Vishuddha Chakra

Finding my lost voice continues ...

Brenda from Rubies commented in my last post: "Now surely that is the Vishhuda, the throat chakra, a cornucopia center... -:)  That your writing is so deeply in your body, that you are singing your songs to us, is very profound and beautiful. xo"

The Vishuddha Chakra.

Brenda's comment spoke to my hoarse voice (lost energy?) after self-expression through writing. I used to suffer from laryngitis and throat infections consistently after each time I would sing publicly as a young woman. This explanation means so much to me because I have music vibrating inside me always. Sometimes I just start humming and often it is a tune that I make up as I go along. It brings me comfort. Perhaps I hummed myself to sleep when I was very small? Who knows?

I was a dancer when I was a child. The story told me was that my grandmother took me to a well-known ballet teacher in town, Elaine Archibald, when I was eighteen months old. For the first six months or so I would watch the dancers glide, slide, jump and pirouette around the studio until I was old enough to gain some balance and able to learn dance steps. I studied ballet all day, every day, after school hours, until I was ten years old. I think my dancing days were ended because doctors said I had become anemic and my mother was worried I had no social life outside the dance school.

From then on I played with little dolls in the quiet of my own room, acting out all sorts of dramatic scenes. I found the company of my lone self and dolls to be the most satisfying. Later, at sixteen, my mother gave me a type writer. My first story was one of those doll-play dramas called: "Bombs Won't Stop Me," about a young Jewish woman who parachuted into Germany and helped release Jews from Nazi imprisonment even at the peril of her own life.

Self-expression comes in a variety of forms. We find our "voice" in so many different ways.

Comments

[Danny]

FANTASTIC photos! More! More!

[Ella]

Yes a great post.

Very true, we find our voice through the most different and unexpected situations.

[Tamar]

Thanks Ella!

Danny, now that I've learned our scanner I'm going to have so much fun with old photos! By the way, did you see you and me in my "friends" album?