Maria Duval - Throat Chakra

Located at the level of the throat, below the Adamʼs apple, this chakra is associated with the colour turquoise blue and facilitates awareness of mental and intellectual processes, distinct from emotional feelings. This means that our thoughts are not dominated by the feelings or physical sensations that prevent us from achieving objective knowledge. Thanks to this chakra, we can capture creative inspiration through the higher mind that drives us.

When the aura is lacking in this colour:

You have communication problems or difficulty expressing yourself clearly (fear of talking about your ideas, feelings, profound beliefs, showing weakness or strength…).

Guilt, excess of rationalism or untimely gossiping, preventing you from being seen for who you are.

You do not express your individuality enough, you donʼt feel like the ʻcreatorʼ of your own life, you donʼt hold the reins of your destiny. Youʼre afraid of change.

You compete with bad luck or you fail to spot the lucky opportunities it conceals (money, in particular, will be in short supply: you are not aware of your personal worth, which can be ʻconvertedʼ into money).

Maria Duval - Throat Chakra; Signs of inharmonious functioning

Maria Duval states that if energies are trapped in Throat Chakra, the relationship between the mind and body is upset. Either you have problems reflecting about your feelings and you tend to express your stifled emotions through rather thoughtless actions, or, you take refuge in rationalism and deny your feelings the right to exist. You can only accept certain emotions that have been approved by your own judgement and don't upset the opinions of your loved ones.

Subconscious guilt complexes and anxieties prevent you from seeing yourself or showing yourself as you really are, and from openly expressing your most intimate needs, sensations and thoughts. On the contrary, your try to hide them behind a barrage of words and gestures, so that you don't give yourself away. You won't allow yourself to appear in a position of weakness, and you will do anything you possibly can to maintain the impression of strength. Thus, you put pressure on yourself with your own demands. You sometimes feel that the tasks of life are weighing too heavily on you.

Maria Duval says that this does not rule out you possessing deep inner knowledge, however you daren't live by it or express it, because you are afraid of being judged by others or worried about finding yourself isolated. Free access to the messages of the Soul is blocked, and your faith in your intuitive powers dwindles to virtually nothing.

Maria Duval - How to tell if Throat Chakra is open and balanced

Clairvoyant Maria Duval says that if your Throat Chakra is open and functioning harmoniously, you will be fearless in expressing your feelings, your thoughts and your inner discoveries. You are just as capable of showing your weaknesses as your strengths. Your honesty with yourself and others, manifests itself through your straight attitude.

You have the ability to express yourself fully, with your whole being, in an orginal and creative way. You can easily hold your tongue if you feel this is appropriate, and you have the gift of listening to others using your heart and inner understanding. You don't allow yourself to be influenced by other people's opinions.

On the contrary, Maria Duval notes that you maintain your right to independence and self determination. Your lack of prejudice makes you open to the reality of subtle planes. Through your inner voice, you receive information from higher astral planes, which guides you through your life. You accept this guidance with implicit trust.

Lastly, Maria Duval says that your language is very imaginative but also very clear. It expresses your intention very effectively so that your desires can be fulfilled. When confronted with difficulties and opposition, you remain true to yourself and you are capable of saying "no" when your mind is made up.

Maria Duval - The Fifth Chakra; Neck or Throat Chakra

Now, let me proceed to write about Maria Duval's take on the Fifth Chakra - called Vishuddha or Neck or Throat Chakra. It is situated at throat level, and linked to the thyroid gland, and associated with the element Space or Ether, and with the sense of hearing.

Throat Chakra relates to talking, communication, self expression, creativity, the ability to guide others, and individualisation like developing one's own original characteristics.

Throat Chakra can be said to be like a bridge that links our way of thinking/feeling with our impulses/reactions. It also outwardly expresses the energies/information coming from the other chakras. Through this chakra, we can externalise everything that is going on inside us: our laughter and our tears, our feelings of love and joy or anxiety and anger, our intentions and our desires, our understanding and our perceptions from our inner worlds.

Through Throat Chakra, Maria Duval says it gives us a capacity for inner reflection and to do that, we first need to create some internal detachment.

The throat center allows us to become more and more aware of our own mental and intellectual processes, helping us to see the difference between these and our physical and emotional perceptions. This means that our thoughts are no longer dominated by our feelings or our physical sensations, which would prevent us from gaining objective knowledge.

Maria Duval says that the fifth chakra is associated with the sense of hearing. using this chakra, we can listen to the secret voices of Creation, and we can also hear our own inner voice. We can enter into contact with the spirit animating the voice, to gain inspiration from it.