fuck & the throat chakra
Screaming to release stuck emotions is a well-known method of Somatic Therapy - just like crying or shaking. These exercises can help to provide relief by setting the emotion free and relaxing the nervous system.
Never underestimate the power of screaming “FUCK” on the top of your lungs.
Seriously.
I know that might sound weird, but let’s unpack this together:
The word “Fuck” is the word we’re told we’re not supposed to say. And maybe because of this it might be the word we want to say: and therefore holds SOOOOO much energy. What we resist persists, remember?
We know that sometimes emotions get trapped inside our body if we don’t allow them their life’s mission - which is full expression. We know that stuck / long term emotions can cause physical issues (you’ve heard of stress & its relationship with disease, yes?)
Similar Childhood experiences
So let’s reflect on these potential experiences you may have had in childhood - especially if you’re female.
You may have been told:
1. You’re not allowed to be angry
2. You’re not allowed to be loud: kids are meant to be seen and not heard
3. How dare you say that!
Perhaps you were shamed with
4. People won’t respect you if you talk like a sailor.
5. Good kids don’t say bad words!
Perhaps guilted with
6. If you say that it reflects poorly on me!
This is a list of common things we’re told as children, amongst others. This list is destructive to our self esteem, autonomy and boundaries because it limits what you’re able to say and how you express. Who is anyone to tell you not to say things?
I’ve always thought that not saying a word gives it more power. This is also true when it comes to names. I have found when I do sound healing sessions, I sometimes will ask my client to purge the name of a person who hurt them; this is in order to release it out of their body. Often there is an emotional response to it and 10/10 times the person feels better! Consider the lesson of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named from the Harry Potter series:
“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” ~ Dumbledore
We allow certain words to hold energy and then we deny ourselves energy.
Why? Let’s use that untapped potential!?
I find that specifically yelling this word - FUCK - helps to release and unlock a lot of power from people who would consider themselves people-pleasers, perhaps children of narcissistic parents or tendencies, and therefore maybe lacking boundaries.
There is latent power in yelling FUCK.
Now, if you’re like “But Jess, the word FUCK comes from horrible roots!” Like yea, you might be right... But that just proves my point even more!
“If you name me, you negate me.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard.
What if instead of judging this word as bad, we unlock the potent potential of setting this word free. Let’s harness this ferocious energy of “FUCK” by yelling it on the tops of our lungs and using it to clear the Throat Chakra and heal ourselves!
*Note: I’m not saying its okay to swear AT people - anger splashed on others is, in fact, inappropriate.
Turning back time
Personally, I believe in past lives.
Back in the day it was easiest to kill people via the neck (aka Throat Chakra). People were hung, throats were slit, heads rolled from the guillotine. People who were scouts, truth tellers, and history writers were murdered to keep truth hidden. Is it any surprise that the reincarnations of those people - us - struggle with the truth: how can we speak our truth if it’s dangerous? if we’ll get killed because of it? if our subconscious mind or perhaps our soul is scarred with these memories as truth = pain?
How can we tell our truth when it’s literally been disconnected from us?
Why does this matter?
Healing the throat chakra
The Throat Chakra is seen as the bridge to higher chakras; below the Throat Chakra, the others deal with physical-realm things; safety, abundance, motivation, and love; but the Chakras above the throat deal with intuition, self awareness and realization, and divine consciousness & connectedness.
Finding your truth, understanding it and speaking it help heal the Throat Chakra. How do we do this?
Figure out what your truth is:
Spend time alone, away from people and social media
Others don’t know your truth, only you do
Silence helps you hear better
Understand your truth and what it means
Connecting deeply within yourself
Understanding your emotions & patterns
Aligning with your authenticity
Speaking your truth
From a space of integrity
With balanced emotions, and a centered & grounded Self
In Biofield Tuning, we find the right side of the Throat Chakra relates to issues speaking your truth and not being heard. This can be because someone wasn’t listening, or flat out didn’t believe you. The left side of the Throat Chakra deals with not speaking your truth; this can happen if we don’t know what our truth is, if speaking our truth isn’t safe, or even! If we’re not listening to ourselves. How can others hear us if we don’t hear ourselves?
When I work with clients on the Throat Chakra a piece of homework I give them is to go on a drive and scream FUCK as loud as they can. For themselves, for their inner child, for their pain, their life’s journey, for past lives, and people they’ve been before.
Try it & see what happens*
Here’s to the women who don’t give a fuck ~ Janne Robinson
Somatic therapy
This blog is inspired by the wisdom of Somatic Therapy. Somatic Therapy is not something I have been trained in, but its something I’ve always understood intuitively - and you probably do too.
We see children self soothe by moving or rocking their body back and forth when they are upset. We release emotional pain by crying or running or dancing. Somatic Therapy is a way to release emotions with techniques that range from body exercises - like shaking or writing or mental exercises like body scans, relaxing the body as you scan different areas with your mind.
I have found that specifically yelling FUCK seems to help unlock latent power in people who would historically call themselves people-pleasers. Something about saying the word ‘you’re not supposed to say’ sets them free.*
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Please watch Osho’s similar opinion on The Magic of the Word Fuck
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*Disclaimer -
Don’t splash your anger on others, there should be no ~ receiver ~ to your anger.
You don’t have to agree, as always try things with the same philosophy of trying on a T-shirt. If it doesn’t fit, try on a new one ;)
energetic hygiene
Something feels ‘off’ but I just can’t put my finger on it?
My healing room seems ‘dense?’
How can I stay cleansed from the energies I work with?
How can I keep my clients clean from energy?
I get asked these questions a lot and my answer always is:
it is imperative to instill an energetic hygienic practice into your energy healing practice
& luckily for you there are a bunch of different ways to do this! Regardless if you’re just curious how to keep your living space’s energy clean, or your a client receiving sessions or a practitioner working with people, you’ll find this blog helpful!
What the heck do I mean by Energetic Hygiene?
I’m glad you asked. Just like body hygiene is important, so is energetic hygiene. You’ve probably experienced this before if a person emotionally dumped all their “stuff” on you without your permission, sometimes you walk away feeling ‘icky.’ This is because of an energetic transfer - nothing happened physically - but you can feel that something is off.
Practitioners
If your client is off-gassing a lot of energy:
You’ll know this because of the constant pressure changes in the air around you, temperature fluctuations and need to constantly dragon-breathe.
You can place a bowl of salt water underneath the massage table and set an intention for the wild energy that is flying around to be pulled into the vortex where it will be cleansed, dissolved and disintegrated safely.
Pro tip! Grounding is an absolute essential part of doing healing work. Practice this by going outside and standing barefoot in the grass, in the sand or in the dirt. Feel yourself dropping a line of energy down through your legs out the sols of your feet into the earth, releasing excess energy into the earth, while receiving negative ions from the earth that have good health indicators!
If the session is crazy intense and you feel like you need some ‘divine’ help:
I have found that using an intentional salt circle around the session and St Germain’s Violet Flame ‘inside’ the session can help cleanse whatever is ‘other.’ By ‘other’ I mean:
not your clients
old stuff that is really dense
energy that came ‘before’ your client (literally or cosmically)
If you’re noticing that you leave with what the client brought in:
This means you need to work on grounding your energy and their energy a bit better. Remember as you breathe you are grounding that energy all the way down, out the soles of your feet into the earth to be grounded.
This could also mean you need to clean your hands. Cleaning your hands can look like
washing them with soap and water
spraying them with a alcohol + water + essential oil potion
you can put your hand in the geode of a crystal (without touching the sides) and allow all the focused energy of the crystalline points to cleanse your hands.
remember whatever instrument you work with needs to be cleansed after sessions:
Your pendulum needs to be cleansed, your tuning forks can be cleansed with other forks, smoke, crystals or sounds. If you’re working with bowls, gong or chimes they generally clean each other throughout group sessions.
It is a great idea to have a little ‘cleansing station’ that can look very much like an altar, or a crystal grid that you can place your instruments in for cleansing after sessions.
If your practitioner says they don’t need to clean their crystals this is a red flag.
People / clients / practitioner
BREATHE
Breathing deeply and activating your diaphragm and vagus nerve is so incredibly important. When you breathe shallow the breath stays in the upper chest; this is not where the breath is supposed to stay!
The breath wants to be breathed all the way down to your low belly! Why? Your lungs act as a great bellows to PUMP your diaphragm and STIMULATE your vagus nerve.
Activating the diaphragm and vagus nerve helps:
digestion
the nervous system
your chakral system
stress reduction
heart health
digestion
mood regulation
& more!
Pro Tip! As a client, practitioner, or living breathing person. Please work on deepening your breath!
seriously, please.
protect your energy:
Keep your energy yours and your client’s energy theirs. I like working with the tuning forks because it provides a soft barrier between us (rather than using my hands) and the vibration on the fork cleanses any energy before it gets to my hand.
You can also create shields, but make sure you’re using elemental energy to do so. Otherwise you’re just taking your energy and putting it outside yourself, which personally doesn’t seem like a good idea due to mass and density.
Perceiving myself as an Alchemist: I use a form of Tonglen meditation in my ‘energetic boundaries’ where I breathe it all in, and ground out the good, learning from the ‘dark,’ and recycling the beauty back into the world.
Living or healing spaces
for overall cleansing your healing space:
You can sage your healing space, you can play “om” in your space while you’re not there (low volume works), you can use a tuning fork or whatever your craft uses to harmonize the space - especially the corners of the room, doors, windows, and mirrors.
Pro Tip! If you forget, you’ll notice your attention being drawn away during sessions and pulled into an area of the room. There is a collection of energy in this area that is creating a vacuum.
energetic hygiene for life:
Make sure you are walking in alignment with your truth. If you’re preaching health and wellness your life should really reflect that. If not there is a discoherence between body and mind that will increase and become apparent over time.
the basics:
Eat well, drink lots of water, salt bath, self care, and journal.
Practice Mindfulness, cultivate compassion toward yourself and your fellow man.
Meditate, reflect and visualize.
nature, nature nature
expert level:
Take care of yourself by setting good boundaries, this is imperative as an energy healer. If you are leaking energy it’s irresponsible to ‘heal’ from an empty cup.
Forgive, yes you, yes. Forgive. Trust me, I didn’t want to either. I wanted to hold onto all that delicious resentment, and then I forgave. There is medicine here.
Be a good person, like really actually good. Not just in public. Karma is real and what goes around comes around, what you do to others will be done to you, what you reap you will eventually sow.
Keep learning: there is no end to what you can learn when you fall down the “sound healing” wormhole. It is vast and endless. You owe it to yourself and your clients.
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