Find Your Creative Voice
This chakra enables you to give voice to your creations and to communicate your vision. It teaches you to speak up and be heard, but also to listen and learn. Working with this chakra teaches you to speak from the heart, to impart your wisdom through your creativity, and to receive wisdom through creative listening.
Communication Chakra at-a-glance
Sanskrit name: Vishuddha (pure wheel)
Physical location: neck, throat, mouth, tongue, and ears
Element: ether
Colour: blue
Yantra: a circle
Seed Mantra: Ham (pronounced hum)
Affirmations: I speak my truth with love, I speak my truth with compassion.
Main creative concerns: giving voice to your creations, communicating your vision, speaking from the heart, imparting your wisdom through your creativity, and receiving wisdom through creative listening.
Balanced: eloquent, authentic speaker, knows when to speak and when to remain silent, able to express emotions intelligently, a good listener, capable of speaking truth to power, assertive, directs anger creatively, forthright.
Excessive: verbose, dominates the conversation, a poor listener, uncomfortable with silence, overshares, emotions out of control, bullying tone, egocentric.
Deficient: quiet, timid, unconfident speaker, represses emotions, unassertive, indirect, manipulates behind the scenes, bashful, a doormat, blocked creativity.
Life Issues: communication, self-expression, emotional intelligence, assertiveness, truth telling, listening and learning, creativity.
Healing practices: self-expression, singing, chanting, pranayama, yoga, writing, any expressive, creative activities, public speaking, listening skills, talking therapies, any therapies that involve emotional release, truth telling, laughter, neck and shoulder massage, facial exercises, neck and shoulder exercises, assertiveness training.
Physical location: neck, throat, mouth, tongue, and ears
Element: ether
Colour: blue
Yantra: a circle
Seed Mantra: Ham (pronounced hum)
Affirmations: I speak my truth with love, I speak my truth with compassion.
Main creative concerns: giving voice to your creations, communicating your vision, speaking from the heart, imparting your wisdom through your creativity, and receiving wisdom through creative listening.
Balanced: eloquent, authentic speaker, knows when to speak and when to remain silent, able to express emotions intelligently, a good listener, capable of speaking truth to power, assertive, directs anger creatively, forthright.
Excessive: verbose, dominates the conversation, a poor listener, uncomfortable with silence, overshares, emotions out of control, bullying tone, egocentric.
Deficient: quiet, timid, unconfident speaker, represses emotions, unassertive, indirect, manipulates behind the scenes, bashful, a doormat, blocked creativity.
Life Issues: communication, self-expression, emotional intelligence, assertiveness, truth telling, listening and learning, creativity.
Healing practices: self-expression, singing, chanting, pranayama, yoga, writing, any expressive, creative activities, public speaking, listening skills, talking therapies, any therapies that involve emotional release, truth telling, laughter, neck and shoulder massage, facial exercises, neck and shoulder exercises, assertiveness training.
In the Chakras for Creativity book you will find a Communication Chakra inspired yoga practice, meditation, walking meditation, writing meditation, and meditation questions.