What are the signs of inharmonious functioning?

  

If energies are trapped in your Throat Chakra, the relationship between "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 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, you 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. And so you put pressure on yourself with your own demands. You sometimes feel that the tasks of life are weighing too heavily on you.

   All this doesn't 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.

To sum up: If you have problems communicating or find it hard to express yourself fully, or if you don't feel you are "creating" your own life, if you are insufficiently individualistic, if you are easily influenced by people, or if you are afraid of change, this means your fifth chakra is unbalanced.

         

   Once this chakra is "open" and capturing cosmic energy properly, thoughts and feelings are finally linked in the best possibly way: the moves you make in your life are then based on enlightened intuition - that wonderful inner guide. You acquire an understanding of your own path of development, and it becomes possible to see this path as part of a vaster whole. You become capable of "reading between the lines", of interpreting the "signs" indicating your destiny. All forms of communication (conversation, reading, etc.) become fruitful. Your words have the power to influence others.