Hey everyone and welcome to this week's video where we're going to be talking about
highly sensitive people and healing the upper chakras if you are new to my channel my name is
Tertia and I help highly sensitive people and empaths find their place in this world on this
channel you'll find videos around spirituality self growth energy healing and I also share guided
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so today's video is the second video in a series on healing the chakras and it's targeted
specifically at highly sensitive people however anyone even if you don't identify as being highly
sensitive you will still benefit from working with and healing the chakras now in the first
video which I'll link to in the description below I explained a little bit about what the
chakra system is and how it works so if you're not familiar with the chakras then take a look at that
video which will explain and give you some some more clarity around that so in the video for today
we're going to be talking about the higher chakras or the upper chakras I prefer to call them
the upper chakras simply because when you use the term higher chakras it makes it sound as if the
top parts of the chakras are better than the lower part of the chakras and that's not the case
our lower chakras are foundational to a healthy energy and a well-balanced
energy system so that's why I prefer to talk about the lower chakras and the upper chakras so the
upper chakras that we'll be discussing today then the heart chakra the throat chakra the third eye
chakra and then the crown chakra which is on top of your head so let's begin with the heart chakra
the heart chakra is in the center it is the center of us of who we are and the heart chakra is then
also responsible for connecting your upper chakras with your lower chakras now the the theme of the
heart chakra is as you can imagine it is love and connection and for highly sensitive people what
you will often find is that the heart chakra might be overactive and i just want to make a little
side note here because it's not always going to be the case all right so this information that I'm
sharing with you in these videos and the things that I'm telling you it is more of a general
interpretation and a general overview because we aren't little robots that you can fit into
a little box we have different experiences in life we have different ways of interpreting the
world we have different lenses and perspectives on the things that happen to us and because of this
our response to the things that happen to us is always different this really is a general
guideline for you to find a point to begin to work from when you have have an idea of yes
there might be an imbalance somewhere in my energy body that's a good point for you to start from and
then you can begin to explore in your uniqueness exactly what are the things that you can work
with and what are the things that need healing so coming back to highly sensitive people then
typically because we tend to put the needs of others ahead of our own needs we often
have or we probably have over active heart chakras right and how this shows up is that
we we really begin to neglect ourselves we begin to neglect our own needs we don't speak up for
what we believe in which which in turn affects our throat chakras we don't we don't feel our anger we
don't want to feel anger we suppress our stronger emotions we might avoid confrontation which is
then affecting your solar plexus so by having an open heart chakra by being over active in the
heart chakra area what happens is that the throat chakra and the solar plexus chakra which are the
two neighboring chakras actually then become more closed so that's what causes the imbalance the
way then to heal the heart chakra is let's look at both ways if your heart chakra tends to be
over active if it is too open if you struggle with boundaries if you struggle with having
confrontations if you are afraid of your own anger emotion and you don't allow yourself to feel that
the way that you can begin to heal the chakra is by strengthening your lower chakra so by
strengthening your root chakra the solar plexus chakra and then also the throat chakra so if
we bring the throat chakra and the solar plexus chakra into balance it is going to allow the heart
chakra to come into balance as well so I don't want you to think in terms of I need to learn how
to close my heart chakra no I need to learn how to open my solar plexus and open my throat chakra
because typically if the heart is overactive you're going to find that the solar plexus and the
throat might be underactive now if on the other side you find that because of the things that
have happened to you because of your experiences because you felt that you have been hurt just
one time too many you have gone and closed down your heart chakra you've closed down your heart
to stop yourself from feeling the pain of others feeling the pain of the world and feeling your own
pain because remember if we shut out the pain of everyone else if we avoid feeling the pain
of the world we are also avoiding feeling our own pain so you're shutting your own energy stream
down as well by closing down your heart chakra so this is not to judge you it's an observation to
say that if your heart chakra is closed you are preventing yourself from feeling peace
and joy and centeredness and by beginning to open the heart chakra you can bring your whole body
into alignment again and the way that you open your heart some of the things that you can do to
begin to open your heart chakra the biggest thing I think is to practice forgiveness to forgive
yourself and to forgive others and I've spoken about forgiveness before in some of my videos
i think maybe a big challenge that we have is a lot of times we think that when we forgive
someone it means that we made what they have done to us okay and that's not the case when we
forgive someone we release the attachment the energetic attachment that we have to this event
that has happened to us or to this person who has done something to us so you're not making it okay
you're just releasing the weight of carrying that along with you a second thing that you
can begin to do to begin to open the heart chakra is to practice self-care I've also
created videos around that which I will link to in the description below actually what I'll do
otherwise I'm just going to keep on saying I've made a video on that I've made a video on that so
what I'm going to do is in the playlist or in the description below I'm going to put
a playlist and in this playlist will be a lot of videos that is going to help you to begin
to heal your energy body so after you've watched this video you can you know click on the playlist
below and then work your way through all of the videos there all right so going back then to
forgiveness or to self-care rather so practicing self-care creating self-care rituals is going to
be something that definitely works to open the heart chakra and then the the third thing which
is maybe more important even than forgiveness or it's maybe a prelude to forgiveness is to do
the inner work to do inner healing and here I'm talking about inner healing specifically around
our inner child our core wounds and you know a lot of times when we begin to walk the path
of healing our core wounds it is it's not always easy to do this on your own and that's where
working with someone like an energy healer or a coach or you know an EFT practitioner to help you
see those things that you can't necessarily see for yourself to allow you to begin to reflect so
that you can step into a space of healing and you don't have to do it on your own which can
be scary and lonely but you can have someone who kind of supports you and cheers you on and
holds the space for you to begin to create this healing in your own life so just a little thought
about that now the next chakra that we want to talk about is the throat chakra and this is the
center of our authentic expression it's about communication it's about speaking our truth and
the throat chakra typically if there are any imbalances in the throat chakra it shows up
in things like thyroid problems anything to do with the throat the neck the shoulders and there
are there are so many things that can happen to us in life which can tell us to be quiet
and you know not speak up for ourselves and not stand up for ourselves and not really be who we
are and in the case of highly sensitive again because we are very very conscientious about the
feelings of others because we don't want to hurt other people's feelings because we are so aware of
the the moods and the emotions and the subtleties of engaging with other people we try to keep
people happy we try to you know not rock the boat too much because we maybe want to avoid feeling
all of these the strong moods and emotions that we then get from other people so what we end up doing
is we don't speak up for ourselves so really if we are trying to be too nice that causes the throat
chakra to close and the way that we begin to heal our throat chakra the way that we begin to to
fully step up into our authenticity is to begin to speak our truth it's to begin to voice our
opinions it's to begin to stand up for ourselves and for the things that we believe in also the
throat chakra is connected to our purpose and there's a there's a lot of videos and information
online about finding your life purpose and I just want to say something about that
here and that is my view is that our life purpose is not something out there that we need to go and
search for and you know that we have to go and find I believe our purpose unfolds within us
when we are aligned with our own truth so if we do the inner work if we do the healing
if we forgive if we nurture ourselves if we make sure that we are aligned with our essence if we
remember who we are the truth of who we are then our purpose begins to unfold organically as a
result of that and this is how we then show up in the world the final thing that I want to add to
things that we can do to begin to activate the throat chakra is to be our word all right and
there'll be a video in the playlist below about that and about taking responsibility because
that's really what it is is when we begin to take responsibility for our lives one of the
things that we do is we become our word and what that means is we do what we said we would do
when we said we would do it we treat our word as sacred so when we make a commitment to someone
or to ourselves we honor that commitment and we follow through on it we avoid
you know telling white lies to make ourselves look better or feel better and we really stand
in our own personal power which connects us back into the solar plexus and again a side note
that I want to add here it's also important to keep a balance because we have to be careful
that we don't overcommit which is something that we tend to do as highly sensitive people because
we don't want to disappoint others because we want to keep other people happy because we are so nice
what we end up doing often is we over commit and as a result of the over committing we extend
ourselves we overextend ourselves we give so much that there's nothing left for us so our hearts are
really open but we collapse again in the throat and in the solar plexus area and
again here another option for doing some deeper inner work doing some deeper in healing is to
do something like EFT tapping or working with a with a coach that's going to help you break
through some of these beliefs that's causing you to hold yourself back and not speaking your truth
the final two chakras that I want to discuss with you are the third eye chakra and the crown chakra
and I'm going to put them together and the reason for this is we are now moving more into the
spiritual dimension so your root chakra up to your throat chakra is more connected to the physical
and the third eye chakra and the crown chakra is more connected to the spiritual dimension so
our third eye which is located between the the brows here on your forehead this is really
our connection to intuition highly sensitive people especially because we tend to be intuitive
by nature that's one of our traitors we have a we able to sense subtleties we have
an ability to be maybe more intuitive or more sensitive to our intuition and
because we overthink things we intellectualize things we can end up spending a lot of energy
up here in the third eye area and also in our crown chakra now the crown chakra is our
connection to the Divine this is where we remember that we are not separate but that we are one we
are all connected to each other and connected to the Divine so as I said highly sensitive
people because we overthink things because we intellectualize things a lot of the times
because of our level of processing because we are naturally more intuitive it could be that we spend
a lot of time up in these energy centers and the result is that we can easily feel ungrounded so
this could show up as being spacey or or flaky or ungrounded or even out of touch with reality and
where you where you feel completely disconnected maybe to the world around you and and the people
in your life and the answer here is not to try and close down these chakras or to stop thinking
but it's about bringing things back into balance and we bring things back into balance by working
with the lower chakras so if you begin to do grounding exercises which i spoke about
in the first video of the series if you work with grounding if you work with setting energy
boundaries if you work with standing in your power connected to your sacral chakra these are all
things that are going to ground you it's going to strengthen and open these lower chakras which will
then allow more of a balance to come in so it's important to look at the energy system as a whole
all of these chakras are interconnected and once you start working with the one chakra when you
start doing some healing work or some clearing work around the one chakra area it is going to
have an effect on the other chakras because they are interconnected they don't stand in
isolation and for purposes of this video you know it might sound based on what you've heard in
this video and and the other information out there it starts might sound that they're like
little independent centers but they're actually not everything is connected and interconnected
to each other and the things that we do on one level is automatically going to flow through onto
the other level and again this is why doing inner healing and inner work is fundamental
to us creating happy and balanced lives because when we work on the different core wounds it