Last week I started to get a cold and I nurtured myself with vitamins and homeopathics and herbal teas, but my throat was still sore. Eventually it dawned on me to look to my own remedies for a solution. So I took the Spirit essence for the throat chakra. My sore throat disappeared very quickly and the heaviness in my head dissipated – I felt quite different.
The throat chakra is where much of our creativity sits and here we find our voice to share our own creations with the world. For a lot of us the idea of sharing our creativity, our inner world, can be a terrifying prospect. We can bring ourselves down with a variety of negative mantras – “who am I to be doing this”, “I’m just crazy” or “everyone will think I’m crazy” – an endless list of internal abuse that keeps us in our stuck place.
On reflection I realised that my cold had started after I had begun to write a course about my essences. To present my work in this way had clearly awakened the old fears and doubts about sharing my creativity with the world and these fears had moved to the physical very quickly. Doing my work is fine, but communicating, expressing my internal world, my creation in a new way pushed buttons.
Anodea Judith in her book Wheels of Life says that “survival and health in the twenty-first century will require innovation and flexibility. Creativity is the key to unlocking these qualities. We must honor it in ourselves and in each other. We must honour the means which make it possible and protect ourselves from those phenomena which threaten to shut down this basic life force.”
We would all benefit from changing our negative mantras to positive ones and this simple change can help to break the patterns of the past and open us to a brighter, more creatively expressive future.