At the very beginning of January I went to a Kundalini yoga and meditation retreat. My friend Amber and I went to see what it was all about and understand it more. (And basically to check out the vibes, to see if it was a good Christ-centered thing.) It was, and that kept us going on this hippie meditation yoga track. We laugh about it to ourselves and with other people, but it feels right, so what can we do? For the last couple of years I've realized that my throat is an emotional holding place. I've stifled a lot of my emotions for a lot of my life and as I finally started to become in touch with them they would get stuck in my throat because I didn't know how to communicate them. I would often get aching in my throat and I know that it had an emotional base. Kundalini meditation consists of chanting out loud, and I really connected with that. I've been drawn to Buddhism for that very reason and so it was a nice tool to add to my spirituality toolbox. BodhiYoga has been going through the chakras. Every month is focused on a new chakra starting from the root up to the crown and February was going to be the throat chakra. I was pretty excited for that. Every month, as I've been participating with the other chakras, breakthroughs have happened in those areas, and I knew this throat chakra was a big one for me. As I started to study through this yoga teacher training, & I worked on the meditation mantras, & I learned about speaking and rejoicing in truth (oh the synchronicity in my life) the tension started to go away in my throat. I started to be more honest and truthful and when I felt emotions I would allow them to be, instead of trying to hold them back, even if I didn't know the purpose for expressing them. Often this would result in pretty vulnerable experiences, but I would leave those experiences feeling so whole and right and cleared.
I'm grateful for the gift of my body and that it communicates with me about my emotional needs. What a wonder! Now I know and have practiced the power of recognizing when I'm holding something back and the importance of expressing it, as well as the power behind the ancient tradition of chanting. The crazy thing is my voice’s resonance has naturally become a tad deeper and I notice that when I'm grounded and and breathing and speaking truth better, it stays in that place.
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