Communication skills are extremely important in everyday life. We all need to be able to communicate effectively on a regular basis at our jobs and in our relationships. If we don’t learn effective communication, it can cause problems in just about every aspect of our lives. Poor communication can cause misunderstandings and disagreements that can hurt relationships and ruin opportunities. That is why it is crucial to hone these skills.

Using Throat Chakra to Improve Communication Skills

Destructive speech or physical throat, nose and ear problems can manifest themselves when a person’s throat chakra is lacking in energy and unbalanced. Your throat chakra, the fifth chakra, located at the bottom of your throat, represents your inner and outer voice. In order to enhance the energy of this blue chakra, you can focus on developing both your inner and outer voice.

Whether you are explaining something to a friend or need to express your feelings to a spouse, you have to know how to communicate well. Pay close attention to your thoughts and the words that you speak. Take the time to think about your words before you speak them. You should also learn to listen to people effectively, because listening is just as important as speaking. Speak openly and honestly, and don’t hold things inside of you.

You can also exercise your vocal chords. Sing, hum, or chant in different tunes and visualize the energy circulating and glowing through your throat chakra. Concentrate each time that you say something, not only paying attention to what you say, but how you say it, and what your voice actually sounds like.

You can also enhance your throat chakra by using breathing exercises and basic meditation. In a comfortable position, sitting upright, focus on the base of your throat as you breathe deeply. When you exhale, release a natural hum and imagine the vibrating energy causing your blue chakra to glow brighter and stronger. Repeat this several times until you feel that this chakra is in balance and harmony with you.

The base chakra can be found at the very base of your spine, directly between your genitals and anus. This center of power is best visualized as a deep red orb that pulsates stability and steadfastness.

An open, balanced, and strong base chakra will allow you to feel centered in the moment, sure of yourself, grounded in your thoughts and emotions, physically healthy, and easily in touch with bodily bliss. Also this chakra must be healthy in order for the other main chakra points along your spine to experience optimal flow of life force; so the base is like the foundation of your chakra system in many ways.

If your base chakra is weak you may feel unhappy with your body size, often tired, indecisive, helpless, and out of control. On the other hand an overactive base can cause you to be irrationally stubborn and inflexible, and/or you may become enraged at the slightest provocation.

Balance is paramount when working with your chakras. You always the right amount of activity/energy flowing through each center; either too little or too much intensity in any chakra center will cause problems.

When thinking about or visualizing the base chakra, feel into the element of earth. In fact it may help to think of the stability of our planet beneath you. To ground yourself and keep the base chakra optimally open and balanced, use the following simple exercise.

Relax as completely as possible. Sit or stand with your spine completely straight and centered, and allow your body weight to rest perfectly at the base of your spine.

If standing you should feel your upper thighs begin to absorb your weight. If seated you’ll feel the pressure directly on your base chakra as you rest into it.

Once you are relaxed and straight, see your base chakra as a deep red, glowing orb. Breathe in deeply and slowly, imagining the deep red light filing your entire body.

Make no effort to force or rush your breath. Just allow it to enter your body and flow deep into your lungs. When your body is finished pulling air in allow the air to float softly out, making no effort to push it forth.

As you breathe imagine the deep red glow to cover your entire body and mind from the inside out. See the red fill the inside of your eyelids and feel it pulsating through your whole being; rest into the earth-like stability of this red energy.

Continue to breathe deeply and slowly. Think of a circular pattern.

Gently guide your breath in and down the front of your lungs. Then allow it to drift up and out the back of your lungs; so the air will enter and leave your lungs in a long, deep circular motion.

Don’t get hung up on either the color or the shape of your breathing. These visual aids are meant to help and support you, not frustrate or challenge you.

Enjoy this exercise for a few minutes. Then when you feel it is time to stop, do so.

This practice is great for any time you feel off center, angry with your body, out of control, or weak from the inside out. Understand also that you can and should perform this exercise spontaneously, and not just when something needs “fixing”.

But doing this meditation too often is just as bad as never doing it. Always remember to have a relaxed balance when working with your base chakra or any other part of your chakra system.

The heart chakra is found above the sternum in the very center of your body. The best way to feel this center of consciousness is to imagine a spot exactly centered within your chest, front to back and side to side.

This chakra is associated with the energy of love and the color green. The relevant element here is air.

Energies of the heart chakra include devotion, caring intuition, and passion. This point is often considered the gateway to the higher mind because it connects the “lower” chakras which are associated with the body and emotions to the higher chakras that relate to mind, knowing, self-expression, and so forth.

Imbalances in this chakra can manifest as physical heart problems or as hate, malicious intent, and judgmental thinking, among other things. Tactile meditations and visualizing green energy are two very simple exercises for balancing the heart chakra, and you can find more info about this center here.

Clearly this brief post is only the beginning. Understanding any specific chakra, and the greater chakra system, is an experiential journey that takes time and a genuine asking. It is my hope that readers who find this blog and my main site will be compelled to start such a journey and seek a qualified teacher in the fields of meditation and energy work.