Speaking Your Truth

One of the languages with which I express is photography. This is one of my photo's taken at an outdoor Asian market in Toronto.  I thought everything looked so beautiful, fresh and colorful. 



The chakra's are energy centers in our bodies. The fifth chakra is located in the throat area.  It's about communication and expression.  At a young age I remember wanting to talk to those closest to me. Yet, growing up I heard often that children should be seen and not heard.  I could never understand this expression, not even as a child. Now I realize it was simply a way for the adults around me to control an oftentimes chatty child.  I didn't have siblings, so those same adults were my only sounding board.  I didn't realize that after a while, they didn't want any longer to hear a 5 year old carry on.  They too needed a quiet place to go within and process their own lives and not only mine.

 

However, what others say often sticks to us like drops of hot melted candle wax on a table. What children hear over and over, quickly becomes their own internal dialog and reality.  And unlike hardened candle wax, which may take but a few moments to scrape off, our internal beliefs can take years of "inner work" to peel away. 

 

I think when life pushes us hard from the outside, we must, for our own survival, give our "inner voice" outer expression to create balance.   We must speak and be heard, and, no matter what the language, be it music, writing, painting or other forms of expression, we just need to keep putting it out there.  If we ever stop expressing, I think it would be like turning off the lights and sitting in the dark.