Chakra 5

Names: Vishuddha, Throat Center

Location: Bottom of neck

Area of face:ears

Sense: sound

Color: blue

          Antidote: red

Tone: u (as in blue)

Note: g sharp

Crystals: Sodalite, Azurite,

Aromas: Blue (German) Chamomile, Eucalyptus

Statement: "I want to speak freely and openly."

Explanation:

Many people function from their lower chakras, and society even seems to encourage it.  Opening your fifth chakra is to start to function on a different level, and may be difficult.

This is the center of communication, and you will want to talk about what you are experiencing.  People may fall away, but true friends will always be there, so try to let go of those who are uncomfortable with you instead of holding back. New friends, more on your level, and where you want to be, will start to gravitate towards you.

Children with an open fifth chakra are those who are allowed to speak freely, sing, cry and scream when it is necessary.  They have been encouraged to trust their own instincts.  When they reach school they often have a hard time encountering a new set of rules and values.  This often results in chronic sore throats or ear infections.  They just need to be assured that their reality, although it is different, is valid.

Blue is soothing and calming, effects are especially apparent in small children and the dying. 

Balanced Chakra Energy Characteristics:

• content
•  centered
• can live in the present
• perfect sense of timing
• good speaker
• musically or artistically inspired
• can meditate and experience divine energy
• easily grasp spiritual teachings
• may be overwhelmingly prolific

Excessive Chakra Energy:

• arrogant
• self righteous
• talks too much
• dogmatic
• addictive

Deficient Chakra Energy:

• timid
• holds back
• confused
• quiet
• inconsistent
• unreliable
• weak
• manipulative
• can't express one's thoughts

Contraindications: too much blue for too long may make you sleepy or feel withdrawn.  Yellow and orange can help balance it.  Blue is not helpful for colds, muscle contractions, paralysis or poor circulation.

Glands and organs influenced include the throat, thyroid, nerves, eyes and muscles.


This information was largely obtained from an awesome book.   Please see the post on the first chakra and scroll to the end to see.

Mandalas

Mandalas are a great form of meditation for me.  Even though I am coloring, I'm focusing.  I have a busy mind, and I find in the time it takes me to color these I absorb what I focused on and my mind it quiet.  Another thing I've done to wind down is Sudoku.  It's simple, but requires my entire attention.  After a few it's much easier to meditate!

This book is so awesome I've bought it twice.  It's neat to see the differences when I re-color one. Click on it to buy it from Amazon.







                             Here are some examples I have colored: Click on the image to be taken to the blog with more info on that specific chakra.

Root Chakra:

 

 Sacral Chakra:

Manipura (3rd chakra at solar plexus.)

Heart Chakra:

Throat Chakra -no blog yet

Ajna (3rd eye): no blog yet

Crown Chakra: no blog yet

These are some other random ones from the book.
The Power of limitless love:

 Meditation

 Human Love

 Friendship

Each page has color recommendations and great affirmations.  I read them periodically as I work on them, it helps keep me focused.  Some of them take hours.  It's very soothing (coloring always has been for me) and gratifying.

Chakra 4

 

Names: Anahata, Heart center

Location: center of the chest

Area of face:nose

Sense:smell

Color: green or pink

          Antidote:none needed

Tone: a (as in ah)

Note: f sharp

Element: air

Crystals:Green Jade from British Columbia,                    Watermelon tourmalin, rose quartz

Aromas: Ylang ylang, rose

Statement: "I want to give and receive love."

Explanation:

The forth chakra is the center or compassion.  When this is open one can transcend their own ego and identify with other people (and all life), and often one gets involved with social causes.  

This chakra is considered one's most vulnerable place.  When one is hurt the first instinct can be to close your heart and build a wall.  Many people have done so from an early age (which is why a majority of the world seems so apathetic.)  

Green is the color of healing.  Green is found in the middle of the color spectrum, and is the most balanced color.  

Pink is the best color for sending love to another person. It is easier for woman to transcend to the 4th chakra, and men to the 3rd, because of the chakras of where the sexual organs are placed.  (Men are more physical, and woman are more emotional.)

Balanced Chakra Energy Characteristics:

• compassionate
• humanitarian
• balanced
• sees the good in everyone
• desires to nurture others
• friendly
• outgoing
• active in the community
• discriminating
• in touch with feelings
• empathetic

Excessive Chakra Energy:

• demanding
• overly critical
• tenseness between shoulderblades
• possessive
• moody
• melodramatic
• manic-depressive
• uses money to control others
• has the attitude of a martyr

Deficient Chakra Energy:

• self pity
• paranoid
• indecisive
• afraid of: letting go, being free, getting hurt, family members getting hurt, being     abandoned

Contraindictions: none

Glands and organs influenced include the heart, lungs, immune system, thymus gland, and lymph glands.


This information was largely obtained from an awesome book.   Please see the post on the first chakra and scroll to the end to see.

Personal Blurb

Something has been causing me a lot of emotional stress lately.  Something from with in me, I suppose.  I've always been good at figuring out other people, but it usually doesn't even cross my mind to figure out myself.  I've been feeling this way for at least a week, and no, it's not that time of month.  And be careful asking that, guys.  It may cause you physical pain when a high-heel hits your head. ;-)

Lately I read an amazing book, The Celestine Prophet.  The fictional storyline, and the points it makes are awesome.  I highly recommend it.  I read it in a day when my Internet was down, now I am slowly re-reading it and taking notes, because I think it can help me improve my emotional well being, and my way of interacting with other people.  I guess those two things go hand in hand.

I am a scatter brain, I know.  Don't feel obligated to continue reading this.

I have a 20 month old boy.  He is amazing.  You know how it is if you have/ had babies.  I don't rock him to sleep regularly.  He has learned to put himself to sleep.  But he hasn't been feeling well.  To see if he was tired I rocked him in a gliding chair.  When I shifted him to see if he was sleepy he woke up a little.  I was so touched I started smiling a big, goofy smile.  I was beaming.  When he focused on my smile he gave me a cheesy smile that I haven't seen on him before.  I could tell how he was feeling.  I started tearing up.  Moments like this I need to create opportunities for.  Moments like this I need to focus on.  Moments like this I need to remember for always.  I believe that moments like that one are the reason we are here, living.