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Awakening Souls
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Each episode invites you to unlock your inner magic, embrace your authentic self, and step boldly onto your unique path. With heartfelt stories, transformational tools, and a sprinkle of the unexpected, there's no telling where these empowering and magical conversations might take you.
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Episode 87: Finding Your True Voice: Healing the Throat Chakra & Embracing Authenticity
Can tuning into your throat chakra redefine your life? Discover the transformative potential of self-expression and communication as we explore this vital energy center. Inspired by personal revelations and spiritual journeys, we unravel how embracing self-discovery and authenticity can liberate you from societal expectations, guiding you to become your true self.
As we navigate through stories of hidden identities and the courage it takes to embrace one’s truth, we highlight the significance of creating a world that celebrates individuality. We delve into the complexities of how societal and familial pressures can suppress genuine self-expression, leading to unhappiness and depression. Learn how mindfulness and presence can reconnect you with your authentic desires, leading to liberation and growth. By breaking away from external judgments, you can foster a more accepting society and find harmony within yourself.
We touch upon the power of expression in everyday life and how overcoming trauma and societal conditioning can lead to personal empowerment. Embrace change and growth unapologetically, and join us for our upcoming group energetic merging session to connect further.
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Speaker 2:Welcome to Awakening Souls podcast. You've got your hosts here today Candice, jennifer and Rose, and for today's episode, we are going to talk about the throat chakra. Now, for any of you that have been listening to us for a while, we have talked about this before, but we were guided by spirit to jump into this topic again, and so we're going to try and take it from a different angle, a different perspective, and maybe go a little bit deeper into the throat chakra. So just a quick review the throat chakra is an energy center that's located at your neck. It is light colored, blue or turquoise. Its main function is communication and self-expression.
Speaker 2:This chakra is really important because it is the place where we decide how to put ourselves out into the world, and as we're going through an awakening, that chakra begins to open more and more and more, and there's different stages that we kind of go through as we're opening up this throat chakra, and the ultimate goal is to let our authentic self shine through in everything we do, not just communication, but everything we do in this world, and so this chakra is an important one.
Speaker 2:I mean, they're all important, but this one definitely is kind of like a gateway that can really determine how you show up in the world. And I know, before I went through some of my awakening processes, my throat chakra was totally closed off, because I always felt like I had to be somebody else to be accepted. And so, as we go through the awakening process, it's like I'm opening that chakra a little bit more, a little bit more, letting old ideas of what's expected of me fall away and deciding who I want to be, and so that's what we're going to talk about today. How about you guys? Have you noticed changes in your throat chakras as you go through your awakenings?
Speaker 1:No, not me. How about you, candice? Oh yeah, I have definitely noticed changes in my throat chakra. I think one thing that you know, as Rose mentioned, that's really important is the throat chakra is about self-expression, and self-expression could look like anything. It could be anything from the way that you, you know, show up in the world, to what you speak, to how you express yourself as far as art goes, or music, or the way you dress.
Speaker 1:And once upon a time, I think my self-expression was limited. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know how it was okay to show up in the world. Was it okay to be fully myself? Wasn't even sure what fully myself or being my authentic self meant. Myself or being my authentic self meant. So I think after my awakening, I realized how much of myself I was missing, how much I desired to be seen for who I felt that I was on the inside, and I let that out of the box a little bit. You know, throughout time, as I healed more parts of myself, it's like I let a little bit more parts of me be seen that felt safe to be seen. And, yeah, over the years, I definitely feel like I am much more my authentic self than I have ever been before in my life, and it has given me freedom and expression and has helped me actually grow closer to the people that I care about, because I'm not hiding who I am.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's key is learning to be yourself and trusting that the people around you are going to be okay with that. We don't want to be rejected by others and that's a fear that we have.
Speaker 1:You know I was watching a show yesterday, have you guys? You might not have seen it, it's on Netflix. It's Will and Harper. Have you heard of it?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it's with Will Ferrell and his good friend, harper and I have heard of this. Yes, okay so Will and Harper. Harper is a transitioned man who has transitioned from man to woman, but Will and him have known each other for like 27 years or something. They've worked together on SNL and have had careers together and have become really close in their relationship. And I was really drawn to this topic because I wanted to understand more about self-expression in a different way than I self-express and while I was watching this I cried so many times.
Speaker 1:It was so touching to see Will and Harper went around the world and visited places that Harper had gone to before as a man and was afraid to go back and show up as her new self since her transition. So Will offered to do this road trip with her so that she would have a companion, and they went through and it was. It was so beautiful in the way that he like, supported her and becoming who she is, and it was so heartbreaking hearing her story and how much of herself she had to hide her entire life until her sixties before she felt like she could come out and express herself and I I just thought that that whole story was so touching and reminded me of how God damn important it is for people to show up as their authentic self and how much damage it does when we hide who we are and we don't allow ourselves to express or be seen for who we truly feel on the inside and because there is so much fear there of how other people are going to take it. This world isn't always so kind and there are people who come out wanting to be fully themselves and be loved and accepted, and people push back, and I believe that this is important right now, especially to allow people to come out and be their authentic self, because we're moving into changing times and there's going to be pushback and the greatest things that happened in history are in times where there's a lot of pushback and people keep showing up, keep showing up right, keep showing up as our authentic selves, keep pushing forward, because one day we're going to change the paradigm and we're going to change the world by doing that. And I really thought that their story was so moving and so touching and I definitely encourage anyone to go check that out on Netflix.
Speaker 1:It was a good show. Definitely going to watch that now, wow.
Speaker 2:I wrote it down too.
Speaker 1:Check it out Wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a really good point, candice, just thinking about people that are shunned because of who they really are, and how hard that must be.
Speaker 1:I keep wanting to say something about my dad. Am I like, yeah, okay, like, yeah, okay. That whole story with Will and Harper and this whole thing about talking about you know, being your authentic self and being loved for it, has me thinking about my dad. My dad was 57 and he was going through a lot in his life that he didn't tell anyone about. Of course, we saw suffering from the outside, but we didn't understand why, and he was not the kind of person who was going to open up emotionally and tell you about what was really going on on the inside. So we had no idea what he was suffering through, and when he passed, we discovered that he had been cross-dressing, and so there were a lot of secrets coming out about about his sexuality or about how he felt as a person, and you know, I'll never be able to ask him if his story is similar to Harper's that we just talked about. I'll never be able to ask him if his story is similar to Harper's that we just talked about. I'll never be able to ask him, like, was this cross-dressing because there are some masculine wounds you were working through? Is this because you felt like you wanted to be beautiful? Is this because you wanted to feel like a woman. You know I'll never get the chance to ask those questions and it made me so deeply sad for my dad that he never felt like he could tell people in his life, especially me, what he was struggling with and that he can never show up as whoever he was, as his authentic self, because he would have been so freaking, loved for it, so loved for it. And it just makes me feel so sad that he never got that opportunity and we'll never get that opportunity together.
Speaker 1:And I think him being closed off and not sharing who he was, I think it was part of his demise For sure, because he was miserable. Because he was miserable, he was trying to drown himself. So he didn't feel it and I can't relate to that in a sense of, you know, wanting to be transgender or not loving my identity, of my sexual identity. But I can relate to that in being really closed off. In a sense. They did not share my shame or my past with anybody and I remember how much that ate me alive anybody, and I remember how much that ate me alive, how much, you know.
Speaker 1:I would explain to my therapist that I felt like there was a huge dark cloud hovering over me at all times that I could never find my way through, and it was really just me not being able to express to the people around me what was really going on on the inside. And when I finally started to do that, how much weight was lifted and how much those clouds began to part and the sun began to shine through, and how much lighter I felt because of it. And I just wish that for everybody, and I think us as humanity, as we've been going through these massive waves of awakenings. I think it's because we're supposed to be finding our sovereignty and our authentic selves. We're supposed to be finding our sovereignty and our authentic selves. We're supposed to be moving towards this paradigm of self-expression and acceptance for the way that everyone expresses so uniquely, and what a beautiful world we could be in if that were allowed fully.
Speaker 2:So the world was designed to have unique individuals rather than all of us trying to be the same. Yeah, we've got the survival instinct to fit in, which is important, but it's almost like it's fully taken control and we've taken it to the extreme where we're all working so hard just to fit in. There isn't room for that individual self-expression, and there's so much hate and ugliness out there that is directed towards people that are trying to be unique or be their individual self, so that breeds fear, and so it's this loop that we're stuck in and, as we're working through our awakening process, we're trying to break free out of that. And there's this idea, or this thought that we have that there's only one correct answer, there's only one right way to be, right way to be, or my truth is the only truth. And when we go on social media, we go into public places, and many people have an agenda of trying to convince others that their truth is the right truth, rather than allowing for multiple truths. So there's this non-acceptance of anything that might threaten my way of being, rather than the idea that we all can create our life in our unique way and we can coexist and still love and support one another and still love and support one another. So you can really see the contrast right now of people that are working through their awakenings in many different ways, not necessarily the woo-woo spiritual way that we are. There's lots of different ways that people are awakening and they're reading to take back their sovereignty I love that word, it just feels good Take back their power, take back their uniqueness, but also learning to love and accept those around them, whether they share all the same ideals or not. But there is still many, many people that are coming from a place of fear and they are trying to influence others in that fear, and it's always a us versus them kind of mentality rather than a we mentality, which is where we're at right now on this planet. However, we each have the power to make that decision for ourselves. We each can take baby steps towards that authenticity. We each can learn to be more accepting of others and their unique journey and if we keep moving in that direction, step by step, hopefully the world will become a more peaceful, tolerant and loving place.
Speaker 2:We're going to take just a minute to interrupt this podcast because we have a special event coming up that we want to share with you. Jennifer Candice and I have been working on healing together. We combine our healing energies, we merge them together and we do strong, intentional, focused healing, and we've been practicing this week after week. We gather and we practice this merging of energies for strong healing and we are ready to work with other people. So we've created this event, hopefully for you to join us. So if you're interested in working with the three of us as we focus healing energy in your direction, this event is for you, in your direction, this event is for you.
Speaker 2:On October 17th at 6.30 pm Central Time, we're going to have an online event where you can join us and we're going to do group merged energy healing and the intention that we have for this is we want to help people to release old beliefs, release what's no longer serving them and reignite their spark. So if you are kind of feeling like you've been on this journey but you're kind of stuck or you're stagnant, this is for you. We want to zap you with this beautiful combined healing energy to give you a new spark to help you move forward. If you're interested in joining us, you can find out more in the links in the description. All right, let's get back to our episode. I was listening to a psychiatrist give an interview and it was really interesting and he said if you've got depression, one possible cause may be that there is something within you that wants to express itself and you're not allowing it to.
Speaker 2:Oh and I just thought that was really fascinating because I could see that in my own life. You know, when I had was doing the job I was expected to do and raising my kids the way I was expected to and trying to, you know, be the perfect everything, I was really depressed, and it wasn't the fact that I was raising a family or doing a job, it was the fact that I wasn't doing them in a way that's authentically myself. So you don't necessarily have to change everything in your world to be your authentic self. You just have to do what you're doing in a way that's authentic to you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's back to that self-expression. I think that we have been taught from a very young age that we need to do things a certain way, that there are societal expectations, family expectations, even like boxes, that need to be checked in order for you to be safe in this world, and I think that we're. What we're discovering as grownups is that those boxes actually don't need to be checked, or at least not in the way that we were told they needed to be checked in order for us to feel safe or for us to have what we want to have in life. And I think we have been preconditioned or programmed to shut down our throat chakras, to shut down self-expression, because I think self-expression is one of the most powerful things that we can have, and self-expression means butting up against what the government or society wants us to adhere to.
Speaker 2:So one thing I run into sometimes, though, is I think, okay, I should be my authentic self, and then I'm like, well, what is that? And sometimes I don't know who or what my authentic self is. It's like I've been listening to outside sources for such a long time that that's kind of like my go to move, and so I have to be very intentional and just stop and take a moment and say, okay, what does Rose want to be in this situation, or how do I want to create this relationship aspect of my life? And so that's a good question to ask yourself on a regular basis.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and be present with yourself, like go for a walk and look at the grass, look at the sky, look at the trees, and then be present in your body as well. I was actually just reading a chapter in one of the books I have that is very like yoga focused, kind of like the mentality in that, and I can't remember the name of the book but I can drop it in the links. But one of the things they talked about is the importance of being really present in your body, just like shutting off sound, shutting off outside distractions, and we've talked about this before right.
Speaker 1:Going through an awakening is when you start to finally hear who you are.
Speaker 1:You hear your own thoughts and it feels so overwhelming in the beginning when you haven't allowed yourself to do that, to sit with yourself.
Speaker 1:That's how you get to know who you are as your authentic self. You start to kind of sit through the weeds, all the voices of, all the outside influences, and it's not something that happens overnight and it's incredibly uncomfortable to let yourself sit in silence and hear all those things and feel all those things that come up, and it takes time to work through them. But when you get to a place where it all kind of loses its steam, where all kind of starts to dissolve or disintegrate, and then you sit with who you are. It is not an identity, it is not an I am this and I need to dress like this. It is a feeling of who you are on the inside. It's a self-expression of your soul, not a self-expression of your identity. And so there is no wrong way to express yourself or to be who you are. And sometimes in the moment, if you're present in the moment, sometimes that is just to exist without having to do or be or think anything.
Speaker 2:And something that I have noticed, as people are going through their awakenings and they're starting to embrace who they are and express who they are, sometimes there is resistance from those around us who like the old version of ourselves and are sometimes feel like they're blindsided by this new you, because it's not who they think they know. So that's something that you may have to work through.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you said that, rose, because that's one of the things that my husband said after my awakening was you're different. I'm not sure I really enjoy it, you know, cause I and I definitely tell him more about how I'm feeling, about the things that he does and he doesn't like it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because what you're doing is, when you start allowing more of yourself right, when you're standing up for yourself, you're allowing yourself to express yourself You're pushing up against the box that people have put you in or that you even put yourself in, so you're stretching beyond that box. And we all need boxes Like that's how the human mind works. We need to understand how things work in a logical form. Put them in boxes because it's easier to comprehend or to understand, and once we start stretching outside of what somebody believes is true about us, it's confusing for them. Then it also pushes up against their own beliefs, their own limiting beliefs, their own feelings, and that can be challenging. But ultimately that's not your problem as the person who's learning to express yourself. It's their problem and of course, there's always expression with kindness and being compassionate and understanding about other people's feelings and emotions. But there's also a fine line of just allowing yourself to be who you are unapologetically and not allowing other people to stuff you back in that box of who they believe you are.
Speaker 2:Well, and there's an assumption that once you get to know somebody, you know them, and then they're not allowed to grow or change. And it's almost like we have to change our mindset to the fact that we're all growing and changing and the Jennifer and Candice that I knew three weeks ago are not the same Jennifer and Candice that I know in this moment and in another three weeks will all be different. And so, while there's some consistencies within our energies, you know, allowing all of us to be in a state of growth and evolution and not having this expectation that you're going to be exactly the same person that you were five years ago. I think that's an unrealistic expectation. So, as we are going through our own, you know, awakenings and self-expression and opening that throat chakra and figuring out who we are, we also are accepting of others around us that are doing the same thing, and that builds really healthy relationships.
Speaker 1:I was going to say, and that's why it's so important to have communication, and where communication comes from is the throat chakra. You know, where relationships whether you're in a long-term relationship or a short-term relationship or an acquaintance the communication is key in understanding who the other person is and expressing who you are and teaching the other person who you are and how you wish to be treated or how you do life Right. And when you're in a long-term relationship, I think we get, uh, we settle and we think that, oh, we know everything about this person, we don't have to learn anything new. And so then the communication stops and then it's shocking when you realize, oh, I don't actually know the person as well as I thought I did.
Speaker 1:So having open dialogue between each other constantly and getting to relearn about each other is so crucial for relationships. Yeah, and I feel like too, if you're one of those people who, who, who has so much feeling going on but you can't express it and you just have to be quiet, you know, to the people around you who are wondering, oh, there's something wrong, there's something wrong and you can't express it to them, maybe write it down, Like write down your feelings, Express them. That way you have to get them out, because I don't think holding them in is a good idea.
Speaker 2:I agree with you 100%, Jennifer.
Speaker 1:Either write them down, draw them out, I don't know't know, but just do something and you express it in one way or another. Don't keep it in is what I'm trying to say yeah, I love the expression.
Speaker 2:The throat chakra is not a container, it's a filter. So you don't keep stuff in, you just decide how to present it to the world, and I love that. You can present it by speaking, but you can also present it by journaling. And, yeah, don't keep it in. So I was always taught to keep my pain inside, and so I went to give birth to my first child, and I was.
Speaker 2:I was going through the birthing process, you know. They asked me if I wanted any pain medication. I said no, I was doing all right, you know. And then, I don't know, a few hours later, the pain was getting intense and so I asked for some medication and they're like, oh, you've missed the window, you don't get any. Now.
Speaker 2:And in my mind I'm like what the hell, man? I was so pissed because I didn't know there was a window. I knew there was a window. I would have taken it back there when the window was open, and so, but like outside, rose didn't express any of that. I was just like, oh, okay, well, thanks, anyway. And then, like you know, like as I was, you know, birthing my child, my first one. So everything was a little tight, you know it was painful, but you know I didn't like moan, I didn't cry, I didn't say anything. That's how trained I was. That you keep your pain inside was that you keep your pain inside. And then, after it was over, um, the nurse was like, oh, you did such a good job. You didn't look like you were in much pain at all. Oh, wow, and I was like oh, it hurt, I hurt a lot. So I mean, that's just an example of not being allowed to express what's happening, because I had been trained that you keep your pain silent.
Speaker 1:That story is crazy to me and your, I mean I would. Now I don't know what I would have done back then. I've been in those situations, especially as a child, where it was like, oh, my needs don't matter at this moment, it doesn't matter what I think or say, I need to be quiet. And I'm so guilty of doing that to my children too. And I noticed when I'm doing it and I immediately think, oh my God, I don't want pushback from my kids, but what I'm doing and what I'm teaching them is that they're not allowed to express themselves, and what I should be doing is teaching them how it's okay to express yourself in respectful ways.
Speaker 1:But your story just blows my mind that that is where we are at in society, that we have taught especially children to keep quiet about their pain and their suffering. And when I was going through my traumas as a kid, I was told I wasn't allowed to tell anybody. And so I spent probably a good year of my little youth as a nine year old child, not sharing the pain, the trauma that I was experiencing, the abuse that I was experiencing, and I kept quiet all of that time to protect somebody else who didn't need protection. I needed protection, and it was my teachings that taught me I was not allowed to use my voice to protect myself, because I was a child, and that is just so frustrating so frustrating that this is how our society is, that that's what we're teaching people, and so this is why talking about the throat chakra especially again, is so darn important. It's not just about self-expression, it's also about self-protection, self-preservation.
Speaker 2:Yes, I didn't feel like I was an advocate for myself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is what the voice is for to be an advocate for myself. Yeah, that is what the voice is for to be an advocate for yourself.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah, so I did do a channel to just gain some information about the throat chakra and most of it we've already talked about, but this last little bit I want to share with you because I thought it was really interesting. Okay, humans do want to feel loved and accepted by those closest to us and may fear rejection. If they allowed their authentic self-expression in truth, as we experience each person moving towards their authentic self, our vibrations will begin to resonate with one another, we resonate with their truth and we will create a beautiful harmony together. We all benefit as we move towards opening the throat chakra, removing old filters and letting our true selves fully express and fully create our true selves fully express and fully create.
Speaker 2:And so I got this image of my mind of like two people, you know, talking to each other, facing each other, and I could kind of see their auric fields. And one person's auric field began vibrating at their truth self, their authentic self, and the other person also started. And what happened is the auric fields started like playing together in a really wonderful way. It's like I could see vibrations blending with each other and just creating like this bigger, beautiful, lovely harmony of energy. I think that's really interesting.
Speaker 1:So the more authentic we become, we can co-create together in a harmonious way the reality of people rejecting others or being who they are or speaking their truth or even sharing their stories. But there's also an element of the self rejecting the self when expressing, and I think part of that fear is in rejection for yourself. And the thing that happens with vibration is it can, it might be something that's happening on a subconscious level, that is happening within your energy, but guess what? People are all energetic beings and we can all detect that and sense that in one another, and it almost is as if our neurons are saying to the other person please reject me because I'm rejecting myself, and I need to see that through you, using other people as mirrors, and people will sense that. They will sense this person doesn't fully accept themselves and you know they may show signs of rejecting the other person Once my point is, once somebody starts fully accepting themselves for who they are, loving themselves for who they are and then expressing themselves in an authentic way, the rejection becomes a lot less.
Speaker 1:You see a lot less of it, or it doesn't affect you as intensely or as deeply as it would have if you were not at that place of self acceptance, and that that definitely is a sign of a closed chakra, like having those negative thoughts and then the negative self talk, like not being very nice to yourself. That's terrible, but yeah, that's, that's definitely a symptom of the flow chakra. But those are clues too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and when, when, when you have time to sit and be with yourself and you notice those thoughts of rejections coming in, I mean it's a gift that you get to hear those things and you get to realize, you know, have that self-awareness, because then you've got that brief moment, that window of time right, that window of time where you can do something about it, Just like in Rosa's story. She had a window of time where she could have done something about her pain.
Speaker 1:If she were to use her voice. And that is exactly what is happening. When you're in that self-awareness space, when you give yourself that time, then you get to go. Oh, this is the moment that I realized this about me and I don't like how it feels, so I want to do something about it. And then it can totally shift and change your entire vibration and the trajectory of your life. When you do and the key is to express it without reacting acknowledge what you're afraid of, what you're angry about, see it for what it is and then move on.
Speaker 1:So, seeing it without judging it yeah yeah, cause the judgment does is it starts, you know, a cycle of thoughts, of negative thoughts like oh, then there's the shame. I shouldn't feel this way, why am I thinking these things? I'm a terrible person, and you get into this like downward spiral that you can. You can get yourself out of so by witnessing it. Right, you're just the witness of your thoughts and emotions.
Speaker 1:When you can witness that and see it, well, then you can change the vibration of it, you can do something different with it, and it might include realizing where the train of thought goes, like oh God, wow, look at how much I beat myself up when I feel this way. Look at how much I'm judging myself when I feel this way, or rejecting myself for this thing. Wow, how interesting. Now I can do something different with that, because I don't like how that feels, and you're probably going to recognize that that's impacting not only you, but it's impacting the people around you, your relationships, your friendships, your career, because you are ultimately putting yourself in a vibration, a certain frequency, and your frequency will attract whatever it is that you are feeling A law of attraction, and so then your life will reflect what is really going on inside of you.
Speaker 1:And so with that self-awareness, just that moment, that window of time, you go. Okay, I don't like that. Let's do something different about it. And it might mean healing. It might mean going back into your history, into your, your childhood, and finding the moment where you first felt that way and reparenting yourself and giving yourself the love and the care that you deserved at that time and changing the chemical process that is happening inside your body. That is creating this frequency, that's creating these patterns. That is why self-expression is so important. It is not just about telling people how you feel. It is literally the difference between who you are today and where you want to be and how you want to feel All right, between who you are today and where you want to be and how you want to feel All right. So let's talk about ways, then, that we can open up and support our throat chakra for expression. Yeah, singing would be one of them. Singing, humming, breath work even.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, you already mentioned journaling. That's a really good way to express your throat chakra when you're not journaling. That's a really good way to express your throat chakra when you're not comfortable with actually saying things. I know, for me, I started writing things first before I could actually say them with my mouth.
Speaker 2:And that helped. It was like a baby step to get me closer to opening up that chakra. Of course you can do energy healing on that chakra. That's going to help. You can use crystals that are good for the throat chakra, so think crystals that are light blue or that are turquoise. So, like I know, blue lace agate is a good one for gentle communication, which is which is really nice. I know kyanite is another really good one for gentle communication, which is really nice. I know kyanite is another really good one for communication that also connects you with your intuition. But, yeah, those crystals can help bring in a more positive vibration into that chakra to help the opening process. And, like Candice said, working through your trauma, working through the pain, working through your old social conditioning, seeing those things and and actually giving yourself that healing is going to help open that throat chakra. Yeah, there's lots of things you can do.
Speaker 1:The practice of just expressing, the practice of just using your voice, even in small ways, expressing the things that you want in small ways, like what do you want for lunch? You know actually expressing that, actually saying I want this. You know giving it a try in ways that are small and safe, because it's really about building the trust muscle you have with yourself in expressing and not being rejected for it. And when you start with the small things that may seem insignificant, you work up to some of those bigger things that are more significant. You're building that trust and being able to do that with yourself and with other people around you, and eventually you are going to get to a place where people are butting up against what you want and how you express yourself, and that's just an opportunity for growth.
Speaker 1:The world, I feel like it, tests us sometimes and says how serious are you are about this, how serious are you about expressing yourself, about showing up as your authentic self? And we might get a little bit of pushback, and that's the point. I feel like that we need to push through that and find our strength and find our voice and rise above it. That in itself is healing.
Speaker 2:And remembering that self-expression isn't just speaking. So show us who you are by the clothes that you wear, by the activities that you wear, by the activities that you do, by the way you do everything in your life, because all of that is a way to create and continue to embrace that throat chakra. I remember one time, while I was a teacher, I just started this phase where I was going through my awakening and I was feeling really good about my body and my physical appearance, whereas before I had just kind of ignored it and wore teacher clothes, really dowdy teacher clothes, because I thought that's what was expected. And one of the styles of clothes that I love to wear are plaid skirts with old-fashioned high-heeled shoes. That just makes me happy. It probably comes from a past life with a cute top, so I started wearing that to school. I started wearing like a little plaid skirt, these cute shoes, you know some nice tights. It was just the best outfit and I felt really good about that.
Speaker 2:And I went into my principal's office to talk about something and I got the look from her like her eyes went all the way down my body all the way back up and I could see so much judgment there because I wasn't wearing the teacher dowdy clothes. I was wearing this little cute, spunky outfit and it was interesting because it didn't bother me and I was like, oh, she doesn't like my outfit, no, that's her problem Went on with the conversation. I was so fricking proud of myself for having the courage to wear this cute outfit. That just made me feel good, and the courage to not let my boss of all people to influence me about the decision to wear that. So and it was, it was totally school appropriate. It wasn't, like you know, revealing or anything like that. It was cute.
Speaker 1:What are you? How did it feel in that moment, noticing like, oh, I'm totally getting judged and it's not going to bother me it was very empowering.
Speaker 2:It was like she doesn't have it. Sovereign, I mean, that's the word. I am who I am. This is who I'm choosing to be in this moment. I feel good about it. I'm not going to let you take that away from me. Yeah, and I knew I wasn't doing anything wrong at all. So, yeah, very empowering, but it took a while to get there.
Speaker 1:So it's important to note, too, that when you have a closed chakra, throat chakra, you're really not hearing other people very well. I mean, you're hearing them, but you may not be hearing what they're trying, the message they're trying to get across, and your intuitive skills, too, going to be lessened when the more, the more closed your throat chakra is. So if you open up your throat chakra, you're going to be able to hear people better, you're going to understand what they're saying more and your intuitive skills are going to go through the roof, probably.
Speaker 2:That was really good, Jennifer, because you're talking about communication as a two-way street.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, and it's not just what you're putting out and that's a big part of it, but it's also. Can I receive?
Speaker 1:you know, you say it so much better than I do. No, I'm just piggybacking off of what you were, that idea. This is where this is where I think my throat show throat chakra is closed because I have such a hard time communicating what I want to communicate and I'm like I feel like a child. You know, yeah, it's because you are. No, I'm in like that's. That's the wound that you're working from right now is the child wound.
Speaker 1:It's a part of you who is coming out and it's like I'm terrified to express myself. And here I am trying so hard and look, we're being so loving and accepting towards you and open and patient, and you're the one who keeps going. Oh my God, you know like I'm rejecting myself here.
Speaker 2:I'm beating myself up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, then it's coming from a child wound, it's, it's uh, not the authentic self, right?
Speaker 2:it's just you're letting her you're letting her sneak through, though that authentic self is like she's trying door. Yeah yeah, she's trying to come through you can see the battle almost going on within you yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I definitely feel it don't like it so this is where you're not, where you're judging it right. You're judging it right now. You're judging yourself right now, in this moment, uh-huh. Well, I'm seeing, I'm seeing myself for how I am not really judging right. Am I judging a?
Speaker 2:little bit, but it's like you're seeing yourself, how you are, you're seeing the struggle. So it's like part of you is judging yourself, but another part of you is like hell. No, we're gonna work through this, I'm gonna keep going and I you could just see those two energies like one and the other teeter tottering.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like the old self is the judging one. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like you're you're making a new pattern, but you're still sometimes going back to the old pattern, and so you haven't quite gone over the hump to where you can really let that go. But like it's just so uncomfortable, it's the worst spot, it's the worst spot to be, because like you can feel that new pattern and that's the one you want to own, but that other one is such a habit that it's just, it's a filter, that's you are still, yeah, so you're, it's like my, my, my need to be perfect filter and my you should not be seen filter.
Speaker 1:Yes, those are definitely very strong right now.
Speaker 2:Yes, they are. And, man, that is like conditioning that we've had as children and that's, oh, it's hard to let go of that. That is so deeply wired within us. But the fact that you are working through it is huge trying it's like I see it, I'm working successful.
Speaker 1:Sometimes you are yeah and I definitely can I make an intuitive observation. Okay, so what I seeing? I see your brain and I see. I am seeing what Rose was describing as two different patterns, but I'm seeing the old pattern being too strong because it's still connected to something that you haven't gone back to heal. And it's not one thing, it's several things, and there's so many, I don't overwhelm yourself.
Speaker 1:Don't overwhelm yourself with how many there are. I only see three. The way that I'm seeing it right now, like this, one specific pattern has three major. It's really only the major things that we need to go back into our history and heal, because the smaller things will lighten up by themselves. It's those, like core things that taught you that you could not express yourself this way or use your voice in this way because of something you know that happened back in childhood. But that pattern is still so strong and will continue to be this strong until you go back into your history and you look at the thing you're terrified to look at that caused this, and heal it. It's that inner child stuff and it is shadow stuff too. It's the inner child and shadow work that both needs to happen.
Speaker 1:And I get the sense of like how mother effing painful it is to even consider the idea of going back to those memories, because they were so big and so painful that going back there would feel like you couldn't survive it.
Speaker 1:And I really think that by allowing yourself a moment of going back to one memory, not all the memories you're not going to open the floodgates and it's all going to come crashing back in on you, but going back to that one memory and in from an empowered place where you get to change and rewrite the pattern that is in your nervous system and in your brain right now and you get to say this isn't how I wanted to feel, this isn't how I should have been treated, this isn't what should have happened, and give yourself the healing, the parenting that you needed in that moment to help rewire your nervous system and your brain pattern.
Speaker 1:So that way the track moves from being so deeply connected to this wounded history to being connected to who you authentically are and how you want to authentically express yourself, and just making the pathway of you being able to do that so much easier. But that takes work and that takes courage and that takes vulnerability to go back there and do that. And you know, and I have been going back when I do have memories that pop up. I just don't always have a memory that pops up so I don't know what to work on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sometimes it's just an imprint of a feeling. Can I ask, what do you do like right now? What are you doing? What are you noticing in your body? What are you doing to yourself when you notice this fear coming up? With speaking, I close in. I just want to like you know, I love you, love you too. We should have been together today so I can hug you. I didn't want to cry today. I cried enough yesterday.
Speaker 2:I'm good.
Speaker 1:Do you think, Jennifer, that you could do maybe some of?
Speaker 2:this work through hypnosis. That's a possibility. I never even thought about that before. I could see, and it's just popped into my head. It's just a thought, so take it or leave it. That might make it. It's almost like you can put that part of yourself that's so afraid to sleep, work through some of the stuff you need to work through One. You would come out of the hypnosis. Then you would be. It's like you would remember it, but it's like. It's like popping the bubble when you don't have to feel it and then working through it and then having some of it already done and completed by the time you wake up from the hypnosis.
Speaker 1:That would be lovely, not like having to relive it again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or or doing it in a way that's safe, so that letting your higher self almost take the charge, and saying, okay, jennifer's higher self, she's got this issue. We really want to work on it. Can we, you know, work through what's the root of this and see what your higher self, but then set the parameter that you know not to show you or give you anything you can't handle. Like what's the next step to continue this healing journey? Yeah, but if you're wanting to, I'm willing to do that. Um, I want to come and visit in November, okay, so think about it.
Speaker 1:You don't have to make any decisions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but think about it.
Speaker 1:Okay, thank you. We got to figure out how to hide the fact that I've been crying. Now I just won't talk. Well, I know you're feeling really raw and vulnerable right now, yeah, but I think what we just worked through with you, I think, exhibited so much like potential and how you can work through these things and also showed.
Speaker 1:I just want you to consider, maybe allowing me to include some of this in the editing because of your vulnerability is so powerful you struggling with the exact thing that we came here to talk about and us being able to like work out workshop in real life how we can help you I think could be so useful. Okay, I thought about that too. I was like, oh shit, this is why we're doing this episode today, because I have been struggling for a long time with this and I've known it. I've just been trying to ignore it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that only works for a while. Eventually, it keeps knocking on the door.
Speaker 1:It does, it's relentless, it does not give up.
Speaker 2:It's louder and louder and more annoying and yeah. Yep, it's so uncomfortable. I do not like being in this, this state. I have a sneaky suspicion that spirit does that, but they keep pushing it and pushing it because they know it's like the next best move for you and they're like I'm just gonna make this so uncomfortable.
Speaker 1:They have no other choice yeah, that's what's happening oh yikes so we were in the middle of talking about how to open up the throat chakra, which I feel like, jennifer, you really helped us kind of show a few ways that would be helpful. This is what I love about the work that we get to do as intuitives and as healers is there so many different modalities to help support somebody and opening up to who they fully are and expressing who they fully are in a very safe environment. That does take like the sting out of out of the process of doing it a little bit. I mean, there's always. You can never replace energetic healing with the actual work that you have to do yourself, but it can definitely help lighten the load a little bit and make you know, open up those pathways and make things a lot easier through things such as hypnosis, energetic work, intuitive readings and things like that. All right, all right.
Speaker 1:Are we good, I think. I think we're all feeling like we've expressed ourselves enough today Shockers are tired Shockers are tired.
Speaker 1:Yes, all right, that will be our episode today. Everyone, I appreciate you coming in and joining us for this crazy ride. We didn't know exactly where this was gonna end up and I certainly hope that you receive something of value from here today. And if you are interested in attending our group energetic merging session that we have coming up, please check out the links in the show notes. This will be the last week that you have to sign up for it. We would love to see you there. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram at Awakening Souls Podcast. If you have stories that you want to share with us, experiences that you want to share or even questions, please reach out to us and email us at R-O-U-R. Awakeningsouls at gmailcom. And if you are wanting to book one-on-one sessions with me, candice, you can find that no-transcript.
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