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Welcome to the Joy Broadcast with me, Ali Mortimer. I was once upon a time an IT consultant recoding systems in the retail industry to function better. And now I'm turned a life consultant and joy coach where I like to think I reprogram and recode hearts, minds, souls and lives to feel better. This podcast, the Joy Broadcast, is a way to bring joy to your life, whatever the weather, whatever you're doing. So you feel a pocket of positivity in every single day. If, like me, you've once upon a time found yourself wondering whether you will ever be happy again, or if you're just staring at the kitchen sink wondering how you'll get through the next 10 minutes, this podcast is for you. Get your glimmer of hope, a dose of happiness, or an infusion of joy right here, right now. Welcome to the Joy Broadcast. Welcome back to the Joy Broadcast. In the last episode I talked to you about how I healed myself happy following diagnosis of ptsd, clinical depression, insomnia and eating disorders or disordered eating. And one of the most instrumental tools, techniques, ideas, methodologies, modalities that help me through that period of time was understanding my chakras, my energy centers within my body and how I could use those to heal myself from within so that I felt light, so I felt like I had this glowing energy from within me. And it's something that I continue to use every single day today. It's something that I recognize in my children, it's something that I recognize in my husband. And without them even knowing, I cast my energetic spells to help them heal. But let's start with the basics I am going to use in human, my human design once more. I have gate 62, my throat chakra, the gate of express details. And this is all about sharing and simplifying facts. So if you've never heard of a chakra before, then this is really the detailed podcast for you I'm going to share with you. I suppose level one of what chakras are, or my understanding of chakras to simplify, because that's one of things that I've always loved to do, is to take big concepts and simplify them. So what is a chakra? You know, if you were to Google it or if you were to go into chat GPT, I'm sure you'd find lots of things, but I really want to explain it in, in my own way. A chakra. To me, when I think about my chakras and when I close my eyes and I imagine my chakras, they are like Mini Catherine wheels all over my body in this beautiful map within my body. And whenever I explain what a chakra is or an energy center is to the people who I have the honor and the privilege of sharing their human design with, this is how I explain them. They are spinning Catherine wheels of energy. This is how energy flows up and down and around your body. And this is what we really want. We want energy flowing throughout our body like blood flows up and down our body. This is our life force energy. Just like we need the blood to carry the oxygen around our physical body, our energy bodies, our subtle bodies, need these beautiful energies flowing freely and purely through our body to create this flow and this ease and this lightness. I suppose this brightness. You can tell people when they've got this beautiful glow around them, I often think, haha, they've been doing their chakra healing. They're very, very self aware. In the previous episode I shared how I went on a meditation journey when I first started to learn about meditation. And part of that meditation challenge or journey was. And I so clearly remember, I remember I was in Las Vegas at the time and I was doing it. And I love meditation because I often have this pure relaxed state where I go off into this transcendentational. Can never say that word, transcendentational space where I feel like I'm floating, but I can very, very clearly remember images, feelings, thoughts that. Well, while I'm doing the meditation. And as she was guiding me this beautiful meditation tutorial, I remember feeling these spinning wheels in my body, these beautiful Catherine wheels like the ones that we see on bonfire night spinning on the trees. That's exactly how I see them. And we want them to be spinning with these bright beautiful lights continuously. But what can happen through our life from you know, external forces, but perhaps also internal thoughts or feelings that we're not recognizing, these beautiful Catherine wheels that are positioned throughout our body, these nine energy centers in human design throughout our body can get clogged with, I say, in inverted commas, debris, the thoughts that aren't ours, the feelings that aren't ours, the fears that aren't ours, the directional ego that can block these spinning centers so that they become stuck and stop spinning. And when we have wheels that don't spin and that are stuck, that debris piles up in them causing them more stickiness. And so energy cannot flow through our bodies from one energy center up and down our bodies. So what do we do to unstick them? Well, that is what I'm going to be sharing with you in my energy quest. My nine day energy quest that starts on the 22nd of April. Now in the show notes you will find a link which will share with you all the details of what that actually means and what we will be doing and when we'll be doing it and how we will be doing it. But for the purpose of today's podcast, I just wanted to give you a really high level overview of the nine chakras that I will be taking you through and helping you clear and cleanse and purify, getting rid of all of that debris so that all of your energy centers can start spinning. And so that when you know this, you can come back and do this at any point in time when you feel this stuff, sticky energy. I also love Louise Hay's books, you can heal your life. And this was very much about the awareness of your physical body. And when you feel an ailment in your body, then you can recognize that there is some stuck energy within your body, in your subtle body. And when you know that and then you couple this with the chakras and you can start to clear yourself from the inside in, you can literally heal yourself. And this is what I did and have done and I continue to do. Before I start on that, walking you through with my expressed details of all of the nine chakras, I maybe should probably give you the official definition of what a chakra is. I've just seen it in my notebook, you know, from when I've read up and done all of my research. The Chinese say that the energies are qi. You probably heard that, you know, Kung Fu Panda, I love that. And in India, you know, the, the energy or the chakras are, it means all about spiritual enlightenment. It's the prana, the life force energy that flows up and down your body. What is energy? What is a chakra? Some people say it's the bridge between the physical human and spiritual consciousness. Because when we go through this chakra healing challenge, when we go through this energy quest, this is going to be about self awareness of the physical human, but how we can use our spirit and our consciousness to create change within the energy body. I think if you practice yoga, and I do, I love yoga, it's so good for women of a certain age. But often yoga teachers will describe chakras as spiritual consciousness, as the spiritual self awareness, this spirit energy flowing through our bodies. I've worked with a lot of therapists and psychologists and whenever I've discussed chakra energy with them, they often say that the chakras can be a map of Your personality. And I've definitely seen that when I've learned human design and talk to people about their human design. When we go deep into their individual maps and their human designs and what each of those chakras and how they're defined and all of the gates and channels, that is the valves that help that energy flow, it can definitely reflect the personality of the person in their purest form. So let's get back to my definition. These, these spinning wheels, these Catherine wheels, these beautiful energy centers that can absorb energies from the world around us. And if we're not careful, they are like a sponge. Like the sponge that you drop in the bath, it will absorb the water and it will drop like a stone to the bottom as it gets heavier and heavier with all the water it's absorbed. This is like the Catherine wheel. This is like the energy center. This is like your chakra. When your chakras absorb everything around you, but you don't have the self awareness in order to squeeze everything that's not yours out of it. Just like the sponge, we need to squeeze all of the water so that it becomes light and fluffy again. This is what we do with our chakras. This is how we heal them. This is how we keep them light and free flowing. So each of these energy centers have different expressions of energy that influence our physical bodies. Isn't that fascinating? So if I was to draw this map for you, you would see that you have a crown chakra, almost like if you were to point a finger in the middle of your forehead. We call this the third eye. This is your crown chakra. This is the energy of inspiration, of this divine connection to something bigger than us. When it feels like you're channeling or you're receiving messages, that's what it feels like to me. That's our crown chakra energy. And how does this relate to our physical body? Well, this is all about the regulation of melatonin. It's our Caucadian rhythm. It's the pineal gland, so important for our awareness, our ability to see. In my opinion, this is inspiration. Are you being inspired or are you being clogged and heavy? The next chakra when we go down in our body is our Ajna or the mind chakra. So does what it says on the tin. This is our thoughts, our ideas, its insights, its opinions, its strategies. This is the energy center of our mind, the most powerful computer that we have. But what happens when you start to program it with everybody else's ideas and thoughts and thoughts and beliefs and strategies? And when you make them your own, but they aren't yours. It's fascinating when I've worked not only on myself but also with others, that when we don't clear our mind and sometimes our crown chakra, this can cause intense pressure in our heads that cause us to have headaches. When I think about the health and the body parts of the ajana in the mind, again, this is the pituitary ground. This is all about metabolism. It's about so many different things in our mind. It's about understanding that sometimes we have to declutter and reprogram our mind in order for our chakra to spin freely when we move down our body. The next one is, you know, if you, if you're following me down, you've got your mind, your crown, your mind. We're now moving to your throat, your throat chakra. I love my throat chakra. I have a defined throat chakra with many, many gates and channels. So I love to use my voice. This is the energy of manifest, it's the energy of transformation, it's self expression. This is such a beautiful and powerful center, both in chakra healing but also in human design. I love to use this one when I talk to people about human design in any areas of their life. This is literally speaking and expressing in your own way what you want to create. And when we look at the relation to the body, this is your thyroid is often the hormones for your metabolism and also for your digestion too, that gut brain axis. But I often look back at my story and I think whenever I have not been speaking my truth and for a very long time I didn't, I denied myself that feeling of self expression. If I look back to the years after my children were born and I was working in a very big, high pressured job and I kept burning out. I was on a cycle of three months. Every three months I would be back at the doctors getting some form of antibiotic, or I would be back in bed for a week through exhaustion because I would have chest infections or bronchitis. I was literally, my body was telling me I was not speaking my truth, that this was not what I wanted to do. Isn't that fascinating? So we've now gone crown aja or mind throat, the next one. If you wanted to understand where this part is in your body and you can put your hand on it, it's literally on your breastbone in between your breasts. This is one of my favorite chakra energy centers and has actually not part of the original chakra healing course. I did, but it's part of human design chakras. This is the addition, one of the, our additional ones. There are two additional chakras in human design. This is, it's so beautiful. This is what I love to describe as the soul's pull. It's a magnetic monopole. I've been described, it's been described as me and when I've done my trainings, but this is to me, this is my soul's pull. It's like having this energetic or almost like cable in my mind. This that's connected to my soul, that's pulling me, that's drawing me. This is the energy of direction. It's love, it's beauty, it's our purpose, it's our identity, is who we are as our soul. And when we can clear this energy and know what love is to us, what beauty is, what our purpose is, this means that we can be pulled by our soul so freely rather than being in this tug of war with it. And how does this relate to the body? This is all about the liver. It's detoxification which is ultimately what we're doing with our chakras. We're detoxifying them of everybody else's opinions and forms of what purpose should be and your identity should be. It's a fascinating center. When we move down underneath our G centre we have the sacral. The sacral was the centre that I had to do the most work on in my healing. This was my gut instincts or sorry, this is our, this is the energy of our gut instincts. And I think for a long time I knew things weren't wrong, but I was ignoring my gut instincts. And therefore my vital energy which is created in the sacral just wasn't free flowing. It was stuck. My desire, my sexuality, my sensuality was all completely shut down. So was my fertility, my organs that my digestion all shut down, which was why I was so ill. To help me move this one and to recreate that fire in my belly, I had to do a lot of healing in my sacral. And I'm so glad I did because then I found out that I was a generator in my human design. And this is the most powerful center that I possess. To create from love, to create from joy, to create life around everything that I love. So your sacral is really kind of just behind your belly button. So what about the heart chakra? So the heart is exactly where your heart is, you know, slightly to the left of your breastbone, maybe just a bit lower than your G centre. But the Heart chakra. While this is the center of love, yes. It's also the center of willpower. It's of ego and self worth. The self love. It's a huge emotional centre. But this is connected to within our body. This is all to do with our stomachs, our gallbladders and our immunity as well as our heart. And what I found so interesting when I was trying to re establish or define what it was I wanted to do in my business in 2023, my heart was not happy. I think it was all part of perimenopause. But my heartbeats were very, very irregular. I felt like I was having heart palpitations where my heart was coming out of my chest. And when I read Louise Hayes book, the mantra that I had to speak was joy, joy, joy, joy, joy. I see joy everywhere. And this was bringing back my self worth and reconnecting it with joy. That is who I am. And the more I focused on joy, the more I healed my heart as a little side note story. But this is how powerful this work can be. By the time I went to have my scans, there was nothing wrong with my heart. They said I had a very healthy one and I believed I healed it. Happy I've done this so many times with different parts of my body. What's next? Let's go to our spleen. So the spleen again is an additional chakra over and above the traditional chakra centers. This is purely a human design one. But I love the spleen. The spleen is all about our, what would I say? This is intuition, this is survival energy. It's all about your health. But in here we also have our many fear gates. And what I understand fear gates in our human design and how I love to see these, these are just the echoes of fears that we are going to have repeated over time. They will always be with us and therefore it's about making friends with them. And when I read my fear gates and I have pretty much all fair gates switched on, so five out of the seven of the fear gates, it was just recognizing, oh yeah, that's so true. They're just my little fear friends who are coming here to protect me. And actually now that I know that they're with me on this journey to create this beautiful life, I can have conversations with them and they no longer get to limit me or hold me back. They just get to come along with the ride to keep me safe. And I'm fine with that. So our spleen obviously is connected to our immunity and all of our Lymphatics. So clearing up the energy around our spleen is so important. So if you feel like you are always getting poorly or have a low immune system, the spleen chakra is where we want to really have a look and clear up. Where are you not responding to what you know is truly right for you from your intuition? Those whispers, those spleenic whispers of intuition. Where are you denying yourself? Where is fear letting you and holding you back? But we'll dive deeper into this when we go through the chakra quest. I can. I could talk for this for hours. And we're going to trust me. Let's move on. So our solar plexus. So our solar plexus and this energy center is the one that can cause us probably, or has me caused one of the biggest issues in my life. This is around emotions. Our solar plexus is the energy of our emotions, our feelings, and what regulates our mood. This is related to our kidneys, our pancreas, the bladder, the lungs. The lungs, our prostate and our nervous system. I have a completely open solar plexus. I have no gates and no channels. So I am like a sponge when it comes to emotions. I literally can feel people. It's probably why I'm so good at what I do in terms of my coaching and my mentoring, because I can literally feel, sense, taste, and hear my clients and how they are feeling without them actually even speaking or explaining. But it's how I've learned to, over the course of being a coach, if I kept taking everything on and absorbing everybody's energies without releasing it, without squeezing my sponges, and I did in the early days, I would take it on and I would make it mine and I would amplify it and I would get very heavy and very exhausted. What I've learned through chakra healing, through human design, and how I can cleanse and clear and use this as a power, but not let it hold me back or make me feel heavy, has been amazing. So our seventh chakra. This is our root chakra. This is right at the base of your spine. This is a super powerful center. This is drive. It's the energy of drive, ambition, but it's also stress and adrenaline. It's a super powerful center when you know how to use it and how you can clear it properly when you recognize that. And again, I've got a very open one. So recognizing the stress of everybody around me, but not making it mine, how I can clear it, how I love to be around other people who are highly driven and ambitious because that fuels my energy as well. And how does this relate to our body? This is our adrenals. So important. When I was diagnosed with PTSD and clinical depression, I also had adrenal fatigue because I was so exhausted by everybody else around me, but also my own. This is how we can regulate our stress response. It also supports our immunity, but also all of our stress hormones, which for those of us who are going through the perimenopause at the moment, is so important to understand, to, to, to manage, to regulate, to be aware of. So each of these nine energy centers play a powerful part in our joyful experience of life. And the more we can recognize and clear every single energy center and make it our energy and understand how the energies can flow between each of these beautiful energy centers to bring more joy into our life. Because they are pure, because they are clear, because they are true to us. This is when we are glowing, when we are shining this beautiful, pure light around us, and when we are clear and free from everybody else's energies, then this is how we become super magnetic. Because we are literally vibrating on that highest, most, highest, purest frequency we possibly can be. And if you understand the laws of attraction and the laws of vibration, this is exactly the energy that we want to be in in order to attract everything that we desire to us. The resources, the people, the opportunities, the money, the love, everything. This is where we want to be. And I'm so excited to start with you on the 22nd of April and to talk you through in more detail, single one of those energy centers day by day, each day we will be coming together to talk about one of the chakra energy centers. How you can clear it, how you can recognize when you're stuck, how you can clear those energies, what you can do. I'm going to be giving you mantras, I'm going to be taking you on meditations. I'm going to be talking to you about crystals and all sorts of remedies that can help you purify and clear these beautiful spinning wheels of energy that are in your body. And ultimately what you will feel at the end is a sense of feeling lighter, of empowerment. You're going to feel so light within your body and you're going to feel such. Oh, it's just. Honestly, it's very difficult for me to put into words when I understood the power of this, that I had the power to create this energy within me, that it wasn't about outside of me, it was in me. And how I could heal myself back to happiness and Ultimately now what I do is to love this and it's to love myself joyfully. This is the power of energy and energy healing and your chakras. So once again I'm going to be dropping in the the links into the show notes on how you can join me on the 22nd of April. You're going to have opportunities through those nine days to ask me questions. I'm going to share with you all of the tools, all of my wisdom. But you'll also be we're going to be creating this beautiful space where you can come and ask me, where you can make it personal to you and I will be responding to you over those nine days. I cannot wait to share all of this wisdom with you and to guide you in healing yourself happy to loving yourself joyful by understanding how you can use these beautiful jewels within you. Because one thing I failed to tell you is that every single one of these chakra centers has a beautiful color. And to me what that means is it's just. Do you remember the podcast about diamond mining? These are the jewels within you. It's not just diamonds. We've got emeralds, we've got rubies, we've got every single color under the sun. We've got yellow diamonds, we've got aquamarines. We've got every single beautiful color of the rainbow within your body that we're going to go and find and polish and make shine. And I can't wait to share it with you. So I will see you on the 22nd of April. Lots of love. My mission is to spread love, joy, peace and abundance to as much of the world as I possibly can so that every person knows that they don't have to walk alone in their darkness. So if you've enjoyed today's podcast and this episode, I'll be so honored and happy if you would support me my mission and share this with your network, your friends and your family. Please feel free to leave me an honest review on Apple or Spotify. And until next time, remember, the ripple of joy starts with you and within you.