith, honesty, consequence and willpower.

As the name suggests, the physical location is found at the throat – you may have noticed this energy as your trachea constricting when you feel scared or out of control, or the feeling of power when singing out loud! Sitting between our heart and mind energetic centres, a balanced Throat Chakra surrenders to the Divine to make decisions and find expression of our true self. This is the first of the three upper chakras to do with connection to the higher-self, spirit and soul.

Symbolically the Throat Chakra develops as we mature from the tribal perception that everyone and everything has power of us, through to the perception that we alone have true authority, to the final understanding that true authority actually comes from aligning ourselves with our truth and Divine Will.

Whilst each chakra has fears appropriate to that chakra, the throat chakra is very much focused on the notion of releasing our power or choice to that of Divine force. Every choice we make has an energetic exchange; every thought and feeling that we experience has a consequence whether that be biological, environmental, social, personal, or global. “Your biography becomes your biology”; every dis-ease has a connection to the power of choice that we have made throughout our lives, therefore the throat chakra is involved with every illness.