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August 22, 2023
THE THROAT CHAKRA
By Heidi Hamilton
The Throat Chakra | Activating, Opening, Balancing, Healing, Noticing an Imbalance

Sanskrit Name: Vishuddha (meaning purification)

Area of the body: Throat central location of the neck

Specific body parts associated to the throat chakra

Throat, Thyroid, Teeth, Mouth, Jaw, Neck, Shoulders

Colour: Beautiful light bright blue

Symbol Sixteen-petalled lotus with a downward facing triangle inside a circle

Element: Ether (Sky/Space)

Mantra: HAM

Purpose: Communication & expression

Nerve Plexus: Pharyngeal plexus

Endocrine Gland: Thymus

Birthright: To be heard, to speak, to feel understood

Focus: Expression, embodiment, truth, listening, clear communication

How this shows up:

Fear of speaking generally or in their truth, complete inversion, or excessive speaking, shy, weak voice, ruling voice, interrupting conversations, unable to listen, body language is ‘off’, excessive throat clearing when about to speak, gossiping, oversharing.

Shadow Element: Lies

Solution: Massage the neck, shoulders, moving the energy, with singing, chanting, toning, humming, journalling, healing, belief system reprogramming, exploring inside of yourself

Associated Crystals: Blue Lace Agate, Aquamarine, Sodalite

The throat chakra is your energy centre controlling communication and expression, A throat chakra inbalance brings harmony to showing up with clarity and confidence with how one communicates speaking with honesty, integrity, authenticity, and truth.

Acknowledging that when your throat chakra is in balance and open is when you communicate clearly, you are calm with how you communicate, you are honest, you are direct, firm but soft with conveying, you are expressive, you are a good listener, you are creative, and of course speak with clarity and confidence.

Noticing an imbalanced throat chakra in oneself, can look like an overactive throat chakra or an underactive throat chakra, both are considered out of balance.

An underactive throat chakra is where you may have trouble expressing yourself, you become inverted and withdrawn. An overactive throat chakra, may look like talking over the top of others, interrupting, gossiping, or having shallow small talk rather than deep, meaningful rich conversations.

You may also notice other imbalanced throat chakra signs like;
- Shy
- Unable to listen
- Speaks out of turn
- Loud and abrupt
- Mumbles
- Dishonest
- Indecisive
- Rambles
- Irregular body language
Physical signs can also show up due to having an imbalanced throat chakra for an elongated period of time. Physical symptoms can looks like
- Under or overactive thyroid
- Jaw pain/correlated to the yoni as well
- Neck
- Shallow breathing
- Hearing issues
- Sore throat
- Teeth and gum issues
Activating and healing your throat chakra can be a journey, it can take a moment, a decade, or a lifetime, knowing that healing isn’t linear, and things come up full circle like the spiral, something that we once though we looked at, thought we healed comes back for another journey to go deeper into.
- Belief system, having no blocks in your belief system before doing any kind of this work is important.
- Sing, chant, hum
- Go for a walk in nature, with no head phones and just listen
- Draw, paint or sketch using only the colour blue, all shades of blue are welcome
- Communicate and be aware of your communication, without judgement.
- Meditation
- Anoint yourself with self love ritual oils, balms and bath soaks
- Journal
- Throat chakra affirmations
Create your own associated affirmations or use the below;
- I speak with clarity and confidence
- I am a good listener
- It is safe for me to express myself, and speak my truth
- My voice matters
- I find ways to create, express and communicate
- I am getting better each and every day with communicating
- I am honest
- I express myself calming, clearly and openly
- I feel peace with silence
- I share as much as I feel is good for me in each interaction
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July 27, 2023
Cycling with the moon | Menustration Moon cycling | Sacred Cycle | cycle Syncing
By Heidi Hamilton

The moon and your cycle

Bleeding with the moon is sacred.

As the moon journeys its 28 day cycle, so do you, experiencing oscillations in hormones and energy every single day.

We become a different woman each day, each moment as we cycle.

You are profound medicine, experiencing death and rebirth every single month with the tides of the moon.

Traditionally women would sync their cycle to bleed with the new moon.

The darkest phase of the moon, symbolizing a time for introspection, reflection, setting intentions and planting new seeds, due to your heightened awareness, senses, intuition and psychic abilities.

Our physical bodies during this time are doing the same as we bleed, it is shedding, releasing, and replenishing to prepare for a new cycle.

To connect to your cycle, and transition into a more 'sacred cycle' below are some tips;

1. Your cycle is sacred, whether you are conscious of it being sacred or not, disconnect from the part of yourself that associates to your cycle not being sacred

2. Call in some ritual practises and be more present in your day to day ways of being and doing

View sacred practises here: https://lovefromme.com.au/blogs/blog/how-to-connect-your-cycle-your-femininity-your-womb-your-yoni-yourself-deeply

3. Look into getting support for healing, womb work, body work and energy work.

Heidi offers these locally in Brisbane, bayside in Manly West and The Sunshine Coast

4. Meditate, contemplate, get quiet with you and your womb, and yoni

5. Track your cycle, through paper form or via an app, keep a journal and daily over that cycle add 3 points of how you are feeling that day, you may start to see a pattern when you look back and reflect each cycle

6. Exercise, and move your body for each phase of your cycle

7. Eat and nourish your body for each phase of your cycle

8. Drink herbs and botanicals that support the phase of your cycle that you are in
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