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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'd 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. 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 you a 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 and welcome back to the Energy Quest. I do hope that you are loving this series. I'm loving it. Going back through my notes and actually just sitting and taking myself through the meditations and the guidance and the reflection for each one of these beautiful energy centers has been so powerful for me. I have loved it and I love bringing them to you guys as well. So today's energy center we're going to be looking at is the one in your throat, your throat chakra. I love working with this throat chakra, and it's the one I feel I've had the most transformation with. I used to struggle very, very badly with chest infections. I used to struggle with bronchitis, bronchiolitis. I used to cough a lot. I used to have a nervous cough and tic that my mum used to drive my mum mad. And what I recognize now is that I had a blocked throat chakra. My. My body was literally telling me, there is something that you're not saying. You are not speaking your truth. And it was actually my beautiful coach, Jacqueline Shaw, who started and introduced me to human design and amplified what I knew about chakra healing when she started to ask me the questions. What's your truth? Speak your truth. Tell me what's going on. Don't hold back, just speak up. What needs to be said? What needs to be spoken? What is your truth? What. What are you trying to say? And she created the spaces for me in private. I was in private coaching with her at the time. And actually, it's one of the very reasons why I tend to use a lot of chat groups in terms of applications like Voxer and WhatsApp and Telegram because it's all voice notes. Because people get to speak their truth with me. They get to say what they need to say without being seen. But they feel heard. And this is one of the biggest things that I feel is the power of working with coaches and mentors. It's the ability for somebody to hear you so that they can repeat back what they're feeling, what they're sensing and the essence of your words so that you can feel whether that's true or not and what you then want to do about it. But speaking your truth is going to clear that chakra for you. So it was interesting once I had left my very big corporate job and spoke the truth that I just wanted to spend some time with my beautiful boys rather than spending all hours around the clock working. I started to become much, much better. And I haven't really had, in fact I think I've had a chest infection for 10 years. Isn't that interesting? So here we go. Let's talk about the throat chakra in the energy center. This is the expression of energy which is all to do with self expression. It's also an incredible manifestation center. Speaking your truth into being is how I see it. The manifestation of what your truth is manifest. To manifest is to just bring into reality. So for me this is speaking what you desire into reality. That is why affirmations can be so incredibly powerful. I've even shifted from moving from affirmations to more words and energies that I want to feel, to experience. So I say last year I was magical abundance. This year it's delusional dreams, sweet success, inevitable wealth, everlasting joy, abundance. All of these wonderful words I love to feel in the energy of I have overflow. Omnipresent is my latest one. This omnipresence of overflow of joy, of love, of peace, of abundance, of wealth, of all of it. The omnipresence of all of these energies in all areas of my life. It's just something that I'm currently really feeling into and finding a balance between humility and gratitude and incredulity and beauty and love and this feeling of who am I to have all this? And speaking my truth of gosh, I'm so grateful. But you know what? There's also so much more I want to experience in my life and I'm so grateful for where I've been and how I've got here and I'm so excited to see what is going to happen next. That is my truth speaking your truth is how we transform our lives in My opinion, the greatest transformation is speaking it into being, declaring freely your desires, declaring what's holding you back, declaring what's making you sad or frustrated, the speaking of your truth. So how is this related to your body? Well, I've shared my experience of, you know, chest infections and sore throats, tonsillitis. It's connected obviously to your throat, your tongue, your teeth. Is also connected to the thyroid. The thyroid is how your hormones are regulated in terms of your metabolism and your digestion. So again, another really important one, especially for women in a certain age, often they start to have thyroid problems. So often it can be that you're not speaking your truth of how you're feeling, of what you desire. So this is a huge invitation for you to speak that truth, whether you speak it aloud to yourself or write it in a journal. I find both really powerful. I think people might think I'm slightly mad where I live because often I am speaking out loud on my walks, whether I speak it into my own voice notes or whether I just speak it into the ether. But this is speaking my truth. And actually speaking my truth out loud often helps me find the real truth, because sometimes the real truth is hidden behind the words that we put in front of them. So going on rampages. I learned that through Mama Gina's book, Pussy. Great book. Sorry to use that word for those of you who don't like it, but that's the title of the book. What can I say? I used not to be able to say it. It could be a word that would stick in my thro. But she talks very much around going on rampages. And those could be rampages of joy, rampages of desire. They can also be rampages of frustration and anger. And it's how we move that energy through our voice chakras. So a healthy energy in our throat chakra means that we have this wonderful ability to speak clearly and articulate what it is that we mean to say. We can be incredibly expressive. You have reliable communications. You're captivating as a speaker. You don't speak any bullshit, excuse my French. And you're very, very good at speaking on behalf of others, on behalf of the collective. That's a really good, healthy chakra energy. When your energy center in your throat, when your throat chakra is blocked, it can manifest in a few ways, as I've talked about, you know, illness in your throat. It can be choking. It could be stumbling over your words. It could be stuttering it that you shut down completely. You might even turn into, like, an ice queen. I mean, how often have in discussions and arguments have I had with my husband where I've just gone and I shut down and you just don't use your voice and you get the silent treatment. That's something I used to do a long time ago. I don't anymore now. We're very, very good at communicating, having been taught through the most incredible marriage counsellor. But we are able to speak our truth and know that we're going to be heard. I'll come on to that in a minute. But if you're shut down, you're blocked, you may speak up for no reason or a reason to grab attention. That's having a blocked chakra. Speaking just for the sake of speaking. I often love a phrase that my dad would always wink at me and say, empty vessel makes the most noise. Speaking for no reason, just to grab attention, speaking over others. That can also mean you have a block chakra or an unhealthy chakra. You can be obnoxious and loud. These are often people who have those throat chakras blocked or unhealthy. I also think it's very important to understand the communication piece here. And that something that my dad has always said to me, my dad says, he's such a wise man, my dad. I'm going to see him today, by the way, it's Good Friday as I'm recording this is that, you know, good communication comes from remembering that you have two ears and one mouth, that you listen twice as much as you speak. Because when you're really listening, you can say the right words. So I hope that you remember that too. I think another thing that you can recognize with a blocked throat chakra is that sometimes you can be speaking words or people can be speaking the words, but the energy that you're emitting is completely contradictory to the words that you're saying. I think we've all probably all been in the presence of people who've done that before. You know that they're saying the right words, but you don't feel that they mean it. Unhealthy throat chakra. So how does this relate to the rest of the chakra system and the energies that we want these beautiful, healthy energies flowing through all of our energy centers in our body? Well, the throat is almost like the gateway. It's the gateway to your mind and your crown and it's the gateway to the rest of the chakras deep within your body. It's the bridge to the upper and lower chakras. It's very connected. So it's connected to your mind, which we were talking about yesterday. The ability to speak your mind, to speak your wisdom and to speak your truth freely. It's connected to your spleen in human design, which is the area of all your instincts and your health. So it's speaking up. And speaking about what you fear, I think is really important. Speaking about what you sense. The spleen's all about senses. Your solar plexus, it's connected to. So your solar plexus. And human design is all about your feelings and your emotions. So it's about being able to speak freely about how you're feeling. These two things are so huge. And the coaching containers that I provide, getting people to really speak their truth about their feeling and their fears, speaking their mind, speaking their thoughts, speaking their beliefs that are holding them back. It's also connected and directly connected to your G center, which in human design is very much around your soul. Your draw, your pull, your sense of self, your direction. This is about speaking about where you're going, speaking about who you are and the truth of who you are and your heart chakra. You know, this is all about will and worth and desire. Speak about these in the truth. And for those of you who are manifesting generators in human design, then you will have a connection to your sacral. Your sacral, the creativity, the birthplace of fire, of creativity, of fertility. This can mean that you're very impulsive and. And you can speak and then you move and then you realize it's not what you want to do. And that's okay too, but at least you've tried. So what is the colour? What is the color connected to Arthur Oak chakra? And I love to work with this color an awful lot. It's actually one of my favourite and I have a lot of it in my cupboards, probably by no surprise. And also our house, I recognize that a lot of our house is painted blue. Not great for our Feng shui in our home, but that's okay. I've remedied that. But it's the colour of blue. It's blue, it's turquoise, it's the colour of the sea. And I do love the sea. The crystals that I love to work with to help clear and enhance and get the energy flowing. The one I'm holding right now is the most beautiful lapis lazuli. It's a beautiful deep blue with speckles of gold. A little bit like the colour of my eyes and my son Tom's eyes. We've got very similar colour eyes. I love Aquamarines. I love to work with aquamarines and sapphires. But actually the one crystal that helped me speak my truth was sodalite. And I have the most amazing chunk of sodalite and I move it around with me. It's beautiful. It's this. It's almost like a raw crystal. It's quite gritty and it's a pale blue, but again, it's got this gold and white running through them. Beautiful piece of crystal. The element that we can use to help clear our throat chakra, or the one that I like to use, and all of this is everything I'm sharing with you has been taken from experience over time. And how I practice it now, how I have practiced it in the past and what I do at the moment, but the element that I love to use is sound. And actually I was reminded of this at a beautiful networking event with, I guess I'm going to have on the podcast at some point. She's called Louise Mortimer and she talks. Mortimer, no relation, she's just gorgeous. But she took us through a breathing exercise and she got us to hum as we were doing the breath out. And we're going to practice that in the meditation today. But it reminded me that it's the breath, it's air moving through our throat chakra that is going to help clear it. So using mantras, using your words, humming, singing, use air to flow through your throat chakra, to really heal it, and also to prime it and to charge it and to bring some beautiful energy through it. If we're going to talk about nourishing the energy in our, in our throat chakra, then it's all about the soothing foods. You know, what do we give my boys love a hot honey and lemon when they've got a sore throat honey on your throat. You know, herbal teas and eat things that are blue, like blueberries or blackberries, anything that's blue. Good for your throat chakra. So a good, healthy chakra is when you're able to speak without fear, when you're able to speak about your dreams, to be able to speak freely without the fear of judgment and to speak your own opinions. So if you've done the work on your mind and your third eye and, you know, your mind is about the ability now to be able to speak the truth of your mind. So I'm going to move now through to our little clearing practice and how we can get that beautiful throat chakra really, really spinning. This is really important one, especially if you're. You're feeling into manifestation vibes and there are certain things you want to manifest. Let's clear your throat chakra and get it beautifully primed so that it can be in its most highest vibrating energy, so that you can speak what it is that you desire into the reality and be ready to receive it and see it. So as long as it's safe for you to do so, please take a moment to get yourself into a comfortable position. Whether you're lying or you're sitting, put both feet on your floor, put your hands in your lap and just simply close your eyes. Start to take some deep breaths. Now, as usual, just take a deep breath in through your nose. Filling up your lungs, filling it up all the way up into your throat chakra. Feel it there and then just breathe it out. And this time when you breathe out, I would love for you to really do it through your mouth and get the air flowing through your throat chakra. So breathing in through your nose and then almost like sigh it out, really deep sigh. And breathing in again through your nose or your mouth, doesn't matter actually. And sigh it out. You can make a noise, you can just use your breath, whatever you feel comfortable doing. So I like to use a little bit of a hum so you can breathe in through your nose and you can practice anyone that feels good for you. But the more you do this, just start to see as you breathe in and then as you breathe out, start to really visualize or sense or notice and recognize that every time that you breathe out through your mouth and your throat, you're using this air to stimulate your throat chakra. Because currently your throat chakra may be feeling blocked. You may find yourself choking on your words. You might find that you've got all of this sticky residue in your throat and it's holding you back from speaking. You're having to clear your throat a lot. You're keeping quiet, you're shutting down. Your throat chakra may be dull and grey and clogged, maybe it's dusty. But each time you breathe in and breathe out, just imagine all of that pollution, all of that stickiness, all of that mucus is just being breathed away. Breathe away the stickiness. Use the air to energize and to clear. So bring it in, bring in the positivity and clear it. Don't hold back. Here, breathe it in. Play with the different tones. Breathing it in and then clear the energy, like blowing the wind and almost like seeing the flecks of paint. I don't know why I'm seeing flecks of paint flying off mine just as debris flying away as I'm breathing air through my chakra, almost like they've been covered in that foil. And I'm breathing it away. I'm just breathing all of that away and off my throat chakra. Each time I breathe in, I'm breathing it away and it's getting clearer and clearer. I'm breathing away the clouds of restriction and conundrums. I'm breathing it all away. And as I breathe, as I breathe the air through my throat chakra, I can start to see a beautiful blue glow start to be revealed beneath the debris that's been clouding it. It's a fresh blue color, this beautiful blue. And the more I breathe through it, it's getting brighter and brighter and bigger and bigger. I'm activating my voice chakra. It's getting bigger and bigger and expanding. My throat chakra is getting big and bold and bright. And I can feel the glow is starting to expand upwards through my mind and upwards through my crown and joining the beautiful auras that we've already created there. And I can feel it flowing down this aura as I breathe. I'm breathing life not only into my throat chakra, but I'm breathing this energy to every single part of my body. The truth of my body is revealing itself to me, breathing in and breathing out the expression. And I'm expanding this blue light throughout my whole body. This is my expression. This is my essence and my words. And as we breathe, and we continue to breathe through your mouth, breathe through this beautiful air, clearing and energizing this beautiful chakra. You're going to start to see it spinning. Your throat chakra is now beginning to spin. It's free of the debris. It's free of the stickiness. It's free of the voices of others. It's free of the bullshit that you've been telling yourself and the others have been telling you. You're clearing it all. It's clear and it's starting to spin this beautiful, beautiful blue wheel. And it's strong and it's powerful. And the more you breathe through it, the stronger you can feel it getting. You're reuniting with your worth. You're reigniting with your words. You're reigniting with your truth. You're reigniting with your very essence, breathing in light and breathing out the light deep. It's safe for you to voice your opinions. It's safe for you to voice anything that you want to share. Because your words matter. My words matter. What we say matters. And as we are able to speak freely, we can also start to open up and hear freely, and listen freely, and create spaces that allow others to speak their truth freely too. Because as we hold compassion for ourselves and non judgment for ourselves, we're able to witness and bear witness to that in others. And take a deep breath in, breathe it out, let it spin. And as you sit here, you can speak the words out loud. And you can follow what I'm going to say out loud should you wish to, and if it's safe to do so too. This is my truth. This is what I want to share. This is what I want to say. My voice, my words matter. I deserve to be heard. I am safe to express freely. I'm free to speak my truth with clarity and with love. My voice is clear, my voice is confident. My voice is strong. I speak whatever I want into manifestation and into being. I'm authentic in my truth and my communication. I listen with compassion and I speak with clear intention. And so my words create beauty, truth, understanding, love, joy and peace. Peace within me and peace around me. Take one dust, deep breath here in this energy. This is a powerful manifesting moment. Right now with your throat chakra spinning, now is the time to speak your words. You can come into our telegram group if you're listening to this live and come and speak your truth. Speak the truth of your desires, speak the truth of your feelings. Speak the truth of your mind, speak the truth of your heart. Come in and speak freely and let yourself be heard. Come in and speak. Come in and speak. Come in and share. Come in and sing. Come in and sing your poems. However you wish to express the voice of your truth, you can do it now. And I will be there to listen and to hear and to hold that space for you. Thank you for being here. I'll see you in the next session. 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 would be so honoured and happy if you would support 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.