Clear and Protect Your Superhighway

Mr. Miyagi, my water bound buddy tolerates daily greetings and seems to enjoy my antics. As my beautiful blue Betta fish ages, he is less active in his vessel. It takes encouragement to get him moving. I create sound vibrations in the water intending to show my fondness for him. I speak kind words, chant various sounds, and even sing happy songs for him. He reacts as his fins flare like he's clapping and waving to me. He swims closer to this source of sound, me. The one who never sings in public for fear of embarrassment. Silly but true.

As I create these sounds with positive intentions I am also clearing and energizing my throat and neck area, our Throat Chakra. Like a Command Center where messages pass through between your brain and other receivers in and out of your body, it is also a funnel for vital food and fluids.

Like a processing plant, it takes in and sends out signals and nutrients. Our job is to keep it clear and healthy by protecting and filtering this often-neglected region I call, "my body's superhighway". Communication is a 2-Way passage. We send out and receive when we listen, speak, breathe, eat and drink.

Vishuddha, Sanskrit for our Throat Chakra energy center is located in the neck area includes all sides, front to back. Sky blue in color, containing the elements of space and sound. Visualize a radiant, glowing, blue light with each breath.

We have quite a bit compacted in this small, vulnerable and vital space to sustain life. The carotid arteries and veins, cervical spine, vocal cords, windpipe/trachea, esophagus, lymph vessels, muscles, and glands fit into this area to keep us alive so we may experience sensations and our body may follow our brain's commands.

Deeper pranayama/breathing practices that cause vibration clear and charge the throat and help us focus the mind. Three high vibrational pranayamas are Bhramari/Bumble Bee, Ujjayi/Victory or Ocean, and Simha/Lion's Breath are fun and effective to enhance the throat chakra while clearing toxins and calming our mind.

Throat Chakra Harmonizing T-H-I-N-K before you speak Affirmation:

T Truthful

H Helpful

I Inspirational

N Necessary

K Kind

Clear the clouds in the throat and reveal clarity. Cleanse the throat with a gargle, oil pull, and brush teeth, gums and tongue. Breathe clean air. Gentle neck stretches sideways, forward, upward and only gently back, and massages in a downward direction help clear blockages, loosen tightness, and improve drainage of lymph and blood.

Charge your Vishuddha. Wear sky blue, gargle with pure warm water, hum and sing happy tunes, and chant the mantra H-A-M, like H-U-M.

Fish Whisperer,

Gina

P.S. This week in class we will practice sound vibrations and lymphatic self-massage.

Fusion Owner, Registered Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master Teacher, R.N.