Vishuddha Chakra

Colour: Light Blue  Location: The Throat  Element: Ether Demon: Lies

Goal: Self-Expression Basic Rights: To speak and hear the truth. Language: Blunt.

Positive qualities include (but aren’t limited to): Truth, articulating, knowledge, authenticity, inspiring, teaching, embodiment of Gods will.

Shadow qualities include (but aren’t limited to): Lethargy, shyness, voice problems, insecurity, fear of other peoples opinions and judgements, thyroid & neck problems.

Yoga Exercises to Balance this Chakra: All chanting. Wahe Guru Kriya, neck lock, neck rolls, camel pose, bow pose, cobra, shoulder stand.

Issues Dealt With Here: Communication, creativity, listening, resonance, finding one’s own voice.

Helpful Crystals: Angelite, aqua aura, blue lace agate, blue topaz, celestite, chrysocolia, larimar, turquoise, sodalite, aquamarine.

The throat chakra is the realm of the teacher. It is the place where the Divine speaks through the human body. It is where we begin to enter the mysterious realms beyond physicality. This is also where manifestation begins – bringing something from beyond through the emotions of feeling, the fire to do, the water to bring passion and earth to actually bring into physicality a creation.

This chakra contains the power of the Word, the ultimate seed. This power is called vaak siddhi. Vaak Siddhi is the power to initiate the manifestation of a physical form or action by speaking the words that seed that manifestation. It is the power to plant seeds that will fulfill someone’s ultimate goal and destiny.

This is the ability to have your tongue be the same as God’s tongue.

Very, very powerful!

Vishuddha is positioned at the neck region, near the spine, with its Kshetram or superficial activation point in the pit of the throat. Hence, it is also known as the throat chakra

Petals

Vishuddha has 16 purple petals upon which are written the 16 Sanskrit vowels in golden;

अ a	आ ā	इ i	ई ī	उ u	ऊ ū	ऋ ṛ	ॠ ṝ
ऌ ḷ	ॡ ḹ	ए e	ऐ ai	ओ o	औ au	अः ḥ	अं ṃ

The petals correspond to the vrittis of the mantra Ong [Aum], the Sama-mantras, the mantras Hung, Phat, Washat, Swadha, Swaha, and Namak, the nectar Amrita, and the seven musical tones.

Seed Mantra

 The bija mantra (seed sound) is the syllable हं haṃ, and is written in white upon the chakra. In the Bindu, or point above the mantra, resides the deity Sadashiva, who has 5 faces and 10 arms. The right half of his body is a white Shiva, and the left half of the body is a golden Shakti. He is holding a trident, chisel, sword, vajra, fire, a great snake, a bell, a goad, and a noose, and is making the gesture of dispelling fear. He is clad in a tiger skin. His Shakti is Shakini, who is shining white, seated on a red lotus, and with five faces, three eyes each, and four-armed, with a bow and arrow, noose, and goad.

Function

Vishuddha chakra is known as the purification center, where the nectar amrita drips down from the Bindu chakra and is split into a pure form and a poison. In its most abstract form, it is associated with higher discrimination, and is associated with creativity and self-expression. It is believed that when Vishuddha is closed, we undergo decay and death. When it is open, negative experiences are transformed into wisdom and learning. The success and failure in one's life depend upon the state of this chakra (whether it is polluted or clean). Guilty feeling is the most prominent reason for this chakra to block the Kundalini energy moving upwards.

It is associated with the element Akasha, or Æther, and the sense of hearing, as well as the action of speaking.

Meditation upon this chakra is said to bring about the following siddhis or occult powers: vision of the three periods, past, present and future; freedom from disease and old age; destruction of dangers; and the ability to move the three worlds.

The throat wheel is an important center in the Highest Yoga traditions of Vajrayana. It is circular, red, with 16 upward pointing petals or channels. It is of particular importance for the practice of dream yoga. Correctly meditating upon it before going to sleep should produce lucid dreams, within which one can continue to practice yoga^.

Source: MysticYogini